A collaborative paper by Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard retelling the universe story as the greatest love story ever told, integrating diverse sources of wisdom.

The Universe - A Love Story

By Dr. Marc Gafni & Barbara Marx Hubbard

We are storytellers, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and scientists of the new universe story. We trace the new universe story, integrating for the first time diverse elements from all the leading sources of authoritative wisdom available today on the cutting edge of thought. The result is the greatest love story ever told. Recently someone came to us seeking advice. He was in a very scared, paralyzed state. We said to him, “If we lived inside of your consciousness we could be sacred and paralyzed too…” To up-level, our consciousness is to evolve our worldview.

This paper sits within the broader project of CosmoErotic Humanism, offering a popular introduction to the vision of an intimate, Eros-driven cosmos. It reframes the scientific narrative of cosmic evolution as a story of deepening intimacy, creativity, and love — from the first atoms bonding to the emergence of self-reflective consciousness capable of participating in its own evolution.

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