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Identifying & Transforming Your False Self
by Dr. Marc Gafni All the great traditions tell us about two selves. A true self and a false or fallen self. Whenever someone realizes their true self they are realizing that they are part of the larger one. The overall number of true selves is one. ...
Why This Is Essential Now
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 8 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 of the Series. For many years the ...
Courting the Sacred
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 7 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6, of the Series. When I (Marc) sit down t ...
Sensuous Study and the Erotic Text
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 6 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 of the Series. The Baal Shem Tov, founder of the ...
Mirrors of Desire
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 5 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of the Series. Later, in a great epilogue to the story, Mos ...
Supermodels
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 4 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the Series. The Shechinah’s exile is all too apparent even in ...
An Erotic Hero: The Falafel Priest
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 3 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of the Series. Once–and I will never forget it–I unexpectedly stepped int ...
It’s All Art
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 2 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 of the Series. Whenever we keep Eros confined to one narrow frame of being while de-erotic ...
Healing the Split
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 1 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. The Shechinah is exiled whenever sex and Eros are split. As an example, Jake, age thirty-seven, works as a claims ad ...
Moving Humanity Towards Collective Intelligence
The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 5* A Video Talk with Dr. Marc Gafni How do we scale what’s working in humanity? How do we know what structures, or social contracts, are truly working? What are our models? What is a Unique Self Symph ...
The Vision of a Great Library
The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 4* The Great Library is an expression of our mission at the Center for Integral Wisdom to evolve the source code of culture and to participate in the evolution of love. Our questions: How do we participate in ...
From Ants to Humans: Bottom Up Self-Organization
The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 2* How do we create a society with a new coherence? A community that self-organizes around something gorgeous? Not around defense, but around creating more of something beautiful? Another way to ask these same ...