The Books
The Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism
The Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism is a body of work being written to articulate A New Story of Value in response to global existential risk.
This New Story of Value is being written by integrating the best validated insights across all domains of human thought, from the external sciences, like physics and biology, to the internal sciences, like philosophy and spirituality.
The Library will grow to approximately 100 volumes over the coming decade. The books below are the first wave.
Each volume is available on Amazon in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Begin wherever calls to you.
First Principles and First Values
Forty Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta Crisis, and the World to Come
by David J. Temple (Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zachary Stein, with Ken Wilber)
Role in the Great Library: The flagship volume. The most rigorous, formal articulation of the New Story of Value to date and its forty two foundational propositions. Start here if you want to understand the architecture of the entire movement of CosmoErotic Humanism.
We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories. First Principles and First Values offers forty two propositions toward a New Story of Value capable of meeting the meta crisis of our moment. Drawing on integrated wisdom from the great traditions and the leading edges of science, the book lays the foundation for CosmoErotic Humanism, a vision of cosmos, evolution, and human becoming rooted in intrinsic value, Eros, and the dignity of the irreducibly Unique Self.
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A Return to Eros
The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive
by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid
Role in the Great Library: The foundational text on Eros. Reveals the radical tenets of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. The portal into how Eros is the animating force of cosmos itself.
A Return to Eros uncovers the secret teaching that the sexual models the erotic in every dimension of life. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid weave mysticism, psychology, and lived experience into a luminous map of Eros as the animating force of reality, showing how presence, fullness of being, yearning, allurement, interiority, and the pleasure of creativity are the very texture of an awakened life.
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Your Unique Self
The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment
by Dr. Marc Gafni
Role in the Great Library: The cornerstone of Unique Self Theory, CosmoErotic Humanism's response to the great question of personal identity: Who are you? Award winning, foundational, the gateway to understanding what it means to be human, and what you're intended to do in this lifetime.
Award winning and field defining, Your Unique Self introduces a third stage of enlightenment beyond ego and impersonal awareness. With a foreword and afterword by Ken Wilber, Marc Gafni reveals that you are an irreducibly unique expression of the love intelligence and love beauty of All That Is, with a singular gift the world cannot live without. Reading this book is an initiation into the recognition of your own essential identity.
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Whole Mate
The Future of Relationships
by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard, foreword by Aubrey Marcus
Role in the Great Library: A new operating system for relationships. Whole Mate names the next stage of human relating from friendship to romantic partnership, opening the path of evolutionary relationship as a vehicle for awakening and planetary transformation.
Drawn from years of dialogue between Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard, Whole Mate offers a vision of the relationship of the future. Romance, marriage, and partnership as we have known them are breaking down. In their place a new structure is being born, the evolutionary couple, whose love serves not only one another but the awakening of consciousness and the becoming of a new humanity. With a foreword by Aubrey Marcus, Whole Mate is both intimate teaching and cultural manifesto for an era in which Eros, partnership, and purpose are inseparable.
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The Evolution of Love
From Quarks to Culture — The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta Crisis
by Dr. Marc Gafni, foreword by Aubrey Marcus
Role in the Great Library: This book shows how love is actually the force that drives all of evolution. It traces the full evolutionary arc of love, from quarks (subatomic particles) to culture.
Story is the source code of culture and consciousness. The Evolution of Love tells a New Story of Value, tracing love as the deep structure of reality from the first allurements of subatomic particles to the highest reaches of human culture. Marc Gafni shows how the rise of evolutionary relationships, intimate, communal, and civilizational, is precisely the response that the meta crisis is calling forth from us, and how to step consciously into our role as evolutionary lovers awake to the love story of the cosmos.
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A growing series of nearly 40 volumes
The Oral Essays library is a series of lightly edited, compiled transcripts of Dr. Marc Gafni's oral teachings. Where the formal volumes of the Great Library provide the rigorous intellectual underpinnings of the New Story of Value, the Oral Essays serve as the entryway, the spoken word transmission that stirs and awakens a new idea of what it means to be human.
Featured Volumes
The Existential Risk of Technology: The Death of Our Humanity
Reclaiming Value, Intimacy, and Outrageous Love in the Digital Age
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The Path of Outrageous Love: The Emergence of Homo Amor
Towards a Planetary Awakening in Love Through Unique Self Symphonies
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World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity
Reclaiming Value in a Time Between Stories — The Evolution of Outrageous Love and the Universal Grammar of Value
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Barbie, Hamas and Oppenheimer
Denied, Degraded and Distorted Versions of the Universe: A Love Story — The Denial of "Ken and Barbie" Is Direct Cause for Existential Risk
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Story Is Real
Reality Is a Story of Value, Rooted in First Principles and First Values — Only a New Story of Value Can Respond to Existential and Catastrophic Risk
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The Crossing: The Only Response to Existential Risk
The Eight Injunctions from Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor — Crossing Over to the Side of Love
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