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by Marc Gafni
Evolutionary Kabbalah means that all of reality is evolving. It means that from a non-dual perspective there is no separation between the divine and all of reality. This means that all levels of reality, from matter to body to mind to spirit, are co-evolving all the time.
Moreover, in Evolutionary Kabbalah a key emergent [...]

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by Marc Gafni
If you were to say that the Holy One was not exiled together with Her, for this reason the verse (Proverbs 27) says, “Like a bird wandering away from its nest, so does a man wander from his place,” in order to protect Her during Exile from foreign possession-takers. As it is [...]

Evolutionary Kabbalah
by Marc Gafni
These core sources on Evolutionary Kabbalah, a termed coined by Marc Gafni, were translated and published in a source book as the basis of the dialogues between Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni in December of 2005. Marc Gafni gave teachings on these sources in Israel between December 2005 and April 2006. These [...]

by Marc Gafni
The General Features of Acosmic HumanismThe following excerpts are Chapters 6 and 7 from a forthcoming book by Marc Gafni, Levels of Consciousness in the Torah of Mordechai Lainer of Izbica: A Model of Integral Scholarship. In Chapter 6, we will outline in broad strokes the defining features of acosmic humanism. In Chapter [...]

An Offering of Words
Manic Screaming
We should make all spiritual talk
Simple today
God is trying to sell you something,
But you don’t want to buy.
That is what your suffering is:
Your fantastic haggling,
Your manic screaming over the price!
Hafiz
(placed by Marc Gafni)

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A communication on Soul Prints and Unique Self from Marc Gafni to a leading group of non-dual theorists and teachers in the United States:
Dear Friends,
I am in between teachings so have time to write but a brief response to your questions about Unique Self/Soul Prints and how it integrates with the non-dual teachings that are [...]

by Marc Gafni
Thirty years ago I became seriously interested in the writing of Abraham Kuk. Kuk was a great Kabbalist and revolutionary thinker, who lived a paradoxically and often beautiful conservative lifestyle.
In my recent work on Mordechai Lainer of Izbica, who is in many ways my teacher, I began to realize that a number of [...]

Marc Gafni met Andrew Cohen through a mutual friend and student of Andrew’s in 2005. Andrew Cohen invited Marc Gafni to visit and teach in Andrew’s community to his senior students in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Marc Gafni visited and taught and dialogued with Andrew Cohen in Fox Hollow several times. As a result of their shared [...]

by Marc Gafni
This article was born in conversations with Ken Wilber in late 2005 and early 2006. I sent him an earlier version of it and appreciate his feedback, which was in part incorporated in the article.
This short piece attempts to get a grip and offer a more integral framework on the spirituality vs. religion [...]