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• Reality Bites: Conspiracy Theories & Broken Information Ecology

  
  

  Contents

  • 1 On the Invisible Hands: Eros, Pseudo-Eros, and Missing First Principles
    • 1.1 Featured Clip with Dr. Marc Gafni
    • 1.2 Watch & Share This Important Clip
    • 1.3 If you are NEW to One Church: Many Paths, One Mountain, register HERE:
  • 2 Final Installment of Our Series on Conspiracy Theories
    • 2.1 Join Dr. Marc Gafni in Unfolding in the Clip Above
  • 3 From Dogma to Dharma:
    • 3.1 The New Story Is a New Configuration of Intimacy

  On the Invisible Hands: Eros, Pseudo-Eros, and Missing First Principles

  Featured Clip with Dr. Marc Gafni

  This is the final installment of our great series on conspiracy theories. It is a great summation and up-leveling, connecting the dots in entirely new and exciting ways.

  This final week was a recapitulation of the major points that Dr. Marc has made about conspiracy theories and their place in the world for the last seven or eight weeks.

  We want to thank the many thousands of people who tuned in, sharing their appreciation, insight, and life force.

  For a brief summation and some beautiful quotes from the clip, see below.

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  These are very special intimate moments of deep study, coupled with the most beautiful practice, contemplation, and activism.

  One Church: Many Paths, One Mountain is an independent initiative emergent from the Center and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and their respective founders, Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard. It the crucial next step of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and we audaciously believe that this initiative – together with many other emergent initiatives around the world – is a crucial next step for in the Evolution of Love itself.

  We believe this is the most potent and promising path to further the realization of the great vision of Barbara Marx Hubbard, Dr. Marc Gafni, and their colleagues, a “Planetary Awakening in Love through Unique Self Symphonies.”

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  Final Installment of Our Series on Conspiracy Theories

  Join Dr. Marc Gafni in Unfolding in the Clip Above

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• Corona: A Crisis of Imagination, A Crisis of Intimacy

  
  

  by Dr. Marc Gafni and James Bampfield

  
  

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  A crisis has swept over our planet. As the virus has woven itself into the fabric of society, so have many aspects of our ordinary lives unraveled. We may be in fear about our health and that of our dear ones. We may find ourselves locked down at home, we may have found that our work has ground to a halt. Almost certainly, many of our plans have disintegrated like sandcastles in the oncoming tide. This wind of collective change is probably the strongest many of us in the developed world have felt in our lifetime.

  Life feels different. The world feels a different place.

  Instability and uncertainty are here to stay for a while.

  In times of crisis, there are two equally important responses.

  The first is immediate and practical: help and protect those most affected. Attend to the frontline of suffering and disruption.

  Acknowledge and feel the hardships round the world, acknowledge the privileged bubble in which many of us live – just having a garden is a massive bonus right now. Do what we need to do, take social responsibility.

  The second imperative of a crisis is to make sense of it and learn from it. Crisis is an ‘evolutionary driver.’ Crisis is a potential birth. If we look at the way evolution has worked in all domains – biologically, psychologically, culturally, politically, economically, spiritually – it has often taken a crisis to precipitate the next level of development.

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• Short Notes on Sense Making in Crisis

  
  

  Contents

  • • 0.0.1 By Dr. Marc Gafni
  • 0.1 >>> Download the Full Paper HERE <<<
  • 0.2 >>> Download the Full Paper HERE <<<
  • 1 Sense Making in Crisis
  • 2 Decentralized Sense Making
  • 3 The Realization of Unique Self
  • 4 Blessed by Unique Self Heroes
  • 5 The Next Step in Sense Making: Not Returning to Business as Usual
  • 6 Our Crisis Is a Birth: Birthing the New Narratives
  • 7 Outrageous Pain: Outrageous Love
  • 8 Eros
  • 9 The Infinity of Intimacy
  • 10 The Fact Pattern of Corona: Expressions of the Global Intimacy Disorder
  • 11 New Stories: Conscious Evolution and the Intimate Universe
  • 12 Flawed Sense Making in Corona: Spiritual Bypassing and the Hubris of Control
  • 13 From Unbearable Intimacy to the Intimate Universe
  • 14 The Evolution of Intimacy
  • 15 The Fear of Death: The First Shock of Existence
  • 16 Forms of Avoidance
  • 17 Death Demands Our Deepest Integrity
  • 18 The Second Shock of Existence: From Catastrophic to Existential Risk
  • 19 New Languages Tell New Stories
  • 20 New Stories Emerge from the Second Shock
  • 21 Flaws in the Storyline of Modernity
  • 22 The Truth that Heroes Know
  • 23 Just in Time for a Time Like This
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  By Dr. Marc Gafni

  
  

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  Note from the Editor: This article is based on the transcript of an oral talk given by Dr. Marc Gafni towards the end of March, 2020 as well as a longer article by Dr. Marc Gafni. The original talk is found here:
  

  
  

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  Sense Making in Crisis

  As I churn through an inbox filled each day with articles, questions, and commentary about the Corona virus, I see the incredible range of our response. I read about health care workers risking their lives to save the dying, and friends sharing recipes and cocktails on Zoom, and everything in between. I say this with no judgment—there is no one way to respond to such a crisis. But whatever our response, most of us are asking what sense we can make of the meteorlike (but actually well-predicted) arrival of Covid-19 in our presence. The crisis reveals our lack of a map, and the need to articulate a new one. We need a shared story that includes but is underneath all our experience, no matter how varied. This is a time for sense making, both personal and collective. A shared story includes a sense of where we are—a shared universe story, together with who we are—a shared narrative of identity, and what we should be doing—a shared ethos.

  Decentralized Sense Making

  We need this because we live in a moment of decentralized sense making. We cannot rely on the government, the universities, the press, or the religious institutions and the alternative churches of the human potential movement in its New Age varieties. There is wisdom in each of those, but they are as fragmented as our sense of larger patterns and larger worldviews is fractured. We need to find our way back to a vision of goodness, truth, and beauty, based on the best information in the interior and exterior sciences that we have available to us. By exterior science I mean the hard and soft sciences with their measurement, experimentation, and data collection. By interior sciences, I mean the validated gnosis interior experience—the world of spirit, feeling, and inner wisdom. Together they are teaching us where we are, who we are, and what needs to be done in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

  The Realization of Unique Self

  We are in a powerful moment of evolutionary reset. We have the potential now to redefine our identities as humans. The central knowing that is crystalizing in this evolutionary moment, sourced in the interior sciences, is that each of us is a Unique Self, with a unique perspective, quality of self and capacity for action. Our Unique Self is not simply our talent as separate monadic units. According to the best of the interior and exterior sciences, we are each—not fundamentally apart but rather—part of the larger whole of existence. But we are distinct parts. Each of us are unique emergents of the entire system. We are unique configurations of the larger field of life and consciousness. And therefore, we each have a unique gift to give that is needed by the whole. That is our core identity.

  Blessed by Unique Self Heroes

  This understanding of identity has not yet emerged into society. But more people are recognizing that we are not cogs in a production machine, nor merely a monadic separate self in a win-lose success struggle but rather—I am a Unique Self—had not yet emerged into society. The separate self identity still dominates culture almost entirely. But with the crisis of Covid-19 we have been blessed with so many heroes, Unique Selves in action every single one of them. Heroes, like poets, are often several steps ahead of culture. And as Unique Self the first response that our sense making demands is unique action. That is what it means to be the hero of your own life.

  In the face of tremendous tragedy and urgent need we have seen so many people step up to give whatever unique gifts they have. They are not waiting for direction from others—they are putting their lives on the line and supporting others in every way possible. They are doctors coming out of retirement, they are teenagers delivering food, they are neighbors staging a drive-by birthday party complete with horns and balloons, they are sewing masks, they are applauding health care workers every night from their balconies, they are telephoning people who live alone, they are sending money to first responders and restaurant workers who lost their jobs. This is beautiful to experience, and tells us everything about one major thread of human nature—our inherent capacity to align with goodness and love even at great risk to ourselves. That makes sense only if we feel our identities to be unique and needed expressions of the large field of consciousness and love, not separate selves essentially alienated from the whole.

  The immediate steps in sense making take place in the context of actions like these. The very first thing that needs to be done is to heal the sick, to have enough ventilators, to have enough beds in hospitals, to protect those who work in them, to make sure that everyone has access to basic necessities as we face a new economy.

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