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 [...]
Emotional Mastery is Vital to Deep Spiritual Intelligence
April 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment
by Marc Gafni From a work in progress, Dance of Tears: Our goal is to be able to access and listen to the voice of deep emotion and detect within it the voice of God. This is how these mystics read the text, “The masters are those who have mastery over their hearts.” Mastery, a [...]
Center for World Spirituality Mystery School of Love (aka Summer Festival of Love) Venwoude International Retreat Center, Holland
April 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The following video gives you a small taste of the Center for World Spirituality Mystery School of Love (aka Summer Festival of Love) run in partnership with Venwoude International retreat center. The Mystery School is an annual eight day event which takes place at the end of July and the first week of August. The [...]
Love is Your Birthright
March 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
by Marc Gafni Love between people, at its core, is not an emotion. Love between people, at its core, is a perception. Love is a Unique Selfperception. The emotion is a direct result of the perception. To be a lover is to have eyes to see. Love perceives the True Nature of things. To love [...]
The Seventh Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Unique Self Encounters Require not Only Integrity but Evolutionary Integrity By Marc Gafni Your Unique Self is also defined by your evolutionary context. In a Unique Self encounter, you seek not only romantic, pragmatic, or emotional con- nection. You seek evolutionary relationship. In evolutionary relationship, you seek to manifest the evolutionary potential in your meeting. [...]
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 Third Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
By Marc Gafni Labels Obstruct Unique Selves Contact The internal labeling that we may apply to our fellow humans obstructs authentic contact between Unique Selves. A label is blinding when it prevents your attention from actually settling directly on the person you encounter. The most mentioned ethical guideline in biblical mysticism – appearing no less [...]
The Second Law of Unique Self Encounters
March 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Unique Self Level I Course starts April 10: More information here By Marc Gafni You come to quickly recognize in your interactions with fellow beings when you are engaged in those resonant communications that are characteristic of Unique Self encounters. This relates to the Second Law of Unique Self Encounters. 2) To have a Unique [...]
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 [...]
Join Marc Gafni for “Outrageous Love” on Valentine’s Day
February 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
February 14, 2013: Valentine’s Day in Amsterdam A special evening with Marc Gafni Today on Valentines Day we are not talking about the version of Love we see on Hallmark cards, which is only sweet and soft. NO, today we are talking about the LOVE that is the strongest force in the Universe! When you [...]
Longing & Revelation
February 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment
New Daily Wisdom post on Spirit’s Next Move: We long for something deeper; something more, a higher and more noble authenticity. We masquerade in the mask of our wholeness knowing all along that it is but a charade; that we are part of larger whole with whom we yearn to be re-united. A shard of [...]
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 [...]
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