What prevents or allows self-giving love

Love on the spiritual path involves the commitment to relate soul-to-soul, no matter what shape relationship roles take. In this session, we will explore what love means beyond mutual ego attachment. If we are not bonding as part of the project of building up or renovating the constructed self, then what are we doing instead?  The potential for soul mating is one with the summons of personhood. “A person is a relationship of which the other is infinite. What will the Psychology Department make of that?" (Sebastian Moore) We will look at the evolutionary movement from socially determined gender roles (Mars & Venus), to the ‘egoism à deux’ of the privatized, romanticized ‘us’, to the mutally healing love intended to redeem wounds of the heart, to a truly transformative, transpersonal passion rooted in soul growth and “looking outward together in the same direction.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)