To See These Three… The major players in the Temple drama were the priests. In truth, the self perception of the Kabbalists is that they are the inheritors of the spiritual work of the priests. Just as the Priests would gaze at God so the Kabbalist ...
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Pornography: The Exile of the Shekinah: A scholarly note for those readers who Care about such things: Marc Gafni
My interpretation of the Tantric nature of seeing and its transmutation into loving – in the last set of blogs – derives from three primary sources in my study. First — a reading of primary sources — both biblical and mystical — in ...
The Sexual Gaze: Objectify Me… Now! Subjectify Me… Now!: Marc Gafni
The essence of the Holy of Holies: to become a lover and a seer. To love is to become God’s verb. To love is to see with God’s eyes. The end is rooted in the beginning, and the beginning is rooted in the end. We return to the Temple and the cheru ...
Perception – Love- Intention – Creation: Marc Gafni
Aboriginal traditions in Australia, the Hebrew mystics, Quantum Physics, a modern travel writer and the biblical myth – in the the last three or four blogs …. all come together and and remind us of the powerful spiritual truth; Love=Perce ...
Aborigines, Songlines and Love: Marc Gafni
Listen to a conversation in travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s wonderful book The Songlines: “Aboriginals could not believe the country existed until they could see it and sing it — just as, in the Dreamtime, the country had not existed until the An ...
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION: YES WE CAN: Marc Gafni
My son Eytan is visiting me from his homeland where I live with my family. Even as I live for a period of time in the United States, and my home is here now. I love America and am American in every fibre of my being. Even so, if that time will be for ...
Eyes to See: Marc Gafni
It is the Kabbalists’ erotic loving perception of being that helps create and sustain the very reality they observe. But observation doesn’t quite capture the sense of what the Kabbalist does. The Kabbalists were often referred to as Mistaklim or ...
Perception is Love is Creation: Marc Gafni
Perception as Creation The language of God is man. We are not just God’s messengers, we are God’s language and voice, the means by which she shares her message. This idea becomes a little easier to access in light of quantum physics. One of the e ...
To Be God’s Partner is Totally Hot: A Biblical Mystical Teaching: Marc Gafni
The symbol in biblical myth for partnership with God is Amalek. Amalek represents those forces in the world which act for the side of evil. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin are modern examples of Amalek. Together they are responsible for the brutal deaths ...
Evil is the part of us that perceives without love: Marc Gafni
The Original Misperception The original misperception, writes Israel, Master of the Name, is to see yourself as separate from God. That is original sin. Evil, in biblical myth, is called “Amalek.” Again, mystical gematria points us to a deeper tr ...
The Underlying Fabric is Love: Marc Gafni
God is both erotically within me and beyond me at the selfsame moment. Touching and not touching. The intimacy of shared identity without losing the integrity of individuality. Two solitudes that share in a sublime moment of Sameness. This is the fir ...
Being Intimate: Marc Gafni
The unfolding of the universe entails full divine loving presence. The divine perspective changes to include human beings. It is an intimate relation of shared identity. We participate in God and God participates in us. The great mystery of reality i ...
A Little Bit of Light Dispels Alot of Darkness: Self Love or Narcissism: Marc Gafni
Happy Chanukah: Self-Love is Not Narcissism (I am God ) The master Menachem Mendel of Kutzk said that a decent person never deceives others. I would add that a special person never deceives himself. To say that you are anything less than you at your ...
The Three Faces of You: Marc Gafni
So what does it mean? Self love means the perception and identification of the true self. Which raised the essential human question – Who is the real self? In searching “Who am I? Am I the public me that goes to work and office parties; or pe ...