Published today on Spirit’s Next Move: There’s something I call Unique Self evolutionary relationships, what we called in the Soul Prints book “soul print encounters”. In a genuine Unique Self encounter, we each hold a piece of the otherâ ...
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Aftertaste: A Pointing Out Instruction
By Marc Gafni The following text is a transcript of a short video, part of “Awakening to Your Unique Self,” originally published in May 2010. (Silence.) So that’s how a pointing out instruction works. If you feel into the silence, point ...
Unplugged: What about Spiritual Bypassing?
In this 2020 video, Marc Gafni explains one chief facet of the phenomenon known as “spiritual bypassing”: the refusal of Unique Obligation. He says: Spiritual bypass is the same. I want to get to depth. I want to get to some glimmering of ...
Listen to Dada Nabhaniilananda and Marc Gafni in Dialogue: Next 48 Hours Only
Note: The Center for World Spirituality received a note from Yogi “Dada” Nabhaniilananda following Marc’s dialogue with him. Hi, Dada here… The replay of Marc Gafni’s interview is online at: http://www.ImaginalWorld.co ...
Prophets for Profit
It is completely legitimate and even necessary for spiritual teachers to engage the marketplace and sell their wares. In doing so they need to use the skills of marketplace consciousness in a way that is both filled with integrity and highly effectiv ...
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 ...
Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber in Dialogue – Part 4
What is the distinction between True Self and Unique Self, and why is this important for changing the game in conversations about human nature and enlightenment? Listen to the fourth part of the Gafni/Wilber Unique Self dialogue. Among the topics dis ...
My Unique Self Dialogue with Ken Wilber, Part 3
What is the difference between the True Self and Unique Self? Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni approach this topic in the third part of the dialogue on Unique Self (about 24 minutes). Early in the conversation, Ken says: Ken Wilber: The egoic self still has ...
My Dialogue with Ken Wilber Continues — Wilber/Gafni, Part 2
The Center for World Spirituality has published the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring my dialogue with Ken Wilber (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), we situate the Unique S ...
Listen to “The Weekend of Loving Outrageously”
Recently I gave a presentation at a CWS event in connection with Shalom Mountain. John Tarcza tells us that a “wild idea started to stir and evolve uncontrollably” in him while editing audio recordings from the weekend. He combined a few ...
Gafni/Wilber: Unique Self Dialogue, Part 1
This week we are presenting the second in a multi-part dialogue series on Unique Self featuring Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni (a series which will continue all autumn). In this second clip (about 20 minutes), Ken and Marc situate the Unique Self within t ...
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 ...
The Essential I (By Dr. Marc Gafni)
By Dr. Marc Gafni In this excerpt from Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah: The Dance of Tears (forthcoming), Dr. Marc Gafni explores the Garden of Eden biblical story and Abraham Kook’s teaching on the “inner essential I,” through which we come to u ...
The Narrative of Conscious Business
Marc Gafni recently participated as a guest scholar at the Conscious Business Conclave at Esalen. Here is an excerpt from Marc’s reflections on the urgent priority of articulating a narrative of Conscious Business. In Marc’s words, there ...