From Polarization to Paradox: Entering the Field of Value: Value Is Prior to Values, Meaning Is Prior to Meanings

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 33

We live in a world of outrageous pain, and the only response to outrageous pain is Outrageous Love. Somehow, we know inside that this is true. The deepest pleasure of being alive is to recognize that Reality is an Outrageous Love Story.

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.

In this book, we are reclaiming practices of prayer, intimacy, and the sacred as part of a new politics of Evolutionary Love. This is the only way for us to move beyond separation towards a planetary coherence of synergy and wholeness.

This book explores the essential question: Who are you? The response is both simple and complex: You are an irreducibly unique expression of the Evolutionary LoveIntelligence of Reality itself, and as such you have a unique gift to give to the world, that only you can give! Each of us is an irreducibly unique expression of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of

All-That-Is, with a unique gift to give in the Unique Self Symphony. Through the lens of Evolutionary Spirituality, it becomes clear that the Universe is not a random accident. Not at all. It is an Evolutionary Love Story, moving towards ever greater intimacy and ever greater wholeness.

We are personally implicated in the great story of Reality, holding the power to transform crisis into possibility through the force of Outrageous Love. As we move into the fullness of our humanity, our personal story emerges as a chapter and verse in the Love Story of Reality itself.

Loneliness is a profound evolutionary driver, urging us to move beyond isolation into deeper connection and to say YES to the impulse of evolution within us. We are not meant to walk this path alone. The move from loneliness to loving takes us beyond the illusion of separation, and we find ourselves woven into the fabric of Unique Self Symphony.

Practice helps us to connect with the sacred at a higher level of consciousness, reclaiming devotion, evolutionary prayer, and the radical knowing that we are held by God as the Infinity of Intimacy.

Together we join genius in Unique Self Symphony—where each unique voice is radically needed, and each unique gift is desired by All-That-Is. We stand at the edge of history, as Evolutionary Lovers and co-creators of a new humanity. We learn to say Yes to the impulse of Evolutionary Love within us, to recognize that we are not separate but part of an interconnected field of intimacy, responsibility, and transformation.

Are you ready to step into this next great moment of human becoming? To say Yes to the evolutionary impulse within you? To respond to the crisis of our time with the only force great enough to meet it—Outrageous Love?

If your heart has brought you to explore this path, welcome to the Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies!

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: From Polarization to Paradox: Entering the Field of Value: Value Is Prior to Values, Meaning Is Prior to Meanings
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 33
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340912
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Heroes are the Early Adopters of Homo Amor: A Forever Commitment to Cosmos

• Who We Are is Where We Place Our Attention
• The World Needs Our Holy Audacity: It’s Time for a New Story
• It’s a Wild CosmoErotic Universe, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
• “Our Success Story is More Important than the Larger Good”
• We Have a Broken System of Win/Lose Metrics Rooted in Separate Self and Materialist Assumption of Cosmos
• What Does Reality Want from Me in the Next Moment?
• We Live in a Magical Cosmos
• Heroes are Early Adopters of Homo Amor
• Every Moment is a New Invitation to the Evolution of Intimacy
• Prayer as Protest: Hallelujah
• In Relationship to God: I’m Staying Forever

Chapter 2   The Sensual Arousal of Sense-Making: Seducing Ourselves out of the Digital Trance into the Arms of Lady Justice

• We are Here to Find a New Way of Being Human
• A New Story of Value is the Minor Fluctuation Point That Jumps the System to a Higher Level of Order
• We Have to Overthrow the Old Story of What It Means to be Human
• We Have to Wake Up from the Pseudo-Ecstasies of the Digital World
• A Sensual Arousal to Sense-making
• To Seduce Yourself You Have to Have the Capacity for Sense-making
• It Never Occurs to Us That We Need to Die to Birth Ourselves
• The Hero is Willing to Die for a Higher Value
• We Need to Stand in the Integrity of Information-gathering and Sense-making
• From Salem Witch Trials to the Madness of Crowds on Twitter Threads
• The Dream of America is That You Can Feel Safe and Held in the Arms of Lady Justice
• The Destruction of the American Dream
• McCarthyism is a Violation of the Goddess
• Cultivating Discernment: We Need to Arouse Ourselves to Create a New Public Commons
• The Murder of Eros
• How Do We Discern?
• A Prayer for Justice

Chapter 3   Eros and Existential Risk — 21 Steps to Homo Amor: My Transformation is the Transformation of the Whole

• The Holy Band: A Vision of a Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphony
• Eros Means the Unbearable Goodness of Being and the Unbearable Need for Me, for My Life, for Who I Am
• Twenty-One Steps to Homo Amor
• Ode to Joy: An Active Meditation
• Witnessing the Exteriors
• All of a Sudden, This Square is Transformed into Shimmering Joy
• The Joy was Always There
• It All Depends on Me, and It All Depends on You

Chapter 4   Roe vs. Wade — Evolutionary Sensemaking from Polarization to Paradox: Re-entering the Field of Value

• The Breakdown of Story of Value is the Root Cause of Existential Risk
• What is Outrageous Beauty?
• The Only Response to Outrageous Pain is Outrageous Love
• Roe vs. Wade: The Second You Demonize the Other Side, We Are Out of Beauty and We Are in Outrageous Pain
• What is Happening in the Pro-life vs. Pro-choice Clash?
• Each Side Caricatures the Other’s Position to Highlight the Absurdity of the Other’s Value
• The Decontextualization of Value is Idolatry
• The Only Response to Outrageous Pain is Outrageous Love
• Both Pro-life and Pro-choice Stepped Out of the Field of Value
• If Both Sides Step into the Field of Value, They Share the Field of Value Together
• When We’ve Stepped Out of the Field of Value, There’s No Intimacy Between Values

Chapter 5   Two Evolutionary Practices of Homo Amor — Live Your Dream and Confess Your Greatness

• Celebration in the Middle of Existential Risk
• You Can’t Change the World Unless You Are Willing to Already Live in the World That’s Already Changed
• We Are Going to Change the Source Code of Culture
• Sabbath is the Technology of Living the Dream
• Laughter Matters
• Evolutionary Love Code: Confession of Greatness
• Confession of Sin Became a Tool to Subjugate People into Servitude
• The New Locus of Confession Has to Be Confession of Greatness
• Confession of Greatness is Always Unique
• 95% of the Game is the Willingness to Fail
• When All of Reality Cheers Your Moment of Greatness

Chapter 6   Baseball Principles — A Home Run into the Heart of Homo Amor

• The Meta-Crisis is a Risk to the Existence of the Future Itself — Yet We Are Filled with Hope!
• Step Forward and Play
• Evolutionary Love Code
• The Era of Pax Americana is Ending
• Baseball is a Place Holding a Mystery
• Baseball in Response to the Meta-Crisis: Why is Baseball Magic?
• New Grounding of the Common-Sense Sacred Axioms of Value
• The Story of Field of Dreams: “If You Build It, They Will Come”
• Fourteen Principles of Baseball
• The Story of the Movie The Natural
• A League of Their Own
• Praying in the Field of Value

Chapter 7    To Respond to the Meta-Crisis, We Need to Re-Vision Who We Are

• There is No Now Separate from the Past and the Future
• “Social Self” is a Degraded View of Who We Are
• Traditional View of the Self Generates Meta-Crisis
• The Notion of Social Self Generates Soft Totalitarianism
• Our Notion of Self Creates Our Society

Chapter 8   This Poignant Moment of Neuro-Cultural Plasticity — A Time Between Worlds and a Time Between Stories

• The First Practice of Chant: We Are the Music
• The Way of the Heart Includes the Mind and the Intellect
• The Way of the Heart: Reality is Eros
• We Live in a Time Between Stories
• We Have the Capacity to Create a New Superstructure Worldview to Change the Vector of History
• Value is Real, and Value Evolves
• The Potential Future is Vast — There’s So Much More Value to Come
• The Future Depends on What We Do Now
• Neuro-Cultural Plasticity
• Values Are Not Merely Pragmatic
• In Response to Nihilism, You Get Closed Societies
• The Current Trajectory is Toward the Death of Our Humanity
• Up Till Now, We Have Not Presented a Coherent System of Value in the World
• Placing Our Lives on the Altar of History
• Turning to the Divine to Partner with Us

Chapter 9    Homo Amor — The Fulfillment of Homo Sapiens is Radically Present with the Past, Present and Future

• Evolving Who We Are
• The Fourth Big Bang in the Narrative Arc of Evolution
• We Are the People We’ve Been Waiting For
• Homo Amor Consciousness is: I Am Everyone, and Everyone is Me
• Homo Amor Integrates All of the Past, Now, and All of the Future
• God Plus Humanity Equals More God
• The Civilization Will Crash Unless We Evolve the Source Code
• A New Story of Value is Possible Because There is No Value Lock-in
• We Need to Reanimate Open Societies
• We Need to Weave Together the Unique Values of All Civilizations
• This Can Be Done
• We Are Speaking It into Existence
• Is It Your Responsibility? Is It Yours to Do?
• The Fourth Big Bang Needs to Happen Through Us
• The New Name of God is the Infinite Intimate

Chapter 10   From Meta-Crisis to the Crossing — From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor

• Evolutionary Love Code
• This Moment is Built into the Very Structure of Reality
• Homo Sapiens Has Come to the End of Her Possibility
• We Are Not Alone in Cosmos

Chapter 11   What We Need for the Attention Rebellion to Succeed

• A New Story Generates New Reality
• Evolutionary Love Code: Eros is the Placing of Attention
• The Internet is Designed to Scatter Attention
• A Brief History of Attention
• When There is Nothing to Pay Attention To
• To Be in Love is to Place Attention
• Seeing with New Eyes is the Essential Quality of Erotic Universe
• The Attention of the Infinite Differentiates Uniquely Through Me
• Reclaiming Attention

Chapter 12     “America for Americans?” vs. “There Are No Strangers and No Immigrants in the Field of Value: There is Only Family”

• You Cannot Talk About Immigration Without First Principles and First Values
• What Are the Issues at Stake for the Host Country?
• What Are the Immigrants’ Obligations to the Country?
• There Are No Strangers in the Field of Value
• The Immigration Fiasco is an Expression of the Global Intimacy Disorder
• Invitation to Participate in the Field of Value
• Four-Fold Song
• Evolutionary Love Code
• We Need to Participate in the Evolution of Love
• In the Field of Value, the Immigration Issue Softens
• Beneath Surface Values, There is Real Value
• Local vs. Global: From Contradiction to Paradox

Chapter 13    USA Elections — What Does It Mean to Partner with God in This Moment?

• Evolutionary Love Code
• A Vision for the Future is Everything
• It is a Moment of Reckoning
• Take It All Up in Your Painfully Expanded Soul
• When Society Disintegrates, We Need Art
• Outrageous Trust
• The Project of the Great Library is a Political Project
• Beauty Means Wholeness
• Anything Great is Cumulative Over Decades
• Great is Your Trust in Me, She

About the Author:

Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

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From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 30

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 30
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340714
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE    CONSPIRACY THEORIES: AWAKENING AS OUTRAGEOUS LOVE BY CULTIVATING DISCERNMENT

• We Feel a Shift in This Moment Towards a Quieter Desperation
• The Four Insufficient Stories That We Tell
• In Response to the Black Plague, the Renaissance Produced New Narratives
• We Need to Change the Source Code Structures of Society if We Are to Prevent Catastrophic and Existential Risk
• LoveIntelligence Is the Force of Allurement at All Levels of Cosmos
• Reality Is Animated by Eros
• New Pathology and New Promise
• The New Story of Personal Identity: I Am a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
• The New Story of Collective Identity: We Are a Unique Construct of the Evolving Intimacy of the Universe
• What Does Reality Need From Me?
• Sensemaking in the Context of the Intimate Universe
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Field of Intimacy and Desire Is Seamless But Not Featureless
• What Do We Owe Each Other?
• To Join the Field You Must Be Willing to Take Your Unique Risk
• Love Is a Quality of the Cosmos Itself, and We Can’t Activate Love Without Trust
• To Have an Intimate Universe We Need a Shared Story
• Diagnosing and Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder
• Navigating Between Truth and Conspiracy Theories
• Partial Truths Mixed in With Magical Thinking
• Pre/Trans Fallacy and Conspiracy Theories
• Detecting False Flags
• False Flags Throughout History
• Democracy: The Power to Do Sensemaking as a Consumer and a Voter
• Homo Amor Is Responsible For His Or Her Own Sensemaking

CHAPTER TWO    SENSEMAKING AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

• We Must Walk Through the Void to Feel the Continuity of Consciousness
• Every Life Has Irreducible Value
• Our Failed Stories Have Led to a Fundamental Rupture of Intimacy
• We Must Let Our Hearts Break… and From That Place Return to the Full Wonder of Joy and Creativity
• We Bring Our Confusion into This Moment of Silence
• Something Essential Is Changing, and Something New Has to Emerge
• The Only Way to Walk Through This Crisis Is to Evolve the Source Code
• The Practice: Holding Joy and Pain Together, Grieving
• The Practice of Amor: We Are Ontologizing Love Which Is the Eros That Binds Reality in Every Second
• We Close Our Hearts in That Gap Between Our Ability to Feel and Our Ability to Heal
• Who Are You? Where Are You?
• I Have Only One Question to Ask: What Does Reality Need From Me in the Next Moment?
• Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Outrageous Act of Love That Seeks to Emerge Through You in the Next Moment
• You Are Powerful and Your Power Is to Respond to Reality’s Need
• Joy Protests Against the Pain
• Participating in the Pain of the Goddess in Exile
• In the Post-Tragic I Feel the Pain and the Joy Together
• The Blessing of the Father
• To Heal the Crisis of Intimacy, We Need to Re-Imagine New Intimacies
• As a Caterpillar Transforms into a Butterfly, So We Are the Imaginal Cells of the New World
• Beware of Making Partial Truths into Whole Truths
• Intimacy, Trust, and Communion in Sensemaking
• We Must Maintain a Dialectical Dance Between Certainty and Uncertainty
• We Can’t Do Sensemaking Without Dharma
• We Need Intimacy and Perspective-Taking as Part of Sensemaking
• Mutuality of Pathos Means I Feel You and You Feel Me
• Intimacy Is Shared Identity in the Context of Relative Otherness With Mutuality of Recognition, Purpose, and Pathos

CHAPTER THREE    A GLOBAL ETHOS FOR A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION: PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION

• The New Story Synthesizes the insights of Interior and Exterior Sciences Throughout History
• Like Da Vinci We Understand: We Need a New Story
• We Need to Ground the New Story in Fundamental Axioms Rooted in Interior and Exterior Sciences
• In Our Global Civilization, Which Is Undergoing Crisis, We Need a New Story of Identity
• Everybody Is One of Our Own
• It’s Our Turn to Participate in the Evolution of Intimacy
• We Expand Our Circles of Intimacy
• The Truth About Every Human Being: Reality Needs and Desires You
• To Make the Revolution We Need to Access What’s Real
• The Three Faces of Spirit
• Prayer: All the Magnificence of Spirit in the Third Person Is Desiring You
• It’s in the Specificity That the Heart Breaks Open
• The Search For Meaning Is Over
• Disinformation Leads to Deformation of Our Intimacy With Reality
• I Participate in the Universe, and the Universe Lives in Me
• I Am Part of the Intimate Universe; Reality Lives in Me
• In Reality, Information Is More Than Just Bits and Bytes
• Information Is Meaning and Intimacy
• Intimacy Is Continuous and Evolves Up the Cosmological Chain
• Information at the Level of Matter
• Information at the Level of Life
• Information at the Level of Self-Reflective Mind
• We Have the Power to Inform Reality Or to Dis-Inform Reality
• We Must Configure New Intimacies in a World in Which We’re In-forming Reality, Not De-forming Reality
• We’ve Got to Move From Profit to Prophet
• Marketing Without Intimacy Or Eros Creates a Non-Intimate World
• Unique Self Sensemaking
• Information Is Based On the Receiver
• To Do Sensemaking We Need Core Axioms
• Reality Creates Through Second-Simplicity Principles

CHAPTER FOUR    SENSEMAKING BEYOND THE INFODEMIC: FIRST PRINCIPLES TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY OF REALITY

• It’s Now Self-Evident: It’s Not Too Big to Fail
• We’ve Stepped Out of the Story
• Covid Is Accentuating the Broken System
• When the Goddess Opens, You Can See the Field of Reality
• We Invite the Mother into the Space
• The Mother Is the We-Space of Relationship
• The Need For Global Coherence Through a Shared Story
• Dis-Informing Reality: Interpreting Reality in Line With My Separate Self Identity
• Intimacy Means We Have a Shared Story
• Mother Is the Infinity of Intimacy
• To Do Sensemaking, We Step Out of the Matrix
• Conspiracy theory and False Flags: 5G and Coronavirus
• The Leap From Pointing Out False Flags to Doing Conspiracy Theory and Lizards
• Placebos, Vitamin C, and Monetization
• Fauci, Funds, China, Dangerous Research, and Lizards
• Where Did the Virus Come From?
• Scientology Discredited the Valid Critique of Psychiatric Medicines
• When I’m Not in Eros, I Need Pseudo-Eros to Cover Up the Emptiness
• Harari’s Books Are Popular Because they Tell a Story
• Information Is Intimacy
• Unique Self: All of the Information of Cosmos Configures Uniquely in Me
• When We Get intentionally Dis-Informed, Our Sense of Intimacy Is Violated Because We Are Part of the Larger Field of Sense
• Pseudo-Eros Has a Bad Aftertaste
• False Flags Are a Structure of Reality
• Five Characteristics of a False Flag
• It’s Not Impossible That Coronavirus Was Part of China’s Hybrid Warfare against the United States
• Certainty Always Has to Dance With Uncertainty
• The Public Does Not Want to Go to War
• We Need to Do Collective Sensemaking as a Unique Self Symphony
• We Can’t Access Our Common Sensuality Unless We’re in the Field of Outrageous Love
• The Bastille Has to Fall
• What’s Happening Is Far More Perilous Than Bad Actors
• Reality Today Is a Large, Complex Emergent Field, a Hyper-Object
• The Field of Contraction Is Defined by Simple Rules: Rivalrous Conflict Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
• Artificial Intelligence Is Starting to Do Our Sensemaking For Us
• The Natural Movement of the Field of Contraction Creates a Race to the Bottom
• The Field of Contraction Is Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
• We Can Affect the Field by Introducing a Better Set of First Principles
• Your Identity as a Unique Self Is a Simple Principle
• New Simple Rules Create New Hyper-Objects
• Once You Articulate the Simple Rules, People Will Recognize Them Because They Live in Everyone

CHAPTER FIVE    BEYOND DUALISM AND MATERIALISM: THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD

• Evolution: We Disclose the Ever More Beautiful Inherent Value of Cosmos
• We Are Living in a Breakdown
• We Never Turn Away, Because It’s Ours to Transform
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe: A Love Story
• The Greatest Activism on Behalf of the Evolution of Love Is to Tell the New Story
• The Three Primordial Perspectives of Reality
• Source Is Carrying Us in Every Second, in Our Joy and in Our Pain
• In the Ultimate Place Beyond Opposites There Is No Split Between the Serious and the Playful
• Beyond Dualism and Materialism
• The Universe Feels, and the Universe Feels Love
• I Want to Know What Love Is
• We’re the Old People and We Screwed It Up
• The Collapse of Education
• Cut Flower Ethics: We’ve Lost Touch With the Larger Field of The Good, the True and the Beautiful
• Regressive vs. Progressive Conspiracy Theories
• Beware of Demonization
• Local vs. Global Conspiracy Theories
• The Broken Information Ecology Is a Violation of the Intimate Universe
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• I Am Intended and Needed by Reality
• Reality Has Direction, You Have Direction, and Your Choices Matter Ultimately
• The Lack of a Shared Vision of Value Has Led to a Global Intimacy Disorder
• Conspiracies Emerges as a Form of Pseudo-Eros When We Lose Touch With the Conspiring of Reality
• Where Conspiracy Theories Go Wrong

CHAPTER SIX    FROM CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO THE GREAT CONSPIRING OF REALITY TOWARDS GOODNESS, TRUTH, AND BEAUTY

• I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
• The First and Second Shocks of Existence
• Our Intention Is to Engage in Sensemaking for the Sake of the Evolution of the Source Code
• There Is No Ultimate Split Between Matter and Spirit
• Our Intention Is to Play a Larger Game
• Globally, the Two Most Basic Human Needs Are Not Being Met
• Evolutionary Love Code: We Live in a Field of Contraction
• Love Is the Possibility of Possibility
• I Know the Way You Can Get When You Have Not Had a Drink of Love
• Prayer: The Personhood of Reality Is Madly Loving You
• God, Create for Me a Pure Heart
• Conspiracy Theory Has Moved From the Periphery to the Center of Culture
• Local Conspiracies: How Do We Engage the Facts of What Happened
• False Flags and Local Conspiracies: Seeking Truth as Expressions of the Cosmos
• Global Conspiracy Theories: The World Is Controlled by a Cabal
• Regressive Conspiracy Theories Are Used to Fill in the Missing Plotline of Reality
• The Correct Intuition of Conspiracy: There’s a Hidden Story to Reality
• Eros Is the Inherent Movement of Reality Towards Ever Deeper Contact and Ever Greater Wholeness
• The Field of Eros Lives and Moves in Me
• We’ve Lost the Relationship to Premodern Story, Our Modern Stories Are insufficient, and Postmodernity Deconstructs Story Itself
• When You Don’t Have the Great Conspiring of Reality, All You Have Left Is Pseudo-Eros
• The Regressive Forms of Conspiracy Theory Are Forms of Pseudo-Eros
• Information Is Codes of Intimacy and Meaning in Cosmos
• Our Information Ecologies Have Broken Down
• When Configurations of Intimacy Break Down There Is a Violation of Eros
• When We Are Fed Misinformation, That Is a Violation of the Intimate Universe
• The Conspiracy Theorists Correctly Intuit That There’s a Hidden Plotline to Reality
• Conspiracy Theory’s Intuition: The Plotline of Reality Got Hijacked
• Win/Lose Metrics Move the System All the Way Up and Down
• Social Media Itself Drives Breakdown
• Facebook Is a Superficial Win/Lose Metrics Game
• Vast Systems Are Created by Simple First Principles Which Are Iterated Again and Again
• Facebook: Developed and Driven by Internalized Win/Lose Metrics Story in Which the Field of Contraction Is The Plotline
• The Same Win/Lose Metrics Are Driving Us Towards AI Biometric Sensors
• We Need to Account For the Larger Field
• First Principles Are the Evolving Certainties About the Nature of Reality
• It’s Only a New Story, a New Configuration of Intimacy, Which Can Solve the Global Intimacy Disorder
• There’s a Deeper Shared Story of Identity
• Reality Is the Evolution of Love
• Reality Is the Evolution of Intimacy
• The Human Being Is a Unique Set of Allurements Expressing the Allurement of Reality
• We Are Participating in the Evolution of Consciousness
• We Have to Animate the Technological Matrix With First Principles
• We Are the Possibility of Possibility

CHAPTER SEVEN    EVIL IS AVOIDING POWER TO AVOID TRANSFORMATION: CHOOSING INTEGRITY IN EVERY SECOND

• We Are Witness to the Knee of Un-Love On the Neck of the Goddess
• There Is No One Outside the Circle
• Evolutionary Love Code: There Are Not Two Groups of People in the World
• When Have We Choked the Tears of Those We’ve Placed Outside of the Circle?
• It’s One Love, It’s One Heart, It’s One Eros, and It’s One World, Together
• Where Is Your Unique Risk for Justice and Love?
• And Then They Came for Me, and There Was No One Left to Speak Out for Me
• We Take Risks to Love Each Other
• We Know Justice Is Real Through a Deeper Sensory Capacity
• Martin Luther King Passed the Baton to Us
• How I Take My Unique Risk Is How I Work With Justice, Love, Power and Rage
• Love Is Not Blind; Rage Is
• Unique Risk: No One’s Going to Tell You You’ve Got to Do It
• My Transformation Is the Transformation of the Whole
• I Transform My Rage Into a New Love of Myself

CHAPTER EIGHT    FROM CONTRADICTION TO PARADOX: THE GREAT HOPE AND PROMISE OF THIS MOMENT

• We Have to Get Out of Simulated Thinking and Feeling
• Obama: Beyond Polarity: Your Lives Matter
• We Don’t Homogenize People But Ultimately We Are All One
• The Pandemic Was One Version of the Second Shock of Existence
• The Only Response to the Second Shock of Existence Is to Realize That Which Unites Us Is So Much Greater Than That Which Divides Us
• There Is No Way Through Without a New Story
• We Can Feel Each Other, and We Can Feel Each Other’s Pain
• We Are Filled With Hope
• The Garden of Eden Is a Paradox: The Ability to Hold Everybody Inside the Circle
• The Only Response to Outrageous Pain and Outrageous Beauty Is Outrageous Love
• Part of Sensemaking Is to Recognize the Bad Actors Who Seek to Polarize
• We Play Together in the Unique Self Symphony
• Everyone Gets to Reclaim Their Second Innocence
• Every Time We Pray, We Pray For All the Times That We’ve Never Prayed Before
• Part Two: Sensemaking
• From Egocentric Intimacy to Ethnocentric Intimacy
• From Ethnocentric to Worldcentric Intimacy
• There’s an Essential Humiliation That Takes Place in Getting My Needs Met
• Our Humiliation Is Healed When Our Lover Says, Your Need Is My Allurement
• From Worldcentric to Cosmocentric Intimacy
• Black Lives Matter Includes All Lives Matter
• There Is More Slavery Today Than Ever Before
• The Police Officer Is Putting His Or Her Life On the Line
• From Lockdown to Mass Protests
• How Did We Get Here? There Is a Turning Away
• The World Watched a Murder and Got Aroused to Justice
• We Were Aroused to Our Desire For the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
• There Is So Much Which Is Invisible to Us
• What’s My Unique Risk Where I Stand in Devotion Against Injustice?
• There Is a Structural Class Inequality
• The Planet Is Drenched in Shame—and We Look Away
• Holding the Paradox: Avoiding Collective Guilt and Keeping the Covenant Between the Generations
• I Heal My Healthy Shame by Stepping in and Taking My Unique Risk
• It’s My Obligation to Take My Unique Risk

CHAPTER NINE    MORAL CLARITY VS. MORAL COMPLEXITY: DO WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAY IN CONVERSATION?

• We Hold Our Field of Attention Beyond Social Media Feeds
• There Needs to Be a Shared Baseline of Facts Within a Conversation
• When We Place Our Creative Attention There Is Opportunity for Evolution
• America Is a Great Country
• We Have to Hold Competing Perspectives and at the Same Time Not Make Them All Equal
• We Need a Set of Shared First Principles Before We Can Bring All the Facts to the Table
• We’re Not Doing Identity Politics; We’re Gathering Information and Challenging Ourselves
• We Fill Up With Love and Joy and Stand Up For Justice Everyplace in the World
• Prayer: The Realization That I’m always Witnessed; I’ve Never Been Alone
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Answer Is Always Yes
• Our Choice: Do We Live From the Yes of Our Unique Self or From the No of the Ego?
• The Answer on the Inside of the Inside Is Yes
• Recovering the Dream, Returning to Yes

CHAPTER TEN    THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW SENSEMAKING MODEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE HOMO AMOR METHOD

• Sensemaking Practice: Stepping Into the Perspective of Another
• We First Hold Moral Complexity Before We Can Get to Moral Clarity
• Homo sapiens Needs to Be Recognized in a Social Media World, While Homo amor Feels the Attention of the Infinite on Him or Her in Every Moment
• We Learn to Stay in Uncertainty, to Hold the Space in Between the Breaths and the Empty Space Between the Cherubs
• In Postmodernity We’ve Lost the Notion of Obligation
• Outrageous Love Code: More Than Confessing My Sins, I Have to Confess My Greatness
• The Confession of Greatness Requires Confession of Vulnerability
• It Is Only the Realization of Death That Presses Me into Service
• I Can’t Own My Brokenness If There’s No Way to Make It Whole
• In Prayer We Ask for Everything
• A Rap on Race: Collective Guilt vs. Responsibility
• “Race Has to Be Like Hair Color”—That’s True but Insufficient
• Thesis and Antithesis Produce Synthesis
• There Is a Covenant Between the Generations
• Beyond Ethnocentricity: We Cannot Only Feel the Pain of Our Lineage
• Sacred Ecstatic Urgency Is Urgency Beyond the Ego
• We All Need the Blessing of the Father

About the Author:

Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

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Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 28

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 28
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340141
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    READING MOVIES AS A SACRED TEXT OF CULTURE

• Stepping Into Culture in a Really Shocking Way
• The Goddess Is Speaking Beyond the Intention of the Filmmakers
• A Hint of Guardians of the Galaxy
• Barbie: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
• The Point of Barbie Is That Love Is Not Real
• A New World Order

CHAPTER 2    THE GENDER CRISIS IS PART OF THE META-CRISIS

• Three Crises Happening at the Same Time
• There Is No Barbie and Ken
• We Think We Can Kill All the Gods Except for Aphrodite and She Will Survive, but She Will Not
• Responding to the Meta-Crisis with a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 3    CRISIS OF RELATIONSHIPS

• The First Two Levels of Gender
• Feminine and Masculine, Level-One: He Is in Charge
• Feminine and Masculine, Level-Two: The Disappearance of Polarity
• Two Levels of Relationship Applied to Barbie
• “It’s Girls’ Night Every Night Forever!”
• Barbie Stops at Level-Two: There Is No Barbie and Ken
• Barbie Reclaims Her Sexuality Without Ken
• Ken Is Desperate for Patriarchy
• Level-Three Relationship: From Role Mate, to Soul Mate, to Whole Mate
• Level-One: Role Mate Relationship
• Level-Two: Soul Mate Relationship
• Level-Three: Whole Mate Relationship
• There Is Not One Drop of Feminine Empowerment in Barbie
• Level-Three Relationships: Synergizing Lines and Circles
• Lines and Circles in Ken and Barbie
• A Taste of Level-Three Masculine and Feminine

CHAPTER 4    THE MOCKING OF THE HERO

• The Old Relationship Style Has Been Demonized as Patriarchy
• Ken in the World of Idealized Feminism
• Barbie Liberated Herself From the Male Gaze of Ken
• Barbie Dismisses the Ontology of Relationship
• Ken’s Male Desire to Be a Hero Is Mocked
• Lovers Want to Be Heroes
• Soul Mates Outside the Field of Value
• Ken + Barbie Is the Nature of Reality

CHAPTER 5    “THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY” IN THE MOUTH OF PATRIARCHY

• Barbie Land: We Have It All Worked Out
• Lines And Circles—All The Way Up And Down The Evolutionary Chain
• Ken Is Acting Out the Shadow of the Line Quality
• “The Universe: A Love Story” in the Mouth of Patriarchy
• The Universe: A Love Story in the New Physics
• The Intimacy Equation Applied to Barbie and Ken
• Reality Is the Evolution of Relationships
• Kiss Is at the Very Heart of Reality—and the Hijacking of “Forever”
• Barbie Cannot Say “I Love You”

CHAPTER 6    DENIAL OF THE AMOROUS COSMOS: FIVE KEY SCENES IN BARBIE SHOWING LOVE IS NOT REAL

• Scene One: “I Only Exist in Your Gaze”
• Ken Only Has a Great Day When Barbie Looks at Him
• Scene Two: Ken’s Song “I Have Feelings I Can’t Explain”
• Scene Three: “Why Would You Stay Over? It’s Girls Night Every Night!”
• Scene Four: “You’re Just Ken”
• Scene Five: Barbie Tells Ruth Handler, “I’m Not in love With Ken”

CHAPTER 7    THE EXILE OF THE LOVE STORY & THE DEMONIZATION OF LOVEDESIRE

• Barbie in the Real World
• The Goddess Appears, but Without Desire
• “Me and Ken, We Have No Genitals”
• Weird Barbie Loves “That Nude Blob Under His Pants”
• Weird Barbie Understands What “I Love You” Means
• The Mother-Daughter Love Story Is the Movie’s Only Real Love Story

CHAPTER 8    THE EVOLUTION OF LOVEDESIRE IN BARBIE SONGS BETWEEN 1997 AND 2023

• Comparing Barbie in Two Songs
• The 1997 Barbie Song
• The 2023 Barbie Song

CHAPTER 9    DESIRE, DEATH AND VALUE / IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL

• No Field of Value in “Closer to Fine”
• The Relationship to Death
• “It’s Only Life After All”: There Cannot Be Just One Lifetime
• Postmodernity on Steroids

CHAPTER 10    ONLY A STORY BEYOND DEATH CAN STAND AGAINST EVIL

• The Reality of Death in the Real World Means Love Must Be Something We’ve Made Up
• The Desiccated Mother Speaks: “Humans Make Meaning Up and Then They Die”
• Aphrodite Cannot Survive Without the Field of Value
• When There Is No Field of Value, There Is No Distinction Between Right and Wrong
• “What Was I Made For?”
• The Holy Dance Between Revelation and Mystery
• There’s a Unique Field of Desire in Which I Reincarnate

CHAPTER 11    OPPENHEIMER—THE SPLITTING OF THE ATOM AS A FAILED LOVE STORY

• Mathematics Is the Fuck of Cosmos
• The Splitting of the Atom
• The First Goddess Figure: Jean Tatlock
• “I Am Death, Destroyer of Worlds”
• The Goddess Commits Suicide
• The Second Goddess Figure: Oppenheimer’s Wife
• The Relationship Between Oppenheimer and Barbie

CHAPTER 12    THE FAILED LOVE STORY AT THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. MARC GAFNI AND AUBREY MARCUS

• Aubrey Marcus: Introduction
• Marc Gafni: Evil Equals Failed Love Stories: Failed Love Stories Create Evil
• Barbie, Oppenheimer and Hamas Are at Their Core Failed Love Stories
• So What Does “The Universe: A Love Story” Mean?
• Aubrey: What We Mean By World Religion
• Marc: A New World Religion Is a New Story of Value as a Context For Our Diversity
• Aubrey: What if Your Life Hasn’t Been a Love Story
• Marc: There’s a Spark of the Sacred in Every Broken Vessel
• Aubrey: How Are We Going to Weave Barbie Into This Conversation?
• Marc: Only a Deepening of the Love Story Responds to Evil
• The Failed Love Story in Barbie: Recapitulation of Six Core Scenes
• Aubrey: Empire Wants to Control Love
• Marc: Love Is Revolutionary
• Marc: Totalitarianism Seeks to Undermine LoveDesire
• Aubrey: Empire’s Degradation of Love Awakens the Eros of the Warrior
• Marc: The Fundamentalist Destruction of the Love Story
• Barbie and Hamas Are Failed Love Stories That Generate Evil
• Aubrey: The Fallen Angel Wants to Get Back to One Love Through Destruction
• Marc: Evil Is the Anti-life Force
• Aubrey: Artists Remind Us of the Nature of Cosmos
• Marc: My Story Has to Become Part of the Love Story of the Whole
• Aubrey: Wielding the Sword of Peace

CHAPTER 13    BARBIE, HAMAS & HOMO AMOR—FROM DEGRADED LOVE STORIES TO THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

• Introduction
• We Need to Find a Third Way
• False Stories Confuse Us
• A Failed Love Story on a Collective Level Results in Horror
• Let’s Get Out of Superficial Distortions
• Barbie as the First Failed Story of Desire
• Hamas as the Second Failed Story of Desire: The Demonization and Degradation of Desire
• The Third Response Is a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 14    THE STORY WE NEED TO TELL

• To Noah and Greta: Let’s Make Movies Dripping With Eros
• Your Need Is My Allurement
• Outrageous Acts of Love

About the Author:

Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/

Formal refutations on controversy: 
WhoIsMarcGafni.com

Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

Substack: https://substack.com/@marcgafni
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A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don’t Look Up: The Spiritual Practice of Reading Movies as a Sacred Text of Culture: First Visions of Intergalactic Love Stories In Response to the Meta-crisis

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 27

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don’t Look Up: The Spiritual Practice of Reading Movies as a Sacred Text of Culture: First Visions of Intergalactic Love Stories in Response to the Meta-crisis
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 27
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340691
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE    DECODING DUNE: A REVELATORY EXPLORATION—A DIALOGUE BETWEEN DR. MARC GAFNI AND AUBREY MARCUS

• What Is This Tale of Dune? A Prescient Narrative Went Big In Culture
• Psychedelics and a Weaving of Lineages That Generates
• The Master Who Ends the Trance of Time
• Omniscience, Prophecy, and Jihad
• The Thanos Move: Jihad as the Only Path to Save Humanity
• An Omniscient Position That Suspends First Principles and First Values
• Dune Has No Clear First Principles and First Values
• A Critique of Charismatic Leadership Dissociated From the Field of Value
• A Prophetic Voice That Ends Conversation: Today’s Jihad
• True Jihad Is the Wrestling of the Heart—With the Goddess, With Nature, With the Desert
• The Bene Gesserit Have Taken Love Out of the Equation
• Spice-Psychedelics Expand the Political
• The Very Real Possibility of an Elite Enhanced Human: We Need Democratization
• The Medicine Needs the Dharma, and the Dharma Needs Medicine
• Can We Have a Medicine of the Heart to Avoid War (As Much As Possible)?
• We Need to Stand for the Field of Value
• We Need the Articulation of a New Story of Value
• We Need a Democratization of Messiahs, Medicine, and Dharma
• We Need to Trust in the Sincerity of Power
• Power in Trinity With Love and Value, a Remedy to Tyranny
• Love Is Power—Power Is Love
• Power Is Noble and We Are Afraid of It
• Love Is Potent and Fierce
• A Beautiful Cosmoerotic Vision Is What We Need
• Reality Needs a New Great House
• Let’s Do It All Together and Honor Everyone at the Table

CHAPTER TWO    A DHARMIC CRITIQUE OF THE MOVIE DUNE, PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OF READING STORIES IN PUBLIC CULTURE

• It’s Only a New Story That Changes the Vector of History
• The Story of Dune as a Reflection of Culture
• Evolutionary Love Code: We Need Dharma In Dialectical Relationship to Messiahs
• Dune Is a Messiah Story
• Dune Figures, Background, and Story
• How to Read a Story of Culture: Setting the Context
• Dune Themes Drawing From Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
• Understanding Dune
• Five Components of the New Story for the Evolution of the Source Code
• Prayer: We All Participate Directly in the Stature of Messiah

CHAPTER THREE    A DHARMIC CRITIQUE OF THE MOVIE DUNE, PART TWO: THE SEVEN PILLARS OF CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE LENS OF DUNE—HOW TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD

• Dharma for Dune
• The Overwhelming Moral Imperative of This Moment Is to Articulate a New Story
• Evolutionary Love Code: A Community of Democratized Messiahs Animated by Authentic Leaders
• Jesse/Jessica: Messianic Agitation to Birth the One
• Dune Plotline
• How Do We Create a Better World?
• The Fourth Big Bang: Evolution of Homo Amor
• Democratized Messianism Needs Powerful Leadership
• 1 – We Need to Stop Crucifying Charismatic Leaders
• 2 – The Leader Needs to Be Purified
• 3 – There Are Moments of Opportunity for a Leader to Step Into His/Her Destiny
• 4 – We Must Be Aware of the Potential Corruptions of Leadership
• 5 – The Leader Is Always an Imperfect Vessel for the Light
• 6 – Potential for Corruption in Leadership
• 7 – Everyone’s Waiting for the Messiah
• 8 – Political Leadership and Psychedelic Leadership Need to Come Together
• 9 – Unique Self Symphony: Collective Messiahship
• 10 – All That Exists in All Worlds Comes From You
• Evolutionary Love Code: You Are the Freakin’ Messiah, And So Am I, and So Are We

CHAPTER FOUR    DON’T LOOK UP: WHAT THEY GOT RIGHT, WHAT THEY GOT WRONG, AND WHY IT MATTERS SO MUCH

• Don’t Look Up: What They Got Right, What They Got Wrong
• The Nature of Existential Risk
• We Live Within the Internal Source Code of a Story
• The Current Story: Rivalrous Conflict Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
• The Postmodern Deconstruction of Value Leads to the Rejection of First Principles in Mathematics
• Universal Grammar of Value Allows for Global Coordination
• To Effectively Intervene in the Vector of Existential Risk, We Need The Resources to Tell the New Story of Homo Amor
• To Become Homo Amor Is to Realize That It’s Our Collective Hero’s Journey
• Evolutionary Love Code: Only First Principles and First Values Embedded In a Story of Value Have the Capacity to Respond To the Second Shock of Existence
• The First Shock of Existence: It’s Only Death That Turns Life Into a Genuine Option
• The Second Shock of Existence: The Death of Humanity
• Fact Itself Is a Value, and If You Deconstruct Value, Then Facts Can’t Stand
• It’s Only When I Realize Value That I’m Willing to Die for That I’m Actually Alive
• Prayer: We Know We’re Not Alone

CHAPTER FIVE    DON’T LOOK UP: WHAT THEY GOT RIGHT, WHAT THEY GOT WRONG AND WHY IT MATTERS SO MUCH, PART TWO

• For the First Time In History, the Fall of a Civilization Means Existential Risk
• Two Forms of Existential Risk
• The Death of Our Humanity: Undermining Free Will for Profit Through Peer-Group Profiling of Mined Personal Data
• We Need a New Story of Value Rooted in First Principles and First Values
• Evolving the Source Code to Enact a Memory of the Future
• Texts of Culture Are Powerful
• The Hidden Theme Behind “Free Snacks”
• The Billions of Micro-Actions We Take Are Formed by the Story We’re Living In
• In the Absence of First Principles and First Values, All That’s Left Is Power
• We Need to Name First Values and First Principles
• Articulating a New Vision of Value
• Responsibility to the Future Is a First Principle and First Value
• Unless We Understand There’s Meaning Beyond Death, We Won’t Be Responsible for the World Beyond Death
• Meaning and Value Are Intrinsic to Cosmos

CHAPTER SIX    THE MOVIE AS AN ARTIFACT OF CULTURE: DON’T LOOK UP, PART THREE

• Don’t Look Up Tells a Failed Story of Modernity and Postmodernity
• Evolutionary Love Code: Only First Principles and First Values Embedded In a Story of Value Can Respond to Existential Risk
• Mapping the Relationships Between Characters in the Movie
• Desire in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
• A New Narrative of Desire
• Need, Desire and Rights
• The Mother and the Child Theme In Don’t Look Up
• Who Is the Mother?
• The Current Story: Rivalrous Conflict Governed by Win/Lose Metrics
• The Postmodern Deconstruction of Value Leads to the Rejection of First Principles in Mathematics
• Universal Grammar of Value Allows for Global Coordination
• To Effectively Intervene in the Vector of Existential Risk, We Need The Resources to Tell the New Story of Homo Amor
• To Become Homo Amor Is to Realize That It’s Our Collective Hero’s Journey
• Evolutionary Love Code: Only First Principles and First Values Embedded In a Story of Value Have the Capacity to Respond To the Second Shock of Existence
• The First Shock of Existence: It’s Only Death That Turns Life Into a Genuine Option
• The Second Shock of Existence: The Death of Humanity
• Fact Itself Is a Value, and If You Deconstruct Value, Then Facts Can’t Stand
• It’s Only When I Realize Value That I’m Willing to Die for That I’m Actually Alive
• Prayer: We Know We’re Not Alone

CHAPTER SEVEN    “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE”: THE KEY SEVEN INNER KNOWINGS OF IMMORTALITY THAT ARE ESSENTIAL IN RESPONDING TO EXISTENTIAL RISK—DON’T LOOK UP, PART FOUR

• Our Yes Echoes the Yes of the Big Bang
• My Ecstatic Yes Recognizes the Intrinsic Value In Cosmos
• Intrinsic Value Can’t Be Commodified
• We Are Here to Tell the New Story of Value
• Theme of Death in Don’t Look Up
• At the Root of Our Fear of Nothingness Is the Realization of Our Immortality
• At the Root of Our Fear of Accountability Is the Realization That We Matter
• Empirical Evidence for Life After Death and a Philosophical Analysis of Dualism and Materialism
• The Lived Realization of the Continuity of Consciousness
• Justice and Fairness Are Not Worked Out Within the Context of One Lifetime
• Accessing Eternity by Stepping Into the Fullness of Reality
• When I Don’t Have an Experience of My Own Eternity, the Only Thing Left Is Win/Lose Metrics

CHAPTER EIGHT    DON’T LOOK UP, PART FIVE: DEATH STANDS BEFORE ETERNITY AND SAYS ONLY YES

• Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
• Our Intention Is to Respond to the Global Intimacy Disorder by Telling a New Story of Value
• There’s Something Broken in the Essential Narrative of The World Today
• How We Respond to Death Tells Us Who We Are
• Don’t Look Up: The Realization of Death
• Philip’s Response to Death: The Betrayal of Love
• Life Without the Stress of Living
• Technology Is No Longer a Tool—It Has Become an Environment
• The Business Model of the Web Is to Sell Your Data to Manipulate You
• The Power Is Not With the President—It’s With the Success Story
• There’s Nothing More Dangerous Than Utopianism Without First Principles and First Values
• The Human Being Has the Capacity to Exercise Free Will and to Transform
• The Elite Walk Out on Planet Earth
• “Tell Me I’m Going to Die”—Commodifying Existential Risk for the Purpose of Pseudo-Eros
• Win-Lose Metrics Create the Conditions for Existential and Catastrophic Risk
• “Angels Soar to the Heavens”
• Why Did You Do That? I Liked You
• “Let’s Go to Dinner”
• The Sweetness Scenes
• Three Levels of Consciousness: Submission, Separation, and Sweetening
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Is Partial to Love
• Flowers: The Seduction of Beauty for the Sake of Life
• Our Sacred Creed Is What We Say at the Moment of Our Death
• The Universe Is a Love Story

CHAPTER NINE    THE LAST SUPPER RESURRECTED—PRAYER RELOADED: DON’T LOOK UP, PART SIX

• Gathering the Sparks of the Sacred From the Broken Vessels
• It’s Our Job to Tell the New Story
• A World Religion Means a Shared Universal Grammar of Intrinsic Value
• It’s Only the Telling of a New Story That Changes the Vector of History
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Faces of God
• Prayer: Reclaiming the Second Person of God
• The First-Person Principle of Reality
• First Person Never Lives Without Second Person
• We Have All Been Crucified
• Don’t Look Up: Four Clips On Prayer
• When We Leave the Field of Value, Even the Mother-Son Relationship Is Broken
• Every Prayer Matters

CHAPTER TEN    IS VALUE REAL? THE ORACLE OF OPEN AI, AVATAR AND THE FIELD OF VALUE: A MEMORY OF TWO FUTURES

• We Need Global Resonance With Each Other
• Our Uniqueness Connects Us to the Whole
• Open Your Hearts
• Remembering David Ray Griffin
• Reality Speaks in Stories
• The Oracle of OpenAI
• Asking AI: Is Value Real?
• We Participate in an Objective Field of Value
• Ask AI: Is Love Real?
• Avatar 1: Pandora Is Pandora’s Box and the Garden of Eden
• The Feeling Tone of Reality
• AI Needs the Field of First Principles and First Values

CHAPTER ELEVEN    VISIONS OF THE INTERGALACTIC HOMO AMOR: AVATAR AS AN INTERSPECIES LOVE STORY

• Revolution: Reclaiming First Principles and First Values
• The New Story of Value in Public Culture
• AI Is Disconnected From the Field of Value Inherent in Cosmos
• Avatar as an Alternative to AI
• Our Love Story Has to Be an Intergalactic Love Story
• Beyond the Fence of Being Human
• Avatar Is a Cosmoerotic Love Story
• The Temporary Defeat of Ethno-Humanism
• The Emergence of the Ethno-Na’vi Moment
• Spider Is the Embodiment of a New Possibility
• An Intergalactic Homo Amor Needs to Emerge
• Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Feels Love
• Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Mosseini—We See You

CHAPTER TWELVE    LOVE IS A PERCEPTION—THE COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM OF AVATAR: I SEE YOU = I LOVE YOU

• Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is a Perception
• See What They See
• I See You Means “I Love You”
• When the Enemy Is No Longer the Enemy: Spider Sees Miles Quaritch
• Lo’ak, the Renegade Son: Seeing Through the Otherness
• The Cosmos: A Love Story
• Cleansing the Doors of Perception
• To Be Loved By a Human Being Is to Have Your True Nature Seen
• To Love God Is to Let God See With Your Eyes

CHAPTER THIRTEEN    STANDING FOR VALUE: AVATAR AS AN INTERGALACTIC LOVE STORY POINTING TOWARDS HOMO AMOR CONSCIOUSNESS

• Symphony of the Revolution
• Love Is a Perception
• The Need to Stand for Value Is an Essential Human Need
• Evolution of Value Is Evolution of Love
• Premodern Value: Value Is Real, but Whose Value?
• Modern Value: The Source of Value Is No Longer Clear, but Value Evolves Nonetheless
• Postmodern Value: Value Is Deconstructed, but All the Excluded Are Included
• Postmodernity Against Modernity
• We Need to Realize That Everyone’s Got a Seat at the Table
• We Need to Articulate an Intergalactic Consciousness of Homo Amor
• The Structure of Cosmos Is Eros and Intimacy
• Avatar Transcends the Postmodern Understanding and Stands for a Cosmocentric Vision of Homo Amor
• Homo Amor Love Song
• Egocentric Intimacy
• Ethnocentric Intimacy
• Worldcentric Intimacy
• Cosmocentric Intimacy
• Every Song Has a Place In the Unique Self Symphony
• The Human Being Becomes Divine When No One Is Left Out of My Love Story
• No One Is a Stranger to the Divine
• Are We Willing to Cross to the Other Side?

About the Author:

Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/

Formal refutations on controversy: 
WhoIsMarcGafni.com

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Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 26

Published by World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers. 

Book details:

Title: Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 26
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340530
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1  THERE ARE NO FOREIGN VIRUSES: GO VIRAL WITH OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

• Corona: The Failure of the Contagion of Love
• Corona Reminds Us of No-Boundary Consciousness
• We Are Outrageous Love
• Evolutionary Love Code: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy
• No-Boundary Consciousness
• There Are No Foreign Viruses
• Are You Ready to Be Affected by the Moment?
• Natural Selection of Evolutionary Love in Which No One Is Left Out of the Circle
• Wuhan Marketplace Clip: Outrageous Pain When I Place Someone Outside of the Circle
• The Evolution of Love: No One Is Left Outside of the Circle
• Unique Self Symphony With a Shared Score

CHAPTER 2  GLOBAL ACTIVISM NEEDS A GLOBAL STORY: WHO ARE WE IN THIS VIRUS MOMENT & BEYOND

• How Do We Be in This Time?
• The Germ Is Real—and It’s Not Punishment for Sin
• New Age Thought: You Created Your Suffering
• We Don’t Thank the Coronavirus
• The Fact Pattern That Created the Epidemic Is a Failure of Intimacy
• ‘Thank You Coronavirus’ Is Also a Failure of Intimacy
• Let’s Hold Suffering in Our Arms
• I Will Not Participate in Your Divine Plan, Even if It’s to Make Things Better
• We Never Look Away
• In Our One World, There Is No More Locality
• The Spiritual Practice of Not Looking Away
• Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
• A Global Response Only Comes From a Shared Story
• Who Am I When I’m Not Producing?
• The Four Stories We Tell Ourselves Which Don’t Work
• We Need a Shared Story Which Is an Evolution of Intimacy
• Outrageous Love Drives Reality to Create More Intimacy
• The New Story Lives in Us
• At a Time of Catastrophe We Need to Avoid the Temptation to Move Towards Authoritarianism
• Who Are You?
• The Cracks in the Storyline of Modernity Created Our Present Crises
• What’s My Outrageous Act of Love?
• New Forms of Collective Intelligence: Either Dystopian or a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 3  BEYOND THE FEAR OF DEATH: SEVEN STEPS FROM FEAR TO OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

• Corona—Coronation, Karuna
• Hallelujah: Praise, Hallelujah: Brokenness
• Go to the Limits of Your Longing
• Are We Ready to Feel All the Pain and All the Joy and Not Look Away?
• Our Responsibility Is for Personal and Collective Sensemaking
• Am I Alone or Am I Being Held?
• We Offer Our Sensemaking for the Sake of the Whole
• We Just Learned How to Stop Splitting Off the Suffering of Others
• The Fear at Play Here Is the Fear of Death
• The Narcissist Exercise
• Understanding Our Fear of Death
• Death Is a Night Between Two Days
• Ethos Only Makes Sense If There Is Accountability Beyond Death
• Crimes and Misdemeanors: It Doesn’t All Work Out in One Lifetime
• Handling Unfinished Business So We Are Not Afraid of Accountability
• Befriending the Fear of Our Bodies Aging and Decaying
• Accountability: We Want to Know That We Count
• The First Shock of Existence: The Death of the Individual
• Addressing the Fear of Death: I Count
• My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse in Me
• Reality Invites You into Outrageous Love
• In the Absence of Pseudo-Eros, We Face Our Fear and Loneliness
• I Participate in Divinity as a Unique Expression of Outrageous Love
• My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is to Create Worlds
• Our Heart Breaks Open When We Step into Our Significance
• Loneliness Kills, When One Is Not Seen
• The Second Shock of Existence Is the Fear of Death of Humanity
• Humanity’s Response to the Second Shock of Existence Must Be to Become a Unique Self Symphony
• Let’s Imagine a New World
• Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game? Are You Ready to Be God?
• The Experience of Homo amor: Your Next Action Changes Everything

CHAPTER 4  BETWEEN DYSTOPIA AND HOMO AMOR: ONE BREATH, RE-STORYING REALITY

• In This Moment We Bring in Every Person Who’s Suffering
• Let’s Hold All the People Who Can’t Breathe, and Let’s Breathe Together
• Hallelujah: Hallel and Yah
• The Sabbath, a Day of Breath
• Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Birth
• The First Shock of Existence Is the Death of the Individual
• Your Unique Self Holds Immortality
• Facing Corona Without a Story of Meaning
• In Response to the Deconstruction of Our Stories, We Need to Re-Story Reality
• We Respond to the First Shock of Existence by Living Fully
• The Second Shock of Existence Is the Potential Death of Humanity
• The Story of Win/Lose Metrics Causes Fundamental Structural Problems in the System
• We Enact the Revolution by Starting With a New Story of Identity

CHAPTER 5  THERE’S NO NEW POLICY WITHOUT A NEW STORY

• We Have the Capacity to Generate a Universe of More Value Than at Any Other Time in History
• Reality Is Moving
• Outrageous Love Drives Reality
• Reality Reaches for More Intimacy
• The Human Being Is a Unique Configuration of Intimacy
• The Greatest Moral Imperative of This Time Is to Tell a New Story
• When Our Information Ecologies Are Broken, There Is a Failure of Intimacy
• We Are All Shamed in Some Way in Getting Our Basic Needs Met
• The Failure of Global Public Goods Causes a Global Experience of Shame
• The New Statement on a Global Level: Your Need Is My Allurement
• Let Us Be Prophets Together

CHAPTER 6  ON THE REVOLUTIONARY NEED FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

• The Need for a New Story
• A New Politics of Pleasure
• Evolutionary Prayer: Invocation of the Infinite Intimate
• Evolutionary Love Code: Only a Politics of Pleasure Can Move Us Beyond a Pandemic
• The First Principle and First Value of Pleasure
• When You Experience a Value, Life Has Self-Evident Meaning
• The Goodness of Reality Incarnates as Pleasure
• Cultivating Discernment Around Pleasure
• When I’m in My Pleasure, I Deeply Desire to Pleasure You

CHAPTER 7  THE DEATH OF HUMANITY IS NOT A GREATER TRAGEDY THAN THE UNJUST DEATH OF A SINGLE HUMAN BEING

• Polarization Is Rooted in the Rejection of Other Worldviews
• Should I Forgive the Destroyer? And What Does Forgiveness Mean?
• We Synergize the Values of Premodernity, Modernity and Post-Modernity
• To Be an Outrageous Lover, We Need to Forgive
• Working Our Way to Forgiveness
• Evolutionary Love Code: Forgiveness Is the Fragrance the Violet Sheds on the Heel That Has Crushed It
• The Energy of Evolution Lives in Us
• We Can’t Speak About Death Without Holding a Wider Frame
• There’s a Larger Play Beyond This Lifetime and This Dimension
• Forgiveness Is Possible When You Hold the Larger Frame
• Accountability Doesn’t Include Demonization
• Feeling into the Experience of Another Person, Even Someone Who Behaves Heinously
• To Forgive You Must Feel the Humanity of the Other and Find the Root of the Pathology in Yourself
• The Practice: I Love You, I Forgive You, I Am Free

CHAPTER 8  THE DEATH OF HUMANITY IS NOT A GREATER TRAGEDY THAN THE UNJUST DEATH OF A SINGLE HUMAN BEING—PART 2

• Facing the Doomer Camp: Understanding Emergence and Continuity of Consciousness
• The Anthro-Ontological Realization of the Continuity of Consciousness
• Fairness Is Not Worked Out in One Lifetime
• Forgiveness: Feeling Beyond This Dimension
• Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
• We Can Never Let Enlightened Knowing Deaden Our Sensitivity to Pain

About the Author:

Dr. Marc Gafni is a leading public intellectual and teacher impacting the source code of global culture.

Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings”, including Unique Self theory and the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy.

He is author of twenty five books, of which the first ten have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.

He holds his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West, helping to evolve a new ‘dharma’ or meta-theory of Integral meaning that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism.

At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values’, Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value”.

This is the ground of a new shared universe story and a new narrative of identity for the new human and the new humanity. This is what they are calling the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo Amor.

This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Gafni is considered by many to be a kind of Einstein of Philosophy who is leading a team of thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder together with Ken Wilber and Sally Kempton of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion where he serves as its co-president. Together with Dr. Zak Stein, they are co-leading a team of thinkers, articulating a new vision of meaning for the world.

In 2014 Dr. Gafni co-initiated the Success 3.0 Summit and Rise Up movie, whose method and movement is to bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively evolve a bold new Integral vision of Success, rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up, and Outrageous Love.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed evolutionary and activist programs rooted in his commitment to what he has termed “participating in the evolution of love.” Together with author and social innovator Barbara Marx Hubbard, he is working on a series of new works revolving around Evolutionary Spirituality.

Read more… 

Explore more:

Explore the Great Library:
Center for World Philosophy & Religion – Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/books/

Learn about the full Oral Essays series:
Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays-series-one-mountain-marc-gafni/

Dr. Marc Gafni Official Website: 
https://marcgafni.com/

Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/

Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
https://www.onemountainmanypaths.org/

Join the community Who We Must Become: 
https://who-we-must-become-3166d4.circle.so/ 

Free Unique Self Mini Course:
https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/

Formal refutations on controversy: 
WhoIsMarcGafni.com

Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

Substack: https://substack.com/@marcgafni
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcgafni/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
Twitter:https://twitter.com/MarcGafni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcgafni/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmarcgafni