Mind blowing power of love

Mind blowing power of love

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"THE mystery behind the ''sixth sense'' - how people interact on a physiological level - is a step closer to being unravelled, according to a Sydney neuroscientist."
"Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Carl Marci established a connection or ''physiological concordance'' between two people"

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THE POWER OF LOVE -
An Interesting article, particularly for anyone who has considered the philosophy of love.
The experiment concluded that Love brings about a physiological alignment - a biological unity......a "oneness"

Perhaps it should not be a surprise, after all, we know that emotions affect us pysically in all sorts of ways ....when we are embarrassed, we blush, when we are experiencing stress, we sweat etc etc

What I find interesting is the EXTENT of the physical response noted, and the idea of "oneness", a word that has been associated with love for many centuries in spiritual writings ...with no real "scientific" evidence.

It also raises some interesting questions for further research:

Does sexual love envoke the same physical response as say ...maternal love? Is all love the same?

If the entire human race opened their heart to love, would we evolve into a unified physiological organism? (a bit of a random thought)

Are the physical responses beneficial to one or both individuals in love?

Physically, What is responsible for the changes?

In ten years time will you be able to buy a love detector kit in the chemist?

Will the powers that be try to manipulate the knowledge for their own ends?

Any other thoughts ??????




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If we are going to be unified in love, there is no "they". There is "us". No hidden meaning.

1 Corinthians 13


The Way of Love

13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast,1 but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 13:6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 13:7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 13:10 but when what is perfect2 comes, the partial will be set aside. 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult,3 I set aside childish ways. 13:12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly,4 but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

"The experiment concluded that Love brings about physiological alignment - a biological unity......a "oneness"
Love would seem to be Spiritual, no? When a person considers another word,..jealous,..which I see as a fear of loosing someone you allready have. It causes a sort of a physiological dissalignment of oneness ...I guess the pain one feels in a broken heart would be biological as well ...intresting...peace

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Hm, certainly interesting! I'm not convinced you can detect love by rummaging through people's brains, though. Lots of things are happening there and often at once, 'cause and effect not so easy to determine, especially with something so abstract as love. I've always thought of "Oneness" as more of a spiritual coming together than anything else.

The sound of a love detector kit is awesome though. I could do with one of those.

It may be out of place but I feel ignorant enough to declare... without scientific support of any kind, that the only thing we may be able to detect is the physiological impact of love... not love itself.

But then, there are those who reject the notion that anything beyond the physical exists.... doubting Thomas' I would say.

For them calling what they detect "love" will suffice.

I hope (which is to say that I hold on to faith) that love is among the few examples of the human perception of that which is not physical at all.

I fear that this kind of effort will lead to "measuring" how much love a person feels.... and that would be akin to claiming that love is an effect rather than a cause... the common thread of human wisdom throughout the ages has lead me to consider that love goes beyond the reckoning of weights and measures...

My humble opinion.

From the bottom of the article:

It is the ''alignment'' between two people that researcher Trisha Stratford said enabled the relationship between individuals to be elevated to another level.

''My energy impacts with you just standing there,'' she said. ''I am impacting your brain and body just by being here.''

I'm somewhat worried about this, because I can see this idea go "mainstream" in several years and there will be many that will believe that whatever truths they hold will conflict with other people's truth and this might even be physically felt. Science it seems might even accept this notion since there appears to be a physiological basis for this, not just something intangible.

Ms Stratford, who has a master's degree in psychotherapy, majoring in neuroscience, said: ''It appears that as we connect deeply with someone by using our sixth sense [and other senses] we are using our creative imagination to read the other person.''

Ever felt uncomfortable while on a bus with only one other person around but nothing to really feel uncomfortable about? The article suggests when 2 people are alone their bodies influence eachother whether we want to or not. That is, our ideas, our conditioning, what we see as truth will become something in the physical braincells and when two bodies are in the same room they will start to have some interaction, without speaking a word. If the general public becomes aware of this people might start having uncontrollable conflicts just by interacting.

It almost appears a 6th sense might be revealed soon, which will have to be acknowledged by many yet the majority will not be able to use it properly.The article talks about love, but what about all our other emotions like lust, anger, hatred?