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

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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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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Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

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Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc GafniThe Editors2025-07-20T17:27:09-07:00

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

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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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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