by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. When you are in ego, you might help friends who are successful and even friends who are down, as long as it does not threaten your position. But you are not capable of truly delighting in your deepest heart in a friend’s large success. When you are [...]
Distinction between Unique Self and Ego #14: Friendship or Pseudofriendship
May 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Being True to Your Unique Self With Morning Prayer
April 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
By Marc Gafni from a work in progress “Dance of Tears” Prayer is the restoration of the divine image through the restoration of the dignity of the word. Prayer, teach the masters, models sacred speech. Writes the Maggid of Mezeritch… “Take special care to guard your tongue Before the morning prayer, Even greeting your fellow [...]
The Sixth Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
To engage in a Unique Self encounter, you must stay open as love through the pain. By Marc Gafni To make contact in a Unique Self encounter, you must know how to avoid the ritual of rejection that so often arises from the ego’s contraction. When you feel hurt, your small-self ego contracts. Unless you [...]
The Fifth Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Unique Self Encounters Create Evolutionary We Space By Marc Gafni Meaningful Unique Self encounters foster the experience of entering together into higher states of awareness and intelligence. The next evolu- tionary leap in consciousness involves a recognition that, together, we have access to a collective wisdom and intelligence that is much smarter than our individual [...]
The Fourth Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
You Never Know By Marc Gafni The goal of Unique Self consciousness is to fully receive and be received in deep understanding and empathy. Yet how often are we simply unable to understand one another? Receiving each other becomes next to impossible because of distance, strangeness, hurry, deafness, carelessness, or inevitable differences in the languages [...]
The First Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Unique Self Level I Course starts April 24: More information here By Marc Gafni SEEN FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE, life is a series of encounters with other human beings. Of these encounters, the ones that are the most profound, pleasurable, and transformative are Unique Self Encounters. There are seven core rules that define a Unique Self [...]
What It Means to Be a Lover … from God’s Eyes
February 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
By Marc Gafni Note: The following article appeared in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Common Ground Magazine. The true nature of your values is always revealed in death. In eulogies, both in what is spoken and unspoken, there is something of the essential nature of your life and loyalties. Sometimes, however, before you die [...]
Explaining the difficulty of evolving a World Spirituality
February 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Note: This work is a transcript of a video produced in 2010 as part of the World Spirituality video series. By Marc Gafni From Marc’s dialogue with Michael Murphy, founder of Esalen Institute: Why hasn’t a World Spirituality emerged? What I’ve tried in the last four years to trace is both the evolutionary impulse of [...]
What is a Unique Self relationship?
January 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Published today on Spirit’s Next Move: There’s something I call Unique Self evolutionary relationships, what we called in the Soul Prints book “soul print encounters”. In a genuine Unique Self encounter, we each hold a piece of the other’s story. The ethical obligation implicit in the encounter itself is to return to the other Unique [...]
Unplugged: What about Spiritual Bypassing?
December 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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