The world is confronted with a meta-crisis in all quadrants of reality, inner and outer, personal and collective. At its heart is a meaning crisis that threatens the very fabric of human existence.
In a world where we are confronted with a meta-crisis, facing existential and catastrophic risks, we need a story big enough to hold the whole.
Old stories have broken down, and no shared “grammar of value” remains. What is required is nothing less than a “New Story of Value” — grounded in “First Principles and First Values” of Cosmos — that can orient humanity in this time between worlds, and time between stories.
A love big enough to hold the world.
How can we integrate the best of the world's philosophical and religious traditions, along with an evolving understanding of how Reality itself functions, to articulate a vision that is big enough to hold the whole, and unite us into a coherent vision for the future of humanity?
Can we develop a vision clear, comprehensive, and loving enough that it could serve as the foundation for a new world spirituality, a new world religion?
The Center for World Philosophy and Religion aims to re-cast the primordial forces that give rise to and shape reality as the greatest love story ever told, and the foundation for a new way of being and seeing.
We are building a movement to help shift consciousness and culture toward a new cosmocentric ethos for a planetary civilization.
The deep patterns of the universe itself: realities like love, uniqueness, and intimacy that have been present since the beginning and continue to evolve at every level, from atoms to life to human culture.
They are universal plotlines of the cosmic story, and we are invited to live in alignment with them.
At the heart of this project is developing a new “Story of Value,” rooted in First Principles and First Values, that integrates the insights of both the interior and exterior sciences — across premodern, modern, and postmodern thought.
Ultimately, it recasts cosmic evolution as a Story of Value, in which our personal stories are understood to be chapter and verse in the larger narrative arc of Reality.
CosmoErotic Humanism is a philosophical movement aimed at reconstructing the collapse of value at the core of global culture.
The whole of reality — matter, life, mind, and value — unfolding as a single evolving story.
The force of love and becoming that drives all reality.
CosmoErotic Humanism holds that value — things like love, intimacy, creativity, uniqueness — are not human inventions, but woven into the fabric of the universe itself. It calls these “First Principles and First Values.”
Much like Romanticism or Existentialism, CosmoErotic Humanism is not merely a theory but a movement that aims to change the way we see ourselves, each other, and Reality itself.
It is an urgent invitation to participate in evolving consciousness and culture towards a cosmocentric ethos for a planetary civilization.