Love & Relationships

“All you need is love 
All you need is love 
All you need is love, love 
Love is all you need.”
~ The Beatles, 1967

Humans cannot survive without love and relationships, and we cannot thrive without love and healthy relationships.

Love is more than just neurons firing in the brain and dopamine traveling through the bloodstream — although that’s definitely part of it. After all, we do have physical bodies, and the relationship we have with our physical body is one of the most important relationships we can have in this Reality Game.

Love is the binding energy of the Cosmos.

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Scholarship across disciplines has shown the importance of love and relationships with others.

For decades, studies have shown that babies that do not receive enough physical touch — parasympathetic response — can be psychologically harmed, or in extreme cases, even die.

As a society, we’ve deemed that “solitary confinement” is one of the worst ways to punish an individual. It’s because we cut the individual away from the Collective, by stimulation via the environment, information, emotional, mental, and physical contact. There are also hundreds of years of research that show the substantial adverse effects of people who are subjugated to solitary confinement. Why?

Being supportive and supported by love is the key to Creating healthy relationships.

Medicine, history, sociology, literature explore how love and relationships impact the human condition — even physicists are describing quantum entanglement as a type of love-relationship of the universe itself.

So clearly, we cannot survive alone. And we most certainly can’t thrive being alone and lonely. If we take it a step further, we can’t even experience this reality of the universe alone!

So let’s imagine the other extreme for a moment. What would happen if we thrived in a healthy group?

When we Unite with love, we are unstoppable.

Mahatma Gandhi helped India gain independence from Britain, the most powerful Western nation of the time, through peaceful resistance. Inspired by Gandhi and his success with non-violent activism, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described Gandhi as being one of the “individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God.” The legacy of Dr. King goes beyond his Nobel Peace Prize, being the driving force of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his immortalized “I Have a Dream” speech.

They proved how the Human Collective can achieve seemingly unthinkable, unattainable, impossible acts of Co-Creation through Love and Relationships.

It’s likely that many people when reading this article thought I’d write about romantic relationships. And although it’s true that romantic relationships are often a Core Creation we focus on, it’s much more important to look at the foundation of our relationships.

We can go so far as to say that our entire experience as a species is that of Duality, or the relationship between Self and Other.

If this wasn’t true, then Greek philosophes wouldn’t have lamented about the 7 Types of Narrative Conflict for the past three thousand years. If you’re unfamiliar with them, here they are (note that I’m replacing the terms “man” or “person” with the word “self”):

• Self vs. Self
• Self vs. Fate/God
• Self vs. Person
• Self vs. Society
• Self vs. Nature
• Self vs. Supernatural
• Self vs. Technology

What do relationships look like in the New Paradigm?