Is love spiritual or just some synapses in our brains working like an electric circuit board?
Can’t it be both? We are the ones who endow our responses and reactions with spiritual or artistic significance, even if there isn’t anything actually detachable from the physical realm. If you want to call it spiritual, even if we know the machinations and stimuli behind it, what’s the difference? For me the ‘spiritual’ side of love, as in life is the very fact that we ‘do’ it. The 'you' part of you, the part of you that loves is your brain. Your consciousness is what it is and is tailored to show love and affinity for other beings who are not our self because of our evolutionary inheritance as a mammal that like other mammals, makes social bonds. That is the key to our survival. The fact our experience of love is heightened and that we can write of it, sing about it and paint is what makes it ‘spiritual’.
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