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Sex is the Answer: What does that Mean? Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 19th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

There are those who have told me….shhh- do not talk about sexuality; someone might hear you:) but if i have learned anything in the past few years it is about sexuality, it’s beauty and it’s demonization. So at least for the next pe ...

Basic Intuition of Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 18th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Contrary to classical religion and much of psychology, Hebrew tantra insists that sex is integrally related to love and Eros. There is no disconnect. Not because it is always nice if you love the person you are sleeping with. But far more powerfully, ...

A note about the term Kabbalistic Tantra or Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 17th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The texts of the tantric system are part of the Hindu Agama texts. Tantra in it’s original meaning is said by some scholars to mean a weaving, web or loom. It encompasses both a dual and non dual tradition with many and varied practices. It is ...

Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 17th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

What is clear is that neither of the approaches that we described in the last couple of blogs honor the mystery of sex in our lives. It is at this point that we turn to the Temple mystics who affirm a radically different vision of the sexual. The Sec ...

No One seems to be enjoying themselves: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 16th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Since the sexual revolution, ostensibly uninhibited sex is available in infinite variety in almost every imaginable social or commercial context, and yet we do not seem any better for it. So much sex and so little pleasure. So many orgasms and so lit ...

Two Lines on Freud and Sexuality: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 16th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The first coalition which talks about sex is the moralist group which we discussed yesterday briefly. The second powerful coalition of forces talking about sex tells us ‘Sex is wonderful — if liberated, the panacea of all ill, if repressed the so ...

Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 15th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Hebrew Tantra: If we stop to think even for a short moment, we realize that sex really is the great mystery of our lives. Two groups however suggest very different approaches to sex. One powerful group of forces is arrayed in culture to prevent us fr ...

Great to be The Unique Self: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in California. Just finished teaching at a wonderful spiritual center. The public teaching was a dharma track which I have been evolving – even as it has been evolving me – for almost twenty years, calle ...

The Meaning of Friendship: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anything less than this erotic experience may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Nations mass murder other nations. We rape the environment and allow twenty million people to die of hunger or related diseases a year. The simple ...

Anything Less than Eros may destroy our planet: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Tomorrow we will – God willing- start the next stage of our journey of Eros. We will try and begin to understand what it all means; How Eros and Sexuality and Love are related. Why sexuality is so frightening to so many people, how it becomes a ...

The Dark Night: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 12th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

this is part two of Batman, Luke Ford and Me. gorgeous day to everyone! :) Third: The Batman movie had something profound to say about leadership, false accusations and what Wilhelm Reich referred to in a book by that name as The Murder of Christ. At ...

The Dark Night, Luke Ford and Human Goodness: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 12th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Some notes on Batman part one. Saw The Dark Knight a couple of weeks ago. Luke Ford and myself had agreed to dialogue on the movie. There are some huge things that Luke and I disagree on about how to live in the world. In some regards that might be a ...

Do You Know What I Need? : Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Do You Know what I Need? Do I Know What You Need? The master Moshe Leib of Sassov said he never knew what it meant to be a lover until he learned it from a drunkard. It happened that the master was in a tavern and overheard a dialogue between two men ...

All Evil is a Failure of Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

All Evil is a Failure of Love Teaches Isaac Luria, the great kabbalist writing in 16th century Safed, “All evil is a failure of love and all love is a failure of eros. I can only hurt you if I feel that you are not connected to me. Would the hand s ...

Why do I care so much about Eros someone wrote me: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Why do I care so much about Eros? Because anything less than Eros may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Men who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness of the moment, rape women. Women who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness ...