Experiencing The Unconditional
by
Arne Anderson, MD
Upon arriving home from Dr. Carlos Warter’s retreat I opened my mail. One of the envelopes contained a personally designed card from a friend with a poem. Her thoughtful and moving verse suggested that the last millennium had gone awry. Most of us share a longing for love and this collective longing, she stated, had become displaced into greed, disparity, and war. She suggested that our children need to perceive love unconditionally so that the next millennium may be different from the last. How do we go about giving our children unconditional love?
Dr. Carlos Warter, MD Ph.D. has spent 30 years as a psychiatrist, transpersonal psychotherapist, seeker of truth, teacher, and healer. He has mentioned on many occasions: “What if babies everywhere for the next thousand years were told, as they were growing, that they were a divine creation of God manifested here to be loved? What if they were called to carry forward the stewardship of the planet with the understanding that they were instruments of God’s creation and conduits of love?” Then, in Dr. Warter’s words, “negative love conditioning” would be gone, instead life would be honored and held sacred.
What Dr. Warter taught me was to look at my life as a small story in the context of a bigger story. The big story refers to the world or the universe or God. It is the level that many call the unconditional. We represent then small versions of the big story.
At birth our connection to this source of love is wide open. But from the moment of our birth the relationship to it becomes obscured. If our needs go unmet, we learn to act or behave so that they will get met. At this point, usually early in our lives our perception of God changes.
We are removed from the experience of this natural perception of essence. There is a rupture of our connection to our divinity, leading to separation anxiety. If it is not quelled by our caregivers, it imprints in us fear and longing. This leads to a search for love. We begin to compensate by our actions trying to correct the perceived deficiency. Our caregivers have had to go through the same process and have also lost their connection to their essence. As a result, they show us the way to get love in the world, is by finding it outside us. We must perform some act or some deed that will get us the love we need. This is the negative love conditioning that Dr. Warter refers to in his teachings.
We begin to make up for this deficiency by doing whatever it takes to get love. From this point forward our relationships become conditional. As a person, family and society we become enmeshed in trying to get something from each other. This drive permeates our lives. It dictates our personal and business relationships. It generates the burden of stress that we deal with as individuals and groups. It has now been shown that stress effects how our bodies function and how they heal. Additionally, we often pick unhealthy ways of dissipating stress such as smoking, overeating, or drinking. Thus the loss of our connection to the divine has significant consequences for our health and well being.
If we want to stop this endless process of trying to fill up where we are deficient, we need to stop searching outside ourselves and reconnect to that place of divinity inside us. When I was in Sunday school we used to sing “This little light of mine, Iím going to let it shine” and that is what we need to do. By finding our light we can feel the divine in our lives. But this doesn’t happen because of an accomplishment, it is a shift to our essence. This shift starts by living in the present.
In the present, our past, which led to our conditioning, and our future, which creates our expectations, can’t be there affecting us. It is here that we can experience the unconditional, the space of no effort and no resistance. This experience is important because we can begin the process of change as a result. By reconnecting to our essence we project unconditional love into the world. This sounds pretty straightforward and simple. But our conditioning is strong and resists change. The call to us is to change the world. We do this when we change ourselves.
Transforming ourselves by being fully present in the present changes the world. In embracing our essence we are aligned with God or unconditional love so that more love is brought into the present through us. We also become less stressed; we have stopped trying to do something to be loved. Our health improves and the quality of our lives is enriched. Many people have come to this change through powerful life experiences oftentimes described as mystical or religious. Others seek teachers who can show them the door to their soul. Dr. Carlos Warter is a teacher.
Dr. Warter has refined and crafted an approach to personal change that works to connect us to our essence. By using his experience with multiple disciplines including science, religion, and psychology he helps the student develop their own spirituality which keeps them connected to their essence and its source. His Personal Integration Process allows people to shift from their negative love conditioning to being free from it. Dr. Warter’s techniques are designed to facilitate the individual to use their own life experiences to release themselves from the tyranny of their past and transform these experiences into powerful tools for realizing unconditional love. They then project it into the world. This power of love is the most potent healing agent on earth. Aside from his family, Dr. Warter’s knowledge of unconditional love and his ability to help us find, use, and project our own truly represents his greatest work. He models a shifting mechanism for the new millennium.
Dr. Warter says, “The Personal Integration Process allows us an entry point not only in the battle against evil, but also in the prevention of family, and moral decay. We need to approach this new millennium more holistically, with more openness and farsightedness. If we are going to make this right kind of effort to make the future of the world better. Even while engaged in material progress and taking care of people’s well being, we need to pay equal attention developing peace of mind by taking care of our internal aspect of being. Our formal education generally deals with only academic accomplishments, we need to develop more altruism and a sense of caring and responsibility for others in our hearts and minds and educational institutions. This can be done involving values, spirituality and diverse expressions of the divine, but not necessarily involving religion, thus respecting all points of worship. Therefore, all secular education, as in fact consists of basic human qualities such as kindness, compassion, sincerity, and honesty.”
Dr. Warter has developed an international community over his career. It is his life’s work through his teachings, books, and presentations. He has been dedicated to the establishment of a global community that integrates and lives these values and he promotes the Personal Integration Process to do this. Dr. Warter is president of the World Health Foundation and the Heartnet Community, which is linked globally through e-mail. He is the author of over 20 books on this topic. Many are grateful to him for his contribution for the healing in their life and there are many that have benefited indirectly.
Dr. Carlos Warter, MD, PhD is the author of 20 books in various languages. His latest book: is “Pathways to the Soul: 101 Techniques to Open Your Heart” published by Hay House.
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