By Marc Gafni There is a parallel between the emergence of business and the emergence of self is both fascinating and highly instructive in understanding the narrative of conscious capitalism. Both the evolution of self and the evolution of business ...
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Evolutionary Enlightenment & Unique Self Enlightenment: A Dialogue
With the launch of UniqueSelf.com, a wide range of dialogues have been published which cumulatively situate Unique Self within the context of Integral Spirituality and Evolutionary Spirituality. Over the next several months, the CWS blog — Spir ...
The Essential I (By Dr. Marc Gafni)
By Dr. Marc Gafni In this excerpt from Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah: The Dance of Tears (forthcoming), Dr. Marc Gafni explores the Garden of Eden biblical story and Abraham Kook’s teaching on the “inner essential I,” through which we come to u ...
The Narrative of Conscious Business
Marc Gafni recently participated as a guest scholar at the Conscious Business Conclave at Esalen. Here is an excerpt from Marc’s reflections on the urgent priority of articulating a narrative of Conscious Business. In Marc’s words, there ...
Prayer: a pointing-out instruction for God
By Marc Gafni We are all despearate for communion. It is what makes our lives worth living. Communion is the movement from loneliness to loving. It is the experience of being held and received. We are all systematically mis-recognized. To be recogniz ...
The Seven Levels of Certainty and Uncertainty
By Marc Gafni The following are notes from Marc Gafni’s dharma talk given in March 2012 at Shalom Mountain Wisdom School, where Gafni serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. Introduction The seven levels of certainty and uncertai ...
Enlightenment is not loss of identity but a reclaiming of your true identity
By Marc Gafni One of the simplest definitions of sanity used in the psychological literature is knowing who you are. To be sane is know your identity, to recognize your name. For example if I tell you that my name is Ken Wilber when my name is really ...
The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value
By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...
The Democratization of Enlightenment by Marc Gafni
It used to be that enlightened living was for the elite The few great lovers, saints, and sages throughout history reminded us that something more was possible, that there was a better way to live... ...
Teachings on the Democratization of Enlightenment from Dr. Marc Gafni
Dr. Gafni coined the phrase, democratization of enlightenment in his thesis written in Oxford in 2002 to be published in two forthcoming volumes. ...
Finding God in our Contraction by Dr. Marc Gafni
Your state, in this case a mystical state, is always interpreted through your level of consciousness. ...
Joy is a Unique Obligation, by Dr. Marc Gafni
The word most often associated in Kabbalah with joy is “chiyut,” roughly translated as “life energy,” somewhat like the Chinese notion of chi. To be happy is to be plugged into the chiyut of the Universe. The portal to that en ...
The Alchemy of Love, by Dr. Marc Gafni
The Alchemy of Love “IT DEPENDS ON LOVE.” In this old Aramaic phrase, “it” refers to shadow. This phrase will guide you on the path of shadow integration that the old Unique Self masters called the “left-handed emanation” or the “way of ...
Crisis of Imagination – by Dr. Marc Gafni
>> Read the whole article on Thrive Global << The greatest crisis of our lives is not economic, intellectual, or even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We are getting stuck on our paths because we are unable t ...
Thoughts on The Unique Self, by Thomas G. Goddard, JD, PhD
Tom Goddard is a board member of Center for World Spirituality and a senior student of Unique Self Enlightenment and World Spirituality. The array of forces that brings a human being to this point in space at this moment in time — here, now ...