Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Toward A New Story, Vol 1: In Response To The Meta Crisis W/ Marc Gafni PHD #390
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Quick takeaways
- Creation of a new global story of value rooted in intimacy is essential to tackle existential threats.
- Aligning personal and societal stories with foundational values enhances understanding and drives ethical behavior.
- Transitioning to a superstructure based on a story of universal value counters fragmented narratives and promotes collective ethics.
- Global coordination requires intimacy and shared identity to combat rivalry and complexity in systems.
- Establishing a new narrative of value is crucial to enhance intimacy and resilience in global responses.
- Embracing evolving values like love and uniqueness in a shared narrative fosters global collaboration and resilience.
Deep dives
The Impact of a New Story of Value Rooted in First Principles and Values
Embracing a new narrative founded on first principles and values is crucial in shaping a positive future. By establishing a story of value rooted in these foundational aspects, we pave the way for shared values and a deep understanding of our place in the cosmos. This approach aims to bring together wisdom from various traditions, modern insights, and validated wisdom streams to create a cohesive and universal narrative that can guide us through existential challenges.
The Influence of Movies and Narratives on Our Understanding of Reality
Movies serve as significant cultural mirrors that reflect first values and principles inherent in reality. Characters and plot lines resonate with us as they embody deeper truths and ethical considerations. Our instinctive appeal to heroic narratives and recognizable values emphasizes the importance of aligning personal and societal stories with foundational principles.
Addressing the Metacrisis Through Superstructure and Shared Values
Navigating the challenges of the metacrisis entails moving beyond infrastructure and social structures to engage with superstructure. A superstructure based on a story of value rooted in first principles and values offers a holistic response to global issues. This approach counters fragmented narratives and propels us towards a collective understanding of ethics, truth, and beauty as intrinsic components of our existence.
The Importance of Shared Identity in Intimacy and Global Coordination
Shared identity is crucial for intimacy and global coordination. Global challenges necessitate global solutions, which, in turn, require global resonance achieved only through shared identity. The global intimacy disorder, reflected in the rivalry fostered by win-lose metrics, inhibits shared identities, leading to fragile and complicated systems. Resolving this disorder through a new story of universal value rooted in first principles paves the way for global resonance and ultimately global coordination.
Impact of Rivalrous Conflict and Win-Lose Metrics on Systems’ Fragility
Rivalrous conflict and win-lose metrics breed fragility in systems. This approach generates extraction models, exponential growth curves, and races to the bottom, culminating in a global intimacy disorder. Complicated and fragile systems emerge due to the lack of shared identity resulting from the prevailing metrics. Addressing these issues involves transitioning towards a new story of value to enhance intimacy and resilience in systems.
Understanding the Role of Intimacy in Shaping Global Responses and Values
Intimacy plays a pivotal role in shaping global responses and values. It fosters shared identity, essential for global resonance and coordination. Without global intimacy, responses to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic remain fragmented. Establishing a universal grammar of value as a basis for shared identities allows for more effective global collaboration and response mechanisms.
Eternal and Evolving Values: The Paradox of Love
The podcast delved into the concept of eternal and evolving values, particularly focusing on the idea of love as an eternal value that also evolves over time. It discussed how love encompasses taking care of those close to us but expands to include broader circles of care and connection. The evolution of love signifies a deepening of understanding and practice, moving towards nurturing others to help them flourish. The conversation highlighted the eternal nature of love while acknowledging its evolving expressions in different contexts and relationships.
Exploring the Nature of Value Evolution Across History
The episode explored the evolution of values across different historical periods, analyzing the shifts from pre-modernity to modernity and post-modernity. It discussed how pre-modern societies had a concept of real value but often intertwined it with power dynamics and triumphalism. Modernity challenged the notion of eternal and unchanging values, introducing the idea of values as constructs. Post-modernity further deconstructed traditional values, emphasizing the need for a reconstructive project to establish new narratives anchored in evolving and authentic values.
Evolution of Uniqueness as a Value in Cosmos
The podcast episode delves into the concept of uniqueness as an evolving value within the cosmos. It traces the progression of uniqueness from the early wave patterns after the Big Bang to the distinctiveness of galaxies, stars, planets, cells, and the emergence of human self-reflective consciousness. The evolution of uniqueness culminates in the Enlightenment era's recognition of individualism and the modern understanding of the unique self. This evolution of uniqueness highlights the participation of all entities in the cosmic field of evolving value.
Embracing a New Story of Value: Cosmorotic Humanism
The discussion emphasizes the need for a new narrative of value, termed Cosmorotic Humanism, which integrates continuity and discontinuity in the evolution of values. It challenges the conventional perspectives on eternal value and social constructions by proposing an understanding that value is both eternal and evolving. The narrative underscores the significance of embracing individual uniqueness, participating in the evolution of godness, and honoring the past, present, and future as intrinsic components of a shared field of value.
Challenging Postmodernity's View on Value
The episode critiques postmodernity's detachment from the field of value and its tendency to engage in pseudo-eros through judgment and exclusion. It highlights the importance of holding paradoxes, such as the coexistence of eternal and evolving values, in human development. The conversation stresses the necessity of participating in the evolution of God through one's uniqueness and interconnectedness with the divine.
The Role of Story as a First Principle and Value
The podcast underscores the role of story as a foundational principle and value that evolves throughout different stages of matter, life, and mind. It elucidates how continuity and discontinuity in the narrative of value contribute to the overarching evolution of cosmos. The discussion presents a nuanced perspective on the interplay between continuity in the thread of story and the emergence of new chapters, emphasizing the paradoxical nature of holding a new story.
Engaging in Global Intimacy and Coordinated Response
In the concluding remarks, the focus shifts to fostering global intimacy and resonance through the shared narrative of value. By acknowledging the intrinsic value and significance of each unique individual in the evolutionary process, the dialogue encourages a coordinated response to global challenges with ease and grace. The conversation instills a sense of hope and purpose in actively contributing to the evolution of both self and cosmos.
We are at a time in our world, where we need to birth a new story, and there is nobody that I know who has “felt and” thought through what this new story might look like, more than Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni.
How do we respond to the meta crisis of compounding existential threats? The answer that Dr. Marc Gafni PHD gives is that the “root cause of the meta crisis is a global intimacy disorder”. As he puts it “Global Challenges require global coordination which in turn requires global resonance, which in turn requires global intimacy, which can only be sourced in a shared global story of value”.
For this very reason, we must articulate a “shared global story of value”. This story. according to a set of compelling teachings by Dr. Gafni’s colleague Dr. Zak Stein, is the “evolutionary love story of the intimate universe”. This claim is not causal, but rather based on a profound integration of myriad wisdom streams in what they call “the interior and exterior sciences across space and time”.
But, and this is Gafni’s core point, not only must we be tellers of the new story, but we must also actually be the story. We must know that our personal story is “chapter and verse in the Universe: a love story”. And that story is a story of transformation. And that therefore“Y/our transformation is the transformation of the whole.”
In other words, the change you are seeking in the world begins with changing the way you see yourself and your place in the world. You literally “become the New Story”. “You cross to the other side, awakening as the new human and the humanity.”
This series of podcasts under the title “Toward a New Story” is about building what Gafni and Stein call “CosmoErotic Humanism, a shared story of value as a context to celebrate our diversity.”
While Dr. Gafni began his path as an ordained Rabbi intimately versed in the ancient Aramaic texts, we recognize together, that this new story must include and transcend the validated insights from all the great religions, philosophies, and cultures from premodern, modern, and postmodern times. This is a historic moment, and for people who want to claim their seat at the table of history, this podcast is a resplendent invitation. I cannot imagine inviting you to a more important, heart opening, mind bending, and exciting journey than the conversations we are having in this podcast series.
If you are interested in hearing more about Marc’s story and why we are working together, check out our groundwork podcast with his beloved partner Kristina Kincaid
Watch Volume 1 of Toward a New Story
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A Return to Eros (book)
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