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# Center for World Philosophy and Religion: Articulating a New Worldview: CosmoErotic Humanism

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## Posts
- [Pre Tragic, Tragic, Post Tragic (Part 1) w/ Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/pre-tragic-tragic-post-tragic-part-1-w-marc-gafni/): This is the first half of a discussion in which Layman and the Rabbi Marc Gafni discuss the origins, nature, community use, philosophical necessity, and intriguing extensions of the tripartite concept of pre-tragic, tragic & post-tragic.
- [Perception of Eros: The Psychology of Love w/ Marc Gafni #450](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/perception-of-eros-the-psychology-of-love-w-marc-gafni-450/): Kyle Kingsbury welcomes back Dr. Marc Gafni to continue their short-form series on the “12 faces/phases of Eros,” focusing here on Eros as perception. Gafni defines Eros as radical aliveness desiring deeper contact and greater wholeness, a cosmic force uniquely moving through each person, and argues love is not merely emotion but a “perception-identification complex” in which one perceives another’s irreducible quality/value and identifies their essence with that beauty rather than surface flaws. He critiques modern fast, negative, scandal-driven attention and “pornographic” surface gazing as anti-Eros, contrasting it with deep perception captured by Avatar’s “I see you.” He says understanding love as perception makes it trainable, and extends the idea to orgasm as an illumination and affirmation of divine intimacy.
- [Prayer: How To Have A Conversation with God | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/prayer-how-to-have-a-conversation-with-god-dr-marc-gafni/): Join Aubrey Marcus and Dr. Marc Gafni in conversation.
- [Dr. Marc Gafni: The Unique Self: Living your Unique Will](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/dr-marc-gafni-the-unique-self-living-your-unique-will/): Tom Amarque host Parallax podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
- [Dr. Epsen Wold-Jensen with Dr. Marc Gafni: The Death of Humanity Has Already Begun (But No One Notices)](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/dr-epsen-wold-jensen-with-dr-marc-gafni-the-death-of-humanity-has-already-begun-but-no-one-notices/): “Reality intended you. Reality chose you. Reality recognizes you. Reality needs you.” -Dr. Marc Gafni I
- [Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni & Zak Stein | The Return of Value and the Sacred – Part 2](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/iain-mcgilchrist-marc-gafni-zak-stein-the-return-of-value-and-the-sacred-part-2/): Parallax hosts this second dialogue: Zak Stein moderates an intense conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Marc Gafni
- [The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism – “Angel Tears” Part 3](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-road-to-cosmoerotic-humanism-angel-tears-part-3/): This podcast is the third and final part 3 of the conversations on the Book "Tears" by Dr. Marc Gafni in the exploration of CosmoErotic Humanism.
- [Some Idiosyncratic Remarks on the History of Uniqueness as a First Principle and First Value](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/some-idiosyncratic-remarks-on-the-history-of-uniqueness-as-a-first-principle-and-first-value/): The overall purpose of this volume, Some Idiosyncratic Remarks on the History of Uniqueness as a First Principle and First Value, and the other volumes of the Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism that this volume is part of, is to provide a first articulation of this New Story of Value in the domain of relationship, which, as we will see below, is the core structure of Reality itself.
- [Meta-Crisis Meaning Collapse & the Evolution of Love | Paul Chek and Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/meta-crisis-meaning-collapse-the-evolution-of-love-paul-chek-and-dr-marc-gafni/): The meta-crisis meaning collapse describes the deeper loss of value, purpose, and shared story driving today’s global crises. In this conversation, Dr. Marc Gafni and Paul Chek explore how the evolution of love offers a response to existential risk. Dr. Marc Gafni addresses the meta-crisis — the convergence of ecological collapse, technological disruption, cultural fragmentation, and spiritual disorientation — by naming its deeper root: the collapse of meaning.
- [Parallax Video & Audio Podcast Unique Self 2.0–Year 2 Portal 2: Beyond Shame–Identifying Your Unique Wound of Desire](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/parallax-video-audio-podcast-unique-self-2-0-year-2-portal-2-beyond-shame-identifying-your-unique-wound-of-desire/): In this three-week journey, participants confront the wounds that shape their lives—the unique ruptures that call us from despair into wonder, from alienation into intimacy, from devastation into divinity. Each person’s wound is singular, tied to their shadow, their desire, and their unique self. This course guides students to trace the root of their wound, recognize the false core it may have created, and begin the heroic work of transforming pain into power, shame into insight, and contraction into love. We explore personal, familial, and cultural wounding, and the path of the wounded hero, learning to step into authentic presence and the intimate communion between hero and the wounded God.
- [Charlie Kirk Assassination, Political Polarization, and the Call for a New World Religion](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/charlie-kirk-political-polarization-world-religion/): Marc Gafni on Charlie Kirk’s assassination, political polarization, and why humanity needs a New World Religion rooted in shared value.
- [Foreword to Your Unique Self by Ken Wilber](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/foreword-to-your-unique-self-by-ken-wilber/): Dr. Marc Gafni’s integral unique self teaching is seminal. What you hold in your hands is a radically exciting and groundbreaking book that will change forever not only how you think about enlightenment, but how you understand, from a post-metaphysical perspective, the very nature of human life itself.
- [The Sacred Power of Story | Marc Gafni & Iain McGilchrist Moderated by Zak Stein](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-sacred-power-of-story-marc-gafni-iain-mcgilchrist-moderated-by-zak-stein/): Zak Stein moderates Part 1 (see Part 2 "The Sacred" HERE) an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist. and Dr. Marc Gafni and the dialogue spans the sacred nature of story, the loss of value and eros, the nature of evil, and the deep structures shaping culture today.
- [The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 2](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-road-to-cosmoerotic-humanism-the-tears-of-dr-marc-gafni-part-2/): In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal and Dr. Marc Gafni continue their exploration of the backstory and intellectual journey to CosmoErotic Humanism with a further exploration of the "relentless Rabbi's" book on Tears. This time, they focus on questions related to God's Voice, Laughter in Hell, Bondage & the Abraham/Isaac tale. 
- [The Persian/Hebrew Axis | Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-persian-hebrew-axis-alexander-bard-marc-gafni-and-zak-stein/): A rich and provocative conversation at the crossroads of philosophy, education, and technology, and a bold defense of religion in the modern age. Three intellectual titans — Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein — come together in this deep-dive dialogue, discovering surprising points of unity across their metaphysical differences.
- [The Infinite Intimate: Cosmic Eros, Sacred Story, and the Anthro Ontology of Value](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-infinite-intimate-cosmic-eros-sacred-story-and-the-anthro-ontology-of-value/): Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.
- [Formal Statement Refuting Sally Adnams Jones](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/final-statement-refuting-sally-adnams-jones/): This is a formal statement issued by the Center for World Philosophy and Religion (The Center) in response to the egregious false claims made by Sally Adnams Jones (Adnams) in her self-recorded and self-published video. In this video — and in prior social media posts — Adnams has launched a series of malicious attacks against Dr. Marc Gafni (Gafni) and The Center.
- [A NEW Pattern of DIVINE Relationship Emerges! on the Amrit Sandhu Podcast](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/a-new-pattern-of-divine-relationship-emerges-on-the-amrit-sandhu-podcast/): Join Dr. Marc Gafni on the Amrit Sandhu podcast.
- [A New Pattern Of Sacred Relationship Emerges | Vylana Marcus, Alana Beale, & Dr. Marc Gafni at the Aubrey Marcus Podcast](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/a-new-pattern-of-sacred-relationship-emerges-vylana-alana-beale-dr-marc-gafni/): Join Aubrey Marcus, Vylana Marcus, Alana Beale and Dr. Marc Gafni in conversation.
- [Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/beyond-maslow-the-eight-core-needs-of-cosmoerotic-humanism/): At the core of this essay is a post-postmodern, or what some have labeled metamodern (and still others have called integral) vision of core needs, what we will call later the Eight Core Eros Needs. This vision includes survival, growth, and affective needs while extending the framework of core needs well beyond these three. These Eight Core Eros Needs stand at the center of our vision of CosmoErotic Humanism, with its core elements of Homo amor, the Universe: A Love Story, the Intimate Universe, and Unique Self Theory, among others. As we have already alluded to, this new vision of needs emerges directly from the new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity. We will contextualize this new vision of human needs in relationship to Maslow’s classic hierarchy of needs. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. First, we will very briefly sketch the premodern, modern, and postmodern attempts to meet the human growth and affective needs.
- [A Shocking Convergence: A CHANNEL Meets The Kabbalist Lineage of SOLOMON | Marc Gafni x Paul Selig](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/a-shocking-convergence-a-channel-meets-the-kabbalist-lineage-of-solomon-marc-gafni-x-paul-selig/): Check out more of Dr. Marc Gafni’s work at ⁠⁠⁠https://worldphilosophyandreligion.or...
- [Yuval Harari Gets DISMANTLED – Marc Gafni Exposes The Faults In His Logic](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/yuval-harari-gets-dismantled-marc-gafni-exposes-the-faults-in-his-logic/): In this enlightening discussion, Dr, Marc Gafni—in a fierce and funny tour de force—dismantles the grim assumptions presented in both Harari’s adult and children’s literature, aiming to set the record straight and introduce a new Story of Value. In Marc’s words, “ Value is Real, and, Value is Not Hard to Find, Value is Impossible to Avoid”. Embark on this profound exploration of both Gafni and Harari’s works like never before. This conversation is a game-changer, illuminating the fundamental principles and values that govern the cosmos and our personal lives.
- [Kyle Kingsbury Podcast #386 Imagination & Consciousness in Eros w/ Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/kyle-kingsbury-podcast-386-imagination-consciousness-in-eros-w-marc-gafni/): Dr. Marc Gafni returns to discuss the concept of imagination, as part of a deeper dive into the 12 faces of Eros, inspired by his book 'A Return to Eros' co-authored with Christina Kincaid. The discussion highlights the profound role of imagination in understanding Eros, reality, and consciousness. Gafni emphasizes that reality is an evolving love story driven by Eros, and imagination is a key aspect of experiencing and understanding it. He also touches on the importance of fantasy as a doorway to possible futures, the prophetic nature of imagination, and how the erotic serves as a model for imaginative exploration. The talk includes analogies to spirituality, Sufism, and literature, stressing the transformational potential of imaginative thinking.
- [Updates November 2024: New Podcasts & New Essays on Substack](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/updates-november-2024-new-podcasts-new-essays-on-substack/): Video Podcasts 2 · Updates August 2024: Summer Symphonies, Book Review, Upcoming Courses, and New Podcasts · Dr. Marc Gafni
- [Dr. Marc Gafni in Audio Conversation with Devin Bailey: The Universe Is a Love Story](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/dr-marc-gafni-in-audio-conversation-with-devin-bailey-the-universe-is-a-love-story/): JFKU Unique Self Course – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person · Key Audios on Integral Planet · Dr. Marc Gafni
- [Parallax Video & Audio Podcast: Unique Self 2.0. with Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/parallax-video-audio-podcast-unique-self-2-0-with-marc-gafni/): JFKU Unique Self Course – Gnosis · Unique Self Recovery · Dr. Marc Gafni
- [Dr. Zachary Stein on AI, Education, and the Meta-Crisis at Smart Funny Tortured Podcast – Audio](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/dr-zachary-stein-on-ai-education-and-the-meta-crisis-at-smart-funny-tortured-podcast-video-audio/): Dr. Zachary Stein is a Co-Founder of the Civilization Research Institute and the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought-after and award-winning speaker and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.
- [Updates October 2024: New Podcasts & Essays on Substack](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/updates-october-2024-new-podcasts-essays-on-substack/): An invitation by Marc Gafni (Transcript of Video):
- [Revolutionary Codes For The Future of Relationships w/ Marcus & Vylana Marcus](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/revolutionary-codes-for-the-future-of-relationships-w-marcus-vylana-marcus/): But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. In this radically vulnerable podcast we disclose for the first time the details of our own crisis of separation, and how we came back stronger than ever with the help of Rebbe Marc Gafni and his blueprints for the future of relationships. How do you overcome jealousy? How do you resolve conflict? Why are so many people choosing between deadness or dishonesty? What is ‘donkey smuggling’ and how does this prevent intimacy in communication? For anyone interested in diving deeper on relationships with Vylana and I, check out our Romantically Fit masterclass offered through Fit For Service.
- [CosmoErotic Humanism: Unveiling the Blueprint for Humanity’s Next Evolution w/ Ariana Sommer](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/cosmoerotic-humanism-unveiling-the-blueprint-for-humanitys-next-evolution-w-ariana-sommer/): Marc Gafni is known for his groundbreaking ‘source code teachings’ that delve into the profound depths of spirituality, ethics, and human connection. His theories, such as the Unique Self, CosmoErotic Humanism, and the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo amor, are not just philosophical musings; they are calls to action for a global reawakening—a radical shift in how we view ourselves and our collective story.
- [Decoding The Kabbalah Tree Of Life: Realize Your Unique Self & Unleash Eros with Andre Duqum](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/decoding-the-kabbalah-tree-of-life-realize-your-unique-self-unleash-eros-with-andre-duqum/): 1:20:24 The East & West Both Got This Wrong: The Emergence of Unique Self
- [The Road to CosmoErotic Humanism: The “Tears” of Dr. Marc Gafni Part 1](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-road-to-cosmoerotic-humanism-the-tears-of-dr-marc-gafni/): In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal interviews Dr. Marc Gafni on his book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah. The book uses the rite of Rosh Hashanah in the wisdom of Solomon lineage to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of religion beyond philosophy and spirituality. 
- [Story, Risk, and Trust | Marc Gafni in dialogue with Tim Adalin](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/story-risk-and-trust-marc-gafni-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin/): Join Tim Adalin in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni.
- [Updates September 2024: New Podcasts & Featured Essay “On the Erotic and the Ethical”](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/updates-september-2024-new-podcasts-featured-essay-on-the-erotic-and-the-ethical/): The Unique Self Coaching process, and its signature program “Unique Self Emergence” created by Barbara Alexander and Claire Molinard, is a powerful change technology that taps into the deepest aspects of your life to reveal your unique potential and facilitate its emergence as your Unique Self.
- [The Integral Stage Podcast: First Principles and First Values, Part 3 (Interview with David J. Temple)](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-integral-stage-podcast-first-principles-and-first-values-part-3-interview-with-david-j-temple/): In this third and final episode in this series, which is cross-posted to both the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism and Authors Series playlists, Layman sits down again with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein to talk further about their jointly authored book, First Principles and First Values, this time focusing on some of the core philosophical arguments.
- [The Integral Stage Podcast: First Principles and First Values, Part 2 (Interview with David J. Temple)](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-integral-stage-podcast-first-principles-and-first-values-part-2-interview-with-david-j-temple/): In this episode, which is cross-posted to both the Cosmo-Erotic Humanism and Authors Series playlists, Layman sits down again with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein to talk further about their jointly authored book, First Principles and First Values, this time focusing on some of the core philosophical arguments.
- [Metamodern Spirituality | Reconstructing Value (w/ Zak Stein)](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/metamodern-spirituality-reconstructing-value-w-zak-stein/): Join Brendan Graham Dempsey in conversation with Dr. Zak Stein.
- [Story, Religion, and Mormonism | True North Project #57 with Christian Dokstader](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/story-religion-and-mormonism-true-north-project-57-with-christian-dokstader/): Join Christian Dokstader in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni.
- [Updates August 2024: Summer Symphonies, Book Review, Upcoming Courses, and New Podcasts](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/updates-on-this-site-august-2024/): This inquiry is the reason why Dr. Marc Gafni invited those who have been holding the One Mountain infrastructure for the last year to lead the weekly gathering for the month of August. For 5 weeks from August 4th to Sept 1st, Dr. Marc Gafni stepped back to invite our Unique Self Symphony to play our unique instruments. This also allowed Dr. Marc to focus his time entirely on writing the Great Library.
- [Value in the Metacrisis with Zak Stein](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/value-in-the-metacrisis-with-zak-stein/): Dr. Zachary Stein is the co-president of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought after and award winning speaker, and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development. Zak is the author of several books, such as Education in a Time Between Worlds. In this conversation we primarily discuss the new book he contributed to, together with Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber. It's called First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come.
- [From Crisis to Crossing: A New Story For A New Humanity ft. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/from-crisis-to-crossing-a-new-story-for-a-new-humanity-ft-marc-gafni/): In a profound analysis of our current meta-crisis and what he calls the “global intimacy disorder,” Dr. Marc Gafni draws from what he refers to as “the exterior and interior sciences” to deepen our responses to these three questions. The responses offer a new understanding of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, and generate the beginning of “a universal grammar of value as a context for our diversity.”
- [The TRUE Story In The Guardians Of The Galaxy Trilogy w/ Marc Gafni and Aubrey Marcus](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-true-story-in-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-trilogy-w-marc-gafni-and-aubrey-marcus/): Aubrey Marcus: "If you have watched the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, this podcast will blow your mind. Because hidden within these fictional films, are true stories of value and reality drawn forth into existence by a force even greater than the writers themselves. So what deep mythic wisdom can we find hiding in the Guardians Of The Galaxy story? You’ll have to join Dr. Marc Gafni and I to find out. SPOILER ALERT! 
- [Decoding Lord Of The Rings: A Revelatory Exploration w/ Dr. Marc Gafni and Aubrey Marcus](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/decoding-lord-of-the-rings-a-revelatory-exploration-w-dr-marc-gafni-and-aubrey-marcus/): "Was Lord of the Rings just a story or was it a prophesy? What does it have to tell us about our current time and the struggles we face? What is the meaning of the two towers, and the ring of power? I sit down with master teacher and religious scholar Dr. Marc Gafni to decode the hidden meaning in this timeless tale."
- [Book Review “First Principles & First Values” by David Nicol](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/book-review-first-principles-first-values-by-david-nicol/): The book is First Principles & First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, by David J. Temple. David J. Temple is a pseudonym that represents a consortium of writers associated with the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein being the primary authors.
- [Kyle Kingsbury Podcast #366 The Fifth Face of Eros with Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/kyle-kingsbury-podcast-366-the-fifth-face-of-eros-with-marc-gafni/): Back again with Marc Gafni to delve into the '12 Faces of Eros,' specifically focusing on the concept of the 'unique self.' Dr. Gaffney explains the intricacies of Eros, which is described as radical aliveness, desiring deeper contact and greater wholeness. The episode addresses how the unique self differs from the separate self and true self, emphasizing its role as an intended, recognized, chosen, and unique expression of reality. The conversation is enriched with philosophical and spiritual discussions, aiming to weave together various streams of wisdom.
- [On the Erotic and the Ethical](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/on-the-erotic-and-the-ethical-tikkun-magazin-2003/): The relationship with the Goddess was not a hobby for the Israelites like modern religious affiliation often tends to be. It was an all-consuming desire to be on the inside, to feel the infinite fullness of reality in every moment and in every encounter—it was an attempt to fully experience eros. Because the ancients were so aware of the depth of reality, to live without being able to access the infinite in this erotic way was enormously painful. (For an example, read the story of the idolatrous King Menashe, as retold in the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 92A.)
- [Eros Is Ethics](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/eros-is-ethics/): The arena where emptiness—nonerotic living—is most destructive is in the ethical. Every ethical failure comes from the absence of eros. It is their inability to stay in the experience of emptiness that moves people to violate their ethics. All crimes are in some sense crimes of passion. But this is actually a misnomer. What we mean is that all crimes are rooted in the fear of passion’s loss! We cannot imagine what life would be like without the eros that we stand to lose.
- [Zak Stein: “Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis” | The Great Simplification 122](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/zak-stein-values-education-ai-and-the-metacrisis-the-great-simplification-122/): Join Nate Hagens in conversation with Dr. Zak Stein.
- [The Dysfunction We Are Experiencing in Birth, Death, and Medicine – with Hebrew Mystic Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/the-dysfunction-that-we-are-experiencing-in-birth-death-and-medicine-with-hebrew-mystic-marc-gafni/): Join Nathan Riley in conversation with Dr. Marc Gafni.
- [Eros, Unique Self, & a New Story of Value | w/ Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/eros-unique-self-a-new-story-of-value-w-marc-gafni/): Friday Night Salon June 2013 Audio · Michael Bernard Beckwith in Dialogue with Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni: Touching the Face of Tomorrow · Dr. Marc Gafni

## Pages
- [Articles](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/articles/)
- [Dialogues Layman Pascal & Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/media-publications/dialogues-layman-pascal-marc-gafni/): You can watch the videos directly on this page, or you can click on the Headings to open the full post with the video and more information.
- [Formal Refutation from the Center for World Philosophy and Religion—Refuting False and Defamatory Claims](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/evolving-public-culture/formal-refutation-from-the-center-for-world-philosophy-and-religion-refuting-false-and-defamatory-claims/): This essay is a formal statement from the Center for World Philosophy and Religion as part of our ongoing responsibility to respond appropriately to the decades long online smear campaign against Dr. Marc Gafni. It is issued by the Center to reaffirm the facts, reassert the record, and guide sincere seekers of truth and justice in navigating the broken ecology of internet culture.
- [The Evolution of Democracy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-evolution-of-democracy/): CHAPTER 1 NURTURING THE UNION OF HUMANS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE
- [There Are a Welcome (Home) Signs in Reality | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zak Stein](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/there-are-a-welcome-home-signs-in-reality/): This short volume poses a fundamental question: Are we truly welcome in the Universe? The answer, resoundingly, is yes—we are always and already welcome. This realization—the sense that we are deeply needed and loved by Reality itself—forms the foundation for a new Story of Value and a new way of understanding the world. Dr. Marc Gafni (along with Dr. Zak Stein) invites readers to embrace the notion of “Outrageous Love” as a response to suffering. It argues that our shared existence is not a matter of mere survival, but of radical intimacy with the Cosmos—and each other.
- [The Crossing | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-crossing/): This book is compiled from lightly edited transcriptions from The Crossing, an event originally initiated and taught by Dr. Gafni, and organized and facilitated by James Bampfield. The Crossing took place in Holland in 2024. The larger context for the Crossing was a series of more than thirty Wisdom School and Mystery School events led by Dr. Gafni and his colleagues which preceded this event.
- [Awakening the New Human | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/awakening-the-new-human/): CHAPTER 3    BECOMING THE NEW HUMAN, HOMO AMOR: STRATEGIES OF SEDUCTION AND UNFURNISHING THE EYES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- [From Polarization to Paradox | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/from-polarization-to-paradox/): Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.
- [Live Your Story | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/live-your-story/): CHAPTER 5    LIVE YOUR STORY: THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF COSMOS
- [Story Is Real | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/story-is-real/): We’re in a time between worlds and a time between stories. We are in a postmodern era characterized by the deconstruction of intrinsic value and the deconstruction of the Story of Value. But story is not merely a human construct that is useful for cohering society (as the postmodern zeitgeist suggests). Story is an ontology of Cosmos. Story is a First Principle and First Value of Cosmos. The deepest readings of interior and exterior sciences now demonstrate that Reality is a Story. And Reality is not just an ordinary story—Reality is a love story. Eros itself is not merely the mechanics of Reality; it is the value of Reality. Eros is value and value is filled with Eros. Reality is animated by the music of ErosValue.
- [From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/from-conspiracy-theories-to-the-ultimate-conspiring-of-reality/): This book explores the dangers of a broken sensemaking and information ecology in a time between worlds and time between stories. We are faced with two bad alternatives: to blindly dismiss all conspiracy theories or to blindly buy into all their claims. Both are wrong choices.
- [Value is Real | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/value-is-real/): This book is a call to reclaim value as real—because the future of the world depends on it. We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories, as the very existence of humanity is threatened by a meta-crisis. The meta-crisis is a series of interlocking social, political, educational, climate and technological crises, that we can all see and feel in our lives.
- [Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/barbie-hamas-and-oppenheimer/): The book you are holding explores the key scenes and unspoken messages of two blockbuster films from the summer of 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Barbie was widely hailed as an icon of feminism, yet its portrayal of relationship is utterly empty, for all genders. The point of the movie is that there is no "Barbie and Ken"-meaning that there is no inherent love story in Cosmos. Both movies unwittingly depict the destructive splits in relationship-one between the masculine and the feminine and one within the atom-that place human life at risk today.
- [A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don’t Look Up | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/a-dharmic-critique-of-the-movies-dune-avatar-and-dont-look-up/): CHAPTER TWO    A DHARMIC CRITIQUE OF THE MOVIE DUNE, PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OF READING STORIES IN PUBLIC CULTURE
- [Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/corona-a-crisis-of-intimacy/): We stand at a time between worlds, a time between stories—poised between dystopia and utopia. How we respond will have consequences and reverberations for many generations. First Principles and First Values offers both the most compelling diagnosis and the most effective and indeed joyful response to the looming threat of existential and catastrophic risk.
- [First Principles and First Values | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/first-principles-and-first-values/): We stand at a time between worlds, a time between stories-poised between dystopia and utopia. How we respond will have consequences and reverberations for many generations. First Principles and First Values offers both the most compelling diagnosis and the most effective and indeed joyful response to the looming threat of existential and catastrophic risk.
- [She Comes in Threes | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/she-comes-in-threes/): CHAPTER 1    SHE COMES IN THREES
- [Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/existential-risk-and-the-evolution-of-love/): Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love offers a transformative philosophical vision for addressing the crises currently threatening humanity’s survival. At the core of this work is the concept of Existential Risk—a term encompassing the social, environmental, and technological challenges we face today. Marc Gafni proposes a bold response: the creation of a new Story of Value that sparks a Planetary Awakening in Love through the collective power of Unique Self Symphonies.
- [Homo Amor and Unique Self | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/homo-amor-and-unique-self/): Homo amor is the answer to the one of the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism, Who Am I? Or, Who are We? The evolution of consciousness, which itself is the evolution of love, is rooted in the ever-deepening response to this great question of human identity.Indeed, Homo amor is the next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens. Homo amor is a deeper, truer, and more beautiful answer to the question of Who am I, and Who are We.
- [The Path of Outrageous Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-path-of-outrageous-love/): The Path to Outrageous Love invites readers to awaken to a ground-breaking vision of Reality, one where the very fabric of existence is Eros itself—a dynamic, living force of love. In this transformative work, Marc Gafni calls us to recognize that Reality is not merely a fact, but an Outrageous Love Story.
- [The Infinity of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-infinity-of-intimacy/): The Infinity of Intimacy explores “Evolution: The Love Story of the Universe,” which is understood as the evolution of intimacy itself. One example of this evolution of intimacy is the movement from biological family to a deeper, “evolutionary intimacy” that includes but also transcends traditional forms of relationships. Marc Gafni discloses how we can include and transcend the bonds of biology into a greater “evolutionary family”—a space where irreducible Unique Selves recognize one another as part of a larger, cosmic symphony. It is before your evolutionary family that you are called to confess your greatness and live out and into your “deepest heart’s desires.” These are not your ordinary or surface desires but your clarified desires, which by their very nature are your deepest heart’s desire.
- [The Existential Risk of Technology | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-existential-risk-of-technology/): There are two forms of existential risk: the potential death of humanity—an extinction event—and the potential death of our humanity. One primary cause for the death of our humanity is what we are referring to as the emergent “tech plex,” an immersive digital temple disassociated from the Field of Value. At the heart of the tech plex is the “planetary stack” that currently wires the entire planet—the increasing interconnection of algorithmic and technological infrastructure, social structure, and superstructure that encircles the globe. The result is upgraded algorithms and downgraded humanity, which is one main cause for the potential death of our humanity.
- [World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/world-religion-as-a-context-for-our-diversity/): World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity is a visionary collection of “oral essays” by Dr. Marc Gafni that offers a new “Story of Value” in response to the collapse of a shared global ethos. In many ways, we must reclaim religion as part of this story—not a return to traditional forms of religion but a new shared Story of Value as a context for our diversity. At the core of world religion is a universal grammar of value. This grammar of value writes the chapters of a new Story of Value, not as mere conjecture or a constructed narrative, but as a story deeply rooted in the value structure of Reality itself.
- [The Next Step in Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-next-step-in-conscious-evolution/): CHAPTER 6    BARBARA MARX HUBBARD’S BIRTHDAY: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION
- [Evolutionary Church | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/evolutionary-church/): What do we mean when we say we are an Evolutionary Church practicing Evolutionary Love?
- [Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/conscious-evolution/): This volume captures the transformative vision of a new humanity emerging through the evolution of love. Beginning with a memorial to Barbara Marx Hubbard, co-founder with Marc Gafni of Evolutionary Church, it honors her profound teaching that "I am evolution in person" and her pioneering work on conscious evolution. At its heart is a radical proposition: evolution itself is the evolution of intimacy. Marc Gafni and Barbara articulate a new story of Reality as a love story-not ordinary romantic love, but Outrageous Love capable of meeting our global crisis.
- [The Journey to Homo Amor | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-journey-to-homo-amor/): We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories. The demand, obligation, and joy of this time is to cross over. This is what we have called The Crossing. At the core of the crossing is the evolutionary journey from Homo sapiens to Homo amor. This is not a fanciful conjecture but an authentic evolutionary potential. The root of the meta-crisis is not a crisis of resources; it is a crisis of imagination. We need to reimagine our identity and in doing so reimagine the future. We address anew the three great questions of life: Where am I, where are we? Who am I, who are we? What is mine and what is ours to do?
- [Playing a Larger Game | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/playing-a-larger-game/): We live in a time of global crisis. All of the crises are interlinked at their core, expressions of what we have called a global intimacy disorder. The urgent need for coherent action is existential.
- [The Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/the-evolution-of-intimacy/): We live in a time of crisis-"a time between worlds and a time between stories." Only profound evolution-transformation-will tip the scale away from catastrophic devolution. Barbara and Marc, rooted in a profound read of contemporary reality, locate the core of the crisis in a global intimacy disorder. The core crisis is no less than a crisis of intimacy.
- [God Is Intimate | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/god-is-intimate/): CHAPTER 1    GOD IS INTIMATE: OUR DEEPEST YEARNINGS ARE GOD’S YEARNINGS
- [We Are Evolution in Person | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/we-are-evolution-in-person/): CHAPTER 2    UNIQUE GENDER—THE EVOLUTION OF ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’
- [Evolution is Love in Action | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/evolution-is-love-in-action/): In this book, Dr Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard present a new story of humanity, a new understanding of our intimate relationship to evolution, as well as our intimacies with ourselves and with our circle of beloveds.
- [We Are God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/we-are-gods-unique-intimacy/): We Are God's Unique Intimacy is a clarion call to revolutionary transformation.
- [Evolving Public Culture | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/evolving-public-culture/): This book begins with a conversation around public culture. How do we create an evolutionary public space which reflects our desire for a better world? How do we create coherence in a sea of social chaos? How can we move from digital abuse to digital intimacy and transform the internet into an expression of the genuine nervous system of our humanity?
- [Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/dignity-of-desire/): CHAPTER 6 THE DIGNITY OF POWER AND THE UNHOLY POWER OF DEMONIZATION
- [Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/healing-the-global-intimacy-disorder-with-a-new-politics-of-intimacy-2/): We live at a moment of global action paralysis, which is rooted in a global intimacy disorder. We have exiled intimacy to only human relationships and sexuality. But intimacy is the fabric of Reality itself. The exile of intimacy has left us feeling disconnected from each other and from the evolutionary impulse itself.
- [Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/codes-of-desire/): Reality is not empty or blind. Reality is animated by plot lines. These are the plot lines of evolution. The plot lines of evolution are Reality’s codes of desire. Reality’s desire is for Value. Eros is Value and Value is Eros. There is no split between them. It’s Eros Value. That is the plotline of the CosmoErotic universe.
- [From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/from-pain-to-purpose-the-dignity-of-personal-need/): In a time between devolution and evolution, between destruction and creation, the response that is needed is a new story. This book is a sacred call to step into your evolutionary purpose, join with others in synergistic action, and co-create a world infused with Evolutionary Love.
- [Homo Amor Universalis | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/homo-amor-universalis/): This book offers a potent response: the birth of Homo amor universalis—the new human and the new humanity. Homo amor universalis is the human being who incarnates Evolutionary Love and participates consciously in Evolution: The Love Story of the Universe.
- [A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/a-planetary-awakening-in-love-unique-self-symphonies/): This book is about a Planetary Awakening in Love, the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo amor. As humans we are here to articulate and enact a new story, to participate in the evolution of love itself. With practice we can learn to place our attention on the evolutionary impulse that is alive and awake in us, as us, and through us, and calling us forth to become Evolutionary Lovers.
- [Oral Essays from One Mountain, Many Paths by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/): The Oral Essays library is a series of lightly edited, compiled transcripts of oral teachings given by Dr. Marc Gafni and the late Barbara Marx Hubbard in their weekly online broadcast, One Mountain, Many Paths, which they co-founded in 2017. Originally called an “Evolutionary Church,” One Mountain, Many Paths became a key venue for the articulation of an inspired and deeply grounded new Story of Value in response to the meta-crisis. Marc and Barbara—together with Zak Stein, Kristina Kincaid, Ken Wilber, Sally Kempton, Lori Galperin, Aubrey Marcus, and dozens of other thought leaders over the years—began to articulate what they call a World Philosophy and World Religion as a context for our diversity.
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- [Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships | by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard | Foreword by Aubrey Marcus](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/download-chapters-whole-mate-the-future-of-relationships/): A revolution in relationships is taking place across the western world. It is happening in different ways for all people in all classes of society, and it is breathing life into a new vision of relationship and self. The product of this revolution—a third, higher level of connection called the ‘whole mate relationship’—promises to have a far more powerful effect on the quality, joy, and potency of our lives than any other single shift in culture since the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
- [Download Chapter 1-5 of First Principles and First Values](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/free-download-chapter-1-5-of-first-principles-and-first-values/): 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 for the future of planetary culture.
- [The Erotic & The Holy and A Return to Eros](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/eros-download/): Discover the hidden relationship between Erotic, the Sexual and the Sacred.
- [About Dr. Marc Gafni](https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/about-dr-marc-gafni/): Dr. Marc Gafni has been described as a world philosopher — a kind of galaxy heart brain — integrating wisdom from across multiple disciplines into what he has called a New Story of Value in response to the meta-crisis.
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