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 [...]
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 [...]
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue – Part 4
November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 discussed are the connections between Wilber’s idea of “personal plus” and “personal minus” and the [...]
Daily Wisdom: What is Unique Perspective?
November 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 the great teachings of the Kabbalists. For these masters, the sacred text of the Torah is [...]
Prayers on Unique Self
November 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
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 Creation” by Liza Braude-Glidden, “In Your Faces” by Sue, and “May I Suggest,” by Susan. I hope you will enjoy [...]
Every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 one left off, moves closer to understanding the full depth and divinity of sacred rites and passages. In this sense [...]
My Dialogue with Ken Wilber Continues — Wilber/Gafni, Part 2
October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 Self within the context of Integral Theory, in particular the differentiation between structures or [...]
Listen to “The Weekend of Loving Outrageously”
October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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 minutes of my reflections with music (Erik Satie Gnossienne No. 1, Buddha Bar remix) [...]
Gafni/Wilber: Unique Self Dialogue, Part 1
October 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week we are presenting the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), Ken and Marc situate the Unique Self within the context of Integral Theory, in particular the differentiation between structures or [...]
Daily Wisdom: The Mystery of Tzimtzum
October 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A sacred conversation between the fourth century Babylonian Wisdom masters: “It is written that God withdraws his presence from the world to dwell in the empty space between the Cherubs in the Temple. But how could this be? Is it not also written that all of heaven, indeed all the space in the cosmos, is [...]
Gafni/Wilber: Unique Self Dialogue, Part 1
October 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Recently the Center for World Spirituality has begun to showcase an important dialogue on Unique Self which I participated in with Ken Wilber. These dialogues are a key part of one of CWS’s essential project of developing a World Spirituality based on Integral principles. In many ways, these conversations create a conceptual framework for much [...]
Mariana Caplan: “World Spirituality seeks to unite our common ground…”
October 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
For today’s Daily Wisdom post, we look at an article Mariana Caplan wrote prior to the founding of Center for World Spirituality. Mariana Caplan: Renowned integral philosopher Ken Wilber and Oxford-trained spiritual teacher and philosopher Marc Gafni are, among others things, movement makers, and World Spirituality is quite possibly the next great movement in Spirit’s [...]
What percentage of the population is enlightened?
October 5, 2012 · 1 Comment
According to integral philosopher Ken Wilber, spiritual masters have estimated that the number is in the ballpark of that’s 0.0000001 of the total population. Has there ever been a time when the democratization of enlightenment is so essential?
Tzimtzum: Love implies freedom and responsibility
September 24, 2012 · 1 Comment
The ability to know and not use the knowledge. To give while giving up control. The greatest expression of divine self-limitation allows us our ability to choose, even as we choose against God. As the Hebrew mystics write so beautifully, “even at the very moment that you choose against God, God continues to love, support [...]
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