EPISODE 229
Dr. Marc Gafni: Love?
Paul explores what love really means, the unique self-medicine that can heal us and why we need more intimacy in our lives (and how to get it) with Dr. Marc Gafni in this Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Marc’s work on his website where you can register for his free, weekly One Mountain, Many Paths program Sundays at 10 a.m. Western Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time. Take Marc’s Unique Self mini-course that’s also free.
Check out Marc on many social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube.
SHOW NOTES
- AI. Living in a participatory universe. (11:03)
- Fighting with the Dalai Lama. (15:33)
- Deconstructing the field of value. (20:52)
- A techno-utopia? (32:12)
- AI. (44:57)
- Unique self-medicine: The only thing that can heal us. (56:03)
- “Reality is an outrageous love story.” (1:02:31)
- A global intimacy disorder. (1:14:14)
- Become conscious of the third. (1:33:42)
- Where did value go wrong and how can we reclaim it? (1:47:33)
- The intimacy revolution. (1:58:42)
- An Eros equation. (2:09:03)
- “The God you don’t believe in doesn’t exist.” (2:24:00)
- All of us are holy and broken hallelujahs. (2:36:55)
- Who are you? (2:44:05)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive and Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment by Dr. Marc Gafni
- The Erotic and The Holy: The Kabbalistic Tantra of Hebrew Mysticism by Dr. Marc Gafni (audiobook only)
- Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
- The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear
- Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
- CosmoErotic Humanism
- The work of Jean Gebser, Marie-Louise von Franz, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen and Henry Corbin
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Amy Fournier, Aubrey Marcus, James Carse and Dr. Keith Witt
- The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
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- You’ve had, what I like to call, The Pull. What I mean by that is you know you’re meant for something more—you feel it, maybe you’ve felt it for years—but you’re stuck in work that doesn’t align, unclear about your exact purpose, and you don’t know how to bridge the gap between where you are and where you are being called to.
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- You want to learn from someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. I’ve spent 40+ years helping people find their path and live aligned with their purpose—in all sorts of situations and life stages (some challenges you may have never even heard of!). I know what it takes to go from stuck to living your purpose, and I’m going to show you exactly how.
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