By Marc Gafni Compiled and arranged by Talya Bloom Dedication To My Holy partner, Dr. Kristina Kincaid, who read Radical Kabbalah word for word and in her reading and being and teaching re-minded the Sun and the Moon. – Marc Gafni >&g ...
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Prayer Is Not Dogma
Listen to this beautiful audio recording from the World Spirituality Retreat in Esalen 2013 with Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni. The audio starts with Sally Kempton ending a meditation. While holding the energy, Marc dives right into his dharma talk on ...
Introduction to Certainty by Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as part of his two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. Introduction: “Through my flesh I vision God.” This quote fr ...
From the Holy of Holies: Prayer is a Realization
Holy of Holies with Marc Gafni, December, 2013 Marc Gafni private study session, transcribed by Adael Elizabeth Helen Bullock: A true story for you today . . . beloved, EH. I once had lunch with a beautiful man who was a famous Buddhist teache ...
From the Holy of Holies: Kosmic Sensitivity and Dissolving the Layers
Transcribed by Adael Bullock, Holy of Holies, Private Session, October, 2013 *** Marc – So I am sensitive, I am the dynamic of kosmic sensitivity but then I have taken in this kind of infinite pain, every ripple, and I do not want to live with ...
Enlightenment of Fullness: “To Struggle is to Embrace” by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his book Uncertainty, which will be re-released as part of the two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. There Is No Such Thing as Wrestling at a Distance: To Struggle Is to Embrace Rashi explains “Vayeavek” the Hebrew ...
Enlightenment of Fullness: The Great Mystery of Longing and the Tears of Union
From “The Path of Yearning” by Dr. Marc Gafni (Parabola Magazine, Summer 2006). In the world of Chassidut, all service begins with longing. But the Chassidim understood the great mystery of longing: that in relationship to God and to the ...
One Hundred Plus One by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Uncertainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. One Hundred Plus One The Talmud has a famous comment about study: “eino domeh mi shelomed meah pa’am lemi shelomed meah vahad paam.â ...
Certainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which understands God’s presence in the world through the model of the sefirot, the framewo ...
Daily Wisdom: Enlightenment of Fullness – Yetzir and Yetzirah, Part II
In this second installment in a three-part essay series, excerpted from the long version of Soul Prints, Dr. Marc Gafni writes that we can transform and raise our passion and artistic creativity into a powerful drive for the sensual and the holy, re ...
Wisdom for your Week: Divine Tears
Dr. Marc reminds us here that “in the inner space between the contradictions—that is where God lives.” And he narrates further that the Talmud, in the Tractate Hagigah, states about this: “That is in the inner house. That is in the outer hous ...
Emotional Mastery is Vital to Deep Spiritual Intelligence
by Marc Gafni From a work in progress, Dance of Tears: Our goal is to be able to access and listen to the voice of deep emotion and detect within it the voice of God. This is how these mystics read the text, “The masters are those who have mast ...
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 ...