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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Daily Wisdom: Nietzsche’s Tears
January 17, 2013 · 1 Comment
By Marc Gafni Suddenly, in the chair beside him, Nietzsche took off his spectacles, buried his face in his handkerchief, and burst into sobs. Breuer was stunned. He must say something. “I wept too when I knew I had to give up Bertha. So hard to give up that vision, that magic. You weep for [...]
Story of the nearly empty synagogue
January 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Sharing with you “Prayers Rise” from the Marc Gafni Tumblr blog: They once say this great master went to an incredibly large synagogue, big and gorgeous, and there is only 10 people in there. He says there is no room for me to come in. They say what do you mean. There are tons of [...]
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Enjoy my Daily Wisdom post “Arise, Arise, to Return to Your Soul” from Spirit’s Next Move. Originally From the Erotic and the Holy: A line, circle, shadow story from the depths of Hebrew mysticism. Every year in the days approaching the new year, people would be awakened for the special early morning forgiveness prayer. The [...]
Through my body I vision God
December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Every event of consciousness shows up in the body; fear for example causes perspiration – however it is clear that fear is not reducible to perspiration. But by tracing the physical correlate of the emotional world of consciousness we gain an important window of understanding to the working of the heart. It is in this [...]
Daily Wisdom: The Rapture of God
November 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Daily Wisdom from The Dance of Tears: Whether the relationship is that of a servant to his master or a lover and his beloved or a relationship between partners or even friends, they are all “relating” to God. The most powerful form of God in the second person is almost certainly the prayer experience. It [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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