Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 12

Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 12 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

We live in a time of global crisis. All of the crises are interlinked at their core, expressions of what we have called a global intimacy disorder. The urgent need for coherent action is existential.

Every crisis has the potential to be a birth. Crisis is an evolutionary driver. Evolution is not happening to us. Rather, evolution is happening in us. We are called to radically realize and be lived as the transformation.

Our power and greatest pleasure is the capacity for transformation. We begin with our own transformation. But as we deepen into gnosis we realize that our transformation itself ripples out in all of Reality, ultimately transforming the whole thing.

The challenge for all of us is to deeply feel both the pain and pleasure of the whole. There is almost never birth without pain. Our willingness to unguard our hearts and feel Reality’s throbbing pain also gives us access to her throbbing pleasure.

Reality is driven by Eros. The interior of Eros is pleasure. The highest pleasure is transformation. Every human being is born to affect a unique personal and a unique social transformation. To fulfil this call is the greatest pleasure.

We need to claim our power of transformation. We realize that love and power are not opposites. The love of power is inseparable from the power of love. We are willing to encounter our cosmic significance.

We re-write the source code of Reality towards a future that works for everyone. We are able to stand in the trembling joy of responsibility. We show up as Evolutionary Lovers on the abyss of darkness and proclaim, Let there be Light.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between December 2018 and January 2019.

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

Book details:

Title:Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 12
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340837
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CRISIS OF INTIMACY AND THE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Personal Transformation Effects Transformation of the Whole
  • Expanding Intimacy by Finding My Optimum Point of Discomfort
  • Widening of Intimacies and Embracing the Pain of Birthing
  • You Can Face the Pain When You Know You Are Good

CHAPTER 2    THE HOLY TRINITY OF PLEASURE, TRANSFORMATION AND POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Can Only Transform with a New Story
  • A new Narrative of Power—Transforming the World by Transforming Ourselves
  • Personal Transformation Effects the Transformation of the Whole
  • Claim the Pleasure of Power
  • The Holy Trinity of Pleasure, Transformation and Power

CHAPTER 3    TO DENY POWER IS TO DENY GOD: THE THREE FORMS OF POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love of Power and Power of Love Are Inseparable
  • Power and Intimacy Are Inextricably Linked
  • To Deny Power Is to Deny God
  • The Power of Dharma: The Inner Physics of Reality
  • The Mystery of Divine Incarnation: Power Over Is Also Holy

CHAPTER 4    THE LOVE OF POWER AND THE POWER OF LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We All Have Power Over Each Other
  • A Birthday Tells a Story of the Power of Transformation
  • The Infinity of Power Says I Can’t Do it Without You
  • Society’s Misuse of Power Leads to Total Annihilation
  • We Have to Be More Powerful Than the Power That Could Destroy Us
  • Codes of Culture throughout History

CHAPTER 5    HOMO AMOR: INCARNATING THE POWER OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Embracing Homo amor: The Power of Love in Human Evolution
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love and Power Are Not Opposites
  • Evolutionary Love: What Church Is Meant to Be
  • Incarnating Homo amor: Embracing Collective Power and Love
  • How Do We Contribute to This Love?
  • Homo amor: Embracing Our Unique Evolutionary Love

CHAPTER 6    EMBRACING OUR COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Are You Ready?
  • We Are the Chosen Ones
  • Are We Ready to Dream God’s Dream?
  • Evolving a Culture of Love as Evolution is Going Toward Its Own Goal
  • Evolving the Dharma in Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 7    EVOLUTION OF LOVE THROUGH PRAYER, ALLUREMENT AND UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Awakening as Conscious Evolution
  • Evolution of Love Through Prayer and Action
  • Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game?
  • Take Your Unique Risk to Claim Your Allurement

CHAPTER 8    UNIQUE SELF AS THE WILLINGNESS TO DREAM AGAIN

  • Dare to Dream Again
  • God’s Dream: The Evolution of Consciousness and Freedom
  • Dreaming of Whole Mates
  • The Shattering of the Vessels and Healing Through Dreaming Deeper

CHAPTER 9    ALLUREMENT TO EVER INCREASING INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Unique Risk
  • You Can Trust Your Allurement
  • When You Say Yes to Allurement, It Says Yes to You
  • A New Allurement: From Self to Tribe, to World, to Cosmos
  • Widening Circles of Intimacy
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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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