From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love
In a time between devolution and evolution, between destruction and creation, the response that is needed is a new story. This book is a sacred call to step into your evolutionary purpose, join with others in synergistic action, and co-create a world infused with Evolutionary Love.
This book weaves together timeless wisdom and evolutionary spirituality to ignite a planetary awakening. Through guided meditations and prayers, transformative teachings, and a vision for humanity’s next step, this book guides you beyond the false separations of ego into the fullness of your Unique Self. Where we have historically confessed our sins, we now need to confess our true greatness.
The Universe is not random and meaningless, but an Evolutionary Love Story, calling you to participate in its unfolding. Your uniqueness is the key to deep connection and co-creation. Evolution itself is Love in Action, and you are an irreplaceable part of this process. Just as our personal crises and wounds can give birth to the next stage of our personal evolution, the crises of our time are not signs of breakdown but the birth pains of a new humanity, inviting us to rise together in a global symphony of transformation.
With poetic depth and prophetic vision, this book invites you beyond ordinary love into the ecstatic urgency of Evolutionary Love. You are not extra on the set of Reality. You are needed. Your gifts, your voice, your love—all are essential for the awakening of humanity.
Are you ready to play your unique instrument in the Unique Self Symphony?
Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
Book details:
Title: From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 3
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340554
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 STEPPING INTO A MIGHTY EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY
- Meditation on the Evolutionary Impulse Within
- We Pray to the Infinity of Intimacy
- The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
- Pointing-Out Instruction for Prayer
- Prayers to the Infinity of Intimacy
- Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation
- We Are Inspiring a Planetary Pentecost
- A Kabbalistic Story of Divine Calling
- Letting the Ego Flower Into Your Unique Self
CHAPTER 2 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: BREAKING THE SPELL OF ORDINARY LOVE
- Place Attention on the Heart
- We Are Holding the Good News
- Intimacy Means We Are Awake and Erotic
- We Are Held by the Divine
- Taking the Lid Off for Love
- Get the Power of Unique Self Symphony
- The Beast: A Story of Posturing and Rejecting the Rose
- Reality Is a Love Story: The Deepest Story of Reality
- Breaking the Spell of Ordinary Love.
- What is a Real Unique Self Symphony?
CHAPTER 3 REALITY INTENDED YOUR UNIQUE GIFT
- Imagine Going the Whole Way
- Step Outside of Our Narcissism
- Reality Hears Me
- If We Don’t Thank God for Our Greatness, Who Will?
- Giving Your Unique Gift
- No One Evolves Beyond Ego
- A Story About Unique Gift: Slipping Your Envelope
- Under the Door
- You Identify Your Unique Gift
CHAPTER 4 ATTUNING AND RESPONDING TO OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IN A SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE
- Outrageous Love Drives Everything
- Your Personal Quality Participates in God’s Personal Quality
- Embodied Awareness of Outrageous Love: Feeling the Whole Story of Creation
- Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
- The Universe is Perfectly Attuned for Life
- Responding to a Politics of Devolution with a Politics of Evolution
- To Life! The Story of Yankele
- To Face Existential Threat, You Have to Feel Outrageous Love
CHAPTER 5 OUR SIX CORE ESSENTIAL HUMAN NEEDS
- The Wedding Day of the Essential Self with the Universal Self
- There Is No Contradiction Between Our Personal Needs and Evolutionary Needs
- Personal Needs Meet Our Evolutionary Needs
- Our Emergence as an Evolutionary Human
- We Must Meet Our Six Core Essential Needs
- Our True Need Is to Play a Larger Game
CHAPTER 6 EVOLUTION IS LOVE IN ACTION
- Attuning to Your Unique Gifts in the Symphony
- Are You Needed by the Unique Self Symphony, or Are We Just Making it Up?
- Prayer is a Realization of the Intimate Universe
- Who Are You? The Unique Self Response
- Planet Earth Is Giving Birth to a Co-Evolving Humanity
- The Intimate Universe is a Synergistic Universe
- God Needs Us
CHAPTER 7 REFLECTIONS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD AND OUTRAGEOUS LOVE
- Awakening Dharma: Resonance and Planetary Evolution
- From Broken Hallelujah to Evolutionary Dharma: Reclaiming the Divine
- Confessions of Greatness for Planetary Awakening
- We Get to Fall in Love Again and Again
- Welcoming Neale Donald Walsch: Conversations with God Within
- From Doctrine to Discovery: Awakening the Sacred Within
- Highly Evolved Beings Are Partners in Humanity’s Transmogrification
- A Sacred Secret Within Us All
- Not an Uncommon Dialogue
- Messianic Conversation and Embracing the Conversation with God
- The Holy Tipping Point: Just One Blink Away from Total Awakening
- The Power of Self-Selection and Mirroring Global Change
- No One Else Can Have Your Experience
- When Everything Is Great, Then What?
- Not Creating, but Remembering: The Essence of Divine Awareness
- Neale’s Blessing
- Marc’s Blessing
CHAPTER 8 THE WOUND AND THE AWAKENING: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO INTIMACY
- Tapping into the Wounding of Separation
- Enlightenment Means the Wound Is Not Unconscious in Us
- From Ego to Essence
- My Wound Is the Intention of the LoveIntelligence of Cosmos
CHAPTER 9 THE KEYS TO ACTIVATING EVOLUTIONARY LOVERS
- Our Heart’s Desire is for More Love
- Evolving the Lineages
- We Live in a World of Broken Hearts
- The First Key: The Activation of the New Identity
- The Second Key: My New Identity is Rooted in a New Worldview
- The Third Key: Activating Evolutionary Practice in a Profound and Deep Way
- The Fourth Key: Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
- The Fifth Key: Activating an Evolutionary Community
CHAPTER 10 THE GLORY OF THE WOUND: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO PURPOSE
- My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Wound
- We Are Not Wounded by Accident
- We Are Designed to Have a Flaw in Our Design
- Life Is Designed to Be a Misfit
- A Call for Wounding to Rise Up in Creativity
- Our Wound Changes Based on Who We Experience Ourselves to Be
- Extend Your Hand and Feel the One Wound, the One Love
About the Authors:
Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.
Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.
He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.
He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.
At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.
This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.
This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.
Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.
Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.
In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.
Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.
As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.
She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”
In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.
Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.
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