Parallax Newsletter #61: Tonight! Love or Die with Marc Gafni
A new series, hosted by Andrew Sweeny in partnership with the Unique Self Institute
Sunday, May 7nd, 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:
4 jun. 2023 - 2 jul. 2023 - 6 aug. 2023 - 3 sep. 2023 - 1 oct. 2023 - 5 nov. 2 2023 - 3 dec. 2023
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
Short biography of Dr. Marc Gafni:
Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.
Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.