Marc Gafni and Bonnitta Roy discuss the importance of deep conversations and idea exchange in cosmoerotic humanism. They explore lineage and emergence, delving into various interpretations and the need for better articulation. Finding common ground and a new story of value is crucial in addressing existential risks. They celebrate David Ray Griffin's work and discuss the concept of free energy. The urgency of erasing lines of separation and engaging in face-to-face dialogues is emphasized.
The need to create a new story of value and come together to address the metacrisis.
Recognizing the interplay between continuity and novelty in creating a new grammar of value.
The significance of love and deep communion in cultivating unity and connection for the future of humanity.
Deep dives
Urgency of Coming Together
The urgency of coming together and clarifying each other and making each other wiser is emphasized. The need to create a new superstructure, a new story of value, is highlighted to address the metacrisis and existential risks. The importance of finding common ground and bridging divides is emphasized to prevent the spread of fundamentalisms and create a universal ground of value.
Lineage and Emergence
The conversation explores the relationship between lineage and emergence. It is argued that both lineage and emergence play important roles in the evolution of ideas and values. The concept of continuity and discontinuity is discussed, highlighting the need to recognize the interplay between newness and the reception of past knowledge. The importance of incorporating both continuity and novelty in creating a new grammar of value is emphasized.
Love and Intimacy
The significance of love and intimacy in the context of the conversation is acknowledged. It is emphasized that love, not solely limited to biological families, is essential for creating a genuine sense of unity and connection. The call to love and honor each other, to hold each other dearly, and to cultivate deep communion is highlighted as necessary for the future of humanity.
The Importance of Radical Lineage
Radical lineage is crucial for the emergence of new ideas and creativity. Artists and poets go to the radical root to rediscover and create something prophetic or new. The power of lineage lies in the poetics of lineage, rather than its hierarchical structure. It allows for breaking tribal boundaries and going beyond the constraints of traditional lineages. It is through celebrating and valuing each other's unique attainment that genuine emergence and progress can occur.
Universal Lineage and the Need for Cosmoeroticism
Lineage extends beyond cultural and human origins to include the larger universal lineage rooted in the world of matter, life, and self-reflective human mind. To truly expand our understanding and values, we must acknowledge the greater reality of the universe and embrace the role of the earth and biology. Lineage should be backed by the universe and grounded in the nature of cosmos and humanity. Only then can we be truly welcomed in the universe and align with its principles and values.
Bio:
Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.
https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/
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.
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