EP 288 — Dr. Marc Gafni: First Principles and Values

Living 4D with Paul Chek

Our planet is suffering so deeply from a global intimacy disorder, is it even possible to turn things around?

Dr. Marc Gafni returns to share his newest work, First Principles and First Values (a collaboration with Dr. Zak Stein under the pseudonym David J. Temple), as a possible blueprint for a new and better way forward in this Living 4D conversation.
Register for his free, weekly Evolutionary Sensemaking program on Sundays at 10 a.m. Western Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time and receive Chapters 1-4 of his book, Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, for free. Take his free Unique Self mini-course. Grab your free audiobook, The Erotic and The Holy, at this link.
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Timestamps

• The value of stories. (7:51)
• A pivotal generation. (18:31)
• A cosmic story of value. (28:40)
• “We live in an amorous cosmos.” (32:25)
• “We are music.” (45:00)
• Is there no true shared field of values? (53:50)
• Moving from dogma to dharma. (1:03:26)
• Evolutionary love. (1:08:58)
• Eros defined. (1:12:08)
• How do you become a world-changer? (1:20:29)
• “God is a verb.” (1:37:32)
• A unique configuration of intimacy. (1:42:38)
• “God is the infinite intimate.” (1:55:38)

Resources

• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
• The Imitation Game
• The Vulnerable World Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom
• Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
• Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James Carse
• The work of Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. James Shapiro
• Paul’s Living 4D conversation with James Tunney

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Rozdziały

1. Evolutionary love. (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:00)

3. The value of stories. (00:07:51)

4. A pivotal generation. (00:18:31)

5. Organifi (00:23:40)

6. A cosmic story of value. (00:28:40)

7. “We live in an amorous cosmos.” (00:32:25)

8. “We are music.” (00:45:00)

9. CHEK Institute HLC1 (00:49:09)

10. Is there no true shared field of values? (00:53:50)

11. Moving from dogma to dharma. (01:03:26)

12. Evolutionary love. (01:08:58)

13. Eros defined. (01:12:58)

14. Paleovalley (01:15:40)

15. How do you become a world-changer? (01:20:29)

16. “God is a verb.” (01:37:32)

17. BiOptimizers (01:38:47)

18. A unique configuration of intimacy. (01:42:38)

19. “God is the infinite intimate.” (01:55:38)