Two Integral Offerings of Words: I rarely let the word “No” escape From my mouth Because it is so plain to my soul That God has shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!” To every luminous movement in existence -Hafiz • • • Just as a normal man can climb A high mountain And on a clear day [...]
Behind the Scenes at Integral Spiritual Experience 2: The Future of Love – Marc Gafni
January 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
This year’s ISE was a shot heard ‘round the web. From blogs to tweets, pictures to videos – including a live web stream with on demand video playback – this year’s ISE was more social than ever! So what did you miss? Check out our ISE 2 Social Recap below… ISE 2 Keynote Address: Daphne [...]
Announcing the Official iEvolve 2011 Event Calendar with Marc Gafni!
January 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Step into the Heart of Trans-lineage Practice with Marc Gafni.
January 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Step into the Heart of Trans-lineage Practice… The future of our world depends on the great realization of love: that which unites us is infinitely greater then that which divides us. For the first time in the history of the human race, we are able to rise beyond the place of our birth, our religion [...]
The Kiss of Death – Marc Gafni
January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
by Marc Gafni The biblical myth archetypes associated with the ultimate unitive consciousness found in the Temple’s Holy of Holies are Nadab and Abihu. They are the sons of High Priest Aaron. The high priest is the paradigm of love. His sons inherit his lover’s passion and seek death in ecstasy; to merge with God [...]
The Center for World Spirituality with Dr. Marc Gafni!
January 13, 2011 · 2 Comments
The articulation of the path of world spirituality is an intuitive yearning rippling across the globe in the hearts and minds of tens of millions of people. For some people, the classical religions have lost their power. They seek a path of practice and commitment which transcends the traditions. For others, their intuitive desire is [...]
Los Angeles Makes Movies. San Francisco Makes Movements.
January 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The San Francisco Bay Area is world renowned for starting movements that are imitated throughout the globe, from feminism to gay rights to ecological activism. On the spiritual front, the popularization in the West of Buddhism, yoga, pioneering psychologies, and meditation sprung forth from groups of passionate visionaries gathering together in a living room in Haight-Ashbury, renting a storefront south of [...]
House of Mirrors – Marc Gafni
January 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
by Marc Gafni When the book Soul Prints was published, the bulk of the writing and thinking at the time remained excluded from the final edition. I had submitted an eight hundred page manuscript to Simon & Schuster; my editor, Emily, was less than thrilled with this; the second half of the manuscript was about [...]
Spiritually Incorrect – Marc Gafni
January 9, 2011 · 1 Comment
by Marc Gafni This article, written in 2007, represents a small elaboration on my thinking in the book The Mystery of Love. There is much more to say―which I will do, God willing, in a full-length book―but for now this small offering will suffice. Spiritually Incorrect Our general way of thinking suggests that sexuality is [...]
On the Erotic & the Holy – Marc Gafni
January 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
by Marc Gafni The mystery begins in the inner precincts of Solomon’s sacred temple in Jerusalem, unraveling the deep, wondrous and provocative relationship between sex, Eros and love. It is the unpacking of this first stage of the mysteries that we devote the first three framing chapters. Emerging from the Hebrew mystery tradition, the following [...]
Essay On Gratitude – Marc Gafni
January 7, 2011 · 1 Comment
FAITH: IS IT TRUE OR AM I TRUE? by Marc Gafni This essay was written in different forms over many years. I first taught this Torah some 13 years ago in 1995 in Jerusalem at talks I gave in the Yamim Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem at the Zionist confederation. This was the seed of material [...]
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