Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 31

Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 31 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We’re in a time between worlds and a time between stories. We are in a postmodern era characterized by the deconstruction of intrinsic value and the deconstruction of the Story of Value. But story is not merely a human construct that is useful for cohering society (as the postmodern zeitgeist suggests). Story is an ontology of Cosmos. Story is a First Principle and First Value of Cosmos. The deepest readings of interior and exterior sciences now demonstrate that Reality is a Story. And Reality is not just an ordinary story—Reality is a love story. Eros itself is not merely the mechanics of Reality; it is the value of Reality. Eros is value and value is filled with Eros. Reality is animated by the music of ErosValue.

The failure to recognize ourselves as living within a Story of ErosValue has led to the meaning crisis that is the hallmark of our contemporary human experience. This vacuum of ErosValue has been filled in modernity and postmodernity by the pseudo-erotic story, the success story. The success story is defined by rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose metrics.
This success story in which we live today is one of the primary generator functions for the meta-crisis. As such it is entirely accurate to diagnose the meta-crisis as the failure to recognize that we live within a “Story of Value that is the very fabric of the Real.” It is only the articulation of a new Story of Value rooted in First Principles and First Values that has the ability to respond to the meta-crisis of existential and catastrophic risks we face today.

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

Book details:

Title: Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 31
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340615
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Buy on Amazon

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    A TIME BETWEEN WORLDS, A TIME BETWEEN STORIES—TELLING THE NEW STORY

  • Presence in Absence
  • We’re at a Time Between Stories
  • A Shared Story Brings Together the Best of the Disparate Parts Into a Larger Union
  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Confess My Greatness
  • My Greatness Is What Obligates Me
  • All of Reality Is One Great Love Story
  • The Essence of Who I Am Is Revealed in My Moment of Greatness

CHAPTER 2    BIRTHING THE NEW POLITICAL BODY THROUGH THE PERSONAL BODY

  • Changing the World Through a New Set of First Principles, Grounded in the Ontologizing of Love
  • Exodus Inserts Into the Bloodstream of Humanity: I’m Not Bound by Yesterday
  • The Personal Is the Political
  • If We Want to Create a New Society We Have to Create a New Body
  • We Need to Tell a New Story With Amor at the Center
  • The Next Chapter in the Story: Homo sapiens Triumphs in Homo amor
  • We Sing a Song of the Sabbath: It’s All Moving Through Us
  • The Bill of Rights and the First Principles Are Encrypted in The Body Sacred
  • Self-Awareness as I Am Seen by Others: My Psyche Is Torn in Two
  • When the Psyche Is Torn in Two, There Is a Fundamental Moment of Alienation
  • That Which Was Most Precious to Me, I Put in the Box—and You Thought That It Was Empty
  • The Goddess Doesn’t Need to Leave: We Can Liberate Each Other From Loneliness
  • Overcoming the Three Reasons for Loneliness

CHAPTER 3    YOUR UNIQUE STORY IS CHAPTER AND VERSE IN THE LOVE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE

  • Our Mission Is to Ontologize Love and to Ontologize Story
  • We Are in a Time Between Stories, in Which a Plague Is Accentuating the Fault Lines of the Modern Story
  • In the Narrative Arc of Reality, Homo sapiens Must Triumph as Homo amor
  • Amor: Ontologizing Love
  • Prayer: We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Therefore, Choose Life! Choose to Enter the Dance
  • In This Time Between Stories, We Tell a New Story That Is the Best Articulation of the First Principles of Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: the Personal Beyond the Impersonal—My Story Matters
  • Randomness Is Always Within the Context of a Larger Storyline
  • We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
  • Reality Is Moved by Stories: From Matter to Life to Mind
  • The Move From Loneliness to Loving Happens When You Recognize That Your Story Matters
  • Four Levels of Story: the Creation Story, the National Story, the Story of the Righteous Ones, and the Democratized Story of Greatness
  • We Must Complete Our Unfinished Business Before We Can Step Into the Next Chapter of Our Story

CHAPTER 4    HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER

  • In Response to Catastrophic and Existential Risk, We Diagnose and Address the Root Cause
  • Our Goal Is to Stand for the Future and Articulate a New Vision
  • The Story Is Unfinished and We Must Become the Storytellers
  • Are You Ready to Answer the Call?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is an Evolutionary, Outrageous Love Story—a Story of Value Rooted in First Principles And First Values
  • The Second-Person Face of God: Spirit Desires Us Radically
  • Prayer: I Turn to the Infinite Intimate Who Knows My Name
  • Looking at the Primary Generator Functions of Existential and Catastrophic Risk
  • Evolution Is Always a Crisis of Intimacy and We Need to Respond by Generating a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • The New Intimacy Is a New Story of Value
  • First Principles and Story on Their Own Are Not Enough
  • Story Allures Us
  • Story Is Not Enough; It Needs to Be Rooted in First Principles And First Values
  • The Intrinsic Structure of Reality Is Story
  • The Story Has Got to Be a Love Story
  • The Story Is Incomplete and We Are the Storytellers

CHAPTER 5    HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER THROUGH A NEW STORY OF VALUE, ROOTED IN FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

  • Our Intention Is to Evolve the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
  • The Source of Evil Is the Loss of Memory
  • Our Intention Is to Create New Intimacy by Telling the New Story
  • Prayer: We Turn to the Infinitely Intimate Personhood of Cosmos
  • Ki Ata Hu: Reality Is Personally Addressing You
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is a Story
  • Source Code Keywords From the Book of Creation: Sefer, Sipur, Sapar, Sapir
  • Story Allures and Attracts
  • We Need First Principles and First Values Together With a Story of Value
  • We Inject Values Into Reality Through Story
  • George Floyd: We Witness a Violation of Value in an Embodied Story
  • We’ve Forgotten the Thread of the Story

CHAPTER 6    “I’M WILLING TO LET YOU LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY”—THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • We Are Committed to the Past, the Present, and Future Generations
  • At the Edge of History, the Story Is Pregnant With New Possibility
  • Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, We Must Recover The Storyline
  • To Heal the Global Intimacy Disorder, We Need a New Story
  • We Recover the Threads of the Stories That Came Before and We Weave Them Into the New Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is a Love Story
  • Evolution Is the Evolution of Love
  • I Am Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • Homo amor Says: There Are No Strangers
  • To Be Your God-Self Is to Say, I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • Prayer: We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy Who Turns to Us and Says, I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • When the Story of Cosmos Breaks Down, We Turn to the Romantic Story: Fairytale, Eurovision 2009
  • Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights

CHAPTER 7    THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE LOVE

  • The Archimedian Lever at This Time Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • Reclaiming Prayer From the Politically Corrupt Prisms of Ethnocentric Consciousness
  • The Cosmos Is Amorous
  • We Pray Together in This Glorious and Ecstatically Urgent Moment
  • Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Outrageous Acts of Love
  • The Simple Principle of Uniqueness, Repeated Into Gorgeous Complexity With Allurement Between the Parts
  • Outrageous Love Code: Your Story and My Story Are Chapter and Verse in the Universe: a Love Story
  • The Plotlines Run Throughout All the Big Bangs
  • I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • The Pre-Tragic, Tragic and Post-Tragic Stages of Unconditional Love

CHAPTER 8    GOD NEEDS MY STORY—MY LIFE IS A SACRED AUTOBIOGRAPHY WRITTEN IN THE ONE HEART OF THE DIVINE

  • We Are Committed to Evolving Intimacy Through the Telling of a New Story
  • The Homo amor Library: at This Time Between Stories, Our Job Is to Tell the New Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: My Story Matters in Cosmos
  • My Story Is Chapter and Verse in a Larger Story and My Story Matters Ultimately
  • To Understand the Significance of Story We Must First Understand the Movements Against Story
  • The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Are Insufficient: We Need to Tell an Outrageous Evolutionary Love Story

CHAPTER 9    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
  • Redemption Is a Political and Economic Event
  • Everything Is About the Story We Decide to Tell
  • Story Is an Ontology of Reality
  • Reality Is a Love Story
  • 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 10    FROM VALUES TO VALUE AND A STORY OF VALUE: FROM MY PRECIOUS AS ANTI-VALUE TO THE STORY OF VALUE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

  • What Is Value?
  • We Don’t Need Shared Values, We Need a Shared Story of Value
  • The Fellowship of the Ring Is the Restoration of Value
  • Story Is the Very Structure of Reality Itself
  • The Ring Is the Modern Success Story
  • We Are All Royalty

CHAPTER 11    ARE YOU ALLURING TO GOD? THE GREAT QUESTION OF COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM

  • It Is Story That Moves the Vector of History
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Truly Intimate Encounter Is a Unique Self Encounter Between Soul Stories
  • Three Primordial Perspectives of Reality
  • Mispar and Sipur: Number and Story
  • What Is Alluring to God Is Invisible
  • Are You Alluring to God?
  • Through Causing Intimate Union in Myself, I Cause Intimate Union in the Divine
  • We Are Allured to Each Other

CHAPTER 12    TELLING A NEW STORY EQUAL TO OUR NEW POWER, PART 1

  • The Meta-Crisis: A Crisis of Story
  • Wake Up to This Unique Moment in Time!
  • We Have to Become the New Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: A New Story of Power
  • The Beauty That Lies in the Beholder Discloses Beauty in The Outside World
  • Interior Sciences Is About Staying Open in the Pain and Loving Madly

CHAPTER 13    TELLING A NEW STORY EQUAL TO OUR NEW POWER, PART 2

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The New Story of Power
  • If We Can Change the Story, We Can Create the New Human and the New Humanity
  • There Is an Ethical Obligation to Be Power-Hungry
  • Every Human Being Has a Unique Script of Desire
  • My Unique Script of Power Is the Unique Power in My Mythic Life
  • The Only True Pleasure Is Living in the Full Power of My Life

CHAPTER 14    CONVERSATION ON STORY WITH AUBREY MARCUS

  • Story Is a Central Piece of the Human Puzzle
  • We Live in a Time Between Stories
  • Polarization Comes From People Living Inside of a Story
  • We Need First Principles and First Values Rooted in a Story of Value
  • The Holiday of Purim—We Briefly Step Out of Story
  • Pesach—Telling the Story of Liberation
  • If We Don’t Live in the Eros of a Shared Story, We Create the Pseudo Eros of an Identity Story That Places Others Outside of the Story
  • A Shared Story of Value Is a Context for Our Diversity
  • One of the Plotlines of Cosmos Is That Union Creates More Diversity
  • Every Religion Plays Its Instrument in the Unique Self Symphony
  • Story Is Intrinsic to Cosmos
  • Post-Modernity Denies That Story and Value Are Real
  • We Need to Evolve Story in Response to Existential Risk
  • All the Way Up and Down the Evolutionary Chain, It’s a Love Story—and Story and Value Evolve
  • Science Needs to Abandon Dogma and Reclaim the Plotlines of Reality
  • We Live in the Universe: A Love Story

  • We Respond to the Collapse of Story by Telling a New Story

  • The Moment I Love One Thing, I’m in the Love Story

  • The Plotlines of Reality

  • The Evolution of Story

Buy on Amazon

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.

Read more… 

Buy on Amazon

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/

Formal refutations on controversy: 
WhoIsMarcGafni.com

Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

Substack: https://substack.com/@marcgafni
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcgafni/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
Twitter:https://twitter.com/MarcGafni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcgafni/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmarcgafni 

Buy on Amazon