Join Rabbi Michael Lerner and Dr. Marc Gafni on World Spirituality – August 10th!
Dear friends,
Welcome to World Spirituality: Spirit’s Next Move? Teleseries!
*Please note we will not have a telecourse on Tuesday, August 3rd. We will have our series finale with Rabbi Michael Lerner from Tikkun Magazine on Tuesday, August 10th!
During our14-part series together we will engage and dialogue with San Francisco Bay Area’s leading-edge thinkers, teachers, and scholars from all the great traditions to chart the principles and practices of a sustainable World Spirituality.
Our hosts for this series are the co-founders of the Center for World Spirituality, Dr. Marc Gafni and Mariana Caplan.
Below are the access codes for our dialogue with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Dr. Marc Gafni on Tuesday, August 10th, 7-8:30pm PT, 8-9:30pm MT, 10-11:30pm ET.
You can engage live by phone or webcast, or download the complete recording anytime after the live call.
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August 10th Dialogue:
What does Emancipatory Spirituality mean for the Vision of a World Spirituality? Visionary Social Artist and Rabbi, Michael Lerner in Dialogue with World Spirituality Visionary Dr. Marc Gafni, will outline the core principles of Emancipatory Spirituality as a potential ground for the emergence of a trans-religious World Spirituality. Michael will drawn on his forty years as a social activist and public intellectual in seeking to draw for us an inspired but practical map of World Spirituality.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right (Harper San Francisco, 2006) is not only rabbi of Beyt Tikkun but is also the editor of TIKKUN magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society. TIKKUN is one of the most respected intellectual/cultural magazines in the Jewish world, but also one of the most controversial because of its stand in favor of the rights of Palestinians, on the one hand, which locates him in the minds of many as the leader and most prominent spokesperson in the U.S. of Jewish supporters of the Israeli peace movement, and on the other hand, because of his stand critiquing the anti-religious and anti-spiritual biases of the secular Left, insisting that they need to address the spiritual hunger of Americans as equally important to their material needs (he calls this a hunger for “meaning” and says that for many Americans the desire to transcend the individualism and selfishness of the competitive marketplace and connect their lives to higher meaning is as important as any interest in money or things, and that one reason why people who might on purely economic grounds be supporting the liberal and progressive social change movements actually end up supporting the Right is that the Left doesn’t have a “politics of meaning”). He is the co-author with Cornel West of a book entitled Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, and several other books.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and World Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.
