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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.

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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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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.

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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 God’s Unique Intimacy | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:15:42-07:00

Evolving Public Culture: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential | 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: Shame and Wounding As Portals to Power, Potency and Potential | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard2025-07-17T13:18:38-07:00

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.

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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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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.

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:
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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.

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

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

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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: 
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Codes of Desire | One Mountain Oral Essays | Dr. Marc Gafni2025-07-18T14:58:25-07:00

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:
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Formal refutations on controversy: 
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Social Media Dr. Marc Gafni: 

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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.

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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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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: 

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 

Learn more about the First Principles & First Values, CosmoErotic Humanism, Unique Self, and Homo Amor at the Center for World Philosophy & Religion.

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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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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

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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

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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

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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: Restoring Allurement and Intimacy As Core Structures of Cosmos

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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: Awakening to the Impulse of Creation

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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: You Are Called to Be the Evolution of Love

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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: The Real Is Not Indifferent

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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: Reclaiming Identity, Integrity, and Intimacy at the Core of Reality

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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

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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: Incarnating the Power of Evolutionary Love

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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: Confessing Your Greatness

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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: A Love Story

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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: Reclaiming Love As Religion

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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: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism Towards an Evolutionary Spirituality

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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: Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories

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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: The Death of Our Humanity

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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: From Biological Family to Evolutionary Family

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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: The Emergence of Homo amor

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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: On the Nature of Reality

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

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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: Articulating the New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis

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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: Reality's Plotlines Are the Three Stations of Eros

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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: From Existential Risk to Evolutionary Love

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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: A Crisis of Intimacy

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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: The Spiritual Practice of Reading Movies as a Sacred Text of Culture

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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: Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe

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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: Reclaiming the Field of Value in a Time Between Stories

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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: How the Collapse of Story, Value, and Meaning Gives Rise to Pseudo-Eros

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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: Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values

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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: The Categorical Imperative of Reality

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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: Entering the Field of Value

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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

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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

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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

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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

A New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis

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The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships

The Evolution of Relationships

In Response to the Meta-Crisis

By Dr. Marc Gafni

&

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Decades of research and study have led us to the conclusion, as we will briefly unpack below, that only a New Story of Value can avert unimaginable suffering or worse and change the vector of history towards ever-deepening expressions of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. As perceptive historians point out, history changes when a compelling New Story [hi-story] emerges that changes the vector of cultural evolution.

Indeed, it is only a New Story that has the capacity to change the course of history. Technology matters. But the story we tell about technology matters as well. Exponential technology matters. But the story we tell about exponential technology matters exponentially more.

Without such a new, shared, evolving Story of Value, our capacity to escape unbearable suffering and, based on hardheaded analysis, even extinction seems, from a human perspective, unlikely. The results of not being able to articulate a New Story of Value are excruciating, both in the level of suffering for billions of human beings, as well as the entire life system—and, more than even all that, for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.

All of the present depends on us to live.

All of the future depends on us to be born. 

This essay is also part of a whole volume, The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships: The Evolution of Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis. The purpose of that volume and its companion volume The Future of Relationships: On the Evolution of Love is to provide a first articulation of this New Story of Value in the domain of relationship, which, as we will see below, is the core structure of Reality itself.

The Ontology of Story: Story Is the Structure of the Real

Postmodernity argues that Reality is merely a story, that no story is better or worse than any other story, and that stories are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.[1]

But of course, postmodernity is not only deconstructing the ontology, or Reality, of Story, but also the ontology, or Real Nature of Value.[2]

These deconstructions of Story and Value are true but partial. It is true that there is a plentitude of stories we tell about Reality, and that Story is the underling unit that constitutes Reality. But it is not true that Story is mere fiction. There is a plentitude of stories, not because there is no Real Value or Meaning, but rather because there is a plentitude of Value and Meaning.

Story is the structure of the Real. This is what we have referred to, in other contexts, as the Ontology of Story. Story itself is the source code, not only of culture and consciousness, but of all of Reality all the way down and all the way up the evolutionary chain.[3] It is for that reason that to evolve the Story is to evolve the source code.

Emergent from the recognition of the Ontology of Story is the recognition that we live in inescapable narrative frameworks—Stories of Value—which define the nature and quality of both our personal and collective human lives.

Stories are not merely randomly contrived conjectures. Rather, stories are attempts to gather information, interior and exterior information about the nature of Reality, and translate it into a coherent Story of Value.

Not all stories are equal. There is a hierarchy of stories. In other words, there are better and worse stories.

A better story takes deeper account of more meaning or information, exterior and interior, and weaves that meaning and information together in the most elegant, good, true, and beautiful fashion.

A better story is aligned with more and wider Fields of Value, even as it integrates more contradictions into greater wholes.

A better story weaves a narrative thread that articulates the most coherent and compelling framework that embraces, honors, and uplifts the most-possible people.

A better story must be not only an eternal story—aligned with eternal structures of value—but also an evolving story, aligned with the evolution of value—the evolution of love—the evolution of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

A better story is an eternal and evolving story.

We cannot trust stories that claim to be only eternal stories, or that claim to be ever-evolving stories with no ground in Eternity—in the Real, which is not dependent on the changing mores of time. The more deeply we investigate Cosmos, both in its exterior and interior faces, deploying the interior and exterior sciences, the more accurate—and the better, truer, and more beautiful—story we can tell.[4]

A story with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines can bring us—and indeed has brought us—to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it. To respond to this meta-crisis, we need to evolve the story, which is to evolve the source code of culture itself.

What Is the Meta-Crisis?

A simple image:

Let’s turn to a cultural artifact, the Death Star in that cinematic classic of the late twentieth, early twenty-first, century—Star Wars.

The Death Star is a battleship armed so intensely that it poses an existential risk—that means that it has the destructive capacity not just to attack and damage but to destroy a planet. (more…)

A New Story of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis2023-12-26T09:17:44-08:00

Love or Die: White Paper by Dr. Marc Gafni

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Introduction

Eros is life. The failure of Eros destroys life. Our lack of Eros is poised to destroy the world. We call this existential risk, or the second shock of existence.

The first shock of existence is the realization — at the dawn of human existence — that the skull grins at the banquet. Life, before it continues, is first confronted by death. The first shock of existence is the death of the individual human being.

The second shock of existence is the death of humanity, or in a second form, the death of our humanity.

All civilizations have fallen because the stories that they lived in were, in some sense, stories based on rivalrous conflict governed by win/lose metrics. Every civilization was weakened by interior polarization caused by the lack of a shared story of value.

We now have a global civilization, but we haven’t created a shared story of value. We haven’t solved the generator functions that caused all civilizations to fall. Our global civilization has exponential technologies and extraction models depleting the earth of resources that it took billions of years to create, which is going to lead to a civilizational collapse.

Existential risk: risk to our very existence.

The choice is clear: love or die.

(more…)

Love or Die: White Paper by Dr. Marc Gafni2023-12-06T05:10:39-08:00

Three Universe Stories: Beyond Creationism and Scientism: CosmoErotic Humanism

An Early Version of a White Paper by Dr. Marc Gafni in Conversation with Dr. Zachary Stein and Barbara Marx Hubbard

This is an early draft of an essay written by Dr. Marc Gafni in conversation with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. Zak Stein. It was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a later, more advanced version of this essay that will be published in due time.

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The Evolution of Conscious Evolution

CosmoErotic Humanism, as we are describing it here and in other writings, is the next step after what has been described as Conscious Evolution. My (Marc’s) dear friend and evolutionary partner (and co-author of this short book), Barbara Marx Hubbard, has been called the mother of Conscious Evolution.

In our collaboration, she shared so much that was of value and wonder, and we were also able to evolve together the presentation of Conscious Evolution. In the old presentation, as Barbara articulated it over the years, unconscious evolution meant two things:

First, evolution until now has been unaware of itself.

And second, evolution until now has been a primarily random process, or what Barbara called evolution by chance.

In this early articulation, these two points reverse themselves in Conscious Evolution:

First, evolution has only now become conscious of itself through human awareness of evolutionary processes.

And second, we can now move from what Barbara called, evolution by chance to evolution by choice.

This early understanding is important, inspiring in certain ways, and true, but, as we together realized over many conversations, only partial.

So, we must evolve our understanding of Conscious Evolution.

In our new understanding, by Conscious Evolution we do not mean that evolution becomes conscious of itself for the first time through us.

Rather, the new vision expresses itself in at least five distinct ways:

First, from the beginning, evolution possesses its own intrinsic consciousness. In other words, evolution is inherently—at some level of depth—intelligent or conscious.

Second, the consciousness that inheres in evolution is itself evolving. This process has evolved through several stages:

from matter

to life

to mind

—and through each of their sub-stages—

e.g., within matter, the evolution

from elementary particles

to atoms

to molecules.

At each state, as Reality dances into novel becoming, consciousness itself is clearly evolving.

This does not mean that evolution is a linear movement of ever-greater consciousness in all regards, in which the earlier is always lower and the latter always higher.[1] According to a vast literature based on empirical observation, various forms such as bacteria, anthills, and beehives seem to have depths of superorganism consciousness that human beings have not (yet) cultivated.

Indeed, the simple exercise of epistemic humility[2] reminds us that we do not have interior access to the quality of consciousness of any dimension of Reality other than our own.

At the same time, there are dimensions of consciousness that most definitely seem to evolve in some genuine fashion.

For example, there seems to be a clear evolution of the potential for ever-deeper goodness, truth, and beauty. To the best of our knowledge, there are no hospitals caring for the vulnerable animals in the wild, nor is there a general felt sense of kindness, care, or sacrifice for the sake of a stranger who is not of one’s kind.[3]

Moreover, in the worlds of matter and life, there do not seem to be creations of art, drama, music, literature, or the like, as we know them in the human world of value, including the classic triad of goodness, truth, and beauty. There also does not seem to be a process that transmits and evolves truth through bodies of knowledge, like science or moral philosophy.

It is therefore fair to say that not only does evolution possess innate consciousness at the cellular level,[4] but there is also an evolution of consciousness. These first two features significantly evolve the original version of Conscious Evolution, which suggested that evolution suddenly awakens only through human consciousness.

Third, in the evolutionary process, human beings eventually emerge. In specific ways,[5] we are more evolved or advanced expressions of consciousness than anything preceding. As such, we have the capacity to become aware of the entire evolutionary process. Significantly and beautifully, the human being is now, for the first time in history, aware of the entire evolutionary story, with the capacity to tell that great story. Humans are awakening to the realization that we are Conscious Evolution in person. Evolution may have always been intelligent or conscious, but until now, we had no sense that the evolutionary story was being told.[6]

Fourth, as part of that process, human beings have become self-aware to the extent that we consciously realize that we are part of the process. Humans at the leading edge of consciousness self-identify as evolution. And more particularly, as we examine in other writings on CosmoErotic Humanism, we each realize individually that I am an irreducibly unique expression of evolutionary intelligence, desire, and intimacy. In other words, I am not just evolution generically; rather, I am the personal face of the evolutionary impulse.

Fifth, all these uniquely human qualities have together generated the Anthropocene, a global civilization with exponential technologies, in which human choice has virtually unlimited impact on the course of evolution. And humans are becoming increasingly conscious of the power of choice.

This is clearly a new level of Conscious Evolution that is just coming alive in this period of human history. In that sense, it is accurate to say that evolution is becoming aware of itself in what may be a qualitatively different way than ever before.[7] (more…)

Three Universe Stories: Beyond Creationism and Scientism: CosmoErotic Humanism2023-11-28T08:27:32-08:00

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Whole Mate: The Relationship of the Future -- by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard with Aubrey Marcus

Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships

by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard

A revolution in relationships is taking place across the western world. It is happening in different ways for all people in all classes of society, and it is breathing life into a new vision of relationship and self. The product of this revolution—a third, higher level of connection called the ‘whole mate relationship’—promises to have a far more powerful effect on the quality, joy, and potency of our lives than any other single shift in culture since the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

In Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships (the first of two volumes on the evolution of relationship), Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard define and explore three primary levels of relationship (role mate, soul mate, whole mate) and describe for the first time how the evolution of relationship will change the world as we know it.

Each of us wants to live well and love fully. We want not just to survive or thrive, but to experience real purpose and meaning. We want a new vision of success, of what it means to be a real man and a true woman. We will find these things on the other side of the revolution.

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Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis

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Story is the source code of culture and consciousness and of all Reality-all the way up and down the evolutionary chain. Story is the attempt to gather information about the nature of Reality and translate it into narrative frameworks bounded by Value.
Stories that organize culture are “Stories of Value, backed by the Universe”.

Postmodernity argues that Reality is just a story, and that all stories are created equal (equally meaningless of inherent value) because value itself is not real. And therefore, all stories of value are but social constructs, fictions, or figments of our imagination.

The postmodernists are wrong.

Story is real. And not all stories are equal. There are better and worse stories. A better story is an eternal and evolving story of Value. Evolving Value backed by the Universe.

A worse story-one with flawed, incomplete, or distorted plotlines of distorted value, like the story we’ve lived in the West for the better part of the last century-can, and will, bring us to the brink of existential risk, the potential end of humanity as we know it.

Value is both real, backed by the Universe, and like everything in the Universe, value evolves. The evolution of value itself is the evolution of love, as Eros and evolution themselves, are inherent plotlines of value in the great story of Cosmos.

The goal of The Evolution of Love, and its companion volume Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships, is to provide a first articulation of a new, better story of Value in the domain of relationship. At the core of this New Story of Value are a new Universe Story and a new narrative of identity, which we have called CosmoErotic Humanism and Homo amor.

If we fail to articulate this New Story of Value, the results will be excruciating for billions of human beings and for the entire life system–as for the trillions of lives that will remain unborn.

All of the past depends on us to fulfill its dreams.
All of the present depends on us to live.
All of the future depends on us to be born.

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Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

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


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


David J. Temple is a pseudonym created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, a leading international think tank whose mission is to address existential risk by articulating a shared universal Story of Value for global intimacy and global coordination. The Center focuses its work on a world philosophy, CosmoErotic Humanism, as the ground for a global vision of value, economics, politics, and spiritual coherence. The two primary authors behind David J. Temple are Marc Gafni and Zak Stein. For different projects specific writers will be named as part of the collaboration. In this volume Ken Wilber joins Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein.

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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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Eros Mystery School Oral Essays Books

These oral essays are based on talks delivered by Marc at the Eros Mystery School. Thus, the style of these books is spoken word and not formally written text.

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Explore the Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism

The core mission of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion is the research, articulation, and writing of the Great Library, a collection of books and media projects to function as a strange attractor toward our memory of the future.

The Great Library is made up of two kinds of books, foundational books and impact books. The synergistic introduction of these books into public culture is aimed directly at catalyzing a crucial, pivotal evolution of today’s consciousness and culture. At this phase-shift inflection in human history, without this conscious evolving the source code of consciousness and culture, humanity will likely not survive the existential risks now threatening our civilization.

The Great Library is an expression of our mission at the Center to evolve the source code of culture and to participate in the evolution of love.

Through writing and publishing, we create what we are calling the Great Library, a body of work written as our response to the question: What do we need to give “our children” so they can prosper and grow into their highest potential—even though we don’t know what kind of challenges they will face in their lives?

That Great Library provides us with a shared language, a framework, or a context, from which we can co-create together a world that works for everyone. To have shared values, a shared framework, or what we call shared memetic structures is one of these conditions.

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Foundational Books by Our Founders & Co-Presidents Published

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Your Unique Self

by Dr. Marc Gafni (President of the Think Tank)

Underlying the vision behind democracy is the recognition that every individual has dignity, adequacy, and worth. This democratic understanding of the worth and standing of the individual lies at the core of what the West calls enlightenment. The Western idea of enlightenment, rooted in the great vision of the Biblical prophets, is generally understood to have entered mainstream consciousness through the political democratic movements of the mid-18th century. Western enlightenment is primarily concerned with the democratization of political power.
Classical enlightenment, sometimes called Eastern enlightenment, because it was greatly emphasized in the East, is about the individual merging into the greater one. The appearance of separate self is an illusion, which must be overcome as the individual realizes that one is really not separate at all but part of the one. The goal of Eastern enlightenment is moving beyond the grasping ego and the desperately seeking separate self by attaining a state of consciousness in which the illusion of separateness is dissolved in the greater one. This path of classical enlightenment is seen as the path beyond suffering.
Unique Self enlightenment brings the Eastern and Western understandings about enlightenment together into a higher Integral World-Spirituality embrace. Unique Self enlightenment is based on your commitment to transcend separate self into the one essence, even as you realize that this essence sees through your unique perspective. Unique Self opens the door to the potential democratization of enlightenment. To awaken to your Unique Self is to be lived as God, which, in truth, means to be lived as Love.
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A Return to Eros

by Dr. Marc Gafni (President of the Think Tank) & Dr. Kristina Kincaid

Discover the hidden relationship between Erotic, the Sexual and the Sacred.

None of the four old philosophies about sex are sufficient to inspire us or even hold us in our sexuality. Sex is not merely negative or positive. Sex is not just neutral, nor is it merely sacred because it creates babies.

Erotic Mystics from the hidden tradition of Solomon’s temple taught a secret doctrine. Sex is the source of all wisdom. Sex is an expression of the erotic impulse of existence itself alive in us-the yearning for contact, pleasure, and aliveness. The Sexual however is not the sum total of the erotic. Rather, the sexual models the Erotic. The sexual teaches us how to live an Erotic life in all dimension of our existence.

It is these secret doctrines that were later taught by Mary Magdalene and that sparked excitement around bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code.

Deep understanding of the sexual becomes the portal to accessing aliveness in every dimension of our reality. This realization demands that you live sexually without shame and shows you how to re-eroticize all areas of your life.

A Return to Eros: On Sex, Love, and Eroticism in Every Dimension of Life, from Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid, reveals the radical secret tenets of relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. They reveal what Eros actually means and share the ten core qualities of the Erotic, which are modeled by the sexual. These include being on the inside, fullness of presence, yearning, allurement, fantasy, surrender, creativity, pleasure, and more.

A Return to Eros shows why these qualities of the erotic modeled by the sexual are actually the same core qualities of the sacred. The relationship between the sexual and the erotic becomes clear, teaching you how to live an erotically suffused existence charged with purpose, potency and power.

To be an Outrageous Lover–not just in sex but also in all facets of your life–you must listen deeply to the simple yet elegant whisperings of the sexual. This book will forever transform your understanding and experience of love, sex, and Eros.

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Self

by Dr. Marc Gafni (President of the Think Tank)

Two major works have been written within the framework of Integral Wisdom about the nature of Self and God. While they share important features, namely the evolutionary context of the conversation and a vision of Self beyond Ego, their interior visions of the quality of the Self beyond Ego are profoundly different.

Both of these visions of Self, or key dimensions of the two versions, have been adopted, directly and indirectly by many spiritual teachers. In Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism, Marc Gafni articulates the two models, their shared features and their differences, and as we seek to articulate an Integral Wisdom, why these differences matter so desperately.

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Radical Kabbalah (2-Volume Set)

by Dr. Marc Gafni (President of the Think Tank)

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Education in a Time Between Worlds

by Dr. Zachary Stein (Co-President of the Think Tank)

Our world is currently undergoing major transformations, from climate change and politics to agriculture and economics. The world we have known is disappearing and a new world is being born. The subjects taught in schools and universities today are becoming irrelevant at faster and faster rates. Not only are we facing complex challenges of unprecedented size and scope, we’re also facing a learning and capacity deficit that threatens the future of civilization.

Education in a Time Between Worlds seeks to reframe this historical moment as an opportunity to create a global society of educational abundance. Educational systems must be transformed beyond recognition if humanity is to survive the planetary crises currently underway. Human development and learning must be understood as the Earth’s most valuable resources, with human potential serving as the open frontier into which energy and hope can begin to flow.

The expansive essays within this book cover a diverse array of topics, including social justice, the neuroscience of learning, deschooling, educational technology, standardized testing, the future of spirituality, basic income guarantees, and integral meta-theory. As an invitation to re-vision the future of schools, technology, and society, Education in a Time Between Worlds replaces apathy and despair with agency, transformation, and hope.

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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

by Ken Wilber (Co-Founder of the Think Tank)

Hailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness

In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development.

Wilber particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they mean; how they impact gender issues, psychotherapy, ecological concerns, and various liberation movements; and how the modern and postmodern world conceive of Spirit. This second edition features forty pages of new material, new diagrams, and extensively revised notes.

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Integral Spirituality

by Ken Wilber (Co-Founder of the Think Tank)

This cutting-edge theory of spirituality for today’s global society honors the truths of modern science and postmodern culture while incorporating the wisdom of the great world religions

Applying his highly acclaimed integral approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and culture—while incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He shows how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the enlightenment of the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic psychology. Each contributes key components to a more integral spirituality.

On the basis of this integral framework, a radically new role for the world’s religions is proposed. Because these religions have such a tremendous influence on the worldview of the majority of the earth’s population, they are in a privileged position to address some of the biggest conflicts we face. By adopting a more integral view, the great religions can act as facilitators of human development: from magic to mythic to rational to pluralistic to integral—and to a global society that honors and includes all the stations of life along the way.

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Social Justice and Educational Measurement

by Dr. Zachary Stein (Co-President of the Think Tank)

Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational measurement. This framework demonstrates that educational measurement can both inhibit and ensure just educational arrangements. It also clarifies a principled distinction between efficiency-oriented testing and justice-oriented testing.

Through analysis of several historical case studies that exemplify ethical issues related to testing, this book explores and propounds speculative design principles and arguments in favour of radically democratic school reforms, which address how the future of testing might be shaped to ensure justice for all. These case studies cover the widespread use of IQ-style testing in schools during the early decades of the 20th century; the founding of the Educational Testing Service; and the recent history of test-based accountability associated with No Child Left Behind.

Social Justice and Educational Measurement will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in education, testing and assessment, and the philosophy of education. It will also be of interest to policymakers and educational administrators.

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Tears

by Dr. Marc Gafni (President of the Think Tank)

This is a book about tears. It is about the dance of tears in our lives. Tears are not of one texture. There are many forms of holy tears. And there are also, or so it appears from the perspective of one level of consciousness, unholy tears. This book is about learning to discern between these different forms of tears. To learn the language of tears is to discern between the different forms of sacred tears.

Ultimately, however, from a higher level of consciousness all tears are holy in their root. Part of what it means to wake up is to identify the nature of your tears, and to give your tears voice. To wake up is to know the language of tears. When you are awake, you hear and hearken to the melody and message of your tears.

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Religion of Tomorrow

Ken Wilber (Co-Founder of the Think Tank)

A provocative examination of how the great religious traditions can remain relevant in modern times by incorporating scientific truths learned about human nature over the last century

A single purpose lies at the heart of all the great religious traditions: awakening to the astonishing reality of the true nature of ourselves and the universe. At the same time, through centuries of cultural accretion and focus on myth and ritual as ends in themselves, this core insight has become obscured.

Here, Ken Wilber provides a path for re-envisioning a religion of the future that acknowledges the evolution of humanity in every realm while remaining faithful to that original spiritual vision. For the traditions to attract modern men and women, Wilber asserts, they must incorporate the extraordinary number of scientific truths learned about human nature in just the past hundred years—for example, about the mind and brain, emotions, and the growth of consciousness—that the ancients were simply unaware of and thus were unable to include in their meditative systems.

Taking Buddhism as an example, Wilber demonstrates how his comprehensive Integral Approach—which is already being applied to several world religions by some of their adherents—can avert a “cultural disaster of unparalleled proportions”: the utter neglect of the glorious upper reaches of human potential by the materialistic postmodern worldview. Moreover, he shows how we can apply this approach to our own spiritual practice. This, his most sweeping work since Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, is a thrilling call for wholeness, inclusiveness, and unity in the religions of tomorrow.

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Foundational Books by Senior Fellows of the Think Tank Published

Conscious Evolution

by Barbara Marx Hubbard (Former Chair of the Think Tank)

Emergence

by Barbara Marx Hubbard (Former Chair of the Think Tank)

The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation

by Barbara Marx Hubbard (Former Chair of the Think Tank)

The God Problem

by Howard Bloom (Senior Fellow of the Think Tank)

The Relevance of General Systems Theory

Edited by Ervin Laszlo (Senior Fellow of the Think Tank)

Evolution: The Great Synthesis

by Ervin Laszlo (Senior Fellow of the Think Tank)

Impact Books Published

Loving Your Way to Enlightenment

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Available)

The Mystery of Love

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Available)

Soul Prints

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Available)

Your Unique Self (Success 3.0)

by Dr. Marc Gafni (Available)

Source Books That Inspired Us

Process and Reality

by Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

by Alfred North Whitehead

The Lights of Penitence

by Abraham Isaac Kook

Absorbing Perfections

by Moshe Idel

The Lonely Man of Faith

by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

God, Man and History

by Eliezer Berkovits

Biology and Knowledge Revisited

Jean Piaget Symposia Series

The Theory of Communicative Action

by Jürgen Habermas

The Essential Peirce

by Charles Sanders Peirce Edited by Nathan Houser & Christian Kloesel

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Foreword by Howard Bloom – The Future of Relationships

Foreword by Howard Bloom

Forthcoming book: The Intimate Universe by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. Marc Gafni

To understand the book you hold in your hands, you have to understand two people: Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni. Both of them are magic.

To reveal that magic, let me first tell you the tale of how I met Barbara Marx Hubbard, who was later to introduce me to Marc. It was 2005, and I was at a space conference at the Airport Sheraton in Los Angeles. This was not a conference I’d wanted to attend. I’d been pressured into showing up by people from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Space Society. Why had I refused to go? At first, I had been too embarrassed to explain.  The fact was that I only attend conferences where I’m speaking. There’s a reason. If I am just  another face in the crowd, that fact depresses me.

I told that to Feng Hsu, the senior risk analyst from NASA who had made himself part of the pressuring team. Feng volunteered to fly up from Houston to keep me company. And he made a promise. He would assign another babysitter to me, David Livingston, the host of the Space Show. Livingston, he assured me, had heard every one of my broadcasts on the highest rated overnight talk radio show in North America, Coast to Coast, was a huge fan, and knew everyone in the space community. Feng was not kidding around. Not only did he team up with me when we attended lectures and peppered the lecturers with questions or criticism, but David Livingston was a genius at important introductions.

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Foreword by Howard Bloom – The Future of Relationships2023-06-17T08:23:32-07:00
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