To Save the Love that Was Lost

About the Book

When asked what led him to write To Save the Love That Was Lost. Lyman Allen said, “I wrote because I had to. It was a matter of passion I should say ‘guided passion,’ because I found out that I was guided, and so the book is ours, Sofia’s and mine. There was a lid on my passion: I wanted to believe that life made more sense than what we experience every day. We function from day to day, yes, but I think a lot of us live with a gut feeling of how life ought to be, and this is backed up, maybe, by a higher sense of that truth. Well I found that there is that truth, and it’s in To Save the Love that Was Lost. In fact it’s in the title. So, I’m offering an invitation to people to peek out from under that lid and see what they might find. I found the answer that makes sense.

“Our book is about the original message of Jesus—Christianity before it was taken over by organized faith (is that a contradiction in terms?) It’s about what was intended to work for the world, how we must learn to live. I found that Jesus’ lost teachings are supported by religious history of 20—even 26—centuries ago. A lot of those teachings were discovered in 1945, hidden for all that time. They never got tampered with.

“The title is from a verse deleted from a famous parable. It’s a mission statement about advancing the original Christianity of Jesus—that’s the love part—and it relates directly to the fate of our planet. It turns out that my mission was to write a book about these things. The book is, in fact, a spiritual thesis supported by ancient documents, recently discovered. That might be a ‘first.’”

About the Author

About Me

            Lyman Allen was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1931, the youngest of three children, a girl and two boys. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont with A.B. degree in American Literature, and from Brown University in Providence with an M.A. in American civilization. For his thesis, he researched the then-faltering FM industry for what was “working” and then wrote a book, What Makes FM Succeed, which he sold within the industry. Some have credited him with saving FM. He has a background in business, teaching, and as an environmentalist, launching three successful environmental organizations.

            Allen says  that even in his early teens, “I was trying to make sense out of life. If God was all-powerful and good, then why aren’t we born knowing how to be rather than having to work so hard to find out? It was 60 years before I found the answer. For 14 years I was a member of A Course In Miracles study group and also of a class channeled to by Mother Mary. These classes and my own guidance gave me the answer: it’s implied in the book’s title, a line deleted from a well-known parable. Jesus’ original message of love to the world was lost the day he ascended, and we go into that. Our book—my guide’s and mine––is about Jesus’ message of unconditional love. It’s a spiritual message supported by second- century teachings not discovered until 1945. It’s a message which speaks to what we must do now for ourselves and our planet, and what will happen if we don’t.”

            Allen adds, “I’m an unknown, but I’m told this information could come through in no other way—and that it was my mission in this life to bring it out in book form.” He says he started taking notes for this book while doing volunteer work with Cross-Cultural Solutions in Africa in 2001, and finished it in 2007 in Colorado, where he now lives alone with his dog Sophie.

            Lyman Allen has two children by his wife, Nancy, who died in 2004. His children are David, 46, and Katherine, 49, the mother of two girls born in 1989 and 1991, and all of whom live in Seattle.