The above is taken from a 'Star Trek' episode, in which Spock is required to join minds with a formless alien lifeform, called a Medusan. Whilst quite an ordinary episode, this final revelation, I find, is quite remarkable. The message above is profound, and has been etched into my memory, never to be forgotten. Like so many things in life, words and examples of wisdom appear to us from every direction we may care to see, and if we listen for them.

So can we live without love, or is this an inherent need in our true self, our spirit mind, our soul? And if so, where does this need originate?

Living with each other on this planet, it is impossible not to interact, and be both influenced and affected by others around us. It is impossible not to interact with people without affecting others both positively and negatively, with our words and actions. Add to this, an almost neurotic need for love, friendship, and to be accepted, and you have a virtual chaotic dance that is never ending, that swirls like the torrents of a water rapid.

By why do we need to be loved, and need to be accepted?

This implies some sort of weakness, or emptiness inside of us. If a man lives his life alone, without the company of another, or anyone, on say, a lonely mountain; would he still need this same love? From movies, we may see this analogy, of the lonely mountain man, but does he not always have some thing, some dog or animal, upon which he projects his love and need for companionship? Off course to live alone, does not necessarily imply loneliness at all. One may be happy to live in solitude, but there is still the overwhelming need for us to communicate, and contact with others; and if not others, then communicate with other creatures about us, in nature.

Is this the real need? the need for contact, and the communication of ideas and thoughts?

We as humans, are blessed with intelligence and imagination. This is truly an astounding gift that we all have; to be able to rationalise, and to think, and to dream. Yet as well as a gift, it may also be a curse. Sometimes it is difficult to come to terms with who we are, or why we cannot control our lives. We question everything, from God to the Universe, from destiny to freewill, from what happened yesterday to what will happen tomorrow, in search of some understanding of ourselves. An underlying question remains unanswered about who we really are, and where we came from?

Perhaps this need to communicate and make contact with other things is merely just a form of feedback we require to know and feel ourselves. Like a continuous gratification or consolation that we are real, of substance, like pinching ourselves to see if we are awake, or just in some sort of a dream.
This need for communication, in itself, is very important. Without this access to share thoughts and ideas with others, we become lost, and may even invent different persona’s in our own minds to communicate with, if we have no others; or may even become traumatised into creating such split personalities to communicate with.

But does this need to communicate have anything at all to do with love?

We all yearn for love, and moreover, not just physical love, but a love that satisfies us deep within. We form ideas of finding a soul mate, to share our deepest thoughts, and to understand our deepest feelings. More than not, we never find such a person. Does a person as this really exist? In most cases we fall in love, or learn to love another, that is not our soul mate. Through familiarity, this partnership learns to adapt, and to know and understand each other, for the most part.

Indeed, to many, expectations on these relationships, puts them under strain, and most end in split or divorce. The need for a spiritual understanding and connection is strong, and the need for an intellectual understanding is strong. The need for a deep and profound love is strong.

You may reason that this need for communication and feedback from other things, has nothing at all to do with love itself. For what is love, just an emotional state of want and need, or is it much more than this? Is it a phenomena, a wholeness, a truth inherent in all and each of us? Is love related to, and a part of, our true being, our true spirit mind and soul?
And do we merely play out our mortal lives, in a symbolic performance to find this love within us, and try to understand it?

Religions would have that love is symbolic of God, and therefore a need for love is symbolic of the loss of God. That God is love, and hence our continual strive to find it, and to act it out. This is a very valid theory, and goes a long way to provide a rational explanation of God and of love. Are we missing God, and the truth of God, that is Love?

If God is Love, and Oneness, and we are all created from God, and are a part of his Oneness. Then you may speculate that by loosing sight of God, and by loosing this state of oneness with him, we therefore have this continual loss and need for love. This need for love that we act out in our daily lives.
If this is so, it poses the question of why we have lost God, and his love, in the first place? Since this must imply that we were already as one with God?

We are all brothers and sisters of humanity, with matching DNA, and made from the same mortal star stuff, of atoms and energies. Is it any wonder that our minds are similar and have similar wants and needs? And does this similarity imply a deeper, more profound, spiritual connection between our real spirit minds?
For thousands of years, mankind has searched for truth, yet he has not really advanced at all spiritually. His knowledge of the physical world is astounding, but he still has the same basic wants and needs as he did from prehistoric times. God seems no nearer now, than he ever was in man’s past, and the need for answers and explanations are still the same?

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