Parallax Newsletter #64: This Sunday! Love or Die with Marc Gafni
A new series, hosted by Andrew Sweeny in partnership with The Unique Self Institute
Sunday, 4 jun. 2023, 2023
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM CET; 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET; 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT
Next dates in this series:
- 2 jul. 2023 - 6 aug. 2023 - 3 sep. 2023 - 1 oct. 2023 - 5 nov. 2 2023 - 3 dec. 2023
From the Office For The Future Newsletter:
Dr. Gafni is one of the critical meta-theorists, cultural evolutionaries, philosopher activists, living, writing, and teaching in the world today. His intent together with our entire faculty and team at the center, is what he refers to as a “Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self-Symphonies”. He understands the overriding moral imperative of this moment in time is to articulate “a new story of value embedded in First Principles and First Values” in response to the meta crisis.
We call that new story of evolving value, “CosmoErotic Humanism”.
It is a highly sophisticated meta theory that aggregates meta theories into a new second simplicity that can be taught, shared, experienced, at any level of consciousness in any population, anywhere in the world.
It integrates the validated insights of leading-edge wisdom streams across disciplines of traditional, pre-modern, modern, post-modern thinking into a new story of value — what Dr. Marc Gafni refers to as “a universal grammar of evolving value as a context for our diversity”.
Dr. Marc focuses on the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism, which are directly related to the fundamental narrative of human identity.
“Who Am I" and "Who are we”?
Where are we? Or “What universe story do we live in”?
And finally the third question, the personal addressing of Kosmos to every human being and to every group of human beings: What do I truly desire? What do we desire? What is our deepest heart’s desire that needs to be activated, responded to, and fulfilled? Or said differently: what do I want and need to do? What is there to be done.
The answer to these three questions are in the language of complexity theory the “simple rules” that generate Reality. In the language of CosmoErotic Humanism we call them the simple First Principles and First Values that enact Reality in the field of value.
To answer these questions accurately, we are weaving together the best of the interior sciences and exterior sciences, and doing so by accessing the Eros of a blown open heart and a blown open mind.
Fully grounded in all the academic disciplines.
Fully ground in the interior sciences.
Fully grounded in the esoteric disciplines.
Synergizing all of them into a new whole, greater than the sum of the parts, into a new second simplicity that can become the ground of our transmission of value to the next generation.
Indeed it is only such a transmission of value that will ensure that there will be another generation.
We are however not only poised before potential dystopia, we are also poised before a potential utopia.
The forces of despair are met in equal and greater measure by the forces of hope.
We can — deploying this new story of value, rooted in First Principles and First Values, enact the most true, good and beautiful world that we have always known is possible.
This is a historic dialogue series where Andrew Sweeny, a truly wonderful philosopher, seeker, activist, and songwriter will be interviewing and dialoguing with Dr. Marc Gafni.
They will focus on the magical and methodological realizations of irreducible Unique Self, Eros and intimacy, Unique Self Symphonies, allurement and intimacy, that lie at the very center of CosmoErotic Humanism, with an intention to articulate a practical politics of Eros, a pragmatic economics of Eros, a new vision of relationship, of governance, of organization, of desire, of power, and ultimately a new barometer for what it means to live a good life, a successful life, a life that will allow us to stand at the moment of our death filled with delight and joy and courage.
We can’t wait to be with you.
Warmly,
Krista Josepha
Claire Molinard
Dr. Marc Gafni
Andrew Sweeny
Note:
Marc suggested the title Love or Die for the series and asked me to include my song of the same name. Video and Lyrics below:
Love or die
Raise a glass to the ass, and to the tonged-tied angel
And drink to the evil one, and to the supernal goodness
To innocent babes all armed to the teeth
To St. Sebastien and his best friend Zarathustra
A drink for the love birds, a drink to the wounded
A drink to the azure sea and bitcoin babies
To Saturn in mars, to a spurious infinity
A drink to the empress, out on the boiling sea
A drink for the phoenix, for the divine attribues
A drink to the circle without center or periphry
A drink for the hellbeings, for the lonely and the ugly
for the hanged man and diplomat for god and his monkey
A drink for the tourist, the whore, and the politician
A drink for the hungry ghost and to the jealous titans
To the women in leather, to the men who make thunder
The torso and the burning wheel, the naked becoming
Love or die Die, die, die, die, die, die
Love, love or die, die die die die die
A drink to the propaganda fancy undergarments
And to Stalin’s eyeballls and imperial ambitions
To shopping and football and foreing investment
To Communist frustration, And Eurovision love-parade
Raise a glass to the losers, and society darlings
To the beauty of nothing, and the ache of the body
To billionaires and those with nothing at all
To the puppets and the prisoners lined up against the wall
Raise a glass on the mast and and the siren’s laughter
To the outrage and the cancelled, to media slaughter
to the cerubn on the temple, to the the dark machines rain,
To the broken wine vessel, to blessed drunkedness
Raise your glass to Ukraine, to the violated country
May you be whole again, may you be the the new Jerusalem
And to the wounded bear, and to david and goliath
And some tender bullet, and the yellow and violet
Links:
Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com