Sometimes you ask a person: “Are you in love?” And they say: “No, I’m not with anyone.” What a sad answer! First, it’s not true. You are with so many people in so many ways. Let me tell you a holy secret, a really holy secret. Don’t tel ...
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Marc Gafni on Evolutionary Love and Eros
An unedited first draft text from forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid Outrageous Love is the Evolutionary Eros, the Universal force of desire, allurement and transformation. To awaken as outrag ...
The Judah Reverberations
Editor’s Note: As I have been preparing this biblical story for web-posting from Marc Gafni’s teachings in his book, Certainty, I have been stunned and deeply moved to find so much of my personal story in the tale of Jacob, Leah, Judah an ...
Certainty is Emunah… the Faith that You are Held
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English version of his book Certainty, which is already published in Hebrew and which will be re-released as ...
The Modeh Ani Lafanecha – Prayer of Certainty
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English 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. We continue our exploration of certainty and uncertainty ...
Achieving Authentic Certainty in the Divine
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the English 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. And so… we continue our discussion on Certainty an ...
Certainty and Dreaming 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. Have you ever wondered about the relationship between our yearning and our certainty? We often have a subtle sense tha ...
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 ...
What It Means to Be a Lover … from God’s Eyes
By Marc Gafni Note: The following article appeared in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Common Ground Magazine. The true nature of your values is always revealed in death. In eulogies, both in what is spoken and unspoken, there is something of ...
Explaining the difficulty of evolving a World Spirituality
Note: This work is a transcript of a video produced in 2010 as part of the World Spirituality video series. By Marc Gafni From Marc’s dialogue with Michael Murphy, founder of Esalen Institute: Why hasn’t a World Spirituality emerged? What I’ve ...
What is a Unique Self relationship?
Published today on Spirit’s Next Move: There’s something I call Unique Self evolutionary relationships, what we called in the Soul Prints book “soul print encounters”. In a genuine Unique Self encounter, we each hold a piece of the otherâ ...
Prophets for Profit
It is completely legitimate and even necessary for spiritual teachers to engage the marketplace and sell their wares. In doing so they need to use the skills of marketplace consciousness in a way that is both filled with integrity and highly effectiv ...