World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 17

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 17 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity is a visionary collection of “oral essays” by Dr. Marc Gafni that offers a new “Story of Value” in response to the collapse of a shared global ethos. In many ways, we must reclaim religion as part of this story—not a return to traditional forms of religion but a new shared Story of Value as a context for our diversity. At the core of world religion is a universal grammar of value. This grammar of value writes the chapters of a new Story of Value, not as mere conjecture or a constructed narrative, but as a story deeply rooted in the value structure of Reality itself.

Each of us participates directly in this story, as Unique Selves, individual expressions of the divine evolutionary impulse. We are all irreplicable verses in the cosmic scroll, which holds the record of the past and the memory of our future.

At the heart of this work lies the realization of Outrageous Love, a force that transcends ordinary romantic love. Outrageous Love is the animating Eros of the evolutionary impulse that drives the Cosmos. Outrageous Love incarnates Eros and Intimacy as the heart of Reality’s Field of Value in which all of the manifest world unfolds.

Marc Gafni, Zachary Stein and their colleagues are calling for the emergence of a new human and new humanity, it is time for Homo sapiens to be fulfilled as Homo amorWorld Religion as a Context for Our Diversity invites us, in this time between worlds and time between stories, to tell a new Story of Value. It is time to evolve together into a future where ever-deepening Eros, ethos, and intimacy—First Principles and First Values—are the north star for Reality’s evolution.

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

Book details:

Title: World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 17
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340202
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     “I AM GLORIA”

  • Oh My God! A Direct Apprehension of Spirit
  • Reality Is Made Manifest in Love
  • Reality’s Intention Is the Evolution of Love
  • Reclaiming the Glory of God
  • The Glory of the Physiosphere
  • The Glory of the Biosphere
  • The Glory of the Noosphere
  • The Glory of Homo Amor
  • Tribute to Ram Dass
  • The Second-Person Face of Gloria

CHAPTER 2     GLORIA: RECLAIMING RELIGION AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Gloria: The Gravitas of Reality, Lined With Love
  • Towards a Cosmocentric World Religion
  • Praying to the Divine in the Second Person: The Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs Your Service

CHAPTER 3     HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of a Partial Story
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark
  • 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: For the First Time, I’m Going to Find That Hidden Dream

CHAPTER 4    RELIGION NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE REVOLUTION: EVOLVING THE UNIQUE SELF OF THE GREAT TRADITIONS

  • No More “Business As Usual”
  • Becoming Homo amor
  • The Source Code Move
  • Honoring Islam: Allahu Akbar
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Eye of the Senses, Eye of the Mind, Eye of the Heart
  • The Interpretation of Revelation Through the Prism of Consciousness
  • Liberating the Experience of Revelation
  • Participating in the Evolution of Great Traditions

CHAPTER 5    REWEAVING CHRISTMAS: FROM BIOLOGICAL FAMILY TO HOMO AMOR FAMILY

  • Weaving a New Cloth of Outrageous Love Into New Visions of Value
  • Silent Night: Son of God, Love’s Pure Light
  • On the Other Side of Guilt Is Our Second Innocence
  • Outrageous Love Knows No Boundaries
  • Level One of Love: Biological Family
  • Level Two of Love: Romantic Love
  • Level Three of Love: Evolutionary Family and Outrageous Love
  • Articulating the Interior and Exterior Sciences of Love: Outrageous Love Drives Cosmos
  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers Looking Deeply Into Each Other’s Eyes and Together at a Shared Horizon, Ready to Lay It All Down for the Sake of the Whole
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolutionary and Soul Root Family
  • In Excelsis Deo: Liberating the Exiled Energy of Gloria
  • The Practice: Birthing a New Structure of Intimacy
  • Gloria: Feel Your Innocence Slipping Away
  • Gloria: In Excelsis Deo in the Field of Love’s Pure Light

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING THE EVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF CHANT FOUND UNIQUELY IN EACH RELIGION

  • Setting Our Intention in This Time Between Worlds, This Time Between Stories
  • How Do We Know Anything? Accessing the Field of Value
  • Accessing the Eye of Value By Becoming the Music
  • Entering the Practice of Chant: Let the Chant Enter You
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Path of Chant—Each Great Religion Is a Different Quality of Intimacy
  • Kashmir Shaivism: Devi Prayer
  • Cathars—Lo Boièr
  • Gyuto Monks—Mandala Offering
  • Native American—Sacred Spirit
  • Wisdom of Solomon Chants
  • Mizmor Shir Le’yom Ha’shabbat
  • Ki Atah Hu Ba’al Ha-Yeshuot: For You Are the Master of Liberation, For You Are the Master of Transformation
  • My Unique Self Is My Unique Chant

CHAPTER 7    THE NEW WORLD CALLS FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR GLOBAL DIVERSITY

  • What Would It Mean to Articulate a Vision of a New World Religion?
  • A Collapse of Value Is a Collapse of Eros
  • In the Absence of a Genuine Story of Value, Humans Create Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Existential Risk Is a Direct Result of Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Trialectics of Religion: We Need to Transcend and Include the Premodern and Modern
  • The New World Religion Can’t Be Local, and Compassion and Kindness Are Not Enough
  • A Shared World Needs a World Religion
  • Building a Foundational Framework of First Principles and First Values
  • Spirituality Without Religion Is Not Enough
  • New Life Conditions Demand a New Language of Value
  • “Until Philosophers Are Kings… Cities Will Never Have Rest From Their Evils” —Plato
  • Powerfully Addressing the Rigorous Critiques of Value

CHAPTER 8    TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

  • A Shared Grammar of Value for a Global Conversation
  • We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: New Need Generates New Emergence
  • A Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphonies

CHAPTER 9    SEDUCING HOMO SAPIENS INTO HOMO AMOR: THE MORAL OBLIGATION OF A NEW WORLD RELIGION

  • The Root Cause of Existential Risk Is a Global Intimacy Disorder
  • The Modern Word for Armageddon Is Existential Risk, The Modern Word for Messiah Is Homo amor
  • First Values and First Principles Are at the Center of It All
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Practice: Clarifying Your Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • Screaming the Name of God: The Sacred Mystery of Erotic Explosion
  • Seduce Me and I Will Run After You
  • Seduction, Unique Self, and Unique Self Symphony
  • The Distinction Between Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Articulating a World Religion That Can Seduce Reality Towards the Highest Version of Itself
  • Prayer: Draw Me After You

CHAPTER 10    RESPONDING TO THE THREE GREAT QUESTIONS OF COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM

  • Two Kinds of Existential Risk
  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
  • What Are Evolutionary Love Codes?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Great Questions
  • Principle One: Outrageous Love Is Our Response Both to Pain and to Beauty
  • Principle Two: Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Principle Three: I Am a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • Principle Four: Outrageous Lovers Commit Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Principle Five: Outrageous Acts of Love That Are Mine to Commit Are a Function of My Unique Self
  • Principle Six: Find the Others to Play in the Unique Self Symphony
  • Prayer: Hallelujah

CHAPTER 11    FROM PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY TO WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY: IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS

  • Outrageous Love Is Reality
  • Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • The Perennial Philosophy
  • The Name of God Is the Infinite Intimate
  • Every Unique Self Participates in the Name of God
  • The Seamless Coat of the Universe Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • We Need Shared Universal Rituals to Bind Us in a Global Intimacy
  • Prayer: When I Speak, the Field of LoveIntelligence Listens and Responds

CHAPTER 12    RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS THROUGH THE EROTIC GNOSIS OF TEARS

  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness
  • Rosh Hashanah Is the Portal to Transformation
  • When God and Goddess Are Brought Together, Blessings Flow Into the World
  • Tears Are an Expression of the Eros of Cosmos
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Are Days of Tears
  • The Language of Mothers Is the Language of the Sacred
  • Tears That Shatter Our False Identity
  • The Gates of Tears Are Never Closed
  • I Am a Unique Desire of the Infinite
  • Tears Tell a Story About the True Nature of Self and Reality

CHAPTER 13    TEN PRINCIPLES OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FEELING AND HEALING OUTRAGEOUS PAIN

  • Crossing to the Other Side
  • The Dharma Is the Psychedelic of Reality
  • The Evolution of Tears on the Side of Joy and on the Side of Pain
  • Deepening Our Commitment to Rebuild the New World With “Monogamous Polyamory”
  • When God Is Dethroned, Our Solutions Become the Great Tragedy Itself
  • Prayer Is One of the Most Powerful Medicines
  • We Are the Influential and the Powerful
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Healing What’s Uniquely Yours to Heal
  • The Ten Principles of Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 14    HOW BIG IS YOUR HEART? FROM THE AGONY CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSS TO THE BLISS CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSSING

  • To Be Non-Intimate With Reality Is to Be Lost in the Drama of My Own Life
  • We Have to Face the Pain—But With Radical Joy!
  • We Have to Articulate a New Politics of Outrageous Love
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe and the Intimate Universe Lives in Us
  • We Are Coming Together from Around the World to Write a New Constitution
  • Forgive Yourself! Forgive All The People Who Betrayed You!
  • From the Cross to the Crossing
  • We Desperately Need Each Other
  • Infinity Needs Your Service
  • My House Is Your House
  • We Are Not Alone in Cosmos

CHAPTER 15    LIVING THE DREAM IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS: LIBERATING THE SPARKS OF CELEBRATION FROM ANCIENT TRADITIONS INTO A NEW WORLD SPIRITUALITY

  • Only a New Story of Value Changes the Vector of the Real
  • The World Itself Pulses With Joy
  • We Are Welcome
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Self of Every Religion
  • Liberating the Sparks from Hanukkah
  • The Miracle of the First Day
  • Capacity to Celebrate Partial Victories
  • The Way We Decide to Tell the Story Defines Everything
  • Liberating the Sparks from Christmas: The Birth of God as Human Being
  • We Need the Democratization of the Christed One
  • Gloria In Excelsis Deo (“Glory To God In The Highest”)

CHAPTER 16    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
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Hope Is the Ontology of Reality
  • Redemption Is a Political and Economic Event
  • Everything Is About the Story We Decide to Tell
  • Life Is a Series of Love Stories
  • 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 17    A HERETICAL BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY

  • We Don’t Wait for the Prophets
  • From Homo sapiens to Homo amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We All Stand Together on the Side of Love
  • A Shared Story of Value Is a Cosmic Anthem
  • “Show Me Something Real, Tell Me Something True”
  • The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist
  • “What’s Real Is That You’re Loved”
  • “What’s True Is That You’re Not Alone”
  • Tenets of the World Religion

CHAPTER 18    ANSWERING THE CALL OF PROPHECY: ENVISIONING NEW POSSIBILITIES & THE DIGNITY OF PRAYER

  • We Become the Voice of the Next Iteration of Evolution
  • The Universe: An Evolving Love Story
  • We Are All Connected: Invisible Lines of Non-Locality
  • In the Separate Self, We Have Lost the First Principle of Personhood
  • Being a Prophet Means Accessing Your Unique Voice and Seeing New Possibility
  • Slow Down, Listen Deeply, Fill Up With Eros
  • The Prayer You Thought Was Prayer Is Not Prayer
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer and Prophecy
  • Second Person: The Pan-Interiority of Cosmos
  • Third Person: All Fields Are Interpenetrating and Are an Expression of the Larger Eros
  • Prayer Is When I Turn to the Field of Infinite Personhood
  • Third-Person Realization In Prayer

CHAPTER 19    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING THE DIGNITY OF PERSONAL NEED

  • We Are Allured to Each Other In a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • You Are the Radiance of the Big Bang Incarnate
  • Prayer: The Seven Steps of the Stairway to Heaven
  • Step One: Faces of God
  • Step Two: Realizing the Personhood of Divinity
  • Step Three: Prayer Is Always Heard By Divinity
  • Step Four: The Movement of Prayer
  • Step Five: Feeling the Infinity of Power
  • Step Six: The Infinity of Power Is Right Here With You
  • Step Seven: The Feeling of God

CHAPTER 20    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING INTIMACY THROUGH PRAYER AS PROTEST

  • The Urgency of a World Without First Principles and First Values
  • It’s a Fucking Revolution
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The God You Don’t Believe in Does Not Exist
  • Reality Is the Progressive Deepening of Intimacies
  • Prayer Itself Is a Form of Protest
  • Protest, Laughter, Mysticism and Paradox
  • The Paradox of Choice and Choicelessness
  • Laughter Holds Paradox
  • When Will You Come Already? We’re Waiting for You
  • God, Show Up, Be Here
  • Getting Beneath the Space-Time Continuum and Reconfiguring the Past
  • God, I’m Done—Let Me Know If We Have a Deal
  • The Paradox of Hallelujah
  • In Genuine Intimacy With God There Is Protest

CHAPTER 21    PRAYER AWAKENS US TO THE APPROACHABILITY OF THE INFINITE

  • Intention Setting: Ratzon and Holy Seduction Into Outrageous Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer Is Intimate Communion With the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Prayer: Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Personhood of Prayer: First Person
  • Personhood of Prayer: Second Person
  • The Butcher’s Prayer
  • Personhood of Prayer: Third Person and Second Person
  • Prayer: Tenderness and Fierce Passion Exponentialized

CHAPTER 22    THE THREE FACES OF GOD = THE THREE FACES OF LOVE—REWEAVING THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Existential Risk Presses Us Into the Realization That the Evolutionary Impulse Is Living in Us
  • The Narrative Arc of the Story of Reality
  • I Participate as the Universe in Person, in the Field of Love
  • We’re Here to Tell the Best Love Story Ever Told
  • Outrageous Love Code: In the Greatest Love Story Ever Told, No One and Nothing Is Outside the Circle
  • We Can’t Leave God Out of the Story
  • The Three Faces of God Which Are First Principles and First Values
  • The Third-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The First-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The Third-Person and First-Person Perspectives of Cosmos Are Not Enough
  • The Second-Person Perspective of Reality
  • Enacting The New Story Through Lived, Direct Experience: the Practice of Prayer
  • The Field of Eros Has a Personal Quality
  • Atheism: There’s Heresy Which Is Faith
  • Prayer Is the Experience of the Personhood of Cosmos That Knows My Name
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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.

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World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-20T17:24:01-07:00

Evolutionary Church | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 15

Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 15 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

What do we mean when we say we are an Evolutionary Church practicing Evolutionary Love?

In Evolutionary Church we not reclaiming a religion of love. We are for the first time in history claiming love as a religion. We are the One World Church, telling the new Universe Story through a new Gospel. The Gospel of Love.

But it’s not just love, it is Outrageous Love which is not mere human sentiment but the heart of existence itself. It is not just eternal love but evolving love, Evolutionary Love-Love not only as a static, eternal constant, but love that is the ErosValue of all of Reality, grounded in eternity and yet ever evolving.

In Evolutionary Love, “evolutionary” means evolving, moving towards a more refined, more complex, more conscious, and more whole state. We evolve our understanding of what it means to be human, and what it means to love. We evolve our understanding of the nature of Reality, the nature of relationship, the nature of religion, of gender, of story, and of God.

In this new Universe Story, Evolutionary Love is the animating Eros of Cosmos. The One World Church becomes the institutionalization of a new politics of love, a new religion of love, a new science of love, and a new psychology of love, guided by the realization that eternal and evolving Evolutionary Love is the heart of existence itself.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni June and August 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 15
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340639
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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CHAPTER 1    PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION & GOD VISION

  • We Need a Shared Story of Dharma
  • Reclaiming Love as Religion in Which Our Moral Community Is All of Reality
  • God Is the Infinity of Power and the Infinity of Intimacy
  • We Are Unique Members of a Living Body
  • Becoming Partners with Each Other in This Evolutionary Community
  • World Spirituality is Reclaiming and Upleveling Religion

CHAPTER 2    NOT THE RELIGION OF LOVE, BUT LOVE AS RELIGION

  • This Is Love as Religion
  • In Prayer, We Turn to the Infinite Intimate Who Knows Our Name
  • I Am an Outrageous Lover Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • We Need to Integrate the Local Self, Essential Self, and Universal Self
  • Unguard Our Hearts and Love Mad

CHAPTER 3    OUR MORAL COMMUNITY IS ALL OF REALITY

  • We’re Taking Responsibility to Be the Evolution of Love
  • Amor: The Universe Feels, and the Universe Feels Love
  • We Participate in the Three Faces of God
  • Prayer Affirms the Dignity of Personal Need
  • My Moral Community Includes All of Reality
  • There Are Six Levels of Pleasure
  • The Pleasure of Transformation: Partners in the Evolutionary Process
  • We Are All the High Priests and Priestesses

CHAPTER 4    GOD LOOKS AT US WITH A GOOD EYE; I SEE YOU & I STAND FOR YOU

  • Seeing Each Other with Ayin Tovah, a Good Eye
  • Reality Is Amor: Its Insides Are Lined with Love
  • We Come to God with Our Holy and Broken Hallelujah
  • Breathing Meditation with Sally Kempton
  • Intimacy Is Shared Identity in the Context of Otherness
  • In Every Moment Infinity Whispers to Us and We Reply Yes
  • Victimhood Is a Lie

CHAPTER 5    YOUR EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL BLUEPRINT IS IN YOUR DEEPEST HEART’S DESIRE

  • The Minor Fluctuation Point That Jumps Humanity to a Higher Level of Order
  • In Prayer, We Experience Quivering Tenderness and Explosive Aliveness
  • The Universe Feels a Desire for Intimacy
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Holds the Blueprint for My Evolutionary Potential
  • We Have to Invest High Tech with Evolutionary Love
  • Activating Homo Amor by Accessing Our Deepest Heart’s Desire

CHAPTER 6    POWER IS HOLY DESIRE: EVERY HUMAN HAS AN OBLIGATION TO BE POWER-HUNGRY

  • To Respond to the Global Intimacy Disorder, We Need a New Story
  • The New Configuration of Intimacy Turns to the Infinity of Intimacy in Prayer
  • We Must Claim Our Holy Power Of, Power For, and Power Over
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Impulse of the Holy Power of Evolution Inside Me

CHAPTER 7    CO-CREATING IN SOCIAL SYNERGY, AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF EROS

  • Every Crisis a Crisis of Intimacy in The Universe: A Love Story
  • We Are Figments of God: Communing with the Field of LoveIntelligence
  • Reclaiming the Core Insights but Not the Hijacks of Fundamentalism
  • Reality Is a Self-Organizing Universe and You Are Tapping into It

CHAPTER 8    WE ARE THE POSSIBILITY OF POSSIBILITY THAT GENERATED BIG BANG

  • We Are Looking at a Shared Horizon
  • God Is Both the Infinity of Intimacy and the Love That Animates Cosmos
  • I Participate in the Conscious Intelligence That Moves Through the Whole Field
  • The Evolutionary God Is the Possibility of Possibility
  • Homo Amor Is the Possibility of Possibility
  • Imagine the Infinity of Possibilities Before the Big Bang
  • Our Contribution Allows Us to Stand for the Evolution of Love

CHAPTER 9    A HUMAN BEING IS A UNIQUE WORD IN THE COSMIC SCROLL

  • We Invest High Tech with Evolutionary Love by Telling a New Story
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Allurement Is the Ultimate Personhood of Cosmos, the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Sentience Is the Sentences of Reality Weaving a Love Story
  • We’re at a Moment of Radical Newness on an Evolutionary Scale
  • I Am a Unique Configuration of Intimacy That Is Needed by All-That-Is

CHAPTER 10    BECOMING A WHOLE BEING: A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF LINES & CIRCLES

  • Beyond He and She: The Transgender Question of Who Am I Beneath My Gender?
  • Lines and Circles Are Qualities of Cosmos That Exist in All of Us
  • The Evolution of Gender Is the Evolution Into Wholeness
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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.

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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Evolutionary Church | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:56:47-07:00

God Is Intimate | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 9

God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 9 | Dr. Marc Gafni

In a time between devolution and evolution, between destruction and creation, the response that is needed is a new story. This book is a sacred call to step into your evolutionary purpose, join with others in synergistic action, and co-create a world infused with Evolutionary Love.

This book draws from new story of CosmoErotic humanism in order to ignite a planetary awakening into the new human and new humanity. Through teaching, meditations and prayers, they articulate a vision for humanity’s next step.

Gafni and Marx Hubbard guide you beyond the false separations of your psychological ego and the spiritual ossifications of True Self, into the fullness of your Unique Self.

Where we have historically confessed our sins, we now need to confess our true greatness.

The universe is not random and meaningless, but an evolutionary love story, calling you to participate in its unfolding. Your uniqueness is currency of your connection and co-creation. Evolution itself is Love in Action, and you are an irreplaceable part of this process. Just as our personal crises and wounds can give birth to the next stage of our personal evolution, the crises of our time are not signs of breakdown but the birth pains of a new humanity, inviting us to rise together in a global symphony of transformation.

With poetic depth and prophetic vision, this book invites you beyond ordinary love into the ecstatic urgency of Evolutionary Love. You are not an extra on the set of Reality. You are needed. Your gifts, your voice, your love-all are essential for the awakening of humanity.

Are you ready to play your unique note in the Unique Self Symphony?

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between May and July 2018

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

Book details:

Title: God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 9
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340509
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    GOD IS INTIMATE: OUR DEEPEST YEARNINGS ARE GOD’S YEARNINGS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: God Is Intimate and Not Indifferent
  • The New Holy Trinity: Three Faces of God
  • Praying for Our Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • Yearning for the New Story
  • Intimacy Erases Difference and Manifests Uniqueness

CHAPTER 2    SHARED INTIMACY AND THE THREE WAYS WE HAVE EXILED LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Are Intended by the Universe
  • Creating New Neural Grooves in Reality
  • We Are Unique Configurations of Intimacy
  • God’s Intention for Supra-Sexual Co-Creation
  • Reclaiming Evolutionary Love
  • Evolving What It Means to Fall in Love

CHAPTER 3    TRUE POWER IS HOLY; THE SHADOW OF POWER IS ABUSE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Power Is Holy
  • Love Is Power and Power Is Love
  • Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Participates in Evolutionary Desire
  • Power in Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Forms

CHAPTER 4    REALITY NEEDS OUR SERVICE AND OUR DEVOTION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Needs Your Service
  • We Turn to God in Prayer
  • Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is Your Service
  • Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • Meditation on Allurement
  • Willing to Sacrifice My Unique Gift for Devotion
  • Motherhood and the Devotion to Live Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 5    ROLE MATE TO WHOLE MATE: EVOLVING INTIMACY FOR IDENTITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Intimacy Equation
  • Letters From Iwo Jima Reveals a Failure of Intimacy
  • Collective Purpose at the Moment of Crisis
  • Evolutionary Intimacy Expands the Circle
  • Intimacy in Relationships: From Role Mate to Soul Mate To Whole Mate

CHAPTER 6    ALL INTEGRITY IS EVOLUTIONARY INTEGRITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolutionary Integrity
  • Evolutionary Integrity Means a Widening Circle of Intimacy
  • Tikkun: Your Fixing Ripples Through Cosmos
  • The Practice of Being Intimate With the God Impulse Within
  • It’s Never Too Late for Evolutionary Integrity

CHAPTER 7    THE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION AND REPATTERNING OUR LIVES

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Evolves Because It Feels Good
  • The Pleasure of Prayer: Meditations on the Three Faces of The Divine
  • Reality Is All About Relationship
  • The Telerotic Cosmos Yearning for Pleasure
  • Living Pleasure With an Unguarded Heart

CHAPTER 8    EVOLVING THE WAY THE WORLD HAPPENS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Knowing the Laws of Interior Science and Activating the New Memes of Reality
  • The Power of the Now Includes the Past, Present, And the Future
  • The Church of Mass Evolution
  • Incarnating the Possibility of Possibility to Turn Fate Into Destiny

CHAPTER 9    WE ARE A UNIQUE LETTER IN THE COSMIC SCROLL

  • Evolutionary Love Code: A Mystical Act of Integrating the Lineages
  • Find Your Unique Sentence in the Self-Organizing Universe
  • To Author Your Story, Write New Sentences

CHAPTER 10    AWAKENING EVOLUTIONARY MAN & EVOLUTIONARY WOMAN

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Need a Gender Liberation Movement
  • Praying as Unique Gender
  • Awakening the Evolutionary Woman
  • From Transgender to Unique Gender

  • We Are All in Gender Transition

  • We Have to Have Huge Compassion

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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.

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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God Is Intimate | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:01:26-07:00

The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 2

Dr. Marc Gafni on The Integral Stage Podcast

In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal and Dr. Marc Gafni continue their exploration of the backstory and intellectual journey to CosmoErotic Humanism with a further exploration of the “relentless Rabbi’s” book on Tears. This time, they focus on questions related to God’s Voice, Laughter in Hell, Bondage & the Abraham/Isaac tale. 

This podcast is Part 2 of a series focussing on the book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah. The book uses the rite of Rosh Hashanah in the wisdom of Solomon lineage to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of religion beyond philosophy and spirituality.

Click Here for Part 1 of this dialogue
The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 22025-07-02T04:05:49-07:00

A Shocking Convergence: A CHANNEL Meets The Kabbalist Lineage of SOLOMON | Marc Gafni x Paul Selig

Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni featured on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast

Show Notes from the Aubrey Marcus Podcast Episode:

In all my years podcasting and working with the great masters of our time, I have never seen anything like this. Paul Selig is channeling information from who he calls “The Guides” and Rebbe Gafni is transmitting the deep lineage of Solomon and Kabbalist wisdom. What do they agree about? Where are the points of distinction and separation? In this shocking convergence, we see how the old Word of the Biblical texts meets the new Word freshly informed from extra-dimensional star beings. This is a conversation not to be missed!

Check out more of Dr. Marc Gafni’s work at ⁠⁠⁠https://worldphilosophyandreligion.or…

Download chapters of First Principles and First Values: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.or…

Aubrey Marcus | ► Fit For Service: https://fitforservice.com/

► Own The Day, Own Your Life: http://bit.ly/2vRz4so

Aubrey Marcus Podcast: https://apple.co/2ns8zFP

► Ayahuasca Documentary: http://bit.ly/2OrNBTf, dealing with the crisis of value, (a birth) and a resolution of a new structure of value.

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.


“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary

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A Shocking Convergence: A CHANNEL Meets The Kabbalist Lineage of SOLOMON | Marc Gafni x Paul Selig2025-04-02T00:25:49-07:00

The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 1

Dr. Marc Gafni on The Integral Stage Podcast

In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal interviews Dr. Marc Gafni on his book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah. The book uses the rite of Rosh Hashanah in the wisdom of Solomon lineage to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of religion beyond philosophy and spirituality. 

This podcast is the continuation of their conversation about the predecessors to CosmoErotic Humanism.

Listen to Part 2 of the Dialogue Here
The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 12025-07-03T05:20:46-07:00

Story, Religion, and Mormonism | True North Project #57 with Christian Dokstader

Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni featured on the True North Podcast with Christian Dokstader

Join Christian Dokstader in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni.

  • Marc Gafni is a writer, philosopher, and co-president of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion.
  • His written dozens of books, including: A Return to Eros, Soul Prints, Your Unique Self, and The Erotic and the Holy.
  • This episode is the beginning of a deep conversation into a radically new story for humanity.
  • If you come from a Mormon story, this episode is especially for you.

Stay Curious, Christian Las Vegas, NV

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.


“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary

Order Here

Story, Religion, and Mormonism | True North Project #57 with Christian Dokstader2024-09-22T20:25:24-07:00

From Crisis to Crossing: A New Story For A New Humanity ft. Marc Gafni

Enjoy this documentary with Dr. Marc Gafni created in collaboration with Aubrey Marcus and the Unique Self Institute

Documentary with Dr. Marc Gafni

In collaboration with Aubrey Marcus and the Unique Self Institute

In Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein’s language: “We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories  – poised between dystopia and utopia.” To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions, what we refer to as the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism: “Who? Where? And What?”

Who am I? and Who are we?

Where am I? and Where are we?

What ought I do? and What ought we do?

In a profound analysis of our current meta-crisis and what he calls the “global intimacy disorder,” Dr. Marc Gafni draws from what he refers to as “the exterior and interior sciences” to deepen our responses to these three questions. The responses offer a new understanding of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, and generate the beginning of “a universal grammar of value as a context for our diversity.”

“A universal grammar of value is grounded in eternal yet evolving First Principles and First Values, which are inherent in the Intimate Universe, in which we all participate. A new grammar articulates a potent Story of intrinsic Value, with the poignancy and power to respond to the meta-crisis. At the core of this Story of Value, called CosmoErotic Humanism, is a new narrative of identity, both personal and collective. Principles of Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony contribute to the shaping of a shared reality that is flawed and human, filled with holy and broken Hallelujahs. Yet, that Reality reaches insistently towards better tomorrows that are suffused with ever-deepening Eros and ethos, kindness, and creativity.”

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FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.


“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary

Order Here

From Crisis to Crossing: A New Story For A New Humanity ft. Marc Gafni2024-08-30T09:32:04-07:00

The Dysfunction We Are Experiencing in Birth, Death, and Medicine – with Hebrew Mystic Dr. Marc Gafni

Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni featured on The Holistic OBGYN Podcast with Nathan Riley

Join Nathan Riley in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni.

In Nathan’s voice:

The Episode was made possible by Immune Intel AHCC® & WeNatal

I don’t think I have prepared for any interview as hard as I prepared for this one. My guest today is Marc Gafni, former rabbi, Hebrew mystic, and author of a number of books, most notably “A Return to Eros”, “Your Unique Self”, and his most recent book, “First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come”. I recommend you take his writing in through small sips versus trying to binge any of them on a weekend. They are potent.

In this conversation, we discuss:

  • The Divine Feminine and how the world’s religions have got it wrong how the comparison of masculine and feminine is fraught with disastrous outcomes
  • Postmodernity and the evolution of love and a new grammar of value through which a shared story of value can be developed in order to solve the world’s problems
  • Shame as the root of all evil and how a new sexual narrative – the sex erotic – is the only “cure” for shame
  • The importance of these principles in addressing the myriad of issues that plague maternity care worldwide
  • Limitations within the work of Jordan Peterson, Yuval Harari, Wilhelm Reich, and even Brené Brown

Brace yourself…you are entering the complex mind and heart of Marc Gafni… Visit the show notes for more: https://www.belovedholistics.com/blog…

Connect with Marc:

Website: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.or…

LinkedIn:   / drmarcgafni  

Instagram:   / marcgafni  

X:   / marcgafni  

TikTok:   / drmarcgafni  

Facebook:   / drmarcgafni  

Learn about Marc’s work:

Free Unique Self Mini-Course: https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/t…

Unique Self-Emergence Training Program: https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/p…

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

References and Links from the show:

Marc’s books:

A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive: https://amzn.to/3x4JQyO

Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment: https://amzn.to/3WYm4iA

The Erotic And The Holy: Kabbalistic Tantra for Everyday Living: https://amzn.to/3R2wWbs

Join Marc in Holland for 5-Day Intensive Mystery School, April 28 to May 2, 2024, at erosmysteryschool.com

First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come: https://amzn.to/3V2tPS0

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.


“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary

Order Here

The Dysfunction We Are Experiencing in Birth, Death, and Medicine – with Hebrew Mystic Dr. Marc Gafni2024-08-30T08:47:00-07:00

The Inside of God’s Face — with Dr. Marc Gafni and Kyle Kingsbury

Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni featured on Kyle Kingsbury Podcast. 

Kyle Kingsbury about this podcast:

I am without words yall!!! Marc Gafni came and delivered on all of my deepest podcast dreams. We had a proper introduction. Marc gave us one of the most informed recountings of what it’s like on The Inside of God’s Face. Walked us through “I-We-All”. Then casually wove together the relationship of Light and Dark. This one is special. Enjoy!!!

The Inside of God’s Face — with Dr. Marc Gafni and Kyle Kingsbury2024-01-31T06:59:37-08:00

The Hidden Wisdom of the Temple Solomon Recovered w/ Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni and Aubrey Marcus

What is the wisdom of the Temple of Solomon that has been hidden for over 3000 years?

The Hebrew Wisdom sage, leading world philosopher, my teacher, Dr. Marc Gafni, has been on a quest to decipher these texts like the Da Vinci Code, and the evolution of the secrets revealed may be exactly what is necessary to deliver us from the existential threats we face today.  

For more on the wisdom from the Solomon lineage, and a deeper understanding of the CosmoErotic Universe, check out the book: ⁠A Return to Eros by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid. 

Time Stamps:

00:00– Intro

2:00– The Lineage Of The Temple Of Solomon

17:00– Totalitarianism, Invisible Controllers, AI, Dystopia

41:12– Downloading The Temple Of Solomon

1:05:33– Understanding Eros More Deeply

1:17:50– Desire, Will, & The Name Of God

1:33:53– The Feminine Desire & Pleasure

1:40:55– Paganism, Eros And Ethics

1:53:34– What Actions Can We Take?

The Hidden Wisdom of the Temple Solomon Recovered w/ Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni and Aubrey Marcus2023-12-06T05:29:26-08:00

Is Religion for the Happy-Minded? A Response to Harold Kushner

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Written and published by Marc Gafni in 1986 for Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, Vol. 22, No. 3 (FALL 1986), pp. 54-65.

In a very profound way, Harold Kushner’s When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Avon Books, 1981) and the themes it treats evoke in the reader feelings of warmth, compassion, and drawing one closer to all who suffer in this world. The tragic story of Aaron Kushner (the author’s son) and the very real depth with which his parents experienced suffering cannot but make one feel like reaching out in love and respect to the author. Yet, at the same time, I found the underlying premises of the book deeply troubling. Its message, meant to be comforting, is, in fact, nothing short of terrifying.

Kushner, claiming to speak for Judaism, asserts that God is, in his term, “powerless” (pp. 42-44). “God does not, and cannot, intervene in human affairs to avert tragedy and suffering. At most, He offers us His divine comfort, and expresses His divine anger that such horrible things happen to people. God, in the face of tragedy, is impotent. The most God can do,” Kushner eloquently proclaims, “is to stand on the side of the victim; not the executioner.”

That God gives free reign to an executioner is a common Jewish position, classical, medieval and modern. “Once permission is given for the destroyer to destroy, no distinction is made between the righteous and the wicked.” (Rashi Exodus 12:22).

While Judaism certainly maintains that God, in His divine empathy, stands on the side of the victim, no classical Jewish position has ever maintained that God is incapable of controlling the executioner.

Kushner uses the book of Job to lend the weight of religious authority to his position. Merely to point out the obvious-that Kushner’s interpretation of the book of Job, for instance, has little or nothing to do with the Biblical book by that name-fails to undermine the popular appeal that has propelled Kushner’s book to the bestseller lists. In fact, Kushner feels quite comfortable admitting to intellectual dishonesty. In an interview with Moment magazine (November 1981), he was asked: “You argue that it is simply wrong to blame God for the bad luck, for the nastiness, for the evil; and yet you are perfectly prepared to praise God for the good, to thank God. How do you reconcile that?” To which he carefully replied: “Walter Kaufman calls it ‘religious gerrymandering’.’ That is you draw the lines for your definition of God to include certain things and exclude others.”

While I certainly believe that profound suffering moved Kushner to take up his pen, that still cannot justify intellectual gerrymandering.

The heart of Kushner’s position is the claim that traditional beliefs about God’s relationship to the universe, and to man, are wrong, and that his own account is right.

Kushner’s basic method of argumentation is anecdotal. He cites particular cases of suffering and then a,· mpts to demonstrate the inadequacy of various theodicies as applied to those cases. But the best theodicy is still a human, all too human, theodicy. No theodicy can give pat answers for every circumstance of suffering. Theological reflection can deepen our appreciation of the problem and provide frames of reference with which to approach the experience of suffering. However, from no single set of theological premises can an all-embracing solution be expected. God, we believe, knows the results of all good and evil, past, present, and future, and measures the diverse values (spiritual; intellectual, ethical, aesthetic, hedonic, etc.) which the universe displays, and with which man is confronted. Man does not. Therefore, we must beware of “refuting” theological reflection by showing that it has difficulty fulfilling claims that it has never made.

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It is instructive to examine Kushner’s position on his own terms. This section of the essay will comment on six of the life cases which Kushner cites to support his general conception of religion, his rejection of classic theodicy and his central claim: that God cannot control what happens in our world.

The Case of Bob (pp. 94-96)

Bob has just made the difficult decision to place his mother in a nursing home. Although his mother is “basically alert and healthy and does not require medical care” she can no longer live alone. After a brief attempt, Bob and his family decide that “they are not prepared to make the sacrifice of time and lifestyle which caring for a sick, old woman requires.” That weekend, Bob, who did not usually go to synagogue, went to services hoping they would give him “the tranquility and peace of mind he needed.” As luck would have it, the sermon that morning was on the fifth commandment. The clergyman spoke of the sacrifices parents make in raising children and the reluctance of children to make sacrifices for older parents in return. He asked: “Why is it one mother can care for six children, but six children can’t care for one mother?” It bothers Kushner that Bob was made to leave the service feeling “hurt and angry.” Bob feels that religion has told him that he is a “selfish and uncaring person.” He is haunted by the idea that if she dies soon he will never be able to live with himself “for having made her last years miserable because of his selfishness.” And Kushner, too, is upset with religion because “the purpose of religion should be to make us feel good about ourselves” after making difficult decisions. (more…)

Is Religion for the Happy-Minded? A Response to Harold Kushner2023-11-01T04:56:14-07:00

The Journey to CosmoErotic Humanism: Mini-Series with Layman Pascal and Dr. Marc Gafni

In this new mini-series, Layman Pascal talks with Marc Gafni about an emerging model he is developing together with Zak Stein and others, which they call CosmoErotic Humanism.

We will be adding to this post whenever new dialogues are being published. So, come back and scroll down for the most recent episode.

Episode 1: Certainty & Uncertainty

For episode one, Layman and Marc discuss the origins of this project, and Marc’s work on exploring and unfolding a model of Certainty and Uncertainty for addressing the meaning crisis, grounding moral value, and wrestling with perennial theodicies.

Episode 2: Soul Prints

For episode two, Layman and Marc discuss the concept of Soul Prints, the origin of the notion of the Unique Self; the importance of story and spiritual autobiography; the issue of working appropriately with boundaries; and towards the end of the conversation they begin to open up the question of evil and shadow in relation to the Unique Self.

Episode 3: Eros

For episode three, Layman and Marc discuss the concept of Eros, its understanding and role in esoteric Judaism, its connections to evolutionary spirituality, the uniqueness and irreducibility of desire, and much more.

The Journey to CosmoErotic Humanism: Mini-Series with Layman Pascal and Dr. Marc Gafni2023-11-01T04:55:32-07:00

Love or Die: A Conversation Series with Dr. Marc Gafni Hosted by Andrew Sweeny

This Series Is Hosted in Partnership with the Parallax Academy and the Unique Self Institute

We are adding to this post whenever there is a new dialogue. So come back and scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the most recent dialogue.

Also, if you sign up for our newsletter, you will be notified when there is a new dialogue coming up, and you can be there live.

Love or Die #1: The Global Intimacy Disorder and CosmoErotic Humanism

The first of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called the Global Intimacy Disorder and CosmoErotic Humanism. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a New Story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die!

Love or Die #2: Radical Kabbalah

The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! This week we delve into Hebrew Wisdom and Radical Kabbalah.

Love or Die #3: The Meta-Crisis, Hebrew Wisdom, and AI

The 3rd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc and Andrew discuss the meta-crisis, Hebrew Wisdom, and AI.

Love or Die #4: Sabbatai Sevi Part 1

In this passionate conversation, Marc speaks the unspeakable: about Sabbatai Sevi, the Hebrew Wisdom Messiah, and his wife Sara. Where sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire.

Love or Die #5: Sabbatai Sevi Part 2

In part 2 of this passionate conversation, Marc speaks the unspeakable: about Sabbatai Sevi, the Hebrew Wisdom Messiah, and his wife Sara, where sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire.

Love or Die #6: The Tree of Life Part 1

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the first Sephirot, Keter, the crown.

Love or Die #7: The Tree of Life Part 2

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 2nd and 3rd Sephirot: Chokhmah and Binah.

Love or Die #8: The Tree of Life Part 3

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 4th and 5th Sephirot: Chesed and Gevurah.

Love or Die #9: The Tree of Life Part 4

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 6th Sephirot: Tiferet.

Love or Die #10: The Tree of Life Part 5

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 7th and 8th Sephirot: Hod and Nezach.

Love or Die #11: The Tree of Life Part 6 – Yesod

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 9th Sephirot: Yesod.

Love or Die #12: The Tree of Life Part 7 – Malkuth

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 10th Sephirot: Malkuth.

Love or Die: A Conversation Series with Dr. Marc Gafni Hosted by Andrew Sweeny2024-07-05T07:06:45-07:00

Evolutionary Funeral: Aubrey Marcus’s Father Died – The Blessing of the Father

This is what Aubrey says about this dialogue:

On Saturday March 25, I discovered that my dad had died.

As the intimate universe would have it, the tender and powerful @marcgafni (a Rabbi turned CosmoErotic Humanist mystic) was with me when my father was discovered.

After four days of us sitting shiva house in mourning and celebration of the passing of my dad, I am utterly in awe. These days have been some of the most magical, miraculous, painful, and beautiful days of my life.

This podcast may be the most important and vulnerable thing I have ever offered. It’s what Michael Phillips Marcus would have wanted.

Marc and I have been combining all of our human tenderness with elements of our respective mastery to co-create an evolutionary week of mourning, celebration, and ceremony. While many aspects of the Hebrew shiva tradition have been maintained, the practice has been evolved and adapted for this unique situation to include shamanic medicine ceremonies and the psychotech of the Shabbat table.

Ultimately the purpose of this is to evoke the blessing of the father, and to assist him in his journey into wholeness in the life beyond life. And then to open source this process to the community and the world.

This live stream conversation … is both intensely personal and universal, raw, and refined. It is the highest blessing to my father, that his passing is bringing the deepest revealing connections with everyone who knew and loved him, and that hopefully these stories and the wisdom they contain will touch some of you.

The Blessing of the Father Part 1

The Blessing of the Father Part 2

Evolutionary Funeral: Aubrey Marcus’s Father Died – The Blessing of the Father2023-10-03T03:53:07-07:00

Evolutionary Spirituality: Towards an Engaged Evolutionary Mysticism – Dr. Marc Gafni & Andrew Cohen in Video Dialogue

Evolutionary Spirituality: Towards an Engaged Evolutionary Mysticism

Arguably our most significant interpretive framework for the nature of reality is the modern scientific discovery that the world and the universe are not, as the ancients believed, static or cyclical. The universe, and everything in it, is evolving. Cosmic and biological evolution are foundational truths of existence, and the implications are profound and multi-dimensional, extending outwards in every direction. In the 21st century, the context for any path or practice of enlightenment must surely embrace this knowledge and perspective. It is perhaps the most important shift in our understanding of enlightenment in the 2500 years since the Buddha first attained it.

Andrew Cohen and Dr. Marc Gafni are pioneers in the field of evolutionary spirituality, each with their own unique perspective on this newly emergent tradition. They share a strong foundation in an evolutionary approach to spiritual awakening, while emphasising distinctly different but intersecting dimensions of the path and practice. Both Marc and Andrew have produced pioneering bodies of work in this field, and formulated many of its core tenets. Their teachings uphold and demystify the foundational principles of traditional, modern and postmodern wisdom streams, weaving them together into an integral whole, and ultimately pointing toward a new evolutionary mysticism – what might even be considered a “religion of tomorrow”.

The aim of these dialogues is to celebrate the creative and dynamic evolutionary tension between these two perspectives – to catalyse awakening to higher states and stages of consciousness, giving rise to liberating insights and life-affirming perspectives in a unique tapestry of coherence and meaning, and an inspiring example of emergent spirituality in action.

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Episode 1

Episode 2: Evolutionary Relationships

From the Invitation by Dr. Marc Gafni to Episode 2: Evolutionary Relationships

I am wildly excited to, for the first time in a public forum, engage in an in-depth discussion with my dear friend and colleague Andrew Cohen on what the evolution of relationships – which is the evolution of intimacy, which is the evolution of love – means in our time.

  • What is the future of relationships?
  • What is an evolutionary relationship?
  • What do we mean by what we call a whole-mate relationship?
  • What is the place of romantic relationships?
  • What is the place of shared creativity in a relationship?
  • What are our new models for sexuality in relationships?
  • What are the core forms of relationship that all of us need to engage?
  • What are the First Values and First Principles that guide them?

Why is it true that no Enlightenment, no transformation, can be considered real, until it goes through the crucible of relationship and intimacy?

Let me share some deeper dharmic thoughts with you, which might help explain why this dialogue is deeply important, exciting and necessary.

“Reality is relationship.”

“Reality is evolution.”

“Reality is the evolution of relationships.”

These are the first lines of the forthcoming book that I have written with my dear evolutionary partner Barbara Marx Hubbard entitled The Future of Relationships: from Role Mate to Soul Mate to Whole Mate.

What is already apparent from the first three lines is that “relationship is not only a human category. Relationship is structural to Kosmos from the first nanoseconds of the Big Bang. In precisely the same way, evolution – Reality as a series of transformations and the transformation of relationships – is structural to Kosmos from the first nanoseconds of the Big Bang.”

When you put those two realizations together you get the following ostensibly simple but in fact insanely profound sentence:

“Reality is the evolution of relationship. Indeed the history of Reality can be most properly told as a history of the evolution of relationship.”

“By relationship however we do not mean casual or surface interactions between separate parts. Rather, by relationship we mean intimacy.” Intimacy as I define it in our forthcoming book The Intimate Universe, based on an enormous amount of information from the interior and exterior sciences, is “shared identity.”

Indeed, we’ve articulated an intimacy formula.

“Intimacy = shared identity in the context of [relative] otherness X mutuality of recognition X mutuality of pathos X mutuality of value X mutuality of purpose.” [read more in this article]

[A fuller unpacking of the intimacy formula appears in a forthcoming volume with Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zachary Stein The Six Propositions and in the aforementioned forthcoming volume The Intimate Universe with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. Zachary Stein.]

For now, it’s enough to say that “the evolution of relationship is the evolution of intimacy.”

In fact, one could accurately say that “evolution is not, as commonly understood, the movement from simplicity to complexity, but rather evolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies.”

“Evolution is the evolution of relationships.”

“This is true from the first nano seconds of the Big Bang when gazillions of quarks rain on planet Earth and the only quarks that would survive are those who are able to establish a stable structure of relationship. Those that are able to create between them a configuration of intimacy that can find its way to the unbearable pressures of the first nanoseconds of relationship.”

“From the singularity of relationships – intimacy continues to evolve.“

“There are two drivers to the evolution of relationships.”

  1. The inherent, erotic, creative impulse of Kosmos that desires, seeks, moves towards ever deeper contacts and ever greater wholes. That is to say: ever deeper, wider and more intense configurations of intimacy – relationships.
  2. The second driver for the evolution of relationships is crisis. Crisis is an evolutionary driver.
  3. All genuine crises are a crisis of intimacy or said slightly differently: all genuine crises are a crisis of relationships.

These core structures of Reality – evolution, relationship and intimacy and the play between them – are evolving First Values and First Principles of Reality. They are the plotlines in the great story of value that Dr. Zachary Stein and Dr. Marc Gafni call CosmoErotic Humanism.

The Evolution of Relationships is the source code of Reality. We are at a moment – in this time between worlds – when we need to participate together in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture.

And we need to do it personally!

This dialogue is not about relationships and their evolution. It is about OUR Relationships, and their evolution. You and me, all of us, in our personal and collective lives. How do we, as the leading edge of evolution itself, evolve Our Relationships?

How do we birth, from the inside of Our Relationships, the New Human and the New Humanity, that all of Reality and our deepest hearts, souls and bodies yearn for.

It is only such an evolution of relationship that can respond to what we have called the Meta Crisis of existential and catastrophic risk that hovers over our world.

For the Meta Crisis at its very core is a Global Intimacy Disorder.

We must evolve our intimacies – generating new forms of evolutionary intimacy, personally and collectively.

That is the overarching moral imperative, urgent necessity and the great agony and ecstasy of our time.

Episode 3: Evolutionary God

Episode 4: Evolutionary God (Part 2)

Episode 5: Karma, Destiny & Free Will

Episode 6: God Loves Stories

Episode 7: Evolutionary Spirituality, Desire & Need

Episode 8: The Evolution of God — “Evolutionary Perennialism” meets “Evolutionary Enlightenment”

Evolutionary Spirituality: Towards an Engaged Evolutionary Mysticism – Dr. Marc Gafni & Andrew Cohen in Video Dialogue2024-07-05T12:58:40-07:00

Dr. Marc Gafni on Spiritual Practice – Podcast with James Bampfield

In this beautiful conversation, Dr. Marc Gafni and James Bampfield speak about Enlightenment and Intimacy.

“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” – Dr. Marc Gafni

Dr. Marc Gafni on Spiritual Practice – Podcast with James Bampfield2023-06-17T07:34:07-07:00

Dr. Marc Gafni: Calling in an Integral Religion

An Excerpt from Dr. Marc Gafni’s Book Tears

Society, as it is currently constructed, is designed to bypass your tears. Yet, crying is an art. Tears are the colors with which the tapestry of your awakening is painted. Sometimes we cry surface tears in response to stuff that happens – good stuff and bad stuff. But the truest tears are those that well up from the deepest place on the inside of the inside – they may be triggered by a specific event or image, but they are larger than any one event.

Every time you cry these true tears, you cry for all the times you never cried before. True tears come only on occasion, but when they do, they are harbingers of great wisdom and guidance. These are the tears of the holy of holies. They carry revelation. To receive that revelation, you must be willing to sit still and be truly alone, so that your deep core can come out naked. From that place you wail, flooded to the core by deep sadness or profound happiness. These are not superficial tears but what we might call source tears. To hear the voice of source tears emerge, we must access the ground of dynamic stillness which is the well from which this revelatory crying rises up.

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Dr. Marc Gafni: Calling in an Integral Religion2023-06-17T14:35:30-07:00

Love and Teaching, NonDual Humanism and the Democratization of Enlightenment (A Book Excerpt from Radical Kabbalah by Dr. Marc Gafni)

Introduction to the book Radical Kabbalah by Dr. Marc Gafni

Mordechai Lainer of Izbica is my chosen lineage master. My prayer is that I have honored him with a correct and proper understanding of his trans-mission and teaching. I believe that I have. Though this personal introduc-tion is not meant to fully outline his teachings, a few remarks may orient the general reader and guide the initiate.

An Esoteric Transmission

First of all, this book is both an academic study and a transmission of an esoteric doctrine. Part of the disguise of this work is its presentation as a piece of academic scholarship.

Of course, on one level it is precisely that, for which I have to thank Professor Moshe Idel. At some point in 2001 or so, Professor Idel told me off-handedly that I needed to do an academic doctorate at a good univer-sity in order to insure that my non-academic writing and teaching be taken seriously. He very kindly accepted my request that he act as my co-advisor at Oxford University. I am in his debt for his gracious, insightful and often penetratingly brilliant remarks, which guided the unfolding of this work in an academic context.

Having said that, the academic framework is just that, a framework—and something of a fig leaf—for the deeper teaching of Lainer, which I have humbly and perhaps audaciously tried to unfold in this volume.

When I was thirty-one, living in Israel near Tel Aviv, Prof. Moshe Halamish suggested that I study and write about this great master. I had barely heard of Mordechai Joseph Lainer, and was wholly unfamiliar with his writings collected in two volumes under the title Mei Hashiloah (MH). Halamish’s prompt was the beginning of my relationship with Lainer, which deepened and shifted again many times over the years. At the time, thanks to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who was deeply connected to Lainer’s teaching, the Torah of Izbica was just beginning to gain currency in cer-tain neo-Hasidic circles in Israel and the United States. At some point,

I realized that I felt a soul root connection with his teaching, and began to teach his Torah to my own circles of students.

This period of teaching Mei Hashiloah lasted about ten years. Some five years into this teaching period, I spent one year of 16 hour days in the li-brary at Oxford in an intense, in-depth encounter with Mordechai Lainer.

In approaching the master and his text during that year, I followed the three-stage path of textual reading taught by the Baal Shem Tov. First, in a state of what the Baal Shem calls hahna‘ah, reverential submission to what one is learning, I read every passage again and again, praying that I might realize Lainer’s deeper intention and receive his transmission. Second, I moved from submission to what the Baal Shem calls havdalah, separation. In this stage of havdalah, I deployed a method of analysis which involved two basic steps. As I read, I made a list of key topics, words and texts in Lainer. I subsequently gathered every reference to that text, theme or image, searching for the underlying pattern. At the same time I learned, together with my friend Avraham Leader, many of the original Zoharic sources that would have influenced Mei Hashiloah, to get a sense of how he was reading the tradition, what he changed in his interpretation, and why.

Eventually, stage two yielded to stage three, which the Baal Shem Tov calls hamtakah, sweetening. Hamtakah involves an erotic ‘nondual’ merger with the text, which occurs when the reader and that which is read become one. It is at this stage that the deeper intention of the Lainer’s Torah became startlingly lucid, delightful, and beautiful, and the entire teaching opened up with radical clarity and joy.

As I continued my teaching in the world, I sought, as every authentic student does, to both teach and evolve this Torah. One expression of this process was the book Soul Prints (Simon and Schuster 2001) and the Soul Prints Workshop, (Sounds True 2004) which I published dur-ing the years 2001–2003. Another is the book you have before you. This academic work of mystical hermeneutics is complimented by the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice 6:1 (Suny Press 2011) and Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, (Integral Publishing 2012).

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Love and Teaching, NonDual Humanism and the Democratization of Enlightenment (A Book Excerpt from Radical Kabbalah by Dr. Marc Gafni)2023-06-17T14:36:46-07:00

Dialogue on Self with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Andrew Cohen, Sally Kempton, and Marc Gafni

In this beautiful conversation between Andrew Cohen, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni, they are talking in depth about their respective views of the nature of Self.

Dialogue on Self with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Andrew Cohen, Sally Kempton, and Marc Gafni2023-09-12T09:51:38-07:00
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