Daphne Rose Kingma, author of The Future of Love, gave an inspiring keynote address at Integral Spiritual Experience 2. After our annual week-long practice retreat, Dr. Marc Gafni and Daphne Rose Kingma came together again to discuss the next step of ...
Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category
ENACTING A WORLD SPIRITUALITY: EVOLUTIONARY LOVE, EROS AND HOLINESS: APRIL 15TH — 17TH with Marc Gafni
Thursday, April 15–17, 2011: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA ENACTING A WORLD SPIRITUALITY: EVOLUTIONARY LOVE, EROS AND HOLINESS: APRIL 15TH — 17TH And weaving in “The Divine Dance: A 21st Century Exploration of the Sacred Dimensions of the Masculi ...
Ethical Mindfulness Poem — Marc Gafni
“Every failure of ethics is at its root a failure of Eros.” -Marc Gafni An Offering of Words: Spill the oil lamp! Set this dry, boring place on fire! If you have ever Made wanton love with God, Then you have ignited that brilliant Light i ...
The Three Stations of Love with Dr. Marc Gafni at ISE 2!
Integral Spiritual Experience 2 | Opening Invitation from Integral Life on Vimeo. Never before has there been such a deep dive into this juicy, dynamic, and passionate territory, featuring so many gifted, innovative spiritual teachers. This gathering ...
Behind the Scenes at Integral Spiritual Experience 2: The Future of Love – Marc Gafni
This year’s ISE was a shot heard ‘round the web. From blogs to tweets, pictures to videos – including a live web stream with on demand video playback – this year’s ISE was more social than ever! So what did you miss? Check out our I ...
The Kiss of Death – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni The biblical myth archetypes associated with the ultimate unitive consciousness found in the Temple’s Holy of Holies are Nadab and Abihu. They are the sons of High Priest Aaron. The high priest is the paradigm of love. His sons in ...
House of Mirrors – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni When the book Soul Prints was published, the bulk of the writing and thinking at the time remained excluded from the final edition. I had submitted an eight hundred page manuscript to Simon & Schuster; my editor, Emily, was less tha ...
Spiritually Incorrect – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni This article, written in 2007, represents a small elaboration on my thinking in the book The Mystery of Love. There is much more to say―which I will do, God willing, in a full-length book―but for now this small offering wi ...
On the Erotic & the Holy – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni The mystery begins in the inner precincts of Solomon’s sacred temple in Jerusalem, unraveling the deep, wondrous and provocative relationship between sex, Eros and love. It is the unpacking of this first stage of the mysteries tha ...
Essay On Gratitude – Marc Gafni
FAITH: IS IT TRUE OR AM I TRUE? by Marc Gafni This essay was written in different forms over many years. I first taught this Torah some 13 years ago in 1995 in Jerusalem at talks I gave in the Yamim Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem at the Zionist conf ...
The Pain of Eros Poem – Marc Gafni
An Offering of Words: I would not want all my words To parade around this world In pretty costumes, So I will tell you something Of the Barroom view of love. Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion’s mane And wrestling and rolling deep into Existen ...
Homo Imaginus and the Erotics of the Imagination — Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni A version of this article was published in Journal of Myth and Culture Parabola under the title “The Kabbalah of Imagination in 2006.” In that version, the issue of imagination was separated from the issue of Eros. The versi ...
The Integral Feminine: “Who Is She”
by Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei Enlightenment knows no differences – no man, no woman, no gender, no sex, no self and no other. In this context, a question like, “What Is the Integral Feminine?” evokes immediately the sound of Zen ma ...
Love Me Do — Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni Recently, I was at a New York publishing house presenting a book proposal. Half a dozen professionals were seated around a great oak table looking very official, very sharp, literary, and daunting. I fled to the bathroom for a moment ...
The Erotic & The Holy Poem — Marc Gafni
An Offering of Eros: Come to my house late at night― Do not be shy. Hafiz will be barefoot and dancing. I will be In such a grand and generous mood! Come to my door at any hour, Even if your eyes Are frightened by my light My heart and arms ar ...