Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds

By Articulating a new worldview in response to existential risk

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Study the weekly live teachings with Dr. Marc Gafni, through these lightly edited transcripts of "Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds", published every Friday. Join the teachings LIVE every Sunday, register for free: onemountainmanypaths.org

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Episode Date
524—FROM PREDICTION TO PROPHECY TO POLITICS: EROS, IMAGINATION, FANTASY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO AMOR
Oct 30, 2026
523—The Wounded God Meets the Wounded Human: Prayer Becomes Prophecy—And We All Come Home
Oct 23, 2026
522—From Unique Wound to Unique Self to Unique Prophecy: Responding to the Meta-crisis with the Democratization of Prophecy
Oct 17, 2026
521—From Unique Wound to Unique Prophecy: Recovering Your Unique Song as Homo Amor, the New Human and the New Humanity
Oct 10, 2026
520—The Collapse of Mental Health, the Meta-Crisis and the Birth of the New Human—From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor
Oct 02, 2026
519—Born to Transform: The 10 Insights of Purpose that Live in You, As You, and through You
Sep 26, 2026
511—Reclaiming “The Odyssey” as a Story of Value: The New Hero, the Recovery of Memory, and the Field of Value in Response to the Meta-Crisis | Dr. Marc Gafni with Andrew Sweeny
Aug 09, 2026
510—Only First Principles and First Values Can Solve the Meta-Crisis: The First Principle and First Value of Conversation; The Conversational Cosmos Part 2
Jul 25, 2026
509—A Tribute to Sally Kempton, Swami Durgananda, Marking Three Years Since Her Transition
Jul 20, 2026
508—The Conversational Cosmos: The First Principle and First Value of Conversation in Response to the Meta-Crisis
Jul 13, 2026
507—Is AI Conscious? Dr. Marc Gafni with Dr. Zak Stein
Jul 05, 2026
506—On the Evolution of Prayer Which Is the Evolution of Love: The Erotic Intensity of Conversation Between the Infinite Intimate (God) and the Infinite Intimate as Thee (You)
Jun 27, 2026
505—When Is There a Right to Be Forgiven?
Jun 20, 2026
504—The Eros of “Teshuvah”: The LoveDesire of Cosmos Reaching Towards Wholeness
Jun 08, 2026
503—Teshuva as Eros: The LoveDesire of Reality—Returning to Wholeness
Jun 07, 2026
502—Towards a New Story of Sin, Forgiveness, and Transformation
Jun 06, 2026
501—Sin Means the Cosmos Cares What You Do: Reclaiming Sin as Post-Tragic Characteristic of Humanity
Jun 05, 2026
500—Reconfiguring the Past In the Present: The Journey to Wholeness through Teshuva—The Transfiguration of Reality
May 17, 2026
499—Reality Is a Love Story Between Time and Eternity
May 09, 2026
495—On the Resurrection of Time: Loving the Moment Open in Rewriting the Past through the Portal of Desire
Apr 15, 2026
494—The Politics of Desire—The Three Paths: Fundamentalism, Liberal Postmodernism and the New Story of Value—CosmoErotic Humanism
Apr 04, 2026
493—Five Responses to a World in Crisis—Unbearable Pain, Unbearable Beauty—Iran, Ukraine, Sudan, Israel, Gaza, Congo, and the List Goes on…
Mar 28, 2026
‌492—The Pre-tragic, Tragic and and Post-tragic Responses to Evil and Suffering
Mar 21, 2026
491—Making Sense of Iran, The Command to Sacrifice and the Democratization of Heroism
Mar 16, 2026
490—It Is Evil Not to Wage War against Nazism: War Is Always Horrific
Mar 08, 2026
488—Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Feel and Doesn't Care
Feb 21, 2026
Episode 275 From the “Need to Be Desired” to the “Right to Be Desired” (Don't Look Up Part 3)
Jan 16, 2026
Healing Ontological Shame through the Dignity of Ontological Need | Dr. Marc Gafni 477
Nov 30, 2025
We Need to Be Needed and We Need to Need | Dr. Marc Gafni 476
Nov 24, 2025
The Moral Obligation to Clarify Power | Dr. Marc Gafni 475
Nov 17, 2025
The Unbearable Dignity of Need | Dr. Marc Gafni #474
Nov 09, 2025
Re-Ligaring Need in the Eros of Cosmos Part 2 | Dr. Marc Gafni #473
Nov 02, 2025
Re-Ligaring Law and Value in the Eros of Cosmos Part 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni #472
Nov 01, 2025
Live Dangerously: Take Your Unique Risk!—The Only True Safety | Dr. Marc Gafni #471
Oct 31, 2025
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah: From Level 1 Religion to Level 2 Spirituality to Level 3 Spiritual Religion and Religious Spirituality | Dr. Marc Gafni #470
Oct 21, 2025
Captain of Your FATE that Is Bound up with the Destiny of the Whole | Dr. Marc Gafni #469
Oct 21, 2025
Why Spirituality Is Dead and Religion Must Be Reborn | Dr. Marc Gafni #468
Sep 28, 2025
Charlie Kirk: Four Litmus Tests to Stay in Conversation Beyond Polarization | Dr. Marc Gafni 467
Sep 21, 2025
Talk to God Part 4 | Dr. Marc Gafni 439
Mar 09, 2025
Talk to God Part 3 | Dr. Marc Gafni 438
Mar 02, 2025
Talk to God Part 2 | Dr. Marc Gafni 437
Feb 23, 2025
Value and Anti-Value, Story and Anti-Story Part 5 of 5 | Dr. Marc Gafni 433
Jan 26, 2025
Value and Anti-Value, Story and Anti-Story Part 4 of 5 | Dr. Marc Gafni 432
Jan 19, 2025
Value and Anti Value, Story and Anti Story Part 3 of 5 | Dr. Marc Gafni 431
Jan 12, 2025
Value and Anti-Value, Story and Anti-Story — part 2 of 5 | Dr Marc Gafni 430
Jan 05, 2025
Why Moving Beyond Your Story Is Not Enough | Dr. Marc Gafni 429
Dec 29, 2024
Attention Liberates from Loneliness | Dr. Marc Gafni 428
Dec 22, 2024
The Void is Real and There is a Way Home! | Dr. Marc Gafni 427
Dec 15, 2024
Love Is Not an Algorithm | Dr. Marc Gafni 426
Dec 08, 2024
My Fair Lady: Programmed or Loved into Existence? Part 2 | Dr. Marc Gafni 425
Dec 01, 2024
My Fair Lady: Responding to Techno Feudalist Utopianism - Part 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni 424
Nov 24, 2024
The Unique Obligation to Take YOUR Unique Risk | Dr. Marc Gafni #423
Nov 17, 2024
USA Elections: What Does It Mean to Partner With God in This Moment? | Dr. Marc Gafni #422
Nov 10, 2024
“America for Americans?” Vs. “There Are No Strangers and No Immigrants” | Dr. Marc Gafni #421
Nov 03, 2024
Intimacy Is Conversation | Dr. Marc Gafni #420
Oct 27, 2024
On Prophets Scientists Channels and Unique Self: | Dr. Marc Gafni #419 (One Mountain Many Paths)
Oct 20, 2024
No “NEXUS” Without Shared Value: Response to Yuval Harari 417
Oct 14, 2024
Channeling: The Danger and the Need in This Time of Meta-Crisis | Dr. Marc Gafni #418 (One Mountain Many Paths)
Oct 13, 2024
No “NEXUS” Without Shared Value | Dr. Marc Gafni #417
Oct 06, 2024
From Orwell to Skinner to Harari | Dr. Marc Gafni #416
Sep 29, 2024
Why Yuval Harari Got It So Wrong Part 2 | Dr. Marc Gafni #415
Sep 22, 2024
Yuval Harari Got It So Wrong! | Dr. Marc Gafni #414
Sep 15, 2024
Mad Love: When Madness Becomes Sanity | Dr. Marc Gafni #413
Sep 08, 2024
What is One Mountain? What are we doing here? (Part 2)
Aug 24, 2024
Why First Principles and First Values Should Matter So Insanely Much | Dr. Marc Gafni #391
Aug 19, 2024
Cosmos Is Hungry for Value | Dr. Marc Gafni #407
Jul 28, 2024
Love Insanely! | Dr. Marc Gafni #406
Jul 21, 2024
Is There a Battle Between Good and Evil? | Dr. Marc Gafni #405
Jul 14, 2024
Live Your Story | Dr. Marc Gafni #404
Jul 07, 2024
The Future of Humanity| Dr. Marc Gafni #402
Jun 23, 2024
“Life Is a Series of Conversations” | Dr. Marc Gafni #401
Jun 16, 2024
The Dignity of Humanity: Being the Saviors of God | Dr. Marc Gafni #399
Jun 01, 2024
God Is Real—God Is Story | Dr. Marc Gafni #398
May 26, 2024
Take Responsibility for the God Voice | Dr. Marc Gafni #397 (by One Mountain Podcast)
May 19, 2024
Bad Neighbor or Dog - Who Do You Save | Dr. Marc Gafni (#396)
May 11, 2024
Why Does Value Matter? Part 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni (#392B)
Apr 14, 2024
Celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard | Dr. Marc Gafni (#392A)
Apr 14, 2024
Why First Principles and First Values Should Matter So Insanely Much w/ Dr. Marc Gafni (#391)
Apr 07, 2024
We Are All Crucified | Dr. Marc Gafni #390B
Mar 31, 2024
From Values to Rights part 2 | Dr. Marc Gafni #390A
Mar 31, 2024
From Values to Rights | Dr. Marc Gafni #389
Mar 24, 2024
The Post-Tragic Hero — Part 1 | Dr. Marc Gafni #388
Mar 17, 2024
It’s Working… Join Us! | Dr. Marc Gafni #387
Mar 10, 2024
The Evolution of the Student-Teacher Relationship | Dr. Marc Gafni #386
Mar 03, 2024
“To Live Is to Risk It All” | Dr. Marc Gafni #384
Feb 18, 2024
Is Existential Risk Inevitable? | Dr. Marc Gafni #383
Feb 11, 2024
What We Need for the Attention Rebellion to Succeed | Dr. Marc Gafni #382
Feb 04, 2024
Devotion and Her Dignities | Dr. Marc Gafni #381
Jan 28, 2024
A Heretical Blueprint for a World Religion | Dr. Marc Gafni #380
Jan 21, 2024
Love Demands Transformation | Dr. Marc Gafni #379
Jan 14, 2024
On the Side of Love | Dr. Marc Gafni #378
Jan 07, 2024
The Sacred is the Intimate | Dr. Marc Gafni #376
Dec 24, 2023
Answering the Question of “Who Am I?” | Dr. Marc Gafni #375
Dec 17, 2023
Holding the Impossible Paradox | Dr. Marc Gafni #374
Dec 10, 2023
Barbie Got It Wrong: Love Is Real | Dr. Marc Gafni #373
Dec 03, 2023
Transitional Objects and Evolving Scripts of Desire | Dr. Marc Gafni #372
Nov 26, 2023
Only a “New Story of DesireValue” Can Take Us Home | Dr. Marc Gafni #370
Nov 12, 2023
Barbie, Hamas & Homo Amor | Dr. Marc Gafni #369
Nov 05, 2023
From Horror to Hope | Dr. Marc Gafni #368
Oct 29, 2023
Hamas Is Not the Palestinians | Dr. Marc Gafni #367
Oct 22, 2023
What Would Homo Amor Do in Response to Hamas? | Dr. Marc Gafni #366
Oct 15, 2023
Discerning Israel & Hamas Conflict | Dr. Marc Gafni #365
Oct 08, 2023
0:02 / 1:03:17 Reading Barbie as a Text of Culture: Part 2 Reality Is Relationships | Dr. Marc Gafni #364
Oct 01, 2023
Reading Barbie as a Text of Culture: Part 1 The Mocking of the Hero | Dr. Marc Gafni #363
Sep 24, 2023
The Dawn of Desire | Dr. Marc Gafni #362
Sep 17, 2023
The Football Response to the Meta Crisis | Dr. Marc Gafni #360
Sep 03, 2023
A Critique of Barbie" The Failure of Eros | Dr. Marc Gafni #357
Aug 13, 2023
The Dignity of Heartbreak | Dr. Marc Gafni #354
Jul 23, 2023
Feel You Feeling Me | Dr. Marc Gafni #353
Jul 16, 2023
Warriors of Sensemaking | Dr. Marc Gafni #352
Jul 09, 2023
AI: A Crisis of Intimacy | Dr. Marc Gafni #351
Jul 02, 2023
Your Unique Power | Dr. Marc Gafni #349
Jun 18, 2023
Not Power Hungry = Not Spiritual! | Dr. Marc Gafni #348
Jun 11, 2023
Are You Alluring to God? | Dr. Marc Gafni #347
Jun 04, 2023
Decoding Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring | Dr. Marc Gafni #343
May 07, 2023
The Intimacy Crisis | Dr. Marc Gafni #342
Apr 30, 2023
Why Soul Mate Relationships Don’t Take Us Home | Dr. Marc Gafni #341
Apr 23, 2023
The Rise of Whole Mate Relationship | Dr. Marc Gafni #340
Apr 09, 2023
Evolving Crucifixion and Resurrection | Dr. Marc Gafni #339
Apr 02, 2023
The Blessing of the Father | Dr. Marc Gafni #338
Mar 26, 2023
Synergistic Democracy and the Independent Movement | Dr. Marc Gafni #337
Mar 19, 2023
Awakening as Homo Amor I Dr. Marc Gafni #336
Mar 18, 2023
Reality Needs You to Take Your Unique Risk | Dr. Marc Gafni #335
Mar 12, 2023
The Meta-Crisis of God #334
Mar 05, 2023
Outrageous Love Begins with Rage: Holy Outrage of the Prophet - Take Your Seat at the Table #333
Feb 26, 2023
Syria and Turkey Earthquake: Suffering Unmasked - A Deeper Dive #332
Feb 19, 2023
Syria and Turkey EARTHQUAKE: Why Does God Allow SUFFERING? | Dr. Marc Gafni #331
Feb 12, 2023
Episode 279 The Challenge – Meta-Crisis: The Response – A New Cultural Enlightenment
Feb 13, 2022
Episode 273 Don’t Look Up: What They Got Right, What They Got Wrong and Why It Matters So Much
Jan 04, 2022
001—Why Are We Creating Evolutionary Church?
Oct 29, 2016