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Dr. Marc Gafni conducts a wide range of events, seminars, workshops, conferences and retreats for businesses, groups, and communities. Each offering is modular and can be offered as a Keynote presentation, a half-day event, a one-day event, or a weekend seminar. To request Dr. Marc Gafni for an interview or for your event, please email support [at] ievolve [dot] org.
The New Enlightenment: Awaken to Your Unique Self
The future of our world depends on the great realization of love: that which unites us is infinitely greater than that which divides us. For the first time in the history of the human race, we are able to rise beyond the place of our birth, our religion of origin, our family circle and choose to live our highest truth. This truth transcends and includes all of our personal history even as it invites us to our singular and unique evolutionary destiny – Unique Self.
The Spiritual teaching for this age must be drawn from all of the great traditions of Spirit, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. These great understandings must be lovingly integrated into a space of open heart, community and insight that has the power and the compassion to guide us on the next stage of our personal and global journey.This next step is The New Enlightenment and the path is to Awaken to Your Unique Self.
Sexuality, Spirituality, and Shadow: The 3 S’s of Personal and Dynamic Evolution
The domains of Sexuality, Spirituality and Shadow, when consciously engaged, propel us into greater love, clarity, spontaneous compassion, and freedom. This series will examine Spirit and Shadow through the lens of the most energetically potent facet of our embodiment: Sexuality. Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, interpersonal intimacy, and dynamic group consideration, we will deeply discover and refine how we deploy this most potent force of our embodiment in our personal and professional lives.
It is the adventure not to miss if you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and want to be challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being.
Awakening to the Enlightenment Practices of Evolutionary Love, Intimacy, and Activism
What does it mean to create an Evolutionary Relationship? What are the five areas of practice that you must live in your life in order to realize yourself as a good, whole, and happy being? What is a realization of Evolutionary Love and and why does it literally have the power to change everything in your life? What are the three core skills of Evolutionary Intimacy? How do you personally and directly participate in the catalytic force of World Spirituality whose essential evolutionary impulse is the healing and transformation of both self, other, and the world?
This is the container in which you will meet some of the people who will walk with you through your life. This is a place to meet people who share your values, your vision, and your evolutionary vitality. This is the container in which your core mode of engagement in the world may undergo a significant upgrade.
Living a World Spirituality: Spirit’s Next Move
Millions of spiritual seekers today are confused. Some grew up in religions that they left and charted their own spiritual path. Others were raised without religion and found their way to spiritual practice. Still others practice in a particular religion yet do not feel that it holds the exclusive truth, and feel powerfully attracted to other systems of spirit that might deepen or compliment their native tradition. It is clear that the time for the emergence of Spirit’s next step is now, and that the emergence of a World Spirituality is an evolutionary step in human history.
The yearning to articulate a World Spirituality is rippling across the globe in the hearts and minds of tens of millions of people. For some people, the classical religions have lost their power. They seek a path of practice and commitment that transcends the traditions. For others, their intuitive desire is to transcend and include the traditions. They seek to live as dual citizens, rooted in their tradition, even as they locate themselves as citizens in the broader community of World Spirituality.
The Future of Love: The Three Keys to Love
Love is more than just a feeling. Enlightened teachers through the ages have told us that love is the dynamic ground of all reality. If that’s true, then love can be seen as the actual force that drives evolution–the force the Greeks called Eros–as well as the enlivening joy that opens the heart.
So what is love, when we see it from both a personal and an evolutionary perspective? How do we find it, nurture it, and sustain it?
Modern science and philosophy point out that all levels of reality are evolving. The world of today is wildly different then the world of yesterday. Matter, body, mind and even spirit are in flux. When we understand the profound evolutionary context of life, we realize that love must be evolving as well.
Wow: The Evolution of Love–What a wild, important and profound idea!
Private Study with Marc Gafni
The future of our world depends on the great realization of love: that which unites us is infinitely greater then that which divides us. For the first time in the history of the human race, we are able to rise beyond the place of our birth, our religion of origin, our family circle and choose to live our highest truth. This truth transcends and includes all of our personal history even as it invites us to our singular and unique evolutionary destiny.
The spiritual teaching for this age must be drawn from all of the great traditions of Spirit, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. These great understandings must be lovingly integrated into a space of open heart, community and insight that has the power and the compassion to guide us on the next stage of our personal and global journey.
The lineages are the great teachings of Spirit developed by the great communities and masters of all the ages, in all parts of the world. Trans-lineage means that we are moving towards transcending and including the Great Heart, Mind, and Body truths of all these lineages into an evolutionary integral Spiritual teaching. This is a down to earth, elegant, gorgeous teaching which embraces all facets of your Unique Life.
Until very recently, you, like many other people received the lineage transmission of the spiritual system that was dominant in your place of birth. You may have received it consciously. More likely, like most people in modernity, you received it unconsciously.
By lineage transmission we mean the absorption into your being of the great ideas, insights, maps, heart and mind knowings of a great tradition of Spirit, by whose lights you could orient and guide your life.
Usually the spiritual transmission that you received was confused and diluted at best. You did not know quite how to integrate the apparently contradictory insights of modernity and post- modernity with what you understood to be the great truths of the wisdom traditions.
If you are interested in private study with Dr. Marc Gafni, please email support [at] ievolve [dot] org to request more information.
Marc Gafni Bio
Dr. Marc Gafni holds his doctorate from Oxford University and has direct lineage in Kabbalah. He is a Rabbi, spiritual artist, teacher, and a leading visionary in the emerging World Spirituality movement. He co-founded the Center for World Spirituality with Ken Wilber and Mariana Caplan, is a scholar in residence at the Integral Institute, the core founder and lead teacher at the iEvolve: Global Practice Community, and the director of the Integral Spiritual Experience where he closely works with Ken Wilber, Diane Hamilton, and Sally Kempton.
Gafni is also a lecturer at John F. Kennedy University, guest editor of a series on Integral Spirituality for The Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, as well as the founder of the Jewish association of teachers, IDRA.
Dr. Marc Gafni’s published books include the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, an exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred, The Erotic and the Holy, and two workshops presented by Sounds True: The Erotic and the Holy and Soul Prints. Additionally, he has released several books in Hebrew including On the Nature of Certainty, Dancing with Uncertainty, Lillith, Reclaming the Dark Feminine, {with Ohad Ezrahi} and First Steps in Judaism (released in both Hebrew and Russian) and an accompanying CD envisioned and produced with Suzy Rogovin and Gabriel Meyer.
Forthcoming books include Your Unique Self,a two volume academic work, Radical Kabbalah, as well as several works on The Center for World Spirituality’s “Spirit’s Next Move”, World Spirituality, with Ken Wilber, World Spirituality in Your Life with Mariana Caplan, and a World Spirituality Workbook with Decker Cunov, The Future of Love with Diane Hamilton and Shadow Dancing Towards the Light with Sally Kempton and in preparation a work on the masculine and feminine with Warren Farrell.
He is also beginning to publish a series of Integrally informed works on Kabbalah beginning with Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah, The Dance of Tears and On the Erotic and the Holy.
Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love, and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts, have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches. Gafni is considered by many to be a visionary voice in the founding of a new World Spirituality and one of the great mind/heart teachers of the generation.
Attend a Marc Gafni Event
 First Saturdays: World Spirituality Service & Celebrationwith Dr. Marc Gafni, Mariana Caplan, Decker Cunov, Dustin DiPerna, & Marcy Baruch May 7th, June 4th, July 2nd San Francisco, CA Register |
 World Spirituality Annual Practice Retreat of Love & Activismwith Dr. Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, Warren Farrell, Mariana Caplan, Terry Patten, Decker Cunov, & Dustin DiPerna July 17th – 24th Berkeley, CA Register |
 Falling in Love with the Divine: Devotion and Tantra of the Heartwith Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton October 14th – 16th Esalen Institute Big Sur, CA Register |
 Articulating a World Spirituality: The Integral Imperative of Spirit in our Timewith Dr. Marc Gafni, Michael Pergola, & Mariana Caplan October 28th – 30th NYC, NY |
Don’t Miss The Global Practice Event of the Year!
 Integral Spiritual Experience 3with Ken Wilber, Dr. Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, Alex Grey, Diane Hamilton, Andrew Cohen, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Michael Dowd, Sofia Diaz, Jun Po Roshi & more! December 28th – January 1, 2012 Asilomar Retreat Center Pacific Grove, CA Register |
