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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.

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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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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.

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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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.

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 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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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.

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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Playing a Larger Game | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T14:22:31-07:00

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.

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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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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: 
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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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.

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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We Are Evolution in Person | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:53:41-07:00

Evolution is Love in Action | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolution is Love in Action: You Are Called to Be the Evolution of Love: Awakening to the Allurement that Guides the Universe

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 8

Evolution is Love in Action: You Are Called to Be the Evolution of Love: Awakening to the Allurement that Guides the Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 8 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

In this book, Dr Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard present a new story of humanity, a new understanding of our intimate relationship to evolution, as well as our intimacies with ourselves and with our circle of beloveds.

In these pages, we will contemplate the emergence of a new species of humanity, Homo amor or what Barbara and Marc previously called Homo amor universalis. You will see that not only are we at a moment of global crisis, but we are also at a moment of birth- the birth of a new humanity. Our crisis is a birth.

Moreover, you will see that you personally are called to become the new human- because you are an irreducibly unique incarnation of the evolutionary impulse that drives all of Reality. This realization transforms how you relate to yourself and to others, and how you relate to God. In this writing you will hear evolution described in terms that deeply implicate you in the arc of Reality. We are all personally implicated in evolution. And She demands from us our irreducibly profound, potent and powerful partnership. She is the ultimate currency of connection even as She is the context for our conversation.

The talks in this book are both universal and deeply personal to you, because you are every human. And every human being-under the gaze of love-is a unique expression of the evolutionary impulse that has shaped Reality since the Big Bang.

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

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

Book details:

Title:Evolution is Love in Action: You Are Called to Be the Evolution of Love: Awakening to the Allurement that Guides the Universe
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 8
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340752
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1    EXPERIENCING EROS THROUGH EVOLVING NEED AND FREEDOM

  • Meditation to Feel Homo Amor Universalis
  • Prayer to the God That Needs Me
  • The Evolution of Freedom Through the Pleasure Impulse
  • Unique Self and the Evolution of Need
  • Autonomy and Communion Are Resolved in Intimacy

CHAPTER 2    OUR PERSONAL LOVE STORIES ARE PART OF A PLANETARY BIRTH STORY

  • A Meditation on Mass Allurement
  • The God Within Us and the God Holding Us
  • A Technicolor Vision of the Planetary Birth
  • My Personal Love Story Is Implicated in The Universe: A Love Story

CHAPTER 3    THE PRACTICE OF OPENING THE HEART IN THE LOVE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE

  • Feeling Into the Resonant Field of Love
  • The Field of Intimacy: Your Need Is My Allurement
  • A Unique Self Symphony Driven by Allurement
  • A Planetary Awakening Requires an Open Heart

CHAPTER 4    SOURCED IN DIVINITY—EVOLUTION IS LOVE IN ACTION

  • Love Moves Us to Loving Action
  • We Are Sourced in Divinity
  • Prayer Expresses Divine Yearning
  • Evolution Means Innovations
  • What Does Evolution Need from Me in the Next Moment?

CHAPTER 5    AWAKENING THE DREAMER: I AM EVOLUTION AS LOVE IN ACTION

  • Love is Evolutionary Love
  • Homo Imaginus and Bracketing the Ego
  • Awaken the Dreamer
  • Love in Action Means That You Are Chosen

CHAPTER 6    THE STORY OF JESUS AND THE TOMB OF METAMORPHOSIS

  • Our Personal and Collective Crises Are Evolutionary Drivers
  • In the Tomb of Metamorphosis, We Choose Joy
  • A Saturday Church: The Story of Jesus and Evolutionary Church

CHAPTER 7    SHIMMER WALKING TREE’S CELEBRATION OF LIFE

  • Become One with the Whole, with No Identity
  • How I Choose to Live Beyond My Physical Death in This Lifetime
  • We Are the Fixing
  • When I Become That Love, There’s No Fear
  • Shimmer
  • All the Gates Are Open

CHAPTER 8    LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS — RECLAIMING THE POWER OF WORDS AND WONDER

  • Love Is in the Details
  • Reweaving God and Reclaiming Celebration
  • Words Are the Vessels of Spirit
  • A CosmoErotic Story Equal to the Story of Christ
  • Homo Amor Universalis Is Awestruck

CHAPTER 9    CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN OUR ABILITY TO FEEL AND TO HEAL

  • Outrageous Love Moves Through Us
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Closing the Gap
  • The Way In Is the Way In to Prayer
  • We’ve All Left Something Behind
  • There Is This Wonderful Image of the Judah Archetype
  • Reality Is Alive and It’s Conscious
  • Let’s Bring it Together
  • Let’s Make a Contribution

CHAPTER 10    EVOLUTION IS ALLUREMENT, DESIRE AND INTIMACY IN ACTION

  • I Am Evolution in Person
  • We Are Taking Responsibility for Evolution
  • Evolutionary Prayer in the Intimate Universe
  • Praying to Fulfill Our Collective Allurements
  • Meditating on the Baby of Homo Amor Universalis
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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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Evolution is Love in Action | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:35:47-07:00

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 6

We Are God's Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony | Oral Essays Volume 6 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are God’s Unique Intimacy is a clarion call to revolutionary transformation.

At the heart of these teachings lies a radical insight: You are a Unique Self-an irreducibly unique expression of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty that is the animating and initiating Eros and energy of All-That-Is.

You are the personal face of the universal, uniquely incarnate as you.
Allurement is a core structure of Cosmos. Therefore, when we align with the core truth of Cosmos, when we awaken to our Unique Self, we are allured to come together to form a Unique Self Symphony. A Unique Self Symphony is an omni-considerate configuration of Unique Selves, each playing their unique instrument for the sake of the whole.

A Unique Self Symphony is a new structure of Divinity. God is not only the Infinity of Power-but also the Infinity of Intimacy. We are a unique incarnation of the Intimate Universe.

When two Unique Selves meet, their unique intimacy creates a new resonance in the Field-a new frequency of Divinity itself.

Unique Self Symphony is the sacred configuration in which Unique Selves join genius to fulfill their evolutionary obligation-to participate in the evolution of love. Your unique intimacy participates in the unfolding of the Universe: A Love Story. This evolutionary impulse calls us to awaken as Unique Self-each of us a unique configuration of intimacy, irreducibly necessary to the healing and transformation of Reality.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between October and December 2017.

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

Book details:

Title:We Are God’s Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 6
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340653
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 FOLLOW THE IMPULSE AND PLAY A LARGER GAME

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self as Expression of True Self
  • Playing a Larger Game for the Evolution of Love
  • Prayer and the Participation in God
  • A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
  • Follow the Impulse!
  • The Inconsolable Longing to Play a Larger Game
  • Hasidic Story of Yoselle the Holy Miser
  • The Field Awakens Through Unique Acts of Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 2 YOUR UNIQUE OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF LOVE MATTER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Who You Are
  • Instantaneous Manifestation Through Intention
  • Only You Know If You Are Giving Your Unique Gift
  • What Do We Do in Prayer?
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Evolution Needs My Outrageous Acts of Love
  • My Outrageous Acts of Love Are Mine Alone to Commit
  • We Have a Dream, and the Dream Has Us!

CHAPTER 3 A NEW VISION OF IDENTITY: THE NEW HUMAN

  • The Evolutionary Impulse Moves Intimately and Authoritatively
  • Ecstasy Means to Be Beside the Old Vision of Self
  • The Mystery Is Designed For Evolutionary Love
  • Allurement All the Way Up the Evolutionary Chain
  • Evolution of Intimacy
  • Realize Our Deeper Identity: The New Human
  • Transcending Pre-Modernity, Modernity and Postmodernity
  • We Are at the Point of Evolution or Devolution

CHAPTER 4 REVOLUTION THROUGH LOVE AND EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES

  • Love Is a Unique Self Perception
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Unique Self Perception
  • Vocational Arousal and Joining Genius
  • To Love Is to Give
  • Enacting Revolution Through New Technology
  • The Interior Technology of Imagination
  • Personal Self Is Never Bypassed

CHAPTER 5 THE EVOLUTION OF POWER

  • A New Story of Power
  • The Dignity of Power Ends Victimhood
  • I Am Prayer, I Am Power
  • Our Power Is Sourced in the Gardens of Infinite Source
  • Your Desire Is Evolution’s Desire
  • Premodernity’s Narrative of Power
  • Modernity’s Narrative of Power
  • Postmodernity’s Narrative of Power
  • The New Narrative Is: I Am Power!
  • Power Lives in the Private Moments When We Decide to Stand in Integrity

CHAPTER 6 WE ARE GOD’S UNIQUE INTIMACY AND GOD’S POWER

  • Evolutionary Love Code: God Is the Infinity of Intimacy
  • We Are God’s Unique Intimacy of Power
  • Are You Ready to Play a Larger Game?
  • In Prayer, We Re-Pattern Reality
  • Necessity to Infuse Technological Power With Love
  • Cosmology, Crisis, Capacity
  • Healing the Split Between Intimacy and Power

CHAPTER 7 ALLUREMENT, INTIMACY AND EVOLUTION

  • Evolution Is the Deepening of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution of Intimacy
  • Prayer, Authentic Need and Intimacy
  • Evolution Is Longing to Go From No-Thing to Every-Thing
  • Attraction, Intimacy and Allurement
  • Pseudo-Allurement, Pseudo-Eros, and the Need to Clarify My Unique Self

CHAPTER 8 ALLUREMENT, AMAZEMENT AND EVER INCREASING INTIMACY

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Deepening Intimacy and the Birth of Evolutionary Church
  • Radical Amazement and Wonder: The Practice of Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Rote Repetition Stands Against Ever Increasing Intimacy
  • Attraction of Intimacy Is God’s Purpose
  • The Exterior and Interior of Interconnectivity
  • Three Stages of Allurement in Mysticism
  • Allurement Is a Choice

CHAPTER 9 A NEW ORDER AND THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER

  • Outrageous Love Is the Intimate Nature of Reality Itself
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Evolution of Intimacy
  • Intimacy Is Shared Identity
  • Prayer Is Shared Intimacy With God
  • Fulfilling the Story of Christ Through a Planetary in Love
  • Eros Births Ethics
  • The Blessing of the Father in Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 10 TIKKUN: YOUR UNIQUE FIXING IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Your Unique Fixing
  • Liberating the Broken Vessels
  • We Are a Unique Self Symphony Fixing the Source Code
  • Pseudo-Fixing and Authentic Fixing of the Source Code
  • Story of the Master Isaac of Berditchev
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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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We Are God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:15:42-07:00

Evolving Public Culture | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 5

Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 5

This book begins with a conversation around public culture. How do we create an evolutionary public space which reflects our desire for a better world? How do we create coherence in a sea of social chaos? How can we move from digital abuse to digital intimacy and transform the internet into an expression of the genuine nervous system of our humanity?

This book invites us to explore elements of the necessary digital foundations for an emergent culture of Eros. This book lays down a vision for a world in which we are all evolutionary partners, awakening to the joy and responsibility of this moment in history.

Public culture is the place where we play out either the depths our private refinement or swamp of our shame. Healing the depth of our personal and cultural shame is therefore indispensable for creating a sacred public culture. As such, we explore through multiple doors the roots of our wounding and shame.

One key is to look at the way we coil, clench, and contract, guarding our hearts due to painful prior experiences. It is necessary to work with the wounds of the past, but this by itself is insufficient. This is but the first step. Through transforming and healing our shame and wounding we liberate the driving power of activism.

This is the path of transforming our personal and collective crisis.

Our crisis becomes a birth.

This process of transformation into Unique Self is love in action itself.

Living your Unique Self is an affront to shame.

Being together as Outrageous Lovers, as evolutionary mystics, as Unique Selves in Unique Self Symphonies, is the seedbed of a new culture of love.

Love is not hard to find—Love is impossible to avoid. Love animates and suffuses Reality in every second, as we live in The Universe: A Love Story.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between August and October 2017.

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

Book details:

Title:Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 5
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340813
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1   TO EVOLVE PUBLIC CULTURE WE MUST EVOLVE OUR SHAME

  • We Are Learning to Be Good Gods
  • We Are at a Moment of Phase Shift in Humanity
  • Our New Credo: We Are Evolution
  • When You Feel the Pain the Whole Way, It Dissipates
  • By Confessing My Shame, It Is Released
  • Shame Is Whispering: You Are a King!
  • Every Truth Has Its Temple: Distinguishing Secret Sordid and Secret Sacred

CHAPTER 2   WE ARE AROUSED TO ACTIVISM WITH AN UNGUARDED HEART

  • Our Love Turns on the Noosphere
  • Knowing That We Are the New Renaissance Creates Arousal
  • A Core Structure of the Universe: Arousal From Above, Arousal From Below
  • God Wants Us to Bring Everything to Prayer
  • We Create Small Islands of Coherence in a Sea of Social Chaos
  • A Mystic Is an Activist: Living With an Unguarded Heart
  • We Must Crowd-source Fierce Outrageous Love
  • Be Out of Your Mind and Go Into Your Heart

CHAPTER 3   REDEFINING IDENTITY: RESPONDING TO THE TRANSGENDER QUESTION AND RAPE CULTURE WITH EVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUALITY

  • The Unique Self Symphony Resonates With Ecstatic Urgency
  • Setting the Evolutionary Context: From Homo erectus to Homo Universalis
  • The Meaning of Our New Power: Incarnating as Co-Creators With the Divine
  • We Do Not Live in a Rape Culture; We Live in a Love Culture
  • Unique Gender: A Better Response to the Transgender Question Of Who Am I?
  • Let’s Go From D-Day to E-Day: We Are Evolution

CHAPTER 4   AN EVOLUTIONARY CHURCH COLLECTIVE IS A SYMPHONY OF UNIQUE EXPRESSIONS OF LOVEINTELLIGENCE

  • Resonating as Members of the First Evolutionary Collective
  • Prayer Beyond Separation: Praying as Unique Selves
  • The Unique Self Credo: The First Code Evolutionary Church
  • My Unique Self Is in Devotion to Someone Else’s Unique Self
  • Your Unique Self Is Like Plugging Into the Cosmos
  • Unique Selves Band Together as a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 5   REALITY NEEDS YOUR SERVICE: THE SEVEN SS AND KABBALAH IN A SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE

  • Each of Us Is Encoded in the Planetary Body
  • Your Unique Taste Is Needed by All-That-Is
  • The Seven Ss of Uniqueness: How the Universe Self-Organizes
  • God Needs Your Service: Kabbalah and the Seven Ss

CHAPTER 6   WE PARTNER WITH GOD AND FIND OUR PLACE AS A CO-CREATOR

  • All-That-Is Needs Your Uniqueness
  • Your Unique Gift Is Needed by All-That-Is
  • Finding the Place Where I Fit Best Is Key for the New Human
  • Happiness and Joy Are a Byproduct of Giving My Unique Gift
  • Charity Saves From Death
  • The Purpose of God Is to Create Co-Creators

CHAPTER 7   I AM EVOLUTION, I AM THE GLORY: ACTIVATING OUR GIFTS AT THE FIFTH BIG BANG

  • You Are Born to Activate Your Unique Gift
  • Forgiveness and Yom Kippur: You Are Held Accountable Because You Are Loved
  • God’s Intention to Create Co-Creators Is Emerging
  • Hasidic Story of Moishe’s Good Deed
  • Your Mitzvah Is to Give Your Unique Gift

CHAPTER 8   WORDS ARE MUSIC: WE SPEAK OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE TO MOVE THIS GENERATION

  • Evolution Wakes Up to Us Choosing
  • Evolutionary Love Is the Ground Swell of the Self-Organizing Universe
  • We Unguard Our Hearts as Evolutionary Activists
  • Evolutionary Partners Support Self-Expression: A Dialogue With Tiero and Bridget
  • Love the Moment Open: Evolution Is Waiting for You to Sing Your Song
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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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Evolving Public Culture | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-21T16:49:42-07:00

Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 4

Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

We live in a world drenched in shame.
Shame is the core belief not that I did something wrong, but that I am wrong. It severs us from the inherent goodness of our desire, our body, our Eros. This split disconnects us from the beauty of our Unique Selves and fuels many of today’s personal and cultural pathologies. Wilhelm Reich called it “the murder of Eros”-and it is not metaphorical, but civilizational.
This book is a passionate call to reclaim the dignity of desire and the power of our Unique Selves, to stand against digital abuse, and to evolve from demonizing to symphonizing, from separation to intimacy. To live our Unique Self is to align with the evolutionary impulse of Reality.
Reclaiming desire, power, and Eros is not only personally liberating-it evokes the evolutionary power we need to respond to this moment of crisis and to participate in the evolution of love
These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between May and July 2017.

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

Book details:

Title: Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power: First Notes on Restoring Public Culture and the Integrity of Digital Intimacy
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 4
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340578
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 WHEN UNIQUE SELF BECOMES A STRANGE ATTRACTOR

  • The Challenge of Loving Every Day Anew
  • The Love Story Is at the Center
  • To Pray Means to Be Willing to Fall Into the Arms of The Beloved
  • Unique Self Is the Strange Attractor
  • Fine-Tuning My Unique Self
  • The Only Way to Fit in Is to Be Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 2 UNDERNEATH SHAME LIES THE PURITY OF DESIRE

  • Calibrating Into the Whole Being That We Are
  • Cuddling With the Infinity of Intimacy and Falling Into Her Hands
  • Longing Is the Attunement to My Evolutionary Potential
  • Evolutionary Church Evolves What the Great Avatars Started
  • Underneath Shame Lies the Purity of Desire
  • Origins of Shame
  • Beyond Shame—Love Shame Open

CHAPTER 3 RESTORING PUBLIC CULTURE AND THE INTEGRITY OF DIGITAL INTIMACY

  • We Are Inalienably Equal and Inalienably Unique
  • We Participate in the Evolution of Love
  • God Is the Infinity of Intimacy Who Needs Our Gifts
  • Evolving Democracy as the Evolution of Public Culture
  • Evolution of Culture in the 1960s: A Vision That Did Not Work
  • Evolution of Public Culture
  • Four Litmus Tests for Digital Integrity

CHAPTER 4 EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC CULTURE AND DIGITAL INTEGRITY

  • The Thirty-Six Men and Women: The Last of the Just
  • Ask and It Is Given, Knock and Doors Are Opened
  • God Creates by Our Intention With Us as Co-Creators
  • Overcoming Confirmation Bias and Reclaiming Innocence
  • Love Is a Perception
  • Re-Sourcing Through Giving

CHAPTER 5 DIGITAL INTIMACY AS A WAY TO EXPAND INTIMACY

  • Contributing to the Noosphere, the Thinking Layer of Earth
  • From Digital Abuse to Digital Intimacy
  • The Virtual Is a Space to Bypass or to Expand Intimacy
  • Digital Intimacy Is Part of the Planetary Awakening in Love
  • Expecting the Planetary Awakening as a Natural Event
  • Evolution of Digital Intimacy Happens Through The Evolution of Love
  • Simple Principles Are the Source Code for Self-Organization
  • We Are the Ones to Articulate the Source Code
  • Creating an Internet of the Higher Self

CHAPTER 6 THE DIGNITY OF POWER AND THE UNHOLY POWER OF DEMONIZATION

  • The Evolutionary Impulse Isn’t Interested in Staying the Same
  • Evolution Is Love in Action
  • It Is Our Turn to Enact the Epic Shift in History
  • God Is the Personal Beyond the Impersonal
  • With Existential Crisis, the New Evolutionary Species Arises
  • Love and Power Are One
  • Reclaiming the Dignity of Power
  • The Unholy Power of Demonization
  • Whole Mates Are Not Afraid of Each Other’s Power

CHAPTER 7 UNLEASHING EROS AND THE ECSTASY OF EROTIC GENIUS

  • Harmonizing and Marrying All the Frequencies of Our Being
  • The Marriage of Your Human Self and Your Universal Self
  • Prayer Is the Pleasure of Falling on Our Knees Before The Divine
  • Evolution Through Supra-Sexual Joining of Genius
  • Sexual McCarthyism Really Is Fear of Eros and Sexuality
  • Being Fully Alive and Ecstatic in Your Own Erotic Genius
  • We Are the Tip of the Tipping Point

CHAPTER 8 FROM VICTIM TO PLAYER AND BECOMING CO-CREATORS WITH THE DIVINE

  • God’s Yes in You Shows Up as Responsibility
  • Even in the Depth of Pain, the Yes Always Lines Reality
  • Articulating and Speaking Prayers Writes Them in The Noosphere
  • Evolution by Choice Not Chance—The Freedom of Responsibility
  • We Are Co-Creators With the Divine; We Are Conscious Evolution
  • The Hidden Agendas in the Victim Triangle
  • Am I a Victim or Am I a Player—Exiting the Victim Triangle
  • My Responsibility Is the Source of My Power

CHAPTER 9 YOUR UNIQUE SELF IS THE UNIQUE FACE OF TRUE SELF

  • Examining the Habit of Distorting the Love Story
  • Embracing the Dignity of My Unique Story, Desire—And Intimacy
  • Reflections on the Urantia Conference
  • Uniqueness Is the Intention of Cosmos
  • Surface Structures and Depth Structures Need Distinction
  • Your Unique Self Is the Unique Face of Your True Self
  • We Are Drinking From the Well of Evolution

CHAPTER 10 EROS AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE MURDER OF EROS

  • The Universe Is Full of Telos, Purpose, and Juicy Love
  • Every Ethical Failure Comes From a Breakdown of Eros
  • Homo Sapiens Is Likely Not the Last Human Species
  • The Impulse of Eros Within Us Is the Methodology by Which We Survive
  • There Is Urgent Need for Transformation in Interiors—And Exteriors
  • The Murder of Eros
  • Reality Intends, Recognizes, Needs, and Desires Me
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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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Dignity of Desire: Transforming Shame, Victimhood and Distortions of Power | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:18:11-07:00

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 2

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 2

We live at a moment of global action paralysis, which is rooted in a global intimacy disorder. We have exiled intimacy to only human relationships and sexuality. But intimacy is the fabric of Reality itself. The exile of intimacy has left us feeling disconnected from each other and from the evolutionary impulse itself.

This book is an invitation to reclaim intimacy as a core structure of Reality. We live in an Intimate Universe. The story of evolution is not random—it is driven by Evolutionary Eros. Reality is not a fact; it’s a Story, and it’s going somewhere—it has direction. Evolution is the evolution of intimacy. Evolution is yearning, and that yearning is uniquely alive in us, as us, and through us. Reality itself longs for us.

To heal the intimacy disorder at the core of our global crisis, we must evolve intimacy and activate a Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies. We need a new politics of love, a politics beyond polarization, where the future is co-created in social synergy. We are not passive observers; we are actively participating in the evolution of love.

This book is a calling to sacred activism, to join genius in Unique Self Symphony, and to become an agent of intimacy in your unique corner of the world. The only response to the outrageous pain of the world is Outrageous Love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between January and March 2017.

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

Book details:

Title: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 2
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340455
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1     CELEBRATING EPIPHANY: THE BIRTH OF THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY

  • Epiphany of Homo Universalis, a New Human
  • We Are Spiritually Incorrect Evangelicals
  • Epiphany Is Transcending the Regular
  • There Is No Compelling Vision of Postmodernity
  • Can We Open Up to Epiphany?
  • Evolving Prayer: God, Love Me Open!
  • Tipping the Scales of Evolution Towards More Life and More Love
  • Why Is the Universe a Love Story?
  • The Divine Whisper: Synchronicity

CHAPTER 2     PRINCIPLES OF A PERSONAL POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • Five Core Principles of a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • The Strange Attractor Is Unique Self
  • Meditation: Breathe From the Deep Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Knowing God as the Greatest Love of Your Life
  • The Infinite Power of Cosmos

CHAPTER 3      FROM POWERLESSNESS TO SACRED ACTIVISM

  • Tuning Into the Impulse of Creation
  • Prayers to the Power of Democracy
  • Reality Yearns for Us
  • It Is Not Your Job to Heal the Whole Thing
  • Why Isn’t Everyone Out There Doing It?
  • When We Claim Our Power, We Close the Gap Between Our Ability To Heal and Our Ability To Feel
  • Confessing Our Greatness
  • Yom Kippur Story of Yankel

CHAPTER 4     EVOLUTION’S DESIRE FOR SYNERGISTIC DEMOCRACY

  • Awakening a Memory of the Future
  • Finding the Field
  • The Evolutionary God Is the Impulse of Evolution and the Beloved Who Holds It All
  • Praying from the Place of the Lonely Child
  • Announcing Synergistic Democracy
  • The Wheel of Co-Creation in Synergistic Democracy
  • The Democratization of Enlightenment: Every Unique Self Is Needed by All-That-Is
  • You’ve Got to Take a Unique Stand
  • Moving Beyond Ordinary Love to Outrageous Love
  • Your Unique Risk Is What Makes You Alive

CHAPTER 5      EVOLUTION AND CONNECTION

  • Feel the Force of Outrageous Love Within
  • God as the Mother Who Nourishes Us
  • Let Evolution Move Forward
  • Imagining the Third Face of God
  • Prayer and Sex Are the Same Thing: You Can’t Pretend
  • A Taste of Planetary Connection
  • Evolutionary Love Is Outrageous Love
  • Three Distinctions Between Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love
  • Story: The Great Master of Children
  • Let Us Bring Mass Empathy

CHAPTER 6      HEALING THE GLOBAL INTIMACY DISORDER WITH A NEW POLITICS OF INTIMACY

  • Radical Planetary Intimacy
  • The Missing Tile Syndrome
  • The Scroll of Esther
  • The Intimate Kiss of Prayer
  • Radical Fulfillment of Living Your Heart’s Desire
  • What Does Co-Creation Mean?
  • The Exile of Intimacy

CHAPTER 7      THE COLLECTIVE AWAKENING OF HUMANITY

  • Meditation: One Evolutionary Act of Love
  • Restoring Intimacy: God Is Always with Us, and Feeling Every Pulse of Our Interior
  • The Three Faces of God
  • Offering Prayer to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Experience a Planetary Birth in Response to Pain
  • The Four Questions to Help Create the Planetary Awakening
  • You Cannot Enter Intimacy Holding Hate in Your Heart
  • The Day of Atonement

CHAPTER 8      THE EVOLUTION OF REALITY IS THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE

  • No One Lives a Life of Lonely Desperation
  • When You Give Your Genuine Gift of Love the Whole Way, the Suffering is Gone
  • What Does Love, or Outrageous Love, Mean at a Higher Level of Consciousness?
  • Our Greatness Is Imbued with the Enormity of the Desire of Evolution for More Life, More Love, More Creativity
  • By Re-Sourcing We Return Deeper to Our Source

CHAPTER 9      INTERCONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND A MEMORY OF THE FUTURE

  • Healing Separation
  • In the Intimate Universe No One Is Left Out of the Circle
  • God of Intimacy
  • This Extraordinary Moment in History
  • The Last Day of the Creation of the Old Is Obviously the First Day of the Creation of the New
  • From Atonement to Attunement
  • We Are the Unique Self Symphony, Together—Let’s Feel It Arise
  • The Insane King
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future

CHAPTER 10      BECOMING AGENTS OF INTIMACY FOR A NEW STORY

  • Innovation on the Inside: You Become the Agent of Intimacy
  • Loneliness on Two Levels
  • Existential Risk
  • In the Face of Existential Risk, We Do Not Have To Do the Whole Thing
  • A New Universe Story Raises All Ships
  • We Hear God in the Deep Small Voice
  • Joining Genius on a Meta Scale
  • When Syncon Sectors Became Connected, It Was a Social Love Affair
  • Reality Is a Story and it is Going Somewhere
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
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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: 

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Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni

Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 21

Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 20 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

Reality is not empty or blind. Reality is animated by plot lines. These are the plot lines of evolution. The plot lines of evolution are Reality’s codes of desire. Reality’s desire is for Value. Eros is Value and Value is Eros. There is no split between them. It’s Eros Value. That is the plotline of the CosmoErotic universe.

We are part of and participatory in Reality. Thus, like all of reality the plotlines of our lives are mapped by our codes of desire. Our clarified desire participates in the larger Field of Desire, which is also the Field of Eros Value. Our capacity to clarify, deepen and evolve our unique codes of desire is the evolution of Reality itself. Our unique codes of desire are evolution becoming uniquely conscious through each of us.

With the dogmatic claim of our postmodern zeitgeist that Value and therefore Eros Value have collapsed, an unbearable emptiness wells up in our hearts. We are no longer able to access the self-evident validity of Eros Value. We feel deadened and devalued. This dynamic at the very heart of culture is direct cause for existential risk. For the collapse of Eros is direct cause for the collapse of ethos, the breakdown of value. We seek to cover up the emptiness of Eros’s collapse through pseudo-Eros. Pseudo-Eros exponentialized generate the tragedies of the commons that are the very heart of existential risk. To reclaim value and ethos, we must first reclaim Eros.

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Book details:

Title: Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 21
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340288
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 THE HOMO AMOR PRACTICE OF WRITING YOUR OWN SONG OF SONGS—OUTRAGEOUS LOVE LETTERS

  • Reality Is Codes of Desire
  • The Sacred Is Value Exponentialized
  • All the Great Traditions Understood: Reality Is Codes of Desire
  • Song of Solomon
  • Always Kissing
  • Every Foot a Shrine
  • God Desired Me, So I Came Close
  • His Choir
  • Like Passionate Lips
  • I Have Come Into This World to See This
  • The Sacred Means Ultimate Intimacy
  • The Democratization of Flaming Great Love
  • The Homo amor Practice of Writing Outrageous Love Letters
  • Mary’s Mosaic

CHAPTER 2 REWRITING THE SCRIPT OF DESIRE: FOR WOMEN, FOR LIFE, FOR FREEDOM—MAHSA AMINI DID NOT DIE IN VAIN

  • At This Precise Moment, Just Like Dystopia Hovers, So Does Utopia
  • Creating the Future as Homo amor
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Radical Aliveness Is Life
  • Mahsa Amini Sacrificed Her Life for Eros
  • There’s No Split Between Eros and Ethics
  • Brothers, There’s Always a Path Home
  • The New Story of Desire: Reality Is Eros
  • The Four Sexual Narratives in Reality Today
  • Eros Is Not Mere Sentiment; It Is the Heart of Existence Itself
  • Two Ways to Murder Eros: The Morality Police and the Sex-Positive Liberal Response
  • Pornography Is the Decontextualization of Radical Sexing From Radical Living
  • A Pornographic Universe Violates the Goddess
  • Fundamentalist Totalitarianism and Pornographic Totalitarianism
  • The Only Response to Pornographic Totalitarianism Is Your Own Unique Desire
  • The New Story of Value: The Full Power of Your Unique Desire
  • Baraye: Protesting for the Sake of the All

CHAPTER 3 FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO AMOR: RECLAIMING THE AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY OVER OUR CODES OF DE

  • Reclaiming the Script of My Unique Desire From Totalitarianism
  • All Desire Is Non-Local
  • We Need to Recover a Memory of the Future
  • Desire Reaches for the Future
  • What Is Your Deepest Heart’s Desire?
  • Reclaiming the Dignity of Need

CHAPTER 4 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 5 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? [October 8th 2023]
  • 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
  • Purity 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 6 BARBIE, HAMAS, AND HOMO AMOR—FROM DEGRADED LOVE STORIES TO THE UNIVERSE: A LOVE STORY

  • Responding to the Culture of Death as Homo amor
  • The Refusal to Make Distinctions Contravenes the Interior of Homo amor
  • False Stories Confuse Us
  • A Failed Love Story on a Collective Level Results in Horror
  • Let’s Get Out of Superficial Distortions
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Homo amor, the Alternative to Postmodern Materialism or Pseudo-Erotic Violent Fundamentalism
  • Universe Story 1—Barbie: “There Is No Love Story”
  • Clarified Desire Discloses Value; Eros Is a Value of Cosmos
  • If There Is No Eros, There Is Pseudo-Eros
  • Universe Story 2—Hamas: The Demonization of Desire
  • Postmodernism and Fundamentalism Are Both Failed Love Stories
  • Universe Story 3: The Realization That the Universe Is a Love Story
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • The Moral Imperative of the Universe: A Love Story

CHAPTER 7 EROS AND GNOSIS AND ETHICS ARE ONE: REALITY IS EVOLVING CODES OF DESIRE

  • The Breakdown of Sensemaking
  • The Future of Reality Depends on Our Capacity to Articulate a Shared Story of Value
  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Sensuality of Sensemaking
  • What We Think Is Less Than What We Know
  • Global Resonance Requires a Common Sense
  • The Shared Story of Reality Is the Story of Reality’s Sensuality
  • Eros Is a Dynamic Creative Movement of Reality
  • Two Codes of Desire: Code of Reality and Sacred Texts
  • Reality Is ErosValue
  • How Do You Know Value Is Erotic? Because Value Arouses Our Will
  • The Experience of Value Lives Within the Experience of Eros
  • In the Ecstasies of Desire, the Split Between Autonomy and Communion Disappears
  • Reality Is Desire: The Name of God
  • The Field of Desire Lives in Me
  • ErosValue Is the Loveintelligence and LoveBeauty and LoveDesire of Reality
  • My Unique Name of God Emerges From My Unique Configuration of Desire
  • Evolutionary Love Code: Eros and Gnosis Are Not Separate
  • To Be What We Are, We Need to Love Madly
  • Even as We Are All Unique, We Are All the Same

CHAPTER 8 COSMOEROTIC HUMANISM—TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS, EVOLVING CODES OF DESIRE, AND THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY

  • To Heal Reality, We Must Heal Our Narratives of Desire
  • How Do I Clarify My Own Code of Desire?
  • Homo Armor to Homo amor
  • Who I Am Is Desire, and Desire Is the Plotline of My Life
  • My Desire Is Sacred
  • The Beginning of Healing Broken Codes of Desire Is Honoring Desire
  • To Be in Joy Is a Direct Byproduct of Accessing the Unique Quality of My Desire
  • I Am Part of the Throbbing Field of Eros, Which Desires Ever Deeper Shared Identities
  • The Plotline of My Life Is My Unique Code of Desire
  • The Mother Is the Universe: A Love Story in Person
  • When I No Longer Feel the Body Then I Create False Certainties Which Overwhelm Me
  • When My Desire Is Shamed, I Can’t Access the Goodness and Aliveness of Reality and I Reach for a Transitional Object
  • I Need to Re-Access Desire as It Lives in My Body
  • Reclaiming the Lost Code of the Body Sacred: The Song of Solomon Is Holy of Holies
  • The Text of Ethos Is Written in the Body Sacred
  • When I Access My Unique Code of Desire, I Transcend the Pornographic Universe
  • When We Split Off the Other, We Violate the Desire of Culture
  • This Field of Desire Is the Place Where I Know That I Am Welcome in the Universe
  • Desire in Its Dignity Allowed the Lineage of Solomon to Survive the Exile
  • This Narrative of Desire Must Articulate a New Story of Value

CHAPTER 9 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 10 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 11 IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL STRUCTURE: IN DIALOGUE WITH DR. ZACHARY STEIN

  • The Right to Desire and the Right to Be Desired
  • A Need Generates a Right, a Desire Generates a Responsibility
  • The Need of Cosmos Which Is Directly Related to Value and Not Reducible to the Biological
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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.

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/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcGafni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarcGafni
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From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 3

From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love | Oral Essay Volume 3 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

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 weaves together timeless wisdom and evolutionary spirituality to ignite a planetary awakening. Through guided meditations and prayers, transformative teachings, and a vision for humanity’s next step, this book guides you beyond the false separations of ego 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 the key to deep 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 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 instrument in the Unique Self Symphony?

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

Book details:

Title: From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 3
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340554
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 STEPPING INTO A MIGHTY EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY

  • Meditation on the Evolutionary Impulse Within
  • We Pray to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • Pointing-Out Instruction for Prayer
  • Prayers to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation
  • We Are Inspiring a Planetary Pentecost
  • A Kabbalistic Story of Divine Calling
  • Letting the Ego Flower Into Your Unique Self

CHAPTER 2 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: BREAKING THE SPELL OF ORDINARY LOVE

  • Place Attention on the Heart
  • We Are Holding the Good News
  • Intimacy Means We Are Awake and Erotic
  • We Are Held by the Divine
  • Taking the Lid Off for Love
  • Get the Power of Unique Self Symphony
  • The Beast: A Story of Posturing and Rejecting the Rose
  • Reality Is a Love Story: The Deepest Story of Reality
  • Breaking the Spell of Ordinary Love.
  • What is a Real Unique Self Symphony?

CHAPTER 3 REALITY INTENDED YOUR UNIQUE GIFT

  • Imagine Going the Whole Way
  • Step Outside of Our Narcissism
  • Reality Hears Me
  • If We Don’t Thank God for Our Greatness, Who Will?
  • Giving Your Unique Gift
  • No One Evolves Beyond Ego
  • A Story About Unique Gift: Slipping Your Envelope
  • Under the Door
  • You Identify Your Unique Gift

CHAPTER 4 ATTUNING AND RESPONDING TO OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IN A SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE

  • Outrageous Love Drives Everything
  • Your Personal Quality Participates in God’s Personal Quality
  • Embodied Awareness of Outrageous Love: Feeling the Whole Story of Creation
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • The Universe is Perfectly Attuned for Life
  • Responding to a Politics of Devolution with a Politics of Evolution
  • To Life! The Story of Yankele
  • To Face Existential Threat, You Have to Feel Outrageous Love

CHAPTER 5 OUR SIX CORE ESSENTIAL HUMAN NEEDS

  • The Wedding Day of the Essential Self with the Universal Self
  • There Is No Contradiction Between Our Personal Needs and Evolutionary Needs
  • Personal Needs Meet Our Evolutionary Needs
  • Our Emergence as an Evolutionary Human
  • We Must Meet Our Six Core Essential Needs
  • Our True Need Is to Play a Larger Game

CHAPTER 6 EVOLUTION IS LOVE IN ACTION

  • Attuning to Your Unique Gifts in the Symphony
  • Are You Needed by the Unique Self Symphony, or Are We Just Making it Up?
  • Prayer is a Realization of the Intimate Universe
  • Who Are You? The Unique Self Response
  • Planet Earth Is Giving Birth to a Co-Evolving Humanity
  • The Intimate Universe is a Synergistic Universe
  • God Needs Us

CHAPTER 7 REFLECTIONS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD AND OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • Awakening Dharma: Resonance and Planetary Evolution
  • From Broken Hallelujah to Evolutionary Dharma: Reclaiming the Divine
  • Confessions of Greatness for Planetary Awakening
  • We Get to Fall in Love Again and Again
  • Welcoming Neale Donald Walsch: Conversations with God Within
  • From Doctrine to Discovery: Awakening the Sacred Within
  • Highly Evolved Beings Are Partners in Humanity’s Transmogrification
  • A Sacred Secret Within Us All
  • Not an Uncommon Dialogue
  • Messianic Conversation and Embracing the Conversation with God
  • The Holy Tipping Point: Just One Blink Away from Total Awakening
  • The Power of Self-Selection and Mirroring Global Change
  • No One Else Can Have Your Experience
  • When Everything Is Great, Then What?
  • Not Creating, but Remembering: The Essence of Divine Awareness
  • Neale’s Blessing
  • Marc’s Blessing

CHAPTER 8 THE WOUND AND THE AWAKENING: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO INTIMACY

  • Tapping into the Wounding of Separation
  • Enlightenment Means the Wound Is Not Unconscious in Us
  • From Ego to Essence
  • My Wound Is the Intention of the LoveIntelligence of Cosmos

CHAPTER 9 THE KEYS TO ACTIVATING EVOLUTIONARY LOVERS

  • Our Heart’s Desire is for More Love
  • Evolving the Lineages
  • We Live in a World of Broken Hearts
  • The First Key: The Activation of the New Identity
  • The Second Key: My New Identity is Rooted in a New Worldview
  • The Third Key: Activating Evolutionary Practice in a Profound and Deep Way
  • The Fourth Key: Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0
  • The Fifth Key: Activating an Evolutionary Community

CHAPTER 10 THE GLORY OF THE WOUND: TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO PURPOSE

  • My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Wound
  • We Are Not Wounded by Accident
  • We Are Designed to Have a Flaw in Our Design
  • Life Is Designed to Be a Misfit
  • A Call for Wounding to Rise Up in Creativity
  • Our Wound Changes Based on Who We Experience Ourselves to Be
  • Extend Your Hand and Feel the One Wound, the One 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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From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:18:56-07:00

Homo Amor Universalis | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 7

Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays volume #7 | Dr. Marc Gafni

We are at a choice point in history. In what Marc Gafni calls a “Death Star moment of our species,” we stand between collapse or radical breakthrough. Our global crises are symptoms of something deeper: the breakdown of Eros and the deconstruction of intrinsic value—the collapse of a shared Field of Value and the intimacy that binds us.

This book offers a potent response: the birth of Homo amor universalis—the new human and the new humanity. Homo amor universalis is the human being who incarnates Evolutionary Love and participates consciously in Evolution: The Love Story of the Universe.

In this evolutionary love story, a new name of God has emerged: God as the Infinite Intimate. The Infinity of Intimacy that lives in us, holds us, and knows our name.

In this sacred relationship, prayer is not only petition but also participation.

Prayer affirms the dignity of personal need even as it invokes the evolutionary impulse itself—aligning our longing with the Heart of Reality.

We awaken to our irreducible uniqueness, feel vocational arousal, and join genius with others in supra-sexual co-creativity—not only for our personal transformation, but to participate in the transformation of the whole, in the evolution of love. We pray as the unique music of our soul body’s unique code.

Together, we play our unique instrument in the Unique Self Symphony—enacting a planetary awakening in love.

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between December 2017 and February 2018.

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

Book details:

Title: Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 7
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340592
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 EVOLUTIONARY CHRISTMAS: WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST

  • We Say Yes to the Power
  • Evolutionary Christmas: A New Perspective of Intimacy
  • We Start by Feeling One Person in Our Circle
  • The Planetary Awakening in Love Is Planetary Pentecost
  • Unique Self Symphonies Are Not MeToo, They Are WeToo

CHAPTER 2 HOMO AMOR: THE ORIGINAL HUMAN BEING CAN RECREATE THE WORLD

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Needs My Transformation
  • Freedom to Be the New Humanity
  • It’s All One Love, It’s One System
  • Repetition or Radical Newness
  • The First Step Is Prayer
  • What Is Your Vocational Newness?
  • We Are at the Threshold of Radical Newness
  • Inscribing a New Narrative of Identity Into Cosmos
  • Shana—From Repetition to Renewal
  • Loving the Moment Open
  • Original Human Beings Can Recreate the World

CHAPTER 3 AFFIRMING THE DIGNITY OF NEED AND JOINING GENIUS

  • Evolutionary Church Is a Vehicle for the New Universe Story
  • The Universe Is Not a Fact, It’s a Story
  • Affirming the Dignity of Need
  • When the Dignity of Our Need Is Violated, We Spend Our Whole Lives Searching and Trying to Find That Dignity
  • God, You Are Not Just the Infinity of Power—You Are the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Pulse of Evolution Inside Us
  • Let’s All Become the Supra-Mental Genius Together
  • Playing Our Instrument in the Unique Self Symphony
  • We Are Unique Self Symphony in This Moment, Rising in Love, Playing Our Instrument
  • The Democratization of Greatness
  • God Needs Us to Join Genius
  • That’s What’s Actually Happening in That Process

CHAPTER 4 TO LOVE IS TO SEE WITH GOD’S EYES

  • To Be a Lover Is to See With God’s Eyes
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • Prayer Stands for the Holy and Broken Hallelujahs
  • Becoming Co-Creators With God
  • From Role Mate to Soul Mate to Whole Mate
  • The Vehicle for Attracting Whole Mates

CHAPTER 5 BEYOND THE DARKEST HOUR, WE SAY, “LET THERE BE LIGHT”

  • Evolutionary Love Code: There Is a Corner of the World That Is Unloved
  • An Invitation to Love the Moment Open
  • Our Darkest Hour and a Planetary Birth
  • Give Up the Crusade and Take Your Unique Risk
  • Saying Yes to Being God’s Partner
  • It All Depends on Us

CHAPTER 6 YOUR NEED IS MY ALLUREMENT: GIVING UP FALSE VICTIMHOOD

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Giving Up False Victimhood
  • Intimacy: I Feel You Feeling Me Feeling You
  • Integrating the Local, Essential, and Universal Self
  • Your Need Is My Allurement
  • Allurement Drives the Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 7 THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE IS THE GREAT END-BUSINESS OF LIFE

  • Evolutionary Love Code: Reality Is Designed for Pleasure
  • Evolution Forms Larger Wholes Through Pleasure
  • The Experience of Eros Is Pleasure
  • If I Access My True Pleasure, Evolution Realizes Its Purpose

CHAPTER 8 AWAKENING THE IMPULSE OF EVOLUTION AS HOMO AMOR UNIVERSALIS

  • Evolutionary Love Code: The Unique Genius of Evolutionary Love
  • Awakening Homo Amor Universalis: the Birth of Divine Humanity
  • Joining Genius: Awakening to Love as Homo Amor Universalis
  • Emerging as Homo Amor Universalis
  • Let’s Not Forget to Evolve Our High-Tech Genius
  • Technology Is Evolution
  • Giver of Blessings

CHAPTER 9 HOMO AMOR: JOINING MEMES TO ENACT A NEW SPECIES

  • The New Human and the New Humanity
  • Prayer Enables Us to Invoke the Evolutionary Impulse
  • Homo Amor Responds to Reality With Outrageous Love
  • Homo Amor Universalis Is Vocationally Aroused to Join Genius
  • Evolution Is Driven by New Configurations of Intimacy
  • Crossing Over Together: No One Is Left Outside of the Circle
  • To Avoid the Flood, the Ark Must Fit Everyone
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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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Homo Amor Universalis | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:29:14-07:00

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love

One Mountain Oral Essays Volume 1

A Planetary Awakening in Love explores Unique Self Symphonies, the Politics of Evolutionary Love, and Homo Amor through the voices of Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard.

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love | Book 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays | Integral Publishers

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

This book is about a Planetary Awakening in Love, the emergence from Homo sapiens to Homo amor. As humans we are here to articulate and enact a new story, to participate in the evolution of love itself. With practice we can learn to place our attention on the evolutionary impulse that is alive and awake in us, as us, and through us, and calling us forth to become Evolutionary Lovers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These oral essays are edited talks delivered by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard between October and December 2016.

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

Book details:

Title: A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love
Author: Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Series: Oral Essay Series – Volume 2
Publisher: World Philosophy and Religion Press in conjunction with Integral Wisdom Publishers.
ISBN-13: 979-8888340042
Formats: Paperback, e-book, audiobook.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 NURTURING THE UNION OF HUMANS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE

  • The Emergence of the New Human and the New Humanity
  • Reclaiming Prayer at Higher Levels of Consciousness
  • The Exile of Love
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • Awaken to the Deepest Pleasure of Being Alive
  • Hope Is a Memory of the Future
  • We Live in a World of Outrageous Pain
  • What Is Outrageous Love?
  • The Great Question of Meaning Is Who Are You?
  • Unique Self Symphony as an Expression of the Self-Organizing Universe

CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT QUESTION OF MEANING: WHO ARE YOU?

  • Accessing the Evolutionary Impulse Within
  • Prayer: God Lives Both in Us and Holds Us
  • Planetary Awakening Through Unique Self Symphony
  • The Practice of Evolutionary Chant
  • We Are Outrageous Lovers
  • Confessions of Greatness
  • Reality Is an Outrageous Love Story

CHAPTER 3 A WORLD INFUSED WITH EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Metamorphosis From Homo sapiens to Homo amor From a Fundamentalist God to an Evolutionary God
  • Evolutionary Prayer: The Infinite Force of Cosmos Knows Your Name
  • From Parliamentary Procedure to a Politics of Evolutionary Love
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Unique Self Symphony
  • A Politics of Evolutionary Love Is a Politics of Evolutionary Intimacy
  • Unique Selves Come Together in a Unique Self Symphony

CHAPTER 4 EFFECTING A PLANETARY AWAKENING: A POLITICS OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE

  • Let’s Be Demonstrations of Our Own Conscious Evolution
  • When We Talk About Prayer, What Do We Mean?
  • Joining Genius to Give Our Gifts More Fully Into the World
  • What Is Your Vocation of Destiny?
  • Respond to the World That Is Unloved
  • Practice Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 5 REALITY IS INTELLIGENT AND ALIVE, ENCODED WITH A DIRECTION TOWARDS HIGHER ORDERS OF OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

  • We Are Evolutionary Lovers!
  • Evolutionary Chakra Meditation
  • The Essential Practice of Reclaiming Prayer
  • We Are Here to Gentle the Birth to the Next Stage of Evolution
  • Your Love Story Is a Chapter in the Love Story of Reality Itself

CHAPTER 6 LONELINESS AS AN EVOLUTIONARY DRIVER

  • What Is the Response to Our Aloneness? Emergent World Vision: The Universe Is a Love Story What Fundamentalists Got Right
  • The Three Faces of God The Field of Evolutionary Prayer
  • Overcoming Loneliness by Saying “Yes” to the Impulse of Evolution Within Us
  • Overcoming Loneliness with Purpose
  • Moving From Loneliness to Loving Loving Is the Fundamental Driver of Reality The Next Buddha Is a Sangha

CHAPTER 7 THE LIBERATION FROM LONELINESS IS THE LIBERATION OF DESIRE

  • The Way of the New Human
  • The Universe: A Love Story
  • From the Infinity of Power to the Infinity of Intimacy
  • The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah
  • A Story About Prayer: Ask for Everything!
  • Holy Prayers of the Community
  • A Call to Action for Homo Amor Universalis
  • Nurture the Genius of Humanity in Us
  • The Only Response to Outrageous Pain Is Outrageous Love
  • Four Noble Truths
  • The Liberation From Loneliness Is the Liberation of Desire
  • Confessions of Greatness

CHAPTER 8 OUTRAGEOUS LOVE IS A PERCEPTION

  • The Great Reconstructive Project
  • The Miracle of Hanukkah
  • The Sacred Story of Evolution Enacting a Memory of the Future Life Is Ever Evolving
  • Outrageous Love is a Perception An Evolutionary Story About a Master

CHAPTER 9 RECLAIMING GOD AS EVOLUTION: BEYOND THE EXILE OF EVOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGY

  • Feel the Newness Arising in You Dare to Pray for Newness
  • The Synthesis of Technology and Evolutionary Love Interiors and Exteriors Are One
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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 → Oral Essays from One Mountain, Many Paths by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

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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Oral Essays from One Mountain, Many Paths by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

One Mountain Oral Essays Books

The Oral Essays library is a series of lightly edited, compiled transcripts of oral teachings given by Dr. Marc Gafni and the late Barbara Marx Hubbard in their weekly online broadcast, One Mountain, Many Paths, which they co-founded in 2017. Originally called an “Evolutionary Church,” One Mountain, Many Paths became a key venue for the articulation of an inspired and deeply grounded new Story of Value in response to the meta-crisis. Marc and Barbara—together with Zak Stein, Kristina Kincaid, Ken Wilber, Sally Kempton, Lori Galperin, Aubrey Marcus, and dozens of other thought leaders over the years—began to articulate what they call a World Philosophy and World Religion as a context for our diversity.

Until Barbara’s passing in 2019, she and Marc transmitted teachings together as evolutionary partners and “whole mates,” weaving together insights and transmissions from their decades of practice, study, teaching, and activism into a synergy of wisdom, a grounded vision for future policy across all sectors of society.

We are joyfully grateful to Marc for the clarity of his Dharma, the elegance and “second simplicity” of this language, and the mad, Outrageous Love with which he transmits his teachings.

Barbara and Marc called the mission of One Mountain “a Planetary Awakening in Evolutionary Love Through Unique Self Symphonies.” We are an evolutionary community with a deeply grounded, radically alive, and “post-tragic” revolutionary spirit. We are activating a new humanity and awakening as a new species: Homo amor, the fulfillment of Homo sapiens.

One Mountain is committed to articulating a Story of Value that can become the ground for the new society that must be birthed in response to the meta-crisis. We recognize that we are living at a pivotal moment in history. In this “time between stories,” the great moral imperative is to tell the new Story of Value. It is ours to do, personally and collectively, with great trembling and ecstatic joy.

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Oral Essays—One Mountain, Many Paths

A Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies: Towards a Politics of Evolutionary Love | Book 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays | Integral Publishers

Planetary Awakening in Love

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Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy: Becoming Agents of Intimacy: Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 2

Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder with a New Politics of Intimacy

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From Pain to Purpose: The Dignity of Personal Need: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Love | Oral Essay Volume 3 | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

From Pain to Purpose

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Dignity of Desire

Dignity of Desire

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Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential: Joy Is the Byproduct of Living Your Unique Self | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard | Oral Essays One Mountain Many Paths Volume 5

Evolving Public Culture

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We Are God's Unique Intimacy: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos: Participating in the Evolution of Love Through Unique Self Symphony | Oral Essays Volume 6 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

We Are God's Unique Intimacy

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Homo Amor Universalis: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation: A New Story of Identity, Intimacy and Power | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays volume #7 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Homo Amor Universalis

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Evolution is Love in Action: You Are Called to Be the Evolution of Love: Awakening to the Allurement that Guides the Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 8 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

Evolution is Love in Action

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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

God Is Intimate

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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

We Are Evolution in Person

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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

The Evolution of Intimacy

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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

Playing a Larger Game

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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

The Journey to Homo Amor

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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

Conscious Evolution

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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

Evolutionary Church

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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

The Next Step in Conscious Evolution

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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

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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

The Existential Risk of Technology

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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

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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 of Outrageous Love

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Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 20 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Codes of Desire

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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 and Unique Self

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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

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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

She Comes in Threes

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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

First Principles and First Values

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Corona: A Crisis of Intimacy: We Are One World, One Virus, One Breath, and One Love: Healing the Global Intimacy Disorder Through the Evolution of Intimacy | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 26 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Corona

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A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don't Look Up: The Spiritual Practice of Reading Movies as a Sacred Text of Culture: First Visions of Intergalactic Love Stories in Response to the Meta-crisis | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 27 | Dr. Marc Gafni

A Dharmic Critique of the Movies Dune, Avatar and Don't Look Up

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Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: a Love Story: the Denial of Ken and Barbie Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 28 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer

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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

Value is Real

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From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros: Evolutionary Sensemaking in a World of Broken Information Ecology | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 30 | Dr. Marc Gafni

From Conspiracy Theories to the Ultimate Conspiring of Reality

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Story Is Real: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values: Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 31 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Story Is Real

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Live Your Story: The Categorical Imperative of Reality: Reality is an Outrageous, Evolutionary Love Story: Reality is a Unique Self Symphony of Stories, Rooted in a Shared Story of Value | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 32 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Live Your Story

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From Polarization to Paradox: Entering the Field of Value: Value Is Prior to Values, Meaning Is Prior to Meanings | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 33 | Dr. Marc Gafni

From Polarization to Paradox

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The Evolution of Democracy: The Emergence of Synergistic Democracy | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 14 | Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Evolution of Democracy

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Awakening the New Human: The Evolution of Power, Love and Heroism in a Time Between Worlds | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 35 | Dr. Marc Gafni

Awakening the New Human

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The Crossing: the Only Response to Existential Risk: The Eight Injunctions from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor: Crossing over to the Side of Love | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 36 | Dr. Marc Gafni

The Crossing

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There Are a Welcome (Home) Signs in Reality: There Are No Strangers: The Structure of the Intimate Universe | One Mountain Many Paths Oral Essays Volume 37 | Dr. Marc Gafni

There Are a Welcome (Home) Signs in Reality

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Oral Essays from One Mountain, Many Paths by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-23T13:09:27-07:00

Book Review “First Principles & First Values” by David Nicol

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David Nicol is an Australian native now living in North California. His book, Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation (SUNY Press) was the first comprehensive study of the idea that focused collective intention can powerfully and measurably contribute to social change.

David writes a blog on Substack called Geistic Musings, offering his “reflections on the intersection of consciousness and culture.”

Book Review “First Principles & First Values”

A New Story of Value for Our Times

Today I want to share about (what I think is) a vitally important new book that offers profound context for why we need these novel forms of knowing to start to move into the center of culture as a matter of urgency in this time between worlds.

The book is First Principles & First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, by David J. Temple. David J. Temple is a pseudonym that represents a consortium of writers associated with the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein being the primary authors.

Because of the significance of the book’s thesis, I go into some detail below to convey the essential argument. I hope you will stay with me, because there is something deeply hopeful about these ideas for our future.

First Principles is an attempt to articulate the foundations of a new worldview that can guide humanity through the global metacrisis. We have become deeply conditioned by postmodernity to be cynical of intellectual efforts to create frameworks of universal value, but this is indeed at the heart of the authors’ thesis. Post-modernity’s deconstruction of old stories of value has overreached, resulting not only in a pervasive global mood of nihilism but also an inability to coordinate in any meaningful way at a time when the stakes could not be higher.

Into this void, First Principles offers a ‘New Story of Value’ that provides a context for integrating the best of premodern, modern, and postmodern thought. It does so by explicitly articulating a universal set of values that underlies reality all the way up and down the evolutionary chain, and is validated by both science and the wisdom traditions. Below I provide a specific example. (more…)

Book Review “First Principles & First Values” by David Nicol2024-08-31T11:13:59-07:00

The New Human and the New Humanity: Homo amor

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This early draft of an essay was written by Dr. Marc Gafni. It is part of Volume 2 of a forthcoming six-volume book series, The Universe: A Love Story, by Dr. Marc Gafni with Dr. Zachary Stein & Barbara Marx Hubbard. The essay was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a more advanced version of this essay.

As we begin to live the new Story of Value, a New Human and a New Humanity begin to emerge. We have called the New Human and the New Humanity by the term Homo amor. Homo amor is the fulfillment of Homo sapiens. The shift to this new consciousness is fundamental. It is in many ways parallel to, and as momentous as, the early evolutionary transition from single-celled to multicellular life.

As the consciousness of Homo amor becomes available, more and more lives will be not only a love story but also a triumphant love story. Indeed, we are convinced that telling the new Story—articulating the new narrative of Homo amor, the Intimate Universe, and the Universe: A Love Story—is the most potent response to suffering that we have at this moment in our history.

Just as the new story of modernity generated innovations in exteriors that birthed the great dignities of modernity, it is the new Story of Homo amor that—at this pivotal eleventh-hour moment in the short span of human history—needs to generate innovation in interiors. This, in turn, will generate the coherence necessary to transform mass tragedy and devolution into mass triumph and evolution.

The Trajectory of Evolution: Promise and Peril

This view is not pollyannaish in any sense of the term. It in no way ignores evil or suffering. Quite the contrary.

First, it needs to be stated clearly that evolution is not a direct linear progression toward ever-deeper love and intimacy. Evolution meanders.

And yet, second, evolution does progress. Evolution is the movement toward Love by Love’s own inexorable and incessant persuasions: Persuasions that are both gentle and fierce in their quality and character.

A Note on Desire

Alfred North Whitehead was not wrong when, echoing the leading edges of the interior sciences in Hebrew wisdom, he pointed toward the inherent purpose of evolution as the movement toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Or, stated somewhat differently, if we are to deploy the term that we pointed towards above—the term appetite that Whitehead chose—Reality is hungry. Reality is hungry for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, all of which are expressions of a more primal hunger, the hunger for more Love, for more Eros, for more Divinity, disclosed in human form. Reality is lined with appetite all the way down and all the way up the evolutionary chain. In the language of CosmoErotic Humanism, the appetite of Cosmos is the Eros of evolution that itself evolves.[1] [i] What Whitehead calls appetite, the interior science call by many other names including teshukadesire.[2] Reality desires. (more…)

The New Human and the New Humanity: Homo amor2024-09-05T06:19:17-07:00
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