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Conversations with David J. Temple

David J. Temple

Listen to intimate conversations with David J. Temple and friends exploring the unfolding vision of CosmoErotic Humanism.Brought to you by the Center for World Philosophy and Religion (https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/).

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56:38

CosmoErotic Humanism and Metamodernism: Fragrances of...

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/04/01

About this episode:This dialogue is a special episode, a spontaneous conversation of Dr. Marc Gafni with Layman Pascal and Brandon 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 this episode, please cite directly using the following reference: Temple, David J., Conversations with David J. Temple, World Philosophy and Religion Press, April 2026, Episode:

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27:00

Journey of Becoming – Exploring the Garden of Eden –...

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/03/23

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 haven’t listened to Part 1, we recommend you listen to it first. In this second dialogue, Dr. Marc

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30:05

Desire and Loneliness: The Garden of Eden and the...

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/03/09

About this episode:In this dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Zak Stein explore the evolution of desire through the lens of the Garden of Eden, situating it within the context of CosmoErotic Humanism. They do a recapitulation on scripts of desire, proposing seven key steps to recognize your own scripts of desire and how they participate in the larger field of desire of reality. The dialogue then moves on to a reading and hermeneutic of the Garden of Eden chapter 2, examining how early human

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30:24

Value Cracked Open

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/02/14

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 you understand your own script, they first take us on a journey through the four major ways humanity

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25:08

Scripts of Desire

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/01/31

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 texts like the Song of Songs to the very laws of chemistry and biological evolution. They argue that

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32:15

On Eros, Value and ErosValue

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2026/01/16

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, doctor Marc Gafni and doctor 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. They propose that the Field of Value is not a social construct but an involutionary given, shaping

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38:03

What the &#%! Is Value?

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2025/12/16

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 collection of matter, but it contains “plotlines of desire”, an ongoing story of the Cosmos

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39:49

Why the &#%! Is Value So Important?

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2025/11/12

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 that meaning is just a useful delusion. They reveal what happens when a society loses its shared sense of value. The

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41:44

The Nature of Desire

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2025/11/05

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 ontological principle that underpins rights, needs and values. They establish a central thesis of CosmoErotic Humanism:

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33:07

Attention as a First Principle and First Value – Part 2

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2025/10/30

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 fundamental dysregulation of our attention. How did we get here? The conversation traces a fascinating

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36:46

Attention as a First Principle and First Value

Conversations with David J. Temple ·

2025/10/06

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 the First Values of Uniqueness, Eros, and Intimacy, noting that the universe itself evolves towards organisms with

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