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The Crossing | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Crossing: the Only Response to Existential Risk: The Eight Injunctions from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor: Crossing over to the Side of Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 36

The Crossing: the Only Response to Existential Risk: The Eight Injunctions from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor: Crossing over to the Side of Love | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 36 | Dr. Marc Gafni

In this time between worlds and time between stories, we cross over together.

In response to the meta-crisis and the potential death of humanity or the death of our humanity, we must cross over from Homo sapiens to Homo amor.

This book is compiled from lightly edited transcriptions from The Crossing, an event originally initiated and taught by Dr. Gafni, and organized and facilitated by James Bampfield. The Crossing took place in Holland in 2024. The larger context for the Crossing was a series of more than thirty Wisdom School and Mystery School events led by Dr. Gafni and his colleagues which preceded this event.

The intention of The Crossing was a template for the evolutionary transformation from Homo sapiens to Homo amor which is both the overwhelming joy and most urgent global need at this moment of meta crisis.

The Crossing continues to deepen as an evolving template for the transformative initiation into becoming the new human and the new humanity. It is a rite of passage that can and must be replicated across the world—each location in its own vernacular of spirit and culture; its own unique quality of intimacy.

It is only a world-wide explosion of people who refuse to settle, people willing to go all the way in this life time, to cross over and become the new human, that will be a sufficient response to the potential death of humanity and the potential death of our humanity.

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

Book details:

Title: The Crossing: the Only Response to Existential Risk: The Eight Injunctions from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor: Crossing over to the Side of Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 36
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340851
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 NURTURING THE UNION OF HUMANS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE

  • The Emergence of the New Human and the New Humanity
  • Reclaiming Prayer at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • The Exile of Love
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Awaken to the Deepest Pleasure of Being Alive
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Pain
  • What Is Outrageous Love?
  • The Great Question of Meaning Is Who Are You?
  • Unique Self Symphony as an Expression of the Self-Organizing Universe

CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT QUESTION OF MEANING: WHO ARE YOU?

  • Accessing the Evolutionary Impulse Within
  • Prayer: God Lives Both in Us and Holds Us
  • Planetary Awakening Through Unique Self Symphony
  • The Practice of Evolutionary Chant
  • We Are Outrageous Lovers
  • Confessions of Greatness
  • Reality Is an Outrageous Love Story

CHAPTER 3 A WORLD INFUSED WITH EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Metamorphosis From Homo sapiens to Homo amor From a Fundamentalist God to an Evolutionary God
  • Evolutionary Prayer: The Infinite Force of Cosmos Knows Your Name
  • From Parliamentary Procedure to a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Unique Self Symphony
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Evolutionary Intimacy
  • Unique Selves Come Together in a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 4 EFFECTING A PLANETARY AWAKENING: A POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Let’s Be Demonstrations of Our Own Conscious Evolution
  • When We Talk About Prayer, What Do We Mean?
  • Joining Genius to Give Our Gifts More Fully Into the World
  • What Is Your Vocation of Destiny?
  • Respond to the World That Is Unloved
  • Practice Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 5 REALITY IS INTELLIGENT AND ALIVE, ENCODED WITH A DIRECTION TOWARDS HIGHER ORDERS OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers!
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • The Essential Practice of Reclaiming Prayer
  • We Are Here to Gentle the Birth to the Next Stage of Evolution
  • Your Love Story Is a Chapter in the Love Story of Reality Itself

CHAPTER 6 LONELINESS AS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER

  • What Is the Response to Our Aloneness? Emergent World Vision: The Universe Is a Love Story What Fundamentalists Got Right
  • The Three Faces of God The Field of Evolutionary Prayer
  • Overcoming Loneliness by Saying “Yes” to the Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Overcoming Loneliness with Purpose
  • Moving From Loneliness to Loving Loving Is the Fundamental Driver of Reality The Next Buddha Is a Sangha

CHAPTER 7 THE LIBERATION FROM LONELINESS IS THE LIBERATION OF DESIRE

  • The Way of the New Human
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • From the Infinity of Power to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • A Story About Prayer: Ask for Everything!
  • Holy Prayers of the Community
  • A Call to Action for Homo Amor Universalis
  • Nurture the Genius of Humanity in Us
  • The Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • Four Noble Truths
  • The Liberation From Loneliness Is the Liberation of Desire
  • Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 8 OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IS A PERCEPTION

  • The Great Reconstructive Project
  • The Miracle of Hanukkah
  • The Sacred Story of Evolution Enacting a Memory of the Future Life Is Ever Evolving
  • Outrageous Love is a Perception An Evolutionary Story About a Master

CHAPTER 9 RECLAIMING GOD AS EVOLUTION: BEYOND THE EXILE OF EVOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGY

  • Feel the Newness Arising in You Dare to Pray for Newness
  • The Synthesis of Technology and Evolutionary Love Interiors and Exteriors Are One
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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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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: 

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The Crossing | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-20T17:07:10-07:00

Awakening the New Human | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 35

Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 35 | Dr. Marc Gafni

This book introduces a new grammar of value grounded in First Principles and First Values as the interior structure of the Universe. To live aligned with these principles is to become a post-tragic hero—not the old hero of conquest, but a new, tender, fierce lover of value.

The hero is the one who stands for value and is willing to even die for value.

The premodern hero is pre-tragic. For him, value is clear. There are no conflicts, there is only one version of value that is right. That version is sourced in direct revelation which takes place only within his native or chosen religion.

Late modernity and post modernity problematize heroism itself. Since, as they dogmatically declare, value is not real, and the hero is one who stands for value, then virtually all heroes are either naïve fools or disguised villains.

The post-tragic hero lives in the field of eternal and evolving value. The post-tragic hero rejects simplistic visions of value that do not dance with the dialectics of competing value and which polarize and instead of hold paradox. The post-tragic hero lives with open eyes and an unguarded heart, not because she bypasses the heartbreak of the tragic, but because she lives both in it and through it.

Heartbreak is a form of holy revelation, and it opens us to shadow work—where the disowned parts of the self become portals to deeper value and wholeness. To live in and through heartbreak with open eyes and an unguarded heart is to step into the story of Homo amor and to incarnate your true identity as a unique configuration of ErosValue. It is to know that you are a unique configuration of intimacy and desire that Reality has never seen before.

This book is a map, a prayer, a transmission. It is a call to become an embodiment of the genuine Eros Value of Homo amor.

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

Book details:

Title: Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 35
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340899
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    FROM THE MURDER OF EROS TO HOMO AMOR: LOVEPOWER IS THE WORD, AND THE WORD IS GOOD

  • Power History and Love History: Recognizing the Murder of Eros
  • Understanding the Murder of Eros
  • Eros History and Power History
  • LovePower: Cosmos Is a Field of Allurement and We Are Each Its Unique Expressions
  • We’ve Been Together Before, and Our Intention Is to Go the Whole Way in This Lifetime
  • The Evolutionary Impulse Where Love and Power Come Together
  • The Many Distressing Disguises of the Murder of Eros
  • The Failure of Aliveness Turns Into Evil
  • Claiming My Unique Lovepower Is Not a Psychological Move
  • We Are Going to Stop Murdering Eros, and We’re Going to Celebrate Each Other

CHAPTER 2    THE ALCHEMY OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSCENDING OUR PERSONAL PAST

  • Welcome to the Revolution in Love, for the Sake of Love, and for the Sake of the Future
  • We Need to Re-Narrate the Story of Who Am I and Where Am I
  • I Am Moving From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
  • I Am a Creator in the Interconnected Intimate Field of Reality
  • In Prayer I Clarify and Recognize the Dignity of My Desire and My Need
  • Your Unique Self Is the Unique Feature of the Seamless Coat of the Universe
  • True Self, Unique Self, and Evolutionary Unique Self
  • The Whole Universe Gives Rise to an Atom
  • All of Reality Exists in Intimacy, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
  • I Am a Free, Generative Node in the Field of Intimacy

CHAPTER 3    BECOMING THE NEW HUMAN, HOMO AMOR: STRATEGIES OF SEDUCTION AND UNFURNISHING THE EYES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Reality Is a Love Story, and We Are That Story: Between Utopia and Dystopia
  • The Animating Energy of Reality Today Is the Algorithm of a Success Story
  • We Are Here to Enact a New Reality
  • Unbearable Tragedy and Unbearable Joy
  • Becoming Lineage Holders in the Great Tradition
  • We Are a Band of Outrageous Lovers
  • Reality Needs You to Seduce Yourself to Your Own Greatness
  • Seduction to Invoke the New Human and the New Humanity
  • Music Is Made of Atoms of Time
  • Cleansing the Doors of Perception: Unfurnish Your Eyes
  • The Eye of the Flesh, the Eye of the Senses
  • The Eye of the Mind, the Eye of Reason
  • The Eye of Consciousness
  • Reality All the Way Up and All the Way Down Is Pan-Interiority
  • A New Paradigm in Science Doesn’t Give You This Knowing
  • The Player of Music Becomes the Music

CHAPTER 4    ATTACHMENT THEORY AND BEYOND: HOMO AMOR EVOLVES THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER

  • The Blessing of the Father: Reality Is Proud of Us
  • We Need to Be Fathers and Mothers to Each Other
  • Beyond the Root of All Human Suffering
  • People of the Lie
  • We Must Be Beloveds to Each Other
  • You Are Welcome in the Universe!
  • The Welcome Home Sign in Cosmos Is the Field of Value Itself
  • We Have to Liberate Ourselves From the Idolatry of Mother and Father
  • We Need to Up-level the Blessing of the Mother, and We Need to Up-level the Blessing of the Father
  • Outrageous Love Festival Is a Laboratory for the Dharma

CHAPTER 5    THE NINE GREAT STATIONS ON THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION

  • In the Human Journey, There Are Nine Stations of Transformation
  • Station One: Pre-Personal
  • Station Two: Separate Self
  • Station Three: Social Self
  • Station Four: False Self
  • Puzzle Pieces Without Original Puzzle
  • Station Five: True Self
  • Station Six: Unique Self
  • Station Seven: Unique Shadow
  • Why Should You Integrate Your Shadow?
  • Station Eight: Evolutionary Unique Self
  • Station Nine: Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 6    FEEL YOU FEELING ME: THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW NAME OF GOD

  • The Most Effective Altruism Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • The New Story of Value Lives in Us
  • Anthro-Ontology: How Do You Know What You Know?
  • The Core of Homo Amor Is My Capacity to Feel You
  • Evolving Love Is Ever Deeper Loops in the Mutuality of Feeling
  • The Divine Is the Infinite Intimate

CHAPTER 7    FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: HEARTBREAK IS A STRUCTURE OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

  • Part One: We Need to Evolve the Source Code in Which We Live
  • We Live in an Evolving and Participatory Cosmos
  • Intimacy Is Always Broken and Then Recovered
  • Heartbreak Is the Natural State of an Alive Human Being
  • Prayer Affirms the Dignity of Personal Need
  • We Must Feel the Depth of Our Need
  • No Two Heartbreaks Are the Same
  • The Evolution of Tears Is the Expansion of Our Circle of Intimacy
  • Evolving Tears From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
  • Outrageous Love Moves Us From Homo Armor to Homo Amor
  • The Evolution of Heartbreak Is the Evolution of Desire
  • I Am Willing to Feel Even What I Cannot Entirely Heal
  • Part Two: From Heartbreak to Desire to Need to Value
  • By Embracing the Heartbreak, I Find My Aliveness
  • Clarified Desire Equals Dignified Need Equals Value
  • Part Three: Heartbreak Is a Structure of the Intimate Universe
  • There Is Eros to the Broken Heart

CHAPTER 8    WHAT WE NEED FOR THE ATTENTION REBELLION TO SUCCEED

  • A New Story Generates New Reality
  • The Internet Is Designed to Scatter Attention
  • A Brief History of Attention
  • When There Is Nothing to Pay Attention To
  • To Be in Love Is to Place Attention
  • Seeing With New Eyes Is the Essential Quality of the Erotic Universe
  • The Attention of the Infinite Differentiates Uniquely Through Me
  • We Need to Reclaim Attention as a Value

CHAPTER 9    ALEXEI NAVALNY: TO LIVE IS TO RISK IT ALL, THE UNIQUE RISK OF THE HERO

  • The Eulogy of a Hero
  • The Response to Corruption Is Laughter
  • Navalny Lived and Died for Value
  • A Life Aligned With Value Is a Life of Joy
  • We Have to Take a Stand for Each Other
  • Value Is More Powerful Than Any Other Force
  • We Stand for the Democratization of the Hero
  • We All Have a Unique Risk to Take

CHAPTER 10    TOWARDS THE POST-TRAGIC HERO

  • I Cannot Be Welcome in the Universe Unless I Am a Hero
  • Hero Is a Fundamental Category of Reality
  • The Crossing: to Experience Myself as a 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 11    MAD LOVE: WHEN MADNESS BECOMES SANITY

  • To Love Madly Is to Be in the Field of Outrageous Love
  • Reality Is Constituted by Mad Love
  • Our Love Lists Are Too Short
  • The Mitochondrial Dance of Eros in Our Cells
  • My Mad Love Participates in the Whole
  • My Mad Love Is Wildly Powerful
  • My Madness Is My Protest
  • Clarifying the Split Between Sane and Insane
  • True Sanity Is Mad Love
  • Let’s Reach for a World Beyond Betrayal

CHAPTER 12    THE UNIQUE OBLIGATION TO TAKE YOUR UNIQUE RISK

  • We’re in a Time Between Worlds, a Time Between Stories
  • Modernity Got the Plotlines Half Right and Half Wrong
  • Value Got Exiled to Doing Evaluation
  • Existential Risk Demands a New Story of Value
  • Postmodernity Took Out a Loan From Premodernity
  • The Unique Risk of Taking Responsibility for the Whole
  • Uniqueness Is a Value of Cosmos
  • Unique Self Is Individuation Beyond Ego
  • To Actualize a Unique Self Symphony, We Each Need to Take Our Unique Risk
  • To Take Our Unique Risk Means to Love Or Die

CHAPTER 13    THE VOID IS REAL, AND THERE IS A WAY HOME

  • We Are Facing Darkness
  • A Time Between Emptiness and Fullness
  • The Postmodern Zeitgeist and the Path of the Void
  • The Personal Experience of Void Begins With Betrayal
  • Everything Emerges From the Encounter With the Void
  • Tzimtzum: The Space of the Void That Is Sacred Conversation
  • Postmodernity Is the Experience of the Void
  • An Entire Generation Is Thrust Into the Void
  • Taking the Void Seriously
  • How Do You Walk Through the Void?
  • Love Is Not Hard to Find—Love Is Impossible to Avoid
  • It’s a Love Story, and It’s Filled With Mystery
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About the Author:

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.

Read more… 

Buy on Amazon

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/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
Twitter:https://twitter.com/MarcGafni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcgafni/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmarcgafni 

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Awakening the New Human | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-20T17:03:13-07:00

Homo Amor and Unique Self | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 22

Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 22 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Homo amor is the answer to the one of the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism, Who Am I? Or, Who are We? The evolution of consciousness, which itself is the evolution of love, is rooted in the ever-deepening response to this great question of human identity.Indeed, Homo amor is the next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens. Homo amor is a deeper, truer, and more beautiful answer to the question of Who am I, and Who are We.

Homo amor is the new human and new humanity. Homo amor is the CosmoErotic Universe in person.

In other words, not only is the personal the political, but the personal is the cosmic.
We come to the realization we are each a Unique Self. To be a Unique Self is to know yourself directly as the irreducibly unique expression of the Eros and energy of All-That-Is, that lives in you, as you, and through you, and that never was or will be ever again, other than through you.

Unique Self rejects the prevalent flatland view of modernity in which the self is understood to be but a skin-encapsulated ego, an isolated entity caught in never-ending rivalrous dynamics governed by win/lose metrics that in turn generates the fragile systems that are cause for existential risk. In direct contrast, Unique Self is understood as your irreducibly unique expression of the ErosValue that animates the entire Cosmos, which is intended, recognized, chosen, adored, desired, and needed by All-That-Is.

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

Book details:

Title: Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 22
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340318
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1   THE PUZZLE PIECE DHARMA AND THE FIVE SELVES

  • A Collective Human Intelligence In Unique Self Symphony Is The Only Force More Intelligent Than Artificial Intelligence
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Field Of Intimacy And Desire Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • We Get To Fall Madly In Love With Each Other
  • Reclaiming A Politics Of Love
  • God, Can I Bring Everything To You?
  • Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphony
  • Authentic Intelligence: A Conscious Intention By Each Of Us To Give Our Unique Gift
  • The dharma Of The Five Selves
  • Planting The dharma In Politics, Science, Religion, Justice, Government And Relationships

CHAPTER 2   TAKE YOUR UNIQUE RISK—GIVING UP BEING RIGHT

  • Stepping Up As The Community Of God Selves
  • Prayer: Pulsing Desire Merged With Quivering Tenderness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: In Order To Commit My Outrageous Act Of Love, I Must Take My Unique Risk
  • My Unique Risk Is, I’ve Got To Put All Of Myself On The Line, And I Don’t Know Exactly How It’s Going To Go
  • The Unique Risk Of The Infinity Of Intimacy
  • No One Will Call You Out For Not Taking Your Unique Risk
  • How To Take Your Unique Risk: You Put Everything On The Line
  • We Are God In Evolution And We Are At A Shift Point Of Evolution

CHAPTER 3    CLARIFYING YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

  • We Can All Be Prophets Of The New Word, But We Must Be Committed
  • We Are A Training School For Prophets
  • In Prayer, We Invoke. In Prophesy, God Invokes
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We’re Accountable In Life For This Question: Did You Take Your Unique Risk?
  • The Wheel Of Co-Creation 2.0

CHAPTER 4   EVERY PLACE I’VE BEEN I NEEDED TO BE

  • The New Story: I’m A Unique Configuration Of Evolutionary Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Place You’ve Been You Needed To Be
  • Prayer: The Realization That The Field Of Intelligence Is Holding Me
  • Every Place I’ve Been, I Needed To Be
  • The Self-Actualizing Cosmos That Moves Us Is The Evolution Of Intimacy
  • I Am God’s Evolutionary Partner
  • We Are Allured To Play Our Part In The Self-Organizing Universe
  • Making My Contribution To The Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 5  CONFESS YOUR BROKENNESS; CONFESS YOUR GREATNESS

  • Telling A New Story: Human Beings Participate In Divinity
  • Modernity: The Win/Lose Success Story
  • Confessing Our Collective Vulnerability
  • Unique Self Symphonies: Human Beings Looking At Each Other From Their Place Of Vulnerability
  • From That Place Of Vulnerability, We Confess Our Greatness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Only Slave-driver In The World Is That Yesterday Determines Today
  • My Brokenness And My Greatness Are Not Separate In Any Way
  • Accessing The Newness Of Homo Amor Universalis

CHAPTER 6    MY UNIQUE TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING

  • Are You Willing To Play A Larger Game? Are You Ready To Participate In The Evolution Of Love?
  • We’re In A Da Vinci Moment: We Need To Upgrade The Source Code
  • Prayer: God Is The Infinite Personhood Of Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Driven By Eros
  • Transformation Is The Highest Pleasure
  • My Transformation Transforms Everything Because Reality Lives In Me
  • That Which Is Above Comes From You
  • I Am The More God To Come

CHAPTER 7  LOVING THE MOMENT OPEN: A NEW VISION OF UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONY

  • Joining Genius In Unique Self Symphonies To Tell A New Story
  • Coming Together As A Band Of Outrageous Lovers To Love The Moment Open
  • Prayer: A Heart-Orgy With The Infinity Of Power And The Infinity Of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation,
  • And The Transformation Is The Highest Form Of Power
  • Feel A Unique Transformation That’s Uniquely Personal As You
  • The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation And The Highest Transformation Is Power

CHAPTER 8   THE TAO THAT CAN BE CODED IS NOT THE TAO: EVOLVING HUMANITY BEYOND ALGORITHMS

  • Telling a New Story Rooted in Eternal and Evolving Values
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Think We Have Stepped Out of the Tao Is the Greatest Existential Risk of All
  • The Tao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Tao
  • The Death of Our Humanity Begins When We Think We’ve Stepped Out of the Tao

CHAPTER 9   YOUR HOLY AND YOUR BROKEN ARE BOTH HALLELUJAH: BEING THE NEW HUMAN IN THE TAO

  • We Are a Unique Self Symphony, an Emergent Expression of the Tao
  • The Unique Self Symphony in Response to the Tech Plex
  • Imagine a Unique Self Facebook With 7.7 Billion Users Joining Together in Symphony
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Eternal Tao Is the Evolving Tao
  • Love Is Both Eternal and It Evolves
  • The Tao Is the Realization of the Unquantifiable Value of a Human Being
  • There’s a Shattering in Everything That Reality Has Made—That’s How the Light Gets in
  • Reshimu: Traces of Transcendence

CHAPTER 10   EVOLUTION IS PERSONAL: A SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

  • We Are Evolution in Person
  • Re-reading Neurochemistry as an Expression of the Intimate Universe
  • In Prayer We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy That Knows Our Name
  • The Internet Is the Shallows, the Clarified Heart-Mind Expresses Depth

CHAPTER 11   THE ARC OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE BENDS TOWARD EVOLUTIONARY UNIQUE SELF

  • Reality Moves Towards More Intimacy, Wholeness, Aliveness, Depth, Ecstasy, and Kindness
  • The Principles of Revolution: Telling the New Story
  • All of Reality Is Intimate, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
  • The Internet Must Be Recoded From “The Shallows” to Depth and Intimacy
  • Who Am I? The Separate-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Social-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Unique-Self Narrative
  • Social Self: Rats in the Maze of the Tech Plex
  • Unique Self as Part of a Symphony

CHAPTER 12   THE GOOD NEWS: HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of Inaccurate, Partial Stories
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark That Has Been Hijacked
  • To Be an Evangelist Is to Be an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love: We’re Outraged
  • Evolutionary Love Code: For True Evangelism We Need Both Ecstatic States and Developmental Stages
  • In Every Great Tradition There’s an Intimate Incarnation of the Divine
  • Passover: Reclaiming the Broken Part

CHAPTER 13   THE DIVINE DELIGHT AND DEVASTATION OF DEVOTION AND HER DIGNITIES: VISIONS OF UNIQUE SELF AND UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONY

  • You Cannot Live In Joy Without Being In Devotion
  • Anna Akhmatova As A Symbol Of Devotion: Where Catastrophe Led Them, I Was There
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution Of Desire Is The Evolution Of Devotion
  • Devotion Is An Expression Of The Depth Of Desire
  • Devotion In Premodernity, Modernity And Postmodernity
  • We Need To Deconstruct Devotion In Order To Resurrect It
  • Devotion Is The Placing Of Attention
  • I Want To Place My Attention On My Allurement
  • Devotion Beyond Unique Self
  • I’m Your Man
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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.

Read more… 

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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:
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Formal refutations on controversy: 
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Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

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The Journey to Homo Amor | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart’s Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 13

The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart's Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 13 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories. The demand, obligation, and joy of this time is to cross over. This is what we have called The Crossing. At the core of the crossing is the evolutionary journey from Homo sapiens to Homo amor. This is not a fanciful conjecture but an authentic evolutionary potential. The root of the meta-crisis is not a crisis of resources; it is a crisis of imagination. We need to reimagine our identity and in doing so reimagine the future. We address anew the three great questions of life: Where am I, where are we? Who am I, who are we? What is mine and what is ours to do?

We are the leading edge of evolution-an unbearable privilege and unbearable responsibility. As Homo amor, we are ripped open by the outrageous pain and the outrageous beauty that animates the real. We know: the only response to outrageous pain is Outrageous Love. The only response to outrageous beauty is Outrageous Love.

Our unique risk is to be an Outrageous Lover. Our unique risk is always a risk for the sake of higher and deeper intimacies. Authentic moments of intimacy change history, and this is exactly what is desperately needed in this time.

To emerge as Homo amor, the new human and the new humanity, we are obligated to confess our greatness and to clarify our deepest heart’s desire-which is the evolutionary impulse awake and alive in us, as us, and through us. It is only through the claiming of real value as alive in us, as us, and through us, that we have any chance at all of finding our way beyond the global action confusion and global action paralysis.

We are Beloveds and Lovers of the Real-intended, desired, recognized, chosen, love adored, and desperately needed by All-That-Is.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between February and April 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart’s Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 13
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340486
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    DEMOCRATIZING ENLIGHTENMENT, THE JOURNEY OF HOMO AMOR

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Taking Your Unique Risk
  • Codes Come From the Deepest Place in the Heart
  • The Universe Made Evolving the Species Pleasurable
  • The Race for Survival Is the Race for the New Story of Homo Amor
  • Democratizing Enlightenment and Embracing Homo Amor

CHAPTER 2    PRINCIPLES OF UNIQUE RISK—DELIGHT AND REVELATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: the Only Danger Is Not Taking Your Unique Risk
  • Authentic Intimacy Changes History
  • Homo Amor Is Willing to Be Vulnerable
  • The Infinite Delight of Being Evolutionary Love
  • “Delightment” Precedes Enlightenment
  • Delightment—The First Principle of Unique Risk
  • Revelation—The Second Principle of Unique Risk
  • To Know Your Unique Risk, Listen for Revelation

CHAPTER 3    THE EVOLUTION OF FEELINGS FROM REACTIVITY TO DIVINE EXPRESSION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Feelings Are the Interior Face Of Reality
  • From Duty to Depth: The Evolution of Feelings
  • From Hurt to Ecstasy: The Journey Through Four Levels Of Feeling
  • Level One: Feelings Happen to Me
  • Level Two: Shutting Down Feelings
  • Level Three: I Choose My Feelings
  • Level Four: I Realize God Feels Through Me
  • The Practice of Feeling Feelings to Completion

CHAPTER 4    CROSSING OVER, THE REVOLUTION OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Obligated to Live Your Greatness
  • The Radical Revolution of Evolutionary Love
  • Clarified Heart’s Desire Is the Evolutionary Impulse Awake in Me
  • Transforming Identity, Crossing Over, Becoming Homo Amor

CHAPTER 5    THE UNIQUE OBLIGATION TO BE MESSENGERS OF THE NEW STORY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Greatness Is Your Heart’s Desire
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • A Meditation on God as the Infinity of Intimacy
  • My Unique Obligation Is My Unique Delight
  • We Need to Tell Humanity’s Story Within the Universe Story

CHAPTER 6    EVOLVING THE STORY OF IDENTITY AND EMBRACING UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Committing to Your Unique Risk
  • Telling a New Story Weaving Together Old and New Scripture
  • Why Are We Praying?
  • Our Greatness and Our Deepest Heart’s Desire Are One
  • The Need for a New Shared Story of Identity
  • Identity Beyond the Old Stories of Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity
  • What Does It Mean to Wake Up and Grow Up and Show Up?

CHAPTER 7    THE SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE CALLS FOR YOUR UNIQUE SELF

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Clarified Desire Is the Tuning Fork of Your Unique Self
  • Reclaiming Prayer and the Truth of the God Force as Our Beloved
  • Dissipative Structures: Convergence Zones of Emergence
  • Desire, Courage and the Mathematics of Intimacy
  • Courageous Is Contagious and Rhymes With Outrageous

CHAPTER 8    CONFESSING, INTIMACY, GREATNESS, AND THE PATH OF HOMO AMOR

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Confess Your Greatness
  • Intimacy Means We Have a Shared Story
  • Prayer and the Three Faces of the Divine
  • At the Tipping Point of Evolution We Need to Confess Our Greatness

CHAPTER 9    THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE: LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE ARE ONE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Love God Is to Know God
  • A Prayer for Barbara and a Practice of Intimacy
  • A Crisis of Narrative Calls for Telling a New Story
  • Only a New Story Will End Slavery
  • The Heresy of Believing in a Small God
  • Knowledge and Love Are the Same
  • Love Is Not Merely a Feeling, Love Is a Perception
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Computational Power Without Love
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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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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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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
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The Journey to Homo Amor | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:36:27-07:00

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 2

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 2

We live at a moment of global action paralysis, which is rooted in a global intimacy disorder. We have exiled intimacy to only human relationships and sexuality. But intimacy is the fabric of Reality itself. The exile of intimacy has left us feeling disconnected from each other and from the evolutionary impulse itself.

This book is an invitation to reclaim intimacy as a core structure of Reality. We live in an Intimate Universe. The story of evolution is not random—it is driven by Evolutionary Eros. Reality is not a fact; it’s a Story, and it’s going somewhere—it has direction. Evolution is the evolution of intimacy. Evolution is yearning, and that yearning is uniquely alive in us, as us, and through us. Reality itself longs for us.

To heal the intimacy disorder at the core of our global crisis, we must evolve intimacy and activate a Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies. We need a new politics of love, a politics beyond polarization, where the future is co-created in social synergy. We are not passive observers; we are actively participating in the evolution of love.

This book is a calling to sacred activism, to join genius in Unique Self Symphony, and to become an agent of intimacy in your unique corner of the world. The only response to the outrageous pain of the world is Outrageous Love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between January and March 2017.

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

Book details:

Title: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 2
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340455
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     CELEBRATING EPIPHANY: THE BIRTH OF THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY

  • Epiphany of Homo Universalis, a New Human
  • We Are Spiritually Incorrect Evangelicals
  • Epiphany Is Transcending the Regular
  • There Is No Compelling Vision of Postmodernity
  • Can We Open Up to Epiphany?
  • Evolving Prayer: God, Love Me Open!
  • Tipping the Scales of Evolution Towards More Life and More Love
  • Why Is the Universe a Love Story?
  • The Divine Whisper: Synchronicity

CHAPTER 2     PRINCIPLES OF A PERSONAL POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • Five Core Principles of a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • The Strange Attractor Is Unique Self
  • Meditation: Breathe From the Deep Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Knowing God as the Greatest Love of Your Life
  • The Infinite Power of Cosmos

CHAPTER 3      FROM POWERLESSNESS TO SACRED ACTIVISM

  • Tuning Into the Impulse of Creation
  • Prayers to the Power of Democracy
  • Reality Yearns for Us
  • It Is Not Your Job to Heal the Whole Thing
  • Why Isn’t Everyone Out There Doing It?
  • When We Claim Our Power, We Close the Gap Between Our Ability To Heal and Our Ability To Feel
  • Confessing Our Greatness
  • Yom Kippur Story of Yankel

CHAPTER 4     EVOLUTION’S DESIRE FOR SYNERGISTIC DEMOCRACY

  • Awakening a Memory of the Future
  • Finding the Field
  • The Evolutionary God Is the Impulse of Evolution and the Beloved Who Holds It All
  • Praying from the Place of the Lonely Child
  • Announcing Synergistic Democracy
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation in Synergistic Democracy
  • The Democratization of Enlightenment: Every Unique Self Is Needed by All-That-Is
  • You’ve Got to Take a Unique Stand
  • Moving Beyond Ordinary Love to Outrageous Love
  • Your Unique Risk Is What Makes You Alive

CHAPTER 5      EVOLUTION AND CONNECTION

  • Feel the Force of Outrageous Love Within
  • God as the Mother Who Nourishes Us
  • Let Evolution Move Forward
  • Imagining the Third Face of God
  • Prayer and Sex Are the Same Thing: You Can’t Pretend
  • A Taste of Planetary Connection
  • Evolutionary Love Is Outrageous Love
  • Three Distinctions Between Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love
  • Story: The Great Master of Children
  • Let Us Bring Mass Empathy

CHAPTER 6      HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER WITH A NEW POLITICS OF INTIMACY

  • Radical Planetary Intimacy
  • The Missing Tile Syndrome
  • The Scroll of Esther
  • The Intimate Kiss of Prayer
  • Radical Fulfillment of Living Your Heart’s Desire
  • What Does Co-Creation Mean?
  • The Exile of Intimacy

CHAPTER 7      THE COLLECTIVE AWAKENING OF HUMANITY

  • Meditation: One Evolutionary Act of Love
  • Restoring Intimacy: God Is Always with Us, and Feeling Every Pulse of Our Interior
  • The Three Faces of God
  • Offering Prayer to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Experience a Planetary Birth in Response to Pain
  • The Four Questions to Help Create the Planetary Awakening
  • You Cannot Enter Intimacy Holding Hate in Your Heart
  • The Day of Atonement

CHAPTER 8      THE EVOLUTION OF REALITY IS THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • No One Lives a Life of Lonely Desperation
  • When You Give Your Genuine Gift of Love the Whole Way, the Suffering is Gone
  • What Does Love, or Outrageous Love, Mean at a Higher Level of Consciousness?
  • Our Greatness Is Imbued with the Enormity of the Desire of Evolution for More Life, More Love, More Creativity
  • By Re-Sourcing We Return Deeper to Our Source

CHAPTER 9      INTERCONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND A MEMORY OF THE FUTURE

  • Healing Separation
  • In the Intimate Universe No One Is Left Out of the Circle
  • God of Intimacy
  • This Extraordinary Moment in History
  • The Last Day of the Creation of the Old Is Obviously the First Day of the Creation of the New
  • From Atonement to Attunement
  • We Are the Unique Self Symphony, Together—Let’s Feel It Arise
  • The Insane King
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future

CHAPTER 10      BECOMING AGENTS OF INTIMACY FOR A NEW STORY

  • Innovation on the Inside: You Become the Agent of Intimacy
  • Loneliness on Two Levels
  • Existential Risk
  • In the Face of Existential Risk, We Do Not Have To Do the Whole Thing
  • A New Universe Story Raises All Ships
  • We Hear God in the Deep Small Voice
  • Joining Genius on a Meta Scale
  • When Syncon Sectors Became Connected, It Was a Social Love Affair
  • Reality Is a Story and it is Going Somewhere
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
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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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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:
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Formal refutations on controversy: 
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Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:19:24-07:00

Homo Amor Universalis | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 7

Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays volume #7 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We are at a choice point in history. In what Marc Gafni calls a “Death Star moment of our species,” we stand between collapse or radical breakthrough. Our global crises are symptoms of something deeper: the breakdown of Eros and the deconstruction of intrinsic value—the collapse of a shared Field of Value and the intimacy that binds us.

This book offers a potent response: the birth of Homo amor universalis—the new human and the new humanity. Homo amor universalis is the human being who incarnates Evolutionary Love and participates consciously in Evolution: The Love Story of the Universe.

In this evolutionary love story, a new name of God has emerged: God as the Infinite Intimate. The Infinity of Intimacy that lives in us, holds us, and knows our name.

In this sacred relationship, prayer is not only petition but also participation.

Prayer affirms the dignity of personal need even as it invokes the evolutionary impulse itself—aligning our longing with the Heart of Reality.

We awaken to our irreducible uniqueness, feel vocational arousal, and join genius with others in supra-sexual co-creativity—not only for our personal transformation, but to participate in the transformation of the whole, in the evolution of love. We pray as the unique music of our soul body’s unique code.

Together, we play our unique instrument in the Unique Self Symphony—enacting a planetary awakening in love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between December 2017 and February 2018.

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

Book details:

Title: Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 7
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340592
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 EVOLUTIONARY CHRISTMAS: WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST

  • We Say Yes to the Power
  • Evolutionary Christmas: A New Perspective of Intimacy
  • We Start by Feeling One Person in Our Circle
  • The Planetary Awakening in Love Is Planetary Pentecost
  • Unique Self Symphonies Are Not MeToo, They Are WeToo

CHAPTER 2 HOMO AMOR: THE ORIGINAL HUMAN BEING CAN RECREATE THE WORLD

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs My Transformation
  • Freedom to Be the New Humanity
  • It’s All One Love, It’s One System
  • Repetition or Radical Newness
  • The First Step Is Prayer
  • What Is Your Vocational Newness?
  • We Are at the Threshold of Radical Newness
  • Inscribing a New Narrative of Identity Into Cosmos
  • Shana—From Repetition to Renewal
  • Loving the Moment Open
  • Original Human Beings Can Recreate the World

CHAPTER 3 AFFIRMING THE DIGNITY OF NEED AND JOINING GENIUS

  • Evolutionary Church Is a Vehicle for the New Universe Story
  • The Universe Is Not a Fact, It’s a Story
  • Affirming the Dignity of Need
  • When the Dignity of Our Need Is Violated, We Spend Our Whole Lives Searching and Trying to Find That Dignity
  • God, You Are Not Just the Infinity of Power—You Are the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Pulse of Evolution Inside Us
  • Let’s All Become the Supra-Mental Genius Together
  • Playing Our Instrument in the Unique Self Symphony
  • We Are Unique Self Symphony in This Moment, Rising in Love, Playing Our Instrument
  • The Democratization of Greatness
  • God Needs Us to Join Genius
  • That’s What’s Actually Happening in That Process

CHAPTER 4 TO LOVE IS TO SEE WITH GOD’S EYES

  • To Be a Lover Is to See With God’s Eyes
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • Prayer Stands for the Holy and Broken Hallelujahs
  • Becoming Co-Creators With God
  • From Role Mate to Soul Mate to Whole Mate
  • The Vehicle for Attracting Whole Mates

CHAPTER 5 BEYOND THE DARKEST HOUR, WE SAY, “LET THERE BE LIGHT”

  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is a Corner of the World That Is Unloved
  • An Invitation to Love the Moment Open
  • Our Darkest Hour and a Planetary Birth
  • Give Up the Crusade and Take Your Unique Risk
  • Saying Yes to Being God’s Partner
  • It All Depends on Us

CHAPTER 6 YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT: GIVING UP FALSE VICTIMHOOD

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Giving Up False Victimhood
  • Intimacy: I Feel You Feeling Me Feeling You
  • Integrating the Local, Essential, and Universal Self
  • Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Allurement Drives the Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 7 THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE IS THE GREAT END-BUSINESS OF LIFE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Designed for Pleasure
  • Evolution Forms Larger Wholes Through Pleasure
  • The Experience of Eros Is Pleasure
  • If I Access My True Pleasure, Evolution Realizes Its Purpose

CHAPTER 8 AWAKENING THE IMPULSE OF EVOLUTION AS HOMO AMOR UNIVERSALIS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Genius of Evolutionary Love
  • Awakening Homo Amor Universalis: the Birth of Divine Humanity
  • Joining Genius: Awakening to Love as Homo Amor Universalis
  • Emerging as Homo Amor Universalis
  • Let’s Not Forget to Evolve Our High-Tech Genius
  • Technology Is Evolution
  • Giver of Blessings

CHAPTER 9 HOMO AMOR: JOINING MEMES TO ENACT A NEW SPECIES

  • The New Human and the New Humanity
  • Prayer Enables Us to Invoke the Evolutionary Impulse
  • Homo Amor Responds to Reality With Outrageous Love
  • Homo Amor Universalis Is Vocationally Aroused to Join Genius
  • Evolution Is Driven by New Configurations of Intimacy
  • Crossing Over Together: No One Is Left Outside of the Circle
  • To Avoid the Flood, the Ark Must Fit Everyone
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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.

Read more… 

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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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/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
Twitter:https://twitter.com/MarcGafni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcgafni/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmarcgafni 

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Homo Amor Universalis | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:29:14-07:00

The New Human and the New Humanity: Homo amor

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This early draft of an essay was written by Dr. Marc Gafni. It is part of Volume 2 of a forthcoming six-volume book series, The Universe: A Love Story, by Dr. Marc Gafni with Dr. Zachary Stein & Barbara Marx Hubbard. The essay was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a more advanced version of this essay.

As we begin to live the new Story of Value, a New Human and a New Humanity begin to emerge. We have called the New Human and the New Humanity by the term Homo amor. Homo amor is the fulfillment of Homo sapiens. The shift to this new consciousness is fundamental. It is in many ways parallel to, and as momentous as, the early evolutionary transition from single-celled to multicellular life.

As the consciousness of Homo amor becomes available, more and more lives will be not only a love story but also a triumphant love story. Indeed, we are convinced that telling the new Story—articulating the new narrative of Homo amor, the Intimate Universe, and the Universe: A Love Story—is the most potent response to suffering that we have at this moment in our history.

Just as the new story of modernity generated innovations in exteriors that birthed the great dignities of modernity, it is the new Story of Homo amor that—at this pivotal eleventh-hour moment in the short span of human history—needs to generate innovation in interiors. This, in turn, will generate the coherence necessary to transform mass tragedy and devolution into mass triumph and evolution.

The Trajectory of Evolution: Promise and Peril

This view is not pollyannaish in any sense of the term. It in no way ignores evil or suffering. Quite the contrary.

First, it needs to be stated clearly that evolution is not a direct linear progression toward ever-deeper love and intimacy. Evolution meanders.

And yet, second, evolution does progress. Evolution is the movement toward Love by Love’s own inexorable and incessant persuasions: Persuasions that are both gentle and fierce in their quality and character.

A Note on Desire

Alfred North Whitehead was not wrong when, echoing the leading edges of the interior sciences in Hebrew wisdom, he pointed toward the inherent purpose of evolution as the movement toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Or, stated somewhat differently, if we are to deploy the term that we pointed towards above—the term appetite that Whitehead chose—Reality is hungry. Reality is hungry for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, all of which are expressions of a more primal hunger, the hunger for more Love, for more Eros, for more Divinity, disclosed in human form. Reality is lined with appetite all the way down and all the way up the evolutionary chain. In the language of CosmoErotic Humanism, the appetite of Cosmos is the Eros of evolution that itself evolves.[1] [i] What Whitehead calls appetite, the interior science call by many other names including teshuka—desire.[2] Reality desires. (more…)

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Reimagining Humanity’s Identity by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein

Responding to the Second Shock of Existence

Paper by Academic Director of CIW Zachary Stein & President Marc Gafni Published at World Future Review.

Abstract: Foreshadowing arguments from the forthcoming book, Towards a New Politics of Evolutionary Love, this paper suggests that humanity is in the throes of a species wide identity crisis, precipitated by a broadening awareness of our impending self-inflicted extinction. This growing awareness that humanity is responsible for its own fate and the fate of the planet is referred to as the second shock of existence. The second shock has spawned a great deal of discussion about the need for revolutions in technological, economic, and ecological infrastructures, yet this focus on exteriors addresses only half the picture. Comparable revolutions of our interiors must also take place—radical transformations in the very structure of our consciousness and species-wide self-understanding. This is a call for attending to the interior dimensions of the current global crises, recommending in the strongest possible terms that tremendous energy and resources be rechanneled into planning for the vast educational reconfigurations facing humanity in the coming decades.

Keywords: Global crises; Integral Theory; Human Identity; Unique Self Theory; Cultural Evolution

Because of the current state of copyright law we only provide a pre-publication draft of this paper. There are bound to be errors that were corrected as the manuscript went through to press, so please track down the published version before citing any of this material or contact us for permission.

Stein, Z. & Gafni, M. (2015). Reimagining humanity’s identity: responding to the second Shock of existence. World Future Review. 7(1) 1-10. [pdf]

From the paper:

Today, in the maelstrom of post-modernity we are collectively facing the second shock of existence*, which is the realization that the survival of the entire human race is in danger.Moreover, we now face this second shock—this awareness of the mortality of the species—precisely because of the actions that followed in the wake of the first shock. Our attempts to build a world that would insulate us from death have brought us to a point where we must now face death on a scale that is almost unimaginable. The more perceptive among us know that it is our own actions that brought us to this point, and we know that it is only by our own actions that we might avoid the apocalyptic scenarios that haunt our collective imagination. Nothing defines our era more than the dawning awareness of the possibility of the self-inflicted extinction of the human race.   

We suggest that, in fact, the second shock of existence is an important, necessary, and world-historical millstone in the evolution of consciousness and culture. The first shock made us aware that death threatens the meaning of each individual’s existence; the second shock teaches that self-inflicted extinction threatens the meaning of the whole species’ existence. Just as the first shock was necessary in furthering humanity’s mature and complex relation to the universe, so the second shock is necessary as a further impetus toward greater maturity and complexity. However, whereas the first shock served to separate us from nature and each other, the second shock will serve to reunite us with the natural world and weave the diverse strands of our now fragmented global culture into a common humanity. The second shock is awakening us to the patterns that connect all of humanity as part of a common destiny, a destiny intimately tied into the future of the biosphere. The second shock is a deepening of humanity’s awareness of its place in the universe; it results in the dawning awareness of our profound ethical obligations as the sole stewards of humanity and the planet.

Humanity is now in a situation where we recognize (for the first time, really) that our ability to exploit nature is profoundly limited—we have run up against very real physical boundaries to our continued existence. At the same time, in some sectors, there is a dawning realization that we are already in possession of an unlimited resource—the power of human creativity and innovation, a realm in which there is no scarcity. The tensions between these two realities—dangerous scarcity alongside inspiring plentitude—define our age. It is an age in which heaven competes with hell for a chance to be born. Culturally, this has given us two camps: the pessimists and the optimists, both focused on the state of our techno-economic-ecological exteriors. Techno-Optimists see a future in which our current techno-economic systems are salvaged, re-designed, and made increasingly scientific, efficient, and profitable; we will avert ecological disaster by creating a hyper-scientific, human controlled Heaven on Earth. Pessimists see these very attempts at continued scientific control and economic growth as the problem, sensing that the technologically wrought future they yield will give us more of what we’ve already had for nearly a century: a techno-economic system that decimates communities and ecosystems, and that will eventually degrade the Earth until the biosphere is simply unable to sustain life. Both pessimists and optimists focus on external systems, processes, resources, technologies, and economies. When they speak of crises they refer to broken or scarce things (broken ecosystems, unhealthy food, toxic air, failing schools, etc.). When they speak of innovation, they mean the creation of new and better things (healthy forests, organic food, new energy technologies, fresh air, good schools, etc). The future is in the balance for both camps, no doubt, and they both set their focus on the impacts of science, with a focus on sustainability and the physical continuity of life as we know it.

*The term Second Shock was coined by Mauk Pieper, see Pieper, M. Humanity’s Second Shock and Your Unique Self. (Independent Publishing, 2014).

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Reimagining Humanity’s Identity by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein2023-06-19T10:04:19-07:00
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