My apologies, Michael; I have been away from this thread.

There is extensive evidence that biochemical events (to which you attribute the whole nature of love) ar ein fact subordinate side-effects to a range of phenomena associated with the human spirit. I would refer you for starters to the studies cited by Dr L. Dossey in his books on "Re-inventing Medicine", "Healing Words" and others. Each of his books includes extensive references both to rigorous clinical studies and to documented case histories, as well as to more anecdotal material. His bibliographies are excellent.

I don't have a bibliography to hand here at the office, but I think I can safely say that the Ghost in the Machine, for want of a better term, is a bigger proposition, and more repsonsible for our states of affinity, that the biochemistry which reacts to those things.

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