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 ...
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 ...
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 outrag ...
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 i ...
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.co ...
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 effectiv ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 dis ...
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 t ...
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 Creatio ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 S ...
Recently I gave a presentation at a CWS event in connection with Shalom Mountain. John Tarcza tells us that a “wild idea started to stir and evolve uncontrollably” in him while editing audio recordings from the weekend. He combined a few ...