Love and Evolution

Originally published at: https://integrallife.com/love-and-evolution-2/

In order to uncover love’s future, we need to explore love’s past. So Ken Wilber looks all the way back to the Big Bang, retracing love’s role throughout the history of evolution. Rather than just a mere human emotion, love is cast as a central driving force in the Kosmos—the force of Eros itself, pushing all of us along our inevitable return to Spirit.

Love is an interesting quality that has evolved from unconditional to a more conditional exclusive way into an even more complex form:“Self-love.”