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Video on Responding to Existential Risk by Dr. Marc Gafni
Humanity is facing extinction level crises in not one but in multiple and distinct sectors. That alone could throw us into a personal crisis of overwhelming dimensions—without even beginning to take into account the many crucial personal existential challenges most of us face in our own lives. How can we possibly look seriously into the face of global existential risk, manifest as extinction level threats and be motivated and energized into the joy of our lives? That is the question that Marc addresses in this very moving video. How does Existential Risk become the catalyst to profound joy and awakening into the Outrageous Love [...]
A Gift from the CIW Board Retreat 2017: Introduction by Dr. Marc Gafni: Never Bypass the Personal
Enjoy this beautiful introduction and story by Dr. Marc Gafni from our 2017 CIW Board Retreat: The Story of Levi Isaac of Berdichev Told by Dr. Marc Gafni from the book Your Unique Self by Dr. Marc Gafni When you fail to hold the personal, you may begin to engage in manipulation or possibly even psychological abuse. When you begin to see yourself as aligned with the process, which was the great teaching of Hegel, you may inadvertently give birth to the worst evils of Fascism, Communism, and Nazism, all of which were very heavily influenced by Hegel’s teaching that demanded [...]
Unique Selves in a Self-Organizing Universe: A Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein
From an unedited draft of the forthcoming book Towards a New Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein The core structural principle from Integral Meta-Theory involved in the formation of a Unique Self Symphony is the scientific principle of self-organization. The idea of self-organization is according to many the single most important scientific idea to emerge in the last sixty years. It exists at every level of reality and across all four quadrants. While many scientific accounts focus only on self-organization in systems and structures in biology or cybernetics (i.e., Lower-Right reductionism), there is a [...]