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Dr. Marc Gafni on Spiritual Practice — Podcast with James Bampfield

Posted on: March 8th, 2022 by Krista No Comments

Dr. Marc Gafni and James Bampfield speak about Enlightenment and Intimacy in this beautiful conversation. “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”     ...

On the New Politics of Eros: Six Key Dimensions Broken in Democracy — Dialogue with Dr. Marc Gafni in The Integral Stage with Layman Pascal

Posted on: March 8th, 2022 by Krista No Comments

Layman Pascal is joined by Dr. Marc Gafni, the co-founder of the Center for Integral Wisdom and the author of multiple books and essays on integrative spirituality and spiritual activism. Marc presents his vision of what a planetary politics could an ...

The Future Faces of Spirit: On Value, The Unique Self & Cosmo-Erotic Humanism- Dialogue with Dr. Marc Gafni in The Integral Stage with Layman Pascal

Posted on: March 8th, 2022 by Krista No Comments

What paths lie ahead for religion and spirituality in the 21st Century? How might the insights of modernity and post-modernity impact and inform humanity’s ancient wisdom traditions? How are we to enact, together, new spiritual visions — independ ...

A Return to Eros – Dialogue with Dr. Marc Gafni in Parallax Spiritual Book Club with Andrew Sweeny

Posted on: March 8th, 2022 by Krista No Comments

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On the Crucial Import of Good Spiritual Sense Making in Times of Crisis

Posted on: April 10th, 2020 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

By Dr. Marc Gafni >>> Download the Full Paper HERE <<< Note: This is the lightly edited, updated, and expanded transcript of an oral talk given by Dr. Marc Gafni towards the end of March, 2020. The original talk is found here: >& ...

There Are No Foreign Viruses: Go Viral with Outrageous Love

Posted on: March 17th, 2020 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Share the Love – Share This Clip Physical Distancing, NOT Social Distancing Ada Kedabra, the words of magic, are sourced in the ancient Aramaic phrase, Avra Kedabra – translated – “I create through my speech.” Let us a ...

The Vision of a Great Library

Posted on: May 9th, 2018 by No Comments

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 ...

Become the Social Artist of Your New Reality: Eros and the Unique Self Symphony

Posted on: April 24th, 2018 by No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 3* Rivalrous relationships have become the structure of reality. This involves in-groups and the cohering of the in-group always requires an out-group. This is an example of pseudo eros. Eros vs. Pseudo-Eros  ...

From Ants to Humans: Bottom Up Self-Organization

Posted on: April 11th, 2018 by No Comments

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 ...

How Can We Change the World in 9 Steps?

Posted on: April 6th, 2018 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

The Power of a Unique Self Symphony Part 1* *See Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 by clicking the links. How can we create “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible” that Charles Eisenstein alludes to in lots of his work? H ...

Turn It into Prayer – Video Teaching with Dr. Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 4th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

In this video, we explore how to take personality sexing, make it conscious, and then turn it into a prayer. The teaching starts after listening to the song “A Better Place to Be” by Harry Chapin. To read the lyrics, go here. That song is ...

The Incomplete Revolution of the 60’s

Posted on: June 22nd, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

God Is Eros Course Lesson 1: After Dancing to the Age of Aquarius In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni explains why the revolution of the 60’s didn’t work, what was missing, and how we can fix that. Why experience isn’t enough. How every e ...

Fantasy & Imagination

Posted on: June 14th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

An excerpt from the Mystery of Love 2013 on “Reclaiming Eros” In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni shares about the fifth quality of Eros: Fantasy & Imagination. He gives an example of how Eros is exiled into the Sexual. All of us are master ...

Who Am I? I Am an Outrageous Love Letter

Posted on: May 31st, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Watch this teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni on Being an Outrageous Love Letter as our special gift from the Mystery School on Reclaiming Eros:   Some of the themes Marc Gafni covers in this video: Loving Your Way to Enlightenment Who Are You? From se ...

Marc Gafni on Responding to Existential Risk

Posted on: May 15th, 2017 by Kerstin Tuschik No Comments

Listen to this inspiring half hour talk by CIW President Dr. Marc Gafni, where he shares some of the thinking that emerged from many of the great conversations during and after our Center for Integral Wisdom board meeting: How do we live with and con ...