Archive for the ‘Wisdom for Your Week’ Category

Fantasy & Imagination

Posted on: June 14th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

An excerpt from the Mystery of Love 2013 on “Reclaiming Eros” In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni shares about the fifth quality of Eros: Fantasy & Imagination. He gives an example of how Eros is exiled into the Sexual. All of us are master ...

Who Am I? I Am an Outrageous Love Letter

Posted on: May 31st, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Watch this teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni on Being an Outrageous Love Letter as our special gift from the Mystery School on Reclaiming Eros:   Some of the themes Marc Gafni covers in this video: Loving Your Way to Enlightenment Who Are You? From se ...

Marc Gafni on Responding to Existential Risk

Posted on: May 15th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Listen to this inspiring half hour talk by CIW President Dr. Marc Gafni, where he shares some of the thinking that emerged from many of the great conversations during and after our Center for Integral Wisdom board meeting: How do we live with and con ...

Dr. Marc Gafni in Thrive Global

Posted on: April 24th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

You want to read more by Dr. Marc Gafni online? Follow him on Thrive Global, where he has been featured a couple of times as part of their Wisdom Channel. So, far there have been four pieces by him, starting with a Crisis of Imagination. In it, he di ...

Marc Gafni: A Better Way to Live

Posted on: March 28th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

From the book The Mystery of Love by Dr. Marc Gafni Our lives are spent teetering on the edge of the void. You know the void — the big hole you feel inside. Usually it is a dull and throbbing pain, the back­ground noise of most lives. We rush arou ...

How to Create a Unique Self Symphony

Posted on: March 9th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

In Evolutionary Church, we have talked about it: The Politics of Evolutionary Love. So, let’s get real. How do we create that Politics? Do you want to know what love is? Love not merely as a saccharin emotion on a Valentine’s Day Card, bu ...

The Return to Eros IS the Return to the Holy of Holies

Posted on: February 13th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Read this beautiful text by Dr. Marc Gafni on the Song of Songs: Song of Songs = Holy of Holies Holy = Inside Holy of Holies = on the Inside of the Inside The Zohar teaches that Akiva used to read the Song of Songs on the Sabbath and cry… Tears ...

2/2/17 Shocking Fake News Story: Marc Gafni Responds

Posted on: February 3rd, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

In this video, after framing it inside the larger conversation of fake news in our post-truth society, Marc Gafni  recounts a recent incident: In a private letter, a woman accused Marc of having sexually molested a young boy who she knows many years ...

Your Evolutionary Yes

Posted on: November 11th, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

From: Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism: Two Models and Why They Matter by Marc Gafni Your divine spark manifests as your drive to attain something beyond the contracted self of ego. You do not simply want to disappear into the one. Rather, you ...

God in the Second Person – Crisis of Finitude

Posted on: October 18th, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

The daily prayer practice emerges in large part from a crisis in identity. Prayer seeks to answer, via experience, the question that Ramana Maharishi places at the center of spiritual work for his disciples: “Who Am I?” It is told that a certain ...

The Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0

Posted on: October 3rd, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

On October 1st, 2016 Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni held this beautiful free community call. In it they discuss the Planetary Awakening through the Unique Self Symphony or what they came to call the Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0. This dialogue repres ...

The Path of the Evolutionary Lover

Posted on: September 27th, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Watch this beautiful video recording from a Dharma Circle full of Outrageous Love about The Path of the Evolutionary Lover: ...

To Love Is to See with God’s Eyes

Posted on: September 6th, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

From an unedited draft of a forthcoming book on Reclaiming Eros by Marc Gafni. Devotion means that I am devoted to you, I worship you, not in the sense of giving up my freedom, but of being engaged in witnessing the miracle of who you are. The word â ...

Unique Self & Love

Posted on: August 30th, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Listen to this beautiful excerpt from an early audio course on Unique Self & Love. This 10 part course was never released before. It contains an early teaching on Unique Self before the Unique Self book was written. It was not spoken to an audien ...

The Universe: A Love Story

Posted on: August 23rd, 2016 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

An Exciting Video Series with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni Watch this first in a series of 10, beautiful videos, with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marc Gafni. In this piece they set their intention for the series. You can also read the transcript ...