Daily Wisdom: Crying creates the Word of God
The ultimate revelation of tears of transformation is the revelation of nonduality. For the kabbalist, it is within the power of tears to create divinity. The Hebrew mystic knows the sacred art of...
View ArticleDaily Wisdom: The Mystery of Tzimtzum
A sacred conversation between the fourth century Babylonian Wisdom masters: “It is written that God withdraws his presence from the world to dwell in the empty space between the Cherubs in the Temple....
View ArticleEvery generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity
In today’s Daily Wisdom post on Spirit’s Next Move, I write: R. Kook, twentieth century philosopher mystic, teaches that every generation is part of the unfolding revelation of divinity. Each...
View ArticleEmotional Mastery is Vital to Deep Spiritual Intelligence
by Marc Gafni From a work in progress, Dance of Tears: Our goal is to be able to access and listen to the voice of deep emotion and detect within it the voice of God. This is how these mystics read the...
View ArticleWisdom for your Week: Divine Tears
Kalonymus Kalman ShapiraPiasetzener Rebbe Dr. Marc reminds us here that “in the inner space between the contradictions—that is where God lives.” And he narrates further that the Talmud, in the Tractate...
View ArticleDaily Wisdom: Enlightenment of Fullness – Yetzir and Yetzirah, Part II
©2013 photo courtesy of satit_srihin In this second installment in a three-part essay series, excerpted from the long version of Soul Prints, Dr. Marc Gafni writes that we can transform and raise our...
View ArticleCertainty and Holographic Oneness as Spiritual Orientations by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Certainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. (c) 2009, photo courtesy of Idea go. R. Nachman is drawing on Biblical mysticism, which...
View ArticleOne Hundred Plus One by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his Uncertainty book, which will be re-released as part of two-volume Integral Religion. One Hundred Plus One c. 2013 photo courtesy of digidreamgrafix. The Talmud has a famous...
View ArticleEnlightenment of Fullness: The Great Mystery of Longing and the Tears of Union
From “The Path of Yearning” by Dr. Marc Gafni (Parabola Magazine, Summer 2006). In the world of Chassidut, all service begins with longing. But the Chassidim understood the great mystery of longing:...
View ArticleEnlightenment of Fullness: “To Struggle is to Embrace” by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni, from his book Uncertainty, which will be re-released as part of the two-volume series entitled Integral Religion. There Is No Such Thing as Wrestling at a Distance: To Struggle Is to...
View ArticleFrom the Holy of Holies: Kosmic Sensitivity and Dissolving the Layers
Transcribed by Adael Bullock, Holy of Holies, Private Session, October, 2013 *** Marc – So I am sensitive, I am the dynamic of kosmic sensitivity but then I have taken in this kind of infinite pain,...
View ArticleFrom the Holy of Holies: Prayer is a Realization
Holy of Holies with Marc Gafni, December, 2013 Marc Gafni private study session, transcribed by Adael Elizabeth Helen Bullock: © photo used with permission from Tom Mayers Photo. All Rights Reserved....
View ArticleIntroduction to Certainty by Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni from the 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. Introduction:...
View ArticlePrayer Is Not Dogma
Listen to this beautiful audio recording from the World Spirituality Retreat in Esalen 2013 with Sally Kempton and Marc Gafni. The audio starts with Sally Kempton ending a meditation. While holding the...
View ArticleYour Evolutionary Yes
From: Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism: Two Models and Why They Matter by Marc Gafni Your divine spark manifests as your drive to attain something beyond the contracted self of ego. You do not...
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