I have been reading David Wilcock's new book The Source Field Investigations with great enthusiasm. The ideas in this book I believe make this one of the most significant works for our era in terms of presenting an extremely broad and bold perspective on the cutting edge of human scientific explorations into Truth with a capital T. Highly, highly recommend it to ALL.

This morning I found myself immersed in a chapter discussing new insights scientists have discovered about DNA. We have actually discovered that DNA can be directly effected by our thoughts and emotions and we can also affect the DNA of others from thousands of miles away. It has been also discovered that DNA absorbs and releases photons or light and that this may be its primary source of nourishment, making the new age concept of 'lightwork' suddenly take on tangible proportions. But what struck me about reading all of this is that scientists have discovered that the essential energy that affected DNA the most is love. Love has a specific affect on us: "Greater coherence, greater organization, greater structure and greater crystallization--all these effects show us that the energy fields, molecules and cells of our bodies are working in greater harmony and Unity. For the first time, this actually gives us a scientific definition of love." After reading this passage in particular, I felt a chain of inspired insights hit me and what occured to me was how palpable this feeling of love, especially of the self (perhaps the most intimate experience of love) is. These days I have been working quite assiduosly on developing my spiritual practices surrounding the idea of presence (ever being in the Now) which becomes a palpable feeling of one's energy field (what Eckhart Tolle calls Inner-Body Awareness) and creating a more loving and wise relationship with my self. And what I have found is that my life has become much more suffuse with the principles David shares in the quoted passage. It's not only profoundly thrilling to feel coherence and harmony in my being as a much more graceful state of consciousness, emotional expression and physiological vitality but it's even more profound to see how much better a being I am in service to others as I am better able to be attentive to peoples' needs, more intuitive to how to potentially aid in those needs and all around much more radiant, meaning exuding a healthy, positive energy.

Love of one's self is essential to the spiritual path not as a narcissistic pursuit but as something much deeper and more mature. By loving one's self, one is intending to serve the highest in themselves to the best of their ability at all times. This means taking care of all aspects of the being and not abusing one's self in any way. This means drawing in any disparate parts of the self immersed in shadow into the illuminated sphere of our consciousness to be worked on not stowed away and repressed. This means treating every situation, no matter how horrendous, as something to serve with our best and merge with as fully as we can with our presence, embodying the force of union so connected to love. This doesn't mean if a situation is distasteful to remain in it but only to be so completely aware of oneself that one can know how to erect necessary boundaries in any given moment or act accordingly not react disharmoniously. Ultimately, the more present we are or united/loving of the moment, the more able we are to act from greater depth. Ah, love indeed requires constant revision in our era! May it be! May we all be that revision!

To end, possibly my favourite quote of all time from one of the great Russian writers and spiritualists:
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
--Leo Tolstoy