Mystical traditions across cultures describe a form of love that has released its need for a specific object — no longer organized by possession, need, or the particular beloved but become a quality of the soul itself. Meister Eckhart, the Sufi masters, Mirabai in her later poetry — all describe something like this: love as the soul's natural condition when its contraction has relaxed. This domain examines what this state is, how it is described, and what relevance it has for ordinary loving.
Each step builds on the last.