Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Christopher Love speaks about healing, transformation and spiritual awakening.
Christopher Alaya Love, born with a different last name in San Fransisco, CA. in 1954 to alcoholic abusive and neglectful parents.
His father, a car mechanic, started the physical torture of his second son at a very early age.
'My earliest memory of this suffering was before age 3. I recall being tied up, bound behind my back, left facing a corner of a wall for hours on end waiting for my mother to get home from work. I remember her screaming at him for leaving me in my own foul mess."
At age 4 Christopher has the first of what would become countless mystical experiences. On a drive to his aunt's wedding, he asked his mother what 'church' means and who Jesus was. Her flippant reply still held the words which would open Christopher's, heart.
"I knew that if God was watching us, because He is always everywhere, seeing all, being all, then God must also be the trees, the other people, even the cars and all that is beyond knowing. I looked into my chest as I felt a warmth and peace that I would never forget."
The abuse escalated into beatings with a belt, bruises, and burns on his arms and buttocks.
"By age seven every time my father would walk into the room, my body would tremble, and my bowels would release. Of course, that would just make him angrier."
By the time Christopher was twelve years old, he was taller than his 5' 8' father. Beatings became so severe that his left arm was broken the summer before the 7th grade. By age fifteen Christopher's body was broken, and in chronic pain, which would last until this very day, with fractured vertebrae in both his lower back and in three places in his neck, multiple ruptured discs throughout his spine, along with his left knee and right shoulder dislocated. A bleeding ulcer was diagnosed after throwing up blood on his very first day as a freshman in high school, only after the vice principal took him to the hospital himself that afternoon as his father refused to come get him.
His only refuge was music, listening and playing. He started playing the violin at age seven, then cello and stand-up bass. In high school, he was considered an excellent drummer in a friends band.
Finally leaving home at age 15 1/2 just a few days after receiving his driver's license Christopher had yet another powerful mystical awakening experience that would plot the course for the rest of his life.
"At age fifteen I had realized that if all the people around the world could have this same exact experience I am having right now, there would be peace on earth."
After a spontaneous Mystical experience at the age of 15, Christopher started studying every spiritual tradition he could get his hands on including Advaita, Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Christianity, Sufism, Shamanism, the Vedas, the Koran, the Kabbalah, Mystic Poetry, and Buddhism. After spending years in the music industry as both a musician, a manager and concert promoter, two failed marriages and mounting debt, he retreated to Orcas Island in Washington State to collect himself, continue his education and training's, and deepen his spiritual studies.
Christopher Love speaks about healing, transformation and spiritual awakening.
Christopher Alaya Love, born with a different last name in San Fransisco, CA. in 1954 to alcoholic abusive and neglectful parents.
His father, a car mechanic, started the physical torture of his second son at a very early age.
'My earliest memory of this suffering was before age 3. I recall being tied up, bound behind my back, left facing a corner of a wall for hours on end waiting for my mother to get home from work. I remember her screaming at him for leaving me in my own foul mess."
At age 4 Christopher has the first of what would become countless mystical experiences. On a drive to his aunt's wedding, he asked his mother what 'church' means and who Jesus was. Her flippant reply still held the words which would open Christopher's, heart.
"I knew that if God was watching us, because He is always everywhere, seeing all, being all, then God must also be the trees, the other people, even the cars and all that is beyond knowing. I looked into my chest as I felt a warmth and peace that I would never forget."
The abuse escalated into beatings with a belt, bruises, and burns on his arms and buttocks.
"By age seven every time my father would walk into the room, my body would tremble, and my bowels would release. Of course, that would just make him angrier."
By the time Christopher was twelve years old, he was taller than his 5' 8' father. Beatings became so severe that his left arm was broken the summer before the 7th grade. By age fifteen Christopher's body was broken, and in chronic pain, which would last until this very day, with fractured vertebrae in both his lower back and in three places in his neck, multiple ruptured discs throughout his spine, along with his left knee and right shoulder dislocated. A bleeding ulcer was diagnosed after throwing up blood on his very first day as a freshman in high school, only after the vice principal took him to the hospital himself that afternoon as his father refused to come get him.
His only refuge was music, listening and playing. He started playing the violin at age seven, then cello and stand-up bass. In high school, he was considered an excellent drummer in a friends band.
Finally leaving home at age 15 1/2 just a few days after receiving his driver's license Christopher had yet another powerful mystical awakening experience that would plot the course for the rest of his life.
"At age fifteen I had realized that if all the people around the world could have this same exact experience I am having right now, there would be peace on earth."
After a spontaneous Mystical experience at the age of 15, Christopher started studying every spiritual tradition he could get his hands on including Advaita, Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Christianity, Sufism, Shamanism, the Vedas, the Koran, the Kabbalah, Mystic Poetry, and Buddhism. After spending years in the music industry as both a musician, a manager and concert promoter, two failed marriages and mounting debt, he retreated to Orcas Island in Washington State to collect himself, continue his education and training's, and deepen his spiritual studies.
