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The exile of the Shekinah is the exile of the Erotic into the Sexual: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 21st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In this blog we want to provide some deep context in sources of hebrew wisdom for this core idea that that the exile of the shekinah is in one expression, the exile of the erotic into the sexual. This is important so follow closely my friends. {This ...

Eros Exiled into the Sexual: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 21st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Exiled Into the Sexual Now let’s go back to our lost ark and its cherubs situated in the inner sanctum of the Temple. The ark in particular and the Temple in general are the mythic symbols of the Shechina, that is, of the erotic experience. That is ...

Living on the Inside: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 20th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The First Face of Eros: Being on the Inside: Interiority Being on the inside means not on the inside of your sexual partner, for that is limited to the masculine sexual experience — rather it is about being on the inside of the experience itself. Y ...

Eros Everywhere: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 19th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The sexual is in the hidden teaching of the cherubs, the ultimate spiritual master. Thus, deep understanding of the sexual is the ultimate guide to accessing the spirit in every dimension of our reality. We are not talking about sexual technique. Sex ...

Sex is the Answer: What does that Mean? Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 19th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

There are those who have told me….shhh- do not talk about sexuality; someone might hear you:) but if i have learned anything in the past few years it is about sexuality, it’s beauty and it’s demonization. So at least for the next pe ...

Basic Intuition of Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 18th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Contrary to classical religion and much of psychology, Hebrew tantra insists that sex is integrally related to love and Eros. There is no disconnect. Not because it is always nice if you love the person you are sleeping with. But far more powerfully, ...

A note about the term Kabbalistic Tantra or Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 17th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The texts of the tantric system are part of the Hindu Agama texts. Tantra in it’s original meaning is said by some scholars to mean a weaving, web or loom. It encompasses both a dual and non dual tradition with many and varied practices. It is ...

Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 17th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

What is clear is that neither of the approaches that we described in the last couple of blogs honor the mystery of sex in our lives. It is at this point that we turn to the Temple mystics who affirm a radically different vision of the sexual. The Sec ...

No One seems to be enjoying themselves: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 16th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Since the sexual revolution, ostensibly uninhibited sex is available in infinite variety in almost every imaginable social or commercial context, and yet we do not seem any better for it. So much sex and so little pleasure. So many orgasms and so lit ...

Two Lines on Freud and Sexuality: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 16th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The first coalition which talks about sex is the moralist group which we discussed yesterday briefly. The second powerful coalition of forces talking about sex tells us ‘Sex is wonderful — if liberated, the panacea of all ill, if repressed the so ...

Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 15th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Hebrew Tantra: If we stop to think even for a short moment, we realize that sex really is the great mystery of our lives. Two groups however suggest very different approaches to sex. One powerful group of forces is arrayed in culture to prevent us fr ...

Great to be The Unique Self: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in California. Just finished teaching at a wonderful spiritual center. The public teaching was a dharma track which I have been evolving – even as it has been evolving me – for almost twenty years, calle ...

The Meaning of Friendship: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anything less than this erotic experience may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Nations mass murder other nations. We rape the environment and allow twenty million people to die of hunger or related diseases a year. The simple ...

Anything Less than Eros may destroy our planet: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Tomorrow we will – God willing- start the next stage of our journey of Eros. We will try and begin to understand what it all means; How Eros and Sexuality and Love are related. Why sexuality is so frightening to so many people, how it becomes a ...

The Dark Night: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 12th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

this is part two of Batman, Luke Ford and Me. gorgeous day to everyone! :) Third: The Batman movie had something profound to say about leadership, false accusations and what Wilhelm Reich referred to in a book by that name as The Murder of Christ. At ...