Enjoy my Daily Wisdom post “Arise, Arise, to Return to Your Soul” from Spirit’s Next Move. Originally From the Erotic and the Holy: A line, circle, shadow story from the depths of Hebrew mysticism. Every year in the days approaching ...
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Response to the Tragedy in Connecticut
A boy walks into a school and kills twenty-seven people. For no reason. Most of the children between age five and ten. We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to a world of outrageous pain is outrageous love. We need to become outrag ...
Through my body I vision God
Every event of consciousness shows up in the body; fear for example causes perspiration – however it is clear that fear is not reducible to perspiration. But by tracing the physical correlate of the emotional world of consciousness we gain an i ...
Prophets for Profit
It is completely legitimate and even necessary for spiritual teachers to engage the marketplace and sell their wares. In doing so they need to use the skills of marketplace consciousness in a way that is both filled with integrity and highly effectiv ...
Five stages of business and the emergence of Unique Business
By Marc Gafni There is a parallel between the emergence of business and the emergence of self is both fascinating and highly instructive in understanding the narrative of conscious capitalism. Both the evolution of self and the evolution of business ...
Daily Wisdom: The Rapture of God
Daily Wisdom from The Dance of Tears: Whether the relationship is that of a servant to his master or a lover and his beloved or a relationship between partners or even friends, they are all “relating” to God. The most powerful form of God ...
Daily Wisdom: Sacred hermeneutic is an erotic act…
Daily Wisdom on Spirit’s Next Move: Sacred hermeneutic is ultimately an erotic act according to the mystics in which the God in the interpreter meets the God and the text and realizes that they are one. It is this erotic merger with the divine ...
Every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
In today’s Daily Wisdom post on Spirit’s Next Move, I write: R. Kook, twentieth century philosopher mystic, teaches that every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity. Each generation, picking up from where the last ...
Listen to “The Weekend of Loving Outrageously”
Recently I gave a presentation at a CWS event in connection with Shalom Mountain. John Tarcza tells us that a “wild idea started to stir and evolve uncontrollably” in him while editing audio recordings from the weekend. He combined a few ...
Daily Wisdom: The Mystery of Tzimtzum
A sacred conversation between the fourth century Babylonian Wisdom masters: “It is written that God withdraws his presence from the world to dwell in the empty space between the Cherubs in the Temple. But how could this be? Is it not also writt ...
Daily Wisdom: On the refusal to love
Today’s Daily Wisdom post at the Spirit’s Next Move blog: This spiritual law of the universe plays itself out in many hidden ways which you need to recognize if you truly want to return to love. I want to outline for you areas where, in o ...
The two kinds of pseudo-victims (Daily Wisdom post)
Is there such a thing as a real victim? Yes, but there are also pretenders. Here’s a relevant passage from my forthcoming book, The Dance of Tears: The pseudo-victim has genuine options which she refuses to action; she refuses to turn fate into ...
Daily Wisdom: Crying creates the Word of God
The ultimate revelation of tears of transformation is the revelation of nonduality. For the kabbalist, it is within the power of tears to create divinity. The Hebrew mystic knows the sacred art of creating the divine word from the prima material of h ...
Daily Wisdom: Appreciating Each Other’s Purple Trees
By Marc Gafni There is a tale that educators love about the girl who paints a purple tree. The teacher, who has drawn a tree on the board and asked the children to copy it, is disapproving. “You didn’t copy my tree.” “I know,& ...
Evolutionary Enlightenment & Unique Self Enlightenment: A Dialogue
With the launch of UniqueSelf.com, a wide range of dialogues have been published which cumulatively situate Unique Self within the context of Integral Spirituality and Evolutionary Spirituality. Over the next several months, the CWS blog — Spir ...