Our Crisis is a Birth: From Global Intimacy Disorder, to Unique Selves Symphonies

We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories, poised between dystopia and utopia. To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions: “Who are we? Where are we? What is ours to do?”

In a profound analysis of our current meta crisis and global intimacy disorder, Dr. Marc Gafni draws from the exterior and interior sciences to deepen our responses to these three questions. The responses offer a new understanding of the good, the true, and the beautiful, and generate the beginning of a “universal grammar of value as a context for our diversity.”

A universal grammar of value is grounded in eternal yet evolving first principles and first values, which are inherent in the intimate universe in which we all participate. A new grammar articulates a potent story of intrinsic value, with the poignancy and power to respond to the meta crisis.

At the core of this story of value, called CosmoErotic humanism, is a new narrative of identity, both personal and collective. Principles of Unique Self and Unique Self Symphony contribute to the shaping of a shared reality that is flawed and human, filled with holy and broken Hallelujahs. Yet that reality reaches insistently towards better tomorrows that are suffused with ever deepening eros and ethos, kindness, and creativity.

Chapters:

00:00 – Crisis is a Birth: A New Story of Value for a New Humanity

6:17 – Star Wars & Existential Risk

0:07:09 – Existential Risk: Risk to Our Very Existence

0:10:00 – The Death of Humanity and Death of Our Humanity: Two Forms of Existential Risk

0:16:00 – Death Star and Existential Risk: A Culture of Death That Could End Humanity

0:18:52 – A Time Between Worlds – A Time Between Stories

0:24:03 – Generator Functions: The Underlying Systemic Dynamics that Generate of Existential Risk

0:34:41 – The Root Cause of Existential Risk Beneath Generator Functions: Global Intimacy Disorder

0:40:11 – Why IS Global Intimacy So Critical In Responding To Existential RIsk 0:43:02 – A Universal Grammar of Value Generates Global Intimacy

0:46:24 – A New Story of Value in Time Between Worlds: A Response to Existential Risk

0:49:30 – The Plotline Of Cosmos: The Evolution Of Intimacy

1:03:17 – A New Story Of Value: A New Emergent Of Intimacy

1:06:26 – First Principles and First Values: Backed By the Universe

1:12:06 – Three Great Questions: Who, Where, and What?

1:18:14 – You are a Unique Self: The Plotline of Ever Deeper Uniqueness

1:12:06 – Unique Self Symphony: The Bottom-Up Self Organizing Eros of Reality

1:28:10 – Unique Self Symphony: A Direct Hit

1:32:52 – A New Story of Evolving Value: A Direct Hit