What The World Needs Desperately Is Love and is Not Going to Get It

The world is drifting further into darkness, not that there has ever been much light in it; so, we have no choice but to turn to our friends and intimate partners, if we have one, and tune more deeply into love. Love is comforting and stabilizes our hearts and souls, which is much needed when the world tilts further into separation, war, and deliberately fostered illness.

We stand at the edge of a planetary nervous breakdown. Not because we lack technology, intelligence, or resources, but because we lack the one thing that makes any of it human: Love. And not the sentimental kind. Not fleeting romance or decorative empathy. But love as presence, care, courage, and sacrifice.

What the world needs now is love, but our leaders continue to prioritize power over presence. control over compassion, madness over mercy. War is spreading, and in the United States, it’s full-on medical war over vaccines, fluoride, cancer treatments, immigration, and pesticides. Love matters now more than ever because civilization is collectively collapsing. We are facing climate breakdown. Ecological ruin. Medical poisoning. Social fragmentation. And the overrun of Western civilization.

Since around 1900, the newly created super-rich have created separation. Separation is the opposite of love, and this holds for both our intimate relationships and the vast disparity between the wealthy and the rest of the population. We all know the saying that power corrupts absolutely, and wealth has always been the key to power.

So since writing this essay, it’s war, more war with every day bringing death and destruction, and the increasing chance of World War 3. Too many people in power choose war over love, and the proof of that is in the headlines every day. Pepe Escobar writes,  The Whole Planet Is Being Kept Hostage by a Death Cult, and he does know what he is talking about, unfortunately.

Love would dismantle the system.
So the system suppresses it.

So, What We Need Is Love

Soul love is free, yet intensely committed and loving.
We humans need to love and trust deeply.
Many beings are walking this planet with beautiful hearts
that is deserving of our love, but the secret, of course
is to become one of them, a being with a love light
shining out of our hearts. We need to give
what we would want to receive.

Across the globe, young people are increasingly demonstrating cynicism, dissatisfaction, and disillusionment. There is a pervasive sense of doom among the young, primarily attributed to the older generations. This has grown exponentially since the COVID lockdowns, and the mental illness of climate change is spread daily in the news, and environmental desecration on an enormous scale strips the young of hope.

Love is something we feel when we are close and feeling one with another being. Therapist M. Scott Peck defined love as the willingness to take a risk, to engage truly, and to struggle emotionally with another in a relationship for shared growth. But all of this is missing:

Communication is love. Listening is love.
Perfect love is perfect communication.
Without perfect communication, there is no perfect love.
That pure love makes our relationships perfect,
even if we, as individuals, are not.

These two most practical definitions of love combine to form a context in which love can be understood, measured, learned, and practiced. The above prose about communication, listening, and love lays the foundation for the creation of Communication and Listening Psychology. In deep love relationships, it is the communication dynamic that reflects how deep and pure our love is.

Love is what life is all about. Love is what holds us together and gives us the strength to face life’s challenges. I write about medicine because I love to and because it is my mission and purpose to communicate with others about what is essential in life. In medicine, it’s often a matter of life and death or great suffering or health.

The healthy human heart needs warmth, is warmth, and can give warmth to others. The deeper we dive into the heart and open to its super-intelligent ways, the more balanced, coherent, and healthy our bodies, minds, and emotions become. The grace of the heart offers us a quality of being that is healing, animating, invigorating, supporting, nurturing, and comforting. The grace of the heart provides an inner tranquility and peace that the mind rarely possesses on its own. 

From the point of the pure heart, that is not separate from itself and what it feels, we can see almost all of human life as manifesting different degrees of uncaring, rejection, and denial of feelings. At one end of the spectrum, we have the pure heart that cares totally, and at the other, the sociopath and psychopaths who have lost all capacity to feel, all capacity for empathy. And the rest of us are somewhere in between.

Too many of our leaders and indeed the mass media have turned to darkness, meaning we have psychopathic institutions and people navigating the ship of civilization.

A Dark Night of the Soul for Humanity

Such a night might indeed be necessary, for it does seem that most of our lessons need to come the hard way. Such is the nature of the collective ego of humankind. The individual cannot wholly escape collective events, and the collective is the total of all individual components. Although we can build illusions about the supremacy of our individualities and those of others, there is a level of reality that cannot be divided. This is the true and ancient meaning of individuality: “that which cannot be divided.” Sadly, we are divided along so many lines. In an insane world, love is what we need. I send my love out to the world more than once a day for all the good it does, but at least it does me good.