Love, Period (Part 4): Emergent Love | Jake Haber [Extended Version]

Check out the closer of our "Love, Period" series as we talk about the great love story of the cosmos, including a new perspective on evolution, healed femurs, the survival of the fit (enough), Opera, Mother Teresa, and a giant shift in culture. 

 

The Podcast version of this message also includes an extended conversation with the Aldea Community. 

 

Quotes: 

 

 "Emergent properties are characteristics of a system that arise from the interactions and relationships among its components, but are not present in the individual components themselves” 

 

Brian Swimme: 

“The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas”

 

Stuart Davis:

“If Mother Teresa came from clay, maybe there’s more to evolution than a little DNA”

 

Rabbi Marc Gafni:

"Within the human world, there is also a progression of love from ethnocentric to worldcentric consciousness. This means... an expanding circle of love and care— from one’s own nation or religion (ethnocentric) to every human being on the planet (worldcentric).…It is not an ordinary love story but an Evolutionary Love Story whose very plotline is the evolution of love."

 

Thomas Merton: 

“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

 

Joseph Campbell: 

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”