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Daily Wisdom Post: The Shechina is the feminine Divine

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Her name means Indwelling Presence, "the one who dwells in you." She is presence, poetry, passion. She is the sustaining God force that runs through and provides a womb for the world. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Evolutionary Love

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Eros of evolution dances up the evolutionary spiral to higher and higher levels of complexity, and consciousness emerges from the evolutionary soup. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value

Posted on: May 1st, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Before beginning our journey, however, it may be of value for the reader to have at least a very bare outline of the three reasons I hold uncertainty to be ethically and spiritually essential. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva and the Spiritual Time Machines, Part 4

Posted on: April 30th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous 3 posts we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits." ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In our previous post we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Spiritual Time Machines

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The most potent expression of the healing power of time circle consciousness is the mystical idea of teshuva, which is a word we have encountered before. ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Body and Soul

Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The body leads to the soul, and the soul leads back to the body. “When I look at the I of my body I find the I of my soul. When I look at the I of my soul I find the I of God.” The Sufis have a wonderful saying–“Say your prais ...

Enlightenment is not loss of identity but a reclaiming of your true identity

Posted on: April 24th, 2012 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

By Marc Gafni One of the simplest definitions of sanity used in the psychological literature is knowing who you are. To be sane is know your identity, to recognize your name. For example if I tell you that my name is Ken Wilber when my name is really ...

Foreword to Your Unique Self

Posted on: April 19th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

A brief excerpt from Ken Wilber’s Foreword to Your Unique Self (forthcoming, Summer 2012) : DR. MARC GAFNI’S INTEGRAL UNIQUE SELF TEACHING IS SEMINAL. What you hold in your hands is a radically exciting and groundbreaking book that will change ...

The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value

Posted on: April 19th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...

“Answering the Call”

Posted on: April 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Recently people have been asking me what I mean by the phrase, “Answering the Call,” which I have been talking about so often during my talks about the democratization of enlightenment teachings in these past years. So when I woke up this morning ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Enlightenment is Sanity

Posted on: April 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

When we live on an Earth in which there’s enough food and resources to feed us all five times over, and 20 million children die of starvation every year, and we’re talking about being sane? ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Looking for your Face

Posted on: April 11th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Living as Love Beyond the Small Self

Posted on: April 7th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

I have this great joy when I know that I have done the right thing ... ...

Daily Wisdom Post: Name

Posted on: April 7th, 2012 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anyplace where you are regarded only as a function, where your name is not known and honored, you are a slave. ...