by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self. Your ego is always contracting and saying, “No.” Even when your ego says, “Yes,” it is only because it is afraid to say, “No.” Your Unique Self is always expanding and saying , “Yes.” Even when ...
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Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #15: Bigger or Smaller
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self When you are in ego, people feel smaller when you walk into the room. They feel invisible before you. The result is that they feel depleted and in danger. When you are in your Unique Self, people feel bigger wh ...
Distinction between Unique Self and Ego #14: Friendship or Pseudofriendship
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. When you are in ego, you might help friends who are successful and even friends who are down, as long as it does not threaten your position. But you are not capable of truly delighting in your deepest heart in a ...
Betrayal or Loyalty — Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #13
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego betrays. The Unique Self is loyal. When you are in your ego, and things go bad, you are willing–in your fear–to betray virtually anyone. Your ego is easily identifiable by the shallowness of its int ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #12: Victim or Player
In your ego, you cling to every petty detail of your story. You never let go of any of your wounds. Your mantra is “I hurt, therefore I am.” Therefore, your ego can never wholeheartedly forgive. If it does, the ego’s forgiveness is a tactic, no ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #11 — King or Servant
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. Ego is the servant pretending to be a king. You are avoiding stepping into your Unique Self for fear of being a king. Your ego thinks it is God but does not really believe it, so your ego insanely tries to make ...
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 ...
Mariana Caplan on Embodied Spirituality (Daily Wisdom)
The Daily Wisdom post from Spirit’s Next Move begins a story from Dr. Mariana Caplan which has broad implications for evolutionary world spirituality. From “Walking the Talk: the Principles and Practices of Embodied Spirituality,” b ...
Daily Wisdom: Sacred hermeneutic is an erotic act…
Daily Wisdom on Spirit’s Next Move: Sacred hermeneutic is ultimately an erotic act according to the mystics in which the God in the interpreter meets the God and the text and realizes that they are one. It is this erotic merger with the divine ...
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 ...
Daily Wisdom: What is Unique Perspective?
From the Daily Wisdom post at Spirit’s Next Move: Every evolved culture and every evolved individual may realize Unique Self when True Self awakens to its Unique Perspective. An early expression of this equation is sourced in pre-modernity in t ...
Prayers on Unique Self
The Center for World Spirituality recently published a collection of reflections and personal sharing from the recent Shalom Mountain Wisdom School fall event. The prayers were gathered by Adael Bullock. Among the prayers are “Spark of Creatio ...
Every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
In today’s Daily Wisdom post on Spirit’s Next Move, I write: R. Kook, twentieth century philosopher mystic, teaches that every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity. Each generation, picking up from where the last ...
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 ...