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TedX SinCity with Marc Gafni: The Evolution of Consciousness and Culture – May 14th, Las Vegas, NV

April 29, 2011

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Marc Gafni – ISE 3: Essay Contest on Facebook – Finding Your Deep Creativity Challenge!

April 28, 2011

ISE 3 Facebook Essay Contest

Finding Your Deep Creativity

Submission Deadline: May 28th at Midnight MST

In Sally Kempton’s latest IntegralPost, she lays out a three-step process for finding your deep creativity. We were so inspired by Sally’s process that we decided to use it as the catalyst for our first-ever ISE Facebook Essay Contest, with your chance to win a ticket to attend our annual New Year’s practice event Integral Spiritual Experience 3: Awaken The Fire – Harnessing the Power of Your Unique Creativity. Are you up for the creativity challenge? All you have to do is engage Sally’s three-step creativity process and submit an essay on Finding My Deep Creativity. Winners will be announced on IntegralPost by Sally Kempton, Marc Gafni, and Diane Musho Hamilton.
How to Participate:

Read Sally Kempton’s IntegralPost on creativity.
Engage Sally’s three-step process for finding your deep creativity.
Write a 1-3 page essay on Finding My Deep Creativity.
Submit your essay on our official ISE Facebook Page by May 28th at Midnight MT.
Tell all your friends and family to “Like” your post on our ISE Facebook Page. Winners will be determined by the number of “Likes”, combined with our official ISE judge’s votes.

First place winner receives a free ticket to attend ISE 3: Awaken the Fire – Harnessing the Power of Your Unique Creativity and their essay featured on IntegralPost.

Second and Third place winners will have their essays featured on IntegralPost.

Winners will be announced on IntegralPost by the ISE design team – Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, and Diane Musho Hamilton. Stay tuned for more exciting updates throughout the year on IntegralPost.

Be the muse!

The Integral Spiritual Experience Team

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Vidyuddeva Talks with Marc Gafni: Section 12

December 23, 2010

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The Beauty that is YOU! – Marc Gafni

December 21, 2010

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I received a funny e-mail today from someone. It said, “Who are you?”

And that was the entire communication. What a wonderful question! So, a brief sharing is in order before we go into shabbot.

I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH GOD. I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH HUMAN BEINGS. I THINK MEN AND WOMEN ARE SO TOTALLY BEAUTIFUL THAT IT OFTEN TAKES MY BREATH AWAY. I BELIEVE THAT THE UNMEDIATED EXPERIENCE OF THE DIVINE IS THE ESSENCE OF ALL RELIGION. I MEDITATE {sometimes}, PRAY {a lot}, AND ENGAGE IN SOCIAL ACTIVISM {whenever I can} AS MY WAY OF SERVING GOD.

In the last decade or so, I was privileged to found a national spiritual community in Israel called Bayit Chadash. This, together with my work at Milah Institute, helped found a movement for Jewish Renewal in Israel. I spent ten intense, exhausting, and wonderful years of my life sowing the seeds of this movement. The movement did not last. There was too much light and not enought vessel. My own lack of wholeness, other peoples’ lack of wholeness, spiritual politics, sexual politics, Iago, and divine will all deemed that it be a short-lived and wondrous experiment.

I am not planning to start another community, but rather to show up in the places where I am invited to share Torah and share the Dharma as I understand it.

I now spend most of my time writing, or teaching, or consulting, or taking walks in Utah’s mountains, or learning, and I hope, loving.

I have not achieved Nirvana by any stretch of the imagination, although I have tasted enlightenment for periods of time. I do not believe in Gurus.

I SPEND ABOUT 16 HOURS A DAY DOING WHAT PEOPLE CALL WORK.
I EXPERIENCE ALMOST NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN MY LIFE AND MY WORK.
I LOVE PEOPLE. I LOVE BEING ALIVE.

Sometimes in the last two years the pain was so unbearable that I prayed for death.

I HOPE TO WRITE A NEW SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL THOUGHT WHICH WILL … DO WHATEVER IT DOES…

And, I think people who take themselves too seriously are dangerous. Umberto Ecco was right in his great book Name of the Rose. So, I laugh at myself a lot.

I am also deeply lonely at times. At other times, the pain of existence―of all the suffering people―is so overwhelming that I can barely breathe.

I desperately, insanely, and with deep tranquility, want to fullfill the Bodhisattva vow―even though I am not a Bodhisattva.

But what is important about this post is not

who am I
but who are you?

You are a spiritual hero.
You are gorgeous and beautiful beyond any and all imagination.

I wish that I could show you
when you are lonely
or in darkness
the unberable depth
of your own being…

Oh my God,
can you feel yourself

Oh my God,
Do you know how much good you can do in the world

Oh my God,
Do you know that god YEARNS for your service

Oh my God,
Do you know that God is sick when you are sick

that God is in pain
in your pain

kissing your every wound
into wholeness

Do you know
that God’s heart
is a raging volcano of love
for you

Do you know
that God
is hiding
in your heart

waiting
for
you

so that together
you can dance

i promise you
it is all true

-Marc Gafni

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Watch Dr. Marc Gafni’s Future of Love Keynote Address from Home on New Year’s Eve!

December 10, 2010

Dear friends,

Integral Spiritual Experience 2: The Future of Love – Evolutionary Integral Relationships is almost sold out – but you can still attend online, right from the comfort of your own home. To make this historic event even more accessible to our global community, this year we are happy to announce live streaming and on demand video feeds, which will give you access to many of the extraordinary teachings and moments that make our New Year’s practice event so special. If you purchase this live stream, you will also receive a fully-edited media collection from the event, scheduled for release a few months after ISE.

Buy now to receive $50 off the regular price of $149 – A special discount for our integral community. Offer expires December 12th!

Our online ISE 2 experience includes

Access to over 14 hours of the event in real time via live-streaming including Keynote Addresses byKen Wilber, Daphne Rose Kingma, and Dr. Marc Gafni, Plenary Sessions with Saniel Bonder, Linda Groves-Bonder, Warren Farrell, Gabriel and Shanti Cousens, Love Songs & Comedy with Stuart Davis, Rumi Readings by Coleman Barks – accompanied by Grammy-Winning Cellist David Darling, and Integral Church with Arjuna Ardagh and friends!
Global New Year’s Toast at Midnight EST
Access to the on-demand video with streaming video play-back until February 1, 2011
An edited video download available thereafter
A discount for $50 off the regular price of $149

Buy now to receive $50 off the regular price of $149 – A special discount for our integral community. Offer expires December 12th!

You can participate in ISE 2 virtually, through this online version, recorded in real time and available for you to access at your convenience. ISE 2 online is a week’s worth of teachings on the great truths about love – taught by teachers from every tradition – re-shaped by modern insights and viewed through an Integral lens.

We will be exploring relationship in many different dimensions: between lovers, friends and partners, between student and teacher, between self and the divine. Our inquiry will go beyond typical conversations about romance and sex: we will invite engagement with our creative and organizational partners, our friends and relatives (including the difficult ones!), with our children and parents, and with nature and animals. We’ll look at the relational space created by groups and organizations, including spiritual organizations, and the power of an evolved community to transform individuals.

We don’t want you to miss your chance to attend this exclusive event, so act now!

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Series Finale: The Future of Love – Walk the Talk of Love with Marc Gafni & Ken Wilber – Dec. 18th!

December 9, 2010

The Future of Love: Walk the Talk of Love
with Ken Wilber and Dr. Marc Gafni
Saturday, December 18th
11-12:30pm PT, 12-1:30pm MT, 2-3:30pm ET
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Dear Integral Evolutionaries,

Doesn’t it feel like we just started the “Future of Love” conversation? And here we are, already wrapping up our 6-month series on December 18th with our favorite pandit, Ken Wilber, dialoging with Dr. Marc Gafni. During these past six months we’ve heard from some of the world’s leading Lamas, Rinpoches, Swamis, Rabbis, Pandits, Zen Masters, Fortune 500 CEO’s, Artists, Musicians, Couples Experts, Yogis and Yoginis, and more—all discussing the Future of Love with our Integral Evolutionary community.

On behalf of Integral Spiritual Experience, Integral Life, and iEvolve: Global Practice Community, it’s been an honor to host and participate in this global We-Space of Love. We are humbled and gratified by the influence our Future of Love teleseries has generated in the larger spiritual community. It could not have happened without your full participation.

Since the inception of Integral Spiritual Experience over two years ago, we have seen a beautiful evolution of Integral discourse and community. Initiated by Ken, Marc, Diane, and Sally, ISE has reshaped the Integral conversation with the teachings of Unique Self, The Future of Love, and more. Love has become a central part of the evolutionary conversation and in reality we have together realized that love and integral are one and the same. Again, we thank you deeply for your participation.

For those of you who are interested in taking a deeper dive into the Future of Love, you are personally invited to join us at Integral Spiritual Experience 2: The Future of Love – Evolutionary Integral Relationships. Nothing can top our last six months together like getting offline and practicing with one another face-to-face and heart-to-heart.

Let’s take theory into practice at Integral Spiritual Experience 2!

We hope you join us Saturday, December 18th for the series finale of the Future of Love teleseries with Ken Wilber and Dr. Marc Gafni. In this dialogue Ken and Marc will pick-up where they left off, discussing Love as the very Eros of Evolution. They will explore the deepest meaning of Love and provide a theoretical framework for Integral Love Practice, as well as offer a guided meditation to move the climax of our series from talking about Love to engaging Love as a spiritual practice. This is a dialogue not to be missed!

With love,

Integral Spiritual Experience

P.S. You can register for our Future of Love Series Finale with Ken Wilber here to receive access codes for December 18th.

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