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Story as a First Principle and First Value of Reality
By Dr. Marc Gafni  This is an early draft of an essay, written by Dr. Marc Gafni. It is part of Volume Two of a forthcoming six-volume book series, The Universe: A Love Story, by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein with Barbara Marx Hubbard. The essay was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a more advanced version of this essay. Download a PDF of this Essay We often speak of three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism. The first is Who—as in Who [...]
Introduction from the New Book on “First Principles & First Values”
Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come by David J. Temple CosmoErotic Humanism is a philosophical movement aimed at reconstructing the collapse of value at the core of global culture. This movement emerges in response to the meta-crisis, understanding existential and catastrophic risks as rooted not only in failures of economics, politics, and technology, but in failed worldviews. The core of CosmoErotic Humanism is a system of First Principles and First Values that recasts cosmic evolution as a Story of Value in which humanity plays a unique role. These First Principles and First [...]
February Updates: The Narrative Thread of Cosmos—The Evolution of Intimacy Through the Four Big Bangs
New Documentary with Dr. Marc Gafni In collaboration with Aubrey Marcus and the Unique Self Institute In Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein's language: "We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories – poised between dystopia and utopia." To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions, what we refer to as the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism: "Who? Where? And What?" Who am I? and Who are we? Where [...]