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Wisdom School: Evolutionary Spirituality

Thursday, February 25, 2010 to Sunday, February 28, 2010

An Invitation to your Enlightenment Join us for the second exciting session of An Awakened, Cutting-Edge, Heart-Opening Dharma Transmission given by Dr. Marc Gafni Along with Deep, Loving, Embodied Process Work led by Shalom Mountain Leaders. The principles of evolutionary spirituality will forever change the way you live, love, be, become and make choices in life, ranging from your relationships, employment, spiritual practice and just about everything else. If you are ready for a bold leap into the future of God and the future invitation of your life, join us at this extravaganza of mind, body and spirit. Unfold the ten principles of the New Enlightenment Reclaim what enlightenment means in your life Understand how enlightenment is not only the joy of your being but also the ecstasy of your becoming. Explore your specific and clear role in the evolutionary context. Learn from the Biblical Mystic Luria, to the realized Hindu teacher Aurobindo, to the Idealist thinkers Fichte Schelling and Hegel, to Teillard De Chardin, Gerard Heard, and Abraham Kuk, who provided the greatest breakthrough of spirit and enlightenment in our time: the path of evolutionary spirituality.

Led By: Marc Gafni Tuition: $545

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Pleasure as Path to Enlightenment

with Dr. Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton

March 5th – March 7th

Pacific Coast ChurchPacific Grove

Pacific Grove, CA

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Many of us have a secret belief that spiritual growth is meant to be difficult, and that taking pleasure in life is somehow antithetical to spiritual progress. Yet the truth is that lasting spiritual growth comes from moving into, not away from, our deepest sources of pleasure.

Pleasure is our most natural doorway into spirit. By knowing your own pleasure, and how to explore and expand it into its divine source, you can enter directly into the truth. Because so many of us are cut off from the depth of our pleasure, we are also cut off from our own heart, and our own truth.

The tantric traditions understand that all pleasure comes from and leads into a divine source. They unfolded a yoga of pleasure and a path to transformation based on recognizing and entering deeply into subtler and subtler levels of enjoyment. When we learn and practice the the yoga of pleasure, we awaken to the heart of our own joy, we begin to find the real the pleasure that reveals itself in every moment of life—even the tough moments.

We all experience levels of pleasure, and at every level, there is a way to go deeper. From the physical pleasure of eating, dancing, or using your body well, to the subtler joys of love, creativity and service, to the ultimate pleasure described by the sages, there is always a way to go deeper, to make your pleasure subtler, to engage it as a yoga. When we know this art, it changes our approach to practice, to work, to relationships, and to life itself.

In this workshop you will learn:

• The five levels of pleasure and their secrets
• The thirteen principles of pleasure

• How to use each dimension of pleasure as both a way of engaging your life and a doorway into the divine

• Opening to pleasure in the midst of the pain

• Meditations on pleasure

• Finding your own sources of pleasure

• Keeping your heart open through the hurt until it bursts into pleasure

Listen to our fre 60-minute audio as our gift to y

Pleasure Reloaded: Part 1 with Dr. Marc Gafni

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Sally Kempton, formerly known as Swami Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide and as a spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. A teacher in the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism Sally conducts conducts workshops and retreats on applied philosophy and meditation. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

The New Enlightenment:

Awakening to your Unique Self

A 9-week online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni

Starts Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

5-6:30pm PST, 6-7:30pm MST, 8-9:30pm EST

What people are saying about Unique Self:

“Marc’s teaching on Unique Self completely re-framed the [spiritual] journey. I danced for joy with the transmission of the New Dharma. My practice intention is focused as preparation for ISE [Integral Spiritual Experience] – what a way to start the new year together!” – Julia S.

The future of our world depends on the great realization of love: that which unites us is infinitely greater than 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 of origin, our family circle and choose to live our highest truth. This truth transcends and includes all of our personal history even as it invites us to our singular and unique evolutionary destiny – Unique Self.

The Spiritual teaching for this age must be drawn from all of the great traditions of Spirit, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. These great understandings must be lovingly integrated into a space of open heart, community and insight that has the power and the compassion to guide us on the next stage of our personal and global journey.

This next step is The New Enlightenment and the path is to Awaken to Your Unique Self.

We are participating in a momentous leap of human consciousness – a momentous leap fueled by our own personal evolution, fueled by the realization and manifestation of our unique offering to this world.

Together we’ll create a space to engage a personal, hands-on guided exploration and practice of your unique life and purpose as it manifests through your passion, talents, and personal history such that you can awaken right now to what is emerging from your future.

Hope is a memory of the future. This is the place where you can remember your future and make it your present. No one else on this planet can make the contribution to humanity that you can. Become alive to your unique service by finding stillness, breaking through resistance and fear, listening to your calling, and ultimately taking full responsibility for the deep dimensions of your being and becoming.

Your enlightenment has a Unique Perspective held only by you. Your gifts flow from your own unique perspective, gifts that are desperately needed and desired by all of creation. You have unique contributions, unique potentials, and unique actions to offer the world, flowing from a source that manifests as unmistakably your own.

Do you want to realize the unique purpose of your life? Do you want to share your unique gifts with the world? If you do, then please join us this January as we gather our global practice community to deepen our exploration and journey of Unique Self.

You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

Together we will explore and engage these major questions:

• How can we awaken to the fullness of our Unique Self?

• How can we realize our Unique purpose in life?

• How can we create and engage Unique Relationships?

• How can we share our Unique gifts with the world?

• What’s the relationship between our Unique Self and our Unique Shadow?

You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

How Does It Work?

Can’t Make the Call?

No problem… If for any reason you can’t attend the live call, you can download a recording of the call and listen to it whenever you like. This includes 9 weeks and 75-minute MP3’s. We will post the recording from each class as soon as possible after the event.

How can I Ask Questions?

Throughout this teleseminar series you can submit questions via email. You can even submit questions online during the call as Dr. Marc will be answering them live. Questions will also be answered live via the phone.

Weekly Discussions and Private Practice Group:

There will be a Discussion thread open immediately following each class in this series. You will need to have a login to iEvolve’s Online Community to participate in the discussion thread. This discussion thread is part of a larger, Private Group for members of this telecourse. Dr. Marc will be participating in this group weekly, giving you even more access to this profound new teaching.

Weekly Assignments:

Each week Dr. Marc will present an assignment. This wil be announced weekly in the Private Group and this space will be used to engage with others exploring the same topic.

Weekly Practices:

Each week you will engage practices and techniques to assist you in the awakening of your Unique Self.

What You’ll Learn in Our Level One Course

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The 9 Core Teachings of Unique Self

Week 1: The Invitation and Responsibility of Unique Self

• Unique Self: The Evolutionary Context

• The Four Pillars of Unique Self

• Two Tastes: Being and Becoming

Week 2: The Glory of the Story

• Personal and Impersonal Enlightenment

• Live Your Story: Mythologize Don’t Pathologize

• Details Matter: The Time Line and Trajectory of Your Life

Week 3: False Core, False Self, and the Trajectory of Identity

• Personality Types

• False Core, False Self

• Unique Self and Ego

Week 4: Awakening: Evolution Beyond Ego - Part One

• True Self, True Identity

• Paths of Practice to Awaken Your Unique Self

• Unique Self and Transcendence

Week 5: Awakening: Evolution Beyond Ego – Part Two

• Five Differences Between Unique Self and Ego

• The Democratization of Enlightenment

• The New Enlightenment

Week 6: The Power of Your Pleasure

• The Five Levels of Pleasure

• The Paradox: Pleasure and Pain

• Pleasure Reloaded

Week 7: Unique Self: A Paradigm Shift in Loving

• The True Nature of Love

• The Four Principles of Loving

• The Three Tools of Loving

Week 8: Unique Wound and Unique Shadow

• The Shadow: Three Steps Beyond Jung

• Shadow and the New Enlightenment

• Follow Your Shadow to Your Unique Self

Week 9: Unique Gifts and Unique Responsibilities

• What is your Unique Self?

• What are your Unique Gifts?

• What is your Unique Purpose?

3 Free Unique Self  audio recordings as our holiday gift to you!

The New Enlightenment: Awaken to Your Unique Self

with Dr. Marc Gafni

Unique Self and Ego Development

with Susanne Cook-Greuter and Marc Gafni

Unique Self and Creativity

with Stuart Davis and Marc Gafni

Don’t miss the inaugural Unique Self online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni, starting Tuesday, April 6th. This course is ideal for beginner-advanced practitioners and also serves as a deeper journey and follow-up to the Integral Spiritual Experience.

The New Enlightenment:

Awakening to your Unique Self

LEVEL ONE

A 9-week online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni

Private Students

Evolutionary Integral Spiritual teachings and Trans-lineage dharma practices are given away free of charge throughout this website and in our weekly iEvolve newsletter.

Many who engage this Trans-lineage dharma path begin to feel called to dedicate their lives to a deeper expression of Spirit, in all of it’s faces. In response to this need, Integral Life Spiritual Center co-director and  iEvolve co-founder, Spiritual Teacher Dr. Marc Gafni is now accepting private students with a sincere desire to awaken to a life beyond ego.

iSpirit Private Study Pods

Want to study with an intimate group of dedicated practitioners like yourself? Interested in diving deep into community? If so, join our iSpirit private study pods and learn collectively, while still engaging expert spiritual guidance and practices with Dr. Marc Gafni. Each pod consists of 10 iSpirit students and meets weekly for 75 minutes for a 6-month period.

Our next iSpirit Practice Pod begins April 7th 5-6:30pm PT, 6-7:30pm MT, 7-8:30pm CT, 8-9:30pm MT.

$400/ First Month’s Payment

(April 2010)

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.

	ANTN’s 18th Annual Conference One Source, Many Threads: Weaving the Sacred Tapestery of Life April 12-16, 2010 – Phoenix, Arizona
	Joseph’s coat of many colors. A fine Persian rug. An exquisite symphony. Your life. What do these uncommon items have in common? Each is a weaving together of threads of Infinite Substance to create a unique and magnificent expression of the One Life. At this year’s ANTN Conference, we will enter a space where the sacred tapestry of Life is honored and revered. Weaving together threads of Connection, Abundance, Creativity and Heart, we will experience five days cocooned in the richness of spiritual communion and retreat. Whether your soul longs to be soothed, your heart yearns to be re-energized, or your dreams call to be empowered, your desires will be fulfilled at this conference. Every speaker and activity has been prayerfully selected to weave together the perfect experience for all. The beautiful Franciscan Renewal Center (The Casa) in Phoenix, Arizona, will serve as our conference site. With the feel of a monastery set against the backdrop of magnificent mountains and a desert in bloom, this site is dedicated to the sacred experience of Spirit. This conference promises deep and profound blessings to all who attend. Join us and empower the sacred tapestry that is your Life.	The Schedule Special Guests Additional Presenters Registration Form Franciscan Renewal Center Info Bookstore Vendor Info

iSpirit presents: Our Second Integral Spirituality Seminar

The Integral Evolutionary Tribe will be gathering Memorial Day weekend for three days

of powerful community, friendship, love, deep study and reality condiseration, spiritual practice, great food and drink and ecstatic dancing into the night.

The Topic:

Evolutionary Integral Relationships and Sexuality:

On Living the Integral Masculine and the Integral Feminine in Your Life

We all engage in relationship. They are the basic monad of our existence. Successful Relationships give heart, joy and passion to our lives. In many ways successful relationships are life itself.  Failed relationships foster most of the pain, heartbreak and even disaster in our lives. In many ways failed relationships are death itself.

By relationships we mean a wide variety of interactions. But the core of all relationships is between the masculine and the feminine. This may show up in relations between lovers, teacher and student, parent and child, in romantic relationships, in friendships, in business relationships and more. The masculine and feminine show up in sexual relationships in both straight and gay relationships. Moreover the masculine and the feminine, in their shadow and light forms, are principles at play in the politics love and sex no less then in the politics of economics, globalization, and the environment.

In this weekend we will engaged through heart, body, and mind Four core topics:

• Masculine Power and Masculine Shadow in Love Relationship
• Feminine Power and Feminine Shadow in Love Relationships
• Evolutionary Integral Models for Teacher Student Relationships
• Evolutionary Integral Models for Marriage and Sexuality

The Teachers:

Anchor Teacher, Marc Gafni, co-founder iEvolve, Growing a World Spirituality, Author, On the Erotic and the Holy, The New Enlightement: Awaken Your Unique Self, Soul Prints and more…

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of  what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Guest appearance by Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages, including the recent Integral Spirituality.  He is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc. and the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc.

Fielding Graduate Universities.

The Weekend will be chaired by Zak Stein and Curated by Kelly Sosan Bearer and Nicole Fegley. Guest appearance by dj sosan.

Zachary Stein received a B.A. in philosophy from Hampshire College in 2004 and an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 2006. He is currently a student of philosophy and cognitive development pursuing a doctorate at Harvard. He is also the Senior Analyst for the Developmental Testing Service where he has worked for years employing cognitive developmental models and metrics in a variety of real world contexts.

Kelly Sosan Bearer is the Executive Director of iEvolve: Global Practice Community. She is the C co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. Previously, Kelly worked for Integral Institute from 2003-2008 and has been a student of Integral theory and practice for over a decade. Kelly is an ordained Zen Monk and studies with Zen Master Genpo Roshi. She is a published author in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. She completed her graduate studies at  Naropa University with Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology.

Nicole Fegley is a co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience.  A former restaurant owner, she has worked for Integral Institute and Integral Life for the past 4 years and is currently studying in the Integral Coaching Canada certification program.  She is a writer and the co-owner of Core Integral, Inc, dedicated to comprehensive and accessible training in Integral Theory and Application.