The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 16

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 16 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We live in an Amorous Cosmos and the Amorous Cosmos lives in us. It’s a Cosmos filled with desire and allurement.

This book is an homage to the deep love and Whole Mate relationship between Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni, with all its depth, beauty and challenges. It tells the story of how they both deepened their intimacy through sometimes fierce contestation while modelling how to have evolutionary conversations as Homo amor. They were allured to each other in their shared desire to tell a new Story of Value—the new story that had the depth and power to activate the emergence of a new human and new humanity with the capacity to respond to existential risk.

This shared desire gave rise to co-evolving many new emergent ideas as well as fiercely challenging and clarifying other issues like the potential—and danger—of transhumanism, which could become the seedbed of totalitarianism if these were divorced from a shared Story of inherent Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values.

In this volume we celebrate Barbara both on her birthday and on her day of passing into the next world. We are reminded that every death is a night between two days, the darkness before the next birth. We are reminded that the continuity of consciousness is real.

Experiencing the reality of death presses us into life: to be fully here, to be fully committed, to be the change, to be living in the world that is already perfected. We keep coming back to the core truth of the realization: Reality is an Outrageous Love Story. Your story, each of our stories, is a unique chapter and verse in the larger Universe Story.

This knowing is the ultimate dignity of every human life.

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

Book details:

Title: The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 16
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340950
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD: THE PROMISE WILL BE KEPT

  • Celebrating Barbara’s 91st Birthday
  • We’re in Celebration, and in Our Celebration Is All of The Pain and All of the Joy
  • We Need Line and Circle Qualities at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Are A Unique Set of Allurements
  • Success 1.0, Success 2.0, Success 3.0
  • Prayer Affirms the Personhood of Cosmos
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 1.0
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • Evolutionary Intelligence Equals Desire
  • Deepest Heart’s Desire and the DNA of an Emerging Culture
  • I Don’t Grow Older, I Grow Newer
  • Barbara Ran for Evolution

CHAPTER 2    THE CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY

  • We Respond to the First and Second Shocks of Existence
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • The Movement to Resurrection
  • After the Crucifixion, There’s Always Resurrection
  • No Matter What Is Going on in My Life, I Trust With Complete Trust
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Death and Resurrection Are Natural Expressions of the Intimate Pattern of Reality
  • That’s Us, on the Road to the Planetary Awakening in Love
  • This Is the Real Thing—We Live Beyond Death
  • Eight Doors of Understanding to the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Door One: The Door of Longing
  • Door Two: The Fear of Nothingness Is That Which Is Beyond Nothingness
  • Door Three: The Eternal Quality of Timeless Time and Placeless Place
  • Door Four: Intuition of Justice and Fairness
  • Door Five: The Knowing of the Hero
  • Door Six: The Experience of Unique Self
  • Door Seven: Either Everything’s Meaningful Or Nothing’s Meaningful
  • Door Eight: The Experience of Loving Is the Experience Of Eternity

CHAPTER 3    WHY LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MATTER: THE GREAT STORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVOTION

  • The New Story of Value Is Our New Home
  • Every Human Being Has the Right to Desire and to Be Desired
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up
  • The Field of Intelligence Hears You Talking
  • The Purpose of Reality Is to Wake Up and to Grow Up
  • Wake Up States Are Not Enough
  • Developmental Levels of Clare Graves
  • The Experience of Commitment at Different Levels of Consciousness
  • “Become A Member” Means Something Different at Each Level of Consciousness
  • From Tier One to Tier Two
  • The Jump From First Tier to Second Tier

CHAPTER 4    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY

  • Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard: the Ability to Keep Evolving and Transforming
  • Celebrating 300 Weeks of One Mountain, Many Paths: Humans Are Wildly Good, True and Beautiful
  • To Give Up Being Right Is Being Homo Amor
  • The Evolution of Love Says No to Eugenics
  • The Techno-Utopian Vision Needs to Be Grounded in Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Moving Beyond Demonization
  • Incarnating the Impulse of Evolution: Barbara’s First Sermon in Evolutionary Church
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Leaving the Personal Behind Leads to Totalitarianism
  • Story as Prayer: Authentic Mystical Ecstasy Never Ignores the Hunger of Even One Individual

CHAPTER 5    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY, PART 2

  • Joining of Genius
  • The Second Shock of Existence: the Death of Our Humanity
  • Conscious Evolution and the Wheel of Co-Creation
  • The Shadow of Evolutionary Spirituality and Transhumanism
  • Without Articulating First Principles and First Values, You Cannot Arouse Outrage
  • Modeling Evolutionary Conversations
  • Subtle Mccarthyism and Fear on the Internet
  • The Irreducible Infinite Value of Unique Personhood
  • Conversation Absent First Principles and First Values Is Impossible
  • Tech Plex Creativity Needs to Participate in the New Story Of Value

CHAPTER 6    BARBARA MARX HUBBARD’S BIRTHDAY: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

  • Are You Ready to Awaken as Conscious Evolution?
  • We Need Infrastructure to Articulate the New World Philosophy and Religion
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Engaged Life With Full Passion Every Day
  • Integrating Barbara’s Legacy Into the New Story of Value
  • Conscious Evolution 1.0
  • Conscious Evolution 2.0: I Am Conscious Evolution in Person
  • Next Steps Towards Conscious Evolution 2.0

CHAPTER 7    THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, MY EVOLUTIONARY WHOLE MATE

  • Re-Visioning Conscious Evolution
  • Evolution Is the Synergy of Radical Telos and Complete Freedom
  • Plotlines of Evolution Awakening in Us
  • The Way We Meet Barbara Is by Showing Up in Our Full Selves
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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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