Dr. Marc Gafni and James Bampfield speak about Enlightenment and Intimacy in this beautiful conversation. “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” ...
Archive for the ‘World Spirituality Practice’ Category
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Join Dr. Marc Gafni for the Fourth Summer Festival of Love in Holland 2015
We are delighted to invite YOU to The Summer Festival of LOVE The second annual European Integral Wisdom Conference on Love, Eros and Enlightenment Lines and Circles The Inner Marriage/The Alchemy The power in Your Unique combination of Masculine and ...
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 ...
On Using Discernment: The Many Ways to Pray
We are multidimensional human beings… When we pray, from what part of our Being are we praying from? The discussion continues learning the practice of prayer not as dogma, but as an empirical and experiential practice that has proven results. Learn ...
Certainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which understands God’s presence in the world through the model of the sefirot, the framewo ...
“Open, Not Closed” Meditation
This week’s audio wisdom meditation with Dr. Marc Gafni comes from Week 7 of the Awakening Your Unique Self 10-Week Telecourse, themed “Unique Self: A Paradigm Shift in Loving.” This beautiful meditation, created by Dr. Marc for the ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #18: Responsibility or Excuse
by Dr. Marc Gafni from Your Unique Self The ego very rarely takes substantive responsibility. When the ego attempts to take responsibility, it creates a painful, virtually unbearable contraction in the self. So the ego becomes the master of the excus ...
Distinction between Ego and Unique Self #17: Justice or Injustice
by Dr. Marc Gafni in Your Unique Self. The ego is angry at what is done to it. It very rarely feels the same outrage at what is done to someone else. The Unique Self is not merely outraged against injustice done to its own person; it is hurt and outr ...
Distinction between Unique Self and Ego #16: Yes or No
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 ...