The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 20

The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 20 | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Path to Outrageous Love invites readers to awaken to a ground-breaking vision of Reality, one where the very fabric of existence is Eros itself—a dynamic, living force of love. In this transformative work, Marc Gafni calls us to recognize that Reality is not merely a fact, but an Outrageous Love Story.

At the heart of this realization lies the understanding that each of us is an irreducibly unique expression of Eros—the Outrageous Love that drives the Cosmos. This awakening marks the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo amor, the new human and new humanity attuned to intimate connection with each other, the planet, the Divine, and all of Reality. In a time dominated by technological systems and “exterior” sciences, Outrageous Love offers a path forward—a radical call to embrace intimacy and evolve collectively in a world where our irreducible uniqueness, which distinguishes us as unique incarnations of the whole, is celebrated. Indeed, our very uniqueness becomes the currency of our connection.

This book challenges you to live as Homo amor, to commit Outrageous Acts of Love, and to contribute your unique gifts to Reality, affirming that your unique deed will always meet Reality’s unique need. Outrageous Love is an invitation to recognize your place in the madly loving, Erotic Cosmos—and to play your instrument what Marc and Barbara Marx Hubbard call the “Planetary Awaking in Love through Unique Self Symphonies.”

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

Book details:

Title:The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 20
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340301
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    EVERYONE IS ALREADY YOUR FRIEND

  • We Live in Inter-Beingness With Each Other and With All of Reality Itself
  • Telling the New Story: Reality Is an Outrageous Love Story
  • Loving the Moment Open, From the Inside of the Inside
  • Our Revulsion of Evil Is an Expression That We Live in an Intimate Universe
  • Prayer: Intimate Communion With the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Reality and Evolution Is Intimacy

CHAPTER 2     POWER OF, POWER FOR, AND POWER OVER IS HOLY

  • Reality Is a Divine Story in Which There’s More God to Come
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Power Is Holy
  • Prayer: We Turn to God Who Is the Infinity of Personhood
  • Power for the Sake of, and Power Over
  • Loving the Moment Open and Allowing the Moment to Love Me Open
  • Homo amor Is Power
  • Reality Needs Our Power

CHAPTER 3    WE ARE THE TIPPING POINT OF THE DIVINE

  • Evolutionary, Revolutionary Love Is Subversive to the Notion That We’re Contracted and Small
  • To Know My Identity Is to Step Into My Enlightenment
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Question Is Everything
  • We Are Divine Miniatures but Are Systematically Misrecognized on So Many Levels
  • We Redeem Each Other in Fellowship From the Pain of Our Loneliness
  • Evolution Towards Greater Consciousness and Love

CHAPTER 4     I AM THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • After the Postmodern Deconstruction of Meaning, We’re Here to Begin the Great Reconstructive Project
  • Weaving a New Story in a Bottom-Up Groundswell Towards the Strange Attractor of Wholeness
  • Tocho Ratzuf Ahava: Allurement at Every Evolutionary Stage of Cosmos
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe in Which Every Exchange Is A Love Song
  • Prayer: Homo amor, a Unique Configuration of Intimacy, Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am the Evolution of Love
  • I Am an Expression of the Impulse of Creation

CHAPTER 5     ONTOLOGIZING LOVE: LOVE IS REAL

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is Real
  • We Have The Capacity To Create Heaven On Earth, Where Every Human Being Knows: I Am A Unique Configuration Of Evolutionary Love
  • Prayer: The Intimate Face Of Outrageous Love
  • We Live In A World Of Outrageous Pain And The Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • Who Am I? What Does Reality Need From Me in This Moment?
  • The Practice of Homo amor Is Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Unique Self Symphony Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation: Breathing in the Story of Creation

CHAPTER 6     NO ONE AND NOTHING OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE

  • Becoming Homo amor, The Intimate Universe In Person
  • What Does It Mean to Commit Outrageous Acts of Love?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Acts of Love at the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • By Embracing and Transforming Our Shadow in Outrageous Love, We No Longer Place Others Outside the Circle

CHAPTER 7     THE PATH AND PRACTICE OF HOMO AMOR— OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF LOVE

  • The Story Is the Evolution of Divinity—and It’s Always a Love Story
  • The Problem: We Put the Boundary in the Wrong Place
  • At the Outrageous Level, the Trinity Becomes One
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs Your Service
  • Writing an Outrageous Love Letter
  • Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Love Letters and Outrageous Acts of Love: Being and Telling The Miracle
  • This Is the Third Turning of the Wheel

CHAPTER 8     I AM NOT IN THE UNIVERSE; I AM THE UNIVERSE

  • We Are at the Crossroads
  • We Are a Holy Band of Outrageous Lovers
  • We Come Together to Articulate the Best Story of Humanity Ever Told
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is Love in Action and I Am Evolution
  • We Are Evolutionary Love: Our Acts of Outrageous Love Are Love in Action
  • God in the Third Person—Cosmic Magnificence—Is Also God in the Second Person, the Infinity of Intimacy Who Knows Our Name
  • To Be the Hero of My Story Is to Commit My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Acts of Love; Outrageous Love Letters
  • The Messiah Lives In the Monastery
  • I’m the Messiah, Responsible for My Unique Outrageous Acts of Love

CHAPTER 9     JUST IN TIME FOR A TIME LIKE THIS: YOU ARE THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

  • The Big Yes of the Big Bang
  • We Need a Global Ethic for a Global Civilization
  • I Am Gloria, I Am Literally a Divine Miniature

CHAPTER 10     BEYOND EROS & AGAPE: ONE LOVE

  • Reality: Its Insides Are Lined With Love
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Prayer: Merging Radical Tenderness and Wild Desire
  • Reality Is Eros, All the Way Up and All the Way Down

CHAPTER 11     EVOLUTIONARY SURPRISE IS THE QUALITY OF DIVINE LOVE

  • We Need a New Story at This Time Between Stories
  • Weaving a New Story: The Leading Edge of Evolution Lives in the Surprise That I Bring to Cosmos
  • Sabbath: Fall in Love in the Morning, Trust and Be Trusted Through the Night
  • Are You Willing to Be Surprised by Reality?
  • Elegant Order and Radical Surprise—God the King/Queen And God the Lover
  • Homo Amor Is a Memory of the Future
  • The Dance of Order and Freedom
  • Don’t Travel to Distant Places; See With Fresh Eyes
  • Reality Is Being Constantly Generated Anew

CHAPTER 12     OUTRAGE + LOVE = OUTRAGEOUS LOVE: THE SYNERGY OF SACRED ACTIVISM

  • We Stand Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia
  • A Shared Story Weaving Together the Deepest Validated Insights Across Time
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Love—The Synergy of Outrage and Love
  • Leonard Cohen Was a Lover
  • What Is the Quality of Homo Amor, of the Outrageous Lover?
  • Outrageous Love: Outrage and Love
  • The Character of the Outrageous Lover
  • We’ve Got to Beware of the Hijacking of Outrage
  • Hijacking of the Fierce Feminine
  • We Hold Outrage With Tender Care and Bring Together With Love
  • Five Qualities That Bring Outrage and Love Together
  • As an Outrageous Lover I Take My Unique Risk and Perform My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Quality Five: I’m Partner With the Larger Force of Cosmos That Holds Me
  • Recapitulation of the Five Characteristics of Bringing Outrage and Love Together in Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 13     THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE LOVE

  • The Archimedian Lever at This Time Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • Reclaiming Prayer From the Politically Corrupt Prisms of Ethnocentric Consciousness
  • The Cosmos Is Amorous
  • We Pray Together in This Glorious and Ecstatically Urgent Moment
  • Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Outrageous Acts of Love
  • The Simple Principle of Uniqueness, Repeated Into Gorgeous Complexity With Allurement Between the Parts
  • Outrageous Love Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Story and My Story Are Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • These Same Plotlines Run Throughout All the Big Bangs
  • I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • The Pre-Tragic, Tragic and Post-Tragic Stages of Unconditional Love

CHAPTER 14     THERE’S NO ULTIMATE DISTINCTION BETWEEN COSMIC LOVE AND PERSONAL LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Love Is Real and It Lives in Every Moment
  • Three Faces of the Real
  • Enlightenment Is Sanity
  • In the Process of Evolution, Spirit Becomes More
  • Reality Is the Movement Towards God by the Gentle Persuasion of Love
  • Evolution at Its Very Core Is Yearning
  • Reality Is Governed by Tenets of Intimacy
  • Being Lived as Love Is Post-Tragic

CHAPTER 15     THE CREDO OF THE OUTRAGEOUS LOVER: TEN PRINCIPLES OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • There Is No Other Way to Respond to the Meta-Crisis
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Pain, and the Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Beauty
  • I Am an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • The Outrageous Lover Commits Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Acts of Love Are Function of Unique Self
  • We Need to Close the Gap Between Our Ability to Feel the Pain and Our Ability to Heal The Pain
  • Outrageous Acts of Love Address a Unique Need in a Unique Circle of Intimacy and Influence
  • Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
  • Evolutionary Family Is More Important Than Biological Family
  • Let Us Be Lived as Love

CHAPTER 16     SYRIA AND TURKEY EARTHQUAKE: THE ONLY RESPONSE TO OUTRAGEOUS PAIN IS OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • How Do We Hold the Truth of a Loving Universe and the Truth of Outrageous Pain at the Same Time?
  • Suffering Is Real and It’s Obscene to Explain It Away
  • We Demand Accountability From the Divine
  • We Protest Because We Know That Love Is Real
  • Fairness Is a Core Value of Reality
  • The Hidden and the Revealed
  • It Is Not Over When It’s Over
  • Reality Is a Love Story

CHAPTER 17     SYRIA AND TURKEY EARTHQUAKE—THE ONLY RESPONSE TO OUTRAGEOUS PAIN OUTRAGEOUS LOVE, PART 2

  • Even as We Face Outrageous Pain, We Need to Be in Outrageous Love
  • The Mystery of Suffering
  • Don’t Rely on God in the Face of Outrageous Pain
  • Evil Is a Failure of Pleasure
  • The Whole Thing Depends on Us

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

  • Is It Mine to Heal the Whole Thing?
  • Do We Create Our Own Suffering?
  • How Can Pleasure Be The Source of All Ethics?

CHAPTER 18     OUTRAGEOUS LOVE BEGINS WITH RAGE: THE HOLY OUTRAGE OF THE PROPHET

  • Why Do We Call Outrageous Love Outrageous?
  • Outrageous Love Has to Include Holy Outrage
  • Outrage and Love Are the Same Word
  • We Cannot Stop at Outrage
  • To Love Outrageously Is to Put It All on the Line
  • Write A Check of Your Open Heart
  • Evolution Is Love in Action

CHAPTER 19     THERE IS ONLY ONE SIDE, THE SIDE OF LOVE: TEN PRINCIPLES

  • The Malaise of Polarization
  • We All Stand Together on the Side of Love
  • Love Doesn’t Erase Distinctions
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is Only One Side, the Side of Love
  • Principle One: You Can’t Love Unless You Can Laugh Together
  • Principle Two: Love Is the Movement Between Certainty and Uncertainty
  • Principle Three: Feel Me Feeling You
  • Principle Four: Love Extends Time and Holds the Present, Past, and Future
  • Principle Five: To Love Is to Know
  • Principle Six: Love Is a Bracketing of the Ego
  • Principle Seven: Love Is a Perception
  • Principle Eight: Love Is the Energy of Transformation
  • Principle Nine: Love Demands a Post-Tragic Embrace
  • Principle Ten: Trace Every Story Back to Its Roots

CHAPTER 20     LOVE DEMANDS TRANSFORMATION: CROSSING OVER TO THE SIDE OF LOVE

  • The Crossing
  • The Battle Between Good and Evil Invites Me to the Crossing
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is Only One Side, the Side Of Love
  • Even as Love Crowns You, Shall He Crucify You
  • Love Moves Us Towards Transformation
  • We Have to Feel Each Other, Across Any Boundaries
  • No One Is Outside the Circle
  • Practice: I Bracket Myself, and I Cross Over to the Other Side
  • Being on the Side of Love Doesn’t Mean Moral Equivalence

CHAPTER 21     THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE LOVE

  • Eulogy Is Liberation From Loneliness
  • All of Reality Is Great Seduction
  • Radha’s Energy
  • The Story of Krishna and Radha
  • Radha’s Wound
  • The Bliss of the Pain of Separation
  • The Path of Outrageous Love
  • Postscript: From Pre-Tragic to Post-Tragic Seduction
  • Hope at the Edge of the Tragic: Post-Tragic Krishna-and-Radha
  • Outrageous Love Is the Ultimate Path of Self-Realization
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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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