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 ...
Archive for 2012
Response to the Tragedy in Connecticut
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 ...
Through my body I vision God
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 ...
Listen to Dada Nabhaniilananda and Marc Gafni in Dialogue: Next 48 Hours Only
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 ...
Prophets for Profit
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 ...
Five stages of business and the emergence of Unique Business
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: The Rapture of God
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: Sacred hermeneutic is an erotic act…
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 ...
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue – Part 4
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 ...
Daily Wisdom: What is Unique Perspective?
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 ...
Prayers on Unique Self
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 ...
Every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
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 ...
My Unique Self Dialogue with Ken Wilber, Part 3
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 ...
My Dialogue with Ken Wilber Continues — Wilber/Gafni, Part 2
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 ...
Listen to “The Weekend of Loving Outrageously”
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 ...