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Eros Audio Series, Sacred Sexuality

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Join dr. Marc Gafni in this free short audio clip exploring the inner
meaning of sacred sexuality versus fallen sexuality.

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Daily Wisdom Post, Unique Self Is a Quality of Presence

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Uniqueness is not a concept! Unique Self is a quality of presence that shows up when the ego is set aside—even temporarily—and our deeper being and becoming emerges in all of its resplendent beauty. When someone shows up in their Unique Self, you are aroused to love them and intensely desirous of being loved by them. In Christianity this exercises itself as the personal relationship with Jesus Christ that so many sectors of Christianity understand so profoundly—and which is so derided by New Age teachers caught in the impersonality of so much misunderstood Eastern teaching.

In Hinduism the goddesses hold you in radical personal embrace. In classical Judaism the G-o-d loves you and knows your name, while in Suffism and Kabbalah she is your most intimate erotic partner. None of this is dogma. It is the first and second personal realization that the interior face of the kosmos is the infinity of intimacy. And it is the revelation of the infinite, who yearns to love you personally and uniquely.

Dr. Marc Gafni
Your Unique Self
(in press)
page 92

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Eros Audio Series, The pseudo-Eros trap: Avoiding Emptiness

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The pseudo-Eros trap: avoiding emptiness.
In this audio clip dr. Marc Gafni explains what is real Eros, and what is
pseudo-Eros. Pseudo-Eros is how we try to avoid emptiness.

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Eros Audio Series, What is Divine Speech?

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What is Divine Speech?

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The breakthrough to the other side happens in every facet of existence. It happens in an erotic conversation, when time stands still. To be engaged erotically, means the same as to be holy: being in the inside of an event.

The Maggid of Mezritch, a great Hassidic master once said “if you can hear yourself talking, sit down”! That is the exile of speech Galut Ha-dibbur in Hebrew. In this speech is the Goddess Divine, Shekinah. The exile of the divine is when you can hear yourself talking, because you stepped outside.

The Zohar, the book of Aramaic Hebrew mysticism says “a river flows from Eden” – to be in that river is to be in the flow, which is exactly the Eros space. In another Kabbalist story, Hanoch the Kabbaler stitches his shoes, and the text say “the heavens begin to move and transform”. What is he doing when he stitches his shoes? Nothing else, but stitching his shoes. He is totally one with that action: he is in the inside of it and so he becomes the Shekinah, the erotic itself. The divine is in exile, when the inside and the outside are disconnected.

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Daily Wisdom Post, Radical Awakening, Evolutionary Obligation

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At any point in which you are moved to respond to your evolutionary obligation, you can heal the past. You can heal the past with sincere right action or sincere right intention. There is no such thing as being too late.
The potential for radical awakening and change is present at every moment.

You are then radically shocked and wildly ecstatic when you realize the complete and total identity between your purpose and God’s purpose. This is the true meaning of evolutionary alignment with the ecstatic God-impulse that lives in you and calls you to service.

Your Unique Self
(in press)
Dr. Marc Gafni
Pages 132, 133

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Eros Audio Series, Fullness of Presence

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Fullness of Presence

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The second quality of the Erotic of Shekinah of the Zohar is fullness of presence. This is not the same as being on the inside. You can actually be fully present, but not in the inside. There is a story about a 19th century Kabbalist master, Levi Isaac of Berdichev, who was able to be fully present. Once a Jewish girl joined the convent and that was completely unaccepted at that time so she shouldn’t have been there. The community sent all the wise men of the region to the convent to persuade her to leave. On one day Levi Isaac of Berdichev went there and sat behind a tree and started to wait. He had been waiting for three days altogether. Two days went by and nothing happened, but on the third day, the woman walked there after the convent and she said: “Oh, it’s you! Thank you for waiting!” What did she sense in the temple? What did the master do? Dr. Gafni explains it in this audio clip, along with the notion, that Eros is about presence.

Berdichev was present; the woman sensed it and responded to that presence. Presence is about fullness, the opposite of emptiness. The ability to hold the fullness of presence even in the face of emptiness. We always seek fulfillment in our culture – we want to be full and filled at any cost. Life is what we do with our emptiness. Not the Buddhist emptiness, but the simple emptiness. We have a difficult time to stay in the void, we therefore do a-void-dance, but the only way is not dancing around it, but going through it. And we can do this by precisely staying in the emptiness.

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Daily Wisdom Post, For and By my Unique Path

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For and By my Unique Path
To be connected to your Unique Self means to know that your story is sufficiently important, significant, and wonderful, and that the entire world was created for its sake. The dignity of your story demands no less than that you get up every morning and know that your very next action has the power to shape the destiny of our collective future.

Your Unique Self,
(in press)

Marc Gafni
page 161,162

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Daily Wisdom Post, One Love is Us!

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One Love is Us!
Love, which previously cloaked in third-person as an impersonal force, becomes obvious in second person and first person. This is the awesome realization that impersonal kosmic love and personal human love at their highest levels are one and the same. One love expresses itself all up and down the great chain of being, and all up and down the evolutionary ladder. We see love in action in our lives and feel love as Source from which we live. More than that, we are capable of articulating our first-person love and sharing it in second-person conversation and third-person reporting. This is the momentous evolutionary leap of love at the leading edge of human consciousness.

Your Unique Self
(in press)
Dr. Marc Gafni
Page 122

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Daily Wisdom Post, The Eros of living your Story

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The Eros of living your Story

Eros seduces man toward evolution, toward greater consciousness. Love seduces man to love. Eros is the inner animating quality of the ecstatic evolutionary impulse of the Ground of Being, evolving toward the most aware and noble expression of itself. It is love persuading us to ever-deeper levels of love.

Marc Gafni
Your Unique Self
(in press)
blz 135

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Daily Wisdom Post, One Love

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One Love
To really get the great esoteric teachings of one love, to know love as the strongest force in the Uni-verse, we first have to understand that love is not just a feeling. Rather, love is the motivating force driving and animating the entire Uni-verse. Love is not merely a human emotion. Love is both the currency of connection between human beings and the essential Eros that drives the evolutionary process as a whole. Love is the Eros of all relationship even as it is the very Eros of evolution itself. Personal and impersonal love are one. One Love. Evolutionary Love.

Your Unique Self
(in press)
Dr. Marc Gafni
Page 10

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