From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 30

From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 30 | Dr. Marc Gafni

This book explores the dangers of a broken sensemaking and information ecology in a time between worlds and time between stories. We are faced with two bad alternatives: to blindly dismiss all conspiracy theories or to blindly buy into all their claims. Both are wrong choices.

The proliferation of conspiracy theories themselves is rooted in the broken sensemaking and polluted information ecology that is one of the demarcating features of our time.

It’s in this fertile ground of void without value that the contrived versions of the conspiracy theories flourish.

The collapse of plotlines, the loss of true north, and the belief that value is a fiction leave a void of Eros, which is always covered over with pseudo-eros.

False conspiracy is a form of pseudo-eros that we use to fill the emptiness that comes when we are disconnected from the narrative arc of value and intimacy.

Our response must be to tell a new Story of Value based on valid First Principles and First Values, rooted in the scientific realization that the Universe is a Love Story. In a healthy sensemaking ecology, we must again find the real conspiracy—the great conspiring, the great breathing together, of Reality that happens at all levels, animated by Outrageous Love.

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

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Title: From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 30
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340714
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE    CONSPIRACY THEORIES: AWAKENING AS OUTRAGEOUS LOVE BY CULTIVATING DISCERNMENT

  • We Feel a Shift in This Moment Towards a Quieter Desperation
  • The Four Insufficient Stories That We Tell
  • In Response to the Black Plague, the Renaissance Produced New Narratives
  • We Need to Change the Source Code Structures of Society if We Are to Prevent Catastrophic and Existential Risk
  • LoveIntelligence Is the Force of Allurement at All Levels of Cosmos
  • Reality Is Animated by Eros
  • New Pathology and New Promise
  • The New Story of Personal Identity: I Am a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • The New Story of Collective Identity: We Are a Unique Construct of the Evolving Intimacy of the Universe
  • What Does Reality Need From Me?
  • Sensemaking in the Context of the Intimate Universe
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Field of Intimacy and Desire Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • What Do We Owe Each Other?
  • To Join the Field You Must Be Willing to Take Your Unique Risk
  • Love Is a Quality of the Cosmos Itself, and We Can’t Activate Love Without Trust
  • To Have an Intimate Universe We Need a Shared Story
  • Diagnosing and Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder
  • Navigating Between Truth and Conspiracy Theories
  • Partial Truths Mixed in With Magical Thinking
  • Pre/Trans Fallacy and Conspiracy Theories
  • Detecting False Flags
  • False Flags Throughout History
  • Democracy: The Power to Do Sensemaking as a Consumer and a Voter
  • Homo Amor Is Responsible For His Or Her Own Sensemaking

CHAPTER TWO    SENSEMAKING AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

  • We Must Walk Through the Void to Feel the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Every Life Has Irreducible Value
  • Our Failed Stories Have Led to a Fundamental Rupture of Intimacy
  • We Must Let Our Hearts Break… and From That Place Return to the Full Wonder of Joy and Creativity
  • We Bring Our Confusion into This Moment of Silence
  • Something Essential Is Changing, and Something New Has to Emerge
  • The Only Way to Walk Through This Crisis Is to Evolve the Source Code
  • The Practice: Holding Joy and Pain Together, Grieving
  • The Practice of Amor: We Are Ontologizing Love Which Is the Eros That Binds Reality in Every Second
  • We Close Our Hearts in That Gap Between Our Ability to Feel and Our Ability to Heal
  • Who Are You? Where Are You?
  • I Have Only One Question to Ask: What Does Reality Need From Me in the Next Moment?
  • Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Outrageous Act of Love That Seeks to Emerge Through You in the Next Moment
  • You Are Powerful and Your Power Is to Respond to Reality’s Need
  • Joy Protests Against the Pain
  • Participating in the Pain of the Goddess in Exile
  • In the Post-Tragic I Feel the Pain and the Joy Together
  • The Blessing of the Father
  • To Heal the Crisis of Intimacy, We Need to Re-Imagine New Intimacies
  • As a Caterpillar Transforms into a Butterfly, So We Are the Imaginal Cells of the New World
  • Beware of Making Partial Truths into Whole Truths
  • Intimacy, Trust, and Communion in Sensemaking
  • We Must Maintain a Dialectical Dance Between Certainty and Uncertainty
  • We Can’t Do Sensemaking Without Dharma
  • We Need Intimacy and Perspective-Taking as Part of Sensemaking
  • Mutuality of Pathos Means I Feel You and You Feel Me
  • Intimacy Is Shared Identity in the Context of Relative Otherness With Mutuality of Recognition, Purpose, and Pathos

CHAPTER THREE    A GLOBAL ETHOS FOR A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION: PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION

  • The New Story Synthesizes the insights of Interior and Exterior Sciences Throughout History
  • Like Da Vinci We Understand: We Need a New Story
  • We Need to Ground the New Story in Fundamental Axioms Rooted in Interior and Exterior Sciences
  • In Our Global Civilization, Which Is Undergoing Crisis, We Need a New Story of Identity
  • Everybody Is One of Our Own
  • It’s Our Turn to Participate in the Evolution of Intimacy
  • We Expand Our Circles of Intimacy
  • The Truth About Every Human Being: Reality Needs and Desires You
  • To Make the Revolution We Need to Access What’s Real
  • The Three Faces of Spirit
  • Prayer: All the Magnificence of Spirit in the Third Person Is Desiring You
  • It’s in the Specificity That the Heart Breaks Open
  • The Search For Meaning Is Over
  • Disinformation Leads to Deformation of Our Intimacy With Reality
  • I Participate in the Universe, and the Universe Lives in Me
  • I Am Part of the Intimate Universe; Reality Lives in Me
  • In Reality, Information Is More Than Just Bits and Bytes
  • Information Is Meaning and Intimacy
  • Intimacy Is Continuous and Evolves Up the Cosmological Chain
  • Information at the Level of Matter
  • Information at the Level of Life
  • Information at the Level of Self-Reflective Mind
  • We Have the Power to Inform Reality Or to Dis-Inform Reality
  • We Must Configure New Intimacies in a World in Which We’re In-forming Reality, Not De-forming Reality
  • We’ve Got to Move From Profit to Prophet
  • Marketing Without Intimacy Or Eros Creates a Non-Intimate World
  • Unique Self Sensemaking
  • Information Is Based On the Receiver
  • To Do Sensemaking We Need Core Axioms
  • Reality Creates Through Second-Simplicity Principles

CHAPTER FOUR    SENSEMAKING BEYOND THE INFODEMIC: FIRST PRINCIPLES TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY OF REALITY

  • It’s Now Self-Evident: It’s Not Too Big to Fail
  • We’ve Stepped Out of the Story
  • Covid Is Accentuating the Broken System
  • When the Goddess Opens, You Can See the Field of Reality
  • We Invite the Mother into the Space
  • The Mother Is the We-Space of Relationship
  • The Need For Global Coherence Through a Shared Story
  • Dis-Informing Reality: Interpreting Reality in Line With My Separate Self Identity
  • Intimacy Means We Have a Shared Story
  • Mother Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • To Do Sensemaking, We Step Out of the Matrix
  • Conspiracy theory and False Flags: 5G and Coronavirus
  • The Leap From Pointing Out False Flags to Doing Conspiracy Theory and Lizards
  • Placebos, Vitamin C, and Monetization
  • Fauci, Funds, China, Dangerous Research, and Lizards
  • Where Did the Virus Come From?
  • Scientology Discredited the Valid Critique of Psychiatric Medicines
  • When I’m Not in Eros, I Need Pseudo-Eros to Cover Up the Emptiness
  • Harari’s Books Are Popular Because they Tell a Story
  • Information Is Intimacy
  • Unique Self: All of the Information of Cosmos Configures Uniquely in Me
  • When We Get intentionally Dis-Informed, Our Sense of Intimacy Is Violated Because We Are Part of the Larger Field of Sense
  • Pseudo-Eros Has a Bad Aftertaste
  • False Flags Are a Structure of Reality
  • Five Characteristics of a False Flag
  • It’s Not Impossible That Coronavirus Was Part of China’s Hybrid Warfare against the United States
  • Certainty Always Has to Dance With Uncertainty
  • The Public Does Not Want to Go to War
  • We Need to Do Collective Sensemaking as a Unique Self Symphony
  • We Can’t Access Our Common Sensuality Unless We’re in the Field of Outrageous Love
  • The Bastille Has to Fall
  • What’s Happening Is Far More Perilous Than Bad Actors
  • Reality Today Is a Large, Complex Emergent Field, a Hyper-Object
  • The Field of Contraction Is Defined by Simple Rules: Rivalrous Conflict Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Starting to Do Our Sensemaking For Us
  • The Natural Movement of the Field of Contraction Creates a Race to the Bottom
  • The Field of Contraction Is Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
  • We Can Affect the Field by Introducing a Better Set of First Principles
  • Your Identity as a Unique Self Is a Simple Principle
  • New Simple Rules Create New Hyper-Objects
  • Once You Articulate the Simple Rules, People Will Recognize Them Because They Live in Everyone

CHAPTER FIVE    BEYOND DUALISM AND MATERIALISM: THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD

  • Evolution: We Disclose the Ever More Beautiful Inherent Value of Cosmos
  • We Are Living in a Breakdown
  • We Never Turn Away, Because It’s Ours to Transform
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe: A Love Story
  • The Greatest Activism on Behalf of the Evolution of Love Is to Tell the New Story
  • The Three Primordial Perspectives of Reality
  • Source Is Carrying Us in Every Second, in Our Joy and in Our Pain
  • In the Ultimate Place Beyond Opposites There Is No Split Between the Serious and the Playful
  • Beyond Dualism and Materialism
  • The Universe Feels, and the Universe Feels Love
  • I Want to Know What Love Is
  • We’re the Old People and We Screwed It Up
  • The Collapse of Education
  • Cut Flower Ethics: We’ve Lost Touch With the Larger Field of The Good, the True and the Beautiful
  • Regressive vs. Progressive Conspiracy Theories
  • Beware of Demonization
  • Local vs. Global Conspiracy Theories
  • The Broken Information Ecology Is a Violation of the Intimate Universe
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • I Am Intended and Needed by Reality
  • Reality Has Direction, You Have Direction, and Your Choices Matter Ultimately
  • The Lack of a Shared Vision of Value Has Led to a Global Intimacy Disorder
  • Conspiracies Emerges as a Form of Pseudo-Eros When We Lose Touch With the Conspiring of Reality
  • Where Conspiracy Theories Go Wrong

CHAPTER SIX    FROM CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO THE GREAT CONSPIRING OF REALITY TOWARDS GOODNESS, TRUTH, AND BEAUTY

  • I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
  • The First and Second Shocks of Existence
  • Our Intention Is to Engage in Sensemaking for the Sake of the Evolution of the Source Code
  • There Is No Ultimate Split Between Matter and Spirit
  • Our Intention Is to Play a Larger Game
  • Globally, the Two Most Basic Human Needs Are Not Being Met
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Live in a Field of Contraction
  • Love Is the Possibility of Possibility
  • I Know the Way You Can Get When You Have Not Had a Drink of Love
  • Prayer: The Personhood of Reality Is Madly Loving You
  • God, Create for Me a Pure Heart
  • Conspiracy Theory Has Moved From the Periphery to the Center of Culture
  • Local Conspiracies: How Do We Engage the Facts of What Happened
  • False Flags and Local Conspiracies: Seeking Truth as Expressions of the Cosmos
  • Global Conspiracy Theories: The World Is Controlled by a Cabal
  • Regressive Conspiracy Theories Are Used to Fill in the Missing Plotline of Reality
  • The Correct Intuition of Conspiracy: There’s a Hidden Story to Reality
  • Eros Is the Inherent Movement of Reality Towards Ever Deeper Contact and Ever Greater Wholeness
  • The Field of Eros Lives and Moves in Me
  • We’ve Lost the Relationship to Premodern Story, Our Modern Stories Are insufficient, and Postmodernity Deconstructs Story Itself
  • When You Don’t Have the Great Conspiring of Reality, All You Have Left Is Pseudo-Eros
  • The Regressive Forms of Conspiracy Theory Are Forms of Pseudo-Eros
  • Information Is Codes of Intimacy and Meaning in Cosmos
  • Our Information Ecologies Have Broken Down
  • When Configurations of Intimacy Break Down There Is a Violation of Eros
  • When We Are Fed Misinformation, That Is a Violation of the Intimate Universe
  • The Conspiracy Theorists Correctly Intuit That There’s a Hidden Plotline to Reality
  • Conspiracy Theory’s Intuition: The Plotline of Reality Got Hijacked
  • Win/Lose Metrics Move the System All the Way Up and Down
  • Social Media Itself Drives Breakdown
  • Facebook Is a Superficial Win/Lose Metrics Game
  • Vast Systems Are Created by Simple First Principles Which Are Iterated Again and Again
  • Facebook: Developed and Driven by Internalized Win/Lose Metrics Story in Which the Field of Contraction Is The Plotline
  • The Same Win/Lose Metrics Are Driving Us Towards AI Biometric Sensors
  • We Need to Account For the Larger Field
  • First Principles Are the Evolving Certainties About the Nature of Reality
  • It’s Only a New Story, a New Configuration of Intimacy, Which Can Solve the Global Intimacy Disorder
  • There’s a Deeper Shared Story of Identity
  • Reality Is the Evolution of Love
  • Reality Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • The Human Being Is a Unique Set of Allurements Expressing the Allurement of Reality
  • We Are Participating in the Evolution of Consciousness
  • We Have to Animate the Technological Matrix With First Principles
  • We Are the Possibility of Possibility

CHAPTER SEVEN    EVIL IS AVOIDING POWER TO AVOID TRANSFORMATION: CHOOSING INTEGRITY IN EVERY SECOND

  • We Are Witness to the Knee of Un-Love On the Neck of the Goddess
  • There Is No One Outside the Circle
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Are Not Two Groups of People in the World
  • When Have We Choked the Tears of Those We’ve Placed Outside of the Circle?
  • It’s One Love, It’s One Heart, It’s One Eros, and It’s One World, Together
  • Where Is Your Unique Risk for Justice and Love?
  • And Then They Came for Me, and There Was No One Left to Speak Out for Me
  • We Take Risks to Love Each Other
  • We Know Justice Is Real Through a Deeper Sensory Capacity
  • Martin Luther King Passed the Baton to Us
  • How I Take My Unique Risk Is How I Work With Justice, Love, Power and Rage
  • Love Is Not Blind; Rage Is
  • Unique Risk: No One’s Going to Tell You You’ve Got to Do It
  • My Transformation Is the Transformation of the Whole
  • I Transform My Rage Into a New Love of Myself

CHAPTER EIGHT    FROM CONTRADICTION TO PARADOX: THE GREAT HOPE AND PROMISE OF THIS MOMENT

  • We Have to Get Out of Simulated Thinking and Feeling
  • Obama: Beyond Polarity: Your Lives Matter
  • We Don’t Homogenize People But Ultimately We Are All One
  • The Pandemic Was One Version of the Second Shock of Existence
  • The Only Response to the Second Shock of Existence Is to Realize That Which Unites Us Is So Much Greater Than That Which Divides Us
  • There Is No Way Through Without a New Story
  • We Can Feel Each Other, and We Can Feel Each Other’s Pain
  • We Are Filled With Hope
  • The Garden of Eden Is a Paradox: The Ability to Hold Everybody Inside the Circle
  • The Only Response to Outrageous Pain and Outrageous Beauty Is Outrageous Love
  • Part of Sensemaking Is to Recognize the Bad Actors Who Seek to Polarize
  • We Play Together in the Unique Self Symphony
  • Everyone Gets to Reclaim Their Second Innocence
  • Every Time We Pray, We Pray For All the Times That We’ve Never Prayed Before
  • Part Two: Sensemaking
  • From Egocentric Intimacy to Ethnocentric Intimacy
  • From Ethnocentric to Worldcentric Intimacy
  • There’s an Essential Humiliation That Takes Place in Getting My Needs Met
  • Our Humiliation Is Healed When Our Lover Says, Your Need Is My Allurement
  • From Worldcentric to Cosmocentric Intimacy
  • Black Lives Matter Includes All Lives Matter
  • There Is More Slavery Today Than Ever Before
  • The Police Officer Is Putting His Or Her Life On the Line
  • From Lockdown to Mass Protests
  • How Did We Get Here? There Is a Turning Away
  • The World Watched a Murder and Got Aroused to Justice
  • We Were Aroused to Our Desire For the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
  • There Is So Much Which Is Invisible to Us
  • What’s My Unique Risk Where I Stand in Devotion Against Injustice?
  • There Is a Structural Class Inequality
  • The Planet Is Drenched in Shame—and We Look Away
  • Holding the Paradox: Avoiding Collective Guilt and Keeping the Covenant Between the Generations
  • I Heal My Healthy Shame by Stepping in and Taking My Unique Risk
  • It’s My Obligation to Take My Unique Risk

CHAPTER NINE    MORAL CLARITY VS. MORAL COMPLEXITY: DO WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAY IN CONVERSATION?

  • We Hold Our Field of Attention Beyond Social Media Feeds
  • There Needs to Be a Shared Baseline of Facts Within a Conversation
  • When We Place Our Creative Attention There Is Opportunity for Evolution
  • America Is a Great Country
  • We Have to Hold Competing Perspectives and at the Same Time Not Make Them All Equal
  • We Need a Set of Shared First Principles Before We Can Bring All the Facts to the Table
  • We’re Not Doing Identity Politics; We’re Gathering Information and Challenging Ourselves
  • We Fill Up With Love and Joy and Stand Up For Justice Everyplace in the World
  • Prayer: The Realization That I’m always Witnessed; I’ve Never Been Alone
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Answer Is Always Yes
  • Our Choice: Do We Live From the Yes of Our Unique Self or From the No of the Ego?
  • The Answer on the Inside of the Inside Is Yes
  • Recovering the Dream, Returning to Yes

CHAPTER TEN    THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW SENSEMAKING MODEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE HOMO AMOR METHOD

  • Sensemaking Practice: Stepping Into the Perspective of Another
  • We First Hold Moral Complexity Before We Can Get to Moral Clarity
  • Homo sapiens Needs to Be Recognized in a Social Media World, While Homo amor Feels the Attention of the Infinite on Him or Her in Every Moment
  • We Learn to Stay in Uncertainty, to Hold the Space in Between the Breaths and the Empty Space Between the Cherubs
  • In Postmodernity We’ve Lost the Notion of Obligation
  • Outrageous Love Code: More Than Confessing My Sins, I Have to Confess My Greatness
  • The Confession of Greatness Requires Confession of Vulnerability
  • It Is Only the Realization of Death That Presses Me into Service
  • I Can’t Own My Brokenness If There’s No Way to Make It Whole
  • In Prayer We Ask for Everything
  • A Rap on Race: Collective Guilt vs. Responsibility
  • “Race Has to Be Like Hair Color”—That’s True but Insufficient
  • Thesis and Antithesis Produce Synthesis
  • There Is a Covenant Between the Generations
  • Beyond Ethnocentricity: We Cannot Only Feel the Pain of Our Lineage
  • Sacred Ecstatic Urgency Is Urgency Beyond the Ego
  • We All Need the Blessing of the Father
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About the Author:

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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