Monthly Digest April 2025
New Podcast, New Books Published, as well as Oral and Formal Essays Posted in April
From April 28 to May 2, our Eros Mystery School, a 5-Day radical immersion into the new Story of CosmoErotic Humanism with Dr. Marc Gafni, Dr. Kristina Kincaid, Aubrey Marcus, and Vylana Marcus, took place in a castle in the Netherlands. All of us who were present there are still bathing in the aftertaste of this ecstatic and psychoactive week.
Below, we are beyond happy to share with you:
A new Podcast in April with Dr. Marc Gafni and Parallax on War, Sacrifice, and the Shared Eternal Values
Our newest books of the Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism
Our oral and formal essays posted on Substack in April 2025
New Podcast:
From the Parallax Podcast Series on War
In this new mini-series, Parallax dives into the phenomenon of war. What are its characteristics, what’s its function? Can we overcome it, or are we bound to certain aspects of human nature and culture?
#5 War, Sacrifice, and the Shared Eternal Values, with Marc Gafni
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Whole Mate: The Future of Relationships
Evolution of Love from Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis
Love or Die: The Temple Mysteries and the Secret of the Cherubs: The Four Primary Faces of Eros—Interiority, Presence, Desire, Wholeness—Early Meditations on CosmoErotic Humanism Vol. 1
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The Erotic Cosmos of Lines, Circles, and Spirals: from Gender Crisis to Unique Gender—Hieros Gamos and Evolutionary Relationships (Eros Mystery School - Oral Essays)
The New Story of Value in Response to Existential Risk: Mythologize, Don’t Pathologize: Living Your Sacred Autobiography—From Global Intimacy Disorder to Unique Self Symphonies (Eros Mystery School - Oral Essays)
From the CosmoErotic Universe to CosmoErotic Humanism: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing—Telling the New Story of Evolving Value in Response to Existential Risk (Eros Mystery School - Oral Essays)
The Amorous Cosmos: Welcome Home Signs in Reality: From Pre-Tragic, to Tragic to Post-Tragic—First Principles and First Values in Response to the Meta-Crisis (Eros Mystery School - Oral Essays)
The Intimate Cosmos: From Homo sapiens to Homo amor—Reality = Evolution = The Evolution of Intimacy (Eros Mystery School - Oral Essays)
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Formal Essays
Most of our Formal Essays are early drafts that will be part of forthcoming books by Dr. Marc Gafni or David J. Temple. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare more advanced versions of the essays. Formal Essays are usually sent out on Tuesdays.
CosmoErotic Humanism on Need and Desire
This is the third part of an early draft of the essay “Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism” by Dr. Marc Gafni. It can be cited under that name. Please also link to the essay o…
Three Levels of Relationship Between Need and Desire Across Evolutionary History
This is the fourth part of an early draft of the essay “Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism” by Dr. Marc Gafni.
The Eight Evolutionary Principles for Being a Powerful, Awake, Alive, Whole, and Ethical Man
These principles were created in two public dialogues with Marc Gafni of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and Fred Jealous, the founder of the Breakthrough Men’s Community. The dialogues …
First Notes on the Eight Core Eros Needs
This is the fifth part of an early draft of the essay “Beyond Maslow: The Eight Core Needs of CosmoErotic Humanism” by Dr. Marc Gafni.
The Tenets of Intimacy: First Notes
This is an early version of what we call in CosmoErotic Humanism the Tenets of Intimacy. It is not written as a formal essay but as a series of bullet-points, summarizing our early thoughts on the to…
The Eight Core Needs of Eros Are Emergent from the New Universe Story and the New Narrative of Identity
As we noted above, all the eight core Eros Needs are central to the new narrative of identity, which itself is a corollary of the New Universe Story. The new human is Homo amor. To be Homo amor is to…
The Exile of the Eight Core Eros Needs
When all eight of these human needs are met, we have two experiences: we feel radically alive, and we feel profoundly valuable. When these needs are not met, we experience a fundamental deadening and…
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Oral Essays
The Oral Essays, sent out once a week, usually on Fridays, are lightly edited transcripts of live talks given by Dr. Marc Gafni on the weekly broadcast One Mountain, Many Paths, founded by Gafni and his evolutionary partner Barbara Marx Hubbard. Thus, the style of the piece is spoken word and not a formal essay.
432—A Buddhist Teacher on What Yuval Harari Got Wrong | Marc Gafni with Soryu Forall
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a live talk [January 25, 2025, episode 432] given by Dr. Marc Gafni and Soryu Forall on the weekly broadcast One Mountain, Many Paths. Thus, the style of …
445—The Promise That Was Made Before I Was Born: Hineini—The Promise Will Be Kept
(This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a live talk [April 20, 2025] given by Dr. Marc Gafni on the weekly broadcast One Mountain, Many Paths, founded by Gafni and his evolutionary partner Barb…
446—The Teaching of CosmoErotic Humanism:”Love Is the Placing of Attention”
(This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a live talk [April 27, 2025] given by Dr. Marc Gafni on the weekly broadcast One Mountain, Many Paths, founded by Gafni and his evolutionary partner Barb…