It is morning and I am overwhelmed. By the radical pain and injustice of the world we live in. The idea that it “all works out” in our world is a New Age lie. Pure and Simple. I am overwhelmed at the willingness of seemingly good people to engage in levels of deceit, mean-ness and [...]
The Next Set of Blogs: Marc Gafni
October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In the next stage of our journey we will outline ten paths of Hebrew tantra. In each of these paths the starting point will be the sexual. We will identify a unique quality of the sexual which models the erotic. They include creativity, pleasure, imagination, transcendence, surrender, union and many more. These erotic qualities manifest [...]
Be Love
October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Invitation to Be Love Eros is the invitation to be a lover: to be a great lover in every fiber of your being, in every facet of your life. But is even more then that. To be a lover is still second person. Do not merely be a lover: BE LOVE…LIVE LOVE….BREATHE LOVE….NOT AS [...]
Fundementalism and Eros: Marc Gafni
October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It is time for the secret to be revealed and the wine to be drunk. It is time for a holy Dionysus to emerge and claim his place together alongside the cherubs in the Holy of Holies. Enough with the pathologies of the sexual that poison our society. Violent fundamentalism, the abusive sexuality of the [...]
Fundementalism and Eros: part four: Marc Gafni
October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Yeats: The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of Passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand… The revelation at hand, that which we yearn for, is the secret of the cherubs. How to transform sexuality from a force to be controlled or a mere indulgence, into the spiritual master which teaches [...]
Fundementalism and Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni
October 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A second type of fundamentalist fellowship is the communities of greed and accumulation. Greed and consumption move our lives because when the center doesn’t hold, the pseudo-eros of money seems the easiest means to fill the emptiness. Paradoxically, more enlightened communities and individuals often seem weak and insipid, leaving us unmoved and uninspiredMark. We return [...]
The Best Lack all Conviction: Marc Gafni
October 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In modernity, as Yeats said in his classic critique, “The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” If we do not reclaim the erotic for the spirit and the good, then its shadow will seduce us and our world to the worst of places. Fundamentalism is on the rise in [...]
Marc Gafni – Lotus Lounge Teaching – September 2008
October 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Marc Gafni – Lotus Lounge Teaching – September 2008 Enjoy this beautiful teaching on Unique Self and the Purpose of your Life given just a few weeks ago at the Lotus Lounge; a cutting edge evolutionary women’s practice group in Salt Lake City.
Fundmentalism is on the Rise: Marc Gafni
October 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Fundamentalism is on the rise in the world because it offers a pseudo-erotic experience of community coupled with a pseudo-erotic worldview. Particularly sacred fellowship, with all of its passion and interconnectivity, is a key feature of the fundamentalist experience. Whether it be the community of mosque, church or synagogue, the eros of communal belonging and [...]
Why is the teaching of Eros so important today: part one: marc gafni
October 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
posted by Gafni assistant; Revealing the Hidden For many years the cherubic mystery tradition was not taught publicly and often not at all in the Hebrew wisdom traditions. This was not accidental. Hebrew tantra is an inseparable part of the whole Hebrew gestalt. In marked contrast to some of its Indian stepchildren and pagan antecedents [...]
The Orthodox Esoteric Understanding of Sex and Holiness: Marc Gafni
October 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
When sex becomes virtually the only arena in which we experience erotic fulfillment then the Shechina is in exile. The exile of the Shechina is the exile of the erotic into the sexual. The redemption of the Shechina is therefore the re-expansion of eros from the narrow confines of the sexual back into the broad [...]
Sex is our teacher: Marc Gafni
October 25, 2008 · 1 Comment
We know that eros is very different than sex. Yet beyond eros, we also know that sexual symbolism was central in the Jerusalem Temple. The most striking of these symbols were the sexually entwined cherubs perched atop the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies. Yet why should this be so if the [...]
Summation Stage One: Marc Gafni
October 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
posted by Gafni assistant Total Good! We have completed the first stage on our journey. Before we continue, lets retrace our steps to make sure that we’re on firm ground. We are unraveling the temple mysteries. The Temple is the seat of eros. We have touched the four faces of eros. Being on the Inside, [...]
“Where you let him in” Marc Gafni
October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Where You Let Him In Erotic experience-in the sense that we have understood Eros, Eros =Holy= Shekinah= Zohar= Inside= Presence= Yearning= Wholeness .. are available to us in every facet of our lives. We just have to make a decision to live high. The Master of Kotzk once asked his students, “Where is God?” (In [...]
A Story about Laughter and the Spiritual Practice of Sacred Study: Marc Gafni
October 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Courting the Sacred When I sit down to prepare a teaching the process goes something like this. First is the attraction. I generally only teach that to which I am attracted. There has to be an almost unquenchable longing to explore the subject. Second it be fully present in the impassioned pursuit, in the investment [...]
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