and the broken Halleluja

with Dr. Marc Gafni

Course begins Sunday, July 12, 2026

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Unique Self 2.0 Year 2

Portal 4

The Words of the Prophets: The Transfiguration of Our Unique Wound is a three-week immersion into the hidden path from wound to prophecy. Together, through the stories of Moses, Hagar, and Jacob, we explore the movement from fate into destiny, from wound into wonder, and from transformation into transfiguration. Rooted in the teachings of Unique Self and CosmoErotic Humanism, the course asks how devastation, exile, injury, and shattering become portals to intimacy, vision, and prophecy.

“The prophet is not merely transformed. The prophet is the transfigured human.” Through live teachings, inquiry, and Digital Campfires, participants will enter what Dr. Marc Gafni calls “the unknown, esoteric, secret and holy of holies path from the wound to the prophet.” Together we explore the possibility that the unique wound at the center of our lives may become the source of our deepest gift, deepest love, and unique prophecy — the movement from the broken to the holy hallelujah.

The course will also introduce a new ‘Unique Wound Process” to transform wounds to wonder.

Start date: Sunday, January 25

Time: 8:00pm CET (Paris) · 2:00pm EST (New York) · 11:00am PST (Los Angeles)

Price: €300 / €100 Tiers

3 Weekly Live Zoom Classes (2 hours each)

3 Weekly Digital Campfires (1.5 hours each) - see dates below

Friends, this will be our fourth and final Unique Self 2.0 holy deep dive this year. Our intention has been and will continue to be to evolve the very source code of consciousness and culture, which is the very source code of love, both for each of us participating in our deep dharmic dive and for culture itself.

Our particular path will be the unknown, esoteric, secret and holy of holies path from the wound to the prophet. The path of unique wound is the path of prophecy.

The prophet is not merely transformed. The prophet is the transfigured human. Prophecy is a core quality of the new human and the new humanity that we have called in CosmoErotic Humanism the new story of value — Homo Amor.

Transfiguration takes place only through the path of unique wound. The movement from fate into destiny, from wound into wonder, is the only authentic path to transfiguration.

Authentic transfiguration requires profound opening, radical deepening, ecstatic vision. The doors of perception must be cleansed to realize that everything, everyone, and everywhere is fragrant with the infinite. But that cleansing can only take place through a refusal to turn away from the fate of our wounding.

Tenderly, fiercely, we realize that this is true not only personally, but interpersonally — in the unique wounds that live at the heart of our relationships, our romances, our friendships, and the unique wounds that live in every unique culture and the space between unique cultures.

Together, we will begin to realize the great command to prophecy, not as the province of the elite, but as the potentiated destiny of every human being. The democratization of enlightenment, as the democratization of great love, is the democratization of prophecy.

We will enter through three doors: the stories of Moses, Hagar, and Jacob — each a story of devastation, injury, and shattering that is transfigured into a tale of prophecy. The peril of unique wound becomes the portal to prophecy.

The broken hallelujah is the wound, which is the path and portal to the holy hallelujah.

This is the movement from wound to wonder, from unique wound to unique prophecy.

Dr. Marc Gafni

- Dr. Marc Gafni

Class 1 – Moses: The Path of Unique Wound

Lecture and Q&A: Sunday, July 12, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire: Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Focus: “The path of unique wound is the path of prophecy.” Entering the story of Moses as the movement from “fate into destiny, of a wound into wonder.” Exploring prophecy not as mere transformation, but as transfiguration.

Key inquiries:

“How do I identify my unique wound?”

“How do I give it voice?”

“How do I hear its story?”

“What is the essential distinction between unique wound and unique shadow?”

Practices:

Reflective journaling: tracing the movement from “fate into destiny” within my own life

Guided inquiry: listening for the story my wound is trying to tell

Campfire sharing: speaking the places where wound may conceal prophecy

Class 2 – Hagar: The Broken Hallelujah

Lecture and Q&A: Sunday, July 19, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire: Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Focus: Entering the story of Hagar as “a story of devastation, the devastation of unique wound, of injury, of shattering, which is transfigured into a tale of prophecy.” Exploring how “the peril of unique wound becomes the portal to prophecy.”

Key inquiries:

What does it mean to refuse “to turn away from the fate of our wounding”?

How does “the broken hallelujah” become “the path and portal to the holy hallelujah”?

How does devastation become prophecy?

What is the relationship between intimacy, wound, and transfiguration?

Practices:

Reflective journaling: mapping experiences of “injury,” “shattering,” and devastation

Guided inquiry: sensing where “the broken hallelujah” lives in body and being

Campfire sharing: witnessing how wound may become wonder

Class 3 – Jacob: The Democratization of Prophecy

Lecture and Q&A: Sunday, July 26, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire: Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Focus: Exploring Jacob and the “great command to prophecy, not as the province of the elite, but as the potentiated destiny of every human being.” Entering the meaning of “the democratization of enlightenment,” “the democratization of great love,” and “the democratization of prophecy.”

Key inquiries:

Can “the entire nation” become prophets?

What does it mean to “democratize greatness” and “democratize uniqueness”?

How does “every person’s unique prophecy” become part of “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”?

What is Homo Amor as “the transfigured human”?

Practices:

Reflective journaling: articulating my own “unique prophecy”

Guided inquiry: contemplating prophecy as “the potentiated destiny of every human being”

Campfire sharing: speaking the movement from unique wound to unique wonder

Dr. Marc Gafni

Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his ‘source code teachings,’ including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.

He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni, together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues, are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ ‘Anthro-Ontology,’ and a ‘Universal Grammar of Value.’ This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.

Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.