Updates August 2024: Summer Symphonies, Book Review, Upcoming Courses, and New Podcasts
Below we link to everything that has been posted on this site in this past month.
As the summer is nearing its end, so are our Summer Symphonies at One Mountain, Many Paths (see below), and there is so much to celebrate:
- Launch of New Podcasts: Introducing great new video and audio podcasts
- New Book Review by David Nicol
- New Essays: Available on our website, Substack, and Academia.edu
- The Upcoming Parallax Course: Value is Real Why Saying This Clearly May Save Civilization [and our Souls] – (with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein) takes place on Saturdays, September 7/14/21/28 – 2024. For more information and registration, click here.
- New Cohort of Unique Self Coach Training starting October 2024! The Unique Self Institute’s flagship year-long program—The Unique Self Emergence Process—is currently the only coaching program in the world designed to help you uncover your Unique Risk and cultivate an integral practice that allows your Unique Self to emerge. Whether you’re seeking personal transformation or certification to coach others, this program offers a profound opportunity for growth. Get more info and book a discernment call here.
Upcoming Course in September
Eye of Value: Saving the Damsel in Distress
A course about the essence of a New Story of Value that can change the vector of civilization.
The Parallax Course: Value is Real Why Saying This Clearly May Save Civilization [and our Souls] – (with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein) takes place on Saturdays, September 7/14/21/28 – 2024. For more information:
New Cohort of Unique Self Coach Training starting October 2024!
The Unique Self Institute’s flagship year-long program—The Unique Self Emergence Process—is currently the only coaching program in the world designed to help you uncover your Unique Risk and cultivate an integral practice that allows your Unique Self to emerge. Whether you’re seeking personal transformation or certification to coach others, this program offers a profound opportunity for growth.
This program has two tracks:
Certification track
This track is for change agents who, in addition to undergoing their own process of transformation, want to learn how to apply the Unique Self emergence Process to their already existing work with people. This certification program trains them to utilize the process with individuals and groups in a variety of contexts.
Personal track
This track is for anyone who wishes to experience the Unique Self Emergence Process for their own benefit, without supervision or 1:1 Coaching. You will have access to all the group coaching and teaching calls, as well as all the online content. This track does not lead to Unique Self Coaching certification.
We Are Still Celebrating Our Worldwide Book Release
Our new book can be ordered worldwide from each country’s amazon and other bookstores. It is available as Paperback, eBook, and Audiobook.
From the US and Canada, it can also be ordered directly from the publisher HERE:
FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES
Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
David J. Temple is a pseudonym created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, a leading international think tank whose mission is to address existential risk by articulating a shared universal Story of Value for global intimacy and global coordination. The Center focuses its work on a world philosophy, CosmoErotic Humanism, as the ground for a global vision of value, economics, politics, and spiritual coherence. The two primary authors behind David J. Temple are Marc Gafni and Zak Stein. For different projects specific writers will be named as part of the collaboration. In this volume Ken Wilber joins Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein.
More Essays and White Papers Published on This Site in August 2024
In Case You Missed This Documentary with Dr. Marc Gafni
In collaboration with Aubrey Marcus and the Unique Self Institute
In Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein’s language: “We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories – poised between dystopia and utopia.” To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions, what we refer to as the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism: “Who? Where? And What?”
- Who am I? and Who are we?
- Where am I? and Where are we?
- What ought I do? and What ought we do?
In a profound analysis of our current meta-crisis and what he calls the “global intimacy disorder,” Dr. Marc Gafni draws from what he refers to as “the exterior and interior sciences” to deepen our responses to these three questions. The responses offer a new understanding of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, and generate the beginning of “a universal grammar of value as a context for our diversity.”
“A universal grammar of value is grounded in eternal yet evolving First Principles and First Values, which are inherent in the Intimate Universe, in which we all participate. A new grammar articulates a potent Story of intrinsic Value, with the poignancy and power to respond to the meta-crisis. At the core of this Story of Value, called CosmoErotic Humanism, is a new narrative of identity, both personal and collective. Principles of Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony contribute to the shaping of a shared reality that is flawed and human, filled with holy and broken Hallelujahs. Yet, that Reality reaches insistently towards better tomorrows that are suffused with ever-deepening Eros and ethos, kindness, and creativity.”
Online Video Course with Dr. Marc Gafni
CosmoErotic Humanism: The New Story of Value – Birthing the New Human and the New Humanity (recorded in 2022)
CosmoErotic Humanism in Seven Chapters:
Chapter 1: Responding to the Meta-Crisis with a New Story: CosmoErotic Humanism
Chapter 2: Reading Texts of Culture: Don’t Look Up Explores Value, Beyond the Intention of Its Writers
Chapter 3: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Chapter 4: The Radical Path to the Transformation of Shame: From the Shame of Finitude to the Celebration of Finitude
Chapter 5: The Leading Edge of Human Identity
Chapter 6: Towards a New Universal Grammar of Evolving Value as a Context for our Diversity
Chapter 7: Blessings of the Father and Blessings of the Mother: Am I Welcome in Cosmos?
Each level consists of the main teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni that was recorded on one of seven days during Eros Mystery School in Holland in 2022. It contains dharma talks, practices, prayers, chants, movie clips, songs, poems, and dance sessions – seamlessly woven into one whole. It is kind of like being at a Mozart concerto played on that day – in those hours – unrehearsed and raw – never to be played in that way ever again but recorded for you in this course journey which is reality’s gift for you.