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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 amor. World 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

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 16

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 16 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We live in an Amorous Cosmos and the Amorous Cosmos lives in us. It’s a Cosmos filled with desire and allurement.

This book is an homage to the deep love and Whole Mate relationship between Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni, with all its depth, beauty and challenges. It tells the story of how they both deepened their intimacy through sometimes fierce contestation while modelling how to have evolutionary conversations as Homo amor. They were allured to each other in their shared desire to tell a new Story of Value—the new story that had the depth and power to activate the emergence of a new human and new humanity with the capacity to respond to existential risk.

This shared desire gave rise to co-evolving many new emergent ideas as well as fiercely challenging and clarifying other issues like the potential—and danger—of transhumanism, which could become the seedbed of totalitarianism if these were divorced from a shared Story of inherent Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values.

In this volume we celebrate Barbara both on her birthday and on her day of passing into the next world. We are reminded that every death is a night between two days, the darkness before the next birth. We are reminded that the continuity of consciousness is real.

Experiencing the reality of death presses us into life: to be fully here, to be fully committed, to be the change, to be living in the world that is already perfected. We keep coming back to the core truth of the realization: Reality is an Outrageous Love Story. Your story, each of our stories, is a unique chapter and verse in the larger Universe Story.

This knowing is the ultimate dignity of every human life.

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

Book details:

Title: The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 16
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340950
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD: THE PROMISE WILL BE KEPT

  • Celebrating Barbara’s 91st Birthday
  • We’re in Celebration, and in Our Celebration Is All of The Pain and All of the Joy
  • We Need Line and Circle Qualities at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Are A Unique Set of Allurements
  • Success 1.0, Success 2.0, Success 3.0
  • Prayer Affirms the Personhood of Cosmos
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 1.0
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • Evolutionary Intelligence Equals Desire
  • Deepest Heart’s Desire and the DNA of an Emerging Culture
  • I Don’t Grow Older, I Grow Newer
  • Barbara Ran for Evolution

CHAPTER 2    THE CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY

  • We Respond to the First and Second Shocks of Existence
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • The Movement to Resurrection
  • After the Crucifixion, There’s Always Resurrection
  • No Matter What Is Going on in My Life, I Trust With Complete Trust
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Death and Resurrection Are Natural Expressions of the Intimate Pattern of Reality
  • That’s Us, on the Road to the Planetary Awakening in Love
  • This Is the Real Thing—We Live Beyond Death
  • Eight Doors of Understanding to the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Door One: The Door of Longing
  • Door Two: The Fear of Nothingness Is That Which Is Beyond Nothingness
  • Door Three: The Eternal Quality of Timeless Time and Placeless Place
  • Door Four: Intuition of Justice and Fairness
  • Door Five: The Knowing of the Hero
  • Door Six: The Experience of Unique Self
  • Door Seven: Either Everything’s Meaningful Or Nothing’s Meaningful
  • Door Eight: The Experience of Loving Is the Experience Of Eternity

CHAPTER 3    WHY LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MATTER: THE GREAT STORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVOTION

  • The New Story of Value Is Our New Home
  • Every Human Being Has the Right to Desire and to Be Desired
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up
  • The Field of Intelligence Hears You Talking
  • The Purpose of Reality Is to Wake Up and to Grow Up
  • Wake Up States Are Not Enough
  • Developmental Levels of Clare Graves
  • The Experience of Commitment at Different Levels of Consciousness
  • “Become A Member” Means Something Different at Each Level of Consciousness
  • From Tier One to Tier Two
  • The Jump From First Tier to Second Tier

CHAPTER 4    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY

  • Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard: the Ability to Keep Evolving and Transforming
  • Celebrating 300 Weeks of One Mountain, Many Paths: Humans Are Wildly Good, True and Beautiful
  • To Give Up Being Right Is Being Homo Amor
  • The Evolution of Love Says No to Eugenics
  • The Techno-Utopian Vision Needs to Be Grounded in Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Moving Beyond Demonization
  • Incarnating the Impulse of Evolution: Barbara’s First Sermon in Evolutionary Church
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Leaving the Personal Behind Leads to Totalitarianism
  • Story as Prayer: Authentic Mystical Ecstasy Never Ignores the Hunger of Even One Individual

CHAPTER 5    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY, PART 2

  • Joining of Genius
  • The Second Shock of Existence: the Death of Our Humanity
  • Conscious Evolution and the Wheel of Co-Creation
  • The Shadow of Evolutionary Spirituality and Transhumanism
  • Without Articulating First Principles and First Values, You Cannot Arouse Outrage
  • Modeling Evolutionary Conversations
  • Subtle Mccarthyism and Fear on the Internet
  • The Irreducible Infinite Value of Unique Personhood
  • Conversation Absent First Principles and First Values Is Impossible
  • Tech Plex Creativity Needs to Participate in the New Story Of Value

CHAPTER 6    BARBARA MARX HUBBARD’S BIRTHDAY: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

  • Are You Ready to Awaken as Conscious Evolution?
  • We Need Infrastructure to Articulate the New World Philosophy and Religion
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Engaged Life With Full Passion Every Day
  • Integrating Barbara’s Legacy Into the New Story of Value
  • Conscious Evolution 1.0
  • Conscious Evolution 2.0: I Am Conscious Evolution in Person
  • Next Steps Towards Conscious Evolution 2.0

CHAPTER 7    THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, MY EVOLUTIONARY WHOLE MATE

  • Re-Visioning Conscious Evolution
  • Evolution Is the Synergy of Radical Telos and Complete Freedom
  • Plotlines of Evolution Awakening in Us
  • The Way We Meet Barbara Is by Showing Up in Our Full Selves
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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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The Next Step in Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T15:08:28-07:00

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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Table of Contents

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.

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

Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 14

Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 14 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

This volume captures the transformative vision of a new humanity emerging through the evolution of love. Beginning with a memorial to Barbara Marx Hubbard, co-founder with Marc Gafni of Evolutionary Church, it honors her profound teaching that “I am evolution in person” and her pioneering work on conscious evolution. At its heart is a radical proposition: evolution itself is the evolution of intimacy. Marc Gafni and Barbara articulate a new story of Reality as a love story-not ordinary romantic love, but Outrageous Love capable of meeting our global crisis.

The authors introduce Homo amor universalis-humanity’s next evolutionary stage-as our only response to what they call the “second shock of existence”: the potential extinction of our species. This emerging human reunites love and knowledge, joining genius (rather than merely genes) to create new possibilities for wholeness and intimacy.

Diagnosing our time as suffering from a “global intimacy disorder,” they offer practical guidance for becoming “the leading edge of evolution.” Readers are invited to discover their unique gifts and ask, “What does evolution need from me in this moment?” Through prayer, chant, and song, the book reveals that love isn’t merely an emotion but a perception-a way of seeing with “God’s eyes” that recognizes the Infinity of Intimacy carrying us in every second, ultimately leading toward a Planetary Awakening in Love.

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

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

Book details:

Title: Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 14
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340790
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    BARBARA’S MEMORIAL IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Beloved Barbara
  • Before Prayer
  • Eulogy for Barbara
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is a Perception
  • Barbara Was the Good News
  • I Am Evolution in Person
  • I Am Getting Newer
  • If You Want to Know the Essence of Barbara
  • She Charmed Us
  • Joining Genes to Joining Genius
  • There May Be a Time, but This Is Not That Day
  • We Go to Prayer

CHAPTER 2    RESURRECTION AND RENEWAL: RECLAIMING LOVE IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Barbara, You Are Alive Here in Church With Us
  • Not Just Tat Tvam Asi or the Infinity of Power, God Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Infinity of Intimacy Carries Us in Every Second
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is No Eros Without Gnosis
  • Reality Moves Towards Resurrection
  • We Are Homo Amor Moving Towards Resurrection

CHAPTER 3    MORE THAN CONFESSING YOUR SINS, YOU MUST CONFESS YOUR GREATNESS

  • Reality Is a Set of Habits
  • Our Intention Is to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • The World Needs a Story About the Evolutionary Love That Animates Everything
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy Into Whose Arms I Fall in Every Moment
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Love God Is to Know God
  • Our Clarified Heart’s Desire Becomes Part of the Field of Desire

CHAPTER 4    AWAKENING HOMO AMOR: PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • Welcoming Barbara
  • The Global Intimacy Disorder: We Don’t Have a Shared Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Source of Great Joy
  • What Is Homo Amor?
  • Who Is Homo Amor Universalis?
  • Homo Amor Universalis: A New Understanding of All Our Dimensions
  • Homo Amor Is Our Response to the Second Shock of Existence
  • The Inner Experience of Homo Amor Universalis Is That Reality Is Literally 50/50
  • What Does Evolution Need From Me in This Next Moment?

CHAPTER 5    A CRISIS OF TOUCH: BECOMING THE MOTHER TO EACH OTHER

  • God in First Person, Second Person, and Third Person
  • All the Rivers Flow Back to the Sea
  • The Sacred Technology of Chant
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • Our Intention Is to Tell the New Story
  • The One Church Is the Shared Music of All the Great Religions
  • Crisis in the World: We’ve Forgotten What It Means to Touch Each Other
  • The Allurement to Touch Each Other Is Fundamental to Cosmos
  • The Four-Fold Exile of Touch
  • We Have to Heal the Hug

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING & EVOLVING INTIMACY: EVERYONE’S IN THE CIRCLE

  • I Am Ready to Play a Larger Game, to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • Homo Amor Reunites Love and Knowledge
  • We Pray to the Intimate Face of the Evolutionary Impulse
  • Avengers Endgame: We All Have a Unique Self Superpower
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Birthing New Structures of Intimacy
  • We Unleash New Synergies in the World
  • Avengers Endgame: I’m Not Separate From the Larger Whole

CHAPTER 7    OUR TOUCH QUIVERS REALITY TO NEW IDENTITY; GOD ASKS EVERYTHING OF ME

  • Living My Life to the Fullest, Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • Prayer: Every Place You Fall, You Fall Into Her Arms
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Are No Externalities

CHAPTER 8    THERE ARE NO DEPLORABLES: EVERYBODY IS INSIDE THE CIRCLE

  • Radical Surprise and Amazement: We Get to Participate in the Evolution of Love!
  • There’s An Ontological Pluralism in a Perennial Context
  • The New Story Is the New Physics of Reality
  • The Infinity of Power Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • How Do You Practically Locate Intimacy in Your Life?
  • Opening the Circle and Letting Everyone In
  • Loving Our Way to Enlightenment

CHAPTER 9    OPENING YOUR HEART IS NOT ENOUGH; NO PART OF YOU SHOULD BE LEFT OUT

  • We Become the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • Prayer: Reclaiming the God That Knows Me
  • Exponentialized Desire and Exponentialized Tenderness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Enlightenment Means There Are No Externalities
  • Who Have I Left Out of My Heart?
  • You Can’t Love a Person If You’ve Left Other People Out of Your Heart
  • When You’re in Crisis, What’s New About You Is Often Left Out
  • We Are the People Telling the New Story

CHAPTER 10    CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: A LOVE STORY

  • Poised at the Abyss, We Are Called to Evolution
  • We’re Bringing the New Good News
  • Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • What’s the Source of All This? Where Does This Drive for Intimacy Come From?
  • I See You With God’s Eyes
  • When I See With God’s Eyes, I Can See the Next Step in the Evolution of Love
  • God’s Perspective of Us at This Moment of Evolution
  • Find the Form of Joining Genius
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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
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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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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: 

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

The Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 11

The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 11 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We live in a time of crisis-“a time between worlds and a time between stories.” Only profound evolution-transformation-will tip the scale away from catastrophic devolution. Barbara and Marc, rooted in a profound read of contemporary reality, locate the core of the crisis in a global intimacy disorder. The core crisis is no less than a crisis of intimacy.

Our crisis is a birth. To heal the intimacy crisis, all that has been split off-personally and culturally and cosmically-must be welcomed back into the circle.

We have forgotten, or perhaps never really known, that not only live in the Intimate Universe; the Intimate Universe lives in us. Each of us is a unique configuration of intimacy-intended, recognized, desired, acknowledged, chosen, loved, adored, and needed by all of Reality to enact transformation through deepening intimacy.

Evolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies. My transformation is the transformation of the whole. That is what it means to be intimate with the whole.

Intimacy is not generic. Intimacy is always unique. We are unique incarnations of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of All-That-Is, living in us, as us, and through us. We need to become intimate with our Unique Selves. For the essence of the new human-her creative and transformative power-derives only from the deepest depth of intimacy with one’s own self. We need to become intimate with our own power.

This is the journey from Homo armor to Homo amor. It marks the emergence of the new human and the new humanity. The temple of intimacy is built when we stay in and go all the way in this lifetime.

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

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

Book details:

Title:The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 11
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340479
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE   TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS AT THE EDGE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Configuration of Desire
  • I Cannot Be Intimate Without You
  • Symphony Means Feeling the Field
  • The Ritual of Prayer Unites Us in the Field
  • We Celebrate the Evolution of Culture in All Fields
  • One Hundred and One Is the Pathway to the Other Side

CHAPTER TWO   BEYOND MASLOW: EVOLUTIONARY PRAYER AND THE SIX CORE HUMAN NEEDS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Feature of the Field Of Intimacy
  • We Resonate and Recapitulate to Evolve the Source Code
  • The Larger Field of Intelligence Can Hear Me Talking
  • Evolutionary Meditations for Praying to God in the First, Second, and Third Person
  • Realizing I Am God in Evolution at the Jump Point
  • Beyond Maslow: The Vision of Six Core Human Needs That Changes Everything

CHAPTER THREE   MY UNIQUE DESIRE IS GOD’S DESIRE: HEALING THE CRISIS OF DESIRE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Field of Desire
  • Prayer Means That the Process Is Personal
  • Our Collective Desire Is for Evolutionary Love
  • I Heal God’s Broken Heart By Accessing My Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • My Unique Desire Is God’s Desire

CHAPTER FOUR   HEALING THE CRISIS OF INTIMACY: FALLING MADLY IN LOVE WITH OURSELVES AS UNIQUE CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE AND INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Crisis of Intimacy
  • Increasing Intimacy Means Bringing in What Is Left Out of The Circle
  • A Simple Practice of Unclenching and Opening the Heart
  • The Self-Organizing Universe Desires More Intimacy
  • Self-Love Is the Key to Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder

CHAPTER FIVE   CRISIS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER: OUR COLLECTIVE AWAKENING TO REALITY MADLY IN LOVE WITH US

  • Evolutionary Love Code: New Configurations of Intimacy
  • Reality Is Madly in Love With Me
  • A Practice for Entering on the Inside
  • The Climate Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • The Solution to Every Great Crisis Is New and Deeper Intimacy

CHAPTER SIX   RESTORE INTIMACY AND BRING POWER BACK INTO THE CIRCLE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • To Be Madly in Love With Myself Is to Know I Matter Infinitely
  • To Become Like God: Love More
  • Exercise to Open Our Arms and Let Them All In
  • Saturday Church Is the Church of the Metamorphosis
  • It Is Time to Reclaim Our Unique Power

CHAPTER SEVEN   RECLAIMING AND EVOLVING SACRED TEXTS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: What Is Being Left Out of the Circle?
  • We Want a Politics of Love and a Love of Politics
  • The Democratization of Prayer Breakfasts
  • The Evolutionary Testament: A Template for the Future Human
  • Integrating the Depth Structures of Every Great Tradition
  • We Are the Ones to Write the New Sacred Texts

CHAPTER EIGHT   I AM LOVE IN ACTION: INTIMACY, CREATIVITY, AND THE NEW HUMAN

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Each Crisis of Intimacy Is a Birth
  • The Only Decision Is to Open My Heart
  • Genuine Creativity Comes From Intimacy With Myself
  • What Is Being Left Out Is Our Newness
  • I Am Love in Action

CHAPTER NINE   TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EVOLVING THE CAPACITY FOR INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Transformation
  • When I Open My Heart, I Open the Heart of Reality
  • The Power of Deepest Heart’s Desire Groups
  • Feel Into the Ever Deepening Loops of Intimacy
  • The Most Profound Pleasure Is the Pleasure of Transformation
  • Transformation Is Always to Evolve My Capacity for Intimacy

CHAPTER TEN   FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: RADICAL CURIOSITY AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation
  • Love and Curiosity Go Together
  • Greatness Means to Make New Mistakes
  • Go the Whole Way in Your Radical Transformation
  • From Homo Armor to Homo Amor
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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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The Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:09:58-07:00

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.

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

We Are Evolution in Person | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 10

We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 10 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Who am I? In this book, we respond to that question by reclaiming the truth of our identity as Evolution in Person—not as a contrivance or social construction but rather rooted in the best integration of the great interior and exterior sciences.
We are not separate selves, but Unique Selves—irreducibly unique expressions of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty that is the initiating and animating Eros of Cosmos, living in us, as us, and through us.
An essential part of reclaiming our larger identity is the question of gender identity. Dr Gafni frames the transgender movement as a radical quest for a larger identity beyond and underneath gender. We move from the binary of clear “man” or “woman” to “Unique Gender”—we are each a unique configuration of line and circle qualities. These line and circle qualities are primal expressions of what later became the engendered qualities of masculine and feminine. They are the primordial energies of masculine and feminine, from the first nanoseconds of the Big Bang, well before the emergence of gender.
This evolution of gender identity is part of the wider movement of the evolution of intimacy. Intimacy begins with ourselves, when we remember our true identity and stand in the integrity of that knowing. From there, intimacy widens into our relationships with others and ultimately with the Cosmos itself. By evolving our capacity for intimacy, we align with the evolutionary impulse itself. We become ripplers of Evolutionary Love, as our Outrageous Acts of Love ripple through the entire field of Reality and change the source code of who we are.
We are Evolution in Person.
This is who we are.

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

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

Book details:

Title: We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 10
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340776
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    I AM A RIPPLER OF LOVE

  • We Stand for Evolutionary Integrity
  • Become Ripplers of Evolutionary Love
  • Healing the Fear of Separation Is Necessary
  • The Movement from Fear to Love Transforms Everything
  • We Have to Be Heroes in the Private Moments

CHAPTER 2    UNIQUE GENDER—THE EVOLUTION OF ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Gender as Part of a Liberation Movement
  • There Is Something Deeper Underneath the Transgender Question
  • We Pray for Wholeness in Our Unique Gender
  • From Self-Reproduction to Self-Evolution
  • The Great Library Is a Library of the Evolution of Evolution
  • The Evolution From “Man” and “Woman” to Unique Gender

CHAPTER 3    INTIMATE COMMUNION IS SUBVERSIVE AND THE ONLY WAY THROUGH

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Homo Amor Universalis Practices Intimate Communion
  • Intimacy Is Sanity
  • Intimate Communion and the New Story Are Key to Evolution
  • How to Bring Intimate Communion into Political Revolution
  • Intimate Communion Is the Only Road to World Transformation

CHAPTER 4    GOD IS THE POSSIBILITY OF POSSIBILITY: EMERGENCY GENERATES EMERGENCE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Intimacy in Action
  • We Pray to the God Inherent in Us and Who Holds Us
  • We Are a Microcosm of Synergistic Democracy
  • We Are Evolution in Person: We Are Claiming Our Identity
  • New Possibility Through New Configurations of Intimacy

CHAPTER 5    CONFESSION OF GREATNESS AND THE BIG YES TO MY UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Infinity of Intimacy Sources Reality
  • Christ Teaches That God Says Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Say Yes to the Christ Energy Within
  • True Confession Is a Confession of Greatness
  • We Express Our Greatness When We Take Our Unique Risk

CHAPTER 6    GOD IS THE INFINITY OF INTIMACY OF POSSIBILITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Crisis of Intimacy
  • We Are Articulating a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • We Are Intimate With the Divine
  • Intimacy Generates Emergence and Greater Wholes

CHAPTER 7    FEELINGS MATTER—TRACING FEELINGS TO THEIR ROOT

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Calling Us Forward to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • Prayer Reveals My Intimacy With All-That-Is
  • Tracing God’s Purpose and Our Own Yes
  • Reality Needs My Feeling
  • On the Inside of the Inside God, Goddess Feels With Us

CHAPTER 8    IN THE DEPTH OF LOVE, WE KNOW WE ARE NEEDED, INFINITELY, CRAZILY NEEDED

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The New Story Is the New Intimacy
  • We Need to Do Something New
  • We Can Completely Overcome Divisions as the New Species
  • Reality Needs My Devotion

CHAPTER 9    SHE SAYS: “YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT”

  • We Are Hosting the Birth of the New Species
  • Outrageous Love Is Restoring Intimacy
  • Breakthrough Emerges From Breakdown
  • “Your Need Is My Allurement” Heals Our Humiliation
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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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We Are Evolution in Person | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:53:41-07:00

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 6

We Are God's Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony | Oral Essays Volume 6 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy is a clarion call to revolutionary transformation.

At the heart of these teachings lies a radical insight: You are a Unique Self-an irreducibly unique expression of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty that is the animating and initiating Eros and energy of All-That-Is.

You are the personal face of the universal, uniquely incarnate as you.
Allurement is a core structure of Cosmos. Therefore, when we align with the core truth of Cosmos, when we awaken to our Unique Self, we are allured to come together to form a Unique Self Symphony. A Unique Self Symphony is an omni-considerate configuration of Unique Selves, each playing their unique instrument for the sake of the whole.

A Unique Self Symphony is a new structure of Divinity. God is not only the Infinity of Power-but also the Infinity of Intimacy. We are a unique incarnation of the Intimate Universe.

When two Unique Selves meet, their unique intimacy creates a new resonance in the Field-a new frequency of Divinity itself.

Unique Self Symphony is the sacred configuration in which Unique Selves join genius to fulfill their evolutionary obligation-to participate in the evolution of love. Your unique intimacy participates in the unfolding of the Universe: A Love Story. This evolutionary impulse calls us to awaken as Unique Self-each of us a unique configuration of intimacy, irreducibly necessary to the healing and transformation of Reality.

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

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

Book details:

Title:We Are God’s Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 6
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340653
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 FOLLOW THE IMPULSE AND PLAY A LARGER GAME

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self as Expression of True Self
  • Playing a Larger Game for the Evolution of Love
  • Prayer and the Participation in God
  • A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
  • Follow the Impulse!
  • The Inconsolable Longing to Play a Larger Game
  • Hasidic Story of Yoselle the Holy Miser
  • The Field Awakens Through Unique Acts of Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 2 YOUR UNIQUE OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF LOVE MATTER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Who You Are
  • Instantaneous Manifestation Through Intention
  • Only You Know If You Are Giving Your Unique Gift
  • What Do We Do in Prayer?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Needs My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • My Outrageous Acts of Love Are Mine Alone to Commit
  • We Have a Dream, and the Dream Has Us!

CHAPTER 3 A NEW VISION OF IDENTITY: THE NEW HUMAN

  • The Evolutionary Impulse Moves Intimately and Authoritatively
  • Ecstasy Means to Be Beside the Old Vision of Self
  • The Mystery Is Designed For Evolutionary Love
  • Allurement All the Way Up the Evolutionary Chain
  • Evolution of Intimacy
  • Realize Our Deeper Identity: The New Human
  • Transcending Pre-Modernity, Modernity and Postmodernity
  • We Are at the Point of Evolution or Devolution

CHAPTER 4 REVOLUTION THROUGH LOVE AND EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES

  • Love Is a Unique Self Perception
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self Perception
  • Vocational Arousal and Joining Genius
  • To Love Is to Give
  • Enacting Revolution Through New Technology
  • The Interior Technology of Imagination
  • Personal Self Is Never Bypassed

CHAPTER 5 THE EVOLUTION OF POWER

  • A New Story of Power
  • The Dignity of Power Ends Victimhood
  • I Am Prayer, I Am Power
  • Our Power Is Sourced in the Gardens of Infinite Source
  • Your Desire Is Evolution’s Desire
  • Premodernity’s Narrative of Power
  • Modernity’s Narrative of Power
  • Postmodernity’s Narrative of Power
  • The New Narrative Is: I Am Power!
  • Power Lives in the Private Moments When We Decide to Stand in Integrity

CHAPTER 6 WE ARE GOD’S UNIQUE INTIMACY AND GOD’S POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • We Are God’s Unique Intimacy of Power
  • Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game?
  • In Prayer, We Re-Pattern Reality
  • Necessity to Infuse Technological Power With Love
  • Cosmology, Crisis, Capacity
  • Healing the Split Between Intimacy and Power

CHAPTER 7 ALLUREMENT, INTIMACY AND EVOLUTION

  • Evolution Is the Deepening of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution of Intimacy
  • Prayer, Authentic Need and Intimacy
  • Evolution Is Longing to Go From No-Thing to Every-Thing
  • Attraction, Intimacy and Allurement
  • Pseudo-Allurement, Pseudo-Eros, and the Need to Clarify My Unique Self

CHAPTER 8 ALLUREMENT, AMAZEMENT AND EVER INCREASING INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Deepening Intimacy and the Birth of Evolutionary Church
  • Radical Amazement and Wonder: The Practice of Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Rote Repetition Stands Against Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Attraction of Intimacy Is God’s Purpose
  • The Exterior and Interior of Interconnectivity
  • Three Stages of Allurement in Mysticism
  • Allurement Is a Choice

CHAPTER 9 A NEW ORDER AND THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER

  • Outrageous Love Is the Intimate Nature of Reality Itself
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution of Intimacy
  • Intimacy Is Shared Identity
  • Prayer Is Shared Intimacy With God
  • Fulfilling the Story of Christ Through a Planetary in Love
  • Eros Births Ethics
  • The Blessing of the Father in Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 10 TIKKUN: YOUR UNIQUE FIXING IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Unique Fixing
  • Liberating the Broken Vessels
  • We Are a Unique Self Symphony Fixing the Source Code
  • Pseudo-Fixing and Authentic Fixing of the Source Code
  • Story of the Master Isaac of Berditchev
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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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We Are God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:15:42-07:00

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 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
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcgafni/
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Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 21

Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 20 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

Reality is not empty or blind. Reality is animated by plot lines. These are the plot lines of evolution. The plot lines of evolution are Reality’s codes of desire. Reality’s desire is for Value. Eros is Value and Value is Eros. There is no split between them. It’s Eros Value. That is the plotline of the CosmoErotic universe.

We are part of and participatory in Reality. Thus, like all of reality the plotlines of our lives are mapped by our codes of desire. Our clarified desire participates in the larger Field of Desire, which is also the Field of Eros Value. Our capacity to clarify, deepen and evolve our unique codes of desire is the evolution of Reality itself. Our unique codes of desire are evolution becoming uniquely conscious through each of us.

With the dogmatic claim of our postmodern zeitgeist that Value and therefore Eros Value have collapsed, an unbearable emptiness wells up in our hearts. We are no longer able to access the self-evident validity of Eros Value. We feel deadened and devalued. This dynamic at the very heart of culture is direct cause for existential risk. For the collapse of Eros is direct cause for the collapse of ethos, the breakdown of value. We seek to cover up the emptiness of Eros’s collapse through pseudo-Eros. Pseudo-Eros exponentialized generate the tragedies of the commons that are the very heart of existential risk. To reclaim value and ethos, we must first reclaim Eros.

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

Book details:

Title: Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 21
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340288
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 THE HOMO AMOR PRACTICE OF WRITING YOUR OWN SONG OF SONGS—OUTRAGEOUS LOVE LETTERS

  • Reality Is Codes of Desire
  • The Sacred Is Value Exponentialized
  • All the Great Traditions Understood: Reality Is Codes of Desire
  • Song of Solomon
  • Always Kissing
  • Every Foot a Shrine
  • God Desired Me, So I Came Close
  • His Choir
  • Like Passionate Lips
  • I Have Come Into This World to See This
  • The Sacred Means Ultimate Intimacy
  • The Democratization of Flaming Great Love
  • The Homo amor Practice of Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Mary’s Mosaic

CHAPTER 2 REWRITING THE SCRIPT OF DESIRE: FOR WOMEN, FOR LIFE, FOR FREEDOM—MAHSA AMINI DID NOT DIE IN VAIN

  • At This Precise Moment, Just Like Dystopia Hovers, So Does Utopia
  • Creating the Future as Homo amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Radical Aliveness Is Life
  • Mahsa Amini Sacrificed Her Life for Eros
  • There’s No Split Between Eros and Ethics
  • Brothers, There’s Always a Path Home
  • The New Story of Desire: Reality Is Eros
  • The Four Sexual Narratives in Reality Today
  • Eros Is Not Mere Sentiment; It Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Two Ways to Murder Eros: The Morality Police and the Sex-Positive Liberal Response
  • Pornography Is the Decontextualization of Radical Sexing From Radical Living
  • A Pornographic Universe Violates the Goddess
  • Fundamentalist Totalitarianism and Pornographic Totalitarianism
  • The Only Response to Pornographic Totalitarianism Is Your Own Unique Desire
  • The New Story of Value: The Full Power of Your Unique Desire
  • Baraye: Protesting for the Sake of the All

CHAPTER 3 FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO AMOR: RECLAIMING THE AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY OVER OUR CODES OF DE

  • Reclaiming the Script of My Unique Desire From Totalitarianism
  • All Desire Is Non-Local
  • We Need to Recover a Memory of the Future
  • Desire Reaches for the Future
  • What Is Your Deepest Heart’s Desire?
  • Reclaiming the Dignity of Need

CHAPTER 4 THE RESPONSE TO EXISTENTIAL AND CATASTROPHIC RISK IS THE DAWN OF DESIRE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Dawn of Desire
  • Four Responses to Existential and Catastrophic Risk
    • 1. The Doomer Response
    • 2. The Denial Response
    • 3. The Domination Response
    • 4. The Desire Response
  • The Fourth Response to the Meta-Crisis: the Dawn of Desire
  • Seeing the Storyline: From Unconscious to Conscious Evolution
  • Need and Desire Are Isomorphic at Fundamental and Aspirational Levels of Evolution
  • I Am a Unique Feature of the Field of Desire
  • Clarified Desire Equals Value, and My Clarified Desire Is Unique
  • The Dignity of Desire
  • Clarifying Our Desire in Response to the Meta-Crisis
  • Desire Is Prayer, Prayer Is Desire
  • Reality Is the Desire for Ever More ErosValue

CHAPTER 5 THE DEGRADATION OF DESIRE—DISCERNING ISRAEL & HAMAS CONFLICT: EVOLVING THE BATTLE OF GOOD & EVIL TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • How Do You Begin a Conversation? [October 8th 2023]
  • Eros and Ethics Are the Same Thing
  • In the Field of ErosValue
  • Every Religion Must Evolve
  • This Is Not a Story of Moral Equivalence
  • The Deconstruction of Value Arouses Hamas
  • At the Core of the Hamas Narrative Is a Degradation of Desire
  • We Need to Articulate a New Ground of Desire
  • Purity of Desire
  • Shocks of Existence Press Us Into Gnosis and New Emergence
  • A New Culture of Eros: The Democratization of Hieros Gamos
  • The Battle Between Good and Evil Exists in Every Human Being
  • Pseudo-Eros Exponentialized Becomes the Ring of Sauron
  • Greater Is the Light That Comes From the Darkness

CHAPTER 6 BARBIE, HAMAS, AND HOMO AMOR—FROM DEGRADED LOVE STORIES TO THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Responding to the Culture of Death as Homo amor
  • The Refusal to Make Distinctions Contravenes the Interior of Homo amor
  • False Stories Confuse Us
  • A Failed Love Story on a Collective Level Results in Horror
  • Let’s Get Out of Superficial Distortions
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Homo amor, the Alternative to Postmodern Materialism or Pseudo-Erotic Violent Fundamentalism
  • Universe Story 1—Barbie: “There Is No Love Story”
  • Clarified Desire Discloses Value; Eros Is a Value of Cosmos
  • If There Is No Eros, There Is Pseudo-Eros
  • Universe Story 2—Hamas: The Demonization of Desire
  • Postmodernism and Fundamentalism Are Both Failed Love Stories
  • Universe Story 3: The Realization That the Universe Is a Love Story
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • The Moral Imperative of the Universe: A Love Story

CHAPTER 7 EROS AND GNOSIS AND ETHICS ARE ONE: REALITY IS EVOLVING CODES OF DESIRE

  • The Breakdown of Sensemaking
  • The Future of Reality Depends on Our Capacity to Articulate a Shared Story of Value
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Sensuality of Sensemaking
  • What We Think Is Less Than What We Know
  • Global Resonance Requires a Common Sense
  • The Shared Story of Reality Is the Story of Reality’s Sensuality
  • Eros Is a Dynamic Creative Movement of Reality
  • Two Codes of Desire: Code of Reality and Sacred Texts
  • Reality Is ErosValue
  • How Do You Know Value Is Erotic? Because Value Arouses Our Will
  • The Experience of Value Lives Within the Experience of Eros
  • In the Ecstasies of Desire, the Split Between Autonomy and Communion Disappears
  • Reality Is Desire: The Name of God
  • The Field of Desire Lives in Me
  • ErosValue Is the Loveintelligence and LoveBeauty and LoveDesire of Reality
  • My Unique Name of God Emerges From My Unique Configuration of Desire
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Eros and Gnosis Are Not Separate
  • To Be What We Are, We Need to Love Madly
  • Even as We Are All Unique, We Are All the Same

CHAPTER 8 COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM—TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS, EVOLVING CODES OF DESIRE, AND THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY

  • To Heal Reality, We Must Heal Our Narratives of Desire
  • How Do I Clarify My Own Code of Desire?
  • Homo Armor to Homo amor
  • Who I Am Is Desire, and Desire Is the Plotline of My Life
  • My Desire Is Sacred
  • The Beginning of Healing Broken Codes of Desire Is Honoring Desire
  • To Be in Joy Is a Direct Byproduct of Accessing the Unique Quality of My Desire
  • I Am Part of the Throbbing Field of Eros, Which Desires Ever Deeper Shared Identities
  • The Plotline of My Life Is My Unique Code of Desire
  • The Mother Is the Universe: A Love Story in Person
  • When I No Longer Feel the Body Then I Create False Certainties Which Overwhelm Me
  • When My Desire Is Shamed, I Can’t Access the Goodness and Aliveness of Reality and I Reach for a Transitional Object
  • I Need to Re-Access Desire as It Lives in My Body
  • Reclaiming the Lost Code of the Body Sacred: The Song of Solomon Is Holy of Holies
  • The Text of Ethos Is Written in the Body Sacred
  • When I Access My Unique Code of Desire, I Transcend the Pornographic Universe
  • When We Split Off the Other, We Violate the Desire of Culture
  • This Field of Desire Is the Place Where I Know That I Am Welcome in the Universe
  • Desire in Its Dignity Allowed the Lineage of Solomon to Survive the Exile
  • This Narrative of Desire Must Articulate a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 9 CLARIFIED FIRST VALUES AND FIRST PRINCIPLES GENERATE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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

CHAPTER 10 FROM VALUES TO RIGHTS

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

CHAPTER 11 IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL STRUCTURE: IN DIALOGUE WITH DR. ZACHARY STEIN

  • The Right to Desire and the Right to Be Desired
  • A Need Generates a Right, a Desire Generates a Responsibility
  • The Need of Cosmos Which Is Directly Related to Value and Not Reducible to the Biological
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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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Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-20T17:27:09-07:00

From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 3

From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love | Oral Essay Volume 3 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

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 weaves together timeless wisdom and evolutionary spirituality to ignite a planetary awakening. Through guided meditations and prayers, transformative teachings, and a vision for humanity’s next step, this book guides you beyond the false separations of ego 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 the key to deep 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 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 instrument in the Unique Self Symphony?

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

Book details:

Title: From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 3
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340554
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 STEPPING INTO A MIGHTY EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY

  • Meditation on the Evolutionary Impulse Within
  • We Pray to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • Pointing-Out Instruction for Prayer
  • Prayers to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation
  • We Are Inspiring a Planetary Pentecost
  • A Kabbalistic Story of Divine Calling
  • Letting the Ego Flower Into Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 2 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: BREAKING THE SPELL OF ORDINARY LOVE

  • Place Attention on the Heart
  • We Are Holding the Good News
  • Intimacy Means We Are Awake and Erotic
  • We Are Held by the Divine
  • Taking the Lid Off for Love
  • Get the Power of Unique Self Symphony
  • The Beast: A Story of Posturing and Rejecting the Rose
  • Reality Is a Love Story: The Deepest Story of Reality
  • Breaking the Spell of Ordinary Love.
  • What is a Real Unique Self Symphony?

CHAPTER 3 REALITY INTENDED YOUR UNIQUE GIFT

  • Imagine Going the Whole Way
  • Step Outside of Our Narcissism
  • Reality Hears Me
  • If We Don’t Thank God for Our Greatness, Who Will?
  • Giving Your Unique Gift
  • No One Evolves Beyond Ego
  • A Story About Unique Gift: Slipping Your Envelope
  • Under the Door
  • You Identify Your Unique Gift

CHAPTER 4 ATTUNING AND RESPONDING TO OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IN A SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE

  • Outrageous Love Drives Everything
  • Your Personal Quality Participates in God’s Personal Quality
  • Embodied Awareness of Outrageous Love: Feeling the Whole Story of Creation
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • The Universe is Perfectly Attuned for Life
  • Responding to a Politics of Devolution with a Politics of Evolution
  • To Life! The Story of Yankele
  • To Face Existential Threat, You Have to Feel Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 5 OUR SIX CORE ESSENTIAL HUMAN NEEDS

  • The Wedding Day of the Essential Self with the Universal Self
  • There Is No Contradiction Between Our Personal Needs and Evolutionary Needs
  • Personal Needs Meet Our Evolutionary Needs
  • Our Emergence as an Evolutionary Human
  • We Must Meet Our Six Core Essential Needs
  • Our True Need Is to Play a Larger Game

CHAPTER 6 EVOLUTION IS LOVE IN ACTION

  • Attuning to Your Unique Gifts in the Symphony
  • Are You Needed by the Unique Self Symphony, or Are We Just Making it Up?
  • Prayer is a Realization of the Intimate Universe
  • Who Are You? The Unique Self Response
  • Planet Earth Is Giving Birth to a Co-Evolving Humanity
  • The Intimate Universe is a Synergistic Universe
  • God Needs Us

CHAPTER 7 REFLECTIONS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD AND OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • Awakening Dharma: Resonance and Planetary Evolution
  • From Broken Hallelujah to Evolutionary Dharma: Reclaiming the Divine
  • Confessions of Greatness for Planetary Awakening
  • We Get to Fall in Love Again and Again
  • Welcoming Neale Donald Walsch: Conversations with God Within
  • From Doctrine to Discovery: Awakening the Sacred Within
  • Highly Evolved Beings Are Partners in Humanity’s Transmogrification
  • A Sacred Secret Within Us All
  • Not an Uncommon Dialogue
  • Messianic Conversation and Embracing the Conversation with God
  • The Holy Tipping Point: Just One Blink Away from Total Awakening
  • The Power of Self-Selection and Mirroring Global Change
  • No One Else Can Have Your Experience
  • When Everything Is Great, Then What?
  • Not Creating, but Remembering: The Essence of Divine Awareness
  • Neale’s Blessing
  • Marc’s Blessing

CHAPTER 8 THE WOUND AND THE AWAKENING: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO INTIMACY

  • Tapping into the Wounding of Separation
  • Enlightenment Means the Wound Is Not Unconscious in Us
  • From Ego to Essence
  • My Wound Is the Intention of the LoveIntelligence of Cosmos

CHAPTER 9 THE KEYS TO ACTIVATING EVOLUTIONARY LOVERS

  • Our Heart’s Desire is for More Love
  • Evolving the Lineages
  • We Live in a World of Broken Hearts
  • The First Key: The Activation of the New Identity
  • The Second Key: My New Identity is Rooted in a New Worldview
  • The Third Key: Activating Evolutionary Practice in a Profound and Deep Way
  • The Fourth Key: Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • The Fifth Key: Activating an Evolutionary Community

CHAPTER 10 THE GLORY OF THE WOUND: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO PURPOSE

  • My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Wound
  • We Are Not Wounded by Accident
  • We Are Designed to Have a Flaw in Our Design
  • Life Is Designed to Be a Misfit
  • A Call for Wounding to Rise Up in Creativity
  • Our Wound Changes Based on Who We Experience Ourselves to Be
  • Extend Your Hand and Feel the One Wound, the One Love
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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: 

Substack: https://substack.com/@marcgafni
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcgafni/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
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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

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 1

A Planetary Awakening in Love explores Unique Self Symphonies, the Politics of Evolutionary Love, and Homo Amor through the voices of Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard.

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love | Book 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays | Integral Publishers

We live in a world of outrageous pain, and the only response to outrageous pain is Outrageous Love. Somehow, we know inside that this is true. The deepest pleasure of being alive is to recognize that Reality is an Outrageous Love Story.

This book is about a Planetary Awakening in Love, the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo amor. As humans we are here to articulate and enact a new story, to participate in the evolution of love itself. With practice we can learn to place our attention on the evolutionary impulse that is alive and awake in us, as us, and through us, and calling us forth to become Evolutionary Lovers.

In this book, we are reclaiming practices of prayer, intimacy, and the sacred as part of a new politics of Evolutionary Love. This is the only way for us to move beyond separation towards a planetary coherence of synergy and wholeness.

This book explores the essential question: Who are you? The response is both simple and complex: You are an irreducibly unique expression of the Evolutionary LoveIntelligence of Reality itself, and as such you have a unique gift to give to the world, that only you can give! Each of us is an irreducibly unique expression of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of

All-That-Is, with a unique gift to give in the Unique Self Symphony. Through the lens of Evolutionary Spirituality, it becomes clear that the Universe is not a random accident. Not at all. It is an Evolutionary Love Story, moving towards ever greater intimacy and ever greater wholeness.

We are personally implicated in the great story of Reality, holding the power to transform crisis into possibility through the force of Outrageous Love. As we move into the fullness of our humanity, our personal story emerges as a chapter and verse in the Love Story of Reality itself.

Loneliness is a profound evolutionary driver, urging us to move beyond isolation into deeper connection and to say YES to the impulse of evolution within us. We are not meant to walk this path alone. The move from loneliness to loving takes us beyond the illusion of separation, and we find ourselves woven into the fabric of Unique Self Symphony.

Practice helps us to connect with the sacred at a higher level of consciousness, reclaiming devotion, evolutionary prayer, and the radical knowing that we are held by God as the Infinity of Intimacy.

Together we join genius in Unique Self Symphony—where each unique voice is radically needed, and each unique gift is desired by All-That-Is. We stand at the edge of history, as Evolutionary Lovers and co-creators of a new humanity. We learn to say Yes to the impulse of Evolutionary Love within us, to recognize that we are not separate but part of an interconnected field of intimacy, responsibility, and transformation.

Are you ready to step into this next great moment of human becoming? To say Yes to the evolutionary impulse within you? To respond to the crisis of our time with the only force great enough to meet it—Outrageous Love?

If your heart has brought you to explore this path, welcome to the Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies!

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between October and December 2016.

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

Book details:

Title: A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love
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: 979-8888340042
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 → Oral Essays from One Mountain, Many Paths by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

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 

Learn more about the First Principles & First Values, CosmoErotic Humanism, Unique Self, and Homo Amor at the Center for World Philosophy & Religion.

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A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-13T05:33:26-07:00

The Sacred Power of Story | Marc Gafni & Iain McGilchrist Moderated by Zak Stein

Parallax media hosts this discussion between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Marc Gafni, moderated by Zak Stein, on the Sacred Power of Story.

Zak Stein moderates an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist. and Dr. Marc Gafni and the dialogue spans the sacred nature of story, the loss of value and eros, the nature of evil, and the deep structures shaping culture today.

Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, literary scholar, and one of the most important philosophical voices of our time. He is best known for The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things, where he argues that the left and right hemispheres of the brain attend to the world in fundamentally different ways, with massive consequences for civilization. His work bridges neuroscience, philosophy, art, and depth psychology, offering a vision of human consciousness grounded in attention, embodiment, and reverence.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary philosopher, spiritual teacher, and social theorist. A former Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate from Oxford University, he is the co-founder of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and a leading voice in the articulation of “cosmo-erotic humanism.” His books include Your Unique Self, A Return to Eros, and Radical Kabbalah. Gafni’s work fuses Jewish mysticism, integral theory, and Western philosophy to explore the nature of self, eros, and value at the evolutionary edge of human identity and spirituality.

Zak Stein is a Harvard-trained education and transformation philosopher known for his work on developmental ethics, meta-crisis, and the future of human learning.

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The Sacred Power of Story | Marc Gafni & Iain McGilchrist Moderated by Zak Stein2025-07-02T06:53:03-07:00

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.

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The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 22025-07-02T04:05:49-07:00

The Persian/Hebrew Axis | Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein

Alexander Bard of Parallax in a provacative discussion with Dr. Marc Gafni and Zak Stein.

Enjoy this Parallax Dialogue:

A rich and provocative conversation at the crossroads of philosophy, education, and technology, and a bold defense of religion in the modern age. Three intellectual titans — Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein — come together in this deep-dive dialogue, discovering surprising points of unity across their metaphysical differences.

Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Author), Dr. Zak Stein(Contributor), Elena Maslova Levin (Contributor)

Story is the source code of culture and consciousness and of all Reality-all the way up and down the evolutionary chain. Story is the attempt to gather information about the nature of Reality and translate it into narrative frameworks bounded by Value.
Stories that organize culture are “Stories of Value, backed by the Universe”.

Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.

The postmodernists are wrong.

Story is real. And not all stories are equal. There are better and worse stories. A better story is an eternal and evolving story of Value. Evolving Value backed by the Universe.

A worse story-one with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines of distorted value, like the story we’ve lived in the West for the better part of the last century-can, and will, bring us to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it.

Value is both real, backed by the Universe, and like everything in the Universe, value evolves. The evolution of value itself is the evolution of love, as Eros and evolution themselves, are inherent plotlines of value in the great story of Cosmos.

The goal of The Evolution of Love, and its companion volume Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships, is to provide a first articulation of a new, better story of Value in the domain of relationship. At the core of this New Story of Value are a new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity, which we have called CosmoErotic Humanism and Homo amor.

If we fail to articulate this New Story of Value, the results will be excruciating for billions of human beings and for the entire life system–as for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.
All of the present depends on us to live.
All of the future depends on us to be born.

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The Persian/Hebrew Axis | Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein2025-07-02T05:12:14-07:00

The Infinite Intimate: Cosmic Eros, Sacred Story, and the Anthro Ontology of Value

On the footnotes2plato podcast, Host Matt Segall Dialogues About CosmoErotic Humanism with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein

Join Matt Segall in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein:

In Matt’s voice:

In this conversation with Marc Gafni  and Zak Stein, I began by asking about philosophy’s relevance in our current moment of crisis:

What role can philosophy play? 

As philosophers, we like to engage in dialogue, but our present world seems very far from dialogue being what guides the decisions that are shaping the immediate future. I invited us to consider how we can feel like what we’re doing here is meaningful when we’re facing this type of rivalrous, revenge-based antagonism.

Regarding my use of “as if” language in my review of First Principles and First Values that Marc questioned, I explained that the “as if” is an invitation to my readers rather than a direct statement of my own position. It is intended as a bridge to the dominant culture, as a pragmatic invitation to see how people’s lives might change if they took these ideas seriously. I shared my grounding in process philosophy and particularly C. S. Peirce’s pragmaticist approach to theologizing: When I use terms like “as if,” it’s really just my way of signaling the participatory nature of truth and the reality of value. It’s not just waiting out there for us to find it. We have to become worthy of it. I emphasized that we need to imaginally body forth truth, goodness, and beauty to maintain them as realities. That’s our crucial role as human beings.

I asked whether consciousness being fundamental implies that the human being is not just the product of an evolutionary process but something more like the very medium of evolution’s expression. I brought in Schelling’s insight that “the human soul is conscientious of creation”—that we’re tapping into our own memory when doing evolutionary cosmology, not just abstractly reconstructing the universe’s exterior development. The intimacy paradigm Marc and Zak are proposing is something like a poetic proof of the existence of God as that than which nothing more intimate can be felt, a phenomenological proof of the existence of the divine ground within and between us. This divine ground, ultimately, is relational, and thus personal.

Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Author), Dr. Zak Stein(Contributor), Elena Maslova Levin (Contributor)

Story is the source code of culture and consciousness and of all Reality-all the way up and down the evolutionary chain. Story is the attempt to gather information about the nature of Reality and translate it into narrative frameworks bounded by Value.
Stories that organize culture are “Stories of Value, backed by the Universe”.

Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.

The postmodernists are wrong.

Story is real. And not all stories are equal. There are better and worse stories. A better story is an eternal and evolving story of Value. Evolving Value backed by the Universe.

A worse story-one with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines of distorted value, like the story we’ve lived in the West for the better part of the last century-can, and will, bring us to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it.

Value is both real, backed by the Universe, and like everything in the Universe, value evolves. The evolution of value itself is the evolution of love, as Eros and evolution themselves, are inherent plotlines of value in the great story of Cosmos.

The goal of The Evolution of Love, and its companion volume Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships, is to provide a first articulation of a new, better story of Value in the domain of relationship. At the core of this New Story of Value are a new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity, which we have called CosmoErotic Humanism and Homo amor.

If we fail to articulate this New Story of Value, the results will be excruciating for billions of human beings and for the entire life system–as for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.
All of the present depends on us to live.
All of the future depends on us to be born.

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The Infinite Intimate: Cosmic Eros, Sacred Story, and the Anthro Ontology of Value2025-07-03T05:14:23-07:00

A NEW Pattern of DIVINE Relationship Emerges! on the Amrit Sandhu Podcast

Join this Podcast with Amrit Sandhu discussing Kabbalah, Eros, Crisis, and Values. 

Join Dr. Marc Gafni on the Amrit Sandhu podcast.

In Amrit’s voice:

Marc Gafni takes us on a powerful, soul-stirring journey through the existential challenges of modern life and the cosmic depths of human purpose. Drawing from ancient wisdom, modern psychology, and his own unique framework of “Unique Self” and “CosmoErotic Humanism,” he unpacks how nihilism, loneliness, and trauma aren’t just personal burdens—they’re existential threats. In this gripping talk, Gafni doesn’t just point out the crisis; he offers a new story, a reimagined narrative of identity and divinity, where every human life is essential to the evolution of the cosmos.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of disconnection or the hunger for deeper meaning, this talk is your invitation to reclaim your sacred role in the great unfolding of existence.

00:00 – Kabbalah and the Wisdom of Solomon

05:08 – Eros: The Essence of Cosmos

08:04 – The Relationship Between Eros and Ethics

10:48 – Cosmoerotic Humanism Explained

14:05 – The Nature of Reality as a Love Story

31:11 – The Evolutionary Love Story

37:33 – Understanding Eros: Lines and Circles

42:49 – Defining the Meta Crisis

49:02 – The Renaissance: A Time Between Worlds

55:47 – The Dignities and Disasters of Modernity

59:41 – Responding to the Meta Crisis

01:08:40 – Global Intimacy Disorder: The Core of the Meta Crisis

01:12:32 – The Field of Value and Intimacy

01:14:30 – The Dawn of a New Era

01:17:23 – Identifying First Principles and Values

01:17:36 – Defining the Meta Crisis

01:19:18 – Exploring Anthro-Ontology

01:21:42 – The Continuity of Values Across Realms

01:25:56 – Intimacy as the Core of Reality

01:31:30 – The Power of the Intimate Universe

01:36:33 – The Role of Unique Self in Transformation

01:41:28 – Addressing the Meta Crisis

01:49:39 – The Emergence of Homo Amor

01:52:13 – The Complexity of Goodness in the Mahabharata

01:55:37 – The Essence of Heroism and Outrageous Love

01:59:40 – The Urgency of Our Time and Collective Action

Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Author), Dr. Zak Stein(Contributor), Elena Maslova Levin (Contributor)

Story is the source code of culture and consciousness and of all Reality-all the way up and down the evolutionary chain. Story is the attempt to gather information about the nature of Reality and translate it into narrative frameworks bounded by Value.
Stories that organize culture are “Stories of Value, backed by the Universe”.

Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.

The postmodernists are wrong.

Story is real. And not all stories are equal. There are better and worse stories. A better story is an eternal and evolving story of Value. Evolving Value backed by the Universe.

A worse story-one with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines of distorted value, like the story we’ve lived in the West for the better part of the last century-can, and will, bring us to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it.

Value is both real, backed by the Universe, and like everything in the Universe, value evolves. The evolution of value itself is the evolution of love, as Eros and evolution themselves, are inherent plotlines of value in the great story of Cosmos.

The goal of The Evolution of Love, and its companion volume Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships, is to provide a first articulation of a new, better story of Value in the domain of relationship. At the core of this New Story of Value are a new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity, which we have called CosmoErotic Humanism and Homo amor.

If we fail to articulate this New Story of Value, the results will be excruciating for billions of human beings and for the entire life system–as for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.
All of the present depends on us to live.
All of the future depends on us to be born.

Order Here

A NEW Pattern of DIVINE Relationship Emerges! on the Amrit Sandhu Podcast2025-05-31T07:41:49-07:00

A New Pattern Of Sacred Relationship Emerges | Vylana Marcus, Alana Beale, & Dr. Marc Gafni at the Aubrey Marcus Podcast

Dr. Marc Gafni, as esteemed teacher, joins this Aubrey Marcus podcast with Vylana Marcus and Alana Beale to discuss the cosmic, philosophical, spiritual, and psychological underpinnings of a configuration of Love. 

Join Aubrey Marcus, Vylana Marcus, Alana Beale and Dr. Marc Gafni in conversation.

In Aubrey’s voice:

This is by far the most controversial podcast we have ever released, triggering equal amounts of radical praise and intense hatred. We read through thousands of comments and ultimately chose to leave the podcast up, but for actual concerns for our own safety to take the comments down. Something about this wildly intimate and emotional revelation that includes the story of how the sacred union with my wife Vylana expanded to include our beloved Alana Beale, a 28 year old powerful woman who we esteem as a teacher to us in many ways.

Why did it touch such a raw nerve?

Perhaps it was the disappointment in the fantasy of Aubrey embodying the reformed Polyamory guy, the bad boy who made good, being dashed on the rocks of reality. Perhaps not having Vylana’s paramour Joshua at the table with us, or one of Alana’s lovers she has had during this process gave an impression that this was some form of archaic patriarchal polygyny. Perhaps it is because in our post-modern world, monogamous union is one of the values that has survived the onslaught of post-modernity. Perhaps it is because I made the mistake of maintaining the repose of a podcast host, instead of dropping into the raw feeling tones of my beautiful wife Vylana. Perhaps it is because there were private details of certain challenging interpersonal dynamics between Vylana and I that were left out of the narrative. Perhaps it is because there is a misinterpretation that the whispers we received along the way, nudging us toward this constellation were being claimed as God’s will. Which of course, none of us can claim to know God’s will.

But ultimately this podcast is not a prescription; we state that many times. It is a description of what has worked for us to allow us to live a life of radical commitment and total freedom. And we have been shocked that so many people who celebrate the beautifully diverse non-heteronormative unions, have expressed such vitriol and ill-will toward all of us. Because we dare to ask the question: Are relationship structures intended by the Cosmos to be one size fits all? Or do variations actually serve the evolution of love?

Dr. Marc Gafni, our esteemed teacher, joins us to discuss the cosmic, philosophical, spiritual, and psychological underpinnings behind this configuration of love that we hope will expand the boundaries of what is possible in every dimension of our intimate, personal, and communal political lives.

Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Author), Dr. Zak Stein(Contributor), Elena Maslova Levin (Contributor)

Story is the source code of culture and consciousness and of all Reality-all the way up and down the evolutionary chain. Story is the attempt to gather information about the nature of Reality and translate it into narrative frameworks bounded by Value.
Stories that organize culture are “Stories of Value, backed by the Universe”.

Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.

The postmodernists are wrong.

Story is real. And not all stories are equal. There are better and worse stories. A better story is an eternal and evolving story of Value. Evolving Value backed by the Universe.

A worse story-one with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines of distorted value, like the story we’ve lived in the West for the better part of the last century-can, and will, bring us to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it.

Value is both real, backed by the Universe, and like everything in the Universe, value evolves. The evolution of value itself is the evolution of love, as Eros and evolution themselves, are inherent plotlines of value in the great story of Cosmos.

The goal of The Evolution of Love, and its companion volume Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships, is to provide a first articulation of a new, better story of Value in the domain of relationship. At the core of this New Story of Value are a new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity, which we have called CosmoErotic Humanism and Homo amor.

If we fail to articulate this New Story of Value, the results will be excruciating for billions of human beings and for the entire life system–as for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.
All of the present depends on us to live.
All of the future depends on us to be born.

Order Here

A New Pattern Of Sacred Relationship Emerges | Vylana Marcus, Alana Beale, & Dr. Marc Gafni at the Aubrey Marcus Podcast2025-05-31T08:08:17-07:00
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