Dr. Marc Gafni and Michael Murphy held an evening dialogue at a recent leadership meeting. The topic was on reincarnation, and the inquiry was, “How does a think-tank hold a credible post-metaphysical discussion on reincarnation?” What do ...
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The Judah Reverberations
Editor’s Note: As I have been preparing this biblical story for web-posting from Marc Gafni’s teachings in his book, Certainty, I have been stunned and deeply moved to find so much of my personal story in the tale of Jacob, Leah, Judah an ...
Certainty is Emunah… the Faith that You are Held
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as ...
The Modeh Ani Lafanecha – Prayer of Certainty
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. We continue our exploration of certainty and uncertainty ...
Achieving Authentic Certainty in the Divine
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. And so… we continue our discussion on Certainty an ...
Uncertainty is a Revelation of the Divine
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. When we discuss an Embodied Certainty of God, we are als ...
The Judah Moment: Embodied Certainty of God
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. Before the start of each day, I say the prayer Modeh Ani ...
The Patterns That Connect
(This is a partial transcript of a dharma talk by Marc Gafni at the Wisdom School at Shalom Mountain in 2012) Our narrative has to give a vision and a story of the patterns that connect that is coherent, that is cogent, that is compelling, that is se ...
Introduction to Certainty by Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. Introduction: “Through my flesh I vision God.” This quote fr ...
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 ...
From the Holy of Holies: Kosmic Sensitivity and Dissolving the Layers
Transcribed by Adael Bullock, Holy of Holies, Private Session, October, 2013 *** Marc – So I am sensitive, I am the dynamic of kosmic sensitivity but then I have taken in this kind of infinite pain, every ripple, and I do not want to live with ...
Enlightenment of Fullness: “To Struggle is to Embrace” 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. There Is No Such Thing as Wrestling at a Distance: To Struggle Is to Embrace Rashi explains “Vayeavek” the Hebrew ...
From the Holy of Holies: The Pain of Intimacy
From Shalom Mountain Wisdom School teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni. Transcribed by Adael Bullock. Divinity is not only the infinity of power; divinity is the infinity of pain. It is the infinity of tears. Divinity at its core is the infinity of intima ...
Enlightenment of Fullness: The Great Mystery of Longing and the Tears of Union
From “The Path of Yearning” by Dr. Marc Gafni (Parabola Magazine, Summer 2006). In the world of Chassidut, all service begins with longing. But the Chassidim understood the great mystery of longing: that in relationship to God and to the ...