Dedicated to the Hoffman Process: Anger or Intimacy? Now if you were Isaac, you might be pretty mad at Abraham for creating such complexity and even pain in your life. And it’s true that we are part of a generation with an enormous amount of anger ...
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Tears of Angels: Part Six: Marc Gafni
Love is perception. Isaac cannot see — his perception is blurred. We can do many things in life with our love faculty of perception impaired. We can build a business, partner with a reasonable degree of success and navigate much of life successfull ...
Tears of Angels: Part Five: Marc Gafni
Unblocking the wells, unbottling the tears, can be a dangerous task. The question is, has Isaac left his genie bottled up too long? When the waters break forth, will they turn to deluge or blessing? The fairy tale talks of the danger of waiting too l ...
Tears of Angels: Part Two: Marc Gafni
The way that deepening happens in Biblical myth study is almost always by posing a question. Sometimes even a seemingly technical or structural question can fling the door open to the next layer of meaning. So it is in this discussion. ”Why is it,� ...
Big Heart: Tears of Angels: Part One: Marc Gafni
Blessings and open heart to you holy friends. I want to share this deep teaching from the inside of the inside with you in several parts, maybe seven or eight different installments. May it re-open all of our hearts, for who among us has not closed o ...
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 ...
Shut Eyes: Marc Gafni
posted by Dr. Gafni Assistant Shut Eyes We get tired for all sorts of good reasons. There is much we should not have to see in this world. To protect ourselves from the pain we sort of let our eyes drift shut. We become only semi-conscious and this i ...
The Little Prince and Love:Part One: Marc Gafni
The Little Prince: To Tame Remember The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? There’s that wonderful line: “All that is essential is invisible to the eye.” I read it the first time in my late teens. I fell in love with it then and every ...
Life After Death: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Part Two: cont’d from previous post {thanks to Jean Houston for referring me to this material} I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few frie ...
Life After Death: Part Two
part two: posted by Gafni assistant: Since his near death experience, Mellen-Thomas has maintained his direct access to Universal Intelligence, and returns to the light at will, enabling him to be a bridge between science and spirit. He has been invo ...
A Witness to Sadness: Marc Gafni
It is morning and I am overwhelmed. By the radical pain and injustice of the world we live in. The idea that it “all works out” in our world is a New Age lie. Pure and Simple. I am overwhelmed at the willingness of seemingly good people t ...
Notes from a Lover On the Pain of Eros
by Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton I have written before of the beauty of Eros–the divine life force–and how our sexuality models the greater movement of Eros in our lives. By Eros, I mean the fullness of presence, inner space, participating ...
Mirrors of Desire and Wounded Healers? Part Three: Marc Gafni
Later, in a great epilogue to the story, the myth depicts Moses in the desert building the tabernacle. The tabernacle is essentially the first temple, replete with the ark, cherubs and holy of holies. Everyone is to bring his or her own special contr ...
a demand for depth; part four: marc gafni
cont’d…from David Foster Wallace That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let’s get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what “day in, day out” really means. The ...
I am so happy. I am so sad. I am: Marc Gafni
Today is the even of the Jewish New Year. I am about to call my two sons, my father and mother. I am about to call my family who are my friends, students and colleagues to wish everyone a shanah tovah. A good year it should be. It will be. I am sitti ...