Loving Source

v0.2.2 = very early draft – by JaPossert ©2025

This publication is for all those for whom it has been challenging to be with the theological principle of “loving God”, which is a ‘commandment’ in the Abrahamic lineage of which the exact quote from memory is:

‘You shalt love your God with all your might’

Book KJV Bible, Deuteronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27

“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

And I imagine is also an aspect of the devotional Bhakti practice of the Indian subcontinent written like this to incorporate the insight that “Hinduism” is, or was at least originally, an exonym, already by the Arabs in 1350

I have personally struggled with this because it hasn’t fit with my sense of a post-anthropomorphic God or Spirit, for whom it would be an ego-trip, I thought if they somehow needed us to love them I have developed such a ‘God-view’- as a parallel to world-view – or simply ‘conception of God’ through my interest in evolving my understanding – in addition to my openness to personal experience – of the nature of the divine.

A good map for such an evolution in the Christianity I have seen provided by the book Gott 9.0 and this evolution is also described by Richard Rohr writes in a book that a spiritual practice is to let go of our conception of Godhttps://cac.org/daily-meditations/letting-god-be-god/

even Integral Theory thought-leaders like the late Paul Smith, who also provided mentorship to me at different moments on my journey, and who in many ways have been able to save the baby while letting go of different aspects of societally outdated and (to me) no longer useful theology such as atonement theology, haven’t been able to fully meet me in my so far, furthest horizon of God- self- and world-view which is a principle that Paul Smith himself formulated when he asks in the subtitle of Integral Christianity whether our Is your God, big enough, close enough, you enough?

Specifically I didn’t find any deliberations about why it is good to love God in his articles, like the one on the website of Integral Christian Network, where he, rather provocatively, writes that God wants to marry us.

A version of ‘loving God’ that fits more coherently with all of my intelligence centers, including thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition is that I love Source – which as also an aspect of ourselves because we is God as the Supreme, like Jeff Van der Clute lays out in the Fountain of I framework because Fountain of I, have allowed this whole existence incl. all of our emotional ups (and downs).

And that we have allowed ourselves & given ourselves the free will to exist in the forms that we are today.

this free will aspect is also the first ‘emanation’ according to the Channelings of Ra

Thank you Jeff Van der Clute for the conversations that have contributed to this formulation.

I also recommend his resources for a deeper dive into this (and even expansive) world-view behind these statements beyond this exploration of how to love God specifically.

Apart from this I am wondering if this can be one aspect of the a practical perennial philosophy so to speak that can serve as the geistige (German for “spiritual; mental”) foundation of Europe and the next phase of human civilization inspired by Nordic Ideology cohering – As Manfred Lütz writes in Skandal der Skandale.

And might not accomodate the aspect of receiving imprints of ideal relating that are useful in a social manner.

This is essentially a variation of ideal parents, which will talk about how the relationship with God that Jesus showed us – namely relating to Abba, daddy – is a good imprint like we would have from ideal parents.

As intend to write in a forthcoming article, in which I intend to also include a playlist.

So with that: I love you (all) ♥️