EPISODE 246
Dr. Marc Gafni: Awakening to Love
Dr. Marc Gafni returns to the podcast, joining Paul on a deeper dive into love, eros, Cosmo-erotic humanism and the relationship between certainty and uncertainty in this Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Marc’s work on his website where you can register for his free, weekly One Mountain, Many Paths program Sundays at 10 a.m. Western Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time. Take Marc’s Unique Self mini-course that’s also free.
Check out Marc on many social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube.
SHOW NOTES
- Love is a perception, not an emotion. (12:30)
- An interior science equation for eros. (18:54)
- Awareness or full throbbing aliveness. (26:38)
- Cosmo-erotic humanism. (37:06)
- Why eros matters. (40:37)
- Why do you care? (50:15)
- “You can’t about love without talking about obligation.” (57:04)
- The field of value. (1:21:25)
- Moving from polarization to paradox. (1:32:09)
- Are belief systems damaging and dangerous? (1:43:03)
- The relationship between certainty and uncertainty. (1:52:09)
- Reclaiming the divinity of need. (1:59:42)
- The 8 core eros needs. (2:07:17)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- The Chemical Basis for Morphogenesis by Alan Turing
- Paul’s Living 4D conversation with the late James Carse
- The work of Zak Stein, Larry Page, Alan Watts and William Butler Yeats
- A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive, Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and The Erotic and The Holy by Marc Gafni
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility and The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse
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