Artists create from their own shadows. The kabbalists teach that we are all artists of our own lives, engaged in the ultimate sacred act of self-creation. Nietzsche correctly intuited a core biblical idea when he said, “The artist becomes the work ...
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The Way of the Dragon: Part Three in Series: Light From Darkness: Marc Gafni
How fascinating that the Sanctuary, said to be the source of all the G-dly light in the world, should have been designed by Bezalel, whose name means “in the shadow of G-d.” For nearly two thousand years, this was considered too dangerous a path ...
Blog Post Two: Light From Darkness: Marc Gafni
For nearly two thousand years, people ignored, denied, or labeled as evil the darker crevices of their soul. It was considered a deficit that was best left unexplored. Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi–the founder of the Chabad Movement, goes one step ...
New Series of Blogs: Light From Darkness: Marc Gafni
Dear Reader, This series of posts was written originally for a book I wrote called Soul Prints back in 2000. This material, along with a few hundred other pages, did not make it into the book. I am now revisiting, rewriting and re-souling this torah ...
Being Your Own Lover: Marc Gafni
Being Your Own Lover Your commitment to giving for the sake of growth on the lovers path cannot be limited to the growth of your beloved. You must be your own lover. That means you must be willing to invest in yourself. If you do not give yourself gi ...
Life is What Happens Along the Way:Marc Gafni
A good friend of several years back shared with me a story about his autistic son. As Brad explained, what autism means is that there is too much information pouring in and not enough sensory capacity to filter out the excess. This creates an overloa ...
REPOST: Integral Biblical Wisdom with Dr. Marc Gafni
Register Today! Integral Biblical Wisdom: Three Integral Biblical Principles to Transform Your Life A Virtual Seminar: Broadcast LIVE via the Web with Dr. Marc Gafni  Tuesdays, July 7th, 14th, & 21st 6-7:30pm MDT Broadcast LIVE via the Web   ...
Integral Biblical Wisdom: A Three-Week Telecourse with Marc Gafni
Register Today! Integral Biblical Wisdom: Three Integral Biblical Principles to Transform Your Life A Virtual Seminar: Broadcast LIVE via the Web with Dr. Marc Gafni  Tuesdays, July 7th, 14th, & 21st 6-7:30pm MDT Broadcast LIVE via the Web   ...
REPOST: Men’s Integral Practice Weekend with Dr. Marc Gafni
Dragon’s Den: Men’s Integral Practice Community What is Dragon’s Den? Are you the evolution of man unfolding right now? Are you the embodiment of your fullest expression of what it means to be a man? Do you know your most fundamenta ...
Marriage: A Path with a Heart: Marc Gafni
The best framework I know for spiritual growth is a long-term committed relationship of which the archetype is clearly marriage. This view of marriage is enormously liberating. We need to let go of the old views of marriage in which it is either a ha ...
Men’s Integral Practice Weekend with Dr. Marc Gafni
Dragon’s Den: Men’s Integral Practice Community What is Dragon’s Den? Are you the evolution of man unfolding right now? Are you the embodiment of your fullest expression of what it means to be a man? Do you know your most fundamenta ...
Thirty-One Leading Spiritual Teachers Form Integral Life Spiritual Center
Dear friends, For many, the vision of integral spirituality is one of a world in which humanity can finally, after many millennia, come to appreciate and embody the mystery of reality in a powerful, compassionate and sophisticated way that honors the ...
Notes From A Lover – Dr. Marc Gafni
I have written before of the beauty of Eros–the divine life force–and how our sexuality models the greater movement of Eros in our lives. By Eros, I mean the fullness of presence, inner space, participating in the yearning force of being and the ...
Integral Spiritual Experience with Dr. Marc Gafni
Imagine lying on your death bed and looking back over your life, remembering all of the wonderful things you’ve done and all of the challenges you’ve faced. The exhilaration, the friends, the love, the triumphs, the traumas … Can you imagine ...