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.