The Kabbalists take the mandate of love implicit in self perception one step further. I need to understand that not only am I a part of God, but I am also a partner to God. Renaissance mystic Judah Loew of Prague writes that the litmus test of true love is mutuality. For him, this means [...]

by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. Ego is the servant pretending to be a king. You are avoiding stepping into your Unique Self for fear of being a king. Your ego thinks it is God but does not really believe it, so your ego insanely tries to make itself the God it knows [...]

Listen to two leaders of the Center for World Spirituality, John Mackey, Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market, as well as the Co-Chair of the Center for World Spirituality Board of Trustees and co-author of Conscious Capitalism, and Marc Gafni, director of Center for World Spirituality and author of Your Unique Self and many [...]

from the forthcoming book by Marc Gafni, Dance of Tears All of these passages are rooted in the lovers model of relation between the person or the people and God. The key gift the lover gives to the beloved is to need the beloved. And the converse. The gift of the beloved to the lover [...]

In this week’s video Wisdom Post on the Center for World Spirituality website, Marc Gafni, author of Your Unique Self, and John Mackey, co-author of Conscious Capitalism, revisit the moment of their first meeting when John made a lasting impression on Marc with the words, “Love is not weak. Love is strong.” With this as [...]

A 3-Part Web Tele-Series with Richard Barrett and Marc Gafni Thought Leaders Marc Gafni and Richard Barrett will engage in a free, 3-part monthly tele-series in April, May and June. See below for dates, times, full descriptions of each session, and how to register.   Do not miss this provocative and complementary series of dialogues [...]

Excerpted from Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment by Dr. Marc Gafni From quarks to atoms to cells to molecules, onward and upward Teilhard de Chardin, Abraham Kook, and many other evolutionary mystics point out that complexity is but the outside view. The interior—not addressed by Jantsch or any of the chaos [...]

We are challenged to expand the Love list in our lives to authentically embrace the many people we meet, bringing our Unique Self to each encounter. “Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, you are a slave. Anytime you regard another as a mere instrument [...]

The Fourth Face of Eros: The Interconnectivity of Being Patterns that Connect Longing, desire and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected. No human stands alone. The word “religion” traces its source to the Latin root ligare which, similar to ligament, is [...]

Published articles in the general media suffer from many flaws. This is well known to anyone who has ever been close to a situation and then seen how it is reported in the press. None the less we decided to re-publish here a series of articles on Marc Gafni’s work which date from mid eighties [...]