Called from the Future — Soul Roots Childhood and parental dynamics only form a very small part of the image of your intended. This brings us to the second great fallacy of much of contemporary psychology, which is the near dogmatic assumption that ...
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Sex, Spirit, & Shadow, Moscow, Russia, October 9-11, 2009, with Dr. Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow, Moscow, Russia, October 9-11, 2009, with Dr. Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei Sex, Spirit, & Shadow: The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution with Diane Musho Hamilton and Marc Gafni October 9-11, ...
Integral Spiritual Experience, Dec. 30th — Jan. 3rd, 2010 with Dr. Marc Gafni, Ken Wilber, Jean Houston, Brother Steindl-Rast, Lama Surya Das and more!
Integral Spiritual Experience Year 1 – The Personal Spiritual Journey: Your Unique Self December 30, 2009 – January 3, 2010 | Pacific Grove, CA | Asilomar Imagine lying on your death bed and looking back over your life, remembering all of ...
A Story about Laughter and the Spiritual Practice of Sacred Study: Marc Gafni
Courting the Sacred When I sit down to prepare a teaching the process goes something like this. First is the attraction. I generally only teach that to which I am attracted. There has to be an almost unquenchable longing to explore the subject. Secon ...
Textualization of Eros: Part Three: Marc Gafni
The Torah is like a beautiful woman, who is hidden in a secluded chamber of her palace and who has a secret lover, unknown to all others. For love of her he keeps passing the gate of her house, looking this way and that in search of her. She knows th ...
The Textualization of Eros: Part Three: Marc Gafni
The Eroticization of Text: In a tour de force the process of study is described in the Zohar much in the way the 12th century troubadours a hundred years before described their flirtation with their loves. In the romantic ideal of courtly love, thoug ...
Textualization of Eros: Part Two: Marc Gafni
on the first day of Simchat Torah according to the count of the Land of Israel When the Temple was destroyed the masters knew that the holy writ of biblical myth needed to be expanded and deepened. The temple, which was the archetypal object of eroti ...
The Spiritual Practice of Study: The Textualization of Eros:Part Three
On the first day after Simchat Torah: by the counting of the land of Israel The Textualization of Eros When the Temple was destroyed the masters knew that the holy writ of biblical myth needed to be expanded and deepened. The temple, which was the ar ...
The Spiritual Practice of Study: Part Two: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant: We are used to thinking of intellectual pursuit as a pretty dry kind of affair. And even if it excites us it is clear that the mind is the primary faculty engaged in the pursuit of intellectual depth. Well, as you might exp ...
The Spiritual Practice of Torah Study: Marc Gafni
posted by Gafni assistant. More then any other spiritual art, study has been my life long spiritual practice. The Study of Torah. The study of Reality. Study is not the accumulation of information. It is rather – the suspension of ego and small ...
The Feast of Tabernacles {Sukkot} and Eros: Marc Gafni
advanced post for those initiated into kabbalah: The Baal Haleshem says explicitly that the cherubs are Ze’ir Anpin {the masculine expression of the divine} and Nukva {the feminine manifestation of the divine} (Sha’arei Haleshem, section 1:17; se ...