Robert and Diana Van Arsdale have been exploring the creative potential of the relationship between man and woman for 33 years. In 1976 they developed a yearlong program to teach couples how to deepen the love in their relationship and how to spiritualize their marriage. Their book, The Way of the Beloved, presents the core substance of their teaching. In progressive exercises and meditations, couples practice effective techniques to intensify their love and thus uplift their life together.

The foundation of the Way of the Beloved is discovered in the heart of love, itself, where there lives and moves a will to exaltation of the other. To truly love another is to will the spiritual ideal upon that beloved one. When there is a mutual and loving intention to exalt each other, infusing the daily life of a man and woman, they enter into the Beloved Path. The Way of the Beloved offers an ageless teaching for the transformation of the love between man and woman into a path for spiritual development, adapted to the needs of contemporary relationships.