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From the Failure to Participate in the Conspiring of Reality to Conspiracy Theory: On the Failure of Eros, First Principles, and a Portal to Evolution’s Next Step
by Dr. Marc Gafni
This article is an edited Transcript from One Church – Episode 189 – May 24, 2020. You can watch the whole episode on the Watch page of the One Church Website. One Church: Many Paths, One Mountain is a project of our sister organization, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.
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- 1 The Great Conspiring of Reality:
What Do Conspiracy Theories Get Right?
- 1.1 Local Conspiracy Theory
- 1.2 Uncovering False Flags
- 1.3 Global Conspiracy Theories
- 1.4 Regressive Conspiracy Theories: Projection of the Devil.
- 1.5 Five Factors That Are Driving Conspiracy Theories
- 1.5.1 1. Core plotline of reality is broken – We are not part of the great conspiring of reality
- 1.5.1.1 Reality is Eros
- 1.5.1.2 Premodern – Modern – Postmodern: Four modern stories that can’t bring us home
- 1.5.1.3 Success Story
- 1.5.1.4 Romantic story
- 1.5.1.5 Victim Story
- 1.5.1.6 Hero’s journey
- 1.5.1.7 Post-Modernity: deconstructing reality
- 1.5.1.8 Eros is the conspiring of reality.
- 1.5.1.9 Reality is not a fact; it is a story. Reality has direction.
- 1.5.1.10 From ego-centric to world-centric
- 1.5.1.11 What is pseudo-Eros?
- 1.5.2 2. Broken information ecologies – Violation of intimacy – Reality is information
- 1.5.2.1 Information genuinely is the codes of meaning of Kosmos, the codes of intimacy.
- 1.5.2.2 Broken information ecologies – violation of intimacy – second violation of Eros
- 1.5.2.3 Definition of intimacy
- 1.5.2.4 Intimacy = shared identity in the context of (relative) otherness + mutuality of recognition + mutuality of purpose + mutuality of pathos.
- 1.5.3 3. Eros of Being is in lockdown
- 1.5.4 4. Strategies of pseudo-Eros don’t work
- 1.5.5 5. We need a story that’s equal to our experience of reality.
- 1.5.1 1. Core plotline of reality is broken – We are not part of the great conspiring of reality
- 1.6 PART TWO: What do conspiracy theories get right?
- 1.7 PART 3: Hyperobjects Are Created by Simple First Principles.
- 1.8 PART 4: When you change the first principles you actually change the entire nature of the field. The new story is actually a new configuration of intimacy.
- 1.9 PART 5: The Breakdown of Corona Is an Expression of a Non-Intimate Universe
- 1.10 PART 6: We Download New First Simple Principles into Our Entire Technological Matrix. The Great Conspiring of Reality in Which We Participate.
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The Great Conspiring of Reality:
What Do Conspiracy Theories Get Right?On every news channel in the world in the last six or seven weeks, the conversation is around one thing. The conversation is around conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theory has moved from the periphery of culture, from its fringe to its center. Why has conspiracy theory moved from fringe to center, at this particular moment in time? And why do we need to talk about it, why does it matter? In newspapers in Asia and in Europe and in South America and in Africa, all over the United States, Mexico, Canada, why is conspiracy theory in the mainstream media the lead item? Why is it so critical for us to understand this?
Because it’s actually speaking to something unbelievably important. The sensemaking that we need to do is to understand this in the largest light. The sensemaking that’s being done around conspiracy theory, there is some truth, there are some good things being said, but it’s so shallow, almost insipid, pallid. Neither the conspiracy theorists don’t understand the mainstream media, the mainstream media doesn’t understand the conspiracy theorists. Both of them dismiss each other. It’s an expression of the larger polarization, the larger culture war.
Why are we attracted to conspiracy theory? Why is it driving the click bait structure of the virtual world? What is attractive in it? Where is the allurement? Where is the attraction? That’s the deep question. Anyone who believes every conspiracy theory is a fool. Anyone who doesn’t believe any conspiracy theories is also a fool, perhaps a greater fool.
- 1 The Great Conspiring of Reality:
What Do Conspiracy Theories Get Right?
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Reality Bites: Conspiracy Theories & Broken Information Ecology
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On the Invisible Hands: Eros, Pseudo-Eros, and Missing First Principles
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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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- From the Failure to Participate in the Conspiring of Reality to Conspiracy Theory: On the Failure of Eros, First Principles, and a Portal to Evolution’s Next Step
- Reality Bites: Conspiracy Theories & Broken Information Ecology
- Corona: A Crisis of Imagination, A Crisis of Intimacy
- Short Notes on Sense Making in Crisis
- Spiritual Sense Making in Times of Crisis
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