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Only profound evolution-transformation-will tip the scale away from catastrophic devolution. Barbara and Marc, rooted in a profound read of contemporary reality, locate the core of the crisis in a global intimacy disorder. The core crisis is no less than a crisis of intimacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur crisis is a birth. To heal the intimacy crisis, all that has been split off-personally and culturally and cosmically-must be welcomed back into the circle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe have forgotten, or perhaps never really known, that not only live in the Intimate Universe; the Intimate Universe lives in us. Each of us is a unique configuration of intimacy-intended, recognized, desired, acknowledged, chosen, loved, adored, and needed by all of Reality to enact transformation through deepening intimacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies. My transformation is the transformation of the whole. That is what it means to be intimate with the whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntimacy is not generic. Intimacy is always unique. We are unique incarnations of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of All-That-Is, living in us, as us, and through us. We need to become intimate with our Unique Selves. For the essence of the new human-her creative and transformative power-derives only from the deepest depth of intimacy with one's own self. We need to become intimate with our own power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the journey from Homo armor to Homo amor. It marks the emergence of the new human and the new humanity. The temple of intimacy is built when we stay in and go all the way in this lifetime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53665085751569,"sku":"NIN9798888340479","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798888340479.jpg?v=1781459520"},{"product_id":"from-the-cosmoerotic-universe-to-cosmoerotic-humanism-book-marc-gafni-9798888340103","title":"From the CosmoErotic Universe to CosmoErotic Humanism","description":"It's hard not to feel despair in a world marked by such extreme polarization-a world haunted not only by the potential death of humanity, but by the death of \u003ci\u003eour\u003c\/i\u003e humanity. We need to replace doomerism, denial, and indifference with clear seeing and accurate action. Once we clearly see the the deeper root cause, which we have identified as a global intimacy disorder, the solution becomes clear: we need a new Story of Value rooted in the First Principles and First Values of Cosmos to ground us in a new global intimacy, which will in turn generate the global resonance, coherence, and coordination urgently necessary to respond to existential risk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs part of this new Story, which we are calling CosmoErotic Humanism, we are called to realize and evolve as individual Unique Selves, transcending and including identifications with psychological separate self and spiritual True Self. We move through, accept, and process our insidious and multi-layered shame. We find the deep, ever-present joy in the post-tragic on the other side of the tragic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe realization of our Unique Self identity generates intimate communion and effective shared purpose, both personally and collectively. We are able to be truly aligned and intimate with each other, producing the social synergies that emerge from our Unique Self Symphonies. This is what it means to live as the New Human, \u003ci\u003eHomo amor\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique expression of the CosmoErotic Universe in person.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese oral essays are edited talks delivered by Marc Gafni at the Eros Mystery School, August 2022\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53665104593169,"sku":"NIN9798888340103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798888340103.jpg?v=1781459605"},{"product_id":"from-polarization-to-paradox-book-marc-gafni-9798888340912","title":"From Polarization to Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world of outrageous pain. Postmodernity-with its correct critique of pre-modernity's often fundamentalist and dogmatic stories about value-has deconstructed value and said value is not real. At the same time, regressive religious fundamentalism is on the rise all through the world. Fundamentalism, like post-modernism, says there is no universal Field of Value. Instead, it claims that value is mediated only through its particular prism of revelation. Outrageous pain is caused when we fail to recognize that we are all in a shared Field of Value. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the absence of a shared Field of Value, individual values are decontextualized from the Field of Value. Any value or goal, taken by itself and transformed into an absolute becomes first extremist, then absurd, then grotesque and then potentially evil. The chosen value becomes not only an idolatrous commitment but the core of our identity, thus, no relationship with any other value is truly possible. And that identity of value becomes narcissistic and therefore incapable of authentic relationship with other value identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, we look at multiple contexts of this dynamic of value-idolatry and polarization which generate outrageous pain. Some of these contexts include the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade case on abortion, as well as conversations around immigration, federal elections, name defamation on Twitter feeds and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only response to outrageous pain is Outrageous Love. In response to outrageous pain the moral imperative of today is to tell the Outrageous Love story of Reality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReality is an Outrageous Love Story, rooted in First Principles and First Values. 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