Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 26

Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 26 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We stand at a time between worlds, a time between stories—poised between dystopia and utopia. How we respond will have consequences and reverberations for many generations. First Principles and First Values offers both the most compelling diagnosis and the most effective and indeed joyful response to the looming threat of existential and catastrophic risk.

The core diagnosis is a “global intimacy disorder.” This intimacy disorder is generated by and expressed as the modern success story which is the dominant narrative in virtually all of worldwide culture. The success story pits us against each other in rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose dynamics. This in turn generates what systems theory refers to as complicated or fragile systems which are optimized for short-term profit and efficiency rather than long-term resilience and depth.

Intimacy—whether in a couple, a nation or in the earlier worlds of biology and molecular coherence—is only possible when there is a shared Story of Value. At the molecular level such a story is implicit in the scientific laws of Cosmos. At the human moral level, the shared story of value needs to be explicated and made conscious.

To respond to the meta crisis, we must be able not only to restore premodern ethnocentric intimacies rooted in premodern visions of shared value or even the early modern intimacies of democracies, markets and liberal culture, rooted in implicit modern assumptions of value.

Rather we need to evolve a new global intimacy rooted in First Principles and First Values which are the grammar for a shared language of value.

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

Book details:

Title: Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 26
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340530
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1  THERE ARE NO FOREIGN VIRUSES: GO VIRAL WITH OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • Corona: The Failure of the Contagion of Love
  • Corona Reminds Us of No-Boundary Consciousness
  • We Are Outrageous Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy
  • No-Boundary Consciousness
  • There Are No Foreign Viruses
  • Are You Ready to Be Affected by the Moment?
  • Natural Selection of Evolutionary Love in Which No One Is Left Out of the Circle
  • Wuhan Marketplace Clip: Outrageous Pain When I Place Someone Outside of the Circle
  • The Evolution of Love: No One Is Left Outside of the Circle
  • Unique Self Symphony With a Shared Score

CHAPTER 2  GLOBAL ACTIVISM NEEDS A GLOBAL STORY: WHO ARE WE IN THIS VIRUS MOMENT & BEYOND

  • How Do We Be in This Time?
  • The Germ Is Real—and It’s Not Punishment for Sin
  • New Age Thought: You Created Your Suffering
  • We Don’t Thank the Coronavirus
  • The Fact Pattern That Created the Epidemic Is a Failure of Intimacy
  • ‘Thank You Coronavirus’ Is Also a Failure of Intimacy
  • Let’s Hold Suffering in Our Arms
  • I Will Not Participate in Your Divine Plan, Even if It’s to Make Things Better
  • We Never Look Away
  • In Our One World, There Is No More Locality
  • The Spiritual Practice of Not Looking Away
  • Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • A Global Response Only Comes From a Shared Story
  • Who Am I When I’m Not Producing?
  • The Four Stories We Tell Ourselves Which Don’t Work
  • We Need a Shared Story Which Is an Evolution of Intimacy
  • Outrageous Love Drives Reality to Create More Intimacy
  • The New Story Lives in Us
  • At a Time of Catastrophe We Need to Avoid the Temptation to Move Towards Authoritarianism
  • Who Are You?
  • The Cracks in the Storyline of Modernity Created Our Present Crises
  • What’s My Outrageous Act of Love?
  • New Forms of Collective Intelligence: Either Dystopian or a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 3  BEYOND THE FEAR OF DEATH: SEVEN STEPS FROM FEAR TO OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • Corona—Coronation, Karuna
  • Hallelujah: Praise, Hallelujah: Brokenness
  • Go to the Limits of Your Longing
  • Are We Ready to Feel All the Pain and All the Joy and Not Look Away?
  • Our Responsibility Is for Personal and Collective Sensemaking
  • Am I Alone or Am I Being Held?
  • We Offer Our Sensemaking for the Sake of the Whole
  • We Just Learned How to Stop Splitting Off the Suffering of Others
  • The Fear at Play Here Is the Fear of Death
  • The Narcissist Exercise
  • Understanding Our Fear of Death
  • Death Is a Night Between Two Days
  • Ethos Only Makes Sense If There Is Accountability Beyond Death
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors: It Doesn’t All Work Out in One Lifetime
  • Handling Unfinished Business So We Are Not Afraid of Accountability
  • Befriending the Fear of Our Bodies Aging and Decaying
  • Accountability: We Want to Know That We Count
  • The First Shock of Existence: The Death of the Individual
  • Addressing the Fear of Death: I Count
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse in Me
  • Reality Invites You into Outrageous Love
  • In the Absence of Pseudo-Eros, We Face Our Fear and Loneliness
  • I Participate in Divinity as a Unique Expression of Outrageous Love
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is to Create Worlds
  • Our Heart Breaks Open When We Step into Our Significance
  • Loneliness Kills, When One Is Not Seen
  • The Second Shock of Existence Is the Fear of Death of Humanity
  • Humanity’s Response to the Second Shock of Existence Must Be to Become a Unique Self Symphony
  • Let’s Imagine a New World
  • Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game? Are You Ready to Be God?
  • The Experience of Homo amor: Your Next Action Changes Everything

CHAPTER 4  BETWEEN DYSTOPIA AND HOMO AMOR: ONE BREATH, RE-STORYING REALITY

  • In This Moment We Bring in Every Person Who’s Suffering
  • Let’s Hold All the People Who Can’t Breathe, and Let’s Breathe Together
  • Hallelujah: Hallel and Yah
  • The Sabbath, a Day of Breath
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Birth
  • The First Shock of Existence Is the Death of the Individual
  • Your Unique Self Holds Immortality
  • Facing Corona Without a Story of Meaning
  • In Response to the Deconstruction of Our Stories, We Need to Re-Story Reality
  • We Respond to the First Shock of Existence by Living Fully
  • The Second Shock of Existence Is the Potential Death of Humanity
  • The Story of Win/Lose Metrics Causes Fundamental Structural Problems in the System
  • We Enact the Revolution by Starting With a New Story of Identity

CHAPTER 5  THERE’S NO NEW POLICY WITHOUT A NEW STORY

  • We Have the Capacity to Generate a Universe of More Value Than at Any Other Time in History
  • Reality Is Moving
  • Outrageous Love Drives Reality
  • Reality Reaches for More Intimacy
  • The Human Being Is a Unique Configuration of Intimacy
  • The Greatest Moral Imperative of This Time Is to Tell a New Story
  • When Our Information Ecologies Are Broken, There Is a Failure of Intimacy
  • We Are All Shamed in Some Way in Getting Our Basic Needs Met
  • The Failure of Global Public Goods Causes a Global Experience of Shame
  • The New Statement on a Global Level: Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Let Us Be Prophets Together

CHAPTER 6  ON THE REVOLUTIONARY NEED FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • The Need for a New Story
  • A New Politics of Pleasure
  • Evolutionary Prayer: Invocation of the Infinite Intimate
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Only a Politics of Pleasure Can Move Us Beyond a Pandemic
  • The First Principle and First Value of Pleasure
  • When You Experience a Value, Life Has Self-Evident Meaning
  • The Goodness of Reality Incarnates as Pleasure
  • Cultivating Discernment Around Pleasure
  • When I’m in My Pleasure, I Deeply Desire to Pleasure You

CHAPTER 7  THE DEATH OF HUMANITY IS NOT A GREATER TRAGEDY THAN THE UNJUST DEATH OF A SINGLE HUMAN BEING

  • Polarization Is Rooted in the Rejection of Other Worldviews
  • Should I Forgive the Destroyer? And What Does Forgiveness Mean?
  • We Synergize the Values of Premodernity, Modernity and Post-Modernity
  • To Be an Outrageous Lover, We Need to Forgive
  • Working Our Way to Forgiveness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Forgiveness Is the Fragrance the Violet Sheds on the Heel That Has Crushed It
  • The Energy of Evolution Lives in Us
  • We Can’t Speak About Death Without Holding a Wider Frame
  • There’s a Larger Play Beyond This Lifetime and This Dimension
  • Forgiveness Is Possible When You Hold the Larger Frame
  • Accountability Doesn’t Include Demonization
  • Feeling into the Experience of Another Person, Even Someone Who Behaves Heinously
  • To Forgive You Must Feel the Humanity of the Other and Find the Root of the Pathology in Yourself
  • The Practice: I Love You, I Forgive You, I Am Free

CHAPTER 8  THE DEATH OF HUMANITY IS NOT A GREATER TRAGEDY THAN THE UNJUST DEATH OF A SINGLE HUMAN BEING—PART 2

  • Facing the Doomer Camp: Understanding Emergence and Continuity of Consciousness
  • The Anthro-Ontological Realization of the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Fairness Is Not Worked Out in One Lifetime
  • Forgiveness: Feeling Beyond This Dimension
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • We Can Never Let Enlightened Knowing Deaden Our Sensitivity to Pain
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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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