December Interview with Rod: Love One Another

What can you tell us about Love One Another?

It's a movement, a campaign, with a business aspect  and it's designed to encourage and remind people to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.  The logo on the the LOA website is the brand and reminder.

What difference does it make?  Why should we "love one another?"  Really, how is this helping change the world?

It makes a difference if you focus on it and place your attention on it.  Despite the fact that great spiritual masters  - Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and I believe Mohammed too - have said Love One Another in the vernacular of their teachings, very few have understood or embraced this idea.  It's almost been relegated to the realm of platitudes.  That's pretty harsh, I know, but I believe it's true despite the fact that Religion Founders, Saints, Avatars, spiritual teachers, and poets have placed "love one another" in their teachings and also in their art.  If you look you'll find much evidence as to the power and effect of Love One Another.

The best proof is, of course, your own experience.  Love One Another has to be brought into your experience and your awareness.  It must be the context in which you view all content and you will eventually witness the content transforming.  That transformation allows for Love, Presence, Non-Judgment and even Bliss.  It is the original integral theory that excludes nothing but reacts appropriately in the moment, in any situation.  You may still have something harsh to say to someone but the context is always love.  Jesus and Buddha admonished their disciples and generations but they loved them and said we are to be like them, a Jesus, a Buddha.   That's the point isn't it?  Rise to their level.  Do greater works.

We can only do that when we Love One Another and the greater works only come when, I believe, all or a critical mass, a tipping point, uses the context and content of Love One Another.  It will change everything.  And is in the process of changing things NOW in the noosphere where conscious beings are infusing the over all consciousness field with Love for One Another.  Of course that may sound airy fairy but see for yourself.  Only Love can see Love, though.  That's the trick.

Emerson said "The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”  Damned skippy, it hasn't.  It's never been tried by any sizable portion of any population either, except on some level Tibetan culture and it's practice of Kindness.  I believe we are only now ripening to the point where we can see the import of this idea and the reasons to practice it, and it is a transformative practice, in the same vein as meditation or contemplative prayer.

The cool thing is the Great Masters, Saints, and Avatars never really gave us a “How To” regarding how to Love One Another.  Just Do It was the message.  So we kind of have to go on the vast adventure ourselves and I believe it's immensely personal and tailor-made to you and your experience but it will have universal commonalities but more of us need to practice that to see what emerges.  It's very leading edge, kind of like Spiral Dynamics and Turquoise altitude in nature to use Integral speak.  But I don't want to debate KDub (Ken Wilber) and get intellectually squished like the neophyte bug I am.

How does humor play into your business model and vision?

Good Lord Gracious girl, what business model?   I'm freaking winging it.  Humor is paramount for me but not so easy to intelligently input into the message.  I think you have go in phases and build the brand and constantly expand the vision of which I hope humor is a
big part. 

What are the challenges?

It's hard to explain but when I get Rod out of the way wonderful things happen.  Hopefully then people will begin to see the power of the message which literally changes everything.  And I mean that sincerely.  This was handed to me and it feels bigger than me so I try to get out of the way.  I'm learning.

And how does loving one another help the individual?  What do "I" get out of it?

It helps you to the degree you use and investigate it.  Love, not in the egoic or romantic or sentimental sense, but in the Sacred Divine sense makes all the difference and is simply all there is.  It is GOD, Being, Presence, NOW…ALL THERE IS - now and always.  Tap into it with all your heart, mind, and soul just as you've been told to by the Great Masters.  Just as you've been told to by that still, small voice within you.  You know the one.  It's not the one that says "go shopping, eat that, that jerk's an a-hole, I've been wronged, I'm right."  That voice we're all familiar with.  The other Sacred one, not as much.  So we've got some listening to do and some action to take from that listening and wonderfully it's the same thing…LOVE ONE ANOTHER.  That's why I'm attempting what I'm attempting.  Help me, please.  It's more fun that you can imagine, seriously.  There are bumps, oh yes, but with Love the bumps become great rides.  So let's ride Cowboys and Cowgals…YEEEEEHAAAAAAA!!!!

Okay, Rod, this has been an illuminating conversation.  I'd like to know what your message is for zaadzsters out there.

Love One Another....that's it.  What else is there?

FYI, LOA's first national ad is coming out in this month's What is Enlightenment? magazine, so keep your eyes open and show your support to Rod and the campaign in whatever way you can!

Ladies, listen up.  Ready to tell your story to a big, friendly audience?  Have something you need to get off your chest?  A message of peace?  An offering you'd like to make to change the world?

Now accepting applications for December/January PerspectivZ (short) and interviews (long).  zMail Gwen and let her know a little about you/your story.  You could be the next interviewee!  Won't that be awesome!

-G