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Original love is love from the origin, mother, or Source, and as such transcends any limitations of time or space. It is love that has always been here and always will be here, love that is timeless and whole. Glenn Aparicio Parry tells a story of how humanity, nature, and love co-evolved. In archaic times, we were one with Mother Earth, immersed in love; then we separated from Mother Earth' s womb. In the magical and mythical eras that followed, we developed ceremonies and stories to recapture a feeling of oneness. Modern rational thought enabled great scientific advancement, but is less relational, more abstract- causing love itself to become an abstraction- a fairy tale between lovers rather than an immersion into the entirety of nature. Original Love repositions love in its rightful place: as a timeless source of wholeness. Love is the most powerful force in the universe with the capacity to integrate the wisdom of the ages. This understanding of love will soon become fully known.

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""A beautifully crafted, beautifully written Symposium on the nature and ubiquity of Love, asking us to recover our ancient relationship with nature and to reconnect with spirit before we have gone so far in our alienation from both that we may destroy ourselves. A book to be treasured, assimilated, read and re-read for its profound wisdom, compassion, and insight into our history as a species. But also, a call to remember what we have forgotten or discarded as irrelevant to our technologically-addicted culture."" --Anne Baring, PhD (hons); Author of Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God (2025), The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul (2020) and The Myth of the Goddess (with Jules Cashford, 1991) ""Glenn Aparicio Parry has written perhaps the seminal book on the subject of Love, which comes at the right moment hoping it will do the most good. From personal insight and experience and drawing from such teachers and spiritual leaders as Joseph Campbell and Meher Baba, as well as Native American elders and the Tao Te Ching, he has dived deep into the subject of Love, past, present and future, related to interconnectedness and raised consciousness. At this critical time in human and planetary history, he says, nothing may be more important than Love and our understanding of what this is and means on not only a human scale, but on a universal scale as well. In this sense, Original Love is a message and revelation that is a beacon of light for us all."" --Thomas Rain Crowe , Author of New Natives: Becoming Indigenous in a Time of Crisis and Transition and Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods ""Glenn Aparicio Parry has distilled a lifetime of inquiry into humanity's deepest understandings of love, consciousness, and life itself. This book is a masterpiece of wisdom. One cannot read it without experiencing many openings of the heart."" --Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, Host, New Thinking Allowed, YouTube Channel; author of The Roots of Consciousness and The PK Man: A True Story of Mind over Matter ""Parry calls our attention to the essential reality of Love in this soulful and touching weaving of transformative and enduring lived ways of being in balance and good relationship. The book is a marvelous journey which nourishes deeply the lost parts of our Souls."" --Ohki S. Forest, Author of Dreaming the Council Ways: True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge ""Original Love leaves in no doubt that the greatest of treasures, Love itself, has been safeguarded through the ages by indigenous wisdom keepers. Glenn Aparicio Parry feasts us on the ways of wholeness and provides us with the antidote to the fragmentation and violent shattering of the entire human enterprise currently facing humanity. We may very well be about to discover that the seed of our collective destiny is not the defect of original sin but the indestructible designs of wisdom itself in an inheritance of love."" --James O'Dea, Former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of Cultivating Peace and The Conscious Activist ""Reading Original Love is like visiting an old, wise friend. It gives us comfort and helps us reminisce on times when our soul danced in harmony with all things. Through a combination of intellectual rigor, storytelling and spiritual connection, Glenn Aparicio Parry weaves a narrative that is profound, hopeful and compelling. I love this book!"" --Paul Callaghan, PhD, Aboriginal elder, Worimi people, New South Wales, Australia, author of The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life (with Uncle Paul Gordon) and Irridescence: Finding Your Colors and Living Your Story

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Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD, of Basque, Aragon Spanish, and Jewish descent, is an educator, ecopsychologist, and two-time Nautilus award winning author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (SelectBooks, 2020) and Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Press, 2015). Parry is currently an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies, the president of the think tank: Circle for Original Thinking www.originalthinking.us and the host of the Circle for Original Thinking podcast.

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