Feminine Beauty: Eros and Perception: Part VI My partner, Cary, tells me that in high school, she and her friends always said that one of their favorite things about hanging out with their African-American guy friends was that “they knew how to loo ...
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Feminine Beauty: Eros and Perception: Part V Marc Gafni
installation five in a series of blogs…. ‘Greater is Receiving Guests’ Remember the hebrew wisdom practice I shared in an earlier blog? If you are in the middle of meditation — rapturously receiving the Divine Presence — and guests that ...
On Feminine Beauty: Eros and Perception: Part IV: Marc Gafni
Installation four in a series of blogs: Clearly at this stage in his life the sexual was for the Master, like for the Buddha, Jesus and virtually all the saints at some point in their path, a trap to be avoided at all costs. The good news is that thi ...
“Here’s lookin at you babe” Eros and Perception: Part III: Marc Gafni
The First Path of Hebrew Tantra The great myth master, the Maggid of Mezritch, was very young and had just begun his teaching path.142 He was sitting one day minding his own business when a “loose woman” comes walking by, her breasts revealed in ...
“Here’s Lookin at you babe” Eros and Perception: Part II: Marc Gafni
First we need to remind ourselves that Love in Western consciousness has become a very limited proposition. To begin with, we are used to thinking of love as a storybook fantasy which is all too often marred by the realties of life. Truly great love, ...
Okay: “Here’s lookin at you babe”: Eros and Perception: Feminine Beauty: Part 1: Marc Gafni
installation one in a series of blogs: No sooner met but they look’d; no sooner look’d but they lov’d; no sooner lov’d but they sigh’d; no sooner sigh’d but they ask’d one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought th ...
Life After Death: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Part Two: cont’d from previous post {thanks to Jean Houston for referring me to this material} I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few frie ...
Life After Death: Part Two
part two: posted by Gafni assistant: Since his near death experience, Mellen-Thomas has maintained his direct access to Universal Intelligence, and returns to the light at will, enabling him to be a bridge between science and spirit. He has been invo ...
Life After Death?
posted by Gafni assistant Mellon-Thomas Benedict’s experience of the Universe After suffering from a terminal illness, in 1982 Mellen-Thomas Benedict ‘died’ and for an hour and a half he was monitored showing no vital signs. Miraculously he ret ...
A Witness to Sadness: Marc Gafni
It is morning and I am overwhelmed. By the radical pain and injustice of the world we live in. The idea that it “all works out” in our world is a New Age lie. Pure and Simple. I am overwhelmed at the willingness of seemingly good people t ...
The Next Set of Blogs: Marc Gafni
In the next stage of our journey we will outline ten paths of Hebrew tantra. In each of these paths the starting point will be the sexual. We will identify a unique quality of the sexual which models the erotic. They include creativity, pleasure, ima ...
Be Love
The Invitation to Be Love Eros is the invitation to be a lover: to be a great lover in every fiber of your being, in every facet of your life. But is even more then that. To be a lover is still second person. Do not merely be a lover: BE LOVE…L ...
Fundamentalism and Eros: Marc Gafni
It is time for the secret to be revealed and the wine to be drunk. It is time for a holy Dionysus to emerge and claim his place together alongside the cherubs in the Holy of Holies. Enough with the pathologies of the sexual that poison our society. V ...
Fundamentalism and Eros: part four: Marc Gafni
Yeats: The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of Passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand… The revelation at hand, that which we yearn for, is the secret of the cherubs. How to transform sexuality from a force to be con ...
Fundamentalism and Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni
A second type of fundamentalist fellowship is the communities of greed and accumulation. Greed and consumption move our lives because when the center doesn’t hold, the pseudo-eros of money seems the easiest means to fill the emptiness. Paradoxicall ...