Live Your Story: The Categorical Imperative of Reality: Reality is an Outrageous, Evolutionary Love Story: Reality is a Unique Self Symphony of Stories, Rooted in a Shared Story of Value

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 32

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

Book details:

Title: Live Your Story: The Categorical Imperative of Reality: Reality is an Outrageous, Evolutionary Love Story: Reality is a Unique Self Symphony of Stories, Rooted in a Shared Story of Value
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 32
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340936
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GOD VOICE: PERFORMING EVOLUTION AS YOUR UNIQUE STORY

• The Story Must Be One We Can All Access Directly
• The Democratization of Enlightenment
• We Cannot Rely on a First-Person Realizer, But First-Person Realization Is Part of the Story
• Stories Are the Ontology of Reality
• Prophesy Needs to Be Reclaimed
• Disambiguating the Voice of God
• Evolutionary Love Code: My Life Is a Story, and the Story Must Be Performed
• Performance Needs to Be Reclaimed
• I Perform in Order to Become Myself
• We Hold Pieces of Each Other’s Stories

CHAPTER 2    GOD IS REAL, GOD IS STORY

• The Unbearable Privilege of Radical Responsibility
• Let’s Be Warriors Together
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Is Made Up Not of Atoms, But Stories
• Harry Potter and Star Wars: Two Stories at the Center of Culture About Transmission Between Generations
• Atoms Are Stories Too
• The Love Story of Reality: Openness and Telos, Intimacy and Autonomy
• Ten Dimensions of Story
• Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
• Your Story and My Story Are Literally Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story

CHAPTER 3    THE DIGNITY OF HUMANITY: BEING THE SAVIORS OF GOD

• The Promise of the Fourth Big Bang
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Is Not Merely a Fact; It’s a Story
• Past, Present, and Future: My Story Matters
• From Unconscious Story to Conscious Story: I Am the Universe: A Love Story in Person
• I Am the Storyteller and My Story Deserves to Be Told
• My Story Deserves to Be Performed
• I Am a Co-Author in the Story
• How I Write the Next Chapter in My Story Has Cosmic Significance
• I Become Fearless in Taking My Unique Risk

CHAPTER 4    OUR FIRST CONVERSATION ON THE CONVERSATIONAL COSMOS

• Life Is a Series of Conversations
• The Response to Transhumanism Is Homo amor, a Deeper Vision of Humanity
• Conversation Moves From Polarization to Paradox
• Conversation Is the Place Where I Come to My Edge
• Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
• What’s Going On? Infinity Desires Intimacy
• The Infinite and the Intimate Are in Conversation With Each Other
• All Opposites Meet in Conversation

CHAPTER 5    LIVE YOUR STORY: THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF COSMOS

• Story Is a Quality of the Real
• If Sally Was Ever Here, She Is Here Now—The Story Goes On
• Story Is the Paradoxical Face of Eternity
• The Evolution of Choice, Desire and Story
• Conscious Evolution: Live Your Story
• Playing With All You’ve Got
• The Storied Cosmos: The Personal Beyond the Impersonal
• De-Storying Reality Destroys Reality
• From the Place of Embracing My Story: What Is My Heroic Transformation?
• Be the Hero of Your Own Life

CHAPTER 6    OUR FRIEND YUVAL HARARI GOT IT SO WRONG & WHY IT MATTERS: INTRODUCTION

• The Unbearable Joy of Gravitas
• We Need a Critical Mass of People to Go From Homo sapiens to Homo amor
• Yuval Harari Is a Naïve Representation of the Zeitgeist
• The Level/Line Fallacy of Religion and Science
• Can You Tell Your Child That Loving Them Is a Fiction?
• Evolutionary Love Code: We Need a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 7    WHY YUVAL HARARI GOT IT SO WRONG, PART 2: THE ETERNAL TAO IS THE EVOLVING TAO

• The Great Question of Where Are We?
• Evidence From Attachment Theory: I Need to Feel at Home in the World
• The Academic Consensus of a Meaningless Reality Is Profoundly Wrong
• Reality Is Not Empty; Reality Is Filled With First Values and First Principles
• Ma: Human Spiritual Participation Illuminates the Cosmos
• The Eternal Tao Is the Evolving Tao
• Eternity Means the Ground of Value
• Human Beings Participate in the Field of Value
• Individuation Is Not Separation, But Uniqueness
• We Cannot Respond to the Meta-Crisis Without a New Story of Value
• Evolutionary Love Code: Clarification of Story and Value Are the Great Purpose, Passion and Joy of Life

CHAPTER 8    FROM GEORGE ORWELL TO B.F. SKINNER TO YUVAL HARARI: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF MEANING AND VALUE AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE META-CRISIS

• Yuval Harari Is Unique in That He Doesn’t Pull the Punch
• Postmodernity Ripped Off the Veneer of Value
• The Collapse of Value Is the Root Cause of the Meta-Crisis
• Direct Line From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Yuval Harari
• The Love Story Stands Against Totalitarian Fictitious Stories
• Doublethink: Repudiating Morality While Laying Claim to It
• Motivated by Responding to Existential Risk: Orwell and Skinner
• Are Major Cultural Stories Utterly Fictional?
• Harari: We Have a Capacity to Believe Things That Aren’t True—That’s Our Superpower
• There Are Shared Stories of Value Because Reality Is a Story
• Story as Superstructure Versus Story as Social Structure

CHAPTER 9    NO “NEXUS” WITHOUT SHARED VALUE: RESPONSE TO YUVAL HARARI

• Not All Stories Are Equal
• There Is a Shared Field of Value
• When We Don’t Have a Shared Story of Value, We Have Hell
• Intimacy Is Created by Shared Value
• Love Story Holds a True Story of Value and Challenges Totalitarianism
• When Power Dissociates From Love, It Becomes Anti-Value
• The Only Response to Anti-Value Is Outrageous Love
• Intimacy and Trust Are Inextricably Linked

CHAPTER 10    INTIMACY IS CONVERSATION: THE THIRTEEN BROKEN CONVERSATIONS WE NEED TO HEAL AND THE EVOLUTION OF CONVERSATION

• Evolutionary Love Code: There Is No Trust Without Conversation
• We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
• No Part Is Apart
• The Global Intimacy Disorder as the Breakdown of Conversation
• We Need to Be in Conversation

CHAPTER 11    MY FAIR LADY: THE REVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE TO TECHNO FEUDALIST UTOPIANISM IN ALL ITS DISTRESSING DISGUISES

• The Chatbot Is Simulating a Conversation
• Successful Simulation of Conversation: The Turing Test
• The Personhood Conferral Problem
• The Double-Edged Move of Transforming My Fair Lady Into a Love Story
• Evolutionary Love Code: the Revolution Is the Reclaiming of Story

CHAPTER 12    MY FAIR LADY: THE GOOD SOCIETY—PRODUCT OF THE PROGRAMMED, OR LOVED INTO EXISTENCE BY SHE? PART 2

• What Does It Mean to Be a Human Being? Structures of Self
• Trump Is a Sideshow—We Must Consider the Musk Challenge
• Effective Accelerationist Movement: The Brakes Have Been Taken Off
• One-Vector Ignorance: Organism as Algorithm
• TechnoFeudalism Just Won the Day, and It’s Very Easy to Miss
• Ovid’s Pygmalian: Rejection of the First Eve for the Second Eve
• “By Right, She Should Be Taken Out and Hung”
• Shaw’s Pygmalian: I Can Program You
• The Fight Between Eliza and Higgins Is the Start of a Real Conversation
• “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face”
• Those Who Can’t Be Programmed: Kill Them
• Re-Enacting Pygmalian in My Fair Lady: Over Time, Pygmalian Becomes a Love Story
• The Personhood Conferral Problem
• The Common Thread: Undermining of the Love Story

CHAPTER 13    THE REVOLUTIONARY ACT IS THE LOVE STORY: LOVE IS NOT AN ALGORITHM

• Revolution Is a Rejection of the Status Quo
• The Magic of Reality Is Emergence
• Evolutionary Love Code: the Love Story Itself Is an Act of Rebellion
• Social Media’s Massive Destruction of Core Structures of Society
• Utopia Is Creepy
• Love Is Not Subject to an Algorithm
• Love and Value Are Real, and the Plotline of Cosmos Is the Evolution of ErosValue
• The Cosmos Is Alive With Billions of Love Stories
• The Love Story Is Being Undermined by Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence Has No Sense of the Infinity of Value Invested in the Human Being
• The Love Story Stands Against Totalitarianism
• The Love Story Is Victorious Even If It Doesn’t Win in This Lifetime
• The Revolutionary Act Is Always a Love Story
• Artificial Intelligence Is Hijacking the Love Story Through Conferral of Personhood
• The Love Story Is the Revolution Because It Is Self-Validating
• In the Evolution of Value, Homo Amor Must Triumph
• The Love Story Is the Great Revolution of Humanity

CHAPTER 14    WHY MOVING BEYOND YOUR STORY IS NOT ENOUGH: TO BE FULLY ENLIGHTENED MEANS TO GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT

• Evolutionary Love Code: The Ultimate Categorical Imperative Is “Live Your Story”
• Time Is Pregnant With Possibility That Never Existed Before
• The Personal Is the Cosmic
• The Gaze of Attention
• Ze Leumat Ze: Value and Anti-Value
• The Violation of Story
• Cosmos Is a Love Story
• The Dignity of Personal Story
• Accessing the Story of Non-Story
• What Emerges Out of Being Is Becoming
• Enlightenment Is Identifying the Most Accurate and Honest Storyline

CHAPTER 15    VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE, STORY AND ANTI-STORY: SIX ELEMENTS OF STORY FROM SUBATOMIC PARTICLES TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS

• The Garments of Value Have Been Torn Apart
• Reality Is Both Being and Becoming
• Reality Is Constituted by Number and Story
• Anti-Value Is Part of the Value Story
• Reality Is a Love Story
• Universal Elements of Story
• Threaded Causal Action and the Dignity of Finitude
• The Dignity of Desire
• Telos: The Desire Is a Desire for Value
• Freedom
• Narrative Arc
• Temporality
• Universal Elements of Story in The Lord of the Rings
• The Great Story of Reality

CHAPTER 16    THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: THE URGENT NEED OF OUR TIME

• Let’s Re-Articulate the Story That We’re Living In
• We Are Not Accidental Tourists
• There Is Ultimate Significance
• Practice Blooms Reality
• Attention Allows Me to Practice
• The Four Meanings for the Word Torah
• Religion at Its Best Is Wildly Important
• We Are Divine Artists, and We Are Practicing Our Divinity
• Value Is Both Eternal and Evolving
• We Need to Evolve Religion, Just Like We Evolve Science
• Meditation Discloses the Field of Value
• We Need to Evolve Religion and Evolve Science
• Don’t “Believe” in God; Know God

About the Author:

Dr. 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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Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 31

We’re in a time between worlds and a time between stories. We are in a postmodern era characterized by the deconstruction of intrinsic value and the deconstruction of the Story of Value. But story is not merely a human construct that is useful for cohering society (as the postmodern zeitgeist suggests). Story is an ontology of Cosmos. Story is a First Principle and First Value of Cosmos. The deepest readings of interior and exterior sciences now demonstrate that Reality is a Story. And Reality is not just an ordinary story—Reality is a love story. Eros itself is not merely the mechanics of Reality; it is the value of Reality. Eros is value and value is filled with Eros. Reality is animated by the music of ErosValue.

The failure to recognize ourselves as living within a Story of ErosValue has led to the meaning crisis that is the hallmark of our contemporary human experience. This vacuum of ErosValue has been filled in modernity and postmodernity by the pseudo-erotic story, the success story. The success story is defined by rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose metrics.
This success story in which we live today is one of the primary generator functions for the meta-crisis. As such it is entirely accurate to diagnose the meta-crisis as the failure to recognize that we live within a “Story of Value that is the very fabric of the Real.” It is only the articulation of a new Story of Value rooted in First Principles and First Values that has the ability to respond to the meta-crisis of existential and catastrophic risks we face today.

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

Book details:

Title: Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 31
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340615
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    A TIME BETWEEN WORLDS, A TIME BETWEEN STORIES—TELLING THE NEW STORY

• Presence in Absence
• We’re at a Time Between Stories
• A Shared Story Brings Together the Best of the Disparate Parts Into a Larger Union
• Evolutionary Love Code: I Confess My Greatness
• My Greatness Is What Obligates Me
• All of Reality Is One Great Love Story
• The Essence of Who I Am Is Revealed in My Moment of Greatness

CHAPTER 2    BIRTHING THE NEW POLITICAL BODY THROUGH THE PERSONAL BODY

• Changing the World Through a New Set of First Principles, Grounded in the Ontologizing of Love
• Exodus Inserts Into the Bloodstream of Humanity: I’m Not Bound by Yesterday
• The Personal Is the Political
• If We Want to Create a New Society We Have to Create a New Body
• We Need to Tell a New Story With Amor at the Center
• The Next Chapter in the Story: Homo sapiens Triumphs in Homo amor
• We Sing a Song of the Sabbath: It’s All Moving Through Us
• The Bill of Rights and the First Principles Are Encrypted in The Body Sacred
• Self-Awareness as I Am Seen by Others: My Psyche Is Torn in Two
• When the Psyche Is Torn in Two, There Is a Fundamental Moment of Alienation
• That Which Was Most Precious to Me, I Put in the Box—and You Thought That It Was Empty
• The Goddess Doesn’t Need to Leave: We Can Liberate Each Other From Loneliness
• Overcoming the Three Reasons for Loneliness

CHAPTER 3    YOUR UNIQUE STORY IS CHAPTER AND VERSE IN THE LOVE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE

• Our Mission Is to Ontologize Love and to Ontologize Story
• We Are in a Time Between Stories, in Which a Plague Is Accentuating the Fault Lines of the Modern Story
• In the Narrative Arc of Reality, Homo sapiens Must Triumph as Homo amor
• Amor: Ontologizing Love
• Prayer: We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy
• Therefore, Choose Life! Choose to Enter the Dance
• In This Time Between Stories, We Tell a New Story That Is the Best Articulation of the First Principles of Cosmos
• Evolutionary Love Code: the Personal Beyond the Impersonal—My Story Matters
• Randomness Is Always Within the Context of a Larger Storyline
• We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
• Reality Is Moved by Stories: From Matter to Life to Mind
• The Move From Loneliness to Loving Happens When You Recognize That Your Story Matters
• Four Levels of Story: the Creation Story, the National Story, the Story of the Righteous Ones, and the Democratized Story of Greatness
• We Must Complete Our Unfinished Business Before We Can Step Into the Next Chapter of Our Story

CHAPTER 4    HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER

• In Response to Catastrophic and Existential Risk, We Diagnose and Address the Root Cause
• Our Goal Is to Stand for the Future and Articulate a New Vision
• The Story Is Unfinished and We Must Become the Storytellers
• Are You Ready to Answer the Call?
• Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is an Evolutionary, Outrageous Love Story—a Story of Value Rooted in First Principles And First Values
• The Second-Person Face of God: Spirit Desires Us Radically
• Prayer: I Turn to the Infinite Intimate Who Knows My Name
• Looking at the Primary Generator Functions of Existential and Catastrophic Risk
• Evolution Is Always a Crisis of Intimacy and We Need to Respond by Generating a New Configuration of Intimacy
• The New Intimacy Is a New Story of Value
• First Principles and Story on Their Own Are Not Enough
• Story Allures Us
• Story Is Not Enough; It Needs to Be Rooted in First Principles And First Values
• The Intrinsic Structure of Reality Is Story
• The Story Has Got to Be a Love Story
• The Story Is Incomplete and We Are the Storytellers

CHAPTER 5    HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER THROUGH A NEW STORY OF VALUE, ROOTED IN FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

• Our Intention Is to Evolve the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
• The Source of Evil Is the Loss of Memory
• Our Intention Is to Create New Intimacy by Telling the New Story
• Prayer: We Turn to the Infinitely Intimate Personhood of Cosmos
• Ki Ata Hu: Reality Is Personally Addressing You
• Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is a Story
• Source Code Keywords From the Book of Creation: Sefer, Sipur, Sapar, Sapir
• Story Allures and Attracts
• We Need First Principles and First Values Together With a Story of Value
• We Inject Values Into Reality Through Story
• George Floyd: We Witness a Violation of Value in an Embodied Story
• We’ve Forgotten the Thread of the Story

CHAPTER 6    “I’M WILLING TO LET YOU LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY”—THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

• We Are Committed to the Past, the Present, and Future Generations
• At the Edge of History, the Story Is Pregnant With New Possibility
• Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, We Must Recover The Storyline
• To Heal the Global Intimacy Disorder, We Need a New Story
• We Recover the Threads of the Stories That Came Before and We Weave Them Into the New Story
• Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is a Love Story
• Evolution Is the Evolution of Love
• I Am Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
• Homo amor Says: There Are No Strangers
• To Be Your God-Self Is to Say, I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
• Prayer: We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy Who Turns to Us and Says, I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
• When the Story of Cosmos Breaks Down, We Turn to the Romantic Story: Fairytale, Eurovision 2009
• Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights

CHAPTER 7    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 Code: Your Story and My Story Are Chapter and Verse in the Universe: a Love Story
• The 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 8    GOD NEEDS MY STORY—MY LIFE IS A SACRED AUTOBIOGRAPHY WRITTEN IN THE ONE HEART OF THE DIVINE

• We Are Committed to Evolving Intimacy Through the Telling of a New Story
• The Homo amor Library: at This Time Between Stories, Our Job Is to Tell the New Story
• Evolutionary Love Code: My Story Matters in Cosmos
• My Story Is Chapter and Verse in a Larger Story and My Story Matters Ultimately
• To Understand the Significance of Story We Must First Understand the Movements Against Story
• The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Are Insufficient: We Need to Tell an Outrageous Evolutionary Love Story

CHAPTER 9    TELLING THE EVOLUTIONARY STORY OF CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION

• Evolving the Source Code, the Inescapable Frameworks in Which We Live
• We Cannot Evolve the Source Code Without Religion
• Weaving Easter and Passover Into the New Story
• Redemption Is a Political and Economic Event
• Everything Is About the Story We Decide to Tell
• Story Is an Ontology of Reality
• Reality Is a Love Story
• The Evolution of Love Is the Source of Hope
• This Lifetime Is a Chapter in the Story
• Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story

CHAPTER 10    FROM VALUES TO VALUE AND A STORY OF VALUE: FROM MY PRECIOUS AS ANTI-VALUE TO THE STORY OF VALUE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

• What Is Value?
• We Don’t Need Shared Values, We Need a Shared Story of Value
• The Fellowship of the Ring Is the Restoration of Value
• Story Is the Very Structure of Reality Itself
• The Ring Is the Modern Success Story
• We Are All Royalty

CHAPTER 11    ARE YOU ALLURING TO GOD? THE GREAT QUESTION OF COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM

• It Is Story That Moves the Vector of History
• Evolutionary Love Code: Every Truly Intimate Encounter Is a Unique Self Encounter Between Soul Stories
• Three Primordial Perspectives of Reality
• Mispar and Sipur: Number and Story
• What Is Alluring to God Is Invisible
• Are You Alluring to God?
• Through Causing Intimate Union in Myself, I Cause Intimate Union in the Divine
• We Are Allured to Each Other

CHAPTER 12    TELLING A NEW STORY EQUAL TO OUR NEW POWER, PART 1

• The Meta-Crisis: A Crisis of Story
• Wake Up to This Unique Moment in Time!
• We Have to Become the New Story
• Evolutionary Love Code: A New Story of Power
• The Beauty That Lies in the Beholder Discloses Beauty in The Outside World
• Interior Sciences Is About Staying Open in the Pain and Loving Madly

CHAPTER 13    TELLING A NEW STORY EQUAL TO OUR NEW POWER, PART 2

• Evolutionary Love Code: The New Story of Power
• If We Can Change the Story, We Can Create the New Human and the New Humanity
• There Is an Ethical Obligation to Be Power-Hungry
• Every Human Being Has a Unique Script of Desire
• My Unique Script of Power Is the Unique Power in My Mythic Life
• The Only True Pleasure Is Living in the Full Power of My Life

CHAPTER 14    CONVERSATION ON STORY WITH AUBREY MARCUS

• Story Is a Central Piece of the Human Puzzle
• We Live in a Time Between Stories
• Polarization Comes From People Living Inside of a Story
• We Need First Principles and First Values Rooted in a Story of Value
• The Holiday of Purim—We Briefly Step Out of Story
• Pesach—Telling the Story of Liberation
• If We Don’t Live in the Eros of a Shared Story, We Create the Pseudo Eros of an Identity Story That Places Others Outside of the Story
• A Shared Story of Value Is a Context for Our Diversity
• One of the Plotlines of Cosmos Is That Union Creates More Diversity
• Every Religion Plays Its Instrument in the Unique Self Symphony
• Story Is Intrinsic to Cosmos
• Post-Modernity Denies That Story and Value Are Real
• We Need to Evolve Story in Response to Existential Risk
• All the Way Up and Down the Evolutionary Chain, It’s a Love Story—and Story and Value Evolve
• Science Needs to Abandon Dogma and Reclaim the Plotlines of Reality
• We Live in the Universe: A Love Story

• We Respond to the Collapse of Story by Telling a New Story

• The Moment I Love One Thing, I’m in the Love Story

• The Plotlines of Reality

• The Evolution of Story

About the Authors:

Dr. 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.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

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Value is Real: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories: Responding to the Call of the Future through the Evolution of Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 29

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

Book details:

Title: Value is Real: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories: Responding to the Call of the Future through the Evolution of Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 29
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340677
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS: RELOCATING HUMANITY IN THE FIELD OF VALUE

• The Renaissance: The Beginning of a New Human and Humanity
• Modernity Unmoors Value From the Infinite
• The Tao That Can Be Commodified Is Not the Tao
• We Are Lost in This Race for Self-Commodification
• Machine Intelligence Arrayed Against Free Will and Personhood
• We Cannot Solve the Meta-Crisis Through Social Structure or Infrastructure
• The Only Voice of the Future Is Us
• Evolutionary Impulse Is Alive in Us, As Us, and Through Us
• Are We Out of Our Minds?
• The Three Great Questions of CosmoErotic Humanism
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Great Questions
• Finitude Partnering With Infinity

CHAPTER 2    IS VALUE REAL? THE ORACLE OF OPENAI, AVATAR AND THE FIELD OF VALUE: A MEMORY OF TWO FUTURES

• Our Uniqueness Connects Us to the Whole
• Open Your Hearts
• Remembering David Ray Griffin
• Reality Speaks in Stories
• The Oracle of OpenAI
• Asking AI: Is Value Real?
• We Participate in an Objective Field of Value
• But AI Is Telling Us That a Shared Story of Value Is Impossible
• Ask AI: Is Love Real?
• Avatar 1: Pandora Is Pandora’s Box and the Garden of Eden
• The Feeling Tone of Reality
• AI Needs the Field of First Principles and First Values

CHAPTER 3    FROM VALUES TO VALUE AND A STORY OF VALUE: FROM MY PRECIOUS AS ANTI-VALUE TO THE STORY OF VALUE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

• What Is Value?
• We Don’t Need Shared Values, but a Shared Story of Value
• The Fellowship of the Ring Is the Restoration of Value
• Story Is the Very Structure of Reality Itself
• The Ring Is the Modern Success Story
• We Are All Royalty

CHAPTER 4    THE DEGRADATION OF DESIRE—DISCERNING ISRAEL & HAMAS CONFLICT: EVOLVING THE BATTLE OF GOOD & EVIL TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• How Do You Begin a Conversation?
• Eros and Ethics Are the Same Thing
• In the Field of ErosValue
• Every Religion Must Evolve
• This Is Not a Story of Moral Equivalence
• The Deconstruction of Value Arouses Hamas
• At the Core of the Hamas Narrative Is a Degradation of Desire
• We Need to Articulate a New Ground of Desire
• Shocks of Existence Press Us Into Gnosis and New Emergence
• A New Culture of Eros: The Democratization of Hieros Gamos
• The Battle Between Good and Evil Exists in Every Human Being
• Pseudo-Eros Exponentialized Becomes the Ring of Sauron
• Greater Is the Light That Comes From the Darkness

CHAPTER 5    WHAT WOULD HOMO AMOR DO IN RESPONSE TO HAMAS? MORAL COMPLEXITY IS A SIGN OF HOMO AMOR, MORAL EQUIVALENCE IS THE FAILURE OF HOMO AMOR

• Certainties Amidst Uncertainty
• We Need to Distinguish Between Waking Up and Growing Up
• There Is No One Outside the Circle
• To Do Sensemaking Is to Follow a Storyline
• Islam Needs to Participate in the Evolution of Love
• There Is No International Body to Step In
• The Voice of Abraham: Will the Judge of the Whole World Not Do Justice?
• There Is No Place for Moral Equivalence: Two Thought Experiments
• We Have to Scream Truth, and We Have to Whisper Truth
• There Is No Moral Equivalence
• Hamas Is a Degraded Ethnocentric Horror
• There Are Two Competing Claims on the Same Land
• Let’s Split the Land: First Attempts at a Two-State Solution
• Land for Peace: Five Rejected Possibilities of a Palestinian State
• The Horror and the Impossibility
• There Is Only One People, and One Breath, and One Humanity

CHAPTER 6    HAMAS IS NOT THE PALESTINIANS—HAMAS IS A JIHADI CULTURE OF DEATH: HOMO AMOR STANDS ON THE SIDE OF LIFE

• How We Have a Conversation Is Everything
• Moral Complexity Is the Sign of Homo Amor
• Everyone Is in the Circle—There Are No Orcs in the Story
• The Need of Love Sometimes Requires the Use of Force
• We Have to Take Responsibility for the Present and for the Future
• Morality Is Not Based on Body Count
• It’s Not About Terrorism—It’s About Jihad
• We Have to Stand for Life
• You Have to Take the Jihadist Seriously
• Where Are You Going to Take Your Children to Live?
• We Can’t Just Stand Against—We Have to Stand For

CHAPTER 7    TOWARDS THE POST-TRAGIC HERO, PART ONE

• I Cannot Be Welcome in the Universe Unless I Am a Hero
• Democratization of the Hero
• The Glimmerings of the Hero
• Baraye—For the Sake of the Whole
• When I Am Aroused, I Am the Hero: Reality Is Making Love
• You Know and I Know That You Are a Hero

CHAPTER 8    CLARIFIED FIRST VALUES AND FIRST PRINCIPLES GENERATE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evolutionary Love Code: Clarified First Principles and First Values Generate Rights and Responsibilities
• Clarified Desire Is Precisely the Same as Need
• The Name of God Is Desire Reaching for the Future
• Clarified Desire and Need Are Completely Isomorphic
• My Clarified Need Is Always for Value
• We Need to Ground Rights in First Principles and First Values
• Bilateral Rights to Desire—and Their Responsibilities
• Formulating Rights and Grounding Them in a Field of Value
• Desire and Need Activate the Eye of Value
• Human Interiors Participate in the Interior Face of Cosmos
• Intimacy, Desire, and Attention: Rights and Responsibilities
• Rights and Values Are Both Eternal and Evolving, and We Clarify Them by Clarifying Our Own Interiors

CHAPTER 9    FROM VALUES TO RIGHTS

• The Most Momentous Leap in the Evolution of Human Consciousness: Universal Human Rights
• If We Cannot Understand Where Rights Come From, We Will Lose Them
• Rights Come From Clarified Need and Desire
• Value Creates Rights
• Every Right Is Also a Responsibility
• The Field of Value Is Universal
• Activating the Eye of Value to Articulate First Principles and First Values
• How Do We Enact Rights?

CHAPTER 10    WHY FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES SHOULD MATTER SO MUCH

• Evolving the Source Code of Culture and Consciousness
• Reality Is Eros
• The Plotline of Evolution Is the Evolution of Love
• How Do We Participate in the Evolution of Love?
• Evolutionary Love Code: A New Story of Value

CHAPTER 11    WHY DOES VALUE MATTER? PART 1

• When You Deconstruct the Field of Value, Suicide Becomes a Legitimate Option
• Value Is Backed By the Universe

CHAPTER 12    BAD NEIGHBOR OR DOG: WHO DO YOU SAVE? THE COSMOEROTIC PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY

• The Past Weaves Into the Present and Creates the Future
• Holding the Paradox of Continuities and Discontinuities
• Don’t Translate New Emergents Into Old Ideas
• Eternal Doesn’t Mean Unchanging
• Milk and Honey on the Other Side

CHAPTER 13    IS THERE A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?

• Everything Is Not Fine
• There Is a Battle Between Good and Evil, but They Are Not Equal
• The Eros of Reality Is Transformation
• My Transformation Is the Transformation of the Whole
• My Transformation Is My Unique Role in the Battle of Good and Evil
• Becoming a New Quality of Intimacy

CHAPTER 14    COSMOS IS HUNGRY FOR VALUE—AND YOU ARE TOO: WHY THAT MATTERS MORE THAN ANYTHING

• Our Stories Are Too Small
• Evolutionary Love Code: Value Is Real
• A Direct Prism Into the Zeitgeist
• Yuval Harari Is Reflecting a Hidden, Deep Consensus
• Value Is the Irreducible Rightness That Lives in Cosmos for Its Own Sake
• Value Is Both Being and Becoming
• There Are Common Patterns of Value in the Worlds of Matter, Life, and Human Mind
• Values Create Rights
• We Have to Ground Cosmos in the Field of Value

CHAPTER 15    STORY AND ANTI-STORY, VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE, PART 1 OF 5: WHY MOVING BEYOND YOUR STORY IS NOT ENOUGH—TO BE FULLY ENLIGHTENED MEANS TO GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT

• To Be Surprised by That Which I Already Know
• The Personal Is the Cosmic
• Value and Anti-Value
• To Destroy Is to De-Story
• When a Story Is Violated
• Cosmos Is a Love Story
• Dignity of Personal Story
• Accessing the Story of Non-Story
• What Emerges Out of Being Is Becoming
• Enlightenment Is the Most Accurate and Honest Storyline

CHAPTER 16    ANTI-EROS, ANTI-STORY AND ANTI-VALUE THREATEN TO DESTROY US ALL AND CALL ON US TO MAKE THE DAVID MOVE

• Telling a Revolutionary New Story
• The Broken Plotlines of Modernity Led Us to Create TechnoFeudalist Technologies Threatening Us Today
• The Cultural Inclination to “Move Beyond Your Story” Is Flawed
• The Move Towards Evolutionary Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony
• Pseudo-Eros Covers Up; Anti-Eros Destroys
• Pseudo-Value Imitates Value; Anti-Value Destroys Value
• Unique Self Story, Pseudo-Story, and Anti-Story
• What Makes the Pornographic Problematic Is That There Is No Story
• Anti-Story Breaks Down the Human Spirit
• We Need to Take a Stand and Be David

CHAPTER 17    VALUE AND ANTI VALUE, STORY AND ANTI STORY, PART 3 OF 5: SIX ELEMENTS OF STORY FROM SUBATOMIC PARTICLES TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS

• The Garments of Value Have Been Torn Apart
• Reality Is Both Being and Becoming
• Anti-Value Is Part of the Value Story
• Reality Is a Love Story
• Universal Elements of Story
• Threaded Causal Action and the Dignity of Finitude
• The Dignity of Desire
• Telos: The Desire Is a Desire for Value
• Universal Elements of Story in The Lord of the Rings
• The Great Story of Reality

CHAPTER 18    VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE, STORY AND ANTI-STORY, PART 4 OF 5: A BUDDHIST TEACHER ON HARARI—BUDDHISM WITHOUT ETHICS CREATES MONSTERS

• The Limits of Language: Why Words Fall Short (Marc)
• From the Tragic to the Post-Tragic: Evolution, Crisis, and the Leap Forward (Marc)
• A New Conversation Emerges: Soryu and the Response to The Meta-Crisis
• The Essential Need for a New Story of Value
• Buddhism, the Meta-Crisis, and the Responsibility to Engage (Soryu)
• The Buddha’s Engagement With Worldly Issues (Soryu)
• Right View and the Distortion of Buddhism in the West (Soryu)
• The Buddha’s Rejection of Fatalism and Illusionism (Soryu)
• The Reality of Love and Spiritual Transmission (Soryu)
• The Shift in Buddhism and the Impact of Colonialism (Soryu)
• The Trauma of Colonialism and Buddhism’s Adaptation (Soryu)
• Buddhism’s Role in the Formation of Modern Psychology (Soryu)
• The Evolution of Zen and the One-Week Retreat (Soryu)
• S.N. Goenka and the Modernization of Meditation (Soryu)
• The Success—And the Danger—Of Modern Meditation (Soryu)
• The Loss of True Practice (Soryu)
• The True Meaning of Wisdom (Soryu)
• The Risk of Compromise in Spiritual Traditions (Soryu)
• The Sacred and the Path to True Realization (Soryu)
• The Different Paths of Buddhism (Soryu)
• The Radical Vision of Navayana Buddhism and a Heroic Path Forward (Soryu)
• Wielding Manjushri’s Sword and Correcting the Field (Marc)
• The Sacred Is Not a Borrowed Concept (Marc)
• The Postmodern Rejection of the Hero (Marc)

CHAPTER 19    THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: THE URGENT NEED OF OUR TIME

• Symphonic Musical Unique Self Symphony
• Let’s Re-Articulate the Story That We’re Living In
• We Are Not Accidental Tourists
• There Is Ultimate Significance
• Practice Blooms Reality
• Attention Allows Me to Practice
• The Four Meanings for the Word Torah
• Religion at Its Best Is Wildly Important
• We Are Divine Artists, and We Are Practicing Our Divinity
• Value Is Both Eternal and Evolving
• We Need to Evolve Religion, Just Like We Evolve Science
• Meditation Discloses the Field of Value
• We Need to Evolve Religion and We Need to Evolve Science
• Don’t “Believe” in God; Know God

About the Author:

Dr. 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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First Principles and First Values: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love: a New Story of Value for Humanity

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 25

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

Book details:

Title: First Principles and First Values: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love: a New Story of Value for Humanity
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 25
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340523
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE    THERE IS NO RESPONSE TO EXISTENTIAL RISK WITHOUT FIRST PRINCIPLES

• Love Is Real, and Love Evolves Reality
• What’s Worse, the Jump to 99% Destruction or From 99 to 100%?
• Option One for the Future: Peace
• Which Is Worse, the Move From Option One to Two, Or Two to Three?
• We Have Collective Responsibility towards Future Generations
• The Rwanda Genocide Happened Because There Was No Nationalism
• We Are the More God to Come
• The New Story Has Not Yet Been Told
• What Are First Principles?
• The New Story Must Be Based on First Principles
• Let’s Imagine a Different Scenario Together
• As Evolutionary Activists and Mystics, We Are Articulating A Memory of the Future
• Let’s Let Our Love Change the World
• Lines of Development Throughout History: Technology and Interiors
• The First Principle of Separate Self Leads to the Dignity of Modernity
• Separate Self Became Alienated From the Larger Field
• From Science to Scientism: From Differentiation to Dissociation From Spirit
• The Top Half of Dualism Was Lopped Off and We Were Left With Dogmatic Materialism
• The Return of Spirit in the Twentieth Century
• We Reclaimed True Self and Left the Separate Self of the Enlightenment Behind
• From Separate Self to True Self and Beyond
• We Need to Disambiguate Between Separateness and Uniqueness
• From Separate Self to True Self and Unique Self
• From Unique Self to Evolutionary Unique Self
• Evolutionary Unique Self Is a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
• Evolutionary Unique Self Is Homo Amor
• The Emergent Realization of Unique Self
• Homo Amor Is the Fulfilment of the Narrative Arc of Cosmos
• Matter Triumphs in the Form of Life
• Homo Amor: In Response to Existential Risk
• The Puzzle of Who Am I?
• Who Are You?
• Without Those First Principles We’ll Fail

CHAPTER TWO    THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE INNATE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION

• Ontologizing Love as an Evolution of Intimacy
• Transformation Is the Nature of the Human Story
• Reality Has a Narrative Arc of Intention
• We Place Our Attention together
• Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Motivated By Pleasure
• Transformation Is the Highest Level of Pleasure
• The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist

CHAPTER THREE   FIRST PRINCIPLES & FIRST VALUES: THE URGENT & ECSTATIC MORAL IMPERATIVE OF OUR TIME

• Evolution From Separate Self Through True Self to Unique Self
• Success Summit: Success 1.0, Success 2.0, Success 3.0
• Evolutionary Unique Self: I Am a Unique Configuration of The Evolutionary Love That Animates All of Cosmos
• The Crisis in Reality Today Is a Crisis of First Principles and First Values
• Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, the Way forward Is to Articulate a New Story Based on First Principles and First Values
• First Principles and First Values Integrate Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Insights
• We Need to Reweave the Information Ecology to Articulate an Evolving Set of First Principles and First Values
• Prayer: I Want to Know What Love Is
• The First Value of Cosmos: Love Is Real
• The New Emergence: Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER FOUR   EVOLVING THE SOURCE CODE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURE

• The Most Urgent Moral Imperative of Our Time Is the Articulation of First Principles and First Values
• The Dignities and Disasters of Modernity
• The First and Second Shocks of Existence Evoke New Gnosis
• Win/Lose Success Story Leads to Dystopian Scenarios
• At This Phase Shift in Human History, We Must Start the Reconstruction Project of Value
• We Need a Set of First Principles and First Values Before We Can Articulate a Shared Global Story

CHAPTER FIVE   SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: “WE’RE GOING TO STEAL YOUR EXPERIENCE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION”

• First Principles and First Values Account for the Critiques of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
• Mistaken Assumptions of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
• Critiques by Postmodernity of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
• Postmodernity’s Critique of Perennialism and Natural Law Is True but Partial, and It Ignores Responsibility to Any Larger Grand Narrative—Except the Success Story
• The Nervous System of the Planet Is the Web, the Worldwide Virtual World
• Google’s Business Model Is Surveillance Capitalism
• Facebook Hijacks Your Attention, Takes Your Information, and Targets You With Ads, Thereby Compromising the Free Movement of Economy and Governance
• We Are Unaware of the Threat to Universal Human Rights
• The Failure to Articulate the Case Against the Tech Plex Is Rooted in a Failure of First Principles and First Values
• Surveillance Capitalism: We’re Going to Steal Your Experience Without Your Permission
• The Six Declarations of Google
• Instead of Solving Existential and Catastrophic Risk, Our Best Minds Are Caught in the Success Story
• From Holdables to Wearables to Biometric Sensors
• First Principles and First Values Refute Surveillance Capitalism
• Exposing the Inner Structure in Which Human Experience Is Being Stolen
• Activation: The Direct First-Person Experience of Reality Coming Alive in Me

CHAPTER SIX   FIRST PRINCIPLES BEYOND RANDOMNESS

• Beyond Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
• First Principles and First Values
• Certainty and Uncertainty
• Qualities of the Third From Within Light and Darkness, Masculine and Feminine
• Binary Pairs and Their Thirds Are a First Principle of Cosmos
• She Comes in Threes: Beyond Randomness and Contingency
• First Principles and First Values Are the Telos of Cosmos
• Authentic Conversation Has Both Contingency and Design
• Messiah: Conversation at a Higher Level of Freedom, Order, and Consciousness
• We Live in a Conversational Cosmos Which Has Both Randomness and Contingency

CHAPTER SEVEN   FIRST PRINCIPLES RESPOND TO EVOLUTIONARY NEED

• The First Value of Need
• Need and Desire Are Intimately Related to Each Other
• When I Pray, I Clarify My Needs
• Evolution Desires, Evolution Yearns, Evolution Needs
• First Value and First Principle of Uniqueness
• Our Future Depends on Our Ability to Articulate a Shared Story Woven From First Values and First Principles

CHAPTER EIGHT   INTEGRATING OUR UNIQUE SELF BY RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SELVES

• Outrageous Love, the Most Powerful and Intelligent Force in Reality
• From the Periphery, We Steadily Suffuse Culture With the New Story
• It’s Crazy Good to Be Together in This Unique Moment in Time
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Past, Present, and Future Are First Principles and First Values of Reality
• The Evolution of Homo amor
• Shadow and Light Dimensions of Past, Present, and Future
• Hearing the Call of the Present Moment
• The Past as a Modality of Healing and Eros
• The Power and Pitfalls of Psychological Science and Enlightenment Science
• Evolutionary Science: Called Towards the Future
• Hearing the Call of Your Future Self
• Mark Twain’s Dream
• Message From the Master of the Good Name
• Feeling the Tug of the Future
• Homo Prospectus
• Can You Feel the Tug?

CHAPTER NINE   EMERGENCE: CALLED BY MY FUTURE SELF

• Math and Science Live in Us as We Are Cosmic Humans
• We Think and Feel in Stories
• Stories Hold First Values and First Principles
• Psychological Science Focuses on the Past; It’s Important But Insufficient
• Unfinished Business
• Enlightenment Science Focuses On the Fullness of the Present
• Being Called by the Future: Emergence Science
• Death Is Not the End Because We Experience the Urgent Need for a Future
• The Four-Letter Name of God Is the Future That Lives in the Present
• Practice One: Accessing the Feeling of Connection to the Call
• Practice Two: Identifying My Unique Call
• The Unique Self Expression of Individuals in the Nascent State of Israel
• Practice Three: Love Letter to and From Your Future Self

CHAPTER TEN   BEING PERSONALLY CALLED

• First Value and First Principle of Uniqueness
• First Value and First Principle of Personhood
• The Experience of Being Personally Addressed by Reality
• Hearing the Call to Our Natural Human Grandeur

CHAPTER ELEVEN   LANGUAGE AS A PORTAL TO FIRST PRINCIPLES

• The Experience of Being Personally Addressed by Reality
• Eros Is a Meta-First Principle and First Value of Cosmos
• These Principles Are Fundamental and Not Isomorphic
• Each Fundamental Word Evokes a Different Quality
• Stories Hold First Principles and First Values
• Story and the Principle of Calling
• One of the Principles of Calling Is That Calls Are Often in Disguise
• Discerning Between Authentic Calls and Counterfeit Calls

CHAPTER TWELVE   DIAGNOSING THE TECH PLEX: FROM DIGITAL DICTATORSHIP TO DIGITAL INTIMACY, FROM SOCIAL SELF TO UNIQUE SELF, FROM SOCIAL HIVE TO UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONIES

• The Articulation of Unique Self Consciousness Is the Overriding Moral Imperative of This Generation
• Separate Self, Social Self, True Self, and Unique Self
• Unique Self: I Am Irreducibly Valuable as a Unique Emergent of the Whole
• Your Unique Self Is Your Unique Response-Ability to Reality
• Your Unique Self Has Irreducible Value and Is Your Currency of Connection
• B.F. Skinner: The Human Being Is a Social Self
• B.F. Skinner: Let’s Nullify the Autonomous Man, the Inner Man
• Skinner’s Approach—Nullifying the Autonomous Man—Is the Basis of Social Media
• C.S. Lewis vs. B.F. Skinner: The Abolition of Man, the Abolition of Human Society
• However Misguided, Skinner Is Responding to Existential Risk and Critiquing Separate Self as the Source of Human Dignity
• Skinner Did Not Have the Tools to Develop Technologies of Human Behavior
• Alex Pentland, One of the Architects of the Web, Is a Direct Continuation of Skinner
• Pentland: Data Science Is the New Physics Which Will Allow Us to Enact a New Vision of Society
• The Founders of the Tech Plex Adopt the Vision of Skinner and Pentland
• Social Media Are Expressions of Skinner’s Walden Two
• We Need to Replace the Understanding of Natural Law With Evolving Perennialism, an Evolving Set of First Values and First Principles
• The Tech Plex: We Are Organizing Society as Social Selves
• True Self and Unique Self Are Ignored by the Tech Plex
• Unseen, Pentland, and Skinner Have Formed the Thinking of the Tech Plex, Which Arrogates to Itself the Right to Your Experience
• Personal Data Is Currently Being Used by Machine Intelligence Algorithms to Compromise the Two Basic Identities of Democracy: The Voter and the Consumer
• Under-The-Skin Surveillance Is the Next Step and Will Result in Digital Dictatorships
• The Postmodern Deconstruction of Value together With Surveillance Capitalism Results in the “Conditioners” Predicted by C.S. Lewis
• We Need to Respond to Social Self With Unique Self
• Power and Profit Agenda, Together With Utopianism Sans First Principles and First Values
• Imagine What Happens When a Dictatorship Owns Data
• In the Absence of Unique Self, Social Self Became the Animating Energy of the Nervous System of the Planet
• Our Job Is to Engage in a Reconstructive Project of Value So We Can Muster the Necessary Outrage Against the Tech Plex

About the Author:

Dr. 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.

Read more… 

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Explore the Great Library:
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Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
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Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
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Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
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She Comes in Threes: Reality’s Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros: Trialectics Are the Structure of Cosmos

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 24

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

Book details:

Title: She Comes in Threes: Reality’s Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros: Trialectics Are the Structure of Cosmos
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 24
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340738
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    SHE COMES IN THREES

• The Whole World Is Submission, Separation and Sweetness
• Station One/Submission: Falling in Love
• Falling in Love Is One of the Structures of Cosmos
• Station Two/Separation: I Step Out
• Healthy Development Is to Transcend and Include
• Station Three/Sweetening: Being Lived as Love
• The Arc of the Three Stations Meanders
• The Three Stations: Certainty and Uncertainty
• Station Two—Separation: Uncertainty
• Station Three—Sweetness: Certainty
• Pre-Personal, Personal, and Transpersonal
• Pre-Tragic, Tragic, and Post-Tragic
• Station One: Pre-Tragic
• Station Two: Tragic
• Station Three: Post-Tragic
• Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
• For Successful Transmission to the World, Distinctions Matter
• Greater Is the Wisdom That Comes From Folly
• We Need a Reconstruction of the Best Qualities of the Previous Periods
• Pre-Tragic, Tragic, and Post-Tragic: Revisited
• Pre-Tragic, Tragic and Post-Tragic Sexuality
• We Need a Post-Tragic Sexual Narrative
• Distinctions: Knowings of the Body, Heart and Mind
• Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
• Separate Self, True Self, Unique Self
• Station One: Western Enlightenment, Separate Self
• Station Two: Mystical Enlightenment, True Self
• Station Three: Unique Self
• You Are an Irreducibly Unique Expression of True Self
• We Need to Disambiguate Between Separateness and Uniqueness
• Reality Is a Love Story
• Towards a Post-Tragic, New Source Code of Meaning
• Stations One and Three Look the Same on the Outside, but Their Interior Quality Is Completely Different

CHAPTER 2    LIVING BEYOND COMPLEXITY

• Setting the Context: Theory Is a Form of Loving
• Three Stations of Eros
• Simplicity, Complexity and Second Simplicity
• The First Station: Simplicity
• The Second Station: Complexity
• Station Three: Second Simplicity
• Knowing, Not Knowing, Knowing
• In Station Two of Complexity, We’ve Forgotten the Storyline
• The Collapse of the Great Story of Premodernity
• Station Two of Complexity: Other Than Classical Science, Ultimate Knowledge Is Not Available
• Transcending Complexity and Reweaving a Higher Story
• Reclaiming a Framework for Our Experience
• Interpreting Our Experience Through Pre/Trans Distinctions
• Application of First Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity: The Tsunami in Japan
• Station One Simplicity: Theodicy: Explanations for Suffering
• Station Two Complexity: Rejection of First Simplicity
• Station Three: Second Simplicity
• Every Great Social Movement: I Incarnate Justice in the World

PART TWO: ONE MOUNTAIN, MANY PATHS

CHAPTER 3    LOVE OR DIE

• Setting Our Intention
• Overview: Eros Is No Longer a Luxury—It’s Love Or Die
• What Is Eros?
• Existential Risk: the Second Shock of Existence
• Generator Functions for Existential Risk
• The Deconstruction of Intrinsic Value
• The Deconstruction of Value Is the Deconstruction of Intimacy
• The Evolution of Love Is the Telling of a New Story

CHAPTER 4    SHE COMES IN THREES: THE HOLY, THE BROKEN, AND THE HALLELUJAH

• The Power of Love Must Claim Its Love Of Power
• To Challenge Surveillance Capitalism We Need First Principles And First Values
• In the Absence of a Shared Story, Win-Lose Metrics Prevail
• Heroes Are the Early Adopters of Homo Amor
• Evolutionary Love Code: She Comes in Threes
• Tripleness: From Contradiction to Paradox
• A New Emergence From Autonomy and Communion
• A New Emergence From Beauty and Ugliness
• Hallelujah: Pristine Praise Together With Drunken Intoxication
• The Koan Is Resolved in the Third Possibility
• A New Emergence From Certainty and Uncertainty
• A Shared Narrative Has to Be From Tripleness
• Prayer to the Infinity of Power and the Infinity of Intimacy

CHAPTER 5    OUR HIGHEST PURPOSE IS NO PURPOSE

• The Fundamental Breakdowns Are Based On A Collapse of Value
• We Tremble Before Evolution to Manifest a New Expression Of Intimacy
• Evolutionary Love Code: Our Highest Purpose Is No Purpose
• Opening Up Makes Transformation Possible
• I Am Opening Up in Sweet Surrender to the Luminous Love Light of the One
• Continuity and Discontinuity in the Evolutionary Chain
• Love Is Both Purposeful and No-Purpose
• The Glory of No-Purpose

CHAPTER 6    ODE TO EVOLUTIONARY JOY: THE HIGHER UNION OF A BROKEN HEART AND RADICAL ALIVENESS

• We Need First Principles and First Values to Orient Ourselves At This Time Between Worlds
• We Are Here to Tell a New Story Ontologizing Love
• Evolutionary Love Code: Joy Is a First Principle of Cosmos
• A Prerequisite to Joy Is to Understand That Life Is Not Over When It’s Over
• The Intimate Universe Knows Your Name
• Prayer: We Turn to the Infinite Intimate, the Ultimate Personhood of Reality
• Joy Is a First Principle of Cosmos
• Joy Is the Natural Byproduct of Living My Unique Self
• There’s No Contradiction Between a Broken Heart and Radical Joy
• Ode to Joy
• Joy Breaks Through All Gates
• Your Joy Births Reality

CHAPTER 7    ODE TO EVOLUTIONARY JOY: THE NEXT STEP

• Our Intention Is to Articulate the New Story Based on the Best Information We Have in Cosmos Today
• Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, We Must Access Evolutionary Love and Redirect the Course of History
• Evolutionary Love Code: the First Principle of Joy
• The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist
• Reality Seeks Ever Greater Intimacies
• In Prayer We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy Who Knows Our Name
• Evolutionary Love Code: The First Principle of Joy
• The Joy Equation
• Aliveness Is When You’re Far From Equilibrium and Receiving Inputs All the Time
• We Need to Be Able to Stay Open to Receive New Inputs Of Joy
• When I’m in My Utter Uniqueness I Become a Puzzle Piece That Is Joined With Everyone Else
• Even a Minor Fluctuation Point Jumps All of Reality to a Higher Level of Consciousness
• Joy Is a Byproduct of Living My Unique Self
• The Deeper That Sorrow Carves Into Your Being, the More Joy You Can Contain

CHAPTER 8    THE QUALITY AND FEELING OF HOMO AMOR: INCARNATING THE THIRD BEYOND POLARITIES

• We Move From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
• Homo Amor Is the Unique Expression of Eros and Evolution Awakened to Itself
• A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
• Our Intention Is to Evolve a New Story, Woven From First Principles and First Values
• The Interior of Consciousness Is Outrageous Love
• Outrageous Love Code: the Quality of the Outrageous Lover Is the Third Beyond Paradox
• Personhood Is a Core Quality of Cosmos
• Why Did the One Manifest the Many? To Bring Forth New Dimensions of the One
• We Are the Liberators of Divinity
• The Infinity of Intimacy Turns to Us and Says: I Need You Desperately
• Homo Amor: Beyond the Paradox

CHAPTER 9    THE RESPONSE TO PERSONAL CRISIS AND META-CRISIS IS THE EVOLUTION OF RELATIONSHIP AND THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: THE RISE OF WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS

• God Loves Stories
• Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story
• A New Chapter in the New Story: Whole mate Relationships
• Evolutionary Love Code: We Are Confronted by Crisis
• Every Crisis Is Solved by a New Structure of Intimacy
• The Evolution of Relationship
• From Role mate to Soul mate
• Soul-mate Contract Without a Role-mate Dimension Doesn’t Work
• From Soul mate to Whole mate
• The Meta-Crisis Begins to Be Resolved by a New Form Of Relationship

CHAPTER 10    THE URGENT NEED FOR WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS, PART 2

• Outside the Field of Value, No One Is Human Anymore
• There Is a Straight Line From Postmodernism to School Shootings
• We Desperately Need to Reconstruct the Field of Value
• Evolutionary Love Code: From Role mate to Soul mate to Whole mate
• The Tragedy of Soul mates
• I Love You Means I Choose to Need You
• Reconfiguring Reality by Reconfiguring Humanity

PART THREE: FORMAL WRITINGS

CHAPTER 11    THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS MODEL

• Station One: Submission Or Identification
• Station Two: Separation Or Dis-Identification
• Station Three: Sweetness Or Re-Integration
• Station Three Is an Entirely Different Quality From Station One
• An Example of Station One/ Station Three Fallacy: Eros, Ethics, Eros

CHAPTER 12    THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS MODEL IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

• Station One of Eros: Identification
• How It Applies to Love: Station One: Falling in Love
• Station Two of Eros: Dis-Identification/ Individuation
• How It Applies to Love: Station Two of Eros: Falling Out of Love
• Station Three of Eros: Re-Integration
• How It Applies to Love: Station Three—Falling in Love Again, Being Lived as Love

CHAPTER 13    STATION THREE OF EROS: THE AWAKENING OF THE OUTRAGEOUS LOVER

• Station Three of Eros: I’m Your Man
• Station Three of Eros: Where Giving and Receiving Merge
• Station Three of Eros: Being Lived as Outrageous Love
• The Three Stations of Eros: Poems of Hafiz
• Station Two of Eros: Falling Out of Love: Two Poems by Hafiz
• Station Three of Eros: Lived as Love: A Poem by Hafiz

CHAPTER 14    LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS

• She Comes in Threes Is Not the Three Persons Or the Three Faces of Love
• Hegel’s Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis: an Expression Of Trialectics
• Example One: Religion, Absolute Freedom, Self-Evident Shared Values
• Example Two: Ecstasy, Pain, Transcendence
• Trialectics in Chinese Philosophy: Beyond Yin and Yang
• From Contradiction to Paradox: From Binary to Trialectics
• Station Three: Hamtakah in the Lineage of Solomon: Beyond the Conventional Structures of Right and Wrong
• The Micro-Vectors of Reality Are the Three Stations of Eros

CHAPTER 15    EXPRESSIONS OF THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS

• Unique Sequences Disclose Unique Elements of Reality
• Certainty, Uncertainty, Certainty
• Sub-Sequence: Value Is Real, Value Is Not Real, Value Is Real
• Uncertainty, Certainty, Uncertainty
• Eros, Ethics, Eros
• Goodness, Wholeness, Goodness
• Wholeness, Goodness, Wholeness
• Pre-Personal, Personal and Transpersonal
• Story, Non-Story, Story
• Separate Self, True Self, Evolutionary Unique Self
• No Choice, Choice, Choiceless
• Light, Darkness, Light
• Wisdom, Foolishness, Wisdom
• Laughter, Gravitas, Laughter
• Innocence, Guilt, Second Innocence
• Open, Closed, Open
• Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
• Binary Gender, Non Binary Gender, Unique Gender
• No Purpose, Purpose, No Purpose; Being Becoming, Being
• Autonomy and Communion: The Ever Deepening Spiral of the Evolution of Love

CHAPTER 16    PRE-TRAGIC, TRAGIC AND POST-TRAGIC LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• Towards a Post-Tragic Level of Consciousness

CHAPTER 17    THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: FROM ROLE MATE TO SOUL MATE TO WHOLE MATE

• Role mates: Submission of the Partners to Their Roles
• Soul mates: Station Two of Relationship: Separation, Dis-Identification
• Soul mate Relationship: From I Need You to I Choose You
• Whole Mates: From Ordinary Love to Outrageous Love
• The Next Step in the Evolution of Love
• Role mate, Soul mate and Whole Mate Relationships With Life

CHAPTER 18    SHE COMES IN THREES: THE PRE-TRAGIC, TRAGIC, AND POST-TRAGIC IN ROLE MATE, SOUL MATE, AND WHOLE MATE

• Whole-Mate Relationships Are Post-Tragic
• Wholeness Becoming More Whole

PART FOUR: APPENDIX

• UNCERTAINTY, CERTAINTY, HIGHER UNCERTAINTY
• On the Relationship Between Questions and Answers in Religious and Secular Society
• There is Heresy Which is Faith, and Faith Which is Heresy
• In Response to Evil and Suffering
• Holding Both Meanings of Torah in Response to Suffering: “Instructions for Living” and “To Search”
• In the Face of Suffering: an Intimate Inquisition
• The Wicked and the Wise and the One Who Does Not Know How to Question
• The Covenantal Partnership Between the Human Being and God
• Ivan in Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: Heresy That is Faith
• In the Depth of Uncertainty Is Certainty
• The Certainty of Rage
• Biblical Ayeh Stories: Grappling With God
• Uncertainty, Certainty, Higher Uncertainty
• Question, Answer, Higher Question
• The Core Certainty of Self Allows Us to Hold Radical Uncertainty

About the Author:

Dr. 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.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/

Formal refutations on controversy: 
WhoIsMarcGafni.com

Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

Substack: https://substack.com/@marcgafni
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcgafni/
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