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Dr. Zachary Stein: Idea Seed Banks, the “Nous Arc,” and the “Great Library”
What do we need to give “our children” so they can prosper and grow into their highest potential—even though we don’t know what kind of challenges they will face in their lives? That’s the real question underlying this beautiful talk by our Academic Director Zak Stein. Watch and listen to this fascinating thought experiment: What would be a “seed bank” of ideas that—if preserved—would allow us to recreate civilization from the ground up, in case humanity survived some sort of an apocalypse? Playing off of Noah’s Arc, Zak calls it the “Nous Arc.” Engaging in this thought experiment a bunch of [...]
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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 [...]