Parallax hosts this third dialogue: Zak Stein moderates the conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Marc Gafni
Part 3 of this dialogue between Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein.
Part 1 here: The Sacred Power of Story
Part 2 here: The Return of Value and the Sacred
The Topic of the third dialogue Part 3:
What if the deepest crisis of our time is a crisis of Value itself?
Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein explore whether truth, goodness, beauty, meaning, and the sacred are real—or merely human constructions. They discuss the loss of depth, value perception, AI, prophecy, and the possibility that Value can be both eternal and evolving.
Iain McGilchrist: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/
Marc Gafni: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.or…
Zak Stein: https://www.zakstein.org/
First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come
https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-CosmoErotic/dp/B0DZP633BB/
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Things-…
FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES
Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come
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