By Marc Gafni We are all despearate for communion. It is what makes our lives worth living. Communion is the movement from loneliness to loving. It is the experience of being held and received. We are all systematically mis-recognized. To be recogniz ...
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The Seven Levels of Certainty and Uncertainty
By Marc Gafni The following are notes from Marc Gafni’s dharma talk given in March 2012 at Shalom Mountain Wisdom School, where Gafni serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. Introduction The seven levels of certainty and uncertai ...
Enlightenment is not loss of identity but a reclaiming of your true identity
By Marc Gafni One of the simplest definitions of sanity used in the psychological literature is knowing who you are. To be sane is know your identity, to recognize your name. For example if I tell you that my name is Ken Wilber when my name is really ...
The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value
By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...
Eros Audio Series, Sweetness and Sexuality
Join Dr. Marc Gafni in this free short audio clip. Tradition of sweetness is level three consciousness. The sexual will teach us the wisdom of every facet of life. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The sexual models the erotic, but it doesn’t exhaust the erotic
The fall of the temple symbolises the exile of the Erotic energy. Where did it go? The erotic is exiled in the sexual! We have to understand, that the sexual models the erotic, but it doesn’t exhaust the erotic. ...
The Democratization of Enlightenment by Marc Gafni
It used to be that enlightened living was for the elite The few great lovers, saints, and sages throughout history reminded us that something more was possible, that there was a better way to live... ...
Eros Audio Series, Sacred Sexuality
Join dr. Marc Gafni in this free short audio clip exploring the inner meaning of sacred sexuality versus fallen sexuality. ...
Eros Audio Series, The pseudo-Eros trap: Avoiding Emptiness
In this audio clip dr. Marc Gafni explains what is real Eros, and what is pseudo-Eros. Pseudo-Eros is how we try to avoid emptiness. ...
Eros Audio Series, What is Divine Speech?
The breakthrough to the other side happens in every facet of existence. It happens in an erotic conversation, when time stands still. ...
Eros Audio Series, Fullness of Presence
The second quality of the Erotic of Shekinah of the Zohar is fullness of presence. ...
Teachings on the Democratization of Enlightenment from Dr. Marc Gafni
Dr. Gafni coined the phrase, democratization of enlightenment in his thesis written in Oxford in 2002 to be published in two forthcoming volumes. ...
Finding God in our Contraction by Dr. Marc Gafni
Your state, in this case a mystical state, is always interpreted through your level of consciousness. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Temple Mysteries and the Next Stage in the Evolution of Sex!
To be in Temple consciousness is to be in God--eros pure and simple. This shift in consciousness is hidden within the folds of biblical myth text itself. ...
Joy is a Unique Obligation, by Dr. Marc Gafni
The word most often associated in Kabbalah with joy is “chiyut,†roughly translated as “life energy,†somewhat like the Chinese notion of chi. To be happy is to be plugged into the chiyut of the Universe. The portal to that en ...