HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH ! = BEAUTY & WISDOM OF LOVE ! = ON LIFE 'S BOUNDLESS LOVE !

What inspired me to take the morning off from my upcoming film on holy Mother Teresa of Calcutta - and to rapidly compose this film instead, as part of a new collection on the beauty and wisdom of love -, is a person named ‹ Geraldine › … and about how she use to milk the cows as a young girl …

This woman’s erudition in far beyond my own, and she has a perfect mastery of the fine art of writing.

It is her quest to find love that motivated me to start yet another collection of films, in parallel to those under the banners of ‹ The Holy Spirit of India ! ›; ‹ The Holy Spirit of Singing ! ›; and ‹ The Holy Spirit of Love ! ›

This new collection of films - inspired by the theme of love - will be part of a new and upcoming banner, entitled : ‹ The Beauty & Wisdom of Love ! ›

But coming back to Geraldine, I would like to share just one page of her 471-page essay on ‹ Love, › because it struck such a good chord in my heart that I found myself giggling with delight at almost every one of her brilliant sentences.

It was refreshing to me, early this morning, to find a few drops of sweetness and love in this world of increasing brutes and insensitivity.

I quote from Geraldine’s own words and brilliant mind :

…/… Perhaps this is why the dream figure in ‹ Heart of the Inner Chamber › sits on a three-legged milking stool. The very sort of stool I sat on when milking cows as a young girl.

At an early age, I learned that the Christian myth had much to say about love and so I become a faithful student of that myth and the Roman Catholic faith until my early 20s.

In particular, I thrived on an imagination of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s (BVM) unconditional love for me and consulted with her daily through prayer and imaginal dialogs.

I faithfully wore a Mother of Perpetual Help medal around my neck, which was gifted me on my First Holy Communion.

Two days after my mother’s death, when I was 7 years old, the BVM came to me in a vision and assured me that I could ask of her anything and she would help, and so I trusted her as my mediatrix and with good success.

In my teens, I explored Paganism, free love, meditation, yoga, mystical and magical practices, and alchemy to understand more about love.

However, it was not until early adulthood that I discovered my having any fully nourishing experience and gnosis of love was crippled by the environmental influences that threaded through my personal history.

Birthing as an initiatory event into the complexities of love.

After my first child was born I felt love for him, and surprisingly the biggest love I had ever known.

I felt my heart rent open—my ego’s stance and epistemology dissolved by love. Despite this profound gift of loving, it caused me to become awkward in my living and disoriented as to how to proceed in its presence.

It was with the question, “how do I live love—love as a verb” that I entered depth analysis.

In analysis, I pondered love: what is it, how it works, who gets it and who does not, how to give it and receive it, when is it tender, when is it tough, and such.

Pondering the nature of love, as this work proves, is still an occupation of mine. During my first analytic hour the analyst asked me to read Love Is Letting Go of Fear (Jampolsky, 1979).

I was puzzled to think that my analyst thought me fearful and unloving but compliantly took the copy offered me.

To deepen my curiosity about love, I unwittingly embarked on a dark-night-of-the-soul-journey.

I have learnt much and loved much since that time.

Still, here decades later I am still passionately curious about the nature of love, and how best to love.

Yet, love and loving slip easily into the voluptuous void from whence I seek to reclaim it or wait empty of empathy until it returns to me—waiting for it with a “heart the shape of a begging bowl” (Cohen, 2004b).

I am joyfully bounded by harmony, when love graces me.

Yet love at times also disrupts my will and turns everything upside down and inside out. I notice that when love leaves willfulness and destructiveness fill the void created by love departing.

Love sometimes asks me to collude in the necessary death of things.

Love is my loyal friend and love is my harsh adversary.

Love is mercurial and baffling, yet I want only to dwell with love, want love be the presence that I bring and which imbues me.

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The reason Geraldine made me laugh is that I found everything she had to say so authentically true.

One day, I hope to read through all of her essay, and I chuckle at the thought of making oral comments on yet another film composition of mine in the future, as I travel along her inspirational, intellectual and emotional journeys, based on the theme of love’s geography in this mysterious world of ours.

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Long Live India !
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Long Live Love !
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Sincerely,

Teri’irere Ito’arai
(Henrik)

Film composer & amateur orator and singer
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