Long before temples, creeds, and religious institutions, spirituality was rooted in awe. For most of human history, that was enough.

As civilizations grew, awe was shaped into belief. Belief hardened into doctrine. Doctrine demanded loyalty. Over time, loyalty justified harm. What was meant to connect humanity to the sacred became, for many, a system of fear, control, and exclusion.

Today, millions are leaving organized religion, not because they have abandoned meaning, but because they no longer trust the institutions that claimed to guard it.

In Love Is the Highest Power, Christopher Louis traces the transformation from wonder to dogma and asks what was lost along the way. Drawing on psychology, history, and the voices of mystics who resisted fear across centuries, he invites readers beyond inherited belief and back toward the deeper truth those systems once pointed to.

What if love was never meant to be earned or withheld? What if it was always meant to be the foundation?

This book offers no doctrine to defend and no authority to follow. It points instead to what existed before belief took shape: wonder, connection, and a love that never required permission to exist. It is for the seeker in all of us.