A Map of Souls is Scotte Burns’s completed narrative nonfiction work, drawn from the Journeys to Love fieldwork he conducted with Toni Burns across 48 states. Part road narrative and part inquiry into consciousness, it follows encounters with people and thinkers whose lives reveal love not merely as an emotion, but as a fundamental way of being.

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The journey moves from churches, reservations, prisons, city streets, and family kitchens to conversations across neuroscience, philosophy, spirituality, history, and culture.