Writer and Adventurer Scotte Burns is a 24-year veteran English/creative writing teacher, 12-year geosciences educator, and active member of the National Science Teachers Association. With Toni, his wife of forty years, he researches and documents stories about the nature, meaning, and unity of love for their multimedia project, Journeys to Love. The tale of their latest six summers, 100,000 miles, and 48 states traveling by Harley to diverse American cultures, communities, and lifestyles looking for love are currently being offered via their popular YouTube channel, recent TED talk, and to publishers via their upcoming books, Love: Your Seventh Sense, and A Boat, A Raft, A Bridge: The Discovery, Meaning, and Hope of Love in America.
In this episode, Scotte shares a lot about how Toni and him started "Journeys to Love" with a "simple" question, how it has developed into finding the answer to the question, "What is Love?", and more of the research and stories behind all of this.
Scotte and Toni have been putting out a lot of content lately so make sure to check it all out. Subscribe to their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneystoLove. If you want to support what they are doing financially (as they are supporter-funded), become a Patreon patron at https://www.patreon.com/JourneysToLove. Follow them on Instagram @journeys_to_love. To see Scotte's recent TedTalk, check out this link: https://youtu.be/SPgoHXXp9N8.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
02:39 The Journey Begins: Seeking the Secret to Love
04:05 Encountering Pastor Rick Hale and Mary in Roswell
06:01 Expanding the Question: What is Love?
08:49 Connecting Love and Consciousness
09:49 Reflecting on the Project and Synthesizing the Findings
14:27 The Holistic Approach: Unifying Different Disciplines
19:02 Discovering Love in Unexpected Places
23:03 Love as a Sense: Exploring the Concept
27:26 Aerosphere: The Unified Theory of Love
32:23 Grief as Sensory Deprivation
38:51 The Limitations of Psychology in Understanding Love
40:17 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
42:15 Consciousness as an Emergent Property
43:35 Consciousness in Lower Life Forms
44:33 Collective Consciousness
45:30 Love as a Parallel of Consciousness
46:23 Love as a Search for Meaning
47:36 Love in Challenging Circumstances
49:33 The Power of Acknowledgment
53:07 The Importance of Shared Consciousness
57:39 The Journey to Love
58:08 The Great Love in Everyday Life
59:21 Existential Questions and Love
01:01:29 Duality and Love
01:03:23 Perception and Love
01:04:21 You Are Not Alone
