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Value is Real | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Value is Real: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories: Responding to the Call of the Future through the Evolution of Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 29

Value is Real: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories: Responding to the Call of the Future through the Evolution of Love | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 29 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

So what do we do? First, we need clear sensemaking—we need to understand where this meta-crisis is coming from? In this series of oral essays, we diagnose the root cause: a global intimacy disorder resulting from our personal and collective alienation from the Field of Value.

Shared value is the ground of intimacy. Therefore, our dissociation from the Field of Value is direct cause for the meta crisis whose root is self-evidently a global intimacy disorder.

As such, we have lost touch with each other and with Reality itself; we are no longer intimate with ourselves, with each other or with the Cosmos; we are alienated from the Field of Value, which is all of Reality itself. This is what we term the global intimacy disorder.

Our only response to this critical moment is to listen for the call of the future. The new Story of Value is a memory of the future. We must weave together the leading edge validated insights from all of the premodern, modern, and postmodern streams of wisdom into a new story. In this new story, value is both eternal and evolving, for indeed opposites are joined at the hip in myriad ways at the very heart of Cosmos. We must tell a new Story of Value rooted in First Principles and First Values, and in doing so we create the very future which calls us forth.

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

Book details:

Title: Value is Real: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories: Responding to the Call of the Future through the Evolution of Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 29
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340677
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS: RELOCATING HUMANITY IN THE FIELD OF VALUE

  • The Renaissance: The Beginning of a New Human and Humanity
  • Modernity Unmoors Value From the Infinite
  • The Tao That Can Be Commodified Is Not the Tao
  • We Are Lost in This Race for Self-Commodification
  • Machine Intelligence Arrayed Against Free Will and Personhood
  • We Cannot Solve the Meta-Crisis Through Social Structure or Infrastructure
  • The Only Voice of the Future Is Us
  • Evolutionary Impulse Is Alive in Us, As Us, and Through Us
  • Are We Out of Our Minds?
  • The Three Great Questions of CosmoErotic Humanism
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Great Questions
  • Finitude Partnering With Infinity

CHAPTER 2    IS VALUE REAL? THE ORACLE OF OPENAI, AVATAR AND THE FIELD OF VALUE: A MEMORY OF TWO FUTURES

  • 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
  • But AI Is Telling Us That a Shared Story of Value Is Impossible
  • 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 3    FROM VALUES TO VALUE AND A STORY OF VALUE: FROM MY PRECIOUS AS ANTI-VALUE TO THE STORY OF VALUE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

  • What Is Value?
  • We Don’t Need Shared Values, but a Shared Story of Value
  • The Fellowship of the Ring Is the Restoration of Value
  • Story Is the Very Structure of Reality Itself
  • The Ring Is the Modern Success Story
  • We Are All Royalty

CHAPTER 4    THE DEGRADATION OF DESIRE—DISCERNING ISRAEL & HAMAS CONFLICT: EVOLVING THE BATTLE OF GOOD & EVIL TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • How Do You Begin a Conversation?
  • Eros and Ethics Are the Same Thing
  • In the Field of ErosValue
  • Every Religion Must Evolve
  • This Is Not a Story of Moral Equivalence
  • The Deconstruction of Value Arouses Hamas
  • At the Core of the Hamas Narrative Is a Degradation of Desire
  • We Need to Articulate a New Ground of Desire
  • Shocks of Existence Press Us Into Gnosis and New Emergence
  • A New Culture of Eros: The Democratization of Hieros Gamos
  • The Battle Between Good and Evil Exists in Every Human Being
  • Pseudo-Eros Exponentialized Becomes the Ring of Sauron
  • Greater Is the Light That Comes From the Darkness

CHAPTER 5    WHAT WOULD HOMO AMOR DO IN RESPONSE TO HAMAS? MORAL COMPLEXITY IS A SIGN OF HOMO AMOR, MORAL EQUIVALENCE IS THE FAILURE OF HOMO AMOR

  • Certainties Amidst Uncertainty
  • We Need to Distinguish Between Waking Up and Growing Up
  • There Is No One Outside the Circle
  • To Do Sensemaking Is to Follow a Storyline
  • Islam Needs to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • There Is No International Body to Step In
  • The Voice of Abraham: Will the Judge of the Whole World Not Do Justice?
  • There Is No Place for Moral Equivalence: Two Thought Experiments
  • We Have to Scream Truth, and We Have to Whisper Truth
  • There Is No Moral Equivalence
  • Hamas Is a Degraded Ethnocentric Horror
  • There Are Two Competing Claims on the Same Land
  • Let’s Split the Land: First Attempts at a Two-State Solution
  • Land for Peace: Five Rejected Possibilities of a Palestinian State
  • The Horror and the Impossibility
  • There Is Only One People, and One Breath, and One Humanity

CHAPTER 6    HAMAS IS NOT THE PALESTINIANS—HAMAS IS A JIHADI CULTURE OF DEATH: HOMO AMOR STANDS ON THE SIDE OF LIFE

  • How We Have a Conversation Is Everything
  • Moral Complexity Is the Sign of Homo Amor
  • Everyone Is in the Circle—There Are No Orcs in the Story
  • The Need of Love Sometimes Requires the Use of Force
  • We Have to Take Responsibility for the Present and for the Future
  • Morality Is Not Based on Body Count
  • It’s Not About Terrorism—It’s About Jihad
  • We Have to Stand for Life
  • You Have to Take the Jihadist Seriously
  • Where Are You Going to Take Your Children to Live?
  • We Can’t Just Stand Against—We Have to Stand For

CHAPTER 7    TOWARDS THE POST-TRAGIC HERO, PART ONE

  • I Cannot Be Welcome in the Universe Unless I Am a Hero
  • Democratization of the Hero
  • The Glimmerings of the Hero
  • Baraye—For the Sake of the Whole
  • When I Am Aroused, I Am the Hero: Reality Is Making Love
  • You Know and I Know That You Are a Hero

CHAPTER 8    CLARIFIED FIRST VALUES AND FIRST PRINCIPLES GENERATE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Clarified First Principles and First Values Generate Rights and Responsibilities
  • Clarified Desire Is Precisely the Same as Need
  • The Name of God Is Desire Reaching for the Future
  • Clarified Desire and Need Are Completely Isomorphic
  • My Clarified Need Is Always for Value
  • We Need to Ground Rights in First Principles and First Values
  • Bilateral Rights to Desire—and Their Responsibilities
  • Formulating Rights and Grounding Them in a Field of Value
  • Desire and Need Activate the Eye of Value
  • Human Interiors Participate in the Interior Face of Cosmos
  • Intimacy, Desire, and Attention: Rights and Responsibilities
  • Rights and Values Are Both Eternal and Evolving, and We Clarify Them by Clarifying Our Own Interiors

CHAPTER 9    FROM VALUES TO RIGHTS

  • The Most Momentous Leap in the Evolution of Human Consciousness: Universal Human Rights
  • If We Cannot Understand Where Rights Come From, We Will Lose Them
  • Rights Come From Clarified Need and Desire
  • Value Creates Rights
  • Every Right Is Also a Responsibility
  • The Field of Value Is Universal
  • Activating the Eye of Value to Articulate First Principles and First Values
  • How Do We Enact Rights?

CHAPTER 10    WHY FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES SHOULD MATTER SO MUCH

  • Evolving the Source Code of Culture and Consciousness
  • Reality Is Eros
  • The Plotline of Evolution Is the Evolution of Love
  • How Do We Participate in the Evolution of Love?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: A New Story of Value

CHAPTER 11    WHY DOES VALUE MATTER? PART 1

  • When You Deconstruct the Field of Value, Suicide Becomes a Legitimate Option
  • Value Is Backed By the Universe

CHAPTER 12    BAD NEIGHBOR OR DOG: WHO DO YOU SAVE? THE COSMOEROTIC PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY

  • The Past Weaves Into the Present and Creates the Future
  • Holding the Paradox of Continuities and Discontinuities
  • Don’t Translate New Emergents Into Old Ideas
  • Eternal Doesn’t Mean Unchanging
  • Milk and Honey on the Other Side

CHAPTER 13    IS THERE A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?

  • Everything Is Not Fine
  • There Is a Battle Between Good and Evil, but They Are Not Equal
  • The Eros of Reality Is Transformation
  • My Transformation Is the Transformation of the Whole
  • My Transformation Is My Unique Role in the Battle of Good and Evil
  • Becoming a New Quality of Intimacy

CHAPTER 14    COSMOS IS HUNGRY FOR VALUE—AND YOU ARE TOO: WHY THAT MATTERS MORE THAN ANYTHING

  • Our Stories Are Too Small
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Value Is Real
  • A Direct Prism Into the Zeitgeist
  • Yuval Harari Is Reflecting a Hidden, Deep Consensus
  • Value Is the Irreducible Rightness That Lives in Cosmos for Its Own Sake
  • Value Is Both Being and Becoming
  • There Are Common Patterns of Value in the Worlds of Matter, Life, and Human Mind
  • Values Create Rights
  • We Have to Ground Cosmos in the Field of Value

CHAPTER 15    STORY AND ANTI-STORY, VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE, PART 1 OF 5: WHY MOVING BEYOND YOUR STORY IS NOT ENOUGH—TO BE FULLY ENLIGHTENED MEANS TO GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT

  • To Be Surprised by That Which I Already Know
  • The Personal Is the Cosmic
  • Value and Anti-Value
  • To Destroy Is to De-Story
  • When a Story Is Violated
  • Cosmos Is a Love Story
  • Dignity of Personal Story
  • Accessing the Story of Non-Story
  • What Emerges Out of Being Is Becoming
  • Enlightenment Is the Most Accurate and Honest Storyline

CHAPTER 16    ANTI-EROS, ANTI-STORY AND ANTI-VALUE THREATEN TO DESTROY US ALL AND CALL ON US TO MAKE THE DAVID MOVE

  • Telling a Revolutionary New Story
  • The Broken Plotlines of Modernity Led Us to Create TechnoFeudalist Technologies Threatening Us Today
  • The Cultural Inclination to “Move Beyond Your Story” Is Flawed
  • The Move Towards Evolutionary Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony
  • Pseudo-Eros Covers Up; Anti-Eros Destroys
  • Pseudo-Value Imitates Value; Anti-Value Destroys Value
  • Unique Self Story, Pseudo-Story, and Anti-Story
  • What Makes the Pornographic Problematic Is That There Is No Story
  • Anti-Story Breaks Down the Human Spirit
  • We Need to Take a Stand and Be David

CHAPTER 17    VALUE AND ANTI VALUE, STORY AND ANTI STORY, PART 3 OF 5: SIX ELEMENTS OF STORY FROM SUBATOMIC PARTICLES TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS

  • The Garments of Value Have Been Torn Apart
  • Reality Is Both Being and Becoming
  • Anti-Value Is Part of the Value Story
  • Reality Is a Love Story
  • Universal Elements of Story
  • Threaded Causal Action and the Dignity of Finitude
  • The Dignity of Desire
  • Telos: The Desire Is a Desire for Value
  • Universal Elements of Story in The Lord of the Rings
  • The Great Story of Reality

CHAPTER 18    VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE, STORY AND ANTI-STORY, PART 4 OF 5: A BUDDHIST TEACHER ON HARARI—BUDDHISM WITHOUT ETHICS CREATES MONSTERS

  • The Limits of Language: Why Words Fall Short (Marc)
  • From the Tragic to the Post-Tragic: Evolution, Crisis, and the Leap Forward (Marc)
  • A New Conversation Emerges: Soryu and the Response to The Meta-Crisis
  • The Essential Need for a New Story of Value
  • Buddhism, the Meta-Crisis, and the Responsibility to Engage (Soryu)
  • The Buddha’s Engagement With Worldly Issues (Soryu)
  • Right View and the Distortion of Buddhism in the West (Soryu)
  • The Buddha’s Rejection of Fatalism and Illusionism (Soryu)
  • The Reality of Love and Spiritual Transmission (Soryu)
  • The Shift in Buddhism and the Impact of Colonialism (Soryu)
  • The Trauma of Colonialism and Buddhism’s Adaptation (Soryu)
  • Buddhism’s Role in the Formation of Modern Psychology (Soryu)
  • The Evolution of Zen and the One-Week Retreat (Soryu)
  • S.N. Goenka and the Modernization of Meditation (Soryu)
  • The Success—And the Danger—Of Modern Meditation (Soryu)
  • The Loss of True Practice (Soryu)
  • The True Meaning of Wisdom (Soryu)
  • The Risk of Compromise in Spiritual Traditions (Soryu)
  • The Sacred and the Path to True Realization (Soryu)
  • The Different Paths of Buddhism (Soryu)
  • The Radical Vision of Navayana Buddhism and a Heroic Path Forward (Soryu)
  • Wielding Manjushri’s Sword and Correcting the Field (Marc)
  • The Sacred Is Not a Borrowed Concept (Marc)
  • The Postmodern Rejection of the Hero (Marc)

CHAPTER 19    THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: THE URGENT NEED OF OUR TIME

  • Symphonic Musical Unique Self Symphony
  • Let’s Re-Articulate the Story That We’re Living In
  • We Are Not Accidental Tourists
  • There Is Ultimate Significance
  • Practice Blooms Reality
  • Attention Allows Me to Practice
  • The Four Meanings for the Word Torah
  • Religion at Its Best Is Wildly Important
  • We Are Divine Artists, and We Are Practicing Our Divinity
  • Value Is Both Eternal and Evolving
  • We Need to Evolve Religion, Just Like We Evolve Science
  • Meditation Discloses the Field of Value
  • We Need to Evolve Religion and We Need to Evolve Science
  • Don’t “Believe” in God; Know God
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About the Author:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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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Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

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

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 Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 28 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

Marc Gafni reads both movies as “texts of culture,” revealing a deeper story the filmmakers may not have realized they were telling. He introduces the Goddess as a narrator who speaks for Eros-the aliveness and radiance in relationship that drives a new Story of Value, moving culture toward wholeness.

Many viewers left these films with a sense of emptiness, asking, “Where do we go from here?” Gafni’s response offers a hopeful vision: The Universe: A Love Story.  The atrocities of Hamas that year demonstrated how the rejection of the Universe: A Love Story (in which we are all dignified and beloved actors) open the door for degraded love stories in which women are butchered for the love of Allah and patriarchy acts out its most debased impulse in the guise of Islamic fundamentalism.

This book engages popular culture and world events with nuance and wisdom, opening a new path for our evolution.

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.

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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
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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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A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don’t Look Up | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

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

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 Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 27 | Dr. Marc Gafni

In this time between worlds and time between stories, we stand poised between a potential dystopia and an unimaginably beautiful future. Only a new Story of Value as a context for our diversity can change the vector of history towards a possible utopia.

Movies are often the channel through which the voice of culture discloses itself. Hidden in the public texts of culture is a movement towards a new human and a new humanity. Reading the hidden text of She—woven into the fabric of our public stories—is a key part of this new Story of Value.

This volume explores three recent movies: Dune, Don’t Look Up, and Avatar.

In Dune we explore the necessity and dangers of charismatic spiritual and political leadership as well as the need for—and potential horror of—a new Messianic religion. The move is both a clarion call and a cautionary tale as we are in desperate need of Homo sapiens to triumph as Homo amor, the fulfilment of Homo sapiens.

Don’t Look Up vividly critiques our current society, including our dysfunctional media landscape—what Marc Gafni calls our broken information ecology. In order to survive and in order to address the meta-crisis, we must not be afraid to “look up”—as they spectacularly fail to do in the film.

In Avatar we depict the first expressions of Homo amor, the new human and the new humanity. Avatar reaches for the heavens in cosmocentric and even intergalactic levels of intimacy and consciousness. In our capacity to love beyond egocentric and ethnocentric boundaries, we directly participate in the evolution of love.

Cinema (and culture in general) has a beautiful and necessary role in transmitting and expressing this new story—both in what it portrays, and especially in the ways that it falls short. In these movies, we can hear the hidden whispers of culture showing us the ways that we are not living into the new Story of Value, rooted in First Principles that our civilization so desperately needs.

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

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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
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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?
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

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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:
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Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

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

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 Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 26 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

The core diagnosis is a “global intimacy disorder.” This intimacy disorder is generated by and expressed as the modern success story which is the dominant narrative in virtually all of worldwide culture. The success story pits us against each other in rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose dynamics. This in turn generates what systems theory refers to as complicated or fragile systems which are optimized for short-term profit and efficiency rather than long-term resilience and depth.

Intimacy—whether in a couple, a nation or in the earlier worlds of biology and molecular coherence—is only possible when there is a shared Story of Value. At the molecular level such a story is implicit in the scientific laws of Cosmos. At the human moral level, the shared story of value needs to be explicated and made conscious.

To respond to the meta crisis, we must be able not only to restore premodern ethnocentric intimacies rooted in premodern visions of shared value or even the early modern intimacies of democracies, markets and liberal culture, rooted in implicit modern assumptions of value.

Rather we need to evolve a new global intimacy rooted in First Principles and First Values which are the grammar for a shared language of value.

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.

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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
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Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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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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:
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Formal refutations on controversy: 
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First Principles and First Values | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

First Principles and First Values: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love: a New Story of Value for Humanity

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 25

First Principles and First Values: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love: a New Story of Value for Humanity | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 25 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

The core diagnosis is a “global intimacy disorder.” This intimacy disorder is generated by and expressed as the modern success story which is the dominant narrative in virtually all of worldwide culture. The success story pits us against each other in rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose dynamics. This in turn generates what systems theory refers to as complicated or fragile systems which are optimized for short-term profit and efficiency rather than long-term resilience and depth.

Intimacy-whether in a couple, a nation or in the earlier worlds of biology and molecular coherence-is only possible when there is a shared Story of Value. At the molecular level such a story is implicit in the scientific laws of Cosmos. At the human moral level, the shared story of value needs to be explicated and made conscious.

To respond to the meta crisis, we must be able not only to restore premodern ethnocentric intimacies rooted in premodern visions of shared value or even the early modern intimacies of democracies, markets and liberal culture, rooted in implicit modern assumptions of value.

Rather we need to evolve a new global intimacy rooted in First Principles and First Values which are the grammar for a shared language of value.

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

Book details:

Title: First Principles and First Values: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love: a New Story of Value for Humanity
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 25
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340523
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE    THERE IS NO RESPONSE TO EXISTENTIAL RISK WITHOUT FIRST PRINCIPLES

  • Love Is Real, and Love Evolves Reality
  • What’s Worse, the Jump to 99% Destruction or From 99 to 100%?
  • Option One for the Future: Peace
  • Which Is Worse, the Move From Option One to Two, Or Two to Three?
  • We Have Collective Responsibility towards Future Generations
  • The Rwanda Genocide Happened Because There Was No Nationalism
  • We Are the More God to Come
  • The New Story Has Not Yet Been Told
  • What Are First Principles?
  • The New Story Must Be Based on First Principles
  • Let’s Imagine a Different Scenario Together
  • As Evolutionary Activists and Mystics, We Are Articulating A Memory of the Future
  • Let’s Let Our Love Change the World
  • Lines of Development Throughout History: Technology and Interiors
  • The First Principle of Separate Self Leads to the Dignity of Modernity
  • Separate Self Became Alienated From the Larger Field
  • From Science to Scientism: From Differentiation to Dissociation From Spirit
  • The Top Half of Dualism Was Lopped Off and We Were Left With Dogmatic Materialism
  • The Return of Spirit in the Twentieth Century
  • We Reclaimed True Self and Left the Separate Self of the Enlightenment Behind
  • From Separate Self to True Self and Beyond
  • We Need to Disambiguate Between Separateness and Uniqueness
  • From Separate Self to True Self and Unique Self
  • From Unique Self to Evolutionary Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Unique Self Is a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • Evolutionary Unique Self Is Homo Amor
  • The Emergent Realization of Unique Self
  • Homo Amor Is the Fulfilment of the Narrative Arc of Cosmos
  • Matter Triumphs in the Form of Life
  • Homo Amor: In Response to Existential Risk
  • The Puzzle of Who Am I?
  • Who Are You?
  • Without Those First Principles We’ll Fail

CHAPTER TWO    THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE INNATE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION

  • Ontologizing Love as an Evolution of Intimacy
  • Transformation Is the Nature of the Human Story
  • Reality Has a Narrative Arc of Intention
  • We Place Our Attention together
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Motivated By Pleasure
  • Transformation Is the Highest Level of Pleasure
  • The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist

CHAPTER THREE   FIRST PRINCIPLES & FIRST VALUES: THE URGENT & ECSTATIC MORAL IMPERATIVE OF OUR TIME

  • Evolution From Separate Self Through True Self to Unique Self
  • Success Summit: Success 1.0, Success 2.0, Success 3.0
  • Evolutionary Unique Self: I Am a Unique Configuration of The Evolutionary Love That Animates All of Cosmos
  • The Crisis in Reality Today Is a Crisis of First Principles and First Values
  • Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, the Way forward Is to Articulate a New Story Based on First Principles and First Values
  • First Principles and First Values Integrate Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Insights
  • We Need to Reweave the Information Ecology to Articulate an Evolving Set of First Principles and First Values
  • Prayer: I Want to Know What Love Is
  • The First Value of Cosmos: Love Is Real
  • The New Emergence: Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER FOUR   EVOLVING THE SOURCE CODE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURE

  • The Most Urgent Moral Imperative of Our Time Is the Articulation of First Principles and First Values
  • The Dignities and Disasters of Modernity
  • The First and Second Shocks of Existence Evoke New Gnosis
  • Win/Lose Success Story Leads to Dystopian Scenarios
  • At This Phase Shift in Human History, We Must Start the Reconstruction Project of Value
  • We Need a Set of First Principles and First Values Before We Can Articulate a Shared Global Story

CHAPTER FIVE   SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: “WE’RE GOING TO STEAL YOUR EXPERIENCE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION”

  • First Principles and First Values Account for the Critiques of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Mistaken Assumptions of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Critiques by Postmodernity of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Postmodernity’s Critique of Perennialism and Natural Law Is True but Partial, and It Ignores Responsibility to Any Larger Grand Narrative—Except the Success Story
  • The Nervous System of the Planet Is the Web, the Worldwide Virtual World
  • Google’s Business Model Is Surveillance Capitalism
  • Facebook Hijacks Your Attention, Takes Your Information, and Targets You With Ads, Thereby Compromising the Free Movement of Economy and Governance
  • We Are Unaware of the Threat to Universal Human Rights
  • The Failure to Articulate the Case Against the Tech Plex Is Rooted in a Failure of First Principles and First Values
  • Surveillance Capitalism: We’re Going to Steal Your Experience Without Your Permission
  • The Six Declarations of Google
  • Instead of Solving Existential and Catastrophic Risk, Our Best Minds Are Caught in the Success Story
  • From Holdables to Wearables to Biometric Sensors
  • First Principles and First Values Refute Surveillance Capitalism
  • Exposing the Inner Structure in Which Human Experience Is Being Stolen
  • Activation: The Direct First-Person Experience of Reality Coming Alive in Me

CHAPTER SIX   FIRST PRINCIPLES BEYOND RANDOMNESS

  • Beyond Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • First Principles and First Values
  • Certainty and Uncertainty
  • Qualities of the Third From Within Light and Darkness, Masculine and Feminine
  • Binary Pairs and Their Thirds Are a First Principle of Cosmos
  • She Comes in Threes: Beyond Randomness and Contingency
  • First Principles and First Values Are the Telos of Cosmos
  • Authentic Conversation Has Both Contingency and Design
  • Messiah: Conversation at a Higher Level of Freedom, Order, and Consciousness
  • We Live in a Conversational Cosmos Which Has Both Randomness and Contingency

CHAPTER SEVEN   FIRST PRINCIPLES RESPOND TO EVOLUTIONARY NEED

  • The First Value of Need
  • Need and Desire Are Intimately Related to Each Other
  • When I Pray, I Clarify My Needs
  • Evolution Desires, Evolution Yearns, Evolution Needs
  • First Value and First Principle of Uniqueness
  • Our Future Depends on Our Ability to Articulate a Shared Story Woven From First Values and First Principles

CHAPTER EIGHT   INTEGRATING OUR UNIQUE SELF BY RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SELVES

  • Outrageous Love, the Most Powerful and Intelligent Force in Reality
  • From the Periphery, We Steadily Suffuse Culture With the New Story
  • It’s Crazy Good to Be Together in This Unique Moment in Time
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Past, Present, and Future Are First Principles and First Values of Reality
  • The Evolution of Homo amor
  • Shadow and Light Dimensions of Past, Present, and Future
  • Hearing the Call of the Present Moment
  • The Past as a Modality of Healing and Eros
  • The Power and Pitfalls of Psychological Science and Enlightenment Science
  • Evolutionary Science: Called Towards the Future
  • Hearing the Call of Your Future Self
  • Mark Twain’s Dream
  • Message From the Master of the Good Name
  • Feeling the Tug of the Future
  • Homo Prospectus
  • Can You Feel the Tug?

CHAPTER NINE   EMERGENCE: CALLED BY MY FUTURE SELF

  • Math and Science Live in Us as We Are Cosmic Humans
  • We Think and Feel in Stories
  • Stories Hold First Values and First Principles
  • Psychological Science Focuses on the Past; It’s Important But Insufficient
  • Unfinished Business
  • Enlightenment Science Focuses On the Fullness of the Present
  • Being Called by the Future: Emergence Science
  • Death Is Not the End Because We Experience the Urgent Need for a Future
  • The Four-Letter Name of God Is the Future That Lives in the Present
  • Practice One: Accessing the Feeling of Connection to the Call
  • Practice Two: Identifying My Unique Call
  • The Unique Self Expression of Individuals in the Nascent State of Israel
  • Practice Three: Love Letter to and From Your Future Self

CHAPTER TEN   BEING PERSONALLY CALLED

  • First Value and First Principle of Uniqueness
  • First Value and First Principle of Personhood
  • The Experience of Being Personally Addressed by Reality
  • Hearing the Call to Our Natural Human Grandeur

CHAPTER ELEVEN   LANGUAGE AS A PORTAL TO FIRST PRINCIPLES

  • The Experience of Being Personally Addressed by Reality
  • Eros Is a Meta-First Principle and First Value of Cosmos
  • These Principles Are Fundamental and Not Isomorphic
  • Each Fundamental Word Evokes a Different Quality
  • Stories Hold First Principles and First Values
  • Story and the Principle of Calling
  • One of the Principles of Calling Is That Calls Are Often in Disguise
  • Discerning Between Authentic Calls and Counterfeit Calls

CHAPTER TWELVE   DIAGNOSING THE TECH PLEX: FROM DIGITAL DICTATORSHIP TO DIGITAL INTIMACY, FROM SOCIAL SELF TO UNIQUE SELF, FROM SOCIAL HIVE TO UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONIES

  • The Articulation of Unique Self Consciousness Is the Overriding Moral Imperative of This Generation
  • Separate Self, Social Self, True Self, and Unique Self
  • Unique Self: I Am Irreducibly Valuable as a Unique Emergent of the Whole
  • Your Unique Self Is Your Unique Response-Ability to Reality
  • Your Unique Self Has Irreducible Value and Is Your Currency of Connection
  • B.F. Skinner: The Human Being Is a Social Self
  • B.F. Skinner: Let’s Nullify the Autonomous Man, the Inner Man
  • Skinner’s Approach—Nullifying the Autonomous Man—Is the Basis of Social Media
  • C.S. Lewis vs. B.F. Skinner: The Abolition of Man, the Abolition of Human Society
  • However Misguided, Skinner Is Responding to Existential Risk and Critiquing Separate Self as the Source of Human Dignity
  • Skinner Did Not Have the Tools to Develop Technologies of Human Behavior
  • Alex Pentland, One of the Architects of the Web, Is a Direct Continuation of Skinner
  • Pentland: Data Science Is the New Physics Which Will Allow Us to Enact a New Vision of Society
  • The Founders of the Tech Plex Adopt the Vision of Skinner and Pentland
  • Social Media Are Expressions of Skinner’s Walden Two
  • We Need to Replace the Understanding of Natural Law With Evolving Perennialism, an Evolving Set of First Values and First Principles
  • The Tech Plex: We Are Organizing Society as Social Selves
  • True Self and Unique Self Are Ignored by the Tech Plex
  • Unseen, Pentland, and Skinner Have Formed the Thinking of the Tech Plex, Which Arrogates to Itself the Right to Your Experience
  • Personal Data Is Currently Being Used by Machine Intelligence Algorithms to Compromise the Two Basic Identities of Democracy: The Voter and the Consumer
  • Under-The-Skin Surveillance Is the Next Step and Will Result in Digital Dictatorships
  • The Postmodern Deconstruction of Value together With Surveillance Capitalism Results in the “Conditioners” Predicted by C.S. Lewis
  • We Need to Respond to Social Self With Unique Self
  • Power and Profit Agenda, Together With Utopianism Sans First Principles and First Values
  • Imagine What Happens When a Dictatorship Owns Data
  • In the Absence of Unique Self, Social Self Became the Animating Energy of the Nervous System of the Planet
  • Our Job Is to Engage in a Reconstructive Project of Value So We Can Muster the Necessary Outrage Against the Tech Plex
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

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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/
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She Comes in Threes | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

She Comes in Threes: Reality’s Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros: Trialectics Are the Structure of Cosmos

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 24

She Comes in Threes: Reality's Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros: Trialectics Are the Structure of Cosmos | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 24 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Reality is not merely a fact; Reality is a story. Reality is not an ordinary story; Reality is a love story. Reality is not an ordinary love story; Reality is an Evolutionary Love story.
The plotline of the story is the Evolution of Love. This plotline follows a pattern. This pattern is not dialectical (two) but trialectical (three). The pattern is the Three Stations of Eros. The Three Stations of Eros is the core pattern of Reality.
In Solomon lineage of Hebrew mysticism these Three Stations are called submission, separation and sweetening. In developmental psychology, the same meta phenomenology is referred to as identification, dis-identification, and re-identification (integration). These are the mysterious triads of the evolution of love. They describe the three stations of consciousness which an awake person evolves through in virtually every sphere of life.

We all recognize this pattern as it appears in our own lives, for example, in reference to our direct experience of falling love.
Station one: We fall in love. Station two: We experience separation. We lose access to the feeling of being in love.
Station three: we find our way back—we fall in love again, this time with greater depth and wholeness. At this third station we are quite literally lived as love. The Three Stations of Eros apply not only to falling in love but to all domains of life.

The capacity to recognize the Three Stations—to stay in and to not get derailed at station two, but instead to deepen, ascend and transform into station three—is the single most important skill we need to live a great life, to be truly successful, or to put it more clearly, to be lived as great Love.

Each sequence of the Three Stations of Love is a unique vector in the evolution of love, the irreducibly unique journey of Eros which is the purpose of a unique human life. The particular tone and texture, the unique potency and exquisiteness in each unique human journey directly participates in the evolution of love in Cosmos.

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

Book details:

Title: She Comes in Threes: Reality’s Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros: Trialectics Are the Structure of Cosmos
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 24
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340738
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    SHE COMES IN THREES

  • The Whole World Is Submission, Separation and Sweetness
  • Station One/Submission: Falling in Love
  • Falling in Love Is One of the Structures of Cosmos
  • Station Two/Separation: I Step Out
  • Healthy Development Is to Transcend and Include
  • Station Three/Sweetening: Being Lived as Love
  • The Arc of the Three Stations Meanders
  • The Three Stations: Certainty and Uncertainty
  • Station Two—Separation: Uncertainty
  • Station Three—Sweetness: Certainty
  • Pre-Personal, Personal, and Transpersonal
  • Pre-Tragic, Tragic, and Post-Tragic
  • Station One: Pre-Tragic
  • Station Two: Tragic
  • Station Three: Post-Tragic
  • Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
  • For Successful Transmission to the World, Distinctions Matter
  • Greater Is the Wisdom That Comes From Folly
  • We Need a Reconstruction of the Best Qualities of the Previous Periods
  • Pre-Tragic, Tragic, and Post-Tragic: Revisited
  • Pre-Tragic, Tragic and Post-Tragic Sexuality
  • We Need a Post-Tragic Sexual Narrative
  • Distinctions: Knowings of the Body, Heart and Mind
  • Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
  • Separate Self, True Self, Unique Self
  • Station One: Western Enlightenment, Separate Self
  • Station Two: Mystical Enlightenment, True Self
  • Station Three: Unique Self
  • You Are an Irreducibly Unique Expression of True Self
  • We Need to Disambiguate Between Separateness and Uniqueness
  • Reality Is a Love Story
  • Towards a Post-Tragic, New Source Code of Meaning
  • Stations One and Three Look the Same on the Outside, but Their Interior Quality Is Completely Different

CHAPTER 2    LIVING BEYOND COMPLEXITY

  • Setting the Context: Theory Is a Form of Loving
  • Three Stations of Eros
  • Simplicity, Complexity and Second Simplicity
  • The First Station: Simplicity
  • The Second Station: Complexity
  • Station Three: Second Simplicity
  • Knowing, Not Knowing, Knowing
  • In Station Two of Complexity, We’ve Forgotten the Storyline
  • The Collapse of the Great Story of Premodernity
  • Station Two of Complexity: Other Than Classical Science, Ultimate Knowledge Is Not Available
  • Transcending Complexity and Reweaving a Higher Story
  • Reclaiming a Framework for Our Experience
  • Interpreting Our Experience Through Pre/Trans Distinctions
  • Application of First Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity: The Tsunami in Japan
  • Station One Simplicity: Theodicy: Explanations for Suffering
  • Station Two Complexity: Rejection of First Simplicity
  • Station Three: Second Simplicity
  • Every Great Social Movement: I Incarnate Justice in the World

PART TWO: ONE MOUNTAIN, MANY PATHS

CHAPTER 3    LOVE OR DIE

  • Setting Our Intention
  • Overview: Eros Is No Longer a Luxury—It’s Love Or Die
  • What Is Eros?
  • Existential Risk: the Second Shock of Existence
  • Generator Functions for Existential Risk
  • The Deconstruction of Intrinsic Value
  • The Deconstruction of Value Is the Deconstruction of Intimacy
  • The Evolution of Love Is the Telling of a New Story

CHAPTER 4    SHE COMES IN THREES: THE HOLY, THE BROKEN, AND THE HALLELUJAH

  • The Power of Love Must Claim Its Love Of Power
  • To Challenge Surveillance Capitalism We Need First Principles And First Values
  • In the Absence of a Shared Story, Win-Lose Metrics Prevail
  • Heroes Are the Early Adopters of Homo Amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: She Comes in Threes
  • Tripleness: From Contradiction to Paradox
  • A New Emergence From Autonomy and Communion
  • A New Emergence From Beauty and Ugliness
  • Hallelujah: Pristine Praise Together With Drunken Intoxication
  • The Koan Is Resolved in the Third Possibility
  • A New Emergence From Certainty and Uncertainty
  • A Shared Narrative Has to Be From Tripleness
  • Prayer to the Infinity of Power and the Infinity of Intimacy

CHAPTER 5    OUR HIGHEST PURPOSE IS NO PURPOSE

  • The Fundamental Breakdowns Are Based On A Collapse of Value
  • We Tremble Before Evolution to Manifest a New Expression Of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Our Highest Purpose Is No Purpose
  • Opening Up Makes Transformation Possible
  • I Am Opening Up in Sweet Surrender to the Luminous Love Light of the One
  • Continuity and Discontinuity in the Evolutionary Chain
  • Love Is Both Purposeful and No-Purpose
  • The Glory of No-Purpose

CHAPTER 6    ODE TO EVOLUTIONARY JOY: THE HIGHER UNION OF A BROKEN HEART AND RADICAL ALIVENESS

  • We Need First Principles and First Values to Orient Ourselves At This Time Between Worlds
  • We Are Here to Tell a New Story Ontologizing Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Joy Is a First Principle of Cosmos
  • A Prerequisite to Joy Is to Understand That Life Is Not Over When It’s Over
  • The Intimate Universe Knows Your Name
  • Prayer: We Turn to the Infinite Intimate, the Ultimate Personhood of Reality
  • Joy Is a First Principle of Cosmos
  • Joy Is the Natural Byproduct of Living My Unique Self
  • There’s No Contradiction Between a Broken Heart and Radical Joy
  • Ode to Joy
  • Joy Breaks Through All Gates
  • Your Joy Births Reality

CHAPTER 7    ODE TO EVOLUTIONARY JOY: THE NEXT STEP

  • Our Intention Is to Articulate the New Story Based on the Best Information We Have in Cosmos Today
  • Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia, We Must Access Evolutionary Love and Redirect the Course of History
  • Evolutionary Love Code: the First Principle of Joy
  • The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist
  • Reality Seeks Ever Greater Intimacies
  • In Prayer We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy Who Knows Our Name
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The First Principle of Joy
  • The Joy Equation
  • Aliveness Is When You’re Far From Equilibrium and Receiving Inputs All the Time
  • We Need to Be Able to Stay Open to Receive New Inputs Of Joy
  • When I’m in My Utter Uniqueness I Become a Puzzle Piece That Is Joined With Everyone Else
  • Even a Minor Fluctuation Point Jumps All of Reality to a Higher Level of Consciousness
  • Joy Is a Byproduct of Living My Unique Self
  • The Deeper That Sorrow Carves Into Your Being, the More Joy You Can Contain

CHAPTER 8    THE QUALITY AND FEELING OF HOMO AMOR: INCARNATING THE THIRD BEYOND POLARITIES

  • We Move From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
  • Homo Amor Is the Unique Expression of Eros and Evolution Awakened to Itself
  • A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
  • Our Intention Is to Evolve a New Story, Woven From First Principles and First Values
  • The Interior of Consciousness Is Outrageous Love
  • Outrageous Love Code: the Quality of the Outrageous Lover Is the Third Beyond Paradox
  • Personhood Is a Core Quality of Cosmos
  • Why Did the One Manifest the Many? To Bring Forth New Dimensions of the One
  • We Are the Liberators of Divinity
  • The Infinity of Intimacy Turns to Us and Says: I Need You Desperately
  • Homo Amor: Beyond the Paradox

CHAPTER 9    THE RESPONSE TO PERSONAL CRISIS AND META-CRISIS IS THE EVOLUTION OF RELATIONSHIP AND THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: THE RISE OF WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS

  • God Loves Stories
  • Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story
  • A New Chapter in the New Story: Whole mate Relationships
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Are Confronted by Crisis
  • Every Crisis Is Solved by a New Structure of Intimacy
  • The Evolution of Relationship
  • From Role mate to Soul mate
  • Soul-mate Contract Without a Role-mate Dimension Doesn’t Work
  • From Soul mate to Whole mate
  • The Meta-Crisis Begins to Be Resolved by a New Form Of Relationship

CHAPTER 10    THE URGENT NEED FOR WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS, PART 2

  • Outside the Field of Value, No One Is Human Anymore
  • There Is a Straight Line From Postmodernism to School Shootings
  • We Desperately Need to Reconstruct the Field of Value
  • Evolutionary Love Code: From Role mate to Soul mate to Whole mate
  • The Tragedy of Soul mates
  • I Love You Means I Choose to Need You
  • Reconfiguring Reality by Reconfiguring Humanity

PART THREE: FORMAL WRITINGS

CHAPTER 11    THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS MODEL

  • Station One: Submission Or Identification
  • Station Two: Separation Or Dis-Identification
  • Station Three: Sweetness Or Re-Integration
  • Station Three Is an Entirely Different Quality From Station One
  • An Example of Station One/ Station Three Fallacy: Eros, Ethics, Eros

CHAPTER 12    THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS MODEL IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

  • Station One of Eros: Identification
  • How It Applies to Love: Station One: Falling in Love
  • Station Two of Eros: Dis-Identification/ Individuation
  • How It Applies to Love: Station Two of Eros: Falling Out of Love
  • Station Three of Eros: Re-Integration
  • How It Applies to Love: Station Three—Falling in Love Again, Being Lived as Love

CHAPTER 13    STATION THREE OF EROS: THE AWAKENING OF THE OUTRAGEOUS LOVER

  • Station Three of Eros: I’m Your Man
  • Station Three of Eros: Where Giving and Receiving Merge
  • Station Three of Eros: Being Lived as Outrageous Love
  • The Three Stations of Eros: Poems of Hafiz
  • Station Two of Eros: Falling Out of Love: Two Poems by Hafiz
  • Station Three of Eros: Lived as Love: A Poem by Hafiz

CHAPTER 14    LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS

  • She Comes in Threes Is Not the Three Persons Or the Three Faces of Love
  • Hegel’s Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis: an Expression Of Trialectics
  • Example One: Religion, Absolute Freedom, Self-Evident Shared Values
  • Example Two: Ecstasy, Pain, Transcendence
  • Trialectics in Chinese Philosophy: Beyond Yin and Yang
  • From Contradiction to Paradox: From Binary to Trialectics
  • Station Three: Hamtakah in the Lineage of Solomon: Beyond the Conventional Structures of Right and Wrong
  • The Micro-Vectors of Reality Are the Three Stations of Eros

CHAPTER 15    EXPRESSIONS OF THE THREE STATIONS OF EROS

  • Unique Sequences Disclose Unique Elements of Reality
  • Certainty, Uncertainty, Certainty
  • Sub-Sequence: Value Is Real, Value Is Not Real, Value Is Real
  • Uncertainty, Certainty, Uncertainty
  • Eros, Ethics, Eros
  • Goodness, Wholeness, Goodness
  • Wholeness, Goodness, Wholeness
  • Pre-Personal, Personal and Transpersonal
  • Story, Non-Story, Story
  • Separate Self, True Self, Evolutionary Unique Self
  • No Choice, Choice, Choiceless
  • Light, Darkness, Light
  • Wisdom, Foolishness, Wisdom
  • Laughter, Gravitas, Laughter
  • Innocence, Guilt, Second Innocence
  • Open, Closed, Open
  • Simplicity, Complexity, Second Simplicity
  • Binary Gender, Non Binary Gender, Unique Gender
  • No Purpose, Purpose, No Purpose; Being Becoming, Being
  • Autonomy and Communion: The Ever Deepening Spiral of the Evolution of Love

CHAPTER 16    PRE-TRAGIC, TRAGIC AND POST-TRAGIC LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Towards a Post-Tragic Level of Consciousness

CHAPTER 17    THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: FROM ROLE MATE TO SOUL MATE TO WHOLE MATE

  • Role mates: Submission of the Partners to Their Roles
  • Soul mates: Station Two of Relationship: Separation, Dis-Identification
  • Soul mate Relationship: From I Need You to I Choose You
  • Whole Mates: From Ordinary Love to Outrageous Love
  • The Next Step in the Evolution of Love
  • Role mate, Soul mate and Whole Mate Relationships With Life

CHAPTER 18    SHE COMES IN THREES: THE PRE-TRAGIC, TRAGIC, AND POST-TRAGIC IN ROLE MATE, SOUL MATE, AND WHOLE MATE

  • Whole-Mate Relationships Are Post-Tragic
  • Wholeness Becoming More Whole

PART FOUR: APPENDIX

  • UNCERTAINTY, CERTAINTY, HIGHER UNCERTAINTY
  • On the Relationship Between Questions and Answers in Religious and Secular Society
  • There is Heresy Which is Faith, and Faith Which is Heresy
  • In Response to Evil and Suffering
  • Holding Both Meanings of Torah in Response to Suffering: “Instructions for Living” and “To Search”
  • In the Face of Suffering: an Intimate Inquisition
  • The Wicked and the Wise and the One Who Does Not Know How to Question
  • The Covenantal Partnership Between the Human Being and God
  • Ivan in Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: Heresy That is Faith
  • In the Depth of Uncertainty Is Certainty
  • The Certainty of Rage
  • Biblical Ayeh Stories: Grappling With God
  • Uncertainty, Certainty, Higher Uncertainty
  • Question, Answer, Higher Question
  • The Core Certainty of Self Allows Us to Hold Radical Uncertainty
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Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love: Articulating the New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 23

Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love: Articulating the New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 23 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

The concept of Unique Self reveals the intrinsic value in each individual’s unique expression of the deeper Field of Value, calling us to contribute our distinct gifts to the evolution of love. As we unite in Unique Self Symphonies, humanity plays its part in the cosmic unfolding of love, giving rise to Homo amor—the new human and new humanity.

This volume of “oral essays” calls for a CosmoErotic Humanism, an interconnected vision of Reality, grounded in First Principles and Values that reflect the Field of ErosValue. It challenges the collapse of traditional value systems and invites humanity to reconnect through a shared narrative that fosters global intimacy, cooperation, and co-ordination. Rather than resorting to denial, domination, or doomerism, Gafni argues that embracing Outrageous Love offers the only true path forward, one based on clarified desire. Only by awakening to our Unique Selves can we navigate the existential risks of our time and step into a future shaped by the ongoing evolution of love and ever-deepening intimacy.

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Title: Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love: Articulating the New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 23
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    THE WHOLE WORLD IS WALKING ON A VERY NARROW BRIDGE: THE PANDEMIC ACCENTUATES THE FAULT LINES IN SOCIETY

  • First Principles Are Needed to Move Through This Moment
  • We Walk Through the Contraction, and We Collect the Joy
  • Waking Up and Growing Up
  • Prayer and Meditation: Dogma or Realization?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Pleasure of Transformation
  • In the Pandemic We’ve Lost Not Only Pseudo-Eros, We’ve Also Lost Our Sources of Eros
  • The World Needs First Principles and First Values
  • There’s Something for Me to Do, and It’s the Greatest Thing in the World
  • There’s an Action You Can Take That’s Yours and No One Else’s

CHAPTER 2    THE CHALLENGE: THE META-CRISIS, THE RESPONSE: UNIQUE SELF

  • We Need a New Story—A New Worldview From Which Everything Emerges
  • We Are Here to Tell the New Story of Value
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self Symphony in Response to the Meta-Crisis
  • Silence and Chant Open Up the Eye of Value
  • The Infinity of Intimacy: The Personhood of Cosmos
  • Encapsulating Unique Self
  • Unique Self Is a Direct Hit to the Death Star of Existential Risk
  • Unique Self Responds to the Question of Who Are You?
  • Unique Self Answers the Question of Who Are You?
  • Your Unique Gift
  • Unique Self Symphony
  • Unique Self: Reality Intended Me
  • Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony in Response to the Meta-Crisis
  • Unique Self Responds to the First Shock of Existence
  • Your Story Is Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • The Plotlines of Cosmos Are Towards More Uniqueness

CHAPTER 3    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
  • In Response to Nihilism, You Get Closed Societies
  • The Current Trajectory Is Towards 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 4    THE ULTIMATE META-CRISIS IS GOD’S CRISIS OF INTIMACY

  • Listening to the Goddess
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Love
  • I Become More Me in Our We—All the Way Up and Down the Evolutionary Chain
  • We Live in a Participatory Universe
  • Divine Kenosis
  • God Needs the Human Being
  • Our Hearts Don’t Just Break, They Break Us Open Into Divinity
  • God Needs You to Live Your Story
  • I’m Not Willing to Be Written in the Book of Life Without You
  • Our Hands Are God’s Hands

CHAPTER 5    THE META-CRISIS OF GOD, PART TWO: SHE DESPERATELY NEEDS US TO TAKE OUR UNIQUE RISK (WITH Q&A)

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Love
  • When She Speaks It for Us
  • The Unique Self Is a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • The Outrageous Act of Love of the Infinite Intimate
  • The Infinite Intimate Needs You Desperately
  • You Have to Take the Leap
  • It Is This Set of Realizations That Births Homo amor
  • Questions and Answers
    • Is Homo amor an Atheist?
    • How Is This Different From Codependency?
    • How Not to Get Stuck in the Trauma Space, and How to Move Forward?
    • Love Everybody Madly

CHAPTER 6    THE RESPONSE TO PERSONAL CRISIS AND META-CRISIS IS THE EVOLUTION OF RELATIONSHIP AND THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: THE RISE OF WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS

  • God Loves Stories
  • Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story
  • A New Chapter in the New Story: Whole Mate Relationships
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Are Confronted by Crisis
  • Every Crisis Is Solved by a New Structure of Intimacy
  • From Role Mate to Soul Mate
  • Soul-Mate Contract Without a Role-Mate Dimension Doesn’t Work
  • The Meta-Crisis Begins to Be Resolved by a New Form of Relationship

CHAPTER 7    THE URGENT NEED FOR WHOLE MATE RELATIONSHIPS, PART TWO

  • Outside the Field of Value, No One Is Human Anymore
  • There Is a Straight Line From Postmodernism to School Shootings
  • We Desperately Need to Reconstruct the Field of Value
  • Evolutionary Love Code: From Role Mate to Soul Mate to Whole Mate
  • The Tragedy of Soul Mates
  • I Love You Means I Choose to Need You
  • Reconfiguring Reality by Reconfiguring Humanity

CHAPTER 8    THE NEW STORY OF VALUE BASED ON FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

  • We Have Been Living in a Post-Truth Society
  • From Cosmo-Phobia to Cosmo-Erotic Humanism
  • Story Is Everything
  • We Need a New Story Based on a Shared Grammar of Value
  • First Principles and First Values Are the DNA of the New Story
  • The Universe: Not a Fact, But a Story
  • Tell Me What You Desire, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe
  • Desire Evolved
  • From Prepersonal to Personal to Transpersonal

CHAPTER 9    A NEW STORY OF VALUE DEMANDS A NEW LANGUAGE OF VALUE: FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES, PART TWO

  • Intimacy Is the Ground of Reality
  • Intimacy = Shared Identity in the Context of Otherness + Mutuality + Recognition + Vulnerability + Willingness
  • The Field of Value Emerges From the Field of Intimacy
  • Reality Is Structured by First Principles and First Values
  • Reality Has Interior
  • Reality Is Personal
  • Reality Has Direction
  • We Are Inside the Story
  • The Story Is Not Happening to Us; the Story Is Happening Through Us
  • Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • Reality Is a Story of Eros

CHAPTER 10    FIFTEEN PRINCIPLES OF COSMO-EROTIC HUMANISM

  • The Universe Is Not a Fact; It’s a Story
  • The Universe Is Intimate
  • Eros = the Evolving Force of Attraction and Becoming
  • Reality Has Interior—It Is Consciousness
  • The Human Being Is the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • Every Human Being Is a Unique Self
  • Unique Self = Unique Configuration of Eros
  • Your Unique Gift Is Required by All That Is
  • Your Story Is a Love Story
  • You Are the Personal Face of the Evolutionary Impulse
  • We Live in a Participatory Universe
  • The Universe Is a Love Story
  • The Universe Is a Story of Intimacy
  • We Are All Part of the Unique Self Symphony
  • The Evolution of Love = The Evolution of Intimacy

CHAPTER 11    THE FIFTEEN PRINCIPLES, CONTINUED (WITH Q&A)

  • How Are the Principles Practically Applied?
  • How Do We Live the New Story of Value?
  • What Is the Practice of Cosmo-Erotic Humanism?
  • Where Do We Start When the World Is on Fire?
  • What Happens When We Fall Off the Narrow Bridge?
  • Can You Say More About the Unique Self Symphony?
  • How Is This Different From Collective Mind?
  • What Is the Role of Dharma?

CHAPTER 12    RADICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE: THE UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONY

  • Every Human Being Is a Unique Tone
  • When You Don’t Play Your Note, the Symphony Can’t Be Heard
  • Unique Self Symphony = Evolutionary Intimacy
  • Playing Your Note Changes the Score of the Universe
  • The Conducting Wholeness of Eros
  • Homo amor Is the Music of the Future
  • Unique Self + Unique Shadow + Unique Gift = Unique Obligation
  • Symphony Is Not Uniformity—It’s a Higher Order of Coherence
  • Intimacy of Purpose = The Shared Evolutionary Context

CHAPTER 13    FEEL YOU FEELING ME: THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW NAME OF GOD

  • The Most Effective Altruism Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • The New Story of Value Lives in Us
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Invoking the Possible Human
  • Anthro-Ontology: How Do You Know What You Know?
  • The Core of Homo amor Is My Capacity to Feel You
  • Ever Deeper Loops in the Mutuality of Feeling
  • The Divine Is the Infinite Intimate

CHAPTER 14    FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: HEARTBREAK IS A STRUCTURE OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

  • We Need to Evolve the Systemic Source Code in Which We Live
  • We Live in an Evolving and Participatory Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Intimacy Is Always Broken and Then Recovered
  • Heartbreak Is the Natural State of an Alive Human Being
  • Prayer Affirms the Dignity of Personal Need
  • Your Need Is My Allurement
  • To Live in the Depth of My Heartbreak
  • Evolution of Tears
  • From Homo sapiens to Homo amor
  • From Homo Armor to Homo amor
  • The Evolution of Heartbreak Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • I Am Willing to Feel Even What I Cannot Entirely Heal
  • PART TWO: From Heartbreak to Desire to Need to Value
  • We Need to Move From the First Innocence to the Second Innocence
  • Embracing the Heartbreak
  • Clarified Desire = Dignified Need = Value
  • PART THREE: Heartbreak in Interior and Exterior Sciences: Autonomy—Communion, Attraction—Repulsion
  • There Is Eros to the Broken Heart

CHAPTER 15    THE FOOTBALL RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS: STEPPING OUT OF THE POCKET FOR THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • We Have to Become the New Story
  • When the Pocket Collapses, a New Possibility Is Created
  • When the Pocket Collapses, the Play Is Over
  • There Is No Story of Value Because the Field of Value Has Broken
  • Why Is There a Global Intimacy Disorder?
  • The Collapse of the Pocket in the Story of Value
  • We’ve Got to Step Out of the Pocket and Extend the Play
  • Reinitiating the Evolution of Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Step Out of the Pocket and Create a New Possibility

CHAPTER 16    THE RESPONSE TO EXISTENTIAL AND CATASTROPHIC RISK IS THE DAWN OF DESIRE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Dawn of Desire
  • Four Responses to Existential and Catastrophic Risk
    • 1 — The Doomer Response
    • 2 — The Denial Response
    • 3 — The Domination Response
    • 4 — The Desire Response
  • The Fourth Response to the Meta-Crisis: the Dawn of Desire
  • Seeing The Storyline: From Unconscious to Conscious Evolution
  • Need and Desire Are Isomorphic at Fundamental and Aspirational Levels of Evolution
  • I Am a Unique Feature of the Field of Desire
  • Clarified Desire Equals Value, and My Clarified Desire Is Unique
  • The Dignity of Desire
  • Clarifying Our Desire in Response to the Meta-Crisis
  • Desire Is Prayer, Prayer Is Desire
  • Reality Is the Desire for Ever More ErosValue

CHAPTER 17    FROM CRISIS TO CROSSING: AVERTING EXISTENTIAL RISK OR PREPARING FOR “THE DAY AFTER”?

  • Love or Die: Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • Only a New Story of Value Can Change the Vector of History
  • Will the New Story Avert the Meta-Crisis, or Is It for the Day After?
  • The Ultimate Appetite of the Universe Is for Ultimate Beauty
  • Between Dystopia and Utopia
  • Great Things Are Happening All Over the Place
  • We Need to Cross to the Other Side
  • Motivational Architecture for Change
  • Taking Unique Risk
  • Passion Is the Only Truth

CHAPTER 18    TOWARDS THE POST-TRAGIC HERO, PART ONE

  • I Cannot Be Welcome in the Universe Unless I Am a Hero
  • Democratization of the Hero
  • The Glimmerings of the Hero
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Homo amor Is the Post-Tragic Hero
  • Baraye—For the Sake of the Whole
  • When I Am Aroused, I Am the Hero: Reality Is Making Love
  • You Know and I Know That You Are a Hero
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

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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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Existential Risk and the Evolution of Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-18T15:32:59-07:00

Homo Amor and Unique Self | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 22

Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 22 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

Homo amor is the new human and new humanity. Homo amor is the CosmoErotic Universe in person.

In other words, not only is the personal the political, but the personal is the cosmic.
We come to the realization we are each a Unique Self. To be a Unique Self is to know yourself directly as the irreducibly unique expression of the Eros and energy of All-That-Is, that lives in you, as you, and through you, and that never was or will be ever again, other than through you.

Unique Self rejects the prevalent flatland view of modernity in which the self is understood to be but a skin-encapsulated ego, an isolated entity caught in never-ending rivalrous dynamics governed by win/lose metrics that in turn generates the fragile systems that are cause for existential risk. In direct contrast, Unique Self is understood as your irreducibly unique expression of the ErosValue that animates the entire Cosmos, which is intended, recognized, chosen, adored, desired, and needed by All-That-Is.

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

Book details:

Title: Homo Amor and Unique Self: A Revolutionary Path Towards a Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 22
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340318
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1   THE PUZZLE PIECE DHARMA AND THE FIVE SELVES

  • A Collective Human Intelligence In Unique Self Symphony Is The Only Force More Intelligent Than Artificial Intelligence
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Field Of Intimacy And Desire Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • We Get To Fall Madly In Love With Each Other
  • Reclaiming A Politics Of Love
  • God, Can I Bring Everything To You?
  • Planetary Awakening In Love Through Unique Self Symphony
  • Authentic Intelligence: A Conscious Intention By Each Of Us To Give Our Unique Gift
  • The dharma Of The Five Selves
  • Planting The dharma In Politics, Science, Religion, Justice, Government And Relationships

CHAPTER 2   TAKE YOUR UNIQUE RISK—GIVING UP BEING RIGHT

  • Stepping Up As The Community Of God Selves
  • Prayer: Pulsing Desire Merged With Quivering Tenderness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: In Order To Commit My Outrageous Act Of Love, I Must Take My Unique Risk
  • My Unique Risk Is, I’ve Got To Put All Of Myself On The Line, And I Don’t Know Exactly How It’s Going To Go
  • The Unique Risk Of The Infinity Of Intimacy
  • No One Will Call You Out For Not Taking Your Unique Risk
  • How To Take Your Unique Risk: You Put Everything On The Line
  • We Are God In Evolution And We Are At A Shift Point Of Evolution

CHAPTER 3    CLARIFYING YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

  • We Can All Be Prophets Of The New Word, But We Must Be Committed
  • We Are A Training School For Prophets
  • In Prayer, We Invoke. In Prophesy, God Invokes
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We’re Accountable In Life For This Question: Did You Take Your Unique Risk?
  • The Wheel Of Co-Creation 2.0

CHAPTER 4   EVERY PLACE I’VE BEEN I NEEDED TO BE

  • The New Story: I’m A Unique Configuration Of Evolutionary Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Place You’ve Been You Needed To Be
  • Prayer: The Realization That The Field Of Intelligence Is Holding Me
  • Every Place I’ve Been, I Needed To Be
  • The Self-Actualizing Cosmos That Moves Us Is The Evolution Of Intimacy
  • I Am God’s Evolutionary Partner
  • We Are Allured To Play Our Part In The Self-Organizing Universe
  • Making My Contribution To The Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 5  CONFESS YOUR BROKENNESS; CONFESS YOUR GREATNESS

  • Telling A New Story: Human Beings Participate In Divinity
  • Modernity: The Win/Lose Success Story
  • Confessing Our Collective Vulnerability
  • Unique Self Symphonies: Human Beings Looking At Each Other From Their Place Of Vulnerability
  • From That Place Of Vulnerability, We Confess Our Greatness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Only Slave-driver In The World Is That Yesterday Determines Today
  • My Brokenness And My Greatness Are Not Separate In Any Way
  • Accessing The Newness Of Homo Amor Universalis

CHAPTER 6    MY UNIQUE TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING

  • Are You Willing To Play A Larger Game? Are You Ready To Participate In The Evolution Of Love?
  • We’re In A Da Vinci Moment: We Need To Upgrade The Source Code
  • Prayer: God Is The Infinite Personhood Of Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Driven By Eros
  • Transformation Is The Highest Pleasure
  • My Transformation Transforms Everything Because Reality Lives In Me
  • That Which Is Above Comes From You
  • I Am The More God To Come

CHAPTER 7  LOVING THE MOMENT OPEN: A NEW VISION OF UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONY

  • Joining Genius In Unique Self Symphonies To Tell A New Story
  • Coming Together As A Band Of Outrageous Lovers To Love The Moment Open
  • Prayer: A Heart-Orgy With The Infinity Of Power And The Infinity Of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation,
  • And The Transformation Is The Highest Form Of Power
  • Feel A Unique Transformation That’s Uniquely Personal As You
  • The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation And The Highest Transformation Is Power

CHAPTER 8   THE TAO THAT CAN BE CODED IS NOT THE TAO: EVOLVING HUMANITY BEYOND ALGORITHMS

  • Telling a New Story Rooted in Eternal and Evolving Values
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Think We Have Stepped Out of the Tao Is the Greatest Existential Risk of All
  • The Tao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Tao
  • The Death of Our Humanity Begins When We Think We’ve Stepped Out of the Tao

CHAPTER 9   YOUR HOLY AND YOUR BROKEN ARE BOTH HALLELUJAH: BEING THE NEW HUMAN IN THE TAO

  • We Are a Unique Self Symphony, an Emergent Expression of the Tao
  • The Unique Self Symphony in Response to the Tech Plex
  • Imagine a Unique Self Facebook With 7.7 Billion Users Joining Together in Symphony
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Eternal Tao Is the Evolving Tao
  • Love Is Both Eternal and It Evolves
  • The Tao Is the Realization of the Unquantifiable Value of a Human Being
  • There’s a Shattering in Everything That Reality Has Made—That’s How the Light Gets in
  • Reshimu: Traces of Transcendence

CHAPTER 10   EVOLUTION IS PERSONAL: A SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

  • We Are Evolution in Person
  • Re-reading Neurochemistry as an Expression of the Intimate Universe
  • In Prayer We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy That Knows Our Name
  • The Internet Is the Shallows, the Clarified Heart-Mind Expresses Depth

CHAPTER 11   THE ARC OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE BENDS TOWARD EVOLUTIONARY UNIQUE SELF

  • Reality Moves Towards More Intimacy, Wholeness, Aliveness, Depth, Ecstasy, and Kindness
  • The Principles of Revolution: Telling the New Story
  • All of Reality Is Intimate, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
  • The Internet Must Be Recoded From “The Shallows” to Depth and Intimacy
  • Who Am I? The Separate-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Social-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Unique-Self Narrative
  • Social Self: Rats in the Maze of the Tech Plex
  • Unique Self as Part of a Symphony

CHAPTER 12   THE GOOD NEWS: HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of Inaccurate, Partial Stories
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark That Has Been Hijacked
  • To Be an Evangelist Is to Be an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love: We’re Outraged
  • Evolutionary Love Code: For True Evangelism We Need Both Ecstatic States and Developmental Stages
  • In Every Great Tradition There’s an Intimate Incarnation of the Divine
  • Passover: Reclaiming the Broken Part

CHAPTER 13   THE DIVINE DELIGHT AND DEVASTATION OF DEVOTION AND HER DIGNITIES: VISIONS OF UNIQUE SELF AND UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONY

  • You Cannot Live In Joy Without Being In Devotion
  • Anna Akhmatova As A Symbol Of Devotion: Where Catastrophe Led Them, I Was There
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution Of Desire Is The Evolution Of Devotion
  • Devotion Is An Expression Of The Depth Of Desire
  • Devotion In Premodernity, Modernity And Postmodernity
  • We Need To Deconstruct Devotion In Order To Resurrect It
  • Devotion Is The Placing Of Attention
  • I Want To Place My Attention On My Allurement
  • Devotion Beyond Unique Self
  • I’m Your Man
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Buy on Amazon

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 

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Homo Amor and Unique Self | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-18T15:12:23-07:00

The Path of Outrageous Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 20

The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 20 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

At the heart of this realization lies the understanding that each of us is an irreducibly unique expression of Eros—the Outrageous Love that drives the Cosmos. This awakening marks the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo amor, the new human and new humanity attuned to intimate connection with each other, the planet, the Divine, and all of Reality. In a time dominated by technological systems and “exterior” sciences, Outrageous Love offers a path forward—a radical call to embrace intimacy and evolve collectively in a world where our irreducible uniqueness, which distinguishes us as unique incarnations of the whole, is celebrated. Indeed, our very uniqueness becomes the currency of our connection.

This book challenges you to live as Homo amor, to commit Outrageous Acts of Love, and to contribute your unique gifts to Reality, affirming that your unique deed will always meet Reality’s unique need. Outrageous Love is an invitation to recognize your place in the madly loving, Erotic Cosmos—and to play your instrument what Marc and Barbara Marx Hubbard call the “Planetary Awaking in Love through Unique Self Symphonies.”

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

Book details:

Title:The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo amor: Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 20
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340301
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    EVERYONE IS ALREADY YOUR FRIEND

  • We Live in Inter-Beingness With Each Other and With All of Reality Itself
  • Telling the New Story: Reality Is an Outrageous Love Story
  • Loving the Moment Open, From the Inside of the Inside
  • Our Revulsion of Evil Is an Expression That We Live in an Intimate Universe
  • Prayer: Intimate Communion With the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Reality and Evolution Is Intimacy

CHAPTER 2     POWER OF, POWER FOR, AND POWER OVER IS HOLY

  • Reality Is a Divine Story in Which There’s More God to Come
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Power Is Holy
  • Prayer: We Turn to God Who Is the Infinity of Personhood
  • Power for the Sake of, and Power Over
  • Loving the Moment Open and Allowing the Moment to Love Me Open
  • Homo amor Is Power
  • Reality Needs Our Power

CHAPTER 3    WE ARE THE TIPPING POINT OF THE DIVINE

  • Evolutionary, Revolutionary Love Is Subversive to the Notion That We’re Contracted and Small
  • To Know My Identity Is to Step Into My Enlightenment
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Question Is Everything
  • We Are Divine Miniatures but Are Systematically Misrecognized on So Many Levels
  • We Redeem Each Other in Fellowship From the Pain of Our Loneliness
  • Evolution Towards Greater Consciousness and Love

CHAPTER 4     I AM THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • After the Postmodern Deconstruction of Meaning, We’re Here to Begin the Great Reconstructive Project
  • Weaving a New Story in a Bottom-Up Groundswell Towards the Strange Attractor of Wholeness
  • Tocho Ratzuf Ahava: Allurement at Every Evolutionary Stage of Cosmos
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe in Which Every Exchange Is A Love Song
  • Prayer: Homo amor, a Unique Configuration of Intimacy, Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am the Evolution of Love
  • I Am an Expression of the Impulse of Creation

CHAPTER 5     ONTOLOGIZING LOVE: LOVE IS REAL

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is Real
  • We Have The Capacity To Create Heaven On Earth, Where Every Human Being Knows: I Am A Unique Configuration Of Evolutionary Love
  • Prayer: The Intimate Face Of Outrageous Love
  • We Live In A World Of Outrageous Pain And The Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • Who Am I? What Does Reality Need From Me in This Moment?
  • The Practice of Homo amor Is Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Unique Self Symphony Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation: Breathing in the Story of Creation

CHAPTER 6     NO ONE AND NOTHING OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE

  • Becoming Homo amor, The Intimate Universe In Person
  • What Does It Mean to Commit Outrageous Acts of Love?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Acts of Love at the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • By Embracing and Transforming Our Shadow in Outrageous Love, We No Longer Place Others Outside the Circle

CHAPTER 7     THE PATH AND PRACTICE OF HOMO AMOR— OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF LOVE

  • The Story Is the Evolution of Divinity—and It’s Always a Love Story
  • The Problem: We Put the Boundary in the Wrong Place
  • At the Outrageous Level, the Trinity Becomes One
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs Your Service
  • Writing an Outrageous Love Letter
  • Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Love Letters and Outrageous Acts of Love: Being and Telling The Miracle
  • This Is the Third Turning of the Wheel

CHAPTER 8     I AM NOT IN THE UNIVERSE; I AM THE UNIVERSE

  • We Are at the Crossroads
  • We Are a Holy Band of Outrageous Lovers
  • We Come Together to Articulate the Best Story of Humanity Ever Told
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is Love in Action and I Am Evolution
  • We Are Evolutionary Love: Our Acts of Outrageous Love Are Love in Action
  • God in the Third Person—Cosmic Magnificence—Is Also God in the Second Person, the Infinity of Intimacy Who Knows Our Name
  • To Be the Hero of My Story Is to Commit My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Acts of Love; Outrageous Love Letters
  • The Messiah Lives In the Monastery
  • I’m the Messiah, Responsible for My Unique Outrageous Acts of Love

CHAPTER 9     JUST IN TIME FOR A TIME LIKE THIS: YOU ARE THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

  • The Big Yes of the Big Bang
  • We Need a Global Ethic for a Global Civilization
  • I Am Gloria, I Am Literally a Divine Miniature

CHAPTER 10     BEYOND EROS & AGAPE: ONE LOVE

  • Reality: Its Insides Are Lined With Love
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Prayer: Merging Radical Tenderness and Wild Desire
  • Reality Is Eros, All the Way Up and All the Way Down

CHAPTER 11     EVOLUTIONARY SURPRISE IS THE QUALITY OF DIVINE LOVE

  • We Need a New Story at This Time Between Stories
  • Weaving a New Story: The Leading Edge of Evolution Lives in the Surprise That I Bring to Cosmos
  • Sabbath: Fall in Love in the Morning, Trust and Be Trusted Through the Night
  • Are You Willing to Be Surprised by Reality?
  • Elegant Order and Radical Surprise—God the King/Queen And God the Lover
  • Homo Amor Is a Memory of the Future
  • The Dance of Order and Freedom
  • Don’t Travel to Distant Places; See With Fresh Eyes
  • Reality Is Being Constantly Generated Anew

CHAPTER 12     OUTRAGE + LOVE = OUTRAGEOUS LOVE: THE SYNERGY OF SACRED ACTIVISM

  • We Stand Poised Between Utopia and Dystopia
  • A Shared Story Weaving Together the Deepest Validated Insights Across Time
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Outrageous Love—The Synergy of Outrage and Love
  • Leonard Cohen Was a Lover
  • What Is the Quality of Homo Amor, of the Outrageous Lover?
  • Outrageous Love: Outrage and Love
  • The Character of the Outrageous Lover
  • We’ve Got to Beware of the Hijacking of Outrage
  • Hijacking of the Fierce Feminine
  • We Hold Outrage With Tender Care and Bring Together With Love
  • Five Qualities That Bring Outrage and Love Together
  • As an Outrageous Lover I Take My Unique Risk and Perform My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Quality Five: I’m Partner With the Larger Force of Cosmos That Holds Me
  • Recapitulation of the Five Characteristics of Bringing Outrage and Love Together in Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 13     THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE LOVE

  • The Archimedian Lever at This Time Is Telling a New Story of Value
  • Reclaiming Prayer From the Politically Corrupt Prisms of Ethnocentric Consciousness
  • The Cosmos Is Amorous
  • We Pray Together in This Glorious and Ecstatically Urgent Moment
  • Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Outrageous Acts of Love
  • The Simple Principle of Uniqueness, Repeated Into Gorgeous Complexity With Allurement Between the Parts
  • Outrageous Love Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Story and My Story Are Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • These Same Plotlines Run Throughout All the Big Bangs
  • I’m Willing to Let You Love Me Unconditionally
  • The Pre-Tragic, Tragic and Post-Tragic Stages of Unconditional Love

CHAPTER 14     THERE’S NO ULTIMATE DISTINCTION BETWEEN COSMIC LOVE AND PERSONAL LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Love Is Real and It Lives in Every Moment
  • Three Faces of the Real
  • Enlightenment Is Sanity
  • In the Process of Evolution, Spirit Becomes More
  • Reality Is the Movement Towards God by the Gentle Persuasion of Love
  • Evolution at Its Very Core Is Yearning
  • Reality Is Governed by Tenets of Intimacy
  • Being Lived as Love Is Post-Tragic

CHAPTER 15     THE CREDO OF THE OUTRAGEOUS LOVER: TEN PRINCIPLES OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • There Is No Other Way to Respond to the Meta-Crisis
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Pain, and the Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Beauty
  • I Am an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • The Outrageous Lover Commits Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Outrageous Acts of Love Are Function of Unique Self
  • We Need to Close the Gap Between Our Ability to Feel the Pain and Our Ability to Heal The Pain
  • Outrageous Acts of Love Address a Unique Need in a Unique Circle of Intimacy and Influence
  • Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
  • Evolutionary Family Is More Important Than Biological Family
  • Let Us Be Lived as Love

CHAPTER 16     SYRIA AND TURKEY EARTHQUAKE: THE ONLY RESPONSE TO OUTRAGEOUS PAIN IS OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • How Do We Hold the Truth of a Loving Universe and the Truth of Outrageous Pain at the Same Time?
  • Suffering Is Real and It’s Obscene to Explain It Away
  • We Demand Accountability From the Divine
  • We Protest Because We Know That Love Is Real
  • Fairness Is a Core Value of Reality
  • The Hidden and the Revealed
  • It Is Not Over When It’s Over
  • Reality Is a Love Story

CHAPTER 17     SYRIA AND TURKEY EARTHQUAKE—THE ONLY RESPONSE TO OUTRAGEOUS PAIN OUTRAGEOUS LOVE, PART 2

  • Even as We Face Outrageous Pain, We Need to Be in Outrageous Love
  • The Mystery of Suffering
  • Don’t Rely on God in the Face of Outrageous Pain
  • Evil Is a Failure of Pleasure
  • The Whole Thing Depends on Us

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

  • Is It Mine to Heal the Whole Thing?
  • Do We Create Our Own Suffering?
  • How Can Pleasure Be The Source of All Ethics?

CHAPTER 18     OUTRAGEOUS LOVE BEGINS WITH RAGE: THE HOLY OUTRAGE OF THE PROPHET

  • Why Do We Call Outrageous Love Outrageous?
  • Outrageous Love Has to Include Holy Outrage
  • Outrage and Love Are the Same Word
  • We Cannot Stop at Outrage
  • To Love Outrageously Is to Put It All on the Line
  • Write A Check of Your Open Heart
  • Evolution Is Love in Action

CHAPTER 19     THERE IS ONLY ONE SIDE, THE SIDE OF LOVE: TEN PRINCIPLES

  • The Malaise of Polarization
  • We All Stand Together on the Side of Love
  • Love Doesn’t Erase Distinctions
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is Only One Side, the Side of Love
  • Principle One: You Can’t Love Unless You Can Laugh Together
  • Principle Two: Love Is the Movement Between Certainty and Uncertainty
  • Principle Three: Feel Me Feeling You
  • Principle Four: Love Extends Time and Holds the Present, Past, and Future
  • Principle Five: To Love Is to Know
  • Principle Six: Love Is a Bracketing of the Ego
  • Principle Seven: Love Is a Perception
  • Principle Eight: Love Is the Energy of Transformation
  • Principle Nine: Love Demands a Post-Tragic Embrace
  • Principle Ten: Trace Every Story Back to Its Roots

CHAPTER 20     LOVE DEMANDS TRANSFORMATION: CROSSING OVER TO THE SIDE OF LOVE

  • The Crossing
  • The Battle Between Good and Evil Invites Me to the Crossing
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is Only One Side, the Side Of Love
  • Even as Love Crowns You, Shall He Crucify You
  • Love Moves Us Towards Transformation
  • We Have to Feel Each Other, Across Any Boundaries
  • No One Is Outside the Circle
  • Practice: I Bracket Myself, and I Cross Over to the Other Side
  • Being on the Side of Love Doesn’t Mean Moral Equivalence

CHAPTER 21     THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR: TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE LOVE

  • Eulogy Is Liberation From Loneliness
  • All of Reality Is Great Seduction
  • Radha’s Energy
  • The Story of Krishna and Radha
  • Radha’s Wound
  • The Bliss of the Pain of Separation
  • The Path of Outrageous Love
  • Postscript: From Pre-Tragic to Post-Tragic Seduction
  • Hope at the Edge of the Tragic: Post-Tragic Krishna-and-Radha
  • Outrageous Love Is the Ultimate Path of Self-Realization
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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: 

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The Path of Outrageous Love | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-17T16:21:28-07:00

The Infinity of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Infinity of Intimacy: From Biological Family to Evolutionary Family: Awakening to the Intimate Universe

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 19

The Infinity of Intimacy: From Biological Family to Evolutionary Family: Awakening to the Intimate Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 19 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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 framework for the conversation is what Marc calls the New Universe Story of the Intimate Universe. Evolution here is understood not merely as the progression from simplicity to complexity, but as the progressive deepening of intimacies. The intensification of intimacy as it deepens, widens, and becomes more full is itself the journey from Homo sapiens to Homo amor, the birth of the possible new human and the new humanity. The notion of the Intimate Universe is part of a core dimension in the articulation of a new “Story of Value” for global culture, as a response to the meta-crisis.

The oral essays collected in The Infinity of Intimacy offer a radical reimagining of how we define our place in the evolving Cosmos. We directly experience our identity as unique participants in what Marc and Barbara call a “Planetary Awakening in Evolutionary Love Through Unique Self Symphonies.” It is an ecstatic invitation to fully live in the wonder of your Unique Self, in clarified devotion to the larger story of the creative Cosmos, grounded in eternal and evolving First Principles and First Values.

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

Book details:

Title: The Infinity of Intimacy: From Biological Family to Evolutionary Family: Awakening to the Intimate Universe
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 19
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340257
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CO-CREATING A SYNERGISTIC DEMOCRACY: SYNERGY IS THE NEW INTIMACY OF COSMOS

  • Global Communion Towards a Pragmatic Politics of Love
  • The Holy Impulse of the Transgender Movement
  • Homo Amor: Unique Gender, My Unique Combination of Line and Circle Qualities
  • Unique Gender of Homo Amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Royal Road to World Transformation
  • Whenever There’s a Crisis in Evolution, It’s a Crisis of Intimacy
  • Intimate Communion Activates Unique Genius
  • Synergistic Democracy as a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 2     EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH AS A MICROCOSM OF SYNERGISTIC DEMOCRACY: THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE & I ARE ONE

  • Homo amor Lives as if This Were the Last Day of Our Lives
  • The Only Way to Create a Tomorrow Is to Transform the Essential Sense of Who We Are as Human Beings
  • Prayer: Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy That Knows My Name
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is Intimacy in Action
  • Homo Amor Universalis as a Species
  • Intimacy Means: My Moral Community Is the Planet

CHAPTER 3    THE DIVINE YES OF INFINITE POSSIBILITY LIVES AND BREATHES IN US; WE ARE EVOLUTION AWAKENING TO ITSELF

  • Reclaiming Evolutionary Outrageous Love as Religion
  • Loving Your Way to Enlightenment: Prayer as Exponentialized Intimacy
  • Reclaiming Prayer: The Second-Person Face of the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Infinity Screams an Ecstatic “Yes!”
  • My Yes Is an Incarnation of the Holy Yes of the Big Bang
  • Intimacy: Shared Identity and Mutuality
  • Affirming the Big Yes as the Impulse of Evolution

CHAPTER 4     EVOLUTIONARY FAMILIA: INTIMACY GENERATES EMERGENCE

  • We Are at a Pivoting Point in History
  • A New Universe Story Is a New Intimacy in Which the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
  • The Gap Between Exterior and Interior Imagination
  • We Must Reclaim God
  • The Three Faces of God
  • Every Crisis at Its Core Is a Crisis of Intimacy
  • What’s Going to Make the Difference Is Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: God Is the Infinity of Intimacy; Intimacy Generates Emergence
  • Generating a Field of Intimacy
  • Intimacy Means It’s Not Mine—It’s Ours
  • The Power of Intimacy in Our Emergence
  • Becoming God’s Unique Intimacies

CHAPTER 5     OUR CRISIS IS A BIRTH: ALL CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF INTIMACY

  • We Live in an Intimate Universe
  • We Have the Ability to Tell a New Story: Humans Are Lovers
  • Prayer: Exponentializing the Passion and Tenderness of Our Most Intimate Experience
  • Prayer: Loving and Being Loved Madly
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Enlightenment Means Intimacy With All Persons and Things

CHAPTER 6     ENLIGHTENMENT IS INTIMACY WITH ALL PEOPLE AND ALL THINGS

  • If It’s Your Last Breath, My Love, Then It’s My Last Breath Too
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis at Its Root Is a Crisis in Intimacy

CHAPTER 7    MY CRISIS IS MY BIRTH—REALITY DESIRES MY BIRTH

  • Mirari: Standing in Rapt Attention Before the Miracle
  • We’re Here to Tell and Be the New Universe Story
  • Its Insides Are Lined With Love
  • Prayer: We’re Individuated Expressions of—and Held by—the All-That-Is
  • The Evolutionary Testament of Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Birth

CHAPTER 8    INCLUDING AND TRANSCENDING: FROM BIOLOGICAL FAMILY TO EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY

  • Biological Family and Evolutionary Family
  • The Importance of Biological Family
  • We Are Not Defined by Our Biology
  • The Importance of Evolutionary Family
  • Evolutionary Family Furthers the Goal of Reality to Generate New Forms of Intimacy
  • The Law of Homo Amor Is That Giving and Receiving Are One

CHAPTER 9     INCLUDING AND TRANSCENDING: FROM BIOLOGICAL FAMILY TO SOUL ROOT EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY, PART 2

  • Joining Together the DNA of Our Unique Selves for the Sake of the Whole
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Soul Root Family, Transcending and Including Biological Family
  • Biological Family Is Wondrous
  • Soul Root Family: We’ve Been Together Before
  • Allurement of Cosmos Over Generations to Position You in Your Biological Family
  • I Am Not Willing to Be Written in the Book of Life Without You

CHAPTER 10    THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER: THE PERSONAL, THE POLITICAL, THE COSMIC

  • The Chapter of the Father
  • The Deconstruction of Value Is Also the Deconstruction of the Father
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Blessing of the Father
  • Star Wars: A Son Who Doesn’t Know Who His Father Is
  • This Is Where I Leave You: The Father Is No Longer Speaking
  • Whale: The Daughter Liberates the Father
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Ultimate Postmodern Tragedy
  • Avatar: Killing of the Degraded Father
  • Avatar: The Way of Water: The Son Saves the Father
  • The Son Needs the Father, the Father Needs the Son

CHAPTER 11     THE INTIMACY CRISIS: WHY THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE GOT IT WRONG

  • Receive the Invitation of This Moment
  • It Takes a Thousand No’s to Say the Yes
  • Eros Is the Placing of Attention
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self Encounters
  • A Breakdown in Trust
  • You Cannot Create Intimacy Without a Shared Story of Value
  • My Life Is an Outrageous Love Story
  • We Are Holding Pieces of Each Other’s Stories
  • Are We Willing to Love Each Other Desperately?

CHAPTER 12     THE SACRED IS THE INTIMATE: RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS THROUGH THE EVOLUTION OF INTIMACY

  • To Be Sacred Is to Be Intimate
  • The Mystery of the Christ Is That God Is the Infinite Intimate
  • The Demonic Is the Failure of Intimacy
  • Let Us Be Intimate With the Christ
  • Evolutionary Love Code: From Biological to Evolutionary Family
  • There Is a Right to Intimacy
  • Intimacy Is Forever: Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Silent Night, Holy Night

CHAPTER 13     THE EVOLUTION OF THE STUDENT-TEACHER RELATIONSHIP

  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
  • Social Synergy Is Not Enough
  • Outrageous Love and Unique Self Are Evolutionary Emergents
  • The Root Cause of Existential Risk Is the Global Intimacy Disorder
  • Teaching as Lovemaking
  • Teacher-Student Relationships and the Unique Self
  • Autonomy And Communion in Teacher-Student Relationship
  • From the Conventional to the Post-Conventional
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

Buy on Amazon

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 

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The Infinity of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-17T16:04:53-07:00

The Existential Risk of Technology | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Existential Risk of Technology: The Death of Our Humanity: Reclaiming Value, Intimacy, and Outrageous Love in the Digital Age: From Algorithmic Alienation to the Evolution of Intimacy

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 18

The Existential Risk of Technology: The Death of Our Humanity: Reclaiming Value, Intimacy, and Outrageous Love in the Digital Age: From Algorithmic Alienation to the Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 18 | Dr. Marc Gafni

In this critical time between worlds, technology is shaping the future of our lives, both as individual human beings and collectively as a species. Technology has brought great blessings in multiple vectors, and those benefits are regularly sung in the public sphere. However, the notion that technology is value-neutral is simply not true. All technology is encoded with value, pseudo-value—or tragically, with anti-value. So technology also threatens us with risks to our very existence on this planet.

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.

Interconnectivity without Intimacy.

In order to avoid this form of existential risk, we must respond with a new Story of Value. This story must be rooted in First Principles and First Values, which are not mere social conventions that humans have invented but rather the inherent value structure of the Intimate Cosmos that humans discover and evolve.

All of Reality arises from the ground of what eastern wisdom called the Tao, the Way, and which we refer to as the Field of Value. The Field of Value is the ground of eternal value that is ever-evolving. The tech plex, as currently conceived, experiences itself as disassociated from the Tao, from the Field of Value.

In this book, we begin to articulate a new Story of Value. This new Story is a scientifically grounded, creative, and joyful response to the alienated tech plex that relocates us deep in the Field of Value that lies at the heart of the CosmoErotic Universe. We reconnect the immersive environment of technology with Evolution: The Love Story of Universe, whose plotline is the progressive deepening of intimacies, animated at all levels by the pulse of Outrageous Love.

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

Book details:

Title: The Existential Risk of Technology: The Death of Our Humanity: Reclaiming Value, Intimacy, and Outrageous Love in the Digital Age: From Algorithmic Alienation to the Evolution of Intimacy
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 18
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340226
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: “WE’RE GOING TO STEAL YOUR EXPERIENCE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION”

  • First Principles and First Values Account for the Critiques of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Mistaken Assumptions of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Critiques by Postmodernity of Natural Law and Perennial Philosophy
  • Postmodernity’s Critique of Perennialism and Natural Law Is True but Partial, and It Ignores Responsibility to Any Larger Grand Narrative—Except the Success Story
  • The Nervous System of the Planet Is the Web, the Worldwide Virtual World
  • Google’s Business Model Is Surveillance Capitalism
  • Facebook Hijacks Your Attention, Takes Your Information and Targets You With Ads, Thereby Compromising the Free Movement of Economy and Governance
  • We Are Unaware of the Threat to Universal Human Rights
  • The Failure to Articulate the Case Against the Tech Plex Is Rooted in a Failure of First Principles and First Values
  • Surveillance Capitalism: We’re Going to Steal Your Experience Without Your Permission
  • The Six Declarations of Google
  • Instead of Solving Existential and Catastrophic Risk, Our Best Minds Are Caught in the Success Story
  • From Holdables to Wearables to Biometric Sensors
  • First Principles and First Values Refute Surveillance Capitalism
  • Exposing the Inner Structure in Which Human Experience Is Being Stolen
  • The Direct, First-Person Experience of Reality Coming Alive in Me

CHAPTER 2 DIAGNOSING THE TECH PLEX: FROM DIGITAL DICTATORSHIP TO DIGITAL INTIMACY, FROM SOCIAL SELF TO UNIQUE SELF, FROM SOCIAL HIVE TO UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONIES

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Self Is Under Attack by the Tech Plex
  • The Articulation of Unique Self Consciousness Is the Overriding Moral Imperative of This Generation
  • Separate Self, Social Self, True Self, and Unique Self
  • I Am Irreducibly Valuable As a Unique Emergent of the Whole
  • Your Unique Self Is Your Unique Response-Ability to Reality
  • Your Unique Self Has Irreducible Value
  • B.F. Skinner: The Human Being Is a Social Self
  • B.F. Skinner: Let’s Nullify the Autonomous Man, the Inner Man
  • Skinner’s Approach—Nullifying the Autonomous Man—Is the Basis of Social Media
  • C.S. Lewis vs. B.F. Skinner: The Abolition of Man, the Abolition of Human Society
  • However Misguided, Skinner Is Responding to Existential Risk and Critiquing Separate Self As the Source of Human Dignity
  • Skinner Did Not Have the Tools to Develop Technologies of Human Behavior
  • Alex Pentland, One of the Architects of the Web, Is a Direct Continuation of Skinner
  • Pentland: Data Science Is the New Physics Which Will Allow Us to Enact a New Vision of Society
  • The Founders of the Tech Plex Adopt the Vision of Skinner and Pentland
  • Social Media Is an Expression of Skinner’s Walden Two
  • We Need to Replace the Understanding of Natural Law With Evolving Perennialism, an Evolving Set of First Values and First Principles
  • The Tech Plex: We Are Organizing Society as Social Selves
  • True Self and Unique Self Are Ignored by the Tech Plex
  • Unseen, Pentland and Skinner Have Formed the Thinking of the Tech Plex, Which Arrogates to Itself the Right to Your Experience
  • Personal Data Is Currently Being Used by Machine Intelligence Algorithms to Compromise the Two Basic Identities of Democracy: the Voter and the Consumer
  • Under-The-Skin Surveillance Is the Next Step and Will Result in Digital Dictatorships
  • The Postmodern Deconstruction of Value Together With Surveillance Capitalism Results in the “Conditioners” Predicted by C.S. Lewis
  • We Need to Respond to Social Self With Unique Self
  • The Power and Profit Agenda Together With Utopianism, Sans First Principles and First Values
  • Imagine What Happens When a Dictatorship Owns Data
  • In the Absence of Unique Self, Social Self Became the Animating Energy of the Nervous System of the Planet
  • Our Job Is to Engage in a Reconstructive Project of Value so We Can Muster the Necessary Outrage Against the Tech Plex

CHAPTER 3 THE NEW EXISTENTIAL RISK: NOT THE DEATH OF HUMANITY BUT THE DEATH OF OUR HUMANITY—THE DEHUMANIZING CREEP OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

  • We’re Here to Tell the New Story
  • Existential Risk: The End of Humanity
  • Existential Risk Due to Rivalrous Conflict
  • We Need a New Story of Value Grounded in First Principles and First Values
  • Articulation of a Second Form of Existential Risk: The Death of Our Humanity
  • Living Within the Tao
  • It’s Not That We Become Bad Human Beings, but That We Cease Being Human
  • The Quality of Your Unique Voice Is Sacred
  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Are a Unique Self
  • Deep Inwardness Is Where We Create Meaning

CHAPTER 4 THE UNIQUE SELF RESPONSE TO THE EXISTENTIAL RISK OF THE TECH PLEX

  • The Human Being As a Unique Configuration of Evolutionary Love
  • Recoding the Algorithmic Structure of the Nervous System of the Planet
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Voice, Prayer, and the Tech Plex
  • A Revolution of Self: Re-“Self”ing

CHAPTER 5 RE-SELFING THE HEART OF THE COSMOS: ACTIVATING UNIQUE SELF AND UNIQUE SELF SYMPHONIES

  • We Are a Band of Outrageous Lovers, Revolutionaries Who Are Evolving the Source Code of Culture
  • We Need a New Story of Value, Grounded in First Principles and First Values
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Self Is the Inward Space of Uniquely Lived Experience From Which Meaning Is Discovered
  • The First Principles and First Values of Prayer

CHAPTER 6 GOD NEEDS YOUR SERVICE: THE GREAT DIVINE RISK, THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF UNIQUE SELF

  • The Choice Is Ours: We Can Either Destroy Ourselves or Become a Model for Life in the Galaxy
  • The Story of Humanity Is God’s Great Risk
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Unique Gift Addresses a Unique Need
  • First Principles and First Values of Cosmos: Three Primordial Perspectives

CHAPTER 7 FROM THE HUMILIATION OF NEED TO “YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT”

  • Setting Our Intention: Recoding the Source Code in Order to Be at Home in Reality
  • Our Deepest Experience of Love Points to The Experience of Cosmos With Itself
  • Evolutionary Love Code: If You Ask, You Must Surely Need—Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Cosmos Is a Love Story, and Love Always Responds to Genuine Need
  • In Prayer, God Says, “Your Need Is My Allurement”
  • The Practice: Prayer Is Always in Some Way Held and Heard and Responded to
  • “Your Need Is My Allurement” Restores the Dignity of Need and Eviscerates Shame
  • The Shame in Getting My Needs Met Can Be Healed in the Sexual
  • We Participate in the Allurement of Reality, and When That Allurement Is Broken We Have a Desperate Need

EPISODE 228: IF YOU ASK, YOU MUST SURELY NEED: YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT

  • Setting Our Intention: Humans Are Homo Imaginus
  • Homo amor Accesses His/Her Unique Outrageous Acts Of Love Through Imagination
  • Seeking Intimacy Is a Feature of Reality Evolving Through Us
  • Story: The Baal Shem Tov—“If You Ask, You Must Surely Need”
  • Your Need Is My Allurement

CHAPTER 8 THE TAO THAT CAN BE CODED IS NOT THE TAO: EVOLVING HUMANITY BEYOND ALGORITHMS

  • Telling a New Story Rooted in Eternal and Evolving Values
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Think We Have Stepped Out of the Tao Is the Greatest Existential Risk of All
  • The Tao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Tao
  • The Death of Our Humanity Begins When We Think We’ve Stepped Out of the Tao

CHAPTER 9 YOUR HOLY AND YOUR BROKEN ARE BOTH HALLELUJAH: BEING THE NEW HUMAN IN THE TAO

  • We Are a Unique Self Symphony, an Emergent Expression of the Tao
  • The Unique Self Symphony in Response to the Tech Plex
  • Imagine a Unique Self Facebook With 7.7 Billion Users Joining Together in Symphony
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Eternal Tao Is the Evolving Tao
  • Love Is Both Eternal and It Evolves
  • The Tao Is the Realization of the Unquantifiable Value of a Human Being
  • There’s a Shattering in Everything That Reality Has Made—That’s How the Light Gets in
  • Reshimu: Traces of Transcendence

CHAPTER 10 EVOLUTION IS PERSONAL: A SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

  • We Are Evolution in Person
  • Re-reading Neurochemistry as an Expression of the Intimate Universe
  • In Prayer We Turn to the Infinity of Intimacy That Knows Our Name
  • The Internet Is the Shallows, the Clarified Heart-Mind Expresses Depth

CHAPTER 11 THE ARC OF THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE BENDS TOWARD EVOLUTIONARY UNIQUE SELF

  • Reality Moves Towards More Intimacy, Wholeness, Aliveness, Depth, Ecstasy, and Kindness
  • The Principles of Revolution: Telling the New Story
  • All of Reality Is Intimate, All the Way Up and All the Way Down
  • The Internet Must Be Recoded From “The Shallows” to Depth and Intimacy
  • Who Am I? The Separate-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Social-Self Narrative
  • Who Am I? The Unique-Self Narrative
  • Social Self: Rats in the Maze of the Tech Plex
  • Unique Self as Part of a Symphony

CHAPTER 12 THE GOOD NEWS: HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of Inaccurate, Partial Stories
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark That Has Been Hijacked
  • To Be an Evangelist Is to Be an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love: We’re Outraged
  • Evolutionary Love Code: For True Evangelism We Need Both Ecstatic States and Developmental Stages
  • In Every Great Tradition There’s an Intimate Incarnation of the Divine
  • Passover: Reclaiming the Broken Part
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Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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.

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World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 17

World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 17 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

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.

Each of us participates directly in this story, as Unique Selves, individual expressions of the divine evolutionary impulse. We are all irreplicable verses in the cosmic scroll, which holds the record of the past and the memory of our future.

At the heart of this work lies the realization of Outrageous Love, a force that transcends ordinary romantic love. Outrageous Love is the animating Eros of the evolutionary impulse that drives the Cosmos. Outrageous Love incarnates Eros and Intimacy as the heart of Reality’s Field of Value in which all of the manifest world unfolds.

Marc Gafni, Zachary Stein and their colleagues are calling for the emergence of a new human and new humanity, it is time for Homo sapiens to be fulfilled as Homo amor. World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity invites us, in this time between worlds and time between stories, to tell a new Story of Value. It is time to evolve together into a future where ever-deepening Eros, ethos, and intimacy—First Principles and First Values—are the north star for Reality’s evolution.

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

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Title: World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories: The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 17
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340202
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     “I AM GLORIA”

  • Oh My God! A Direct Apprehension of Spirit
  • Reality Is Made Manifest in Love
  • Reality’s Intention Is the Evolution of Love
  • Reclaiming the Glory of God
  • The Glory of the Physiosphere
  • The Glory of the Biosphere
  • The Glory of the Noosphere
  • The Glory of Homo Amor
  • Tribute to Ram Dass
  • The Second-Person Face of Gloria

CHAPTER 2     GLORIA: RECLAIMING RELIGION AT A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Gloria: The Gravitas of Reality, Lined With Love
  • Towards a Cosmocentric World Religion
  • Praying to the Divine in the Second Person: The Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs Your Service

CHAPTER 3     HOMO AMOR, WE ARE ALL NEEDED

  • The Dangers of a Partial Story
  • Reclaiming the Evangelical Spark
  • To Be an Evangelist Is to Be an Outrageous Lover
  • Outrageous Love: We’re Outraged
  • Evolutionary Love Code: For True Evangelism We Need Both Ecstatic States and Developmental Stages
  • In Every Great Tradition There’s an Intimate Incarnation of the Divine
  • Passover: For the First Time, I’m Going to Find That Hidden Dream

CHAPTER 4    RELIGION NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE REVOLUTION: EVOLVING THE UNIQUE SELF OF THE GREAT TRADITIONS

  • No More “Business As Usual”
  • Becoming Homo amor
  • The Source Code Move
  • Honoring Islam: Allahu Akbar
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Eye of the Senses, Eye of the Mind, Eye of the Heart
  • The Interpretation of Revelation Through the Prism of Consciousness
  • Liberating the Experience of Revelation
  • Participating in the Evolution of Great Traditions

CHAPTER 5    REWEAVING CHRISTMAS: FROM BIOLOGICAL FAMILY TO HOMO AMOR FAMILY

  • Weaving a New Cloth of Outrageous Love Into New Visions of Value
  • Silent Night: Son of God, Love’s Pure Light
  • On the Other Side of Guilt Is Our Second Innocence
  • Outrageous Love Knows No Boundaries
  • Level One of Love: Biological Family
  • Level Two of Love: Romantic Love
  • Level Three of Love: Evolutionary Family and Outrageous Love
  • Articulating the Interior and Exterior Sciences of Love: Outrageous Love Drives Cosmos
  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers Looking Deeply Into Each Other’s Eyes and Together at a Shared Horizon, Ready to Lay It All Down for the Sake of the Whole
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolutionary and Soul Root Family
  • In Excelsis Deo: Liberating the Exiled Energy of Gloria
  • The Practice: Birthing a New Structure of Intimacy
  • Gloria: Feel Your Innocence Slipping Away
  • Gloria: In Excelsis Deo in the Field of Love’s Pure Light

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING THE EVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF CHANT FOUND UNIQUELY IN EACH RELIGION

  • Setting Our Intention in This Time Between Worlds, This Time Between Stories
  • How Do We Know Anything? Accessing the Field of Value
  • Accessing the Eye of Value By Becoming the Music
  • Entering the Practice of Chant: Let the Chant Enter You
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Path of Chant—Each Great Religion Is a Different Quality of Intimacy
  • Kashmir Shaivism: Devi Prayer
  • Cathars—Lo Boièr
  • Gyuto Monks—Mandala Offering
  • Native American—Sacred Spirit
  • Wisdom of Solomon Chants
  • Mizmor Shir Le’yom Ha’shabbat
  • Ki Atah Hu Ba’al Ha-Yeshuot: For You Are the Master of Liberation, For You Are the Master of Transformation
  • My Unique Self Is My Unique Chant

CHAPTER 7    THE NEW WORLD CALLS FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR GLOBAL DIVERSITY

  • What Would It Mean to Articulate a Vision of a New World Religion?
  • A Collapse of Value Is a Collapse of Eros
  • In the Absence of a Genuine Story of Value, Humans Create Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Existential Risk Is a Direct Result of Pseudo-Stories of Value
  • Trialectics of Religion: We Need to Transcend and Include the Premodern and Modern
  • The New World Religion Can’t Be Local, and Compassion and Kindness Are Not Enough
  • A Shared World Needs a World Religion
  • Building a Foundational Framework of First Principles and First Values
  • Spirituality Without Religion Is Not Enough
  • New Life Conditions Demand a New Language of Value
  • “Until Philosophers Are Kings… Cities Will Never Have Rest From Their Evils” —Plato
  • Powerfully Addressing the Rigorous Critiques of Value

CHAPTER 8    TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW WORLD RELIGION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

  • A Shared Grammar of Value for a Global Conversation
  • We Live in a Conversational Cosmos
  • Evolutionary Love Code: New Need Generates New Emergence
  • A Planetary Awakening in Unique Self Symphonies

CHAPTER 9    SEDUCING HOMO SAPIENS INTO HOMO AMOR: THE MORAL OBLIGATION OF A NEW WORLD RELIGION

  • The Root Cause of Existential Risk Is a Global Intimacy Disorder
  • The Modern Word for Armageddon Is Existential Risk, The Modern Word for Messiah Is Homo amor
  • First Values and First Principles Are at the Center of It All
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Practice: Clarifying Your Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • Screaming the Name of God: The Sacred Mystery of Erotic Explosion
  • Seduce Me and I Will Run After You
  • Seduction, Unique Self, and Unique Self Symphony
  • The Distinction Between Holy and Unholy Seduction
  • Articulating a World Religion That Can Seduce Reality Towards the Highest Version of Itself
  • Prayer: Draw Me After You

CHAPTER 10    RESPONDING TO THE THREE GREAT QUESTIONS OF COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM

  • Two Kinds of Existential Risk
  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness and Culture
  • What Are Evolutionary Love Codes?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Three Great Questions
  • Principle One: Outrageous Love Is Our Response Both to Pain and to Beauty
  • Principle Two: Outrageous Love Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Principle Three: I Am a Unique Configuration of Outrageous Love
  • Principle Four: Outrageous Lovers Commit Outrageous Acts of Love
  • Principle Five: Outrageous Acts of Love That Are Mine to Commit Are a Function of My Unique Self
  • Principle Six: Find the Others to Play in the Unique Self Symphony
  • Prayer: Hallelujah

CHAPTER 11    FROM PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY TO WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY: IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS

  • Outrageous Love Is Reality
  • Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Religion Has a Unique Self
  • The Perennial Philosophy
  • The Name of God Is the Infinite Intimate
  • Every Unique Self Participates in the Name of God
  • The Seamless Coat of the Universe Is Seamless But Not Featureless
  • We Need Shared Universal Rituals to Bind Us in a Global Intimacy
  • Prayer: When I Speak, the Field of LoveIntelligence Listens and Responds

CHAPTER 12    RESPONDING TO THE META-CRISIS THROUGH THE EROTIC GNOSIS OF TEARS

  • Evolving the Source Code of Consciousness
  • Rosh Hashanah Is the Portal to Transformation
  • When God and Goddess Are Brought Together, Blessings Flow Into the World
  • Tears Are an Expression of the Eros of Cosmos
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Are Days of Tears
  • The Language of Mothers Is the Language of the Sacred
  • Tears That Shatter Our False Identity
  • The Gates of Tears Are Never Closed
  • I Am a Unique Desire of the Infinite
  • Tears Tell a Story About the True Nature of Self and Reality

CHAPTER 13    TEN PRINCIPLES OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FEELING AND HEALING OUTRAGEOUS PAIN

  • Crossing to the Other Side
  • The Dharma Is the Psychedelic of Reality
  • The Evolution of Tears on the Side of Joy and on the Side of Pain
  • Deepening Our Commitment to Rebuild the New World With “Monogamous Polyamory”
  • When God Is Dethroned, Our Solutions Become the Great Tragedy Itself
  • Prayer Is One of the Most Powerful Medicines
  • We Are the Influential and the Powerful
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Healing What’s Uniquely Yours to Heal
  • The Ten Principles of Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 14    HOW BIG IS YOUR HEART? FROM THE AGONY CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSS TO THE BLISS CRUCIFIXION OF THE CROSSING

  • To Be Non-Intimate With Reality Is to Be Lost in the Drama of My Own Life
  • We Have to Face the Pain—But With Radical Joy!
  • We Have to Articulate a New Politics of Outrageous Love
  • We Live in an Intimate Universe and the Intimate Universe Lives in Us
  • We Are Coming Together from Around the World to Write a New Constitution
  • Forgive Yourself! Forgive All The People Who Betrayed You!
  • From the Cross to the Crossing
  • We Desperately Need Each Other
  • Infinity Needs Your Service
  • My House Is Your House
  • We Are Not Alone in Cosmos

CHAPTER 15    LIVING THE DREAM IN RESPONSE TO THE META-CRISIS: LIBERATING THE SPARKS OF CELEBRATION FROM ANCIENT TRADITIONS INTO A NEW WORLD SPIRITUALITY

  • Only a New Story of Value Changes the Vector of the Real
  • The World Itself Pulses With Joy
  • We Are Welcome
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Self of Every Religion
  • Liberating the Sparks from Hanukkah
  • The Miracle of the First Day
  • Capacity to Celebrate Partial Victories
  • The Way We Decide to Tell the Story Defines Everything
  • Liberating the Sparks from Christmas: The Birth of God as Human Being
  • We Need the Democratization of the Christed One
  • Gloria In Excelsis Deo (“Glory To God In The Highest”)

CHAPTER 16    TELLING THE EVOLUTIONARY STORY OF CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION

  • Evolving The Source Code, the Inescapable Frameworks in Which We Live
  • We Cannot Evolve the Source Code Without Religion
  • Weaving Easter and Passover Into the New Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Hope Is the Ontology of Reality
  • Redemption Is a Political and Economic Event
  • Everything Is About the Story We Decide to Tell
  • Life Is a Series of Love Stories
  • The Evolution of Love Is the Source of Hope
  • This Lifetime Is a Chapter in the Story
  • Choosing to Tell the Most Accurate Story

CHAPTER 17    A HERETICAL BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD RELIGION AS A CONTEXT FOR OUR DIVERSITY

  • We Don’t Wait for the Prophets
  • From Homo sapiens to Homo amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: We All Stand Together on the Side of Love
  • A Shared Story of Value Is a Cosmic Anthem
  • “Show Me Something Real, Tell Me Something True”
  • The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist
  • “What’s Real Is That You’re Loved”
  • “What’s True Is That You’re Not Alone”
  • Tenets of the World Religion

CHAPTER 18    ANSWERING THE CALL OF PROPHECY: ENVISIONING NEW POSSIBILITIES & THE DIGNITY OF PRAYER

  • We Become the Voice of the Next Iteration of Evolution
  • The Universe: An Evolving Love Story
  • We Are All Connected: Invisible Lines of Non-Locality
  • In the Separate Self, We Have Lost the First Principle of Personhood
  • Being a Prophet Means Accessing Your Unique Voice and Seeing New Possibility
  • Slow Down, Listen Deeply, Fill Up With Eros
  • The Prayer You Thought Was Prayer Is Not Prayer
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer and Prophecy
  • Second Person: The Pan-Interiority of Cosmos
  • Third Person: All Fields Are Interpenetrating and Are an Expression of the Larger Eros
  • Prayer Is When I Turn to the Field of Infinite Personhood
  • Third-Person Realization In Prayer

CHAPTER 19    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING THE DIGNITY OF PERSONAL NEED

  • We Are Allured to Each Other In a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • You Are the Radiance of the Big Bang Incarnate
  • Prayer: The Seven Steps of the Stairway to Heaven
  • Step One: Faces of God
  • Step Two: Realizing the Personhood of Divinity
  • Step Three: Prayer Is Always Heard By Divinity
  • Step Four: The Movement of Prayer
  • Step Five: Feeling the Infinity of Power
  • Step Six: The Infinity of Power Is Right Here With You
  • Step Seven: The Feeling of God

CHAPTER 20    PRAYER: THE PERSONHOOD OF COSMOS—RESTORING INTIMACY THROUGH PRAYER AS PROTEST

  • The Urgency of a World Without First Principles and First Values
  • It’s a Fucking Revolution
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The God You Don’t Believe in Does Not Exist
  • Reality Is the Progressive Deepening of Intimacies
  • Prayer Itself Is a Form of Protest
  • Protest, Laughter, Mysticism and Paradox
  • The Paradox of Choice and Choicelessness
  • Laughter Holds Paradox
  • When Will You Come Already? We’re Waiting for You
  • God, Show Up, Be Here
  • Getting Beneath the Space-Time Continuum and Reconfiguring the Past
  • God, I’m Done—Let Me Know If We Have a Deal
  • The Paradox of Hallelujah
  • In Genuine Intimacy With God There Is Protest

CHAPTER 21    PRAYER AWAKENS US TO THE APPROACHABILITY OF THE INFINITE

  • Intention Setting: Ratzon and Holy Seduction Into Outrageous Love
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Prayer Is Intimate Communion With the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Prayer: Turning to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Personhood of Prayer: First Person
  • Personhood of Prayer: Second Person
  • The Butcher’s Prayer
  • Personhood of Prayer: Third Person and Second Person
  • Prayer: Tenderness and Fierce Passion Exponentialized

CHAPTER 22    THE THREE FACES OF GOD = THE THREE FACES OF LOVE—REWEAVING THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Existential Risk Presses Us Into the Realization That the Evolutionary Impulse Is Living in Us
  • The Narrative Arc of the Story of Reality
  • I Participate as the Universe in Person, in the Field of Love
  • We’re Here to Tell the Best Love Story Ever Told
  • Outrageous Love Code: In the Greatest Love Story Ever Told, No One and Nothing Is Outside the Circle
  • We Can’t Leave God Out of the Story
  • The Three Faces of God Which Are First Principles and First Values
  • The Third-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The First-Person Perspective of Reality
  • The Third-Person and First-Person Perspectives of Cosmos Are Not Enough
  • The Second-Person Perspective of Reality
  • Enacting The New Story Through Lived, Direct Experience: the Practice of Prayer
  • The Field of Eros Has a Personal Quality
  • Atheism: There’s Heresy Which Is Faith
  • Prayer Is the Experience of the Personhood of Cosmos That Knows My Name
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
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The Next Step in Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 16

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 16 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We live in an Amorous Cosmos and the Amorous Cosmos lives in us. It’s a Cosmos filled with desire and allurement.

This book is an homage to the deep love and Whole Mate relationship between Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni, with all its depth, beauty and challenges. It tells the story of how they both deepened their intimacy through sometimes fierce contestation while modelling how to have evolutionary conversations as Homo amor. They were allured to each other in their shared desire to tell a new Story of Value—the new story that had the depth and power to activate the emergence of a new human and new humanity with the capacity to respond to existential risk.

This shared desire gave rise to co-evolving many new emergent ideas as well as fiercely challenging and clarifying other issues like the potential—and danger—of transhumanism, which could become the seedbed of totalitarianism if these were divorced from a shared Story of inherent Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values.

In this volume we celebrate Barbara both on her birthday and on her day of passing into the next world. We are reminded that every death is a night between two days, the darkness before the next birth. We are reminded that the continuity of consciousness is real.

Experiencing the reality of death presses us into life: to be fully here, to be fully committed, to be the change, to be living in the world that is already perfected. We keep coming back to the core truth of the realization: Reality is an Outrageous Love Story. Your story, each of our stories, is a unique chapter and verse in the larger Universe Story.

This knowing is the ultimate dignity of every human life.

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

Book details:

Title: The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality: a Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 16
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340950
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD: THE PROMISE WILL BE KEPT

  • Celebrating Barbara’s 91st Birthday
  • We’re in Celebration, and in Our Celebration Is All of The Pain and All of the Joy
  • We Need Line and Circle Qualities at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Are A Unique Set of Allurements
  • Success 1.0, Success 2.0, Success 3.0
  • Prayer Affirms the Personhood of Cosmos
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 1.0
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • Evolutionary Intelligence Equals Desire
  • Deepest Heart’s Desire and the DNA of an Emerging Culture
  • I Don’t Grow Older, I Grow Newer
  • Barbara Ran for Evolution

CHAPTER 2    THE CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY

  • We Respond to the First and Second Shocks of Existence
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • The Movement to Resurrection
  • After the Crucifixion, There’s Always Resurrection
  • No Matter What Is Going on in My Life, I Trust With Complete Trust
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Death and Resurrection Are Natural Expressions of the Intimate Pattern of Reality
  • That’s Us, on the Road to the Planetary Awakening in Love
  • This Is the Real Thing—We Live Beyond Death
  • Eight Doors of Understanding to the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Door One: The Door of Longing
  • Door Two: The Fear of Nothingness Is That Which Is Beyond Nothingness
  • Door Three: The Eternal Quality of Timeless Time and Placeless Place
  • Door Four: Intuition of Justice and Fairness
  • Door Five: The Knowing of the Hero
  • Door Six: The Experience of Unique Self
  • Door Seven: Either Everything’s Meaningful Or Nothing’s Meaningful
  • Door Eight: The Experience of Loving Is the Experience Of Eternity

CHAPTER 3    WHY LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MATTER: THE GREAT STORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVOTION

  • The New Story of Value Is Our New Home
  • Every Human Being Has the Right to Desire and to Be Desired
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up
  • The Field of Intelligence Hears You Talking
  • The Purpose of Reality Is to Wake Up and to Grow Up
  • Wake Up States Are Not Enough
  • Developmental Levels of Clare Graves
  • The Experience of Commitment at Different Levels of Consciousness
  • “Become A Member” Means Something Different at Each Level of Consciousness
  • From Tier One to Tier Two
  • The Jump From First Tier to Second Tier

CHAPTER 4    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY

  • Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard: the Ability to Keep Evolving and Transforming
  • Celebrating 300 Weeks of One Mountain, Many Paths: Humans Are Wildly Good, True and Beautiful
  • To Give Up Being Right Is Being Homo Amor
  • The Evolution of Love Says No to Eugenics
  • The Techno-Utopian Vision Needs to Be Grounded in Unique Self
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Moving Beyond Demonization
  • Incarnating the Impulse of Evolution: Barbara’s First Sermon in Evolutionary Church
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Leaving the Personal Behind Leads to Totalitarianism
  • Story as Prayer: Authentic Mystical Ecstasy Never Ignores the Hunger of Even One Individual

CHAPTER 5    CELEBRATING THE COURAGE TO EVOLVE: BEYOND THE DARK SHADOWS OF TRANSHUMANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY, PART 2

  • Joining of Genius
  • The Second Shock of Existence: the Death of Our Humanity
  • Conscious Evolution and the Wheel of Co-Creation
  • The Shadow of Evolutionary Spirituality and Transhumanism
  • Without Articulating First Principles and First Values, You Cannot Arouse Outrage
  • Modeling Evolutionary Conversations
  • Subtle Mccarthyism and Fear on the Internet
  • The Irreducible Infinite Value of Unique Personhood
  • Conversation Absent First Principles and First Values Is Impossible
  • Tech Plex Creativity Needs to Participate in the New Story Of Value

CHAPTER 6    BARBARA MARX HUBBARD’S BIRTHDAY: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

  • Are You Ready to Awaken as Conscious Evolution?
  • We Need Infrastructure to Articulate the New World Philosophy and Religion
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Engaged Life With Full Passion Every Day
  • Integrating Barbara’s Legacy Into the New Story of Value
  • Conscious Evolution 1.0
  • Conscious Evolution 2.0: I Am Conscious Evolution in Person
  • Next Steps Towards Conscious Evolution 2.0

CHAPTER 7    THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: CELEBRATING BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, MY EVOLUTIONARY WHOLE MATE

  • Re-Visioning Conscious Evolution
  • Evolution Is the Synergy of Radical Telos and Complete Freedom
  • Plotlines of Evolution Awakening in Us
  • The Way We Meet Barbara Is by Showing Up in Our Full Selves
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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 

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The Next Step in Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T15:08:28-07:00

Evolutionary Church | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 15

Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 15 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

What do we mean when we say we are an Evolutionary Church practicing Evolutionary Love?

In Evolutionary Church we not reclaiming a religion of love. We are for the first time in history claiming love as a religion. We are the One World Church, telling the new Universe Story through a new Gospel. The Gospel of Love.

But it’s not just love, it is Outrageous Love which is not mere human sentiment but the heart of existence itself. It is not just eternal love but evolving love, Evolutionary Love-Love not only as a static, eternal constant, but love that is the ErosValue of all of Reality, grounded in eternity and yet ever evolving.

In Evolutionary Love, “evolutionary” means evolving, moving towards a more refined, more complex, more conscious, and more whole state. We evolve our understanding of what it means to be human, and what it means to love. We evolve our understanding of the nature of Reality, the nature of relationship, the nature of religion, of gender, of story, and of God.

In this new Universe Story, Evolutionary Love is the animating Eros of Cosmos. The One World Church becomes the institutionalization of a new politics of love, a new religion of love, a new science of love, and a new psychology of love, guided by the realization that eternal and evolving Evolutionary Love is the heart of existence itself.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni June and August 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: Evolutionary Church: Reclaiming Love As Religion: A Human Being Is a Unique Word in the Cosmic Scroll: The Evolution of Our Intimacy Participates in the Evolution of the Intimate Universe
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 15
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340639
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION & GOD VISION

  • We Need a Shared Story of Dharma
  • Reclaiming Love as Religion in Which Our Moral Community Is All of Reality
  • God Is the Infinity of Power and the Infinity of Intimacy
  • We Are Unique Members of a Living Body
  • Becoming Partners with Each Other in This Evolutionary Community
  • World Spirituality is Reclaiming and Upleveling Religion

CHAPTER 2    NOT THE RELIGION OF LOVE, BUT LOVE AS RELIGION

  • This Is Love as Religion
  • In Prayer, We Turn to the Infinite Intimate Who Knows Our Name
  • I Am an Outrageous Lover Committing Outrageous Acts of Love
  • We Need to Integrate the Local Self, Essential Self, and Universal Self
  • Unguard Our Hearts and Love Mad

CHAPTER 3    OUR MORAL COMMUNITY IS ALL OF REALITY

  • We’re Taking Responsibility to Be the Evolution of Love
  • Amor: The Universe Feels, and the Universe Feels Love
  • We Participate in the Three Faces of God
  • Prayer Affirms the Dignity of Personal Need
  • My Moral Community Includes All of Reality
  • There Are Six Levels of Pleasure
  • The Pleasure of Transformation: Partners in the Evolutionary Process
  • We Are All the High Priests and Priestesses

CHAPTER 4    GOD LOOKS AT US WITH A GOOD EYE; I SEE YOU & I STAND FOR YOU

  • Seeing Each Other with Ayin Tovah, a Good Eye
  • Reality Is Amor: Its Insides Are Lined with Love
  • We Come to God with Our Holy and Broken Hallelujah
  • Breathing Meditation with Sally Kempton
  • Intimacy Is Shared Identity in the Context of Otherness
  • In Every Moment Infinity Whispers to Us and We Reply Yes
  • Victimhood Is a Lie

CHAPTER 5    YOUR EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL BLUEPRINT IS IN YOUR DEEPEST HEART’S DESIRE

  • The Minor Fluctuation Point That Jumps Humanity to a Higher Level of Order
  • In Prayer, We Experience Quivering Tenderness and Explosive Aliveness
  • The Universe Feels a Desire for Intimacy
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Holds the Blueprint for My Evolutionary Potential
  • We Have to Invest High Tech with Evolutionary Love
  • Activating Homo Amor by Accessing Our Deepest Heart’s Desire

CHAPTER 6    POWER IS HOLY DESIRE: EVERY HUMAN HAS AN OBLIGATION TO BE POWER-HUNGRY

  • To Respond to the Global Intimacy Disorder, We Need a New Story
  • The New Configuration of Intimacy Turns to the Infinity of Intimacy in Prayer
  • We Must Claim Our Holy Power Of, Power For, and Power Over
  • My Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Impulse of the Holy Power of Evolution Inside Me

CHAPTER 7    CO-CREATING IN SOCIAL SYNERGY, AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF EROS

  • Every Crisis a Crisis of Intimacy in The Universe: A Love Story
  • We Are Figments of God: Communing with the Field of LoveIntelligence
  • Reclaiming the Core Insights but Not the Hijacks of Fundamentalism
  • Reality Is a Self-Organizing Universe and You Are Tapping into It

CHAPTER 8    WE ARE THE POSSIBILITY OF POSSIBILITY THAT GENERATED BIG BANG

  • We Are Looking at a Shared Horizon
  • God Is Both the Infinity of Intimacy and the Love That Animates Cosmos
  • I Participate in the Conscious Intelligence That Moves Through the Whole Field
  • The Evolutionary God Is the Possibility of Possibility
  • Homo Amor Is the Possibility of Possibility
  • Imagine the Infinity of Possibilities Before the Big Bang
  • Our Contribution Allows Us to Stand for the Evolution of Love

CHAPTER 9    A HUMAN BEING IS A UNIQUE WORD IN THE COSMIC SCROLL

  • We Invest High Tech with Evolutionary Love by Telling a New Story
  • Barbara Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Allurement Is the Ultimate Personhood of Cosmos, the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Sentience Is the Sentences of Reality Weaving a Love Story
  • We’re at a Moment of Radical Newness on an Evolutionary Scale
  • I Am a Unique Configuration of Intimacy That Is Needed by All-That-Is

CHAPTER 10    BECOMING A WHOLE BEING: A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF LINES & CIRCLES

  • Beyond He and She: The Transgender Question of Who Am I Beneath My Gender?
  • Lines and Circles Are Qualities of Cosmos That Exist in All of Us
  • The Evolution of Gender Is the Evolution Into Wholeness
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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: 

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Evolutionary Church | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:56:47-07:00

Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 14

Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 14 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

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 authors introduce Homo amor universalis-humanity’s next evolutionary stage-as our only response to what they call the “second shock of existence”: the potential extinction of our species. This emerging human reunites love and knowledge, joining genius (rather than merely genes) to create new possibilities for wholeness and intimacy.

Diagnosing our time as suffering from a “global intimacy disorder,” they offer practical guidance for becoming “the leading edge of evolution.” Readers are invited to discover their unique gifts and ask, “What does evolution need from me in this moment?” Through prayer, chant, and song, the book reveals that love isn’t merely an emotion but a perception-a way of seeing with “God’s eyes” that recognizes the Infinity of Intimacy carrying us in every second, ultimately leading toward a Planetary Awakening in Love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni between April and June 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: Conscious Evolution: A Love Story: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder by Joining Genius: Honoring the Life of Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 14
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340790
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    BARBARA’S MEMORIAL IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Beloved Barbara
  • Before Prayer
  • Eulogy for Barbara
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love Is a Perception
  • Barbara Was the Good News
  • I Am Evolution in Person
  • I Am Getting Newer
  • If You Want to Know the Essence of Barbara
  • She Charmed Us
  • Joining Genes to Joining Genius
  • There May Be a Time, but This Is Not That Day
  • We Go to Prayer

CHAPTER 2    RESURRECTION AND RENEWAL: RECLAIMING LOVE IN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH

  • Barbara, You Are Alive Here in Church With Us
  • Not Just Tat Tvam Asi or the Infinity of Power, God Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Infinity of Intimacy Carries Us in Every Second
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is No Eros Without Gnosis
  • Reality Moves Towards Resurrection
  • We Are Homo Amor Moving Towards Resurrection

CHAPTER 3    MORE THAN CONFESSING YOUR SINS, YOU MUST CONFESS YOUR GREATNESS

  • Reality Is a Set of Habits
  • Our Intention Is to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • The World Needs a Story About the Evolutionary Love That Animates Everything
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy Into Whose Arms I Fall in Every Moment
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard Is With Us in the Continuity of Consciousness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Love God Is to Know God
  • Our Clarified Heart’s Desire Becomes Part of the Field of Desire

CHAPTER 4    AWAKENING HOMO AMOR: PARTICIPATING IN THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • Welcoming Barbara
  • The Global Intimacy Disorder: We Don’t Have a Shared Story
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is the Source of Great Joy
  • What Is Homo Amor?
  • Who Is Homo Amor Universalis?
  • Homo Amor Universalis: A New Understanding of All Our Dimensions
  • Homo Amor Is Our Response to the Second Shock of Existence
  • The Inner Experience of Homo Amor Universalis Is That Reality Is Literally 50/50
  • What Does Evolution Need From Me in This Next Moment?

CHAPTER 5    A CRISIS OF TOUCH: BECOMING THE MOTHER TO EACH OTHER

  • God in First Person, Second Person, and Third Person
  • All the Rivers Flow Back to the Sea
  • The Sacred Technology of Chant
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • Our Intention Is to Tell the New Story
  • The One Church Is the Shared Music of All the Great Religions
  • Crisis in the World: We’ve Forgotten What It Means to Touch Each Other
  • The Allurement to Touch Each Other Is Fundamental to Cosmos
  • The Four-Fold Exile of Touch
  • We Have to Heal the Hug

CHAPTER 6    RECLAIMING & EVOLVING INTIMACY: EVERYONE’S IN THE CIRCLE

  • I Am Ready to Play a Larger Game, to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • Homo Amor Reunites Love and Knowledge
  • We Pray to the Intimate Face of the Evolutionary Impulse
  • Avengers Endgame: We All Have a Unique Self Superpower
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Birthing New Structures of Intimacy
  • We Unleash New Synergies in the World
  • Avengers Endgame: I’m Not Separate From the Larger Whole

CHAPTER 7    OUR TOUCH QUIVERS REALITY TO NEW IDENTITY; GOD ASKS EVERYTHING OF ME

  • Living My Life to the Fullest, Chapter and Verse in the Universe: A Love Story
  • Prayer: Every Place You Fall, You Fall Into Her Arms
  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Are No Externalities

CHAPTER 8    THERE ARE NO DEPLORABLES: EVERYBODY IS INSIDE THE CIRCLE

  • Radical Surprise and Amazement: We Get to Participate in the Evolution of Love!
  • There’s An Ontological Pluralism in a Perennial Context
  • The New Story Is the New Physics of Reality
  • The Infinity of Power Is Also the Infinity of Intimacy
  • How Do You Practically Locate Intimacy in Your Life?
  • Opening the Circle and Letting Everyone In
  • Loving Our Way to Enlightenment

CHAPTER 9    OPENING YOUR HEART IS NOT ENOUGH; NO PART OF YOU SHOULD BE LEFT OUT

  • We Become the Leading Edge of Evolution
  • Prayer: Reclaiming the God That Knows Me
  • Exponentialized Desire and Exponentialized Tenderness
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Enlightenment Means There Are No Externalities
  • Who Have I Left Out of My Heart?
  • You Can’t Love a Person If You’ve Left Other People Out of Your Heart
  • When You’re in Crisis, What’s New About You Is Often Left Out
  • We Are the People Telling the New Story

CHAPTER 10    CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION: A LOVE STORY

  • Poised at the Abyss, We Are Called to Evolution
  • We’re Bringing the New Good News
  • Evolution Is the Evolution of Intimacy
  • What’s the Source of All This? Where Does This Drive for Intimacy Come From?
  • I See You With God’s Eyes
  • When I See With God’s Eyes, I Can See the Next Step in the Evolution of Love
  • God’s Perspective of Us at This Moment of Evolution
  • Find the Form of Joining Genius
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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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Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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 

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Conscious Evolution | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:49:56-07:00

The Journey to Homo Amor | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart’s Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 13

The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart's Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 13 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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?

We are the leading edge of evolution-an unbearable privilege and unbearable responsibility. As Homo amor, we are ripped open by the outrageous pain and the outrageous beauty that animates the real. We know: the only response to outrageous pain is Outrageous Love. The only response to outrageous beauty is Outrageous Love.

Our unique risk is to be an Outrageous Lover. Our unique risk is always a risk for the sake of higher and deeper intimacies. Authentic moments of intimacy change history, and this is exactly what is desperately needed in this time.

To emerge as Homo amor, the new human and the new humanity, we are obligated to confess our greatness and to clarify our deepest heart’s desire-which is the evolutionary impulse awake and alive in us, as us, and through us. It is only through the claiming of real value as alive in us, as us, and through us, that we have any chance at all of finding our way beyond the global action confusion and global action paralysis.

We are Beloveds and Lovers of the Real-intended, desired, recognized, chosen, love adored, and desperately needed by All-That-Is.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between February and April 2019.

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

Book details:

Title: The Journey to Homo Amor: Confessing Your Greatness: Your Clarified Heart’s Desire IS the Desire of the Evolutionary Impulse
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 13
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340486
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    DEMOCRATIZING ENLIGHTENMENT, THE JOURNEY OF HOMO AMOR

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Taking Your Unique Risk
  • Codes Come From the Deepest Place in the Heart
  • The Universe Made Evolving the Species Pleasurable
  • The Race for Survival Is the Race for the New Story of Homo Amor
  • Democratizing Enlightenment and Embracing Homo Amor

CHAPTER 2    PRINCIPLES OF UNIQUE RISK—DELIGHT AND REVELATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: the Only Danger Is Not Taking Your Unique Risk
  • Authentic Intimacy Changes History
  • Homo Amor Is Willing to Be Vulnerable
  • The Infinite Delight of Being Evolutionary Love
  • “Delightment” Precedes Enlightenment
  • Delightment—The First Principle of Unique Risk
  • Revelation—The Second Principle of Unique Risk
  • To Know Your Unique Risk, Listen for Revelation

CHAPTER 3    THE EVOLUTION OF FEELINGS FROM REACTIVITY TO DIVINE EXPRESSION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Feelings Are the Interior Face Of Reality
  • From Duty to Depth: The Evolution of Feelings
  • From Hurt to Ecstasy: The Journey Through Four Levels Of Feeling
  • Level One: Feelings Happen to Me
  • Level Two: Shutting Down Feelings
  • Level Three: I Choose My Feelings
  • Level Four: I Realize God Feels Through Me
  • The Practice of Feeling Feelings to Completion

CHAPTER 4    CROSSING OVER, THE REVOLUTION OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Obligated to Live Your Greatness
  • The Radical Revolution of Evolutionary Love
  • Clarified Heart’s Desire Is the Evolutionary Impulse Awake in Me
  • Transforming Identity, Crossing Over, Becoming Homo Amor

CHAPTER 5    THE UNIQUE OBLIGATION TO BE MESSENGERS OF THE NEW STORY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Greatness Is Your Heart’s Desire
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • A Meditation on God as the Infinity of Intimacy
  • My Unique Obligation Is My Unique Delight
  • We Need to Tell Humanity’s Story Within the Universe Story

CHAPTER 6    EVOLVING THE STORY OF IDENTITY AND EMBRACING UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Committing to Your Unique Risk
  • Telling a New Story Weaving Together Old and New Scripture
  • Why Are We Praying?
  • Our Greatness and Our Deepest Heart’s Desire Are One
  • The Need for a New Shared Story of Identity
  • Identity Beyond the Old Stories of Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity
  • What Does It Mean to Wake Up and Grow Up and Show Up?

CHAPTER 7    THE SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE CALLS FOR YOUR UNIQUE SELF

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Clarified Desire Is the Tuning Fork of Your Unique Self
  • Reclaiming Prayer and the Truth of the God Force as Our Beloved
  • Dissipative Structures: Convergence Zones of Emergence
  • Desire, Courage and the Mathematics of Intimacy
  • Courageous Is Contagious and Rhymes With Outrageous

CHAPTER 8    CONFESSING, INTIMACY, GREATNESS, AND THE PATH OF HOMO AMOR

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Confess Your Greatness
  • Intimacy Means We Have a Shared Story
  • Prayer and the Three Faces of the Divine
  • At the Tipping Point of Evolution We Need to Confess Our Greatness

CHAPTER 9    THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE: LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE ARE ONE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: To Love God Is to Know God
  • A Prayer for Barbara and a Practice of Intimacy
  • A Crisis of Narrative Calls for Telling a New Story
  • Only a New Story Will End Slavery
  • The Heresy of Believing in a Small God
  • Knowledge and Love Are the Same
  • Love Is Not Merely a Feeling, Love Is a Perception
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Computational Power Without Love
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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 

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The Journey to Homo Amor | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:36:27-07:00

Playing a Larger Game | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 12

Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 12 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

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.

Every crisis has the potential to be a birth. Crisis is an evolutionary driver. Evolution is not happening to us. Rather, evolution is happening in us. We are called to radically realize and be lived as the transformation.

Our power and greatest pleasure is the capacity for transformation. We begin with our own transformation. But as we deepen into gnosis we realize that our transformation itself ripples out in all of Reality, ultimately transforming the whole thing.

The challenge for all of us is to deeply feel both the pain and pleasure of the whole. There is almost never birth without pain. Our willingness to unguard our hearts and feel Reality’s throbbing pain also gives us access to her throbbing pleasure.

Reality is driven by Eros. The interior of Eros is pleasure. The highest pleasure is transformation. Every human being is born to affect a unique personal and a unique social transformation. To fulfil this call is the greatest pleasure.

We need to claim our power of transformation. We realize that love and power are not opposites. The love of power is inseparable from the power of love. We are willing to encounter our cosmic significance.

We re-write the source code of Reality towards a future that works for everyone. We are able to stand in the trembling joy of responsibility. We show up as Evolutionary Lovers on the abyss of darkness and proclaim, Let there be Light.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between December 2018 and January 2019.

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

Book details:

Title:Playing a Larger Game: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love: Becoming Power Hungry for the Sake of the Whole
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 12
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340837
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    CRISIS OF INTIMACY AND THE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Personal Transformation Effects Transformation of the Whole
  • Expanding Intimacy by Finding My Optimum Point of Discomfort
  • Widening of Intimacies and Embracing the Pain of Birthing
  • You Can Face the Pain When You Know You Are Good

CHAPTER 2    THE HOLY TRINITY OF PLEASURE, TRANSFORMATION AND POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: You Can Only Transform with a New Story
  • A new Narrative of Power—Transforming the World by Transforming Ourselves
  • Personal Transformation Effects the Transformation of the Whole
  • Claim the Pleasure of Power
  • The Holy Trinity of Pleasure, Transformation and Power

CHAPTER 3    TO DENY POWER IS TO DENY GOD: THE THREE FORMS OF POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love of Power and Power of Love Are Inseparable
  • Power and Intimacy Are Inextricably Linked
  • To Deny Power Is to Deny God
  • The Power of Dharma: The Inner Physics of Reality
  • The Mystery of Divine Incarnation: Power Over Is Also Holy

CHAPTER 4    THE LOVE OF POWER AND THE POWER OF LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We All Have Power Over Each Other
  • A Birthday Tells a Story of the Power of Transformation
  • The Infinity of Power Says I Can’t Do it Without You
  • Society’s Misuse of Power Leads to Total Annihilation
  • We Have to Be More Powerful Than the Power That Could Destroy Us
  • Codes of Culture throughout History

CHAPTER 5    HOMO AMOR: INCARNATING THE POWER OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Embracing Homo amor: The Power of Love in Human Evolution
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Love and Power Are Not Opposites
  • Evolutionary Love: What Church Is Meant to Be
  • Incarnating Homo amor: Embracing Collective Power and Love
  • How Do We Contribute to This Love?
  • Homo amor: Embracing Our Unique Evolutionary Love

CHAPTER 6    EMBRACING OUR COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Are You Ready?
  • We Are the Chosen Ones
  • Are We Ready to Dream God’s Dream?
  • Evolving a Culture of Love as Evolution is Going Toward Its Own Goal
  • Evolving the Dharma in Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 7    EVOLUTION OF LOVE THROUGH PRAYER, ALLUREMENT AND UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Awakening as Conscious Evolution
  • Evolution of Love Through Prayer and Action
  • Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game?
  • Take Your Unique Risk to Claim Your Allurement

CHAPTER 8    UNIQUE SELF AS THE WILLINGNESS TO DREAM AGAIN

  • Dare to Dream Again
  • God’s Dream: The Evolution of Consciousness and Freedom
  • Dreaming of Whole Mates
  • The Shattering of the Vessels and Healing Through Dreaming Deeper

CHAPTER 9    ALLUREMENT TO EVER INCREASING INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Unique Risk
  • You Can Trust Your Allurement
  • When You Say Yes to Allurement, It Says Yes to You
  • A New Allurement: From Self to Tribe, to World, to Cosmos
  • Widening Circles of Intimacy
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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/
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The Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 11

The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 11 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

Our crisis is a birth. To heal the intimacy crisis, all that has been split off-personally and culturally and cosmically-must be welcomed back into the circle.

We have forgotten, or perhaps never really known, that not only live in the Intimate Universe; the Intimate Universe lives in us. Each of us is a unique configuration of intimacy-intended, recognized, desired, acknowledged, chosen, loved, adored, and needed by all of Reality to enact transformation through deepening intimacy.

Evolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies. My transformation is the transformation of the whole. That is what it means to be intimate with the whole.

Intimacy is not generic. Intimacy is always unique. We are unique incarnations of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of All-That-Is, living in us, as us, and through us. We need to become intimate with our Unique Selves. For the essence of the new human-her creative and transformative power-derives only from the deepest depth of intimacy with one’s own self. We need to become intimate with our own power.

This is the journey from Homo armor to Homo amor. It marks the emergence of the new human and the new humanity. The temple of intimacy is built when we stay in and go all the way in this lifetime.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between September and November 2018.

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

Book details:

Title:The Evolution of Intimacy: Towards a New Politics of Love: Your Unique Clarified Desire Is the Desire of Reality Itself
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 11
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340479
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE   TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS AT THE EDGE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Configuration of Desire
  • I Cannot Be Intimate Without You
  • Symphony Means Feeling the Field
  • The Ritual of Prayer Unites Us in the Field
  • We Celebrate the Evolution of Culture in All Fields
  • One Hundred and One Is the Pathway to the Other Side

CHAPTER TWO   BEYOND MASLOW: EVOLUTIONARY PRAYER AND THE SIX CORE HUMAN NEEDS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: I Am a Unique Feature of the Field Of Intimacy
  • We Resonate and Recapitulate to Evolve the Source Code
  • The Larger Field of Intelligence Can Hear Me Talking
  • Evolutionary Meditations for Praying to God in the First, Second, and Third Person
  • Realizing I Am God in Evolution at the Jump Point
  • Beyond Maslow: The Vision of Six Core Human Needs That Changes Everything

CHAPTER THREE   MY UNIQUE DESIRE IS GOD’S DESIRE: HEALING THE CRISIS OF DESIRE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Field of Desire
  • Prayer Means That the Process Is Personal
  • Our Collective Desire Is for Evolutionary Love
  • I Heal God’s Broken Heart By Accessing My Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • My Unique Desire Is God’s Desire

CHAPTER FOUR   HEALING THE CRISIS OF INTIMACY: FALLING MADLY IN LOVE WITH OURSELVES AS UNIQUE CONFIGURATIONS OF DESIRE AND INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Crisis of Intimacy
  • Increasing Intimacy Means Bringing in What Is Left Out of The Circle
  • A Simple Practice of Unclenching and Opening the Heart
  • The Self-Organizing Universe Desires More Intimacy
  • Self-Love Is the Key to Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder

CHAPTER FIVE   CRISIS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER: OUR COLLECTIVE AWAKENING TO REALITY MADLY IN LOVE WITH US

  • Evolutionary Love Code: New Configurations of Intimacy
  • Reality Is Madly in Love With Me
  • A Practice for Entering on the Inside
  • The Climate Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • The Solution to Every Great Crisis Is New and Deeper Intimacy

CHAPTER SIX   RESTORE INTIMACY AND BRING POWER BACK INTO THE CIRCLE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Crisis Is an Evolutionary Driver
  • To Be Madly in Love With Myself Is to Know I Matter Infinitely
  • To Become Like God: Love More
  • Exercise to Open Our Arms and Let Them All In
  • Saturday Church Is the Church of the Metamorphosis
  • It Is Time to Reclaim Our Unique Power

CHAPTER SEVEN   RECLAIMING AND EVOLVING SACRED TEXTS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: What Is Being Left Out of the Circle?
  • We Want a Politics of Love and a Love of Politics
  • The Democratization of Prayer Breakfasts
  • The Evolutionary Testament: A Template for the Future Human
  • Integrating the Depth Structures of Every Great Tradition
  • We Are the Ones to Write the New Sacred Texts

CHAPTER EIGHT   I AM LOVE IN ACTION: INTIMACY, CREATIVITY, AND THE NEW HUMAN

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Each Crisis of Intimacy Is a Birth
  • The Only Decision Is to Open My Heart
  • Genuine Creativity Comes From Intimacy With Myself
  • What Is Being Left Out Is Our Newness
  • I Am Love in Action

CHAPTER NINE   TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EVOLVING THE CAPACITY FOR INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Transformation
  • When I Open My Heart, I Open the Heart of Reality
  • The Power of Deepest Heart’s Desire Groups
  • Feel Into the Ever Deepening Loops of Intimacy
  • The Most Profound Pleasure Is the Pleasure of Transformation
  • Transformation Is Always to Evolve My Capacity for Intimacy

CHAPTER TEN   FROM HOMO ARMOR TO HOMO AMOR: RADICAL CURIOSITY AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Highest Pleasure Is Transformation
  • Love and Curiosity Go Together
  • Greatness Means to Make New Mistakes
  • Go the Whole Way in Your Radical Transformation
  • From Homo Armor to Homo Amor
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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 

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The Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:09:58-07:00

God Is Intimate | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 9

God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 9 | Dr. Marc Gafni

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.

This book draws from new story of CosmoErotic humanism in order to ignite a planetary awakening into the new human and new humanity. Through teaching, meditations and prayers, they articulate a vision for humanity’s next step.

Gafni and Marx Hubbard guide you beyond the false separations of your psychological ego and the spiritual ossifications of True Self, into the fullness of your Unique Self.

Where we have historically confessed our sins, we now need to confess our true greatness.

The universe is not random and meaningless, but an evolutionary love story, calling you to participate in its unfolding. Your uniqueness is currency of your connection and co-creation. Evolution itself is Love in Action, and you are an irreplaceable part of this process. Just as our personal crises and wounds can give birth to the next stage of our personal evolution, the crises of our time are not signs of breakdown but the birth pains of a new humanity, inviting us to rise together in a global symphony of transformation.

With poetic depth and prophetic vision, this book invites you beyond ordinary love into the ecstatic urgency of Evolutionary Love. You are not an extra on the set of Reality. You are needed. Your gifts, your voice, your love-all are essential for the awakening of humanity.

Are you ready to play your unique note in the Unique Self Symphony?

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between May and July 2018

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

Book details:

Title: God Is Intimate: The Real Is Not Indifferent: The Cosmos Knows Your Name and Is Waiting for Your YES
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 9
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340509
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    GOD IS INTIMATE: OUR DEEPEST YEARNINGS ARE GOD’S YEARNINGS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: God Is Intimate and Not Indifferent
  • The New Holy Trinity: Three Faces of God
  • Praying for Our Deepest Heart’s Desire
  • Yearning for the New Story
  • Intimacy Erases Difference and Manifests Uniqueness

CHAPTER 2    SHARED INTIMACY AND THE THREE WAYS WE HAVE EXILED LOVE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Are Intended by the Universe
  • Creating New Neural Grooves in Reality
  • We Are Unique Configurations of Intimacy
  • God’s Intention for Supra-Sexual Co-Creation
  • Reclaiming Evolutionary Love
  • Evolving What It Means to Fall in Love

CHAPTER 3    TRUE POWER IS HOLY; THE SHADOW OF POWER IS ABUSE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Power Is Holy
  • Love Is Power and Power Is Love
  • Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Participates in Evolutionary Desire
  • Power in Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Forms

CHAPTER 4    REALITY NEEDS OUR SERVICE AND OUR DEVOTION

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Universe Needs Your Service
  • We Turn to God in Prayer
  • Your Deepest Heart’s Desire Is Your Service
  • Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • Meditation on Allurement
  • Willing to Sacrifice My Unique Gift for Devotion
  • Motherhood and the Devotion to Live Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 5    ROLE MATE TO WHOLE MATE: EVOLVING INTIMACY FOR IDENTITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Intimacy Equation
  • Letters From Iwo Jima Reveals a Failure of Intimacy
  • Collective Purpose at the Moment of Crisis
  • Evolutionary Intimacy Expands the Circle
  • Intimacy in Relationships: From Role Mate to Soul Mate To Whole Mate

CHAPTER 6    ALL INTEGRITY IS EVOLUTIONARY INTEGRITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolutionary Integrity
  • Evolutionary Integrity Means a Widening Circle of Intimacy
  • Tikkun: Your Fixing Ripples Through Cosmos
  • The Practice of Being Intimate With the God Impulse Within
  • It’s Never Too Late for Evolutionary Integrity

CHAPTER 7    THE PLEASURE OF TRANSFORMATION AND REPATTERNING OUR LIVES

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Evolves Because It Feels Good
  • The Pleasure of Prayer: Meditations on the Three Faces of The Divine
  • Reality Is All About Relationship
  • The Telerotic Cosmos Yearning for Pleasure
  • Living Pleasure With an Unguarded Heart

CHAPTER 8    EVOLVING THE WAY THE WORLD HAPPENS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Knowing the Laws of Interior Science and Activating the New Memes of Reality
  • The Power of the Now Includes the Past, Present, And the Future
  • The Church of Mass Evolution
  • Incarnating the Possibility of Possibility to Turn Fate Into Destiny

CHAPTER 9    WE ARE A UNIQUE LETTER IN THE COSMIC SCROLL

  • Evolutionary Love Code: A Mystical Act of Integrating the Lineages
  • Find Your Unique Sentence in the Self-Organizing Universe
  • To Author Your Story, Write New Sentences

CHAPTER 10    AWAKENING EVOLUTIONARY MAN & EVOLUTIONARY WOMAN

  • Evolutionary Love Code: We Need a Gender Liberation Movement
  • Praying as Unique Gender
  • Awakening the Evolutionary Woman

  • From Transgender to Unique Gender

  • We Are All in Gender Transition

  • We Have to Have Huge Compassion

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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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… 

Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

Buy on Amazon

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: 
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Center for World Philosophy and Religion:
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Free Weekly Broadcast with Dr. Marc Gafni:
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God Is Intimate | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:01:26-07:00

We Are Evolution in Person | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 10

We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 10 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Who am I? In this book, we respond to that question by reclaiming the truth of our identity as Evolution in Person—not as a contrivance or social construction but rather rooted in the best integration of the great interior and exterior sciences.
We are not separate selves, but Unique Selves—irreducibly unique expressions of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty that is the initiating and animating Eros of Cosmos, living in us, as us, and through us.
An essential part of reclaiming our larger identity is the question of gender identity. Dr Gafni frames the transgender movement as a radical quest for a larger identity beyond and underneath gender. We move from the binary of clear “man” or “woman” to “Unique Gender”—we are each a unique configuration of line and circle qualities. These line and circle qualities are primal expressions of what later became the engendered qualities of masculine and feminine. They are the primordial energies of masculine and feminine, from the first nanoseconds of the Big Bang, well before the emergence of gender.
This evolution of gender identity is part of the wider movement of the evolution of intimacy. Intimacy begins with ourselves, when we remember our true identity and stand in the integrity of that knowing. From there, intimacy widens into our relationships with others and ultimately with the Cosmos itself. By evolving our capacity for intimacy, we align with the evolutionary impulse itself. We become ripplers of Evolutionary Love, as our Outrageous Acts of Love ripple through the entire field of Reality and change the source code of who we are.
We are Evolution in Person.
This is who we are.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between July and September 2018.

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

Book details:

Title: We Are Evolution in Person: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality: Your Outrageous Acts of Love Ripple Through the Evolutionary Field
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 10
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340776
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    I AM A RIPPLER OF LOVE

  • We Stand for Evolutionary Integrity
  • Become Ripplers of Evolutionary Love
  • Healing the Fear of Separation Is Necessary
  • The Movement from Fear to Love Transforms Everything
  • We Have to Be Heroes in the Private Moments

CHAPTER 2    UNIQUE GENDER—THE EVOLUTION OF ‘MAN’ AND ‘WOMAN’

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Gender as Part of a Liberation Movement
  • There Is Something Deeper Underneath the Transgender Question
  • We Pray for Wholeness in Our Unique Gender
  • From Self-Reproduction to Self-Evolution
  • The Great Library Is a Library of the Evolution of Evolution
  • The Evolution From “Man” and “Woman” to Unique Gender

CHAPTER 3    INTIMATE COMMUNION IS SUBVERSIVE AND THE ONLY WAY THROUGH

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Homo Amor Universalis Practices Intimate Communion
  • Intimacy Is Sanity
  • Intimate Communion and the New Story Are Key to Evolution
  • How to Bring Intimate Communion into Political Revolution
  • Intimate Communion Is the Only Road to World Transformation

CHAPTER 4    GOD IS THE POSSIBILITY OF POSSIBILITY: EMERGENCY GENERATES EMERGENCE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Intimacy in Action
  • We Pray to the God Inherent in Us and Who Holds Us
  • We Are a Microcosm of Synergistic Democracy
  • We Are Evolution in Person: We Are Claiming Our Identity
  • New Possibility Through New Configurations of Intimacy

CHAPTER 5    CONFESSION OF GREATNESS AND THE BIG YES TO MY UNIQUE RISK

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Infinity of Intimacy Sources Reality
  • Christ Teaches That God Says Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Say Yes to the Christ Energy Within
  • True Confession Is a Confession of Greatness
  • We Express Our Greatness When We Take Our Unique Risk

CHAPTER 6    GOD IS THE INFINITY OF INTIMACY OF POSSIBILITY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Every Crisis Is a Crisis of Intimacy
  • We Are Articulating a New Configuration of Intimacy
  • We Are Intimate With the Divine
  • Intimacy Generates Emergence and Greater Wholes

CHAPTER 7    FEELINGS MATTER—TRACING FEELINGS TO THEIR ROOT

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Calling Us Forward to Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • Prayer Reveals My Intimacy With All-That-Is
  • Tracing God’s Purpose and Our Own Yes
  • Reality Needs My Feeling
  • On the Inside of the Inside God, Goddess Feels With Us

CHAPTER 8    IN THE DEPTH OF LOVE, WE KNOW WE ARE NEEDED, INFINITELY, CRAZILY NEEDED

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The New Story Is the New Intimacy
  • We Need to Do Something New
  • We Can Completely Overcome Divisions as the New Species
  • Reality Needs My Devotion

CHAPTER 9    SHE SAYS: “YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT”

  • We Are Hosting the Birth of the New Species
  • Outrageous Love Is Restoring Intimacy
  • Breakthrough Emerges From Breakdown
  • “Your Need Is My Allurement” Heals Our Humiliation
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About the Authors:

Dr. Marc GafniDr. 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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Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929–April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with the Wheel of Co-Creation and together with Dr. Gafni, the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0, as well as the concepts of the Synergy Engine and the “birthing” of humanity.

As co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the chair, for the last five years of her life, of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, she posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, she co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event. She was also the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard, and the Future of “YOU”. Deepak Chopra called her “the voice for conscious evolution.”

In 1984, she was symbolically nominated for the vice presidency of the United States. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON, to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society and the Association for Global New Thought.

Gafni is a leading public intellectual impacting the source code of global culture. He is also a forger of new trails in the evolution of intimacy and love. In his own self-description, “Like all of us I am a flawed human being, an imperfect vessel for the light, radically committed to constant healing, transformation, and the evolution of love.” He has led international spiritual movements and learning communities, as well as created and hosted for several seasons a popular national Israeli television program on culture, meaning, and spirit on Israel’s leading network. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Gafni has developed educational programs, papers and content rooted in traditional wisdom and yet fully adapted to the needs of the contemporary world.

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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
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