About Love

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Dear Werner,

I very much understand what you mean about that

constant use of the word Love. It seems to be very

cultural. In my country of origin, one uses that word

very descriminately, not all the time. My boss today

was saying how he loved me to death, just to engender

in me a strong emotion, dripping w/ glittery bullshit.

I can`t tell you how embarrassed I was.

I will never know what Love is.

It is not something I will ever be able to appropriate

myself, or use, or dispense.

I can dispense a certain kindness and help around me,

but it isn`t what one can call love. It is more like

survival skills. Self-preservation of the specie and

myself.

Love is a mysterie, its attributes are not at all what

one imagine. We will never know love, we can only

entirely give ourself up to it and that is the end of

the quest.

Thank-you for your sensitive and sincere post today.

Patricia

 

P: Patricia, You can surly know what love is. It's an

emotion produced by the amygdala using a certain

hormone, and transmitted by neurotransmitters to the

brain cortex. I hate to rain on Ana's love parade (not

really) but this have been documented in neurology

by clinical cases. There is the case of a young

man whose connection between the amygdala and the

visual center was severed by an injury suffered in

a car accident. After the accident, the young man

could not feel love on seeing his parents. They just

looked like strangers who resembled his parents. It

was only when they spoke to him that he could feel

love, and this was because the connection between

the auditory center and the amygdala had not been

severed. You could read about this case, and many

other fascinating cases in world famous

Neurologist V. S, Ramachandra book " The Ghost In The

Brain. "