By Marc Gafni Compiled and arranged by Talya Bloom Dedication To My Holy partner, Dr. Kristina Kincaid, who read Radical Kabbalah word for word and in her reading and being and teaching re-minded the Sun and the Moon. – Marc Gafni >&g ...
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Aubrey Marcus and Dr. Marc Gafni – Secrets of the Cosmo Erotic Universe
Aubrey Marcus: “When it was recommended that I do a podcast with Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni, I knew nothing about him. I dove straight into his body of work and my life will never be the same. This is perhaps the most paradigm shifting podcast I have ...
Sex Models Eros
The paradox of this book is that it is all about sex and not about sex at all. Sex is life. But if we are only alive in our sex, then we are already dead. By contrast, being fully alive in the sexual models for us what it means to be radically alive ...
Living the Erotic Life
Listen to this brief excerpt on Living the Erotic Life and the Democratization of Enlightenment from a teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni at the Shalom Mountain Wisdom School in 2014: Some quotes: It’s only you who know if you are living the Erotic L ...
The Return to Eros IS the Return to the Holy of Holies
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 ...
Choosing the Right Trumpeter
Happy Holidays 2015! May we all know which call to respond to when the timing is right. The following story is from Soul Prints by Dr. Marc Gafni: One of the overwhelming reasons that responding to a call is such a high-stakes proposition is that you ...
Heart of Darkness
When the holy Israel Baal Shem Tov was five years old, his father became very sick. All the cures did not work, and he approached the hour of his death. He asked for his son Israel to be brought to him. To Israel he spoke these parting words of instr ...
Prayer Is Not Dogma
Listen to this beautiful audio recording from the World Spirituality Retreat in Esalen 2013 with Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni. The audio starts with Sally Kempton ending a meditation. While holding the energy, Marc dives right into his dharma talk on ...
Sacred Text Study and the Evolution of God
There is a great story about this man who is a very busy man. Heidegger talks about the busy man. This busy man is from Chicago, and he is going to visit Paris, and he wants to visit the Louvre, which is the great museum of Paris. His friends have to ...
Eat, Be Satisfied, and Give Blessing
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. Life is, at best, partial in the fulfillment it offers. It is, however, all too true that the enemy of the good is the best. The key to spi ...
Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement
A story told by Marc Gafni in his book Uncertainty It had been a particularly hard year. The community of Chassidim gathered on the Day of Atonement, the fast day when all Jews pray to God for forgiveness for their sins, and the growling in their sto ...
Tears in the Mystical Tradition of Cosmocentric Consciousness
Enjoy this excerpt from Marc Gafni’s Book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion and Rosh Hashanah: Let me tell you a story of holy tears of this kind. A Hasidic story. Isaac, the Vorker Rebbe, was best friends with another well-known mast ...
What is the meaning of life?
Soul print consciousness gives a radical answer to the ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? In this chapter, I am going to unpack that question and sketch briefly some of the ways that people try to answer it–so that we can move on later ...
Why Hebrew Wisdom?
Are you interested in the Hebrew Wisdom Lineage Teachings that are featured on this site but weren’t able to find and access the relevant pages? Are you involved with or interested in the newer aspects of Marc Gafni’s teachings on Unique ...
L’Shanah Tovah U-Metukah: Re-Reading Rosh Hashanah
Enjoy this excerpt from the new book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashana by Dr. Marc Gafni that will be published with Integral Publishers. An earlier version of this article was published in 2008 as part of a longer article ...