I can understand the possibility of a spirit coming in and trying to "influence" your thoughts, but what about taking control of them?

Say you have a really good core, and you are committed to higher qualities such as unconditional love. Would "pure unconditional love (PUL)" act as a "superglue" that would prevent any entity from disassembling your positive thought forms?

P.S. Don't just sniff the glue. INHALE IT, and kill a few ego cells.

Thank you Alysia:

40 years? You've definitely been going at this thing longer than me. In the fear vs. love department, love seems to be winning out. But the way my experience has been expanding,  fear does still creep in at times. It's like, "just in case fear." I intend to get over it. Goodness knows, that I'm being provided with help.

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Recoverer,

As you probably already know, love Shields us, it is our protective coating if you like. The greater we can develop this energy ,the more protection we have.

In the astral the guides are showing you where your fears are held, they use your daily life to draw differing plays to expose these fears. when you are within the play use your will to focus on the love you feel inside then the lesson will be completed.

love to you on your journey, I'd say your guides are very pleased with you.

I've got to back you on this one, Spitfire...
There are some things, and some people who
I could NEVER love.
How can you force yourself to love something, or
someone? (I've been trying to make myself love
weight training for 20 years now, and I STILL
don't like it really.) And don't ask me to love the guy
who terrorized me in 10th grade (this clown was a 20-year-old who had flunked two grades, and I
was 15 years old. I still see him sometimes, but
he looks AWAY when I come around... I'M bigger
than him NOW! HaHaHa...)
But I STILL hate his guts. Would I not be violating my own integrity, to try to love this bastard?
Love is something which comes naturally, from
the soul. How can you rationally force it?
Perhaps instead of "love", we should seek "Integrity"... being true to ourselves, dealing
squarely with others... following the GOLDEN
RULE.
It means "listen to your conscience and follow it to the best of your ability."
Don't lie (ESPECIALLY TO YOURSELF), steal, cheat, screw other men's wives, ect.
Me, I prefer the Confucian version of the Golden
Rule... "Do NOT DO unto others what you would NOT have them do unto you." This beats the positivist Christian version for me... I like to be LEFT ALONE by and large. But, that's just me.
So perhaps INTEGRITY is the ultimate goal, rather than "love." Or was "integrity" what the ancients really meant by the word "love"? Now there's an interesting possibility.
Hope that helps...

Chumley

Sptifire,

I think, respectfully, there are two problems with your post. One is you ask what Love is when it is impossible to define it beyond argument. In other words, no one can prove what it is. The second is how you set up the problem. You state things in black and white, either/or terms. The mother may very well be protective of her child because of maternal instinct. She may ALSO love that child at the same time. These two motivators are not necessarily in opposition.

Bob

Dear Spitfire,

Having fears and knowing you can do it are two different things.  My mother did not, after all, say she had no fear of making an error, nor did she say her job was pleasant.  She simply knew she could do it so she did.

I think if you look at someone like Mother Theresa who was moved by compassion you will see an example of someone who loved.  She could have stayed in her nunnery and led a much more comfortable life and still could have anticipated lots of "brownie points" at the end.  But she saw suffering and knew that by taking action she could make a difference.  She was a great teacher--see yourself in the other who is suffering.  She taught that each of us deserve to be loved, no matter who we are or how we got there.   There are Mother Theresa's everywhere, people who are moved by compassion toward others.  Perhaps you will say that they simply see others as family and are receiving pleasure from their actions.

Does it really matter?  Someone once said, do the difficult while it is still easy.  It doesn't matter what others do and how they do it.  In the end what we do is what really matters.  Mind over matter.

love, blink

Thank you blink.

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I dont get what a feeling on love feels like?, i can feel admiration for people's ability's etc, but you still explain love as a physical reaction, the heart is merely a pump, which due to it's importence has been called the love organ. If love was a physical process we would see it in animals aswell as humans.

Hate i would say, is a thing which is a bad memory, framed for prosperity, a constant reminder of what caused this feeling, and how best to give them same feeling back to the thing that caused it to you.

Unfortunatly, nothing in the phyiscal world is magical, consciousness is a process, awareness is a process, love (if it exists) must be a process. For different dimensions, then these laws will most likely be different, but here. Things are systimatic and explainable.

@ Blink: I could do any job in the world, if i really had to, i may not choose to, or i may not like it, but i feel i could.

You make a very good point about mother theresa, she could be an exception to the norm, but the main problem is, she had a belif in a god, she knew the rules to the game of life, from her perspective.I would call her a master at living in the confines of a religon. and she achieved this. Wether she did this through "love" is another question. Since i cant see into her thoughts i have no idea, and guess since she's dead we will most likely never know in this life.

I wish i knew "what to do' to get rewards in the afterlife, i dont believe constantly helping others equates, to "love", nor would i be thinking nice things while helping people.

I would be thinking
"When can i go home"
"When will this person stop using me as a door mat"
"What reward will i get for doing this"

Like most people, when i do things for others i dont do them out of love, I try to simply live by my own personal princables, which does involve compasion, but wether this is a form of love, is debatable.