Conversations with David J. Temple
In this podcast, David J. Temple hosts intimate conversations with friends, exploring the unfolding vision of CosmoErotic Humanism. The show discusses philosophical and spiritual themes from a personal perspective. It is part of David J. Temple's Substack publication on world philosophy and religion.
Episodes
Value and Anti-Value: The Silence That Thickens Into Divinity or Evil
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode: In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein enter a series of conver
Value is Real: From Mathematical to Mystical Value – Part 2 (with Ken Wilber)
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode: In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber, and Dr. Zak Stein
The First Principle and First Value of Attention; The Mathematical Value, to Musical, to Molecular, to Moral, to Mystical Value; Introducing ErosValue (with Ken Wilber)
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:What if the simple act of paying attention was one of the most p
Value and Desire Broken Open: The Ontological Structure of Cosmos (with Ken Wilber)
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:This is the third in a series of dialogues between Marc Gafni, K
Understanding the Field of Value: Holons, Eros, and ErosValue (with Ken Wilber)
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:This is the second in a series of dialogues between Marc Gafni,
Selection, Desire and the Becoming of the Universe
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode: In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore the
Value and Wholeness: A New Story of Value Is a New Story of Wholeness (with Ken Wilber)
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:This is the first in a series of dialogues between Marc Gafni, K
CosmoErotic Humanism and Metamodernism: Fragrances of Their Important Distinctions
About this episode:This dialogue is a special episode, a spontaneous conversation of Dr. Marc Gafni with Layman Pascal and Brandan Graham Dempsey, held at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. It is a first step towards deeper conversation between CosmoErotic Humanism and Metamodernism.If you deploy any material from David J. Temple (Marc Gafni) in this episode, please cite directly using
Journey of Becoming – Exploring the Garden of Eden – Part 2 of 3
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:This is Part 2 of a series of dialogues on the Garden of Eden. If you still
Desire and Loneliness: The Garden of Eden and the Evolution of Scripts of Desire - Introduction: Part 1 of 3
About the podcast:These are unscripted, early David J. Temple conversations where Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein are unfolding the inner workings of CosmoErotic Humanism in real time. Formal statements and propositions will be published in forthcoming volumes by the World Philosophy and Religion Press.About this episode:In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore the evolution of
Value Cracked Open
About this episode: What if the story of the Garden of Eden is not just an ancient myth, but a powerful “script of desire” that is still running our lives today?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore this radical idea, revealing how reality itself is a script of desire, and how your personal interpretation of the Eden story can expose your own unconscious programming.To help yo
Scripts of Desire
About this episode: What if the universe isn’t just a collection of matter, but a story being written? But not just any story, a story that’s fundamentally driven by the evolution of desire itself?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore how scripts of desire are a fundamental structure of reality. They reveal how these scripts are visible everywhere—from the devotion in sacred t
On Eros, Value and ErosValue
About this episode: Is the universe a random, meaningless accident? Or is there a deeper plot and hidden scripts guiding everything from the Big Bang to our own lives?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore the deep interconnection between Eros, Value, and desire. They introduce the concepts of ErosValue and scripts of desire, exploring several different definitions of Value.The
What the &#%! Is Value?
About this episode:We have established that our values are not just social constructs or personal preferences. They reflect a deeper sense of value itself, which is foundational to reality.But what is this value we’re talking about?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein offer a startlingly simple and profound answer: Value is clarified desire.They state that the universe isn’t a random
Why the &#%! Is Value So Important?
About this episode:So, why the &#%! is value so important, anyway? In a world that increasingly tells us our values are just personal opinions or made-up stories, what’s the big deal?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein deliver a powerful and urgent answer. They argue that value is not a human invention but a fundamental part of Reality itself, directly challenging the popular idea t
The Nature of Desire
About this episode:What if every right you possess—from free speech to privacy—is actually based on a form of desire? And what if our new socio-technological conditions necessitate the protection of new rights, such as the “right to attention?”In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore the fundamental nature of desire, unveiling it not as something merely psychological, but as an o
Attention as a First Principle and First Value – Part 2
About this episode:In the first part of this dialogue, we heard the radical claim that attention is a First Principle and First Value of the universe. Now, we explore the devastating consequences of disowning that truth.Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein diagnose our current meta-crisis as a “Planetary Attention Disorder”—a global intimacy disorder where our inability to connect is rooted in the fun
Attention as a First Principle and First Value
About this episode:We all feel our attention is under constant attack. But what if this digital war for our attention is a battle for something far more fundamental than our productivity? What if attention isn’t just something we do, but something the universe is?In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein introduce attention as a fundamental quality of the Cosmos, intrinsically linked to t
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