Marc Gafni

Blessings to the Birth of Zion: Community Celebration! with Mariana Caplan and Marc Gafni

Dear friends,... It is with great pleasure, delight and honor to sha re with you that Mariana Caplan gave birth to her and Dr. Marc Gafni's son, Zion , on September 8th, 2010.... We wanted to share with you some adorable baby pictures and a sweet, personal note to Ken Wilber from Mariana... Read More

Oversight in Human Trafficking article

A section of the recent article on human trafficking, which was posted in the Integral space, suffered from an important, unintentional oversight, in that it inadvertently used significant sections of Alan Barstow's article without direct quotation or attribution. The Barstow material... Read More

How Love Can Change Your Day, Today!

We are all gathering this coming New Year weekend for the second great Integral Evolutionary Gathering: Integral Spiritual Experience. In our first year we practiced and celebrated the realization of Unique Self. We challenged the enlightenment conversation world over to realize that... Read More

The Way of the Great Dragon: Part 5 by Marc Gafni

Continued from last week... Kabbalists of the nineteenth century, particularly R. Schneur Zalman, defined the service of subjugating the evil self to good and to transform the evil into good as itkafya and ithapkha respectively. Itkafya means to bend, as in to bend to the rules to return... Read More

The Way of the Great Dragon: Part 4 by Marc Gafni

Continued from last week...  ... Abraham Kuk writing in Jerusalem between the World Wars taught that the purpose of living is to learn what he calls “the great art of loving.” Ultimately what the mystics are teaching is that the path of the dragon can only be walked in... Read More

The Way of the Great Dragon: Part 3 by Marc Gafni

Continued from last week... We’ve seen how the spiritual light of Solomon’s temple is born from the dark created with the “yatzar” passion of Bezalel’s dark hands. A poignant temple image may deepen our understanding.... The second-century mystics, in a... Read More

The Way of the Great Dragon: Part 2

Continued from last week... For nearly two thousand years, this was considered too dangerous a path to be publicly taught or tread. It was far safer for the masses to follow rules set down by governments and organized religions, without dealing with the “shadow” within. In... Read More

The Way of the Great Dragon

The Left Side Path of Hebrew Tantra... The Way of the Great Dragon: Light from Darkness...  ... 
One night, a mystic comes upon a man intensely searching the ground under a street lamp. “Did you lose something?” inquires the mystic. “Yes, my keys,” responds... Read More