In this 2020 video, Marc Gafni explains one chief facet of the phenomenon known as “spiritual bypassing”: the refusal of Unique Obligation. He says: Spiritual bypass is the same. I want to get to depth. I want to get to some glimmering of an enlightenment experience. I want to get to some sense of livng [...]
Response to the tragedy in Connecticut
December 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A boy walks into a school and kills twenty-seven people. For no reason. Most of the children between age five and ten. We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to a world of outrageous pain is outrageous love. We need to become outrageous lovers. Visit the Spirit’s Next Move blog of [...]
Through my body I vision God
December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Every event of consciousness shows up in the body; fear for example causes perspiration – however it is clear that fear is not reducible to perspiration. But by tracing the physical correlate of the emotional world of consciousness we gain an important window of understanding to the working of the heart. It is in this [...]
Listen to Dada Nabhaniilananda and Marc Gafni in Dialogue: Next 48 Hours Only
December 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Note: The Center for World Spirituality received a note from Yogi “Dada” Nabhaniilananda following Marc’s dialogue with him. Hi, Dada here… The replay of Marc Gafni’s interview is online at: http://www.ImaginalWorld.com/Marc Marc Gafni speaks with great passion and insight about thev subject of Evolutionary Mysticism, and our Unique Self. He is a true spiritual visionary [...]
Prophets for Profit
December 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
It is completely legitimate and even necessary for spiritual teachers to engage the marketplace and sell their wares. In doing so they need to use the skills of marketplace consciousness in a way that is both filled with integrity and highly effective. Having said that, we need to beware of prophets for profit. When there [...]
Five stages of business and the emergence of Unique Business
November 30, 2012 · 1 Comment
By Marc Gafni There is a parallel between the emergence of business and the emergence of self is both fascinating and highly instructive in understanding the narrative of conscious capitalism. Both the evolution of self and the evolution of business go through five core stages, which in large measure parallel each other. These five stages [...]
Daily Wisdom: The Rapture of God
November 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Daily Wisdom from The Dance of Tears: Whether the relationship is that of a servant to his master or a lover and his beloved or a relationship between partners or even friends, they are all “relating” to God. The most powerful form of God in the second person is almost certainly the prayer experience. It [...]
Mariana Caplan on Embodied Spirituality (Daily Wisdom)
November 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Daily Wisdom post from Spirit’s Next Move begins a story from Dr. Mariana Caplan which has broad implications for evolutionary world spirituality. From “Walking the Talk: the Principles and Practices of Embodied Spirituality,” by Mariana Caplan: I was 24 years old when I arrived in India for the first time. I had only a [...]
Daily Wisdom: Sacred hermeneutic is an erotic act…
November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Daily Wisdom on Spirit’s Next Move: Sacred hermeneutic is ultimately an erotic act according to the mystics in which the God in the interpreter meets the God and the text and realizes that they are one. It is this erotic merger with the divine in the act of interpreting sacred text which has been the [...]
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue – Part 4
November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
What is the distinction between True Self and Unique Self, and why is this important for changing the game in conversations about human nature and enlightenment? Listen to the fourth part of the Gafni/Wilber Unique Self dialogue. Among the topics discussed are the connections between Wilber’s idea of “personal plus” and “personal minus” and the [...]
Daily Wisdom: What is Unique Perspective?
November 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
From the Daily Wisdom post at Spirit’s Next Move: Every evolved culture and every evolved individual may realize Unique Self when True Self awakens to its Unique Perspective. An early expression of this equation is sourced in pre-modernity in the great teachings of the Kabbalists. For these masters, the sacred text of the Torah is [...]
Prayers on Unique Self
November 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
The Center for World Spirituality recently published a collection of reflections and personal sharing from the recent Shalom Mountain Wisdom School fall event. The prayers were gathered by Adael Bullock. Among the prayers are “Spark of Creation” by Liza Braude-Glidden, “In Your Faces” by Sue, and “May I Suggest,” by Susan. I hope you will enjoy [...]
Every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
In today’s Daily Wisdom post on Spirit’s Next Move, I write: R. Kook, twentieth century philosopher mystic, teaches that every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity. Each generation, picking up from where the last one left off, moves closer to understanding the full depth and divinity of sacred rites and passages. In this sense [...]
My Unique Self Dialogue with Ken Wilber, Part 3
November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
What is the difference between the True Self and Unique Self? Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni approach this topic in the third part of the dialogue on Unique Self (about 24 minutes). Early in the conversation, Ken says: Ken Wilber: The egoic self still has not yet passed through Emptiness, so it still believes it [...]
My Dialogue with Ken Wilber Continues — Wilber/Gafni, Part 2
October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Center for World Spirituality has published the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring my dialogue with Ken Wilber (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), we situate the Unique Self within the context of Integral Theory, in particular the differentiation between structures or [...]
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