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Supermodels
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 4 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the Series. The Shechinah’s exile is all too apparent even in ...
An Erotic Hero: The Falafel Priest
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 3 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of the Series. Once–and I will never forget it–I unexpectedly stepped int ...
It’s All Art
The Sexual Models the Erotic Part 2 This is an excerpt from the book A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Kristina Kincaid. Here you can read Part 1 of the Series. Whenever we keep Eros confined to one narrow frame of being while de-erotic ...
The Six Noble Truths of Unique Self
by Dr. Marc Gafni The Six Core Human Needs In the larger teaching of Unique Self theory we have laid out six core human needs. Intended: Every human being needs to be intended. We do not want to be an afterthought. We do not want to be a result of a ...
Dr. Warren Farrell’s Foreword to A Return to Eros
A Return to Eros is poetry. And not just poetry in spirituality, where poetry often catalyzes the spirit. Nor in eroticism, to which poetry often opens the door. But poetry in philosophy, poetry in science, and poetry in history–where poetry is oft ...
Heart of Darkness
When the holy Israel Baal Shem Tov was five years old, his father became very sick. All the cures did not work, and he approached the hour of his death. He asked for his son Israel to be brought to him. To Israel he spoke these parting words of instr ...
Never Marry for Love, Be Love
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 ...
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 ...
Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love — Part 3
An unedited first draft text from the forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid Read part 2>>> Outrageous Pain and Outrageous Love When we look around us we are bombarded by constant images ...
Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love — Part 2
An unedited first draft text from the forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid Read part 1>>> Ordinary Love Here is the crux of the problem. The way we usually understand love is what we ha ...
Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love – Part 1
An unedited first draft text from the forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid Love is not the Answer For generations, wise people, mystics, religious leaders and self-help gurus have told us that l ...
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 ...