To be in Temple consciousness is to be in God--eros pure and simple. This shift in consciousness is hidden within the folds of biblical myth text itself. ...
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Daily Wisdom Post, Before God…., by Dr. Marc Gafni
To be in Temple consciousness is to be in God--eros pure and simple. This shift in consciousness is hidden within the folds of biblical myth text itself. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Imagination, by Dr. Marc Gafni
The power of imagination is its ability to give form to the deep truths... ...
Joy is a Unique Obligation, by Dr. Marc Gafni
The word most often associated in Kabbalah with joy is “chiyut,” roughly translated as “life energy,” somewhat like the Chinese notion of chi. To be happy is to be plugged into the chiyut of the Universe. The portal to that en ...
Crisis of Imagination – by Dr. Marc Gafni
>> Read the whole article on Thrive Global << The greatest crisis of our lives is not economic, intellectual, or even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We are getting stuck on our paths because we are unable t ...
A Teaching on Love
Life as Practice and the Three Stations of Love The evolution of states and stages of consciousness are explicitly discussed in the great traditions. We are using the terms states and stages in the classic sense that they are defined in integral theo ...
A Model of Integral Scholarship — Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni The General Features of Acosmic Humanism The following excerpts are Chapters 6 and 7 from a forthcoming book by Marc Gafni, Levels of Consciousness in the Torah of Mordechai Lainer of Izbica: A Model of Integral Scholarship. In Chapter ...
Evolutionary Kabbalah – Marc Gafni
These core sources on Evolutionary Kabbalah, a termed coined by Marc Gafni, were translated and published in a source book as the basis of the dialogues between Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni in December of 2005. Marc Gafni gave teachings on these sourc ...
Soul Print Hints – Marc Gafni
Names by Marc Gafni Falstaff to Prince Hal: “I wish to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.” -Henry IV 1:2:82 “You can sign your name in butter or you can sign your name in marble,” say the sa ...
Pathology Article #1 — The Way of the Dragon – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni The spontaneous integration of body and mind―for Shelley the “eloquent blood”―tells “an ineffable tale.” Many Red Devils Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page. They were so tiny Th ...
The Kiss of Death – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni The biblical myth archetypes associated with the ultimate unitive consciousness found in the Temple’s Holy of Holies are Nadab and Abihu. They are the sons of High Priest Aaron. The high priest is the paradigm of love. His sons in ...
House of Mirrors – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni When the book Soul Prints was published, the bulk of the writing and thinking at the time remained excluded from the final edition. I had submitted an eight hundred page manuscript to Simon & Schuster; my editor, Emily, was less tha ...
Spiritually Incorrect – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni This article, written in 2007, represents a small elaboration on my thinking in the book The Mystery of Love. There is much more to say―which I will do, God willing, in a full-length book―but for now this small offering wi ...
Essay On Gratitude – Marc Gafni
FAITH: IS IT TRUE OR AM I TRUE? by Marc Gafni This essay was written in different forms over many years. I first taught this Torah some 13 years ago in 1995 in Jerusalem at talks I gave in the Yamim Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem at the Zionist conf ...
Homo Imaginus and the Erotics of the Imagination — Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni A version of this article was published in Journal of Myth and Culture Parabola under the title “The Kabbalah of Imagination in 2006.” In that version, the issue of imagination was separated from the issue of Eros. The versi ...