Love was here long before we were. It was here when this universe first exploded into existence. It was here when atoms first began to form molecules. It was here when those molecules first began to form cells. It's been here every step of the way - in fact, love is so fundamentally woven into the fabric of this universe that some even posit it as the fifth elementary force in the universe - the force of self-organization through self-transcendence.
In this remarkable audio clip, Ken Wilber takes us on a journey back to the Big Bang to chart the amazing evolution of Love as both the central driving force of the Kosmos and the most important of human emotions. Drawing on the work of Abraham Maslow and other philosophers, he describes how this force, Love or Eros, constantly moves toward higher and higher stages of complexity, unity and wholeness - reaching out to form unions and to form higher connections based not on deficiency, but on "a super-abundance of the feelings and capacity for unity, for connection and for embrace."
It is the internal driver that pushes people from the state of ignorance and un-enlightenment where everything seems to be a separate thing and event and is felt as a separate thing and event, to a state where this dis- memberment is re-membered and everything is felt as a unity, everything is felt as One Taste, everything is felt as part of the spiritual texture of the universe. And that drive moving us from dis-membered to re-membered and from separate and fragmented and partial to total and unified and holistic - that drive is Love.
The whole talk is HERE (27 min)
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I never lived with balance, though I've always liked the notion
I feel an endless hunger for energy and motion
Open
Open
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- Bruce Cockburn
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