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On the Crucial Import of Good Spiritual Sense Making in Times of Crisis

Posted on: April 10th, 2020 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

By Dr. Marc Gafni >>> Download the Full Paper HERE <<< Note: This is the lightly edited, updated, and expanded transcript of an oral talk given by Dr. Marc Gafni towards the end of March, 2020. The original talk is found here: >& ...

There Are No Foreign Viruses: Go Viral with Outrageous Love

Posted on: March 17th, 2020 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Share the Love – Share This Clip Physical Distancing, NOT Social Distancing Ada Kedabra, the words of magic, are sourced in the ancient Aramaic phrase, Avra Kedabra – translated – “I create through my speech.” Let us a ...

Identifying & Transforming Your False Self

Posted on: July 17th, 2019 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

by Dr. Marc Gafni All the great traditions tell us about two selves. A true self and a false or fallen self. Whenever someone realizes their true self they are realizing that they are part of the larger one. The overall number of true selves is one. ...

Why This Is Essential Now

Posted on: September 27th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 8 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 of the Series. For many years the ...

Courting the Sacred

Posted on: September 13th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 7 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6, of the Series. When I (Marc) sit down t ...

Sensuous Study and the Erotic Text

Posted on: August 22nd, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 6 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 of the Series. The Baal Shem Tov, founder of the ...

Mirrors of Desire

Posted on: August 15th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 5 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of the Series. Later, in a great epilogue to the story, Mos ...

Supermodels

Posted on: July 16th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 4 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the Series. The Shechinah’s exile is all too apparent even in ...

An Erotic Hero: The Falafel Priest

Posted on: July 4th, 2018 by

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 3 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of the Series. Once–and I will never forget it–I unexpectedly stepped int ...

It’s All Art

Posted on: June 20th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 2 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 of the Series. Whenever we keep Eros confined to one narrow frame of being while de-erotic ...

Healing the Split

Posted on: June 9th, 2018 by No Comments

The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 1 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. The Shechinah is exiled whenever sex and Eros are split. As an example, Jake, age thirty-seven, works as a claims ad ...

Moving Humanity Towards Collective Intelligence

Posted on: June 1st, 2018 by No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 5* A Video Talk with Dr. Marc Gafni   How do we scale what’s working in humanity? How do we know what structures, or social contracts, are truly working? What are our models? What is a Unique Self Symph ...

The Vision of a Great Library

Posted on: May 9th, 2018 by No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 4* The Great Library is an expression of our mission at the Center for Integral Wisdom to evolve the source code of culture and to participate in the evolution of love. Our questions: How do we participate in ...

Become the Social Artist of Your New Reality: Eros and the Unique Self Symphony

Posted on: April 24th, 2018 by No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 3* Rivalrous relationships have become the structure of reality. This involves in-groups and the cohering of the in-group always requires an out-group. This is an example of pseudo eros. Eros vs. Pseudo-Eros  ...

From Ants to Humans: Bottom Up Self-Organization

Posted on: April 11th, 2018 by No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 2* How do we create a society with a new coherence? A community that self-organizes around something gorgeous? Not around defense, but around creating more of something beautiful? Another way to ask these same ...