Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 28

Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 28 | Dr. Marc Gafni

The book you are holding explores the key scenes and unspoken messages of two blockbuster films from the summer of 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Barbie was widely hailed as an icon of feminism, yet its portrayal of relationship is utterly empty, for all genders. The point of the movie is that there is no “Barbie and Ken”-meaning that there is no inherent love story in Cosmos. Both movies unwittingly depict the destructive splits in relationship-one between the masculine and the feminine and one within the atom-that place human life at risk today.

Marc Gafni reads both movies as “texts of culture,” revealing a deeper story the filmmakers may not have realized they were telling. He introduces the Goddess as a narrator who speaks for Eros-the aliveness and radiance in relationship that drives a new Story of Value, moving culture toward wholeness.

Many viewers left these films with a sense of emptiness, asking, “Where do we go from here?” Gafni’s response offers a hopeful vision: The Universe: A Love Story.  The atrocities of Hamas that year demonstrated how the rejection of the Universe: A Love Story (in which we are all dignified and beloved actors) open the door for degraded love stories in which women are butchered for the love of Allah and patriarchy acts out its most debased impulse in the guise of Islamic fundamentalism.

This book engages popular culture and world events with nuance and wisdom, opening a new path for our evolution.

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

Book details:

Title: Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 28
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340141
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    READING MOVIES AS A SACRED TEXT OF CULTURE

  • Stepping Into Culture in a Really Shocking Way
  • The Goddess Is Speaking Beyond the Intention of the Filmmakers
  • A Hint of Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Barbie: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
  • The Point of Barbie Is That Love Is Not Real
  • A New World Order

CHAPTER 2    THE GENDER CRISIS IS PART OF THE META-CRISIS

  • Three Crises Happening at the Same Time
  • There Is No Barbie and Ken
  • We Think We Can Kill All the Gods Except for Aphrodite and She Will Survive, but She Will Not
  • Responding to the Meta-Crisis with a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 3    CRISIS OF RELATIONSHIPS

  • The First Two Levels of Gender
  • Feminine and Masculine, Level-One: He Is in Charge
  • Feminine and Masculine, Level-Two: The Disappearance of Polarity
  • Two Levels of Relationship Applied to Barbie
  • “It’s Girls’ Night Every Night Forever!”
  • Barbie Stops at Level-Two: There Is No Barbie and Ken
  • Barbie Reclaims Her Sexuality Without Ken
  • Ken Is Desperate for Patriarchy
  • Level-Three Relationship: From Role Mate, to Soul Mate, to Whole Mate
  • Level-One: Role Mate Relationship
  • Level-Two: Soul Mate Relationship
  • Level-Three: Whole Mate Relationship
  • There Is Not One Drop of Feminine Empowerment in Barbie
  • Level-Three Relationships: Synergizing Lines and Circles
  • Lines and Circles in Ken and Barbie
  • A Taste of Level-Three Masculine and Feminine

CHAPTER 4    THE MOCKING OF THE HERO

  • The Old Relationship Style Has Been Demonized as Patriarchy
  • Ken in the World of Idealized Feminism
  • Barbie Liberated Herself From the Male Gaze of Ken
  • Barbie Dismisses the Ontology of Relationship
  • Ken’s Male Desire to Be a Hero Is Mocked
  • Lovers Want to Be Heroes
  • Soul Mates Outside the Field of Value
  • Ken + Barbie Is the Nature of Reality

CHAPTER 5    “THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY” IN THE MOUTH OF PATRIARCHY

  • Barbie Land: We Have It All Worked Out
  • Lines And Circles—All The Way Up And Down The Evolutionary Chain
  • Ken Is Acting Out the Shadow of the Line Quality
  • “The Universe: A Love Story” in the Mouth of Patriarchy
  • The Universe: A Love Story in the New Physics
  • The Intimacy Equation Applied to Barbie and Ken
  • Reality Is the Evolution of Relationships
  • Kiss Is at the Very Heart of Reality—and the Hijacking of “Forever”
  • Barbie Cannot Say “I Love You”

CHAPTER 6    DENIAL OF THE AMOROUS COSMOS: FIVE KEY SCENES IN BARBIE SHOWING LOVE IS NOT REAL

  • Scene One: “I Only Exist in Your Gaze”
  • Ken Only Has a Great Day When Barbie Looks at Him
  • Scene Two: Ken’s Song “I Have Feelings I Can’t Explain”
  • Scene Three: “Why Would You Stay Over? It’s Girls Night Every Night!”
  • Scene Four: “You’re Just Ken”
  • Scene Five: Barbie Tells Ruth Handler, “I’m Not in love With Ken”

CHAPTER 7    THE EXILE OF THE LOVE STORY & THE DEMONIZATION OF LOVEDESIRE

  • Barbie in the Real World
  • The Goddess Appears, but Without Desire
  • “Me and Ken, We Have No Genitals”
  • Weird Barbie Loves “That Nude Blob Under His Pants”
  • Weird Barbie Understands What “I Love You” Means
  • The Mother-Daughter Love Story Is the Movie’s Only Real Love Story

CHAPTER 8    THE EVOLUTION OF LOVEDESIRE IN BARBIE SONGS BETWEEN 1997 AND 2023

  • Comparing Barbie in Two Songs
  • The 1997 Barbie Song
  • The 2023 Barbie Song

CHAPTER 9    DESIRE, DEATH AND VALUE / IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL

  • No Field of Value in “Closer to Fine”
  • The Relationship to Death
  • “It’s Only Life After All”: There Cannot Be Just One Lifetime
  • Postmodernity on Steroids

CHAPTER 10    ONLY A STORY BEYOND DEATH CAN STAND AGAINST EVIL

  • The Reality of Death in the Real World Means Love Must Be Something We’ve Made Up
  • The Desiccated Mother Speaks: “Humans Make Meaning Up and Then They Die”
  • Aphrodite Cannot Survive Without the Field of Value
  • When There Is No Field of Value, There Is No Distinction Between Right and Wrong
  • “What Was I Made For?”
  • The Holy Dance Between Revelation and Mystery
  • There’s a Unique Field of Desire in Which I Reincarnate

CHAPTER 11    OPPENHEIMER—THE SPLITTING OF THE ATOM AS A FAILED LOVE STORY

  • Mathematics Is the Fuck of Cosmos
  • The Splitting of the Atom
  • The First Goddess Figure: Jean Tatlock
  • “I Am Death, Destroyer of Worlds”
  • The Goddess Commits Suicide
  • The Second Goddess Figure: Oppenheimer’s Wife
  • The Relationship Between Oppenheimer and Barbie

CHAPTER 12    THE FAILED LOVE STORY AT THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. MARC GAFNI AND AUBREY MARCUS

  • Aubrey Marcus: Introduction
  • Marc Gafni: Evil Equals Failed Love Stories: Failed Love Stories Create Evil
  • Barbie, Oppenheimer and Hamas Are at Their Core Failed Love Stories
  • So What Does “The Universe: A Love Story” Mean?
  • Aubrey: What We Mean By World Religion
  • Marc: A New World Religion Is a New Story of Value as a Context For Our Diversity
  • Aubrey: What if Your Life Hasn’t Been a Love Story
  • Marc: There’s a Spark of the Sacred in Every Broken Vessel
  • Aubrey: How Are We Going to Weave Barbie Into This Conversation?
  • Marc: Only a Deepening of the Love Story Responds to Evil
  • The Failed Love Story in Barbie: Recapitulation of Six Core Scenes
  • Aubrey: Empire Wants to Control Love
  • Marc: Love Is Revolutionary
  • Marc: Totalitarianism Seeks to Undermine LoveDesire
  • Aubrey: Empire’s Degradation of Love Awakens the Eros of the Warrior
  • Marc: The Fundamentalist Destruction of the Love Story
  • Barbie and Hamas Are Failed Love Stories That Generate Evil
  • Aubrey: The Fallen Angel Wants to Get Back to One Love Through Destruction
  • Marc: Evil Is the Anti-life Force
  • Aubrey: Artists Remind Us of the Nature of Cosmos
  • Marc: My Story Has to Become Part of the Love Story of the Whole
  • Aubrey: Wielding the Sword of Peace

CHAPTER 13    BARBIE, HAMAS & HOMO AMOR—FROM DEGRADED LOVE STORIES TO THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Introduction
  • We Need to Find a Third Way
  • False Stories Confuse Us
  • A Failed Love Story on a Collective Level Results in Horror
  • Let’s Get Out of Superficial Distortions
  • Barbie as the First Failed Story of Desire
  • Hamas as the Second Failed Story of Desire: The Demonization and Degradation of Desire
  • The Third Response Is a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 14    THE STORY WE NEED TO TELL

  • To Noah and Greta: Let’s Make Movies Dripping With Eros
  • Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Outrageous Acts of Love
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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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