World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 17

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 17 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity is a visionary collection of “oral essays” by Dr. Marc Gafni that offers a new “Story of Value” in response to the collapse of a shared global ethos. In many ways, we must reclaim religion as part of this story—not a return to traditional forms of religion but a new shared Story of Value as a context for our diversity. At the core of world religion is a universal grammar of value. This grammar of value writes the chapters of a new Story of Value, not as mere conjecture or a constructed narrative, but as a story deeply rooted in the value structure of Reality itself.

Each of us participates directly in this story, as Unique Selves, individual expressions of the divine evolutionary impulse. We are all irreplicable verses in the cosmic scroll, which holds the record of the past and the memory of our future.

At the heart of this work lies the realization of Outrageous Love, a force that transcends ordinary romantic love. Outrageous Love is the animating Eros of the evolutionary impulse that drives the Cosmos. Outrageous Love incarnates Eros and Intimacy as the heart of Reality’s Field of Value in which all of the manifest world unfolds.

Marc Gafni, Zachary Stein and their colleagues are calling for the emergence of a new human and new humanity, it is time for Homo sapiens to be fulfilled as Homo amor. World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity invites us, in this time between worlds and time between stories, to tell a new Story of Value. It is time to evolve together into a future where ever-deepening Eros, ethos, and intimacy—First Principles and First Values—are the north star for Reality’s evolution.

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

Book details:

Title: World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 17
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340202
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     “I AM GLORIA”

  • Oh My God! A Direct Apprehension of Spirit
  • Reality Is Made Manifest in Love
  • Reality’s Intention Is the Evolution of Love
  • Reclaiming the Glory of God
  • The Glory of the Physiosphere
  • The Glory of the Biosphere
  • The Glory of the Noosphere
  • The Glory of Homo Amor
  • Tribute to Ram Dass
  • The Second-Person Face of Gloria

CHAPTER 2     GLORIA: RECLAIMING RELIGION AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Gloria: The Gravitas of Reality, Lined With Love
  • Towards a Cosmocentric World Religion
  • Praying to the Divine in the Second Person: The Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs Your Service

CHAPTER 3     HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of a Partial Story
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark
  • To Be an Evangelist Is to Be an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love: We’re Outraged
  • Evolutionary Love Code: For True Evangelism We Need Both Ecstatic States and Developmental Stages
  • In Every Great Tradition There’s an Intimate Incarnation of the Divine
  • Passover: For the First Time, I’m Going to Find That Hidden Dream

CHAPTER 4    RELIGION NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE REVOLUTION: EVOLVING THE UNIQUE SELF OF THE GREAT TRADITIONS

  • No More “Business As Usual”
  • Becoming Homo amor
  • The Source Code Move
  • Honoring Islam: Allahu Akbar
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Eye of the Senses, Eye of the Mind, Eye of the Heart
  • The Interpretation of Revelation Through the Prism of Consciousness
  • Liberating the Experience of Revelation
  • Participating in the Evolution of Great Traditions

CHAPTER 5    REWEAVING CHRISTMAS: FROM BIOLOGICAL FAMILY TO HOMO AMOR FAMILY

  • Weaving a New Cloth of Outrageous Love Into New Visions of Value
  • Silent Night: Son of God, Love’s Pure Light
  • On the Other Side of Guilt Is Our Second Innocence
  • Outrageous Love Knows No Boundaries
  • Level One of Love: Biological Family
  • Level Two of Love: Romantic Love
  • Level Three of Love: Evolutionary Family and Outrageous Love
  • Articulating the Interior and Exterior Sciences of Love: Outrageous Love Drives Cosmos
  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers Looking Deeply Into Each Other’s Eyes and Together at a Shared Horizon, Ready to Lay It All Down for the Sake of the Whole
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolutionary and Soul Root Family
  • In Excelsis Deo: Liberating the Exiled Energy of Gloria
  • The Practice: Birthing a New Structure of Intimacy
  • Gloria: Feel Your Innocence Slipping Away
  • Gloria: In Excelsis Deo in the Field of Love’s Pure Light

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING THE EVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF CHANT FOUND UNIQUELY IN EACH RELIGION

  • Setting Our Intention in This Time Between Worlds, This Time Between Stories
  • How Do We Know Anything? Accessing the Field of Value
  • Accessing the Eye of Value By Becoming the Music
  • Entering the Practice of Chant: Let the Chant Enter You
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Path of Chant—Each Great Religion Is a Different Quality of Intimacy
  • Kashmir Shaivism: Devi Prayer
  • Cathars—Lo Boièr
  • Gyuto Monks—Mandala Offering
  • Native American—Sacred Spirit
  • Wisdom of Solomon Chants
  • Mizmor Shir Le’yom Ha’shabbat
  • Ki Atah Hu Ba’al Ha-Yeshuot: For You Are the Master of Liberation, For You Are the Master of Transformation
  • My Unique Self Is My Unique Chant

CHAPTER 7    THE NEW WORLD CALLS FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR GLOBAL DIVERSITY

  • What Would It Mean to Articulate a Vision of a New World Religion?
  • A Collapse of Value Is a Collapse of Eros
  • In the Absence of a Genuine Story of Value, Humans Create Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Existential Risk Is a Direct Result of Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Trialectics of Religion: We Need to Transcend and Include the Premodern and Modern
  • The New World Religion Can’t Be Local, and Compassion and Kindness Are Not Enough
  • A Shared World Needs a World Religion
  • Building a Foundational Framework of First Principles and First Values
  • Spirituality Without Religion Is Not Enough
  • New Life Conditions Demand a New Language of Value
  • “Until Philosophers Are Kings… Cities Will Never Have Rest From Their Evils” —Plato
  • Powerfully Addressing the Rigorous Critiques of Value

CHAPTER 8    TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

  • A Shared Grammar of Value for a Global Conversation
  • We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: New Need Generates New Emergence
  • A Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphonies

CHAPTER 9    SEDUCING HOMO SAPIENS INTO HOMO AMOR: THE MORAL OBLIGATION OF A NEW WORLD RELIGION

  • The Root Cause of Existential Risk Is a Global Intimacy Disorder
  • The Modern Word for Armageddon Is Existential Risk, The Modern Word for Messiah Is Homo amor
  • First Values and First Principles Are at the Center of It All
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Practice: Clarifying Your Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • Screaming the Name of God: The Sacred Mystery of Erotic Explosion
  • Seduce Me and I Will Run After You
  • Seduction, Unique Self, and Unique Self Symphony
  • The Distinction Between Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Articulating a World Religion That Can Seduce Reality Towards the Highest Version of Itself
  • Prayer: Draw Me After You

CHAPTER 10    RESPONDING TO THE THREE GREAT QUESTIONS OF COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM

  • Two Kinds of Existential Risk
  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
  • What Are Evolutionary Love Codes?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Great Questions
  • Principle One: Outrageous Love Is Our Response Both to Pain and to Beauty
  • Principle Two: Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Principle Three: I Am a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • Principle Four: Outrageous Lovers Commit Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Principle Five: Outrageous Acts of Love That Are Mine to Commit Are a Function of My Unique Self
  • Principle Six: Find the Others to Play in the Unique Self Symphony
  • Prayer: Hallelujah

CHAPTER 11    FROM PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY TO WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY: IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS

  • Outrageous Love Is Reality
  • Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • The Perennial Philosophy
  • The Name of God Is the Infinite Intimate
  • Every Unique Self Participates in the Name of God
  • The Seamless Coat of the Universe Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • We Need Shared Universal Rituals to Bind Us in a Global Intimacy
  • Prayer: When I Speak, the Field of LoveIntelligence Listens and Responds

CHAPTER 12    RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS THROUGH THE EROTIC GNOSIS OF TEARS

  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness
  • Rosh Hashanah Is the Portal to Transformation
  • When God and Goddess Are Brought Together, Blessings Flow Into the World
  • Tears Are an Expression of the Eros of Cosmos
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Are Days of Tears
  • The Language of Mothers Is the Language of the Sacred
  • Tears That Shatter Our False Identity
  • The Gates of Tears Are Never Closed
  • I Am a Unique Desire of the Infinite
  • Tears Tell a Story About the True Nature of Self and Reality

CHAPTER 13    TEN PRINCIPLES OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FEELING AND HEALING OUTRAGEOUS PAIN

  • Crossing to the Other Side
  • The Dharma Is the Psychedelic of Reality
  • The Evolution of Tears on the Side of Joy and on the Side of Pain
  • Deepening Our Commitment to Rebuild the New World With “Monogamous Polyamory”
  • When God Is Dethroned, Our Solutions Become the Great Tragedy Itself
  • Prayer Is One of the Most Powerful Medicines
  • We Are the Influential and the Powerful
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Healing What’s Uniquely Yours to Heal
  • The Ten Principles of Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 14    HOW BIG IS YOUR HEART? FROM THE AGONY CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSS TO THE BLISS CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSSING

  • To Be Non-Intimate With Reality Is to Be Lost in the Drama of My Own Life
  • We Have to Face the Pain—But With Radical Joy!
  • We Have to Articulate a New Politics of Outrageous Love
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe and the Intimate Universe Lives in Us
  • We Are Coming Together from Around the World to Write a New Constitution
  • Forgive Yourself! Forgive All The People Who Betrayed You!
  • From the Cross to the Crossing
  • We Desperately Need Each Other
  • Infinity Needs Your Service
  • My House Is Your House
  • We Are Not Alone in Cosmos

CHAPTER 15    LIVING THE DREAM IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS: LIBERATING THE SPARKS OF CELEBRATION FROM ANCIENT TRADITIONS INTO A NEW WORLD SPIRITUALITY

  • Only a New Story of Value Changes the Vector of the Real
  • The World Itself Pulses With Joy
  • We Are Welcome
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Self of Every Religion
  • Liberating the Sparks from Hanukkah
  • The Miracle of the First Day
  • Capacity to Celebrate Partial Victories
  • The Way We Decide to Tell the Story Defines Everything
  • Liberating the Sparks from Christmas: The Birth of God as Human Being
  • We Need the Democratization of the Christed One
  • Gloria In Excelsis Deo (“Glory To God In The Highest”)

CHAPTER 16    TELLING THE EVOLUTIONARY STORY OF CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION

  • Evolving The Source Code, the Inescapable Frameworks in Which We Live
  • We Cannot Evolve the Source Code Without Religion
  • Weaving Easter and Passover Into the New Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Hope Is the Ontology of Reality
  • Redemption Is a Political and Economic Event
  • Everything Is About the Story We Decide to Tell
  • Life Is a Series of Love Stories
  • The Evolution of Love Is the Source of Hope
  • This Lifetime Is a Chapter in the Story
  • Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story

CHAPTER 17    A HERETICAL BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY

  • We Don’t Wait for the Prophets
  • From Homo sapiens to Homo amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We All Stand Together on the Side of Love
  • A Shared Story of Value Is a Cosmic Anthem
  • “Show Me Something Real, Tell Me Something True”
  • The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist
  • “What’s Real Is That You’re Loved”
  • “What’s True Is That You’re Not Alone”
  • Tenets of the World Religion

CHAPTER 18    ANSWERING THE CALL OF PROPHECY: ENVISIONING NEW POSSIBILITIES & THE DIGNITY OF PRAYER

  • We Become the Voice of the Next Iteration of Evolution
  • The Universe: An Evolving Love Story
  • We Are All Connected: Invisible Lines of Non-Locality
  • In the Separate Self, We Have Lost the First Principle of Personhood
  • Being a Prophet Means Accessing Your Unique Voice and Seeing New Possibility
  • Slow Down, Listen Deeply, Fill Up With Eros
  • The Prayer You Thought Was Prayer Is Not Prayer
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer and Prophecy
  • Second Person: The Pan-Interiority of Cosmos
  • Third Person: All Fields Are Interpenetrating and Are an Expression of the Larger Eros
  • Prayer Is When I Turn to the Field of Infinite Personhood
  • Third-Person Realization In Prayer

CHAPTER 19    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING THE DIGNITY OF PERSONAL NEED

  • We Are Allured to Each Other In a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • You Are the Radiance of the Big Bang Incarnate
  • Prayer: The Seven Steps of the Stairway to Heaven
  • Step One: Faces of God
  • Step Two: Realizing the Personhood of Divinity
  • Step Three: Prayer Is Always Heard By Divinity
  • Step Four: The Movement of Prayer
  • Step Five: Feeling the Infinity of Power
  • Step Six: The Infinity of Power Is Right Here With You
  • Step Seven: The Feeling of God

CHAPTER 20    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING INTIMACY THROUGH PRAYER AS PROTEST

  • The Urgency of a World Without First Principles and First Values
  • It’s a Fucking Revolution
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The God You Don’t Believe in Does Not Exist
  • Reality Is the Progressive Deepening of Intimacies
  • Prayer Itself Is a Form of Protest
  • Protest, Laughter, Mysticism and Paradox
  • The Paradox of Choice and Choicelessness
  • Laughter Holds Paradox
  • When Will You Come Already? We’re Waiting for You
  • God, Show Up, Be Here
  • Getting Beneath the Space-Time Continuum and Reconfiguring the Past
  • God, I’m Done—Let Me Know If We Have a Deal
  • The Paradox of Hallelujah
  • In Genuine Intimacy With God There Is Protest

CHAPTER 21    PRAYER AWAKENS US TO THE APPROACHABILITY OF THE INFINITE

  • Intention Setting: Ratzon and Holy Seduction Into Outrageous Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer Is Intimate Communion With the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Prayer: Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Personhood of Prayer: First Person
  • Personhood of Prayer: Second Person
  • The Butcher’s Prayer
  • Personhood of Prayer: Third Person and Second Person
  • Prayer: Tenderness and Fierce Passion Exponentialized

CHAPTER 22    THE THREE FACES OF GOD = THE THREE FACES OF LOVE—REWEAVING THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Existential Risk Presses Us Into the Realization That the Evolutionary Impulse Is Living in Us
  • The Narrative Arc of the Story of Reality
  • I Participate as the Universe in Person, in the Field of Love
  • We’re Here to Tell the Best Love Story Ever Told
  • Outrageous Love Code: In the Greatest Love Story Ever Told, No One and Nothing Is Outside the Circle
  • We Can’t Leave God Out of the Story
  • The Three Faces of God Which Are First Principles and First Values
  • The Third-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The First-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The Third-Person and First-Person Perspectives of Cosmos Are Not Enough
  • The Second-Person Perspective of Reality
  • Enacting The New Story Through Lived, Direct Experience: the Practice of Prayer
  • The Field of Eros Has a Personal Quality
  • Atheism: There’s Heresy Which Is Faith
  • Prayer Is the Experience of the Personhood of Cosmos That Knows My Name
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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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