Something from Nothing

Nort,

I am researching now accounts of love, its source and ways in which it is managed across cultures. I have a general theory, a working hypothesis, if you will, which will no doubt be refined in the course of my research of specific cultural accounts. My working hypothesis is that our love and feelings have a superorganic origin. They originate in the mind. More specifically, they originate, or flow from, a point of "negation," for lack of a better word, within our consciousness. Linguistically we distinguish between what is and is not. In most general terms we distinguish between life and death, light and dark, the physical and spiritual world, order:chaos, being:non-being. It is hard for us to imagine what non-being is, nevertheless linguistically we have it as a category. It is the binary opposition of being to use Levi-Strauss's terminology. My simple thesis is that love originates from what is not! Does this make any sense to you. No doubt it has to be expanded upon and refined. Perhaps our future conversations can help in this regard.

Tad