Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 14

Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 14 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

This volume captures the transformative vision of a new humanity emerging through the evolution of love. Beginning with a memorial to Barbara Marx Hubbard, co-founder with Marc Gafni of Evolutionary Church, it honors her profound teaching that “I am evolution in person” and her pioneering work on conscious evolution. At its heart is a radical proposition: evolution itself is the evolution of intimacy. Marc Gafni and Barbara articulate a new story of Reality as a love story-not ordinary romantic love, but Outrageous Love capable of meeting our global crisis.

The authors introduce Homo amor universalis-humanity’s next evolutionary stage-as our only response to what they call the “second shock of existence”: the potential extinction of our species. This emerging human reunites love and knowledge, joining genius (rather than merely genes) to create new possibilities for wholeness and intimacy.

Diagnosing our time as suffering from a “global intimacy disorder,” they offer practical guidance for becoming “the leading edge of evolution.” Readers are invited to discover their unique gifts and ask, “What does evolution need from me in this moment?” Through prayer, chant, and song, the book reveals that love isn’t merely an emotion but a perception-a way of seeing with “God’s eyes” that recognizes the Infinity of Intimacy carrying us in every second, ultimately leading toward a Planetary Awakening in Love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni between April and June 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 14
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340790
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    BARBARA’S MEMORIAL IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Beloved Barbara
  • Before Prayer
  • Eulogy for Barbara
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is a Perception
  • Barbara Was the Good News
  • I Am Evolution in Person
  • I Am Getting Newer
  • If You Want to Know the Essence of Barbara
  • She Charmed Us
  • Joining Genes to Joining Genius
  • There May Be a Time, but This Is Not That Day
  • We Go to Prayer

CHAPTER 2    RESURRECTION AND RENEWAL: RECLAIMING LOVE IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Barbara, You Are Alive Here in Church With Us
  • Not Just Tat Tvam Asi or the Infinity of Power, God Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Infinity of Intimacy Carries Us in Every Second
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is No Eros Without Gnosis
  • Reality Moves Towards Resurrection
  • We Are Homo Amor Moving Towards Resurrection

CHAPTER 3    MORE THAN CONFESSING YOUR SINS, YOU MUST CONFESS YOUR GREATNESS

  • Reality Is a Set of Habits
  • Our Intention Is to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • The World Needs a Story About the Evolutionary Love That Animates Everything
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy Into Whose Arms I Fall in Every Moment
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Love God Is to Know God
  • Our Clarified Heart’s Desire Becomes Part of the Field of Desire

CHAPTER 4    AWAKENING HOMO AMOR: PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • Welcoming Barbara
  • The Global Intimacy Disorder: We Don’t Have a Shared Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Source of Great Joy
  • What Is Homo Amor?
  • Who Is Homo Amor Universalis?
  • Homo Amor Universalis: A New Understanding of All Our Dimensions
  • Homo Amor Is Our Response to the Second Shock of Existence
  • The Inner Experience of Homo Amor Universalis Is That Reality Is Literally 50/50
  • What Does Evolution Need From Me in This Next Moment?

CHAPTER 5    A CRISIS OF TOUCH: BECOMING THE MOTHER TO EACH OTHER

  • God in First Person, Second Person, and Third Person
  • All the Rivers Flow Back to the Sea
  • The Sacred Technology of Chant
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • Our Intention Is to Tell the New Story
  • The One Church Is the Shared Music of All the Great Religions
  • Crisis in the World: We’ve Forgotten What It Means to Touch Each Other
  • The Allurement to Touch Each Other Is Fundamental to Cosmos
  • The Four-Fold Exile of Touch
  • We Have to Heal the Hug

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING & EVOLVING INTIMACY: EVERYONE’S IN THE CIRCLE

  • I Am Ready to Play a Larger Game, to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • Homo Amor Reunites Love and Knowledge
  • We Pray to the Intimate Face of the Evolutionary Impulse
  • Avengers Endgame: We All Have a Unique Self Superpower
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Birthing New Structures of Intimacy
  • We Unleash New Synergies in the World
  • Avengers Endgame: I’m Not Separate From the Larger Whole

CHAPTER 7    OUR TOUCH QUIVERS REALITY TO NEW IDENTITY; GOD ASKS EVERYTHING OF ME

  • Living My Life to the Fullest, Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • Prayer: Every Place You Fall, You Fall Into Her Arms
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Are No Externalities

CHAPTER 8    THERE ARE NO DEPLORABLES: EVERYBODY IS INSIDE THE CIRCLE

  • Radical Surprise and Amazement: We Get to Participate in the Evolution of Love!
  • There’s An Ontological Pluralism in a Perennial Context
  • The New Story Is the New Physics of Reality
  • The Infinity of Power Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • How Do You Practically Locate Intimacy in Your Life?
  • Opening the Circle and Letting Everyone In
  • Loving Our Way to Enlightenment

CHAPTER 9    OPENING YOUR HEART IS NOT ENOUGH; NO PART OF YOU SHOULD BE LEFT OUT

  • We Become the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • Prayer: Reclaiming the God That Knows Me
  • Exponentialized Desire and Exponentialized Tenderness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Enlightenment Means There Are No Externalities
  • Who Have I Left Out of My Heart?
  • You Can’t Love a Person If You’ve Left Other People Out of Your Heart
  • When You’re in Crisis, What’s New About You Is Often Left Out
  • We Are the People Telling the New Story

CHAPTER 10    CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: A LOVE STORY

  • Poised at the Abyss, We Are Called to Evolution
  • We’re Bringing the New Good News
  • Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • What’s the Source of All This? Where Does This Drive for Intimacy Come From?
  • I See You With God’s Eyes
  • When I See With God’s Eyes, I Can See the Next Step in the Evolution of Love
  • God’s Perspective of Us at This Moment of Evolution
  • Find the Form of Joining Genius
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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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