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Archive for the ‘Integral Religion’ Category
Exploring the Paradox and the Problem of Evil and Outrageous Pain
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue after the Success 3.0 Summit How do we live in a world of Outrageous Pain? In this conversation Dr. Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber explore the paradox and the problem of evil and Outrageous Pain. They talk about the p ...
God in the Second Person – Crisis of Finitude
The daily prayer practice emerges in large part from a crisis in identity. Prayer seeks to answer, via experience, the question that Ramana Maharishi places at the center of spiritual work for his disciples: “Who Am I?” It is told that a certain ...
Sacred Text Study and the Evolution of God
There is a great story about this man who is a very busy man. Heidegger talks about the busy man. This busy man is from Chicago, and he is going to visit Paris, and he wants to visit the Louvre, which is the great museum of Paris. His friends have to ...
Eat, Be Satisfied, and Give Blessing
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. Life is, at best, partial in the fulfillment it offers. It is, however, all too true that the enemy of the good is the best. The key to spi ...
Tears in the Mystical Tradition of Cosmocentric Consciousness
Enjoy this excerpt from Marc Gafni’s Book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion and Rosh Hashanah: Let me tell you a story of holy tears of this kind. A Hasidic story. Isaac, the Vorker Rebbe, was best friends with another well-known mast ...
SELF IN INTEGRAL EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM Published
Marc Gafni’s compelling, original, and powerfully helpful SELF IN INTEGRAL EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM: Two Models and Why They Matter has been published: Two major works have been written within the framework of Integral Wisdom about the nature of Sel ...
From the Holy of Holies: Prayer is a Realization
Holy of Holies with Marc Gafni, December, 2013 Marc Gafni private study session, transcribed by Adael Elizabeth Helen Bullock: A true story for you today . . . beloved, EH. I once had lunch with a beautiful man who was a famous Buddhist teache ...
Certainty and Dreaming by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni from his book Uncertainty, which will be re-released as part of the two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. Have you ever wondered about the relationship between our yearning and our certainty? We often have a subtle sense tha ...
Wisdom for your Week: Divine Tears
Dr. Marc reminds us here that “in the inner space between the contradictions—that is where God lives.” And he narrates further that the Talmud, in the Tractate Hagigah, states about this: “That is in the inner house. That is in the outer hous ...
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue – Part 4
What is the distinction between True Self and Unique Self, and why is this important for changing the game in conversations about human nature and enlightenment? Listen to the fourth part of the Gafni/Wilber Unique Self dialogue. Among the topics dis ...
Daily Wisdom: What is Unique Perspective?
From the Daily Wisdom post at Spirit’s Next Move: Every evolved culture and every evolved individual may realize Unique Self when True Self awakens to its Unique Perspective. An early expression of this equation is sourced in pre-modernity in t ...
My Dialogue with Ken Wilber Continues — Wilber/Gafni, Part 2
The Center for World Spirituality has published the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring my dialogue with Ken Wilber (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), we situate the Unique S ...
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 ...
Integral Spirituality in Real Life, Ken Wilber
Integral Spirituality in Real Life, Ken Wilber I would like to take a slightly different approach to this month’s column, and instead of continuing to outline an integral approach to spirituality, give an example of its use in the real world. W ...