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This book explores the dangers of a broken sensemaking and information ecology in a time between worlds and time between stories. We are faced with two bad alternatives: to blindly dismiss all conspiracy theories or to blindly buy into all their claims. Both are wrong choices. The proliferation of conspiracy theories themselves is rooted in the broken sensemaking and polluted information ecology that is one of the demarcating features of our time. It’s in this fertile ground of void without value that the contrived versions of the conspiracy theories flourish. The collapse of plotlines, the loss of true north, and the belief that value is a fiction leave a void of Eros, which is always covered over with pseudo-eros. False conspiracy is a form of pseudo-eros that we use to fill the emptiness that comes when we are disconnected from the narrative arc of value and intimacy. Our response must be to tell a new Story of Value based on valid First Principles and First Values, rooted in the scientific realization that the Universe is a Love Story. In a healthy sensemaking ecology, we must again find the real conspiracy—the great conspiring, the great breathing together, of Reality that happens at all levels, animated by Outrageous Love.
Dr. Marc Gafni has been described as a world philosopher — a kind of galaxy heart brain — integrating wisdom from across multiple disciplines into what he has called a New Story of Value in response to the meta-crisis. One cultural critic described Gafni as a cross between Einstein, Da Vinci, and Rumi, with a dash of Robin Williams working at the cutting edge of the new narrative, collaborating with a team of leading-edge thinkers articulating a new vision of meaning for the world. Another wrote, “Gafni thinks in terms of panoramic vision but with an attention to intricate nuance and detail, which together generate a level of beauty and truth that, as Michael Murphy wrote, changes the game. And yet, he has the capacity to speak to virtually any audience with a direct sincerity, passion, and simple precision that melts hearts and blows open minds.” The renowned feminist theorist, cultural critic, and spiritual teacher Sally Kempton described Gafni as one of the great heart masters of this generation. Gafni is playing a pivotal role in evolving a new dharma or meta-theory of meaning overflowing with heart — a new set of distinctions that is helping to re-shape key pivoting points in global consciousness and culture. Gafni’s doctorate is from Oxford University with a masters degree from Bar Ilan University. He holds an orthodox rabbinic certification from the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and non-denominational rabbinic ordination. He is the author of forty books, of which only the first twelve have been published, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.
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