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In this book, we point towards the ontologies of story and value. Story is real. And value is real. That is the reality consideration that we engage in this book. Along the way we engage Yuval Harari’s rejection of the ontology of both Story and Value. Harari is perhaps the most popular parrot of the postmodern zeitgeist at this moment in time. Harari’s key idea is that we need a new story around which open societies can cohere in order to respond to the meta crisis. However, Harari insists that all stories are nothing but fictional social constructs and that value itself is but a delusion, a human contrivance. This is a sure recipe for totalitarianism. It implies that a fictional story must be made up and imposed on the population through some form of totalitarian control, whether overt or covert. In response to the deconstruction of Story and Value we must tell a new Story of Value that is aligned with the truth of Reality: Story is real. Value is real. Story and value are both eternal and evolving. The leading-edge sources in the interior and exterior sciences now point towards a deeper realization: Reality is not merely a fact; Reality is a story. Reality is not an ordinary story; Reality is a Love Story, a Story of Eros Value. But the story of Reality, like all love stories, is unfinished. Your love story is chapter and verse in the Universe: A Love Story. How you live your story changes Reality itself. The ultimate categorical imperative of Reality is therefore: live your story!
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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