The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself
We live in a time of crisis-“a time between worlds and a time between stories.” Only profound evolution-transformation-will tip the scale away from catastrophic devolution. Barbara and Marc, rooted in a profound read of contemporary reality, locate the core of the crisis in a global intimacy disorder. The core crisis is no less than a crisis of intimacy.
Our crisis is a birth. To heal the intimacy crisis, all that has been split off-personally and culturally and cosmically-must be welcomed back into the circle.
We have forgotten, or perhaps never really known, that not only live in the Intimate Universe; the Intimate Universe lives in us. Each of us is a unique configuration of intimacy-intended, recognized, desired, acknowledged, chosen, loved, adored, and needed by all of Reality to enact transformation through deepening intimacy.
Evolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies. My transformation is the transformation of the whole. That is what it means to be intimate with the whole.
Intimacy is not generic. Intimacy is always unique. We are unique incarnations of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of All-That-Is, living in us, as us, and through us. We need to become intimate with our Unique Selves. For the essence of the new human-her creative and transformative power-derives only from the deepest depth of intimacy with one’s own self. We need to become intimate with our own power.
This is the journey from Homo armor to Homo amor. It marks the emergence of the new human and the new humanity. The temple of intimacy is built when we stay in and go all the way in this lifetime.
These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between September and November 2018.
Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
Book details:
Title:The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality ItselfAuthor: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 11
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340479
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS AT THE EDGE
- Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Configuration of Desire
- I Cannot Be Intimate Without You
- Symphony Means Feeling the Field
- The Ritual of Prayer Unites Us in the Field
- We Celebrate the Evolution of Culture in All Fields
- One Hundred and One Is the Pathway to the Other Side
CHAPTER TWO BEYOND MASLOW: EVOLUTIONARY PRAYER AND THE SIX CORE HUMAN NEEDS
- Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Feature of the Field Of Intimacy
- We Resonate and Recapitulate to Evolve the Source Code
- The Larger Field of Intelligence Can Hear Me Talking
- Evolutionary Meditations for Praying to God in the First, Second, and Third Person
- Realizing I Am God in Evolution at the Jump Point
- Beyond Maslow: The Vision of Six Core Human Needs That Changes Everything
CHAPTER THREE MY UNIQUE DESIRE IS GOD’S DESIRE: HEALING THE CRISIS OF DESIRE
- Evolutionary Love Code: The Field of Desire
- Prayer Means That the Process Is Personal
- Our Collective Desire Is for Evolutionary Love
- I Heal God’s Broken Heart By Accessing My Deepest Heart’s Desire
- My Unique Desire Is God’s Desire
CHAPTER FOUR HEALING THE CRISIS OF INTIMACY: FALLING MADLY IN LOVE WITH OURSELVES AS UNIQUE CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE AND INTIMACY
- Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Crisis of Intimacy
- Increasing Intimacy Means Bringing in What Is Left Out of The Circle
- A Simple Practice of Unclenching and Opening the Heart
- The Self-Organizing Universe Desires More Intimacy
- Self-Love Is the Key to Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder
CHAPTER FIVE CRISIS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER: OUR COLLECTIVE AWAKENING TO REALITY MADLY IN LOVE WITH US
- Evolutionary Love Code: New Configurations of Intimacy
- Reality Is Madly in Love With Me
- A Practice for Entering on the Inside
- The Climate Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
- The Solution to Every Great Crisis Is New and Deeper Intimacy
CHAPTER SIX RESTORE INTIMACY AND BRING POWER BACK INTO THE CIRCLE
- Evolutionary Love Code: Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
- To Be Madly in Love With Myself Is to Know I Matter Infinitely
- To Become Like God: Love More
- Exercise to Open Our Arms and Let Them All In
- Saturday Church Is the Church of the Metamorphosis
- It Is Time to Reclaim Our Unique Power
CHAPTER SEVEN RECLAIMING AND EVOLVING SACRED TEXTS
- Evolutionary Love Code: What Is Being Left Out of the Circle?
- We Want a Politics of Love and a Love of Politics
- The Democratization of Prayer Breakfasts
- The Evolutionary Testament: A Template for the Future Human
- Integrating the Depth Structures of Every Great Tradition
- We Are the Ones to Write the New Sacred Texts
CHAPTER EIGHT I AM LOVE IN ACTION: INTIMACY, CREATIVITY, AND THE NEW HUMAN
- Evolutionary Love Code: Each Crisis of Intimacy Is a Birth
- The Only Decision Is to Open My Heart
- Genuine Creativity Comes From Intimacy With Myself
- What Is Being Left Out Is Our Newness
- I Am Love in Action
CHAPTER NINE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EVOLVING THE CAPACITY FOR INTIMACY
- Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Transformation
- When I Open My Heart, I Open the Heart of Reality
- The Power of Deepest Heart’s Desire Groups
- Feel Into the Ever Deepening Loops of Intimacy
- The Most Profound Pleasure Is the Pleasure of Transformation
- Transformation Is Always to Evolve My Capacity for Intimacy
CHAPTER TEN FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: RADICAL CURIOSITY AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
- Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation
- Love and Curiosity Go Together
- Greatness Means to Make New Mistakes
- Go the Whole Way in Your Radical Transformation
- From Homo Armor to Homo Amor
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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