In biblical language the word for “creation” is yatzar. But yatzar also represents primal, even dark, passions. We reveal our light, our soul, from the shadows. The shattered vessels of our miniature temple, which for Luria was the image of our souls, can only be made whole again if we are willing to enter the [...]
A Shamanic Story
Story of the Snuff Box
The story of the holy snuff box. Here is the story as I heard it.
Everybody knows that Holy Beggars hold the world together. Thus would one modern master introduce the following sacred story. Never, never pass by a holy beggar, and they are all holy. Walk across the [...]
Trauma that needs to be cried AND THEN MOVE ON!
When is it vital to connect deeply with your tears of angels and when is it better to just let them go?
Get on the Bus
This question came into bold and somewhat comical relief for me one day some years back in Jerusalem. I was waiting for [...]
One of the leading physicists of the century, Werner Heisenberg, explained relativity as the paradigm shift in which we understood that “there is not a fact and an observer, but the joining of the two in observation.” Physicist J.W. Sullivan in his important work The Limitations of Science put it bluntly, “We cannot [...]
Love is a Soul Print Perception. This is the journey from loneliness to loving.
Our soul print is the DNA of our soul. All those irreplaceable fully special pieces that make up in unique combination the woven fabric of our individual stories. All of these are our soul print. It is what gives evidence to [...]
Marc Gafni – Lotus Lounge Teaching – September 2008
Enjoy this beautiful teaching on Unique Self and the Purpose of your Life given just a few weeks ago at the Lotus Lounge; a cutting edge evolutionary women’s practice group in Salt Lake City.
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Fundamentalism is on the rise in the world because it offers a pseudo-erotic experience of community coupled with a pseudo-erotic worldview. Particularly sacred fellowship, with all of its passion and interconnectivity, is a key feature of the fundamentalist experience. Whether it be the community of mosque, church or synagogue, the eros of communal belonging and [...]
Hi Friends; this is an advanced blog post for the initiated into kabbalistic study from the unpublished footnotes to one of my english language books Mystery of Love:
The Baal Haleshem says explicitly that the cherubs are Ze’ir Anpin {masculine expression of the Godhead} and Nukva {feminine manifestation of the Godhead} (Sha’arei Haleshem, section 1:17; [...]
Supermodels
{Y.M} this post, written before your question, I hope honors and addresses your question.
The Shechina’s exile is all too apparent even in Webster’s dictionary. Webster’s defines erotic as “tending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The sentence would be perfect without the word “sexual.” In the secret of the cherubs, sex [...]