In the dialogue linked here, thought-leaders Marc Gafni and Rob McNamara discuss the overlapping topic areas in their recent books, Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and Strength to Awaken/The Elegant Self. They discuss… ...
Archive for the ‘Enlightenment’ Category
Daily Wisdom: Enlightenment of Fullness – Yetzir and Yetzirah, Part II
In this second installment in a three-part essay series, excerpted from the long version of Soul Prints, Dr. Marc Gafni writes that we can transform and raise our passion and artistic creativity into a powerful drive for the sensual and the holy, re ...
Loving Your Way to Enlightenment: The World is a Waiting Lover
Below is a live teaching from our awesome Beloved-teacher-friend Dr. Marc Gafni, transcribed by Chahat Corten  in her book Loving Your Way to Enlightenment. This Gafni Unplugged quote is from a live teaching given at the monthly dharma session wit ...
Five stages of business and the emergence of Unique Business
By Marc Gafni There is a parallel between the emergence of business and the emergence of self is both fascinating and highly instructive in understanding the narrative of conscious capitalism. Both the evolution of self and the evolution of business ...
Gafni/Wilber: Unique Self Dialogue, Part 1
Recently the Center for World Spirituality has begun to showcase an important dialogue on Unique Self which I participated in with Ken Wilber. These dialogues are a key part of one of CWS’s essential project of developing a World Spirituality b ...
Evolutionary Enlightenment & Unique Self Enlightenment: A Dialogue
With the launch of UniqueSelf.com, a wide range of dialogues have been published which cumulatively situate Unique Self within the context of Integral Spirituality and Evolutionary Spirituality. Over the next several months, the CWS blog — Spir ...
Prayer: a pointing-out instruction for God
By Marc Gafni We are all despearate for communion. It is what makes our lives worth living. Communion is the movement from loneliness to loving. It is the experience of being held and received. We are all systematically mis-recognized. To be recogniz ...
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 ...
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, 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, 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, Unique Self, Unique Obligation
To live your Unique Self and offer your Unique Gifts is to align yourself with the evolutionary impulse and fulfill your evolutionary obligation. ...
Shalom Mountain Develops Wisdom School
Dr. Marc serves as the teacher in Residence. The next session- which will be the eight session of the Wisdom School will be March 8-11th at Shalom Mountain in upstate new york. ...
The Democratization of Enlightenment by Marc Gafni
It used to be that enlightened living was for the elite The few great lovers, saints, and sages throughout history reminded us that something more was possible, that there was a better way to live... ...
Teachings on the Democratization of Enlightenment from Dr. Marc Gafni
Dr. Gafni coined the phrase, democratization of enlightenment in his thesis written in Oxford in 2002 to be published in two forthcoming volumes. ...