The Evolution of Democracy: The Emergence of Synergistic Democracy: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphonies of ErosValue

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 34

The Evolution of Democracy: The Emergence of Synergistic Democracy | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 14 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx HubbardDemocracy is a monumental achievement in the evolution of consciousness. It is in this time between worlds and time between stories that evolutionary achievement is challenged to evolve once more—for today, democracy is broken in a number of key ways.
1) Many of the key issues of the day are not being voted on.
2) When we do vote on key issues, they are often too complex for anyone other than the most proficient experts to understand and form a position.
3) Moreover, we are voting within the context of nation states, but the real issues are global.
4) To make matters worse, it is simply true that elections can be and are statistically swung via manipulation by social media.
5) More fundamentally even, the current win-lose structure of democracy undermines democracy itself.
6) Finally, democracy disenfranchises all those who supported the loser in an election, even if that loser wins just a fraction less of the vote than the winner.
The next stage of democracy is what we are calling synergistic democracy. Synergistic democracy is rooted in a politics of Evolutionary Love, which generates a planetary awakening in love through Unique Self Symphonies.
Synergistic democracy is about how we create a shared field of value based on a universal grammar of evolving value. To have a real democracy, we need a shared sense of sense-making, which in turn requires a shared grammar of value that allows for shared evaluation. For the next stage of democracy, we need a shared Story of Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values.
In a synergistic democracy, conversations take place in which no one is excluded from the circle. The insights of the various factions are traced to their deep root in a shared field of value. Synergy between competing perspectives of value becomes the order of the polis, instead of domination through narrowly-won elections.
It is not that voting is necessarily excluded, but rather that the voting takes places at the apex of a process of education and perspective sharing, in which there is a deep sense of the inherent value held by each of the perspectives, maximal synergies have been achieved and the remainder is subject to voting, perhaps by each citizen or by elected representatives of citizen blocs who hold profound depth and visionary capacity in regard to the issues at hand.

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Book details:

Title: The Evolution of Democracy: The Emergence of Synergistic Democracy: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphonies of ErosValue
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 34
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340875
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 NURTURING THE UNION OF HUMANS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE

  • The Emergence of the New Human and the New Humanity
  • Reclaiming Prayer at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • The Exile of Love
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Awaken to the Deepest Pleasure of Being Alive
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Pain
  • What Is Outrageous Love?
  • The Great Question of Meaning Is Who Are You?
  • Unique Self Symphony as an Expression of the Self-Organizing Universe

CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT QUESTION OF MEANING: WHO ARE YOU?

  • Accessing the Evolutionary Impulse Within
  • Prayer: God Lives Both in Us and Holds Us
  • Planetary Awakening Through Unique Self Symphony
  • The Practice of Evolutionary Chant
  • We Are Outrageous Lovers
  • Confessions of Greatness
  • Reality Is an Outrageous Love Story

CHAPTER 3 A WORLD INFUSED WITH EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Metamorphosis From Homo sapiens to Homo amor From a Fundamentalist God to an Evolutionary God
  • Evolutionary Prayer: The Infinite Force of Cosmos Knows Your Name
  • From Parliamentary Procedure to a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Unique Self Symphony
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Evolutionary Intimacy
  • Unique Selves Come Together in a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 4 EFFECTING A PLANETARY AWAKENING: A POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Let’s Be Demonstrations of Our Own Conscious Evolution
  • When We Talk About Prayer, What Do We Mean?
  • Joining Genius to Give Our Gifts More Fully Into the World
  • What Is Your Vocation of Destiny?
  • Respond to the World That Is Unloved
  • Practice Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 5 REALITY IS INTELLIGENT AND ALIVE, ENCODED WITH A DIRECTION TOWARDS HIGHER ORDERS OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers!
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • The Essential Practice of Reclaiming Prayer
  • We Are Here to Gentle the Birth to the Next Stage of Evolution
  • Your Love Story Is a Chapter in the Love Story of Reality Itself

CHAPTER 6 LONELINESS AS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER

  • What Is the Response to Our Aloneness? Emergent World Vision: The Universe Is a Love Story What Fundamentalists Got Right
  • The Three Faces of God The Field of Evolutionary Prayer
  • Overcoming Loneliness by Saying “Yes” to the Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Overcoming Loneliness with Purpose
  • Moving From Loneliness to Loving Loving Is the Fundamental Driver of Reality The Next Buddha Is a Sangha

CHAPTER 7 THE LIBERATION FROM LONELINESS IS THE LIBERATION OF DESIRE

  • The Way of the New Human
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • From the Infinity of Power to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • A Story About Prayer: Ask for Everything!
  • Holy Prayers of the Community
  • A Call to Action for Homo Amor Universalis
  • Nurture the Genius of Humanity in Us
  • The Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • Four Noble Truths
  • The Liberation From Loneliness Is the Liberation of Desire
  • Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 8 OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IS A PERCEPTION

  • The Great Reconstructive Project
  • The Miracle of Hanukkah
  • The Sacred Story of Evolution Enacting a Memory of the Future Life Is Ever Evolving
  • Outrageous Love is a Perception An Evolutionary Story About a Master

CHAPTER 9 RECLAIMING GOD AS EVOLUTION: BEYOND THE EXILE OF EVOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGY

  • Feel the Newness Arising in You Dare to Pray for Newness
  • The Synthesis of Technology and Evolutionary Love Interiors and Exteriors Are One
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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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