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 ...
Archive for 2012
Foreword to Your Unique Self
A brief excerpt from Ken Wilber’s Foreword to Your Unique Self (forthcoming, Summer 2012) : DR. MARC GAFNI’S INTEGRAL UNIQUE SELF TEACHING IS SEMINAL. What you hold in your hands is a radically exciting and groundbreaking book that will change ...
The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value
By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Enlightenment is Sanity
When we live on an Earth in which there’s enough food and resources to feed us all five times over, and 20 million children die of starvation every year, and we’re talking about being sane? ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Looking for your Face
From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Living as Love Beyond the Small Self
I have this great joy when I know that I have done the right thing ... ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Name
Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, you are a slave. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Puzzle Piece
Your Unique Self is radically singular, gorgeous, and special in the world. But it is even more then that. Your Unique Self is a puzzle piece that is utterly necessary to complete a much larger puzzle. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Union is the Ultimate Erotic State
Interconnectivity, the fullness of presence, the inside of God's face, the yearning force of being, they all characterize our experience of Union. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Unity
For some passages in the Zohar, the mysteries of the cherubs are virtually a synonym for unity consciousness. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Eros of Evolution
The Eros of evolution is love. Seen from the outside, it is what Erich Jantsch refers to as “self-organization through self-transcendence." ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Creative Gaze
The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Lookers or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Democratization of Enlightenment
In a globally interconnected world, one person acting alone or a small group of ignorant individuals has the ability to literally destroy humanity. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Love the Stranger as Your Self
You must embrace all of your light as well as all of your darkness. Any part of me that I split off and reject is in exile. ...