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.

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 – Pre-Tragic: Innocence, Clarity, and the Three Stations

Lecture and Q&A: Sunday, January 25, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire: Saturday, January 31, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Focus: Understanding pre-tragic innocence and clarity, and learning to recognize pre-tragic, tragic, and post-tragic as living stations rather than abstract concepts.

Key inquiries:

Where do I locate myself across these stations in love, meaning, and desire?
Where do I experience innocence, immediacy, or unexamined clarity?
Where do I assume things are settled or obvious before rupture?

Practices:

Reflective journaling: mapping where I experience pre-tragic innocence and clarity in love, meaning, and desire
Guided inquiry: where do I sense clarity, immediacy, or unexamined innocence in my body and lived experience?
Campfire sharing: naming where life has felt obvious, settled, or unquestioned before rupture

Class 2 – Writing Your Sacred Autobiography: from Pretragic, to Tragic, to Posttragic

Lecture and Q&A: Sunday, February 1, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire: Saturday, February 7, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

With Claire Molinard

Week 3 – Tragic: Wounding, Desire, and Power

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

Digital Campfire:
Saturday, February 14, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Focus: How wounding disrupts innocence and shapes desire, power, intimacy, and ethics when clarity breaks and contradiction enters.

Key inquiries:

How does unintegrated wound distort power, desire, and intimacy?
Where am I stuck in the tragic station?
Where do I attempt premature transcendence rather than staying with the wound?

Week 4 - Post-Tragic: Second Innocence and Post-Tragic Eros

Lecture and Q&A:
Sunday, February 15, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Digital Campfire:
Saturday, February 21, 11 am PST (Los Angeles), 2 pm EST (New York), 8 pm CET (Paris)

Practices:

Reflective journaling: tracing a moment where clarity broke and wounding distorted desire, power, or intimacy
Guided inquiry: where do I feel confusion, contraction, or distortion in my body when I stay with the wound?
Campfire sharing: speaking the experience of being stuck in the tragic station without bypass or resolution

Focus: Moving through corruption and rupture into second innocence, reclaiming eros, hunger for power at a post-tragic level.

Key inquiries:

What does it mean to re-virginate consciousness?
How does post-tragic eros differ from naïve innocence?
Why is post-tragic power essential for the good, the true, and the beautiful?
How does this station become the fabric of a life well lived?

Culmination:
The course culminates in an integrated vision of post-tragic living—where desire, power, intimacy, and love are restored without denial of suffering.

Practices:

Reflective journaling: narrating the movement from rupture into second innocence and integrated desire
Guided inquiry: where do I feel post-tragic eros, potency, and openness in my body and relational field?
Campfire sharing: witnessing how post-tragic clarity is becoming the fabric of a life well lived

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.