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 ...
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Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement
A story told by Marc Gafni in his book Uncertainty It had been a particularly hard year. The community of Chassidim gathered on the Day of Atonement, the fast day when all Jews pray to God for forgiveness for their sins, and the growling in their sto ...
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 ...
Join Dr. Marc Gafni for the Fourth Summer Festival of Love in Holland 2015
We are delighted to invite YOU to The Summer Festival of LOVE The second annual European Integral Wisdom Conference on Love, Eros and Enlightenment Lines and Circles The Inner Marriage/The Alchemy The power in Your Unique combination of Masculine and ...
The Dharma of Outrageous Love – Esalen 2014
CIW Web-Scholar Kerstin Zohar Tuschik has started a 4-part blog-series about The 5th Annual World Spirituality Retreat with Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni “Loving Your Way to Enlightenment: The Path of Outrageous Love” After a truly magical trip al ...
L’Shanah Tovah U-Metukah: Re-Reading Rosh Hashanah
Enjoy this excerpt from the new book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashana by Dr. Marc Gafni that will be published with Integral Publishers. An earlier version of this article was published in 2008 as part of a longer article ...
On Using Discernment: The Many Ways to Pray
We are multidimensional human beings… When we pray, from what part of our Being are we praying from? The discussion continues learning the practice of prayer not as dogma, but as an empirical and experiential practice that has proven results. Learn ...
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 ...
Certainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which understands God’s presence in the world through the model of the sefirot, the framewo ...
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 ...
“Open, Not Closed” Meditation
This week’s audio wisdom meditation with Dr. Marc Gafni comes from Week 7 of the Awakening Your Unique Self 10-Week Telecourse, themed “Unique Self: A Paradigm Shift in Loving.” This beautiful meditation, created by Dr. Marc for the ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #18: Responsibility or Excuse
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego very rarely takes substantive responsibility. When the ego attempts to take responsibility, it creates a painful, virtually unbearable contraction in the self. So the ego becomes the master of the excus ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #17: Justice or Injustice
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. The ego is angry at what is done to it. It very rarely feels the same outrage at what is done to someone else. The Unique Self is not merely outraged against injustice done to its own person; it is hurt and outr ...