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This book is a call to reclaim value as real—because the future of the world depends on it. We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories, as the very existence of humanity is threatened by a meta-crisis. The meta-crisis is a series of interlocking social, political, educational, climate and technological crises, that we can all see and feel in our lives. So what do we do? First, we need clear sensemaking—we need to understand where this meta-crisis is coming from? In this series of oral essays, we diagnose the root cause: a global intimacy disorder resulting from our personal and collective alienation from the Field of Value. Shared value is the ground of intimacy. Therefore, our dissociation from the Field of Value is direct cause for the meta crisis whose root is self-evidently a global intimacy disorder. As such, we have lost touch with each other and with Reality itself; we are no longer intimate with ourselves, with each other or with the Cosmos; we are alienated from the Field of Value, which is all of Reality itself. This is what we term the global intimacy disorder. Our only response to this critical moment is to listen for the call of the future. The new Story of Value is a memory of the future. We must weave together the leading edge validated insights from all of the premodern, modern, and postmodern streams of wisdom into a new story. In this new story, value is both eternal and evolving, for indeed opposites are joined at the hip in myriad ways at the very heart of Cosmos. We must tell a new Story of Value rooted in First Principles and First Values, and in doing so we create the very future which calls us forth.
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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