What's Love Got To Do With It? (Deutsch)
By Jo Mooy 
It was 1984 when Tina Turner first asked that question in her classic song. The question has colored the world I see ever since I first heard it and it's become a pseudo-mantra in raising my own consciousness. When confronting any challenge, life change, large or minor life situation, the mantra 'What's Love Got to Do With It?' puts a spin on the event that begs for more careful examination of what's being observed.
While the song highlights the physical, emotional and mental experiences associated with love, other aspects of love are alluded to. The lyrics, trying to explain love, proclaim, "it means more than that." Philosophers, scientists, chemists, biologists and mystics all interpret love from the lens of their focus. They say: Love is a chemical reaction in the brain; love is an emotional sensation; love is a religious experience; love is a magnetic energy field; love is God. From each perspective they're all correct. But sometimes, love can't be defined in scientific or metaphysical terms. In fact, when we see the effect it can have on humans or animals those definitions are useless. What's love got to do with those definitions? A whole lot more!
Worldwide, there are countless stories of compassionate caring and loyalty between species and within the same species. Recently, an internet video with over two million hits, showed a remarkable dog in Chile pulling its injured "friend" out of the way of four lanes of oncoming cars after the friend had been hit on the highway. After the tsunami in Japan, a Springer Spaniel stayed by the side of its injured companion for days, refusing to leave it even when rescuers arrived. Soldiers who have been away for years in Iraq or Afghanistan return home to find their loyal hounds overjoyed in welcoming them back. One video with over ten million hits shows a soldier arriving home from Kandahar, his duffel bags on the grass, as Gracie his Golden Retriever hearing his voice rushes from the house, circles around him and slobbers kisses all over him until the film runs out.
During a recent Women's Meditation, my friend Joy whose name personifies that quality which she is, had tears running down her cheeks. She was so identified with the words of the meditation leader that her heart opened up and spilled out in what she called "crystal tears." She said, she was not crying. Rather, she was filled with awe, with connection, with spirit and with such beautiful union for all beings. What's love got to do with that? Everything! But love still, "Means more than that."
Love is a quality that's beyond the physical, emotional, or mental ideas. Love is an ideal. It's a force in life that creates an energetic bond between beings. This force binds us together through loyalty, love, memory, remembrance and friendship in a common but holy compact. It causes us to risk our lives to save a stranger by rushing into burning buildings, forging raging rivers or standing in front of a shooter. This love which is selfless and unconditional is the perfection of what we can become.
On this second month of 2012, we celebrate Valentine's Day, a day dedicated to Love. Future generations may look back and ask what really happened in 2012. They may find that Love had everything to do with 2012. If we can remember to hold each other with respect and open hearts we just might change the world. In the new world dawning perhaps every day will be a day dedicated to Love. What a legacy to leave the earth.
Jo Mooy — February 2012
About Jo Mooy
Jo is a visionary artist, lecturer, writer and a national award-winning photographer whose work has been published in magazines and books. She has a BA in advertising design & studied painting with the Cape Cod School of Art. Her landscape paintings and visionary mandalas are in collections around the world and carried at several galleries on Cape Cod and in Florida.
While spending 30 years in middle management at a Fortune 100 corporation, her spiritual studies & practices continued as she traveled worldwide and lectured across the US. She's studied with many mystery and esoteric schools including Builders of the Adytum — The Rosicrucians — Lucis Trust — The Association for Research and Enlightenment — Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship. She's studied with Drunvalo Melchizedek, Gregg Braden, Tom Kenyon, Jamyong Singye and is currently an initiate of Shahabuddin David Less of the International Sufi Order.
Jo's devoted more than four decades to meditation, dream journaling, writing and art. Her spiritual mandalas which come while in meditative states of consciousness are used by alternative healers, as well as allopathic dentists and doctors in their practices. Her soul-interpretation mandalas, which are like an intuitive reading, are available by private consultation.
As a visionary and community organizer, she and her life partner lead community ceremonial gatherings, teach spiritual workshops in Sarasota, including the highly acclaimed Purpose Presence & Vision and offer counseling. Jo writes & publishes a weekly online nationally-distributed newsletter called Spiritual Connections. She's a frequent guest on many radio programs and is founder of a very large Women's Meditation Group in south Florida. She's also Director of Spiritual Cinema at Unity. In her spare time she's working on two books: The Messages of the Mandalas and one with her partner called Synchronicities Out Of Time and Space.
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Latest articles by Jo Mooy in Spirit of Maat:
August, 2012: THE SILENT STONES
July, 2012: TRUST THE MESSAGES
June, 2012: A Million Flames
May, 2012: Snapshots of a Mother
April, 2012: LIFE DO-OVERS
March, 2012: Two disks One message - 2012
February, 2012: What's Love Got To Do With It?
January, 2012: Archangel Visits
December, 2011: Next year it will get Better
November, 2011: The Meaning of 11:11:11
October, 2011: WHAT IF THE WORLD ENDS THIS MONTH?
September, 2011: Leaving an Impression
August, 2011: The Georgia Guidestones
July, 2011: In Alignement
June, 2011: Each Position is North
May, 2011: Keep the Candles lit
April, 2011: Sound Healing a Tree!
March, 2011: REMEMBER MIKE!
February, 2011: Archangel Visits
January, 2011: A Matter Of Perspective
December, 2010: Ascension Revisited
November, 2010: The Carrier Waves
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