About this episode:
What if the story of the Garden of Eden is not just an ancient myth, but a powerful “script of desire” that is still running our lives today?
In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore this radical idea, revealing how reality itself is a script of desire, and how your personal interpretation of the Eden story can expose your own unconscious programming.
To help you understand your own script, they first take us on a journey through the four major ways humanity has viewed desire—as negative, neutral, positive, or sacred—before introducing a new script, which recognizes Reality itself as “ErosDesire.”
This conversation is a call to action to crack open our own programming, discover which historical script we are unconsciously running, and clarify our unique desire in the love story of the universe.
Note on Source Material and Citation:
Parts of the material covered in this podcast are drawn from the following volumes published by the World Philosophy and Religion Press:
Gafni, Marc. Codes of Desire: On the Nature of Reality: The Answer to Who, Where, and What. 2025.
Gafni, Marc. Value Is a Feeling and Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Feel: Responding to the Existential Risk of A.I. with a New Story of Value: Not the Death of Humanity but the Death of Our Humanity. 2025.
Kincaid, Kristina, and Marc Gafni. Forthcoming. The Complete Phenomenology of Eros.
If you deploy any material from this episode, please cite directly using the following reference:
Temple, David J., Conversations with David J. Temple, World Philosophy and Religion Press, February 2026, Episode: “Value Cracked Open”
About the Authorial Voice of David J. Temple:
David J. Temple is a pseudonym created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship between Dr. Marc Gafni, Dr. Zak Stein and Ken Wilber at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, a leading international think tank whose mission is to address existential risk by articulating a shared universal Story of Value for global intimacy and global coordination. The Center focuses its work on a world philosophy, Cosmo-Erotic Humanism, as the ground for a global vision of value, economics, politics, and spiritual coherence.
Chapters:
0:00 — Introduction
1:00 — Context Setting
1:52 — The Garden of Eden Is a Scripts of Desire Story
3:55 — Desire Negative, Desire Neutral, Desire Positive, Desire Sacred
7:04 — Reality Is Scripts of Desire
12:16 — Integrating Human Desire into Cosmological Value Realism
14:21 — About First Principles and First Values
15:16 — We’re Prone to Having Our Scripts of Desire Hijacked
19:15 — What Artificial Intelligence Does Not Possess: A Script of Desire
21:17 — Aligning with the Desire of Reality as It Expresses Itself Uniquely in Me
26:41 — Your Unique Desire Is Aligned With and Distinctly Additive to the Script of Desire of Reality
29:46 — Invitation to the Who We Must Become Community
End — Mentioned Sources
End — Mentioned People
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Episode Transcript:
Context Setting
Zak: Well, David said he was reading the Bible or something. He sent you some note about some part.
Marc: He was reading the Bible. Yeah, he said he was reading the Garden of Eden stuff.
Garden of Eden is wild. I left—you know how it is, right? I wrote a note back, and just left it under the door on the porch, but it wasn’t there in the morning. So I guess he picked it up. But I was thinking, we got about a half hour now, maybe let’s talk a little bit generally about scripts of desire to open it up, and then on Saturday, where I think David might—maybe I’ll even come by once—but maybe we’ll actually open the Genesis text on the Garden of Eden.
Zak: Good.
Marc: If we can maybe set the frame for this set of conversations, what he basically said in the note was that—and he used this term that he’s been using for the last year—Scripts of Desire.
An interesting term.
Zak: Yeah, he’s mentioned it a few times. I picked it up, but he never, you know, really—
The Garden of Eden Is a Scripts of Desire Story
Marc: Yeah, he never—so I thought that maybe we would talk about that term a little bit.
His basic point was that the Garden of Eden is a Scripts of Desire story. It’s a story about desire.
Meaning, it’s a story about desire in the garden where all of the fruits that can be eaten are ta’avah la’einayim, they’re a desire for the eyes, is the text. They’re a beautiful text. And the word ta’avah is literally a desire. They’re a lust for the eyes; they’re a desire for the eyes.
So we have all these trees in the garden, and the garden story, by the way, starts at the second part of chapter two. It’s all of chapter three and part of chapter four in Genesis.
The garden is filled with these trees that are a lust or a desire for the eyes. And then there are two trees in the middle of the garden. One is the Tree of knowing good and evil, and the other is the Tree of Life. So you can’t eat from that tree, from the tree of knowing good and evil, because if you do, then you’ll be like God and live forever in one of the readings of the text. That doesn’t seem to be such a bad thing.
Zak: It’s not like they’re disincentive. That’s a pretty bad disincentive. Should read more Skinner, right?
Marc: Right. Not such a great disincentive there in terms of negative reinforcement.
So what is the story about?
Really, what he pointed out in the note was that the way you read the story will tell you what your script of desire is.
In other words, how you read and the history of this story, and how the story shaped civilization is actually…
It’s a script of desire story.
The story is a story of desire.
It’s a story also of what’s the boundary of desire.
And then:
How you read the script of desire story will depend on your script of desire.
Zak: Right. So it’s a Rorschach, you’re saying.
Marc: That’s right, exactly. So let’s maybe we’ll literally open that on Saturday and look at it in a deep way.
Zak: Yeah. But before that, so we can dig into that—what’s the script of desire? What does that even mean?
Desire Negative, Desire Neutral, Desire Positive, Desire Sacred
Marc: Yeah, totally. What do we mean by scripts of desire?
And just one more thing. At David’s request when he was still anonymous, you and I spent a couple of years—I did some draft writing, and you did some intense critique and up-leveling of a project we were doing with one of our key faculty, Dr. Kincaid. And Ken Wilber was very involved.
I did an intense dialogue with Ken on each one of what we called the seven levels of Eros and the four narratives of Eros. So we outlined in this thing that we’re calling The Phenomenology of Eros, we outlined four stories of desire.
And out of those four stories of desire—which are really four scripts of desire—you could call them:
1) “Desire negative,” and it gets you in really dangerous, it gets in a lot of trouble. Classical, medieval script of desire.
2) “Desire neutral.” Classical scientific script of desire.
“Desire is neutral, let’s call it attraction.” So science says, let’s call it attraction, and when science uses words like “attraction,” it’s like a mechanical structure of Cosmos. That’s actually desire neutral.
Zak: Right.
Marc: It’s actually—it’s interesting, right? And it was just, that’s one of the things he wrote in the note.
He said, “Take a look back at the old scripts of desire, the old four narratives of desire,” which back in the day, we called them “sexual narratives.” And then we said, “No, no, they’re narratives of desire.”
Zak: They’re broader.
Marc: Broader. Narratives of desire.
So “desire neutral” is the scientific narrative. It’s like, attraction is a mechanic of Cosmos.
And then there’s more of the beginning of modernity. You have this other modern script of desire, or story of desire, which we call:
3) “Desire positive.”
And in modernity, it talks in terms of, like, not “the gravitas of desire negative. It’s dangerous to the Divine.” It’s positive, it’s affiliative. It’s affiliative and positive and constructive and all those things that are positive.
But of course, as we pointed out back then, desire’s a lot of things. The positive is a little bland.
Zak: Yeah.
Marc: It’s a little bland for its blandishments.
Zak: Yeah. They’re maybe more efficient at work if you—
Marc: And then, of course, there’s:
4) “Desire sacred,” which is, “Oh, desire creates children so it’s sacred.” At least in its sexual expression. And desire to serve God so it’s sacred in its more religious sense.
But again, “Huh?” First off, in its embodied sense, when was the last time someone engaged sexual desire to have children? Well, some people are doing that, but it’s definitely not the preeminent form of embodied desire in the world these days.
Zak: No.
Marc: That’s A.
And B, our point back then was, desire is not sacred because it creates life. It’s sacred because it is life.
So then we came up with this notion of—we called it “desire Eros,” or “ErosDesire,” or “desire erotic.”
In the sexual, you would call it “sex erotic,” but it’s more like “desire erotic.” It’s ErosDesire, which is: Reality is Desire. But saying that itself—here it gets really subtle—is a new script of desire.
Reality Is Scripts of Desire
Marc: In other words, the new script of desire is the realization that Reality is a script of desire. And it’s very precise.
It’s not that desire is this local form, this thing that’s coming into you… “That’s really negative. It’s dangerous.”
“Oh, it’s very positive. Oh, you’re feeling this desire, it’s very affiliative and positive.”
“Oh, it’s this mechanical, neutral thing that kind of pops up once in a while. It’s mechanical.”
Or “oh, it’s the sacred thing that you use to have children, or to serve God, or whatever it is.”
No, no, Reality itself is a script of desire.
And so the desire that moves through you across platforms is an expression of your participation in reality. Reality is quite literally scripts of desire.
The way the lineage would say that, in the lineage of Solomon, would be:
Reality is names of God.
So the name of God means the structural essence, the fabric of reality is “names of God”. Meaning, inherent everywhere and in everything, there’s this animating quality of infinite value that adheres in finitude. We call that the name of God.
Now, the Name of God is a four-letter name. That’s the classical name, which is Yud, Hey, Vav, Hey—YHVH, if you were translating it into English. And Yud, Hey, Vav, Hey is actually levels of Eros.
It’s a Yud, which is a kind of mini phallic symbol, that enters a Hey—a line entering a circle. Jah, as in Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It’s the Jah. It’s the out-breath of reality.
י (yud/Y) ה (hey/H) ו (vav/W) ה (hey/H) יהוה
But it’s the Yud entering the Hey, and then the Vav, which is an elongated Yud. It’s pulled down. So it’s a classical line. Again, enters the Hey. That’s Vav, Hey.
So the Yud, Hey, the first one, is called “constant arousal” by the Zohar. The physical, external expression of constant arousal would be the four forces. For example, constant: electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and the weak, nuclear—constant arousal.
And then the Zohar says that the Vav entering the Hey is arousal, which steps apart and comes back together. It’s not constant, so it’s this actual process of coming together, stepping apart, and that’s the human world.
That’s where human action and integrity and alignment with Value causes arousal in the divine field.
So if Reality is, according to the Zohar, for example, Names of God, that means Reality is ErosDesire, quite literally.
Or if it says, God looked into the Torah and created the world. And the Torah is—says Nachmanides, 13th century, Names of God. So God looked at Names of God and created the world.
So Reality is scripts of desire.
Recognizing that Reality is scripts of desire is itself a new script of desire.
In other words, your recognition that desire is not this imposition on reality. It’s not this aberration.
It is Reality’s nature: sex erotic or desire Eros, or ErosDesire—I’ll just call it ErosDesire for this conversation. ErosDesire, that is a new script of desire.
And then the seven levels of Eros, the ways that that expresses in the human experience:
the vital experience,
the way desire expresses in personality relationships,
the way it expresses in healing,
the way it expresses in its kind of the Eros desire of pleasure,
the way that expresses in mysticism, the mystical experience of being one’s true nature,
the way it expresses in unique artistic creativity,
and the way it expresses in the desire for evolutionary power coursing through me.
This kind of evolution coursing through me, and I’m a bodhisattva influencing everything.
Those are actually seven scripts of desire. Seven ways that desire moves through me as I create.
They’re both embodied forms of desire, but also Eros.
You could be a kind of Jesuit, hanging out by yourself for 40 years, and you’d have those seven qualities. Those are seven scripts of desire. It’s like, “Huh?”
Zak: Yeah.
Marc: That’s just to begin. Like, “Huh, reality is scripts of desire, and wow.”
Zak: Yeah, and to be clear, Teilhard de Chardin was definitely doing something like that. Hanging out as a Jesuit, reflectively integrating evolution itself in his script of desire, which is what you’re describing—bringing the entire stack of all the scripts of desire before us into a situation of now, “Oh, I’m part of this massive emerging set of scripts of desire.”
Yeah, it’s a beautiful, beautiful conception. And I went to a couple of places.
Integrating Human Desire into Cosmological Value Realism
Zak: One of the things we’re doing with CosmoErotic Humanism is making things like attachment theory and psychoanalytical theory part of a coherent cosmovision. Or a coherent cosmological scheme.
So this makes that very clear. The basic move in psychoanalysis, if you will, from this language would be something like: you have a script of desire you’re not aware of. You have a script of desire that’s unconscious. And so you’re doing stuff you don’t understand, or you’re not aware of, that’s not explicit.
What happens there is that you then are doing things you don’t quite understand. That’s the notion of a symptom. Like, “I don’t want to be this way, but I am this way.” It is a misunderstanding of what you actually want.
And so the making of the unconscious script of desire into the consciously held script of desire is one way of thinking about what you’re doing in deep psychotherapy, deep healing, those types of things.
Marc: Yeah.
Zak: And then the significance of that further is that you can then take the step you just took, which is, then:
“Okay, so I’m aware of my script of desire. So what?” “Do I rewrite it any way I want, or what’s the correct ‘script of desire?’”
Which is where you have to integrate human desire into cosmological value realism, right?
Otherwise, as a therapist, you can’t say, “Don’t do that script of desire” as opposed to, “Yes, you’ve made it conscious, now you can kind of operate on it.” And yet, there are limits to the ability of you to rewrite your most basic, foundational scripts of desire.
And then the sense in which:
1) What are the scripts of desire being written around you in the Unique Self Symphony of people that are near you?
2) The overarching scripts of desire that are biology, basically.
That’s very interesting to me, that there’s a leverage that’s provided here with tying the script of desire into the Field of Value, into the cosmological unfolding.
The repurposing of a kind of logos mysticism into this way that’s very intimate and phenomenologically tangible. Which is to say, everybody kind of gets that.
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We’re Prone to Having Our Scripts of Desire Hijacked
Zak: And I think we’ve mentioned before, advertising and other places that because of our proneness to having unconscious scripts of desire, we are hijackable by things like advertising because we’re not in a conversation about scripts of desire. Which ones are good and which ones are keeping with the Field of Value.
Marc: Right. I know. We’re literally unaware that they exist, almost.
Zak: We’re unaware that they exist. And for those who are aware, let’s say, you’ve done psychoanalysis or you’ve studied post-modernism or something, it’s arbitrary. They’re arbitrary. They’re not grounded in a cosmological vision that’s coherent.
So even if you do get reflective in our culture, there’s nowhere to go. And so the advertisers, politicians, political propaganda type things have full reign over the script of desire that’s dominating your action because it’s able to parasitize on the one that’s within you that you’re not aware of. Something like that.
It’s a way to think about it.
Marc: Yeah.
Zak: And they do that, you know, psychoanalytical work in the United States disappeared basically into advertising and the intelligence community, as far as I can tell.
Because if you want to get analyzed, you go to South America, Europe or something.
And I think what happened was that they figured, “Oh, this is actually how you manipulate people. Let’s go fucking hide this shit.”
And it runs all in this program, basically. Get that script of desire, make it sure it doesn’t become conscious, manipulated behind the scenes, and now they’re doing things and buying stuff they don’t want. “Why am I buying this? I don’t need this. I don’t want this.”
Marc: Right.
Zak: “Why am I eating this? It’s not good for me. It actually doesn’t make me feel good.”
And nowadays, of course, “why am I watching this? I don’t really want to be watching this.”
Now we get into the attention capture, hijack of the script of desire thing. And that’s the attention hijack capture that’s possible as a result of leveraging the script of desire as a way in.
That’s very, very deep. That’s very, very deep.
Because when you think about YouTube rabbit holes, or I forget the term that they use—which is a pejorative term used to describe people who get indoctrinated by YouTube—but what’s happening there is the algorithm is reliably differentially responding to what you’re responding to.
But what you’re responding to is what you want, or what you think you want.
And so there’s this weird, perverse feedback loop that’s created around your script of desire, where it itself becomes distorted as it’s giving you what’s available.
Who knows what will happen when generative AI allows us to go into impossible realms of human desire. Because that’s what technology has always been seducing us into this unlimited script of desire. And it’s hijacking again, on an unconscious belief, which is that, yes, we have an infinite power, desire, Eros, and yet we’re finite.
So the sense that there is that move which is seducing us into a technologically advanced hyper desire, hyper stimulus. There’s this kind of hyper desire.
Sugar is probably the best example. Like, if you’re a mammal in the jungle, max pursue sugar because it’s hard to get.
If you’re a mammal in New York City or something, don’t max pursue sugar because it’s refined and it’s everywhere you could look. You could really eat sugar all day and not stop.
So, that script of desire—how do you bind it? How do you correct it? How do you make it wholesome with the rest of what reality is (wholesome in that Wilberian sense of inclusive)?
That’s what was coming up for me.
But I think specifically, I’d be curious about the unconscious to conscious, and then beyond the conscious into evolutionary or something, which is what I heard in terms of your awareness. The Universe’s scripts of desire is a script of desire, or makes possible new scripts of desire, CosmoErotic scripts of desire, if you will.
Marc: Right. Beautiful. Let’s stay real close to it. Let’s just take a step at a time.
What Artificial Intelligence Does Not Possess: A Script of Desire
Marc: When you get that Reality is scripts of desire, you get how heinous advertising is.
When you get that Reality is scripts of desire, which are not mechanical, but which are musical—meaning, there is desire which is melodic, which is untune, which is resonant with the omni-harmonious and the omni-coherent Cosmos.
And because I am directly emergent from and participatory in the CosmoErotic universe, the scripts of desire that live in me are identical. They might be more evolved, they might be more refined, they might be more crystallized, but they participate in—in other words, I’m not alienated or dissociated—every quark, muon, lepton, hadron, atom, molecule, macromolecule, cell, organism, neural net, neural cord, all the way up, mammalian, it all lives in me.
Everything is a script of desire, and precisely what artificial intelligence does not possess is a script of desire.
Zak: Beautiful.
Marc: It’s like, “Huh.”
Zak: It’s scary.
Marc: Right.
Zak: Because it sure seems like I might start wanting things. But then what is it?
Marc: You begin to get that actually all of our intelligence is grounded, animated, and suffused in a script of desire.
There is no disambiguating of intelligence from desire.
Now, if I then try and actually dissociate intelligence from desire, I will get Frankenstein, but not a good Frankenstein. I mean, I’ll get a horror. I’ll get something which actually violates desire.
In other words, it can only be that way. You see that really clearly.
Aligning with the Desire of Reality as It Expresses Itself Uniquely in Me
Marc: So at the foundational levels of Cosmos as we’ve talked over the years, and we had early conversations with our friend Ken about this, and the set of conversations we did when we were all hanging out with David and writing the First Principles and First Values book.
At the foundational levels of Cosmos, there’s no split between need and desire.
So when we say protons, neutrons, and electrons need to come together to form an atom, that’s an existential need. It’s a need of existence if you will. And it’s also an existential desire.
It’s unlikely, although possible, but you know pretty unlikely that protons, neutrons, and electrons are doing intensive processes of sacred text study or yoga or psychoanalysis, in order to decide whether to come together to become atoms. That’s just not how it’s happening. But we do.
So what happens is as desire evolves and we get to the human level, there’s this new possibility, which is there’s this evolution of first-person interiority, which introduces this process, which is choice.
And what choice is, is actually, it’s not this abstract thing, “Oh, let me intellectually choose.”
No, choice is berur. Choice is: I clarify my desire. Choice is, by its nature, it’s a process of the clarification of desire.
So evolution is desire. It’s a desire for transformation. It’s a desire for more and more of the value structure of Cosmos.
That’s a big deal. So we clarify desire. Now let’s just go one more step. So first off, let’s just say again, if that’s true, which it is.
1) Evolution is desire.
2) Evolution is the evolution of desire.
3) What’s introduced at the human level is this new emergence which is in the lineage Homo imago Dei. It’s the participation in the capacity to clarify my desire.
My desire becomes voluntaristic in some sense. It’s no longer pure necessity. There’s a voluntaristic dimension, which is where my dignity comes from. My dignity comes from my capacity to clarify desire.
So first off, you get again the heinous nature of advertising, which is deliberately geared towards the deception of one in terms of what their own desire is.
In a certain sense, you could say it like this—the new script of desire, the realization of CosmoErotic Humanism is that actually:
Reality is desire,
that desire moves through me,
I have to clarify that desire in order to align with the desire of Reality as it expresses itself uniquely in me.
So if Reality desires uniqueness, I’ve got to align with that desire for uniqueness.
If Reality desires transformation, I’ve got to align with that desire for transformation.
If Reality desires intimacy, I’ve got to align with that desire for intimacy.
But as that desire lives uniquely in me.
Meaning—let me add something here.
The nature of the evolutionary movement is that evolution desires deeper and deeper levels, and one of the new depth levels, of the new evolutions of desire, is that desire is getting more unique.
In other words, the crystallization of reality’s uniqueness is the crystallization of new qualities of desire.
So, if Zak’s desire would be a bland desire that blended in, in this insipid, mellifluous static harmony. It would be just, “Oh, it’s very sweet.” No, no.
What’s interesting about Zak-ness is, it’s a unique expression of desire that never existed before. So it’s additive. There’s a new quality of desire.
Evolution evolves, and it becomes Marc, it becomes Zak, it becomes Ken, it becomes KK. It’s this new quality of desire.
So the evolution of desire is to not just be one with the Field of Desire, but it’s to be both one and distinct in the Field of Desire and aligned with the whole field.
“Wow,” right?
When I go and undermine that, when I go to actually block the ability for that to happen, it’s because my hidden script of desire is that desire is this neutral structure of Cosmos. In other words, basically, desire is simply a mechanics to be manipulated.
Zak: Yeah, so you manipulate it, and you manipulate society through it, in the way you tinker with an engine, for example.
Marc: Exactly.
In other words, paradoxically, it’s the desire neutral scripts of desire.
Zak: Most dangerous.
Marc: Or this bland, mechanistic, positivistic merged together. It’s mostly desire neutral made with a little desire positive.
Zak: Advertising runs, you have to have some desire positive for advertising.
Marc: Right.
Zak: But you also feel guilty about your desire, because then you do reaction formation.
But yes, it’s very—advertising is fucked.
Your Unique Desire Is Aligned With and Distinctly Additive to the Script of Desire of Reality
Zak: And I would say a couple of additional things here, as we close. It’s often said in the Dharma, which is that the universe is not a fact; it’s a story. It’s a love story.
And this is another angle into that prism, which is a very deep idea.
One way to ground that is that the resolution to the meaning crisis isn’t the idea that everything’s connected to everything else. That’s actually not gonna help you. But the idea that you are woven into a story, literally, resolves the meaning crisis.
Like, actually, literally, technically, from a linguistic standpoint, everything being connected to everything else—I think it was Manson who said, “If everything is one, then nothing is wrong.” But if there’s a story, there are precisely things that are wrong.
Story has protagonists and scripts of desire. So there you can be off. You can miss the mark. You can desire for the wrong thing.
So yeah, there’s a deep need in the culture to clarify this.
Marc: That’s great. Let’s finish exactly with that.
Let’s go back to that piece of CosmoErotic Humanism, which is one of—and it’s in the First Principles and First Values book, David’s book, is:
Reality is not merely a fact. Reality is a story.
Reality is not an ordinary story. Reality is a story of Eros. It’s a love story.
It’s not an ordinary love story. It’s an Evolutionary Love story. Or it’s Eros. Meaning, it’s the quality of Cosmos itself.
And then the key part that you’re pointing towards:
Your story is chapter and verse in The Universe: A Love Story.
So what we’re saying there is—and this is a crazy exciting place to finish—what a story means is a thread of desire. That’s what a story is.
Zak: Yes, precisely.
Marc: A story is: I have a desire. And a story is: a desire for Value.
It’s for the realization of Value, whether it’s the value of personhood, whether it’s the value of creativity, whether it’s the value of depth, whether it’s the value of intimacy.
So Story is a thread of desire. and when we say your story, we mean your unique story, which means your unique quality of desire is chapter and verse, is a script of desire in the Universe: A Love Story, and the script of desire of Reality.
So your script of desire is a unique script of desire in the larger script of Reality.
It’s a gorgeous place. Which is why the clarification of your desire, we move it both from unconscious one to conscious, but then, as you said so beautifully, which is completely correct— we can’t just do the neutral move from unconscious to conscious.
I need to clarify to actually identify the depth of my unique desire, which will be aligned with and distinctly additive to the script of desire of Reality.
Zak: Yeah, beautiful.
Marc: That’s a good reason to be born.
Zak: Yeah, that was well said, sir. I think we clarified some stuff there, man.
Marc: We got started.
Zak: We did. And then, yeah, Saturday, we’ll see David with his Bible.
Marc: If he shows up with the Bible, we’ll show up with ours anyways.
Zak: Yeah, indeed.
Marc: Yay. It was good to talk to you, man.
Zak: Yeah, you too.
Marc: Cha.
Mentioned Sources:
Kincaid, K. & Gafni, M. (forthcoming). The Abridged Phenomenology of Eros. World Philosophy & Religion Press.
Kincaid, K. & Gafni, M. (forthcoming). The Complete Phenomenology of Eros. World Philosophy & Religion Press.
Temple, J. David, First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, World Philosophy and Religion Press, 2024
Mentioned People:
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
Kristina Kincaid
Ken Wilber (1949-)
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
Nachmanides Moses ben Nahman (1194-1270)
Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
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