Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 4

Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We live in a world drenched in shame.
Shame is the core belief not that I did something wrong, but that I am wrong. It severs us from the inherent goodness of our desire, our body, our Eros. This split disconnects us from the beauty of our Unique Selves and fuels many of today’s personal and cultural pathologies. Wilhelm Reich called it “the murder of Eros”-and it is not metaphorical, but civilizational.
This book is a passionate call to reclaim the dignity of desire and the power of our Unique Selves, to stand against digital abuse, and to evolve from demonizing to symphonizing, from separation to intimacy. To live our Unique Self is to align with the evolutionary impulse of Reality.
Reclaiming desire, power, and Eros is not only personally liberating-it evokes the evolutionary power we need to respond to this moment of crisis and to participate in the evolution of love
These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between May and July 2017.

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

Book details:

Title: Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 4
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340578
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 WHEN UNIQUE SELF BECOMES A STRANGE ATTRACTOR

  • The Challenge of Loving Every Day Anew
  • The Love Story Is at the Center
  • To Pray Means to Be Willing to Fall Into the Arms of The Beloved
  • Unique Self Is the Strange Attractor
  • Fine-Tuning My Unique Self
  • The Only Way to Fit in Is to Be Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 2 UNDERNEATH SHAME LIES THE PURITY OF DESIRE

  • Calibrating Into the Whole Being That We Are
  • Cuddling With the Infinity of Intimacy and Falling Into Her Hands
  • Longing Is the Attunement to My Evolutionary Potential
  • Evolutionary Church Evolves What the Great Avatars Started
  • Underneath Shame Lies the Purity of Desire
  • Origins of Shame
  • Beyond Shame—Love Shame Open

CHAPTER 3 RESTORING PUBLIC CULTURE AND THE INTEGRITY OF DIGITAL INTIMACY

  • We Are Inalienably Equal and Inalienably Unique
  • We Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy Who Needs Our Gifts
  • Evolving Democracy as the Evolution of Public Culture
  • Evolution of Culture in the 1960s: A Vision That Did Not Work
  • Evolution of Public Culture
  • Four Litmus Tests for Digital Integrity

CHAPTER 4 EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC CULTURE AND DIGITAL INTEGRITY

  • The Thirty-Six Men and Women: The Last of the Just
  • Ask and It Is Given, Knock and Doors Are Opened
  • God Creates by Our Intention With Us as Co-Creators
  • Overcoming Confirmation Bias and Reclaiming Innocence
  • Love Is a Perception
  • Re-Sourcing Through Giving

CHAPTER 5 DIGITAL INTIMACY AS A WAY TO EXPAND INTIMACY

  • Contributing to the Noosphere, the Thinking Layer of Earth
  • From Digital Abuse to Digital Intimacy
  • The Virtual Is a Space to Bypass or to Expand Intimacy
  • Digital Intimacy Is Part of the Planetary Awakening in Love
  • Expecting the Planetary Awakening as a Natural Event
  • Evolution of Digital Intimacy Happens Through The Evolution of Love
  • Simple Principles Are the Source Code for Self-Organization
  • We Are the Ones to Articulate the Source Code
  • Creating an Internet of the Higher Self

CHAPTER 6 THE DIGNITY OF POWER AND THE UNHOLY POWER OF DEMONIZATION

  • The Evolutionary Impulse Isn’t Interested in Staying the Same
  • Evolution Is Love in Action
  • It Is Our Turn to Enact the Epic Shift in History
  • God Is the Personal Beyond the Impersonal
  • With Existential Crisis, the New Evolutionary Species Arises
  • Love and Power Are One
  • Reclaiming the Dignity of Power
  • The Unholy Power of Demonization
  • Whole Mates Are Not Afraid of Each Other’s Power

CHAPTER 7 UNLEASHING EROS AND THE ECSTASY OF EROTIC GENIUS

  • Harmonizing and Marrying All the Frequencies of Our Being
  • The Marriage of Your Human Self and Your Universal Self
  • Prayer Is the Pleasure of Falling on Our Knees Before The Divine
  • Evolution Through Supra-Sexual Joining of Genius
  • Sexual McCarthyism Really Is Fear of Eros and Sexuality
  • Being Fully Alive and Ecstatic in Your Own Erotic Genius
  • We Are the Tip of the Tipping Point

CHAPTER 8 FROM VICTIM TO PLAYER AND BECOMING CO-CREATORS WITH THE DIVINE

  • God’s Yes in You Shows Up as Responsibility
  • Even in the Depth of Pain, the Yes Always Lines Reality
  • Articulating and Speaking Prayers Writes Them in The Noosphere
  • Evolution by Choice Not Chance—The Freedom of Responsibility
  • We Are Co-Creators With the Divine; We Are Conscious Evolution
  • The Hidden Agendas in the Victim Triangle
  • Am I a Victim or Am I a Player—Exiting the Victim Triangle
  • My Responsibility Is the Source of My Power

CHAPTER 9 YOUR UNIQUE SELF IS THE UNIQUE FACE OF TRUE SELF

  • Examining the Habit of Distorting the Love Story
  • Embracing the Dignity of My Unique Story, Desire—And Intimacy
  • Reflections on the Urantia Conference
  • Uniqueness Is the Intention of Cosmos
  • Surface Structures and Depth Structures Need Distinction
  • Your Unique Self Is the Unique Face of Your True Self
  • We Are Drinking From the Well of Evolution

CHAPTER 10 EROS AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE MURDER OF EROS

  • The Universe Is Full of Telos, Purpose, and Juicy Love
  • Every Ethical Failure Comes From a Breakdown of Eros
  • Homo Sapiens Is Likely Not the Last Human Species
  • The Impulse of Eros Within Us Is the Methodology by Which We Survive
  • There Is Urgent Need for Transformation in Interiors—And Exteriors
  • The Murder of Eros
  • Reality Intends, Recognizes, Needs, and Desires Me
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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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