An interesting link on the nature, expression and fostering of altruism and related is www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org. Per its mission statement –

The unique mission of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love is:

	(1) to study the benefits of benevolent love for those who give it and for those who receive it
	(2) to bring the results of research to the wider public in understandable and practical format
	(3) to sustain an international dialogue around the possibility of global human enhancement through the application of a new science of love
	(4) to encourage discussion within spiritual traditions about love for a shared humanity, rather than for some small fragment of humanity
	(5) to develop an ongoing dialogue between spirituality, theology, and science around the idea of unlimited love as the ultimate ground of reality

It minimally provides a complementary venue to the more traditional philosophical, theological and scientific approaches without apparently marginalizing any of them.

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