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Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology

The neuroscience is compelling: dopamine surges, oxytocin floods, the prefrontal cortex briefly steps aside. But the phenomenology is stranger still — the sense that the world has finally become what it always should have been, that this person was somehow already known. Both accounts are true, and neither is sufficient to live by.

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Freedom in Falling: Love Without PossessionGrief as Gateway: Loss and Transformation in LoveKama and Bhakti: Desire Transmuted into DevotionPrema: Love as Neurochemical SurrenderRasa: The Aesthetic Flavor of Emotional States in LoveSahaja: Naturalness in Falling—The Effortless HeartThe Examined Heart: Witnessing Your Own FallingThe Mirror Self: Projection and the Neuroscience of IdealizationThe Vertical Beloved: Falling Upward Into the SacredViraha: The Neurochemistry of Longing and Separation