vocabulary for the heart

"...when the electromagnetic fields of two hearts come together, they begin to oscillate or entrain to each other...as the two fields come together and synchronize, the process produces a combination field, in effect, two fields in one. And these two fields are, like all nonlinear oscillators, in harmony. They produce something that is more than the sum of their parts...A unique identity comes into being and exists as long as the two fields are synchronized."
--"The Secret Teachings of Plants" - Stephen Buhner

The scientific language of this quote is a perhaps a little cold and rather confusing to those not already interested in "nonlinear oscillators," yet I find it remarkable because it is an example of the logical voice of science taking up a theme usually reserved for the intuitive voices of poetry and mysticism--the theme of passionate union, of dissolving separation with love. Two hearts becoming one--literature and myth suggest over and over that such a thing is possible--whether the poet speaks of eternally living in the beloved, or the mystic sings of ecstatic harmony with God, the message is the same: when two beings come very close, this closeness transforms them both, widens their existence beyond the boundaries of the individual.
And now here is science, with statistics and verifiable evidence, suggesting that this magical vision of union is physiologically possible, that the emotional connection made in a "heart-to-heart" conversation is also a biological one.
Is this helpful--to have another thing once taken on faith be proven as fact? I couldn't say for sure--even facts are ambiguous and seem to change as often as beliefs. I guess the suggestion I find in this passage, and in much of Buhner's book, is that some scientific knowledge, if caught before it is streamlined into mathematical formulas, may offer us new ways to talk about the role of the heart and the role of love in our lives and in the world. I imagine that we could gather new words from chemistry and botany to be added to a vocabulary of love--if such a thing can be said to exist. For if it does, it is a vocabulary that many of us try to avoid, viewing discussions of love as sentimental minefields of cliches and hyperbole. It's true, the grind of greeting cards and romance novels has tarnished the sparkle of much of our love language; yet, perhaps an infusion of the unexpected, of cardiology and cloud formations, could revitalize it, could give heart to the cynic in all of us.