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 ...
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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 ...
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,& ...
The whole/part, autonomy/communion paradox is finally clarified
In the teaching of Unique Self, the whole/part, autonomy/communion paradox is finally clarified. The Unique Self teaching allows us to create right relationship between whole and part, autonomy and communion. This right relationship is the absolu ...
Moving Towards a Politics of Love
By Marc Gafni To move towards a politics of love you do not need to found a new political party or national social movement. You need just a small group of people with shared vision who are willing to stand together. As anthropologist Margaret Meade ...
What percentage of the population is enlightened?
According to integral philosopher Ken Wilber, spiritual masters have estimated that the number is in the ballpark of that’s 0.0000001 of the total population. Has there ever been a time when the democratization of enlightenment is so essential? ...
More in Love than Ever
At the moment of the big bang, the original light of infinite goodness is shattered. It is shattered in the way that the heart of the lover is shattered: by opening in love to the Beloved. It is shattered by an infinite desire to move from Bein ...
Your Unique Letter, Your Unique Story
In the mythic teaching of ancient Hebrew mysticism, the calligraphy of your Unique Letter in the cosmic scroll is determined by the particular angle at which you were situated in relationship to the revelation at Mount Sinai. Sinai, in the great Hebr ...
Redeem suffering
How does your Unique Christ Self redeem suffering? When the who of suffering becomes clear, then you can bear almost any how. When you realize that the particular pain you feel is an intrinsic part of your passion and presence, part of your path ...
Daily Wisdom: You are Special! You are Unique!
Moving beyond the obsession with the personal helps you to wake up. You evolve from separate self to True Self. You begin to realize that you are in fact not an isolated or separate part, but rather you are part of the whole, of All-That-Is. Once, ho ...
Unique Self Specialness
Unique Self specialness is an authentic realization of overpowering joy. I am special, and so are you. Each of us has a Unique Self. We are not equally talented, wise, sensual, or compassionate. But paradoxically, we are all special, each in our own ...