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Love, the basis of everything
Originally published as a Web Original on November 28, 2012.
In his best-selling book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, Dr. Eben Alexander, author and academic neurosurgeon who served at Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital, makes this observation:
“Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows—the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional. This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions.”
Dr. Alexander’s experience, like many other people’s similar near-death experiences, revealed an order of things with God as Love itself. This divine Love is the center, foundation, and structure of everything.
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May 13, 2013 issue
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Letters
JSH-Online comments, Deanna Mummert, Brett L. Stafford
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A mother's prayers for her teenager
Anne Taylor
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The care that never leaves us
Sharon Carper
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Destination: health and wholeness
Caryl Emra Farkas
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Love, the basis of everything
Mark Swinney
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Sweep away the cobwebs
Diane P. Dailey
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On duty
Brian Kissock
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What new thing is God doing in your life?
Abby Fuller Innes
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A few good men
Kim Shippey
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Where was Annabelle?
Lois Degler
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Arms of Love around each of us
Marin with contributions from Katy
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Freed from pain and restricted movement
Herb Dresser
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My 'Eutychus' moment
Stella González de Blencowe
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North Korea and the quest for peace
The Editors