EPISODE 288
Dr. Marc Gafni: First Principles and Values
Our planet is suffering so deeply from a global intimacy disorder, is it even possible to turn things around?
Dr. Marc Gafni returns to share his newest work, First Principles and First Values (a collaboration with Dr. Zak Stein under the pseudonym David J. Temple), as a possible blueprint for a new and better way forward in this Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Marcâs work on his website where you can register for his free, weekly Evolutionary Sensemaking program Sundays at 10 a.m. Western Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time and receive Chapters 1-4 of his book, Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, for free. Take Marcâs Unique Self mini-course thatâs also free. Download Marcâs free audiobook, The Erotic and The Holy, at this link.
Check out Marc on many social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Substack.
SHOW NOTES
- The value of stories. (7:51)
- A pivotal generation. (18:31)
- A cosmic story of value. (28:40)
- âWe live in an amorous cosmos.â (32:25)
- âWe are music.â (45:00)
- Is there no true shared field of values? (53:50)
- Moving from dogma to dharma. (1:03:26)
- Evolutionary love. (1:08:58)
- Eros defined. (1:12:08)
- How do you become a world-changer? (1:20:29)
- âGod is a verb.â (1:37:32)
- A unique configuration of intimacy. (1:42:38)
- âGod is the infinite intimate.â (1:55:38)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- The Black Death
- Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
- The Imitation Game
- The Vulnerable World Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James Carse
- The work of Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. James Shapiro
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life by Seamus Bruner and Peter Schweizer
- Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
- Paulâs Living 4D conversation with James Tunney
- A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive and Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment by Dr. Marc Gafni
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