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Zak Stein, Marc Gafni, & Barbara Marx Hubbard: On the Moral Phenomenology of Participating in the Evolution of the Kosmos
Social Justice and Superorganisms A contribution for the roundtable discussion of David Sloan Wilson’s, Does Altruism Exist. Summer, 2015. Zak Stein, Marc Gafni, Barbara Marx Hubbard The Center for Integral Wisdom & The Foundation for Conscious Evolution Abstract: The New Paradigm Is Old Hat Heterodox evolutionary discourse has long entertained the emergence of what Wilson calls superorganisms. These are emergent phenomena that functionally integrate lower-order organisms as parts, lessening within group selection pressure, making the many into one, and thus fostering the evolution of a new organismic totality. Over the years this idea led many to suggest the (inevitable?) emergence [...]
Support the Life Work and Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard
Dear Beloved Friends, Barbara’s deepest heart's desire was to insure that her classical teachings on conscious evolution, her new teachings and writings of the last four years, and finally the vehicle for transmitting her joined teachings with Marc Gafni -- Evolutionary Church -- would be the bridge for crossing the threshold between dystopia and utopia. Her impact on the way we see the world has globally inspired thousands of people to share what we call their unique self and unique gifts to match needs and resources and create a better world. Collaborations and projects of all types — social, political, [...]
The Evolution of Love: A Film with Barbara Marx Hubbard & Marc Gafni
In the world today we look around and see that we’ve made love small. We have exiled love to a particular transient emotion that takes place between particular human beings of a particular gender within a particular legal context. In our CIW Think Tank, we have an understanding that love is an expression of a much deeper source. For us, love is the animating Eros, the love-intelligence and love-beauty of all reality. As we wake up and grow up, as we show up in our lives, we become the clearest and most powerful vessels for that love. We are participating [...]