Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self
This book begins with a conversation around public culture. How do we create an evolutionary public space which reflects our desire for a better world? How do we create coherence in a sea of social chaos? How can we move from digital abuse to digital intimacy and transform the internet into an expression of the genuine nervous system of our humanity?
This book invites us to explore elements of the necessary digital foundations for an emergent culture of Eros. This book lays down a vision for a world in which we are all evolutionary partners, awakening to the joy and responsibility of this moment in history.
Public culture is the place where we play out either the depths our private refinement or swamp of our shame. Healing the depth of our personal and cultural shame is therefore indispensable for creating a sacred public culture. As such, we explore through multiple doors the roots of our wounding and shame.
One key is to look at the way we coil, clench, and contract, guarding our hearts due to painful prior experiences. It is necessary to work with the wounds of the past, but this by itself is insufficient. This is but the first step. Through transforming and healing our shame and wounding we liberate the driving power of activism.
This is the path of transforming our personal and collective crisis.
Our crisis becomes a birth.
This process of transformation into Unique Self is love in action itself.
Living your Unique Self is an affront to shame.
Being together as Outrageous Lovers, as evolutionary mystics, as Unique Selves in Unique Self Symphonies, is the seedbed of a new culture of love.
Love is not hard to find—Love is impossible to avoid. Love animates and suffuses Reality in every second, as we live in The Universe: A Love Story.
These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between August and October 2017.
Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
Book details:
Title:Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 5
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340813
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 TO EVOLVE PUBLIC CULTURE WE MUST EVOLVE OUR SHAME
- We Are Learning to Be Good Gods
- We Are at a Moment of Phase Shift in Humanity
- Our New Credo: We Are Evolution
- When You Feel the Pain the Whole Way, It Dissipates
- By Confessing My Shame, It Is Released
- Shame Is Whispering: You Are a King!
- Every Truth Has Its Temple: Distinguishing Secret Sordid and Secret Sacred
CHAPTER 2 WE ARE AROUSED TO ACTIVISM WITH AN UNGUARDED HEART
- Our Love Turns on the Noosphere
- Knowing That We Are the New Renaissance Creates Arousal
- A Core Structure of the Universe: Arousal From Above, Arousal From Below
- God Wants Us to Bring Everything to Prayer
- We Create Small Islands of Coherence in a Sea of Social Chaos
- A Mystic Is an Activist: Living With an Unguarded Heart
- We Must Crowd-source Fierce Outrageous Love
- Be Out of Your Mind and Go Into Your Heart
CHAPTER 3 REDEFINING IDENTITY: RESPONDING TO THE TRANSGENDER QUESTION AND RAPE CULTURE WITH EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY
- The Unique Self Symphony Resonates With Ecstatic Urgency
- Setting the Evolutionary Context: From Homo erectus to Homo Universalis
- The Meaning of Our New Power: Incarnating as Co-Creators With the Divine
- We Do Not Live in a Rape Culture; We Live in a Love Culture
- Unique Gender: A Better Response to the Transgender Question Of Who Am I?
- Let’s Go From D-Day to E-Day: We Are Evolution
CHAPTER 4 AN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH COLLECTIVE IS A SYMPHONY OF UNIQUE EXPRESSIONS OF LOVEINTELLIGENCE
- Resonating as Members of the First Evolutionary Collective
- Prayer Beyond Separation: Praying as Unique Selves
- The Unique Self Credo: The First Code Evolutionary Church
- My Unique Self Is in Devotion to Someone Else’s Unique Self
- Your Unique Self Is Like Plugging Into the Cosmos
- Unique Selves Band Together as a Unique Self Symphony
CHAPTER 5 REALITY NEEDS YOUR SERVICE: THE SEVEN SS AND KABBALAH IN A SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE
- Each of Us Is Encoded in the Planetary Body
- Your Unique Taste Is Needed by All-That-Is
- The Seven Ss of Uniqueness: How the Universe Self-Organizes
- God Needs Your Service: Kabbalah and the Seven Ss
CHAPTER 6 WE PARTNER WITH GOD AND FIND OUR PLACE AS A CO-CREATOR
- All-That-Is Needs Your Uniqueness
- Your Unique Gift Is Needed by All-That-Is
- Finding the Place Where I Fit Best Is Key for the New Human
- Happiness and Joy Are a Byproduct of Giving My Unique Gift
- Charity Saves From Death
- The Purpose of God Is to Create Co-Creators
CHAPTER 7 I AM EVOLUTION, I AM THE GLORY: ACTIVATING OUR GIFTS AT THE FIFTH BIG BANG
- You Are Born to Activate Your Unique Gift
- Forgiveness and Yom Kippur: You Are Held Accountable Because You Are Loved
- God’s Intention to Create Co-Creators Is Emerging
- Hasidic Story of Moishe’s Good Deed
- Your Mitzvah Is to Give Your Unique Gift
CHAPTER 8 WORDS ARE MUSIC: WE SPEAK OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE TO MOVE THIS GENERATION
- Evolution Wakes Up to Us Choosing
- Evolutionary Love Is the Ground Swell of the Self-Organizing Universe
- We Unguard Our Hearts as Evolutionary Activists
- Evolutionary Partners Support Self-Expression: A Dialogue With Tiero and Bridget
- Love the Moment Open: Evolution Is Waiting for You to Sing Your Song
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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