An Excerpt From “ Evolutionary Love Relationships: Passion, Authenticity,and Activism “ It is critical to remember that this crisis we are facing is a crisis in which the sacred powers of love in the human soul are being diverted by distraction, by greed, by ignorance, by the pursuit of power, so that they never irrigate the world and transform it. What is needed is a vision of evolutionary relationship as a relationship that helps us come into the real, take responsibility for it, and enact our sacred purpose with a partner, and for the world: when two lovers come together in this dynamic love consciousness, they create a transformative field of sacred energy, from which both can feed to inspire their work in reality. There are seven requirements necessary, I believe, for this tremendously potent vision of evolutionary love to emerge in the world. The first requirement is that both beings need to be plunged individually into a deep and passionate devotion of the Beloved