Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 2

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 2

We live at a moment of global action paralysis, which is rooted in a global intimacy disorder. We have exiled intimacy to only human relationships and sexuality. But intimacy is the fabric of Reality itself. The exile of intimacy has left us feeling disconnected from each other and from the evolutionary impulse itself.

This book is an invitation to reclaim intimacy as a core structure of Reality. We live in an Intimate Universe. The story of evolution is not random—it is driven by Evolutionary Eros. Reality is not a fact; it’s a Story, and it’s going somewhere—it has direction. Evolution is the evolution of intimacy. Evolution is yearning, and that yearning is uniquely alive in us, as us, and through us. Reality itself longs for us.

To heal the intimacy disorder at the core of our global crisis, we must evolve intimacy and activate a Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies. We need a new politics of love, a politics beyond polarization, where the future is co-created in social synergy. We are not passive observers; we are actively participating in the evolution of love.

This book is a calling to sacred activism, to join genius in Unique Self Symphony, and to become an agent of intimacy in your unique corner of the world. The only response to the outrageous pain of the world is Outrageous Love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between January and March 2017.

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 2
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340455
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     CELEBRATING EPIPHANY: THE BIRTH OF THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY

  • Epiphany of Homo Universalis, a New Human
  • We Are Spiritually Incorrect Evangelicals
  • Epiphany Is Transcending the Regular
  • There Is No Compelling Vision of Postmodernity
  • Can We Open Up to Epiphany?
  • Evolving Prayer: God, Love Me Open!
  • Tipping the Scales of Evolution Towards More Life and More Love
  • Why Is the Universe a Love Story?
  • The Divine Whisper: Synchronicity

CHAPTER 2     PRINCIPLES OF A PERSONAL POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • Five Core Principles of a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • The Strange Attractor Is Unique Self
  • Meditation: Breathe From the Deep Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Knowing God as the Greatest Love of Your Life
  • The Infinite Power of Cosmos

CHAPTER 3      FROM POWERLESSNESS TO SACRED ACTIVISM

  • Tuning Into the Impulse of Creation
  • Prayers to the Power of Democracy
  • Reality Yearns for Us
  • It Is Not Your Job to Heal the Whole Thing
  • Why Isn’t Everyone Out There Doing It?
  • When We Claim Our Power, We Close the Gap Between Our Ability To Heal and Our Ability To Feel
  • Confessing Our Greatness
  • Yom Kippur Story of Yankel

CHAPTER 4     EVOLUTION’S DESIRE FOR SYNERGISTIC DEMOCRACY

  • Awakening a Memory of the Future
  • Finding the Field
  • The Evolutionary God Is the Impulse of Evolution and the Beloved Who Holds It All
  • Praying from the Place of the Lonely Child
  • Announcing Synergistic Democracy
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation in Synergistic Democracy
  • The Democratization of Enlightenment: Every Unique Self Is Needed by All-That-Is
  • You’ve Got to Take a Unique Stand
  • Moving Beyond Ordinary Love to Outrageous Love
  • Your Unique Risk Is What Makes You Alive

CHAPTER 5      EVOLUTION AND CONNECTION

  • Feel the Force of Outrageous Love Within
  • God as the Mother Who Nourishes Us
  • Let Evolution Move Forward
  • Imagining the Third Face of God
  • Prayer and Sex Are the Same Thing: You Can’t Pretend
  • A Taste of Planetary Connection
  • Evolutionary Love Is Outrageous Love
  • Three Distinctions Between Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love
  • Story: The Great Master of Children
  • Let Us Bring Mass Empathy

CHAPTER 6      HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER WITH A NEW POLITICS OF INTIMACY

  • Radical Planetary Intimacy
  • The Missing Tile Syndrome
  • The Scroll of Esther
  • The Intimate Kiss of Prayer
  • Radical Fulfillment of Living Your Heart’s Desire
  • What Does Co-Creation Mean?
  • The Exile of Intimacy

CHAPTER 7      THE COLLECTIVE AWAKENING OF HUMANITY

  • Meditation: One Evolutionary Act of Love
  • Restoring Intimacy: God Is Always with Us, and Feeling Every Pulse of Our Interior
  • The Three Faces of God
  • Offering Prayer to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Experience a Planetary Birth in Response to Pain
  • The Four Questions to Help Create the Planetary Awakening
  • You Cannot Enter Intimacy Holding Hate in Your Heart
  • The Day of Atonement

CHAPTER 8      THE EVOLUTION OF REALITY IS THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • No One Lives a Life of Lonely Desperation
  • When You Give Your Genuine Gift of Love the Whole Way, the Suffering is Gone
  • What Does Love, or Outrageous Love, Mean at a Higher Level of Consciousness?
  • Our Greatness Is Imbued with the Enormity of the Desire of Evolution for More Life, More Love, More Creativity
  • By Re-Sourcing We Return Deeper to Our Source

CHAPTER 9      INTERCONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND A MEMORY OF THE FUTURE

  • Healing Separation
  • In the Intimate Universe No One Is Left Out of the Circle
  • God of Intimacy
  • This Extraordinary Moment in History
  • The Last Day of the Creation of the Old Is Obviously the First Day of the Creation of the New
  • From Atonement to Attunement
  • We Are the Unique Self Symphony, Together—Let’s Feel It Arise
  • The Insane King
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future

CHAPTER 10      BECOMING AGENTS OF INTIMACY FOR A NEW STORY

  • Innovation on the Inside: You Become the Agent of Intimacy
  • Loneliness on Two Levels
  • Existential Risk
  • In the Face of Existential Risk, We Do Not Have To Do the Whole Thing
  • A New Universe Story Raises All Ships
  • We Hear God in the Deep Small Voice
  • Joining Genius on a Meta Scale
  • When Syncon Sectors Became Connected, It Was a Social Love Affair
  • Reality Is a Story and it is Going Somewhere
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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.

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Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara 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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