Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Marc Gafni featured on Kyle Kingsbury Podcast.

ABOUT: 

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.

Marc’s Books:

NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple

A Return to Eros (paperback)

A Return to Eros (audiobook)

The Erotic and the Holy

Your Unique Self

Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment

Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism

Breakdown of this episode: 

00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:55 Sponsor Shoutouts and Promotions
12:35 Deep Dive into Eros and Reality
20:33 Exploring the Faces of Eros
24:23 Exploring the Erotic Basis of Uniqueness
25:05 Love as a Unique Self Perception
26:55 The Need for Irreducible Unique Value
28:13 Eight Core Eros Needs
35:21 The Bi-Directional Nature of Needs
39:15 The Difference Between Separateness and Uniqueness
40:21 The Experience of Unique Self
43:54 The Erotic Realization of Uniqueness
45:45 Personal Reflections on Uniqueness

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 for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.

“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary