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December Updates: A New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis
Our new book can be pre-ordered from the US and Canada (we are working on creating direct ordering from Europe and other countries - please stand by!): 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 [...]
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Exploring the Self with Dr. Marc Gafni and Paul Chek
The state of our world is in such a fragile place right now, which means it’s up to all of us to step up to the plate and do our part to make it better. You can’t be that agent of change, however, if you don’t know your self… Explore the concept of self and be prepared to tackle the three most important questions any human being has to answer as Dr. Marc Gafni returns for another deep dive into cosmo-erotic humanism in this Living 4D conversation with Paul Chek. Paul Chek is a world-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology, [...]
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Barbie, Hamas, & Homo Amor: From Degraded Love Stories to “The Universe: A Love Story”
Looking at two seemingly unconnected events — the Barbie movie and the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 — helps us clarify our perception and articulate a third possibility. Although there is zero moral equivalence between Barbie and Hamas, both are degraded love stories. That’s what makes them so dangerous. Hamas is a wildly destructive expression of fundamentalism; it degrades and demonizes the body and desire itself. Desire, perceived as evil, is projected outwards, onto ‘infidels,’ and then brutally destroyed. Barbie is an expression of postmodernism: it disqualifies love, value, and desire as non-real, as mere social constructs. In absence [...]