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“Here’s lookin at you babe” Eros and Perception: Part III: Marc Gafni

Posted on: November 3rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

The First Path of Hebrew Tantra The great myth master, the Maggid of Mezritch, was very young and had just begun his teaching path.142 He was sitting one day minding his own business when a “loose woman” comes walking by, her breasts revealed in ...

“Here’s Lookin at you babe” Eros and Perception: Part II: Marc Gafni

Posted on: November 3rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

First we need to remind ourselves that Love in Western consciousness has become a very limited proposition. To begin with, we are used to thinking of love as a storybook fantasy which is all too often marred by the realties of life. Truly great love, ...

Okay: “Here’s lookin at you babe”: Eros and Perception: Feminine Beauty: Part 1: Marc Gafni

Posted on: November 2nd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

installation one in a series of blogs: No sooner met but they look’d; no sooner look’d but they lov’d; no sooner lov’d but they sigh’d; no sooner sigh’d but they ask’d one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought th ...

Life After Death: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

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

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

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 ...

Life After Death?

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

posted by Gafni assistant Mellon-Thomas Benedict’s experience of the Universe After suffering from a terminal illness, in 1982 Mellen-Thomas Benedict ‘died’ and for an hour and a half he was monitored showing no vital signs. Miraculously he ret ...

A Witness to Sadness: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 31st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

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 ...

The Next Set of Blogs: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 30th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In the next stage of our journey we will outline ten paths of Hebrew tantra. In each of these paths the starting point will be the sexual. We will identify a unique quality of the sexual which models the erotic. They include creativity, pleasure, ima ...

Be Love

Posted on: October 30th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Invitation to Be Love Eros is the invitation to be a lover: to be a great lover in every fiber of your being, in every facet of your life. But is even more then that. To be a lover is still second person. Do not merely be a lover: BE LOVE…L ...

Fundamentalism and Eros: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 29th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is time for the secret to be revealed and the wine to be drunk. It is time for a holy Dionysus to emerge and claim his place together alongside the cherubs in the Holy of Holies. Enough with the pathologies of the sexual that poison our society. V ...

Fundamentalism and Eros: part four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 29th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Yeats: The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of Passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand… The revelation at hand, that which we yearn for, is the secret of the cherubs. How to transform sexuality from a force to be con ...

Fundamentalism and Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 28th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

A second type of fundamentalist fellowship is the communities of greed and accumulation. Greed and consumption move our lives because when the center doesn’t hold, the pseudo-eros of money seems the easiest means to fill the emptiness. Paradoxicall ...

The Best Lack all Conviction: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 28th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In modernity, as Yeats said in his classic critique, “The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” If we do not reclaim the erotic for the spirit and the good, then its shadow will seduce us and our world to the ...

Marc Gafni – Lotus Lounge Teaching – September 2008

Posted on: October 27th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

Marc Gafni – Lotus Lounge Teaching – September 2008 Enjoy this beautiful teaching on Unique Self and the Purpose of your Life given just a few weeks ago at the Lotus Lounge; a cutting edge evolutionary women’s practice group in Salt ...

Fundamentalism is on the Rise: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Fundamentalism is on the rise in the world because it offers a pseudo-erotic experience of community coupled with a pseudo-erotic worldview. Particularly sacred fellowship, with all of its passion and interconnectivity, is a key feature of the fundam ...