Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 35

Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 35 | Dr. Marc Gafni

This book introduces a new grammar of value grounded in First Principles and First Values as the interior structure of the Universe. To live aligned with these principles is to become a post-tragic hero—not the old hero of conquest, but a new, tender, fierce lover of value.

The hero is the one who stands for value and is willing to even die for value.

The premodern hero is pre-tragic. For him, value is clear. There are no conflicts, there is only one version of value that is right. That version is sourced in direct revelation which takes place only within his native or chosen religion.

Late modernity and post modernity problematize heroism itself. Since, as they dogmatically declare, value is not real, and the hero is one who stands for value, then virtually all heroes are either naïve fools or disguised villains.

The post-tragic hero lives in the field of eternal and evolving value. The post-tragic hero rejects simplistic visions of value that do not dance with the dialectics of competing value and which polarize and instead of hold paradox. The post-tragic hero lives with open eyes and an unguarded heart, not because she bypasses the heartbreak of the tragic, but because she lives both in it and through it.

Heartbreak is a form of holy revelation, and it opens us to shadow work—where the disowned parts of the self become portals to deeper value and wholeness. To live in and through heartbreak with open eyes and an unguarded heart is to step into the story of Homo amor and to incarnate your true identity as a unique configuration of ErosValue. It is to know that you are a unique configuration of intimacy and desire that Reality has never seen before.

This book is a map, a prayer, a transmission. It is a call to become an embodiment of the genuine Eros Value of Homo amor.

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Book details:

Title: Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 35
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340899
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    FROM THE MURDER OF EROS TO HOMO AMOR: LOVEPOWER IS THE WORD, AND THE WORD IS GOOD

  • Power History and Love History: Recognizing the Murder of Eros
  • Understanding the Murder of Eros
  • Eros History and Power History
  • LovePower: Cosmos Is a Field of Allurement and We Are Each Its Unique Expressions
  • We’ve Been Together Before, and Our Intention Is to Go the Whole Way in This Lifetime
  • The Evolutionary Impulse Where Love and Power Come Together
  • The Many Distressing Disguises of the Murder of Eros
  • The Failure of Aliveness Turns Into Evil
  • Claiming My Unique Lovepower Is Not a Psychological Move
  • We Are Going to Stop Murdering Eros, and We’re Going to Celebrate Each Other

CHAPTER 2    THE ALCHEMY OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSCENDING OUR PERSONAL PAST

  • Welcome to the Revolution in Love, for the Sake of Love, and for the Sake of the Future
  • We Need to Re-Narrate the Story of Who Am I and Where Am I
  • I Am Moving From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
  • I Am a Creator in the Interconnected Intimate Field of Reality
  • In Prayer I Clarify and Recognize the Dignity of My Desire and My Need
  • Your Unique Self Is the Unique Feature of the Seamless Coat of the Universe
  • True Self, Unique Self, and Evolutionary Unique Self
  • The Whole Universe Gives Rise to an Atom
  • All of Reality Exists in Intimacy, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
  • I Am a Free, Generative Node in the Field of Intimacy

CHAPTER 3    BECOMING THE NEW HUMAN, HOMO AMOR: STRATEGIES OF SEDUCTION AND UNFURNISHING THE EYES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Reality Is a Love Story, and We Are That Story: Between Utopia and Dystopia
  • The Animating Energy of Reality Today Is the Algorithm of a Success Story
  • We Are Here to Enact a New Reality
  • Unbearable Tragedy and Unbearable Joy
  • Becoming Lineage Holders in the Great Tradition
  • We Are a Band of Outrageous Lovers
  • Reality Needs You to Seduce Yourself to Your Own Greatness
  • Seduction to Invoke the New Human and the New Humanity
  • Music Is Made of Atoms of Time
  • Cleansing the Doors of Perception: Unfurnish Your Eyes
  • The Eye of the Flesh, the Eye of the Senses
  • The Eye of the Mind, the Eye of Reason
  • The Eye of Consciousness
  • Reality All the Way Up and All the Way Down Is Pan-Interiority
  • A New Paradigm in Science Doesn’t Give You This Knowing
  • The Player of Music Becomes the Music

CHAPTER 4    ATTACHMENT THEORY AND BEYOND: HOMO AMOR EVOLVES THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER

  • The Blessing of the Father: Reality Is Proud of Us
  • We Need to Be Fathers and Mothers to Each Other
  • Beyond the Root of All Human Suffering
  • People of the Lie
  • We Must Be Beloveds to Each Other
  • You Are Welcome in the Universe!
  • The Welcome Home Sign in Cosmos Is the Field of Value Itself
  • We Have to Liberate Ourselves From the Idolatry of Mother and Father
  • We Need to Up-level the Blessing of the Mother, and We Need to Up-level the Blessing of the Father
  • Outrageous Love Festival Is a Laboratory for the Dharma

CHAPTER 5    THE NINE GREAT STATIONS ON THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION

  • In the Human Journey, There Are Nine Stations of Transformation
  • Station One: Pre-Personal
  • Station Two: Separate Self
  • Station Three: Social Self
  • Station Four: False Self
  • Puzzle Pieces Without Original Puzzle
  • Station Five: True Self
  • Station Six: Unique Self
  • Station Seven: Unique Shadow
  • Why Should You Integrate Your Shadow?
  • Station Eight: Evolutionary Unique Self
  • Station Nine: Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 6    FEEL YOU FEELING ME: THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW NAME OF GOD

  • The Most Effective Altruism Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • The New Story of Value Lives in Us
  • Anthro-Ontology: How Do You Know What You Know?
  • The Core of Homo Amor Is My Capacity to Feel You
  • Evolving Love Is Ever Deeper Loops in the Mutuality of Feeling
  • The Divine Is the Infinite Intimate

CHAPTER 7    FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: HEARTBREAK IS A STRUCTURE OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

  • Part One: We Need to Evolve the Source Code in Which We Live
  • We Live in an Evolving and Participatory Cosmos
  • Intimacy Is Always Broken and Then Recovered
  • Heartbreak Is the Natural State of an Alive Human Being
  • Prayer Affirms the Dignity of Personal Need
  • We Must Feel the Depth of Our Need
  • No Two Heartbreaks Are the Same
  • The Evolution of Tears Is the Expansion of Our Circle of Intimacy
  • Evolving Tears From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
  • Outrageous Love Moves Us From Homo Armor to Homo Amor
  • The Evolution of Heartbreak Is the Evolution of Desire
  • I Am Willing to Feel Even What I Cannot Entirely Heal
  • Part Two: From Heartbreak to Desire to Need to Value
  • By Embracing the Heartbreak, I Find My Aliveness
  • Clarified Desire Equals Dignified Need Equals Value
  • Part Three: Heartbreak Is a Structure of the Intimate Universe
  • There Is Eros to the Broken Heart

CHAPTER 8    WHAT WE NEED FOR THE ATTENTION REBELLION TO SUCCEED

  • A New Story Generates New Reality
  • The Internet Is Designed to Scatter Attention
  • A Brief History of Attention
  • When There Is Nothing to Pay Attention To
  • To Be in Love Is to Place Attention
  • Seeing With New Eyes Is the Essential Quality of the Erotic Universe
  • The Attention of the Infinite Differentiates Uniquely Through Me
  • We Need to Reclaim Attention as a Value

CHAPTER 9    ALEXEI NAVALNY: TO LIVE IS TO RISK IT ALL, THE UNIQUE RISK OF THE HERO

  • The Eulogy of a Hero
  • The Response to Corruption Is Laughter
  • Navalny Lived and Died for Value
  • A Life Aligned With Value Is a Life of Joy
  • We Have to Take a Stand for Each Other
  • Value Is More Powerful Than Any Other Force
  • We Stand for the Democratization of the Hero
  • We All Have a Unique Risk to Take

CHAPTER 10    TOWARDS THE POST-TRAGIC HERO

  • I Cannot Be Welcome in the Universe Unless I Am a Hero
  • Hero Is a Fundamental Category of Reality
  • The Crossing: to Experience Myself as a Hero
  • Baraye: for the Sake of the Whole
  • When I Am Aroused, I Am the Hero: Reality Is Making Love
  • You Know and I Know That You Are a Hero

CHAPTER 11    MAD LOVE: WHEN MADNESS BECOMES SANITY

  • To Love Madly Is to Be in the Field of Outrageous Love
  • Reality Is Constituted by Mad Love
  • Our Love Lists Are Too Short
  • The Mitochondrial Dance of Eros in Our Cells
  • My Mad Love Participates in the Whole
  • My Mad Love Is Wildly Powerful
  • My Madness Is My Protest
  • Clarifying the Split Between Sane and Insane
  • True Sanity Is Mad Love
  • Let’s Reach for a World Beyond Betrayal

CHAPTER 12    THE UNIQUE OBLIGATION TO TAKE YOUR UNIQUE RISK

  • We’re in a Time Between Worlds, a Time Between Stories
  • Modernity Got the Plotlines Half Right and Half Wrong
  • Value Got Exiled to Doing Evaluation
  • Existential Risk Demands a New Story of Value
  • Postmodernity Took Out a Loan From Premodernity
  • The Unique Risk of Taking Responsibility for the Whole
  • Uniqueness Is a Value of Cosmos
  • Unique Self Is Individuation Beyond Ego
  • To Actualize a Unique Self Symphony, We Each Need to Take Our Unique Risk
  • To Take Our Unique Risk Means to Love Or Die

CHAPTER 13    THE VOID IS REAL, AND THERE IS A WAY HOME

  • We Are Facing Darkness
  • A Time Between Emptiness and Fullness
  • The Postmodern Zeitgeist and the Path of the Void
  • The Personal Experience of Void Begins With Betrayal
  • Everything Emerges From the Encounter With the Void
  • Tzimtzum: The Space of the Void That Is Sacred Conversation
  • Postmodernity Is the Experience of the Void
  • An Entire Generation Is Thrust Into the Void
  • Taking the Void Seriously
  • How Do You Walk Through the Void?
  • Love Is Not Hard to Find—Love Is Impossible to Avoid
  • It’s a Love Story, and It’s Filled With Mystery
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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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