Below we link to everything that has been posted on this site in the past few months.
We are honored and excited to share these updates and celebrate with you:
- Launch of New Podcasts: Introducing great new video and audio podcasts
- New Teachings by Dr. Marc Gafni: Emerging from our weekly Evolutionary Sensemaking sessions in One Mountain, Many Paths
- New Essays: Available on our website, Substack, and Academia.edu, including our featured essay, “The New Human and the New Humanity: Homo Amor“
We also celebrate the completion of two major events:
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3rd Semi-Annual MAPLE Symposium: Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein presented an early book excerpt on what they call TechnoFeudalism, in a discussion hosted by MAPLE founder Soryu Forall, at the Monastic Academic for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE). Soryu has become a valued colleague of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, collaborating with Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein to envision and articulate a “world religion as a context for our diversity.” During the symposium, our two communities came together to deeply study and practice in the trans-lineage path of CosmoErotic Humanism.
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15th Annual Board Retreat: The Center for World Philosophy and Religion Board Retreat brought us together to embody the new Story of Value we call CosmoErotic Humanism.
As expressed so beautifully by Kathy Brownback (Board Chair), Kristina Tahel Amelong (Vice Board Chair), and Krista Josepha Steenbergen (Executive Director):
“Attending the board conclave of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion in Vermont was unlike any experience we have ever imagined. On the surface, we call ourselves a Think Tank, a gathering of brilliant minds focused on shaping the future. But indeed, deep inside, we are something much more—a mystical society, a band of Outrageous Lovers, each of us dedicated to articulating a new Story of Value. Throughout the weeks, we emerged as a group of evolutionary mystics gathered from all corners of the globe, allied in our mission to transform for the sake of the Whole.”
Upcoming Course in September
Eye of Value: Saving the Damsel in Distress
A course about the essence of a New Story of Value that can change the vector of civilization.
The Parallax Course: Value is Real Why Saying This Clearly May Save Civilization [and our Souls] – (with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein) takes place on Saturdays, September 7/14/21/28 – 2024. For more information:
NEW cohort of coaches to become certified in Unique Self Coaching, starting in the Fall of 2024!
The Unique Self Coaching process, and its signature program “Unique Self Emergence” created by Barbara Alexander and Claire Molinard, is a powerful change technology that taps into the deepest aspects of your life to reveal your unique potential and facilitate its emergence as your Unique Self.
Unique Self Coaching offers a dynamic and modular curriculum that can be adapted to individuals and groups in a wide range of contexts. Because the process facilitates getting to the heart of who you are – an irreducible expression of the Love Intelligence that animates all of existence – and how the creative impulse of this Source wants to express through you, it has many applications.
Unique Self Emergence Coach Training Program
This program has two tracks:
Certification track
This track is for change agents who, in addition to undergoing their own process of transformation, want to learn how to apply the Unique Self emergence Process to their already existing work with people. This certification program trains them to utilize the process with individuals and groups in a variety of contexts.
Personal track
This track is for anyone who wishes to experience the Unique Self Emergence Process for their own benefit, without supervision or 1:1 Coaching. You will have access to all the group coaching and teaching calls, as well as all the online content. This track does not lead to Unique Self Coaching certification.
Other Essays Published on This Site in Summer 2024
We Are Still Celebrating Our Worldwide Book Release
Our new book can be ordered worldwide from each country’s amazon and other bookstores. It is available as Paperback, eBook, and Audiobook.
From the US and Canada, it can also be ordered directly from the publisher HERE:
FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES
Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come
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.
New Podcasts in Summer 2024
In Case You Missed This Documentary with Dr. Marc Gafni
In collaboration with Aubrey Marcus and the Unique Self Institute
In Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein’s language: “We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories – poised between dystopia and utopia.” To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions, what we refer to as the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism: “Who? Where? And What?”
- Who am I? and Who are we?
- Where am I? and Where are we?
- What ought I do? and What ought we do?
In a profound analysis of our current meta-crisis and what he calls the “global intimacy disorder,” Dr. Marc Gafni draws from what he refers to as “the exterior and interior sciences” to deepen our responses to these three questions. The responses offer a new understanding of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, and generate the beginning of “a universal grammar of value as a context for our diversity.”
“A universal grammar of value is grounded in eternal yet evolving First Principles and First Values, which are inherent in the Intimate Universe, in which we all participate. A new grammar articulates a potent Story of intrinsic Value, with the poignancy and power to respond to the meta-crisis. At the core of this Story of Value, called CosmoErotic Humanism, is a new narrative of identity, both personal and collective. Principles of Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony contribute to the shaping of a shared reality that is flawed and human, filled with holy and broken Hallelujahs. Yet, that Reality reaches insistently towards better tomorrows that are suffused with ever-deepening Eros and ethos, kindness, and creativity.”
Dr. Marc Gafni: Our First Steps as “Homo amor” – FREE Abridged Course
This 27-Part Video series is part of the 7-week Online Video Course:
“Our First Steps as Homo Amor” – OUR FIRST STEPS AS “HOMO AMOR” BIRTHING THE NEW HUMAN AND THE NEW HUMANITY
A 7-Week Online Video Course with Dr. Marc Gafni
When looking at the state of the world today, if your head is not in the sand, you feel a sense of urgency. There is outrageous beauty and goodness. But there is also outrageous pain. But not of the ordinary kind. There is the pain of dislocation as we enter a phase shift in human history where all of the old narratives of identity are collapsing. In this 11th hour, as we are poised between utopia and dystopia, we have no authentic sense of who we are and what is our personal place in this pivotal moment in human history.
This playlist is a short introduction to the 7-week Online Video Course: “the First Steps as Homo Amor” with Dr. Marc Gafni.
Enjoy the FREE Series HERE:
We are at a pivotal moment – in the 11th hour poised between dystopia and utopia – between the capacity to create heaven on earth or unleash, especially for the most vulnerable two billion people on the planet, a hell of suffering and death. We are at a tipping point, where our next steps can either usher in heaven on earth or all hell break loose. We are faced with global challenges at an existential level – threats to our very existence.
Global challenges can only be met with concerted global action. But we suffer a global action paralysis or rampant global action confusion. The global action paralysis is rooted not merely in political struggle but in something far more fundamental. Our global action paralysis is rooted in a global intimacy disorder.
Therefore, in order to move towards collective mutual action that can take us to the next level, we need to heal the global intimacy disorder that is at the root of our crisis.
Intimacy disorders – personal and collective – are always rooted in one root cause: living in different stories of reality. Intimacy disorders are only healed when partners, beloveds, parents and children, or tribes and societies, experience themselves as living in a shared story, with a shared vision and values. Whenever there is alienation, it is because there is a breakdown in our own story.
The purpose of this offering is to locate you in the most accurate, good, true, and beautiful story of the universe and your personal life that is available at this moment in time. This is the great eternal, evolutionary story of cosmo-erotic humanism in which you are personally implicated. This is the most urgent question of your identity. Who Are You? The truth of your identity is that you are Homo amor.
As such, your personal love story is implicated in the evolutionary story. But for REAL. This course is about YOUR transfiguration into Homo amor, a term we use to describe the New Human and the New Humanity, that is the evolutionary fulfillment of Homo sapiens.
In this program, Dr. Marc Gafni will take you deep into a new vision that understands the progressive deepening of intimacies as the core evolutionary driver. You will begin to birth the new human in your own being.
This is a personal invitation. Your response to this invitation may well be pivotal in activating Homo amor.
Welcome to this extraordinary journey that will show you the way to activate your identity as Homo amor.
Online Video Course with Dr. Marc Gafni
CosmoErotic Humanism: The New Story of Value – Birthing the New Human and the New Humanity (recorded in 2022)
CosmoErotic Humanism in Seven Chapters:
Chapter 1: Responding to the Meta-Crisis with a New Story: CosmoErotic Humanism
Chapter 2: Reading Texts of Culture: Don’t Look Up Explores Value, Beyond the Intention of Its Writers
Chapter 3: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Chapter 4: The Radical Path to the Transformation of Shame: From the Shame of Finitude to the Celebration of Finitude
Chapter 5: The Leading Edge of Human Identity
Chapter 6: Towards a New Universal Grammar of Evolving Value as a Context for our Diversity
Chapter 7: Blessings of the Father and Blessings of the Mother: Am I Welcome in Cosmos?
Each level consists of the main teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni that was recorded on one of seven days during Eros Mystery School in Holland in 2022. It contains dharma talks, practices, prayers, chants, movie clips, songs, poems, and dance sessions – seamlessly woven into one whole. It is kind of like being at a Mozart concerto played on that day – in those hours – unrehearsed and raw – never to be played in that way ever again but recorded for you in this course journey which is reality’s gift for you.