WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?
We need a new sense of what it means to be human.
At the Unique Self Institute, we are dedicated to articulating and disseminating a new narrative of identity, meaning and purpose, that can bring humanity together in these times of existential risk.
Welcome to the UNIQUE SELF INSTITUTE
There is nothing more devastating for a human being than the feeling of being disposable. Yet, so many people today feel isolated, insignificant, misrecognized, or invisible. Every human being needs and deserves to know that their life matters irreducibly. Paradoxically at a time when human beings are more interconnected and interdependent than ever, we are faced with a “global intimacy disorder” at every level of personal, psychological, political, educational, and economic life. We are in desperate need of a new shared model of Self that can bring our world together. The Unique Self narrative of identity integrates the crucial insights of all the great wisdom traditions, east, and west, into a most powerful, profound, and accurate response to the great inquiry of Who Am I?
This response changes everything.
The Unique Self Institute is dedicated to articulating and disseminating the Unique Self narrative of Identity at the core of culture. With applications across disciplines such as education, politics, relationships, economics, medicine, psychology, spirituality, and coaching, the Unique Self narrative radically transforms both our experience of ourselves and of each other.
Unique Self is a vision of identity that integrates the leading edges of traditional modern and postmodern thought across disciplines ranging from psychology, spirituality, politics, philosophy, economics, and more. Start here for a soft introduction, and let yourself be guided through the various resources on this website.
“A radically exciting and groundbreaking book that will change forever not only how you think about enlightenment, but how you understand, from a post-metaphysical perspective, the very nature of human life itself.” – Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher.
From its first iteration in the book “Soul Prints”, the Unique Self theory has evolved in the last decade into a New Narrative of Identity within the context of Cosmo-Erotic Humanism, a “philosophy for a time between worlds” – This is a timeline of the evolution of the teachings from 1989 to this day.
Get Dr. Marc Gafni’s latest articulation of his seminal Unique Self teachings in 15 short videos, delivered every other day in your mailbox. This free course offers a complete and solid foundation in the essential principles of the Unique Self Theory.
Rooted in the Unique Self Teachings and Integral theory, Unique Self Coaching is a powerful psycho-spiritual methodology that offers a simple, elegant, and profound framework for the entire journey of human development.
The Unique Self narrative of identity integrates the enlightenment traditions of the pre-modern East and the modern West and elevates the human being to its true purpose, in service of better ethics, more love, truth, and beauty in the world.
The source cause of existential risk at this juncture in history is our failed answers to the great inquiry of Who Am I? The narrative that dominates the globe is the modern success story – rivalrous conflicts governed by win-lose metrics, rooted in a vision of the human being as a hyper separate self or a hyper social self. This vision of self which dominates our global culture is a fundamental distortion of the facts of human existence and nature.
Crisis is an evolutionary driver. The Unique Self narrative of identity is rooted in the integrated insights of the leading edges of traditional [premodern] modern, and postmodern wisdom streams. The articulation of Unique Self theory and practice is a political, social, and spiritual act in response to catastrophic and existential risk. Our crisis is a birth.
