Archive for 2008

The Meaning of Friendship: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anything less than this erotic experience may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Nations mass murder other nations. We rape the environment and allow twenty million people to die of hunger or related diseases a year. The simple ...

Anything Less than Eros may destroy our planet: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Tomorrow we will – God willing- start the next stage of our journey of Eros. We will try and begin to understand what it all means; How Eros and Sexuality and Love are related. Why sexuality is so frightening to so many people, how it becomes a ...

The Dark Night: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 12th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

this is part two of Batman, Luke Ford and Me. gorgeous day to everyone! :) Third: The Batman movie had something profound to say about leadership, false accusations and what Wilhelm Reich referred to in a book by that name as The Murder of Christ. At ...

The Dark Night, Luke Ford and Human Goodness: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 12th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Some notes on Batman part one. Saw The Dark Knight a couple of weeks ago. Luke Ford and myself had agreed to dialogue on the movie. There are some huge things that Luke and I disagree on about how to live in the world. In some regards that might be a ...

Do You Know What I Need? : Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Do You Know what I Need? Do I Know What You Need? The master Moshe Leib of Sassov said he never knew what it meant to be a lover until he learned it from a drunkard. It happened that the master was in a tavern and overheard a dialogue between two men ...

All Evil is a Failure of Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

All Evil is a Failure of Love Teaches Isaac Luria, the great kabbalist writing in 16th century Safed, “All evil is a failure of love and all love is a failure of eros. I can only hurt you if I feel that you are not connected to me. Would the hand s ...

Why do I care so much about Eros someone wrote me: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Why do I care so much about Eros? Because anything less than Eros may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Men who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness of the moment, rape women. Women who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness ...

Love Letters: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

We have been talking about love letters the last day or two. Some people have written and asked about love letters. Specifically If i might share another example. I am now writing a book {not about any persons or specific events} but a more broad and ...

An old love letter to an old friend

Posted on: September 9th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Love had gotten to be way too limited. We love only our romantic partners. Sort of.. Only to them do we write them love letters and poetry. Sort of…Sometimes,,, That is a big mistake. Yes Yes Yes… we should write love letters and poetry t ...

Love Letters

Posted on: September 8th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Love Letters & Love Numbers In biblical mysticism love and oneness are identical. In Hebrew, there is a mystical technique called ‘gematria’ in which each letter, and thus each word, has a numerical value. The Hebrew word for love, ahava, has ...

My Kids, Eytan and Yair

Posted on: September 8th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is Monday Morning and I am in Torrey Utah with my son and two good friends. My son Yair is nineteen. He takes my breath away. His depth of commitment to Mitzvah, {Commandment, Hebrew Spiritual Practice}, his raw goodness, his sophisticated underst ...

It is Monday Morning and I am in Torrey Utah with my son and two good friends…

Posted on: September 8th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is Monday Morning and I am in Torrey Utah with my son and two good friends. My son Yair is nineteen. He takes my breath away. His depth of commitment to Mitzvah, {Commandment, Hebrew Spiritual Practice}, his raw goodness, his sophisticated underst ...

Love is the Eros of Connection: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 6th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In the last twenty-five years, an enormous amount of serious scientific investigation has been done into what is called non-local distance healing. It involves the ability of a person at great distances to affect healing. The effect of the many scien ...

Non Local Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 6th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

This fourth principle of eros which I called in my earlier writing Interconnectivity might be better renamed as Wholeness. Interconnectivity means that there is not part that is merely a part and not part of a larger whole. there is not part that is ...

The Temple Hijacks the Energy Center: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 4th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Fourth Face of Eros: The Interconnectivity of Being Patterns that Connect= Magic= Eros= Love. 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. ...