EP 229 — Dr. Marc Gafni: Love?

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Paul Chek

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Paul explores what love really means, the unique self-medicine that can heal us and why we need more intimacy in our lives (and how to get them) with Dr. Marc Gafni in this Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Marc’s work on his website, where you can register for his free weekly One Mountain, Many Paths program Sundays at 10 a.m. Western Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time. Take Marc’s Unique Self mini-course that’s also free.

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Timestamps

Living in a participatory universe. (11:03)
Fighting with the Dalai Lama. (15:33)
Deconstructing the field of value. (20:52)
A techno-utopia? (32:12)
AI. (44:57)
Unique self-medicine: The only thing that can heal us. (56:03)
“Reality is an outrageous love story.” (1:02:31)
A global intimacy disorder. (1:14:14)
Become conscious of the third. (1:33:42)
Where did value go wrong and how can we reclaim it? (1:47:33)
The intimacy revolution. (1:58:42)
An Eros equation. (2:09:03)
“The God you don’t believe in doesn’t exist.” (2:24:00)
All of us are holy and broken hallelujahs. (2:36:55)
Who are you? (2:44:05)

Resources

Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive and Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment by Dr. Marc Gafni
The Erotic and The Holy: The Kabbalistic Tantra of Hebrew Mysticism by Dr. Marc Gafni (audiobook only)
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Amy Fournier, Aubrey Marcus, James Carse and Dr. Keith Witt

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The most serious existential risk in the world today is polarization.
0:03.6	Yes it is.
0:04.6	And we need to move beyond polarization and that's why it's always important to me to say no
0:09.2	Harare is not motivated by kind of greed.
0:12.1	He's motivated, he's misguided, I think wildly destructive, but he's motivated
0:16.5	by a desire to actually do something good, but he's obliterated the field of value, right?
0:22.0	The back to nature people are not just you know Luddite and anti technology
0:26.1	They're actually sensing something of inherent value in the sacred in nature and I want to always find what on both sides actually has a spark of the sacred.
0:35.6	Let's honor the valleys on both sides, bring them together into a larger hold
0:40.0	because otherwise we just remain part of the polarization.
0:43.6	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chee.
0:46.6	Today Paul is talking with Dr Mark Gaffney.
0:50.0	Dr Gaffney is a visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher.
0:55.0	He is known for his source code teachings including unique self theory, the five selves,
1:01.0	the Amorous Kostmos, a politics of evolutionary love, a return to
1:05.2	Eros and digital intimacy. He is the author of over 25 books, holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
1:16.3	He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating
1:21.2	in the articulation of what Dr Gaffney, together with Dr Zach Stein and colleagues,
1:26.2	are calling Cosmo-erotic Humanism.
1:29.2	If you enjoy today's episode, please consider leaving us a five-star rating and a warm review at the top of the show
1:35.3	page on Spotify or at the bottom of the show page if you are listening on Apple Podcast.
1:40.4	Your opinions matter and your ratings help us to grow and help more people to be healthy find freedom of body and mind and to live their dreams
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