The Center for World Philosophy and Religion presents
The CrossingMystery School 2027
Eros & Existential Risk
Why claiming your full power and radical aliveness is the only path to solving our global crisis. Five days that will evolve who you are and awaken the more good, true and beautiful future waiting to be born through us.
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Get My Ticket→With Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Kristina Kincaid
"I was on a search for answers. What's actually real? What's true? But here it's actually all coming together. It actually makes sense, and I actually can experience it. It's the greatest gift."
"It's so profound. I never found anything so profound in my life…"
"I've done countless other retreats. I've done Burning Man for ten years… but it wasn't grounded in a clear central orientation that answers 'now what?' The Crossing has that depth."
A Moment to Stand for the Future of Humanity
Reclaim your power, your depth, your eros — for your own sake and for the sake of the whole.
We all know and feel with every fiber that we live in a time of great urgency for transformation and radical renewal. We find ourselves poised between utopia and dystopia. We are facing the potential death of humanity, or the potential death of our humanity on multiple vectors.
This is what we call the Second Shock of Existence.
The Second Shock of Existence
The First Shock happened when our ancestors realized their individual life would end. That conscious realization of finitude leaped humanity's evolution forward and birthed culture and civilization. Homo Erectus became Homo Sapiens.
The Second Shock is now: Homo Sapiens face the jolting realization of the potential death of humanity — a global extinction event — or the death of our humanity, where we survive but live in an inhumane mass-surveillance world.
AI without ethical guidelines, exponential wealth inequality, resource scarcity, chemical warfare in the hands of rogue actors, and the degrading of the very biosphere that gives us life.
And yet, we are not hopeless.
The Second Shock demands that we once again evolve what it means to be human. We cross over. We become Homo amor — the fulfillment of Homo Sapiens.
We come together to awaken and harness our personal, fundamental erotic power to birth the new world through our own transformation.
Get My Ticket→Why Eros? Why Now?
Eros is life.
Eros is not sex, though sex models the Erotic. There were twelve billion years of Eros before sex existed in the universe.
Eros is the experience of radical aliveness — moving toward, seeking, desiring ever deeper contact and ever greater wholeness. The core fabric of reality's being and the motivational architecture of its becoming.
Eros is the constant desire for greater wholeness. Wholeness is the right relationship between parts. And therefore Eros is the source of all ethics.
The collapse of Eros is always the hidden root cause for the collapse of ethics — personally and collectively.
Only radical aliveness creates radical Eros.
Only radical Eros creates radical Ethics.
Only radical Eros heals a world in agony.
Live your clarified desire and you will live a life of rapture so powerful that it heals the ruptures of the meta-crisis. Depression, shame and hopelessness are rooted in suppressed desire. Reclaiming your Eros is the key to healing.
What You Will Experience
Five days of immersive transformation
01
Live Sense Making Symphonies
with Dr. Marc Gafni
Daily teachings on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Seven Tastes of Eros, the New Story of Value, and the Phenomenology of Eros.
02
Whole Body Gospel Embodiment
with Dr. Kristina Kincaid
De-armor your body, mind, and spirit so the natural flow of Eros can move through you again.
03
Evolutionary Satsang
with Chahat
Intimate group meetings to drop into a safe space, meet like-hearted people from around the globe, and integrate the work as you go.
04
Daily Musical Immersion
with medicine musician Krista Jospeha
Sound journeys woven through every day, opening the body to the field.
05
Evolutionary Prayer & Ceremony
Ritual spaces
Step into the currency of Eros and practice being lived as Outrageous Lovers.
06
Unique Self Workshops
Discover your gift
Discover the unique synergy of gifts only you carry, and learn to bring your instrument into the common score.
The Journey
The Five Days
- Day 1
Arrival and Opening
You cross the threshold. The container forms. The field opens. You meet the people who will be with you for life.
- Day 2
The Source of Desire
We dive into the first tastes of Eros and the new sexual narrative. Where desire was suppressed, aliveness was suppressed. Reclaiming desire is the key to healing.
- Day 3
Eros and the Meta-Crisis
The heart of the week. Why every breakdown in ethics is rooted in a failed relationship to Eros. Why we cannot respond to existential risk without it.
- Day 4
The Crossing
From Homo armor to Homo amor. The deep work of de-armoring, the surfacing of the Unique Self, and the taking of your seat at the table of history.
- Day 5
Integration and Return
You leave with a new identity, a new community, and a new ability to hold responsibility. You return home rechanged and more radically alive.
Who This Is For
For the ones who see the state of the world and refuse to look away.
We come from all walks of life: philosophers, scientists, judges, scholars, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists, healers, and evolutionaries who feel the unimaginable importance of this moment pressing on their hearts.
- ◆If you are ready to move beyond self-help into contribution to the greater whole.
- ◆If you have been successful, but still felt a lack of fulfillment.
- ◆If you are tired of staying armored, playing small, and waiting for someone else to figure it out.
- ◆If you want a band of evolutionary partners who get you — your evolutionary family for life.
- ◆If you want to reclaim the full power of your Eros and desire as evolutionary guidance systems.
Then The Crossing is your event.
The Venue
Castle de Heerlijckyt
Belgium · Europe
A breathtaking castle in Europe. We chose Heerlijckyt because the work asks for a container worthy of it. You will study, eat, dance, walk, and rest inside one continuous space designed for transformation. All tickets include full lodging and catering across the five days.
Visit the venue →Your Faculty
The transmission, in person.
Dr. Marc Gafni
World Philosopher
Co-president of The Center for World Philosophy and Religion, and primary architect of CosmoErotic Humanism. The reason most people come to The Crossing is to study with Marc in person and receive the live transmission that no recording can carry.
Dr. Kristina Kincaid
Master Embodiment Practitioner
Lineage holder of CosmoErotic Humanism and teacher of the Whole Body Gospel. The somatic core of every Mystery School, Dr. Kristina will guide you into practices to de-armor your heart, and teach you how to remain energized, powerful, and clear-minded in the face of shame, conflict, and confusion.
What Participants Say
Hear from our students
"This is for everyone… There is not a person I can think of who, even if they were dragged here by their friends, wouldn't benefit profoundly."
"The greatest gift is that I trust life within me. To trust life… it's soothing. It's trustworthy. It's enlightening."
"To be totally alive. That's what brings me back."
"I want to really see who I really am. And every time I'm here, I get the answer to that again."
The Best Price of the Year
Reserve your seat
Demand for The Crossing 2026 was so strong that we are opening 2027 registration now, almost a full year out. If you reserve your spot today, you lock in the lowest price we will offer all year.
The lowest price of the year is €1,430 total — lock in your spot now with a down payment.
- ◆Locks in your spot at this year's lowest pricing tier.
- ◆Receive a confirmation, welcome packet, and option to settle your room category later.
- ◆The €350 is fully credited toward your total ticket price.
- ◆Almost a full year to prepare, integrate, and arrive ready.
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The price will only go up
Every subsequent release is higher. The people who commit first save the most.
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Spots are limited
Castle de Heerlijckyt holds an intimate group, not a massive crowd. When it is full, it is full.
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Transformation begins now
Magic begins when you decide to step in. You give yourself eleven months of preparation, instead of arriving cold.
A Final Word from Marc
"We come together in the Mystery School to experience the future. A Mystery School accesses a memory of the future. Heart, body, and mind. Your future self calls to you. The future self of culture, of society, of our global civilization, calls to us.Hope is a memory of the future.Let us do this together."