A Note on Your Divinity: The Natural Condition of Love

10 November 2009 by blog.

Greetings, gentle readers and Divine folks everywhere. We have taken some serious time off recently, pausing to ponder so many world changes at hand. Well, let us reconnect once again, this time to consider the innately loving and Divine nature of the Human species.

A universal behavior – from the high tech societies of the east and west to the villages of the last indigenous peoples everywhere and in all cultures across the globe – is the response that adult humans have when a baby smiles. Try as you may, it takes a severe effort to respond to a smiling baby with anything other than a smile. Why? We are programmed to do so; it is in our genes, a miraculous encoding of human DNA that makes a smiling baby virtually irresistible. We have an innate desire to protect and otherwise nurture the baby bearer of the smile. We cannot help this for Mother Nature compels us to care.

Babies, likewise, are universally born with an instinct to smile (and as recent evidence proves, babies can be seen smiling even before they are born).  The myths and social developments of modern society seek to convince us that babies cry first, but the evidence suggest that in natural birthing environments, babies are born awed and wide eyed. And one of the first things they do is smile. Why? Because they already know – if they smile, we will smile back and be compelled to take care of them.

Let us form the proposition, therefore, that we are born loving and that we have an instinct to love back. It should be a strong assertion, following, that anything we do to each other besides acting on our instinct to love, care, and protect one another is learned behavior. We are not born with hate. We are born with love. We must, therefore, acquire hate by learning hatred from others. In our natural condition, however, it takes no learning to love, we just do.

This is, as noted, a cross-cultural, universal behavior – no matter your location, ethnicity, background, or condition, the babies will smile and the adults have an instinct to smile back. This innate reaction is a key component and natural marker of the social nature of humans which has allowed us to propagate and survive. Otherwise, we would have long ago hated each other out of existence. Indeed, the learned behavior of hatred – the fear of the “others,” the mistrust of peoples outside of our families, nations, and belief systems, may yet be the learned and unnatural undoing of the human species. We should know, however, that hatred is truly not our natural condition and we should see the madness and sadness of the continuing, pervasive, indoctrinated hatred that keeps us divided and in competition with each other.

I have heard, and we witness daily, the naysayers who would deny the universal truth that we are a social species naturally ingrained – literally programmed – to love each other. These people claim that the nature of humans is inherently evil. What a grim view and surely evidence that we have lost our way as we have moved from our natural condition of attunement and balance with nature. These people can only feel this way because they have been denied the pure loving that is the natural way of our species. That, gentle readers, is a pity.

It is time for a pause to consider that if we feel hate, we have learned it. Therefore, let us examine our belief systems and frankly assess the conditions that have allowed hatred to fester in our hearts, between individuals, and indeed between cultures and societies for so long.

Given the condition and state of the world today, it seems there is no time like the present to break through the indoctrination of division – to call out the haters and cast off the hatred – that leaves so many of us believing we are so different from each other. You, gentle reader, are born loving and that is truly divine. May the Healing Powers of the Universe guide us in realizing and celebrating the natural condition of love that marks our shared Divineness.

Peace to all and all the best,

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