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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 246 — Dr. Marc Gafni: Awakening to Love

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Religion & Spirituality, Wellness, Society & Culture, Plant Medicine, Relationships, Alternative Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Paul Chek, Spirituality, Sexuality, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Development

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Marc Gafni returns to the podcast, joining Paul on a deeper dive into love, eros, Cosmo-erotic humanism and the relationship between certainty and uncertainty 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.

Check out Marc on many social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube.

Timestamps

  • Love is a perception, not an emotion. (12:30)
  • An interior science equation for eros. (18:54)
  • Awareness or full throbbing aliveness. (26:38)
  • Cosmo-erotic humanism. (37:06)
  • Why eros matters. (40:37)
  • Why do you care? (50:15)
  • “You can’t about love without talking about obligation.” (57:04)
  • The field of value. (1:21:25)
  • Moving from polarization to paradox. (1:32:09)
  • Are belief systems damaging and dangerous? (1:43:03)
  • The relationship between certainty and uncertainty. (1:52:09)
  • Reclaiming the divinity of need. (1:59:42)
  • The 8 core eros needs. (2:07:17)

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Transcript

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the relationship between certainty and uncertainty.

0:03.8

So in the old religion, one of its mistakes was it identified certainty with the holy and uncertainty with the devil, one way or the other doubt was the devil and so you had to actually have belief you were supposed to believe which was your certainty and it was a certainty that it is true. If you don't believe that it is true,

0:24.8

whether that's virginity postpartum or the way that Mohammed and Allah

0:29.0

interacted or the chosenness of the Jews, whatever it happens to be,

0:33.2

or the Tibetan Buddhist superiority.

0:34.8

If you don't believe in that,

0:36.5

you don't have certainty about that,

0:37.9

then somehow the devils enter the conversation.

0:40.6

And that's exactly not right. What we actually need to do is not...

0:45.0

It's too childish. It's not to know, right, or to believe if you will, but in the highest sense,

0:52.0

not to know that it is true it's to know that I am true

0:56.2

Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chet. Today Paul welcomes back Dr Mark Gaffney.

1:07.6

Dr Gaffney is a visionary thinker, social activist and a passionate philosopher. He is known for his source code teachings including unique self theory, the five Cells, The Amorous Cosmos,

1:14.5

A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros, and Digital Intimacy.

1:19.9

He is the author of over 25 books and holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox

1:26.7

rabbanic ordination. He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West,

1:32.1

with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gathney,

1:36.4

together with Dr. Zach Stein and colleagues, are calling Cosmo-erotic Humanism.

1:41.4

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1:46.7

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1:51.0

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1:52.0

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