377 — Outrageously Loving Your Way Through the Meta-Crisis With Dr. Marc Gafni

What does love really mean in these postmodern times? Is it merely rejecting the old and embracing the old or something else entirely?

Dr. Marc Gafni redefines how quarks and love co-exist seamlessly in the universe and explains why you should be writing your sacred autobiography this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Marc’s work on his website where you can register for his free, weekly Evolutionary Sensemaking program 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 Marc’s Unique Self mini-course that’s also free. Download Marc’s free audiobook, The Erotic and The Holy, at this link.

Also, check out Marc’s work on the Office For the Future and the Center For World Philosophy and Religion.

Find Marc on many social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok and Substack.

Timestamps

4:20 Marc has proposed a public conversation with Prof. Yuval Noah Harari about his undermining of the very fabric of the cosmos.

11:44 What’s wrong with social media — the first wave of AI — hijacking your attention?

20:51 “Literally, there are love notes exchanged between the quarks.” 

25:41 The need for a new world religion, as a context for our diversity.

29:33 Uniqueness — a first principle and value — is not an act of separation.

38:20 “Information is meaning and value.”

50:18 The four meanings of amen.

1:10:39 The ultimate postmodern question about love.

Resources

The Evolution of Love From Quarks to Culture: The Rise of Evolutionary Relationships in Response to the Meta-Crisis by Dr. Marc Gafni

1984: 75th Anniversary by George Orwell

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 4:20 Marc has proposed a public conversation with Prof. Yuval Noah Harari about his undermining of the very fabric of the cosmos.
• 11:44 What’s wrong with social media — the first wave of AI — hijacking your attention?
• 20:51 “Literally, there are love notes exchanged between the quarks.”
• 23:59 Paleovalley
• 25:41 The need for a new world religion, as a context for our diversity.
• 29:33 Uniqueness — a first principle and value — is not an act of separation.
• 38:20 “Information is meaning and value.”
• 42:52 Organifi
• 53:18 The four meanings of amen.
• 1:02:23 Korrect
• 1:10:39 The ultimate postmodern question about love.
• 1:13:54 “Love is an eternal value and it is evolving.”
• 1:23:02 Two decades: The time it took Marc to figure out the nine qualities of story.
• 1:25:14 CHEK Institute
• 1:40:30 What is more important than awareness?
• 1:48:25 What is more important than any knowledge one could acquire?
• 1:59:06 A placeholder for scientific materialism.
• 2:06:33 Have you written your very own sacred autobiography?
• 2:14:41 “Soulmates are what I call the tragic level of relationship.”
• 2:22:30 When love is removed from reality, it disappears.