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.

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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
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.

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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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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
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Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:19:24-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more… 

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Explore more:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
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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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.

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
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From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:18:56-07:00

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

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

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book details:

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

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 EVOLUTIONARY CHRISTMAS: WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST

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

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

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

CHAPTER 3 AFFIRMING THE DIGNITY OF NEED AND JOINING GENIUS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 8 AWAKENING THE IMPULSE OF EVOLUTION AS HOMO AMOR UNIVERSALIS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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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.

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 → 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 Part 1 (see Part 2 “The Sacred” HERE) 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 Stein2026-02-26T07:52:13-08:00

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

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Dr. Marc Gafni on The Integral Stage Podcast

Part 2 of a three-part conversation with Layman Pascal on The Integral Stage.

[Part 1 — link] · Part 2 · [Part 3: “Angel Tears” — link]

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 focusing on the book The Evolution of Tears—published at the time of these recordings as Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah—in the exploration of CosmoErotic Humanism.  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.

The Evolution of Tears
Reclaiming Integral Ritual and Personal Myth: Towards a Meta-Psychology of World Religion: The Biblical Model of Rosh Hashanah

Dr. Marc Gafni. Second edition, 2025. World Philosophy & Religion Press with Integral Publishers. Forewords by Ken Wilber and Rabbi Gershon Winkler. Fifty pages of primary source texts in Hebrew and English appended.

About The Evolution of Tears:
This is a book about tears—about the sacred dance of tears in our lives. Tears are not all the same; they come in many different forms and textures. Part of waking up is to learn to identify the nature of your tears and give them voice. To wake up is to become fluent in the language of tears.

The Evolution of Tears is a profoundly original re-engagement with the Hebrew wisdom ritual of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year holy day. Best-selling author and educator Dr. Marc Gafni re-reads an entire corpus of biblical and mystical literature to unlock a hidden esoteric code that is the essence of the ritual—the code of tears. Dr. Gafni identifies eleven major forms of tears woven throughout the Rosh Hashanah liturgy, along with the archetypal figures who cry these different tears. This book invites you to enter this sacred code, to explore the depths of your own tears, and to awaken to their profound melody and meaning.

Tears are our greatest teacher. But most of us are ashamed of our tears. We repress them. We don’t know how to interpret them. We don’t realize that they hold an important message for us. Tears are the colors with which the tapestry of our awakening is painted. Sometimes we cry surface tears in response to stuff that happens—good stuff and bad stuff. But the truest tears are those that well up from the deepest place, the place on the inside of the inside. They may be triggered by a specific event or image, but they are larger than any one event. Every time we cry these true tears, we cry for all the times we never cried before. True tears come only on occasion, but when they do, they are harbingers of great wisdom and guidance.

Identifying the nature of our tears, giving them voice, is to know the language of tears. When we know that language, we wake up, hearkening to the melody and message of our tears. We find that we are guided by our tears in all their forms: tears of joy and tears of protest, tears of longing and tears of transformation, tears of prayer and tears of ecstasy, tears that break through and tears that break down, tears of expansion and tears of contraction, tears because it is all so big and tears because it is all so very small.

More than a study of Hebrew wisdom ritual, The Evolution of Tears demonstrates how world religion as a context for our diversity can emerge from within classical Western traditions. World religion represents a deep ethos and commitment to a shared grammar of evolving value alongside a set of binding injunctions and practices. It stands steadfastly for Spirit in the world, and it honors rituals and community—which embody value in themselves even as they are crucial in the transmission of value. This approach offers a post-postmodern framework of meaning for those who are engaged by Spirit but who can either no longer locate themselves in the traditions or for whom one religion can no longer be an exclusive home.

Whether you are Jewish, spiritual-but-not-religious, or are simply seeking deeper meaning in life’s rituals, this book provides a fresh lens for understanding both ancient wisdom and your own emotional landscape. Beyond its accessibility and highly engaging and transformative transmission, the text offers scholarly readers a rich collection of sophisticated insights drawn from the depths of esoteric Hebrew wisdom tradition.

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The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 22026-08-31T23:10:00-07:00

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.

Marc Gafni

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.

Marc Gafni

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

Marc Gafni

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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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

Marc Gafni



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.

Marc Gafni

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

Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism

CosmoErotic Humanism: the Eight Core Needs of Eros beyond Maslow

From Maslow’s Five Needs to the Eight Core Needs of Eros & CosmoErotic Humanism on Need and Desire

Early Draft by Dr. Marc Gafni

Download a PDF Version of this Essay Here:

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Evolution Is Love in Action in Response to Need

The Bi-Directional Eros and Ethos of Your Need Is My Allurement: Shame, Allurement, Intimacy, Value, Need, and Obligation

In earlier writings, we spoke of the animating principle of evolution, Your need is my allurement. When the beloved speaks to us—not necessarily the romantic beloved, but the Outrageous Love beloved—and says, Your need is my allurement, we heal the shame of finitude that lives so deeply in us. The shame of finitude, as we have outlined it,[1] is the shame that comes from the humiliation we experience in meeting our basic needs. Together with the shame of our mortality and the shame of our animal nature, the shame of finitude is connected to an underlying malaise—the shame of powerlessness. It is only in healing the shame of finitude that we step into the fullness of Homo amor, the new human and the new humanity. The shame of finitude must be healed by each of us, personally. And collectively, we must heal our planet drenched in shame.

Shame is healed, however, not only when we feel the allurement of the beloved to meet our need. That is but the first step of two steps. In this step, we overcome our original humiliation in meeting our fundamental need for touch, contact, and nourishment. The second step is to also experience ourselves saying to the beloved, Your Need is my allurement.

We need to be the object of allurement, which elicits the response of Your Need is my allurement. And we need to be the one allured, who is speaking, Your Need is my allurement.

Allurement is deeply entwined with intimacy. Remember our intimacy articulation:

Intimacy = shared identity in the context of relative otherness x mutuality of recognition x mutuality of pathos x mutuality of value x mutuality of purpose.

Underlying the Eros of intimacy is need: I love you = I need you.

To truly say I love you is to say I need you. It is the mutuality of need that drives the movement towards intimacy. It is in the mutuality of need—often desperate need—that we meet and know each other.

Deep in our Anthro-Ontology, we are allured to respond to need. We are allured to respond to the need of the beloved in precisely the same way that we are allured to respond to our own need. The allurement is rooted in a hidden knowing that we are part of the same Field of Consciousness and Desire. We are allured because no one is ultimately a stranger. That allurement creates not only delight but also the gravitas of intimacy and joyful obligation.

Remember that intimacy is shared identity. And intimacy itself creates obligation. Intimacy is the allurement that reminds my heart and body that we share identity. Intimacy is the allurement in which we recognize each other, we feel each other, we experience our shared values and shared purpose. But even deeper, intimacy is the depth of naked realization in which we embrace the raw and vulnerable truth that we need each other—desperately.

It is not a coincidence of language that in Hebrew one of the root words for love or intimacy—chibah—is also the root word for obligation—chovah. Obligation is not imposed from an alienated source, external to us. Obligation is the experience of love itself in response to need. (more…)

Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism2026-06-09T07:16:47-07:00

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

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

Show Notes from the Aubrey Marcus Podcast Episode:

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

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

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

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December Updates

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

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

by David J. Temple

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

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

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

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

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

Yuval Harari Gets DISMANTLED – Marc Gafni Exposes The Faults In His Logic

On the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, join Dr. Marc Gafni as he critically examines the fundamental errors in Yuval Noah Harari’s assertions that stories, human rights, and human purpose are mere fictions, figments of our imagination.

In this enlightening discussion, Dr, Marc Gafni—in a fierce and funny tour de force—dismantles the grim assumptions presented in both Harari’s adult and children’s literature, aiming to set the record straight and introduce a new Story of Value. In Marc’s words, “ Value is Real, and, Value is Not Hard to Find, Value is Impossible to Avoid”. Embark on this profound exploration of both Gafni and Harari’s works like never before. This conversation is a game-changer, illuminating the fundamental principles and values that govern the cosmos and our personal lives.

  • In **Part 1**, Marc clarifies the concepts of meaning and value.
  • In **Part 2**, he exposes Harari’s perspective on human rights, artificial intelligence, and his claims regarding the authority of science.
  • In **Part 3**, Marc imparts the powerful insight that there are stories of value that are real, and that the most important one is a love story, and that reality itself is—at its core —a love story.

* 0:00:00 Introduction

00:00:43 The Chilling Effect of Yuval Harari

00:03:20 – A New Model to have a Conversation

00:06:30 – Totalitarianism and Freedom

00:18:18 – Part I – Meaning and Value

00:27:11 – A New Story of Value

00:33:53 – Meaning and Value are not Mass Delusion

00:39:54 – Why this Matters

00:55:14 – Premodern, Modern and Postmodern Value

01:00:49 – Evolution of Value

01:07:31 – Harari’s Hijacking Science

01:09:41 – Part II – Science, Rights and Artificial Intelligence

01:10:10 – Ten Dogmas of Modern Science

01:14:17 – Human Rights are Real

01:23:40 – Artificial Intelligence

01:35:19 – Napoleon’s Five Goals

01:37:07 – Part III – Reality is a Love Story

01:41:57 – Telling Children Life has No Inherent Value

01:55:17 – Evolution is the Progressive Deepening of Intimacies

01:56:21 – The Intimate Universe

02:01:26 – Metacrisis and a New Story of Value

02:06:28 – Value is Real, Eternal and Evolving

02:07:32 – Interior Science Intimacy Equation of CosmoErotic Humanism

02:16:04 – Love Story Stands Against Totalitarianism

02:21:02 – Trust is Based on Shared Value

02:27:58 – We Need to Tell a New Story of Value

02:28:47 – Our Imagination is a Figment of God

02:32:19 – Credits

December Updates

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

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

by David J. Temple

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

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

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

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

Order Here

Yuval Harari Gets DISMANTLED – Marc Gafni Exposes The Faults In His Logic2025-03-07T01:34:18-08:00

Kyle Kingsbury Podcast #386 Imagination & Consciousness in Eros w/ Marc Gafni

Marc Gafni



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

ABOUT: 

Dr. Marc Gafni returns to discuss the concept of imagination, as part of a deeper dive into the 12 faces of Eros, inspired by his book ‘A Return to Eros’ co-authored with Christina Kincaid. The discussion highlights the profound role of imagination in understanding Eros, reality, and consciousness. Gafni emphasizes that reality is an evolving love story driven by Eros, and imagination is a key aspect of experiencing and understanding it. He also touches on the importance of fantasy as a doorway to possible futures, the prophetic nature of imagination, and how the erotic serves as a model for imaginative exploration. The talk includes analogies to spirituality, Sufism, and literature, stressing the transformational potential of imaginative thinking.

Marc’s Books:

NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple

A Return to Eros (paperback)

A Return to Eros (audiobook)

The Erotic and the Holy

Your Unique Self

Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment

Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism

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December Updates

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

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

by David J. Temple

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

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

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

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

Order Here

Kyle Kingsbury Podcast #386 Imagination & Consciousness in Eros w/ Marc Gafni2025-03-15T23:47:24-07:00

Dr. Marc Gafni in Audio Conversation with Devin Bailey: The Universe Is a Love Story

Marc Gafni



As Above, So Below.

Dr. Marc Gafni in Audio Conversation with Devin Bailey: The Universe Is a Love Story2024-12-04T03:33:54-08:00

Parallax Video & Audio Podcast: Unique Self 2.0. with Marc Gafni

Portal 1: Intimacy, Eros, and Evolutionary Love

Unique Self 2.0?

What is Unique?

What is Self?

What is 2.0?

Dr. Marc Gafni argues that the Enlightenment traditions made the big mistake of denying identity and selfhood. He attempts to rectify this mistake and celebrate human uniqueness as the only way to survive the meta-crisis.

Parallax Video & Audio Podcast: Unique Self 2.0. with Marc Gafni2024-12-04T03:16:06-08:00

Dr. Zachary Stein on AI, Education, and the Meta-Crisis at Smart Funny Tortured Podcast – Audio

Zachary Stein



The Smart Funny Tortured Podcast

Paul Chamberlain sits down with some of the most interesting people he knows to talk about what it was like when they broke down and what was their breakthrough. What tools, supports, and practices did they use and still use, to get back on track and carry on?

The podcast will also allow you to get to know Paul. What started as a well-produced podcast, turned into a life-changing cathartic confessional that could have only happened via his amazing guests and the support of those around him.

Through these shared stories, his hope is we all get a little more comfortable with being smart, funny and (a little less) tortured.

EPISODE CHAPTERS

0:01 – Envisioning an Educational Renaissance Through AI and Human Connection

2:18 – Technological Elites and the Redesign of Society

7:39 – BF Skinner’s Influence on Societal Engineering to Prevent Existential Risks

9:22 – Manipulation Through Digital Reinforcement and Surveillance

11:58 – Technocracy’s Struggle With Value and Control

13:45 – Confronting Nihilism and Meaning in Education

15:48 – Transforming American Education for Cold War Supremacy

18:35 – Decoding the Shift in American Education and Economy

21:59 – Debating AI’s Role in Transforming Education

25:03 – AI Socialization Threatens Millennia-Old Human Connections

26:46 – The Ethical Dilemmas of Humanoid AI Development

32:43 – Debating the Nature of Value and the Good Life

34:12 – The Dual Use Dilemma of AI in Modern Technology

35:57 – AI’s Impact on Military, Finance, and Pop Culture

39:09 – Educational Crisis and National Defense Perspectives

43:36 – Envisioning a Renaissance in Education Through AI and Community

48:57 – Revitalizing Education Through Community Engagement and Guild Structures

51:06 – Distinguishing Education from Propaganda and Coercion

55:19 – Coercion and Thought-Terminating Cliches in Social Media

1:00:26 – Confronting Propaganda with Educational Innovation

1:03:49 – Metacrisis Dynamics: Oscillating Between Chaos and Oppression

1:07:04 – Redefining Civilization Within Planetary Boundaries

1:10:37 – Rethinking Value Systems and Worldviews for Ecological Preservation

Dr. Zachary Stein is a Co-Founder of the Civilization Research Institute and the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought-after and award-winning speaker and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.

Zak is the author of dozens of published papers and two influential books. His first book, Social Justice and Educational Measurement, traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications. His most recent book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, grapples with the dangers posed by a profound learning and capacity deficit in a time of civilization-wide transformation. In this work, Zak argues that educational systems must be transformed beyond recognition if humanity is to survive the planetary crises currently underway, from climate change to geopolitical instability.

Zak sees education, in a deeply philosophical sense, as fundamental to the sustainability of civilization, with implications for each component of the “metacrisis” – the complex, interrelated global challenges and existential threats facing humanity. In Zak’s view, whoever drives the technology stack of education will shape the future of civilization itself. His mission is to empower younger generations with the capacity to comprehend and respond appropriately to the unique challenges of our time.

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Dr. Zachary Stein on AI, Education, and the Meta-Crisis at Smart Funny Tortured Podcast – Audio2025-07-03T05:28:29-07:00
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