Beyond Love: When Love Becomes God (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798274749862)

There is a form of love far deeper than emotion, affection, or connection - a love that does not rise or fall, warm or cool, give or take. Spiritual traditions have echoed this for centuries with the phrase "God is love." But what they pointed to is not the love most people know. The emotional version of love - beautiful as it may be - is only a fraction of a much greater reality.
Beyond Love: When Love Becomes God is a direct exploration of that deeper reality.

During a profound meditative moment in which personal identity fell away completely, David Berlin encountered the truth behind the spiritual use of the word love. What revealed itself was not a feeling, not bliss, and not devotion. It was pure, silent awareness - steady, neutral, and unchanging - yet unmistakably alive. And in that clear field of being, it became evident that this is the love spoken of by the sages and mystics.
The love described here is not emotional at all. It is the essence of reality itself.

Berlin draws a sharp and essential distinction:

• Emotional love is a brain-generated interpretation - influenced by memory, chemistry, and personal identity.
• True love, recognised when the self dissolves, is the underlying consciousness in which experience appears.

In fifty-two contemplative chapters, this book guides the reader into the deeper nature of that recognition:

• the collapse of separation and distance
• the end of psychological seeking
• the stillness beneath all emotion
• the neutrality at the core of awareness
• the recognition that "God," "love," and "consciousness" are three words for the same reality

Berlin speaks to the seeker who has begun to outgrow concepts, practices, and spiritual sentimentality - the seeker who feels an instinctive pull toward something more fundamental than belief or feeling.

Beyond Love points to the truth behind every spiritual tradition: love is not a mood or a bond between individuals, it is the nature of awareness itself - the foundation of existence, the essence of being, the power behind all, and the reality in which the universe arises.
For those who have sensed that the emotional experience of love cannot be the full story, this book opens the door to the deeper truth.

Author: David Berlin
ISBN-13: 9798274749862
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2025
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d