Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds

About Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds

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 worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com (https://worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/s/sensemaking?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Articulating a new worldview in response to existential risk

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Oct 2016

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

127 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   521—From Unique Wound to Unique Prophecy: Recovering Your Unique Song as Homo Amor, the New Human and the New Humanity

   From Unique Wound to Unique Prophecy: Recovering Your Unique Song as Homo Amor, the New Human, and the New Humanity October 4, 2026 Signup for Free Live Sunday Sensemaking:https://whowemustbecome.com/podcast (https://whowemustbecome.com/podcast)Join the Who We Must Become Online Mystery School:https://whowemustbecome.com/the-school (https://whowemustbecome.com/the-school)Get the 2nd Edition of First Principles and First Values, a Book of the Great Library:https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-CosmoErotic/dp/B0DZP633BB (https://www.amazon.com/First-Principles-Values-Propositions-CosmoErotic/dp/B0DZP633BB) In this profound and groundbreaking episode of Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds, Dr. Marc Gafni explores a radical new understanding of human transformation: the movement from Unique Wound to Unique Wonder to Unique Prophecy. In this episode, you'll discover: Unique Wound vs. Unique Shadow: Why our wounds affect our capacity to feel, while our shadows distort or conceal our Unique Self. From Wound to Wonder: How our deepest brokenness can become the source of our unique gifts and prophetic calling. The Democratization of Prophecy: Why every human being has the potential to become a unique voice of the divine. Prediction vs. Prophecy: Why prophecy emerges from the living present, hears the future, and opens possibilities beyond the repetition of the past. The Emergence of Homo amor: How becoming the Amorous Cosmos in person offers a new response to the meta-crisis. The Power of Feeling: Why prophecy requires not merely intellectual understanding, but an intensified capacity for unique feeling and love. Jacob's Transformation: How the biblical patriarch's wounds become the doorway to encountering the Infinite Intimate. Prayer and Prophecy: Two forms of intimate conversation between the human being and the divine. Recovering the Memory of the Future: Why healing requires more than remembering our past—it calls us to discover who we are becoming. Your Unique Song: How recovering the irreducible melody of your life awakens your unique prophecy and your promise to the whole. The deeper invitation We are not merely here to heal our wounds or improve ourselves. We are here to participate in the evolution of consciousness and culture—to become Wholemates with Reality, to discover our unique place in the universal love story, and to offer the gifts that only we can give. For more information:Center for World Philosophy and Religionhttps://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/ (https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/)Office for the Futurehttps://www.officeforthefuture.com/en (https://www.officeforthefuture.com/en)Dr. Marc Gafnihttp://www.marcgafni.com (http://www.marcgafni.com) #MarcGafni (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/marcgafni) #UniqueWound (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/uniquewound) #UniqueProphecy (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/uniqueprophecy) #uniqueself (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/uniqueself) #HomoAmor (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/homoamor) #newhumanity (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/newhumanity) #WoundToWonder (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/woundtowonder) #sensemaking (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/sensemaking) #transformation (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/transformation) #WhoWeMustBecome (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/whowemustbecome) Get full access to Center for World Philosophy and Religion at worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe (https://worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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   2 Oct 2026

   520—The Collapse of Mental Health, the Meta-Crisis and the Birth of the New Human—From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor

   The Collapse of Mental Health, the Meta-Crisis and the Birth of the NewHuman—From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor | Dr. Marc Gafni #520 (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/520)September 27, 2026Join the revolution! Who We Must Become Mystery School Onlinehttps://whowemustbecome.com/the-school (https://whowemustbecome.com/the-school) Signup for Free Live Podcast on Zoom: https://www.centerforworldphilosophyandreligion.com/sundayliveteachings (https://www.centerforworldphilosophyandreligion.com/sundayliveteachings) The Collapse of Mental Health, the Meta-Crisis and the Birth of the New Human—From Homo Sapiens to Homo Amor | Dr. Marc Gafni #520 Why are loneliness, alienation, purposelessness, and mental breakdown becoming defining features of our time? And what if the collapse of mental health is intimately connected to the larger meta-crisis—and to the evolutionary possibility of a new human? In this episode of Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds, Dr. Marc Gafni explores the mental-health crisis as part of what he calls the second shock of existence: the moment in which humanity confronts not merely the mortality of the individual, but existential risks to humanity and our humanity. Yet crisis is not only catastrophe. Crisis can be an evolutionary driver—an intensification calling forth a deeper capacity for love, value, transformation, and wholeness. Marc proposes that healing cannot happen by looking backward alone. While recovering the memories and wounds of our past matters, genuine transformation also requires that we recover a memory of our future. This opens into a new distinction between Unique Shadow and Unique Wound. Unique Shadow is our unlived or distorted light. Unique Wound is a wound to our capacity to feel—particularly our capacity to access our own irreducibly unique feeling. The task, then, is not merely to revisit or manage the wound. It is to transform Unique Wound into Unique Wonder. From here, Marc develops a new understanding of prophecy. Prophecy is not reserved for a rare figure speaking from a mountaintop. As Unique Self becomes intensified—as we recover our unique quality of feeling, intimacy, desire, and will—our Unique Self begins to disclose its unique prophecy. The prophet and the pagan, Marc suggests, must come together in a higher integration: radical feeling joined with clarified meaning, information, and value. This integration points toward the emergence of the New Human—Homo Amor: “Homo amor is the one who feels the Amorous Cosmos moving in them.” In this episode, you’ll discover: Why the collapse of mental health is also a crisis of belonging, identity, meaning, and purpose How the mental-health crisis relates to the larger meta-crisis and existential risk Why crisis can be an evolutionary driver Why healing requires recovering not only the past, but a memory of the future The crucial distinction between Unique Shadow and Unique Wound Why Unique Wound shatters our capacity to feel our unique feeling How we transform Unique Wound into Unique Wonder Why intensified Unique Self begins to disclose our unique prophecy How radical feeling must be joined with meaning, information, and value Why the birth of Homo Amor represents the democratization of prophecy and greatness This is an invitation to move beyond conventional self-help toward transformation: to recover our capacity for radical feeling, transform wound into wonder, and become activists for the sake of the whole. When reality takes us low, we go high. Future Reading for the Center for World Philosophy and Religion Learn about the full Oral Essays series:Complete Oral Essay Series → https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays (https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/oral-essays) Free Unique Self Mini Course:https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/ (https://www.uniqueselfinstitute.com/the-unique-self-mini-course/) Download “Love or Die” essay here:https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/love-or-die-white-paper-by-dr-marc-gafni/ (https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/love-or-die-white-paper-by-dr-marc-gafni/) Get full access to Center for World Philosophy and Religion at worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe (https://worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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   26 Sept 2026

   519—Born to Transform: The 10 Insights of Purpose that Live in You, As You, and through You

   Born to Transform: The 10 Insights of Purpose that Live in You, As You, and through You | Dr. Marc Gafni #519 (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/519)September 20, 2026Music Video in Video "We are the People"    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT73GcwhCU&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA)   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT73GcwhCU&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA)https://youtu.be/kGT73GcwhCU?si=Ye9R6U8NsUn5fxYp (https://youtu.be/kGT73GcwhCU?si=Ye9R6U8NsUn5fxYp)Signup for Free Live Teaching: https://www.centerforworldphilosophya (https://www.centerforworldphilosophya)... (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRnljbmhBX2JCb0RVOExMMElMXzA1X3xBTl9pYzRmdWN5SnZXNUQwNGlFeXNsY21SUWN3bWhoYnFFM3F4NEdYQjRmV0FzX1pja3JpUFNwM0dpcWhGeW9vREMxZVFqNHE0X2ktNndVMDV4N296bV9vMy1lSTRVV19CdkxO&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.centerforworldphilosophyandreligion.com%2Fsundayliveteachings&v=utTzkYGI9jU)2nd Ed. First Principles and First Values Book of the Great Library on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/First-Principl (https://www.amazon.com/First-Principl)... (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljR3JSRlhhZFpTNGRLQXA1Wm85X1owVnxBTl9pYzRmYm10c0FUYl96RGRkTHNKVVJrNjZZSUtDLVN0VVdhYjIwSFdRY21KWkl6di1RQXAxZnpyci1JMUoyOFMzeExVMDAySmN6Q1VhYnhaQ0VVeUdzRndVdUNtcW9jNTFG&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFirst-Principles-Values-Propositions-CosmoErotic%2Fdp%2FB0DZP633BB&v=utTzkYGI9jU) In Episode 519 of Sensemaking in a Time Between Worlds, Dr. Marc Gafni offers a direct 10-step reality consideration exploring purpose, uniqueness, transformation, value, and our participation in the larger story of Cosmos.In This Episode: The 10 Steps of Purpose1. Why Am I Here? Does My Story Have a Plotline?Marc begins with the most fundamental existential question: Why am I here? Beneath our accomplishments and distractions is the question of whether our life has a plotline—a direction, a goal, and a story that is going somewhere 2. Either Everything Has Purpose or Nothing Has: You Can't Have It Both WaysWe are asked to take both possibilities seriously. Is reality ultimately random, pointless, and meaningless—or is there purpose? If reality has purpose, then discovering that purpose becomes one of the most important questions we can ask. Marc introduces the Hebrew concept tachlit, purpose, and its connection to yearning and fulfillment.3. The Entire Structure of the World Is Purpose: It Has TelosMarc explores telos—the idea that reality is reaching toward something. Drawing from evolutionary science, philosophy, mysticism, and interior science, he considers the possibility that reality is not merely a collection of facts but a story with direction, movement, and purpose.4. We Have Both Shared and Unique PurposeEverything is both part of the whole and uniquely itself. Marc introduces the image of the Unique Self Symphony: we participate in the same larger musical score, but each of us plays a unique instrument. Purpose therefore has two dimensions—what we do and how we do it.5. The Movement of Reality Is a Movement Toward TransformationReality is not only being—it is becoming. From the evolution of matter and life to human learning, awakening, education, and self-realization, Marc describes reality as a series of transformations. “I am born to transform.”6. My Unique Purpose Is My Unique TransformationThe fifth and fourth steps come together: if everything is unique and reality is a movement toward transformation, then my unique purpose is my unique transformation. Purpose is not merely something imposed from outside; it emerges through the particular way I participate in becoming.7. My Unique Transformation Must MatterPurpose cannot be arbitrary. Marc uses the myth of Sisyphus to explore the suffering of effort without meaningful purpose. Our unique transformation must participate in a Field of Value; we need to know that our transformation matters and that reality needs what we uniquely become.8. The Plot Lines of Reality Live in MeIf reality has direction toward greater wholeness, value, knowing, aliveness, intimacy, devotion, and skill, then we don't simply live in Cosmos—Cosmos lives in us. The larger plot lines of reality become present within our own lives and transformations.9. The Purpose of My Existence Is to Bring Deeper Wholeness to RealityDrawing on the idea of a holographic and fractal Cosmos, Marc explores how our individual stories participate in larger stories. We are not separate from the whole. Our transformation transforms the whole, and our purpose is to bring deeper wholeness to reality by becoming more good, true, and beautiful.10. Transforming the Whole Is the Ultimate PleasureThe final step is the ultimate joy: the pleasure of knowing that our Unique Self creativity and transformation actually participate in transforming the whole. Marc moves through multiple levels of pleasure—from the senses, love and relationship, productivity, and gnosis to Unique Self creativity and ultimately the pleasure of the power to transform.Born to TransformFor more information:Center for World Philosophy and Religionhttps://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/ (https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/)Office for the Futurehttps://www.officeforthefuture.com/en (https://www.officeforthefuture.com/en)Dr. Marc Gafnihttp://www.marcgafni.com (http://www.marcgafni.com)LinkedIn:   / drmarcgafni   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljR1l6WVgzMGJpWUs4RFBVcjhJenZzanxBTl9pYzRmMU1IRFlBX2R0RlBLZmdHWjlreW05OVhhN0x5dDQ3R2ZsMnAzVWlGUnZWVGpGQ1RDTUFjaTl2cUtyM3p4clcwV3ZwdkM0OVE5ZVhqQ1g5R0Y3UjFtTl9IMnh0bEFG&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fdrmarcgafni%2F&v=utTzkYGI9jU)Facebook:   / drmarcgafni   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljR3ZyZjlOWS1oZ09qZ0RqelRkWmpqQnxBTl9pYzRkcG1vQjBveFgzVXVOMldISWEzZGo1VE1fRGtYeUtSb0tBSWo0TGNCaXd3Z0Z3M3pNX01uTktsMkNmZTRVV3pxanVsenZtbEIzSVcxWTJFTF83emZBd2dpc0xCUXp2&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDrMarcGafni%2F&v=utTzkYGI9jU)Twitter:   / marcgafni   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRkI3QjFKOHRXM2QtcUhFTjVsWFFlenxBTl9pYzRjQm84RHlKTGE0ZHVBUEJ3SWZKNFdraUVYWEhlZTZwNVlIbjY5OUNqUHlGWGhvbFBrUUFYV1FPeVd4OVdiRFM4ZGtnTGEtbEx1MzFEV2gzZVhMSExBaThXNmw5dFNR&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMarcGafni&v=utTzkYGI9jU) Instagram:   / marcgafni   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRTNLWjlRRlk4dFBtanZveFRHbGxFNnxBTl9pYzRmTmpPY0l6SmlqbGl6SjlHcUNOb1lSRXd3Q19KSEpLZGVsYTQ4OWx4bXcxMTZHM3d2anJqNm5kUS1ZOW15YVFlMlp6dmF1ME1FeTFSc3lLaDBtaDB6djBaOHN5OWht&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fmarcgafni%2F&v=utTzkYGI9jU)Medium: / drmarcgafni   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRmo0N3NDT0JsbG1WaFhBY2M1bDlEUXxBTl9pYzRjUGM1U0hxQmFfNHVlZW5ISWNFeWx3RzNMOEF0eEdYdUJ1WVpKeUo4R1B0ZGxCSFQ2bHJtREZpMTIzaUFnc25rOUI3anY3Yl9UZTlfWXFuRUNIMm5uSmR4RVQ2NEdH&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdrmarcgafni.medium.com%2F&v=utTzkYGI9jU) #marcgafni (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/marcgafni)#cosmoerotichumanism (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/cosmoerotichumanism)#homoamor (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/homoamor)#outrageouslove (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/outrageouslove)#transfromation (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/transfromation) #uniqueself (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/uniqueself)#NewSToryofValue (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/newstoryofvalue)#RealityConsideration (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/realityconsideration)#Sensemaking (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/sensemaking)#Whowemustbecome (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/whowemustbecome)#Uniquepurpose (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/uniquepurpose) Get full access to Center for World Philosophy and Religion at worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe (https://worldphilosophyreligion.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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