Come join us for an intimate morning and afternoon at Pacific Coast Church 1/18/15 with Dr. Marc Gafni, Dr. Mark Schwartz, and Lori Galperin.
Are You Ready to Step Fully into Living Your Life’s Purpose? Would you like to find out how? The next stage of human awakening is within our grasp if we make ourselves ready to be all we can be. But such evolution only happens when we invest in our growth and open ourselves to continual learning. Join our community of outrageous lovers.
There are many ways to participate and become involved with the Center for Integral Wisdom.
There are many Events throughout the year where you can become part of our Live Community.
You can Get Involved on so many levels, as a Scholar, Project Leader, or Board Member.
The easiest way to get started is through our Virtual Community of Practitioners–both through our Online Courses as well as our different Membership Levels.
Many participants of our Online Courses have reported on their intense experience of genuine community through participating in the Live Calls and the Online Forums that accompany most of our Live Online Courses as well as the recorded Evergreen Courses that we offer.
We want you to become involved with the Center and our awesome Community of Outrageous Lovers. That’s why we offer a series of pathways that give you access to increasingly deeper and deeper material and enable you to actively participate in this exciting Sangha for a longer period of time.
A lot of our content is simply open for you to enjoy and dive in right away. This material gives you a good picture of who we are and what the Center is all about, so you can make up your mind and decide whether you want to get a little closer.
We offer you access to literally thousands of Media & Publications in all our different portals and sites including hundreds of Thought Leader Dialogues, phantastic Audios and Videos, as well as longer in-depths Articles, White Papers, and Book Excerpts.
We at the Center for Integral Wisdom offer cutting-edge courses designed to meet this moment by leading you forward on your journey. Our courses, workshops, and seminars have been designed to advance the evolution of Love in you, as you, and through you. This is the place for learning how to actualize your Unique Self, bring a World Spirituality online, and become an Outrageous Lover.
Marc’ s teaching on Unique Self is radically transformative. As a long time spiritual seeker and integral practitioner, it has opened a whole new dimension of practice and learning for me. I feel empowered with a new level of commitment and inspiration to being and becoming who I am uniquely here to be and become, and – in Gafni’ s words – “to loving and healing that unique facet of the universe that only me can love and heal”. Thank you Marc for your direct transmission of this radically important teaching that feels alive and evolving in me, at the deepest of my heart of hearts.
Claire Molinard
This is a warning (albeit joyful) for anyone considering this course in the future. I confess that, as a designer and presenter of courses myself, I started with a plan to be a casual observer and with low expectations for a “by phone”, large group course. To my surprise and delight, the oh-so-rich content and artful presentation touched me and drew me in. The Wednesday calls soon became a priority. The phone technology even smoothly allowed us to work in dyads and triads with students all over the world. The weekly “extra” material on the portal was gold–it let me catch up on any missed sessions and guided my weekly practicing. A profound thanks for such excellence.
Terry Nelson
Thank you for your gift of outrageous love the past 10 weeks. Your teachings opened up my heart and empowered me to see and be my Unique gift and contribution to the world — I always thought myself as non-conformant with a twinge of guilt, but did things my way proudly anyway. It will take me many, many times to listen again and again to fully understand and apply everything you have covered. But what I absorbed, helped me understand the process of evolution and liberated me to be my Unique Self and to love outrageously. Thank you for everything.
Tess Vergara
Thank you Marc, for the passion, enthusiasm and generosity shared during your teaching. I feel seen and embraced by this community like I haven’t been for a long time. My heart is slowly melting, opening up a space for my Unique Self to shine. It is the beginning of a journey, and the most exciting one…Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Olivier Bockenmeyer
Awakening Your Unique Self has been a powerfully transformative course. Being reminded that I had forgotten feels like the first step on the road to remembering. While I still do not remember, at least now I remember that I forgot. Also there were so many powerful practices and processes that we learned that help to shed light into the darkness that surround that memory that wanting to be alive is beginning to feel like a more real possibility. Thank you Dr. Gafni and the whole wonderful Awakening Your Unique Self course community.
Judith Ain
I obey the deep yearning to express my heart-felt gratitude for the transformations in consciousness that occurred during the ten week course “Awakening to your Uniques Self” of the great master of Kabbala, Marc Gafni. A process has started in which the Uniqueness of my deepest Self revealed itself in awe and wonder, in a holding environment of an evolving community of like-minded individuals. Evolutionary growth and wisdom is what we shared, in great joy, with one another.rnI studied with many teachers before, but I never met anyone who more skillfully addressed both the psychological and spiritual nature of our being. It has been an honor and a privilege to study with Marc Gafni. In order to fully digest the richness of what has been given to us, I intend to expose myself to these teachings again! In deep gratitude I bow to our beloved teacher!
Harry de Bont
Everything about Unique Self is Unique. The teaching, the portal and the community of support and love. Often “Courses” on-line or in person fade after the conclusion, but with Awakening Your Unique Self it grows day after day. The wonder in the manner of your delivery is exquisite.
Your complete gift of story telling enriches every learning. I adore how you weave your transformative Hassidic teachings from the Baal Shem Tov into your teachings without making this a journey of religion but a journey of true spiritual enlightenment. rnrnrnI have witnessed my growth over the last ten weeks in a very profound manner.
The understanding of Unique Obligation has transformed my thinking, ethics, beliefs and behavior. It is beyond profound! The content you so generously share with the community is powerful in the reinforcement of your teachings, The videos and audios perfectly complement the journey. I feel a profound love for you Marc and a gratitude that will stay with me for the remainder of this lifetime.
Sidney Mendelson
The superb content and rendering of the weekly lectures offered by Dr. Marc Gafni also were delightfully entertaining because concepts became alive through masterful storytelling. Though at times I found myself somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume and intricacy of the material at the same time I was utterly intrigued. From week to week the core practices and assignments effectively guided us into the inner work needed to obtain greater effectiveness in the outer world. The proof really is in the pudding because now that the ten week course is coming to the end, I see and feel so clearly how I can more powerfully serve the world around me — family, community, and also the world at large. Thank you Marc and staff!
Bineke Oort
My life long search has finally found its full sense, sense that I now can and do fully and comfortably embrace. My “I” and “we” are together. My “I” includes “we” inside of me. I can look at the whole world, the whole world can look at me. One Kiss.
Brahmani Maestracci
The online Web-Community was one of the best parts of the course, and a great joy to see others like me, others who thought like me and who were commited to the spiritual path. I used this resource, sure, and gained great Soul strength from interacting and sharing with others, but I could’ve used it even more. For, as Marc Gafni likes to point out, self-help is about what I can get out of something, but Transformation is about what I can put in. The Unique Self course and teaching is helping me not just with the motivation to put in all I can, but has given me the clarity and precision to see just where I can.
Mike Dorman
Dr. Marc Gafni’s Unique Self teachings are the most profound, all embracing and powerfully transforming that I have encountered in a lifetime of intellectual and spiritual exploration East and West! Their evolutionary potency is awesome. I see them as being nothing less than a Divine transmission, a gift of Grace, emerging in our time to assist in the radical transformation of consciousness so urgently needed if we are to avert planetary catastrophe. As for Marc himself, his humour, his intellect, his scholarship, his spiritual authenticity and, above all, his fulsome embodiment of the love that is the driving force of evolution make him a living treasure and a delightful teacher.
Dr. Gillian Ross
Dear Dr. Marc Gafni, Your teachings are to me the shifting point I was looking for for a long time. The Unique Self Teachings really are not only the integration of old spiritual wisdom and modern psychology, but also the “missing link” to the possibility of mass-enlightenment – the much needed democratization of enlightenment. Your fierce love for teaching and your deep joy and enthusiasm to share your insights shine through every word of the live transmissions. I felt deeply graced by your tenderness and your clear perception of everyone in this course and on the portal.
The richness of the material provided in this course seems to be neverending – whenever I listen to one of the livecalls again, or read one of the texts again, I discover new and even deeper insights. I can’t really express in words how touched and thankful I am – you brought to my life no less than the re-connection with the Source and with my innermost, real Self. You showed me the way to let my love flow unconditionally, which means the chance to really live my life in its full meaning and potential.
And you brought together all these wonderful, lovely, warmhearted, amazing people on the portal! An international Sangha! Wow, thank you! And warm thanks to everyone of the team, it was (and is) perfect!
Johanna Roth
Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory integrated with the Unique Self dharma as articulated by Dr. Marc Gafni is the basis for the Unique Self Emergence Process. Its articulation of the human journey through the necessary individuation we call the separate self to the realization that we are part of the “seamless coat of the universe” to the recognition that we are each a unique expression of the Ultimate Reality provides an elegant and practical framework for growth.
The Unique Self is not a concept but a quality of presence that is embodied as we awaken to our interconnectedness and grow beyond our sense of separation. We believe it is the purpose for existence because it is from here that we can most fully offer our gifts to the world.
Researchers have given us irrefutable evidence that humans continue to grow throughout our lifetime. Spiritual teachers ancient and modern echo that truth. As our world becomes increasingly complex, it is imperative that we grow into deeper and wider stages of development in order to navigate and assist our world’s evolution.
Our desire to assist in the transformation of the world has resulted in the Unique Self Emergence Process as a powerful change technology that taps into Creative Source to engage your unique potential and facilitate its emergence as your Unique Self. Because the process facilitates getting to the heart of whom you are and how the creative impulse of Ultimate Reality wants to express through you, it has many applications. Whether you are seeking spiritual connection and development, wanting to understand why your life is no longer fulfilling or exploring your life’s purpose, this process will help.
Barbara and Claire are long time spiritual practitioners who believe spiritual development is the cornerstone of human transformation. Individually we were coaching clients using the Integral Coaching approach, with an emphasis on spiritual development using the Unique Self Teachings. These teachings, offered by Marc Gafni and which Ken Wilber has called “a new key chapter in Integral Theory,” are deeply rooted in the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions and informed by modern psychology.
When we met we embarked on a journey of developing and synthesizing our work and the Unique Self Emergence Process was born. We knew we would offer it to other professionals, who like us, believe true transformation integrates both psychology and spirituality.
The Unique Self Emergence Facilitator Training is a nine month certificate program. It is designed to support change agents who wish to deepen their experience of their own Unique Self while learning a practical and elegant process rooted in the Unique Self Teachings. Upon completion of this program, participants are certified to facilitate the Unique Self Emergence Process with individuals and groups and join a collective of amazing people from diverse background – coaches, consultants, spiritual directors, therapists and body workers whose vision is to facilitate the emergence of Unique Self in men and women of all ages so they may live happier, more successful and purposeful lives in service to the world.
CIW and Shalom Mountain leaders Adael Bullock, Tom Goddard, Jeff Hilliard, & Shelly Reichenbach are offering a retreat on December 4-7 that they have been developing over the past year under the guidance of Marc Gafni based on his Unique Self Dharma. This post is from Shalom Stories, a publication of Shalom Mountain Retreat Center.
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Board Member Dr. Kristina Kincaid and Cynthia Kagoshima are starting a new Experiental Process Group in New York City on Embodied Eros: The Path of the Outrageous Lover.
This committed group begins October 1st, 2014 and meets bi-monthly Wednesday evenings from 7-9 pm.
It is presented by our Teaching Center in New York, the Institute for Integral Evolutionary Tantra, founded a year ago by Kristina Kincaid in collaboration with teacher-in-residence and founder of CIW Dr. Marc Gafni.
For more information on the Integral Evolutionary Tantra Institute click here.
Most of us assume that Eros is merely a synonym for sex. It is not. The fact that we often confuse Eros with sex informs us of how distant we are from true erotic engagement. Erotic fulfillment is reached when we expand the realm of Eros beyond the sexual to embrace all of our existence. Indeed the root of the Sanskrit word tantra: tan means “expansion”. True tantric energy expands into all realms of life.
Embodied Eros offers a unique path and practice that opens up and offers insights into how to live ecstatically by awakening our sensual self and sharing this sacred presence with others moment to moment. To be a great Lover–and Outrageous Lover in all facets of our being–we must listen deeply to the simple yet elegant whispering of the sexual.
In this experiential process group join us in mind-bending experiences, Core Energetic techniques, ecstatic study, wild goodness, deep truth, radical personal transformation–and, if you dare, the evolution of your own enlightenment.
“The Sexual is the ultimate Spiritual Master. It is the seat of all wisdom, aliveness and ethics. It models what it means to live an erotically infused life charged with purpose and meaning. The goal is to live erotically, not only in the sexual but in every dimension of life.” Marc Gafni
Dr. Kristina Kincaid is on faculty of The Institute of Core Energetics and holds an M.A. in Energy Medicine and a Doctorate in Theology from Holos University. A graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics and the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, she also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. Her passions include the deep mysteries of the body, genetics, and evolution. Her journey has taken her into deep explorations of the feminine and healing around sexuality. She has a healing practice in New York City.
Cynthia Kagoshima is a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner and runs a private practice and groups in New York City. She is also on the faculty of the Institute of Core Energetics and the Nyack Living Core Program. She specializes in how to embrace the body and the implicit wisdom and healing it has to impart. Cynthia also holds a Bachelors of Science from the University of Madison, WI. She offers her clients a variety of support mechanisms to encourage their growth and success in creating lasting shifts in their lives through customized programs and events.
Marc Gafni, together with Michael Ellsberg, Jennifer Russell and Robert Beinstock, organized a series of leading-edge cultural talks and panels at one of the most active Burning Man camps: Camp Mystic. This camp attracts an incredible group of well-known thought leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists, musicians, and healers who are dedicated to continuing to evolve themselves and the people they interact with.
This year’s theme was ”The Emergent New Story of Humanity’s Evolution”, exploring topics like futurism and where humanity is heading, the history of evolution, conscious capitalist and post capitalist economies, post modern spirituality, evolutionary relationships, conscious sexuality, new paradigms of family, sex, and relationship, new paradigms of feminine leadership, the future of masculinity and femininity, how we can build a regenerative civilization, and much more!
You can check out the complete 2014 speaker lineup online at http://campmystic.org/events.
Barbara Alexander
Master Integral Coach
A new certification program in Unique Self Coaching designed by Integral Master Coaches Barbara Alexander and Claire Molinard at the request of Marc Gafni launched its first training in June 2014 as the Unique Self Coaching Collective. The program will run over a 9-month period, with three intensive meetings and nine months of both personal coaching and supervised Unique Self Coaching of volunteer clients.
Claire Molinard
Master Integral Coach
The foundation of the training is Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and Marc Gafni’s Unique Self dharma. The process facilitates one diving inward to clarify the front edge of their development and engaging in practices that connect to Creative Source to engage one’s unique potential and embody the stabilized emergence of Unique Self consciousness. Unique Self Coaching Collective Training Brochure 2015-16
The first participants are all experienced in varying degrees of Integral Theory and Unique Self teachings. I am profoundly delighted to be among this professionally diverse, talented and accomplished group of thoughtful and heart-expanding evolutionaries. We are collectively full of praise and gratitude for the elegant and comprehensive program designed and taught by Barbara and Claire.
Future programs are scheduled to begin in the U.S. in June 2015, and in Europe during July 2015. Claire and Barbara recently joined Marc and the amazing Venwoude community for the Summer Festival of Love in Holland. They were honored to be one of the workshop contributors and appreciated the opportunity to introduce their upcoming training to be held at Venwoude starting in July 2015.
Sometimes, people wait to the last minute, and then decide to jump into a major life event because of an inward pull and calling… an impulse that is not to be denied! If you are having this calling regarding our 3rd Annual Mystery School, and our 1st Annual European Integral Wisdom Conference… now is the time to act so you can be at the Summer Festival of Love at the Venwoude Integral Practice Community in Holland, the week of July 26 – August 2.
Many are still carrying the transformative “Loving Your Way to Enlightenment” vibe from the Summer Festival and Mystery School of last year… really fantastic reports of authentic growth and change. Promotional Flyer here—>
With Marc Gafni leading, our previous Mystery Schools have attracted many participants from all over Europe and the Americas, contributing to the expansion of our European Center for Integral Wisdom faculty, and to a dramatic evolution of CIW teachings and workshop opportunities in the past year. The Summer Festival of Love is truly a signature event among all of the teachings for the year.
There are few spaces left… you may register here.
This year Marc Gafni returns to the 13th Annual New Living Expo in San Mateo, CA to join Raz Ingrazi, and Lisa Schrader, Sheva Carr, and Arjuna Ardagh on a panel called “The Future of Spirituality: Connecting Community Through Mind, Body, Spirit“.
The panel will be moderated by honored teacher and Wisdom Council member Arjuna Ardagh.
“More and more people today describe themselves as “spiritual” while at the same time turning away from the religions and traditions of the past. As we expand beyond patriarchal and dogmatic way of exploring our true nature and our deepest potential, everything is up for reexamination. What is “enlightenment,” and does it have any fixed meaning? Is spiritual practice and expression the same for men and women? Is there any real conflict between a deep spiritual life and involvement in money and the world? What is the relationship between spiritual awakening and social and political action? Are sexuality and intimate relationship a barrier to true awakening, or a portal for deepening?”
“The Future of Spirituality” panel is on Sunday, April 27 at 1-2:30pm in Room 7.
The New Living Expo is a weekend event from event held April 25-27th at the San Mateo Event Center (1346 Saratoga Drive).
We hope you’ll come by for this important conversation!
For over 25 years the New Living Expo has brought healing, enlightenment, education and wonder to the San Francisco Bay Area. The Expo draws learners, changers and explorers of alternative thinking and being. The 10,000+ crowd is diverse, engaged, and looking for new and different products and businesses to support their innovative thinking and lifestyles.
Tbird Luv and Dr. Marc Gafni have teamed up in the creation of a new series of Dharma Party events, during which she and Marc bring dharma, music, empowerment and outrageous calls to action to awesome crowds of movers and shakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Some of you may know board member Tbird Luv from some of the Center’s events over the past year (such as the 2013 World Spirituality retreat at Esalen, and the SF Dharma Circles), where she has brought her unique music to Dr. Marc Gafni‘s teachings, and her collaborative brilliance to other projects with the Center.
A Dharma Party is Not just another event that leaves behind GREAT memories. Instead, those present have a chance to get inspired, and to strategically design the future with aligned relationships and projects that have the potential to make the world a better place.
Here is the invitation to the 2nd Dharma Party – coming up next week on April 19 – which was sent to a list of Bay Area locals who attended the 1st one. If you want to be invited to this Dharma Party – or any of the next ones! – let us know here. We want you there!
Are you coming to the next Dharma Jam Outrageous Love Hub April 19th 7pm sharp? We’ve got more work and play to do together.
These last months, Marc Gafni and I have poured energy into creating a platform for you and us to co-creatively establish MORE outrageous acts of love in response to the pain happening in the world.
Three months ago we joined with over 100 of The Bay area’s finest in social innovation, social justice, technology and business, the performing and healing arts and spirituality – to start the conversation of collaboratively building a beautiful world together.
Tbird Luv & Dr. Marc Gafni
Photos courtesy of Lily Dong
We ate, drank wine, listened to great music and reflected on our purpose through the transmission of dharma.
What’s Next?
Like I mentioned in January, the Outrageous Acts of Love Dharma Parties are dedicated to and created for folks like you doing amazing work in the world.
It is an INVITE ONLY private gathering. Be prepared to meet – face to face – in real depth – at least twenty NEW Dynamic PEOPLE who – if you so choose and delight – might become your partners, sacred collaborators, your outrageous love cohort. This will also be a celebration and more than just a good time.
We will make sure that you will have plenty of time to network, get your groove on, shine your radiance and get to know who’s in the room.
With an element of surprise, this will Not be just another event that leaves behind GREAT memories. Instead, you’ll have a chance to get inspired and strategically design the future with aligned relationships and projects that make the world a better place – if you so choose.
More organic tapas and drinks, live music will be provided for your pleasure. We’re also building an online presence for those of you of who’d like to continue to find one another, communicate and create.
Here’s a video clip from the 1st Dharma Party in January, 2014:
See you on the 19th.
PS…you are absolutely welcomed to bring guests and invite those who feel aligned with this magic.
Big Love,
Tbird Luv, Marc Gafni and The Center for Integral Wisdom
Everybody is looking but so few find it. It is a dream unfulfilled.
It’s a yearning, we can imagine it, we can feel it, we can taste it, but we just don’t know how to get there!
WHY do we keep missing the point?
We are approaching the essence of our Fullness through the ‘wrong’ door. We have exiled the most important access point to our power, to our aliveness, to our intelligence, through just one aspect of our Being.
‘You try to squeeze light into your parched Being from a source as fruitful as a dried date pit, that even a bird is wise enough to spit out,’ is what the Sufi poet Hafiz tells us.
Let’s explain what we mean!
There is something so obvious, so powerful and so close to us that we overlook it completely. Even when we tell you what it is, you’ll hesitate because there is a huge veil of cultural misinformation around it.
By itself, this quality wants to nourish all parts of our lives! But if we narrow it down, if we exile it into one part of our life, it will show up as a shadow quality causing a lot of pain in our world.
It is EROS that is the power that drives and nurtures our whole society, and indeed, our very existence.
Eros contains all of the wisdom, all of the power, all of the intelligence, all of the strategy, all of the capacity that you need to live a successful, meaningful, alive, and gorgeous existence.
Eros is not just in the sexual! Eros being interpreted as only about sexuality is a profound misinterpretation, and when we stay stuck in that narrow definition, it limits our life force and creativity, blocking us from leading an inspiring and successful life!
Saying ‘My life is very erotic’ is not the most obvious way to express the fact that you have an inspiring and successful life!
Eros is not just an expression of limited physical sex. Eros is the core nature of every moment of reality. LIFE ITSELF IS EROTIC! Reality itself is erotic!
We need to liberate Eros from its exile to the sexual, and thus liberate its energy for us to experience in ALL aspects of our lives!!
It is the Liberation of Eros that is our purpose at the Mystery School of Love this summer in Holland, July 26 to August 2.
This summer…
…God – Goddess Willing…
…our Mystery School of Love will have two hundred Seekers
reclaiming Eros from exile, expanding their capacity for Love, Creativity and Success in Purposeful Living.
We are going to…
with the Grace of She…
…change the source code of Eros in the heart of the Kosmos.
We will be… with total humility and total audacity… loving each other outrageously… a think tank on the outside… and a band of outrageous lovers in our interiors!!
Those of you who know Marc know that he likes to call this…
“A vision of the patterns that connect, that catalyzes the evolution of love.”
‘We will engage Pleasure and Eros in a whole different way.
We will move beyond shame in a way that works across the memetic code.
Or as I said to beloved Ken Wilber, summarizing our dialogue this week on Integral Sexuality:
“What is shame but pleasure which stops short of infinity?”
Or as one master said about fear, “What is fear but love that stops short of infinity?”
And… This will be the first European Annual Integral Wisdom Conference … Wow!!!!
The Festival of Love has grown from 80 to 150 participants and now we are ready and prepared to hold 200 people. Without exaggeration we can say that the Field of Love and Holding that emerges from this Festival is profound. People reported after both events that they experienced deep states of awakening that lasted for weeks and/or a profound deepening of their insight.
Start each day with the morning practice of your choice: yoga, mondozen meditation, breath work and bodywork, if you want to start your day energetic. Or take a quiet walk by yourself in our stunning woodlands.
The combination of deep Dharmic space, opened in the morning and held by Master of the Heart Dr.Marc Gafni, a variety of great workshops, with great teachers in the afternoon, an invitation to exercise in pairs during the day, has in the passed two years been the great igniting force to an open heart, a clear mind and a natural flow of love among all that are joining.
The night-times will also come alive and will be high energy experiences created by dance-master Kareem, the rhythmic kick-ass-Tom-Baur-Band, musicians, artists and DJ’s. (A new special event will take place on several evenings which we want to keep a surprise for you!)
Add to this, small family gatherings, the possibility of individual sessions, massages, a hot tub, awesome and healthy organic food, beautiful nature, dance parties and musical events!
Don’t miss being part of this once a year International Summer Event of the Mystery School of Love.
(Early bird until May 1st)
We just completed a very special series of events at our Teaching Center at Venwoude in Holland. Dr. Marc Gafni taught two Valentine’s Day events in a very beautiful church in Amsterdam. This was followed by a wonderful and very intimate two-day retreat at Venwoude on Saturday and Sunday. Capping off the 4-day weekend, we had an outstanding presentation at Nijenrode University on Conscious Capitalism with Prof. Dr. Paul de Blot, Dr. Marc Gafni, and Ken Wilber (via Skype) in front of 150 enthused Entrepreneurs.
A packed house of people celebrated Valentine’s Day in an old beautiful Church in Amsterdam with Dr. Marc’s Dharma on Outrageous Love. It was a day of profound new dharma, deep practices, and a stunning community of Outrageous Lovers. Dr. Marc took us deeply into a practice space with dyad practices, chanting, and intimate sharing. The evening session seemed to explode–after a very quiet and subtle beginning with hearts meeting in Chant and Meditation and finally and melting open into the Inside of the Inside–with a fireworks of Dharma on Outrageous Love and Unique Intimacy.
Everybody was deeply touched, and many decided to join us for the upcoming Summer Festival of Love at Venwoude…from July 26th to August 2nd, 2014…that this year will also be the First Annual Integral Wisdom Conference on Relationships and Sexuality.
The following weekend was our first annual lineage event at the Venwoude retreat center who is our deep partner and where Marc serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. We dialed in directly to the source lineage of Unique Self teaching in two intimate and intense days of teaching. Our group practice was held in a very special and sacred place: the Library at the heart of Venwoude, which was packed and vibrantly intimate as Marc immersed us in Story-Telling, Lineage Practices and Chant–drawing especially from the Lineages of Hebrew Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Chassidim.
As one participant, Claire Molinard, posted a couple of days later on Facebook: “I am still basking in the sacred space of lineage transmission from these two magic days in Venwoude. Deep bow and gratitude to Marc Mordechai Gafni and all the wonderful people at Venwoude International.”
Marc Gafni, Mauk Pieper & Paul de Blot at Nijenrode University
This week of European teaching was then capped with a shockingly outstanding evening in a packed auditorium at Nijenrode Business University, Hollands leading business school. The event featured two fabulous talks by Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni. Ken gave a brilliant talk on the nature of Integral business which was met by wildly enthusiastic intellectual and emotional appreciation by all of the participants. It was a landmark talk which is sure to set a new standard for this conversation world over.
The event was hosted by 89-year-old Business Sage Prof. Dr. Paul de Blot. Marc referred to him as –a true “living Master Yoda”, honoring his life’s work of establishing in Holland the entire field of Business & Spirituality and writing about it long before anybody had ever thought about Conscious Capitalism. The event started with more dramatic Dharma fireworks by Dr. Marc Gafni. Drawing connections, engaging hearts and minds, and quoting freely from at least 20 different books while always bringing it back to the core questions he asked passionately: “Who are you? And are you willing to play a larger game?” A strong and resounding “YES,” completely shook the room!
Marc then outlined ten core principles of what he called “outrageous entrepreneurship” which completely re-defined the role of the entrepreneur in the modern world. Marc gave enormous honor to Paul De Blot, to John Mackey and Raj Sisosdia’s work on Conscious Capitalism, and to Ken Wilber and his vision of Integral theory. What was really beautiful was the significant personal honor that Marc gave to all of three of them before launching into his talk. Building upon their work, Marc then gave a stunningly original and ground breaking talk which pretty much left everyone speechless. Prof. de Blot then gave a wonderful talk and presented his meta-perspective on the evolution of consciousness. In the following Question & Answer session, Marc again warmly expressed full honor to Prof. de Blot, and added his own perspectives.
The evening ended with a question about the dangers and opportunities of the Internet. Dr. Marc gave a brief introduction to his newly formed ideas on Digital Intimacy (Stay tuned to our new Portal and Project!) that he is developing together with the amazing Embodied artist Megwyn White – followed by standing ovations and then networking with wine and snacks in a wonderfully open atmosphere. Professor de Blot and Dr. Marc expressed their deepest thanks to Mauk Pieper, Director for Integral Wisdom Europe, for organizing this wonderful day. Thank you, Mauk!
The future of our world depends on the great realization of love: that which unites us is infinitely greater then that which divides us. For the first time in the history of the human race, we are able to rise beyond the place of our birth, our religion of origin, our family circle and choose to live our highest truth. This truth transcends and includes all of our personal history even as it invites us to our singular and unique evolutionary destiny.
The Spiritual teaching for this age must be drawn from all of the great traditions of Spirit, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. These great understandings must be lovingly integrated into a space of open heart, community and insight that has the power and the compassion to guide us on the next stage of our personal and global journey.
We live in an intimate Universe.
Every single pore of you is loved and accepted in Love.
Every single corner of you is actually seen in Love.
Every corner of you is held and witnessed in Love.
Every part of you is spoken to and addressed in Love.
Dr. Marc Gafni
This message from the Universe itself most of us can receive…… on a good day.
When the days are not so good, for most of us doubt kicks in and depending on the level of training and practice we have done, we are able to hold ourselves and deal with these hard and often lonely moments….
Stepping into private study with Marc is giving your self the actual experience that the message above, gets incarnate in human form and takes place in a chair next to you. From there a holy, total personal supportive loving relationship is being build.
In private study Marc offers a deep lineage transmission together with a deeply personal supportive loving relationship that addresses ALL of YOU.
In this context you will open up and also ground levels of Your Unique Greatness and Your Unique Brilliance that are beyond your imagination.
Do you hold big dreams, do you want to embody a big vision? (And big dreams and big visions can be public and can be private.)
What you bring down into this world is not only for you, it is evolving the very source code of all our lives.
In working and studying with Dr. Marc Gafni you will be both lovingly, totally challenged and lovingly, totally held at the same time as the most epic version of yourself.
Marc’s brilliant mind, his creativity and his deep heart are actually totally at your disposal.
You can totally use of all he has to offer for the creation of your deep dreams, which are in fact the dreams of our world.
Give yourself the best!
Chahat Corten
The term means different things in different traditions. We use it to mean someone who not only knows, but also has absorbed into and incarnated in their being, the wisdom of his or her lineage. This does not suggest that a lineage master is perfect or incapable of making mistakes.
It in no way suggests you give over your personal authority and responsibility for your life to your teacher.
What it does suggest is a passionate commitment to love, truth, courageous transformation, unflinching integrity, ruthless honesty that is demanding and forgiving, even as it merges with unending compassion, selfless service, wide and deep mind and heart.
It also suggests a mastery of levels of inner depth, wisdom, meaning and heart, which the teacher– with all of his heart and mind – is committed to gifting to you.
Unlike those traditions, Dr. Marc will both give genuine transmission as a teacher even as he co-creates with his autonomous students, a study track that meets their unique needs of heart, body and mind.
We reject for our community the image of the teacher as Guru even as we reject for our community the image of teacher as pal or buddy, who just happens to be teaching.
In our community we believe that the teachers must incarnate both Spiritual attainment, humility, willingness to own mistakes made, a commitment to constant deepening, giving over of his life fully to the Mystery, profound natural Spiritual authority, profound respect for his students autonomy, coupled with radical delight at all he can learn from his students. This dialectical balance requires a profound and mature autonomous student who can both be a student and master at the same moment.
You absolutely can be a full practitioner in a particular lineage and study with a particular teacher AND be a full Trans-lineage Path student at the same time.
- The student commits to purify and open their heart and mind to receive mind and heart transmission.
- The teacher commits to purify and open his heart to give heart and mind transmission.
- The teacher will own his Spiritual responsibility and authority even as the student owns his Spiritual responsibility and autonomy.
- Teacher and student recognize both the fixed nature and the fluidity of their roles. A deep commitment to honor and uphold the teacher is taken on by the student even as the teacher commits to guide, honor and love the student.
This Event is open to all Men and Women!
“Please come and join us even if you were not at part one … each session stands alone”
2 Remarkable Leaders – 2 Conversations About
Men and Love
Fred Jealous
Marc Gafni
The Seven Evolutionary Principles And Practices — For Being A Fully Alive, Whole Man
In this two-part workshop, Fred and Marc will be sharing a set of principles and practices which will invite and show you a way to your highest self — The Seven Evolutionary Principles and Practices for Being a Whole Man.
Sunday, November 3 and Sunday, December 1
1:00 – 4:00
Pacific Coast Church – 522 Central Ave. Pacific Grove
Suggested Donation – $20 per session
To Register Contact : The Mindshop at 831- 372-2971
http://www.pacificcoastchurchpg.org/monterey-pacific-grove-church-events.html
You can also find Dr. Marc Gafni on LinkedIn.
What is the right relationship between the experience of sex and the experience of pleasure? How does sex relate to power, love, fear and enlightenment? What does arousal have to do with divine aliveness, and how does the desire to dominate and to surrender alternate, in a whole and powerful way, with the desire for radical mutuality?
When I was first exploring these questions, there was no one to guide me through different forms of sexing. There was no one to tell me that the force of energy moving through me was sacred. No one said to me that sex is the force of evolutionary eros awake and alive in you. No one talked to me about the relationship between love, sex and eros. Really no one talked much about sex at all.
That’s why giving the gift of this 7-week “Sex Without Shame” tele-series is so important to me, and to my co-leader Annie Lalla.
Annie is a profound and engaging World Spirituality think tank scholar and brilliant “love coach.” A key area of my expertise, shame is also a deep study for Annie, who is doing some of the best work out there, especially on topics like sexuality and pleasure. We have each spent a lifetime evolving a leading-edge teaching on love, sex and intimacy.
For an introduction to the 7-week tele-series, we invite you to listen to the free Replay of a 90-minute “Sex Without Shame” teleclass that Annie and I recently co-led, online here: www.sex-without-shame.com/replay.
In this class, Annie and I approach sexual space as a platform for writing new programs in the ‘source code’ of reality. Could your sexuality be the access point for all forms of success? What if moving past limiting beliefs around sexuality is the high leverage move that seeds your next level of development?
The 7-week program begins on Tuesday, Oct 29 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern (90 min). Course material will be delivered live by conference line (phone) and webcast, and all classes and live Q&A/coaching will be recorded, transcribed, and made available in a private log-in members area.
Through a set of powerful insights & maps, discussion, movement, live coaching and Q&A, we will guide you to discover a profound new framework within which to understand your own sex as well as to give you powerful tools to deal with the core obstacles to living with powerful aliveness, pleasure and presence in every facet of your your life — beginning with the sexual.
We will move beyond the old dichotomies of fallen and sacred sexuality and allow you to feel into seven different modes of sexing and six faces of self, all of which, when engaged appropriately, deserve an honored place in your being. Participants will study these modes sexing and self, taste them, dance with them, and integrate them in our being for the sake of the evolution of love, the evolution of eros, and the evolution of god.
The 7-week Sex Without Shame tele-series
We hope to see you there.
With Honor,
Marc Gafni
At this key time in history we are called to evolve and embody Love, Sex and Eros! The sexual is the ultimate spiritual master. Deep understanding of the sexual is the ultimate guide to accessing the spirit in every dimension of our reality. To be a great Lover ”” an Outrageous Lover in all facets of your being ”” you must listen deeply to the simple yet elegant spirit whisperings of the sexual.
This event is a co-production with our Teaching Center Institute of INTEGRAL EVOLUTIONARY TANTRA in New York City.
Workshop: Oct 4 – 6, 2013
Fri 7–9 (free evening session)
Sat + Sun 10–5:30
Free Dialogue Evening! LOVE, SEX & EROS
Friday, Oct. 4 from 7-9 pm between Dr. MARC GAFNI
and WARREN MOE, Director, Inst. of Core Energetics
Please download the Flyer here for info on how to register.
IN THIS WORKSHOP, YOU WILL LEARN:
JOIN US for a weekend of quivering tenderness, profound heart meditation, mind-bending experiences, embodied practices, ecstatic study, wild goodness, deep truth and radical personal transformation ”” and, if you dare, the evolution of your own enlightenment. Step up to play a larger game ”” that of the Outrageous Lover, which is no less than the evolution of love itself!
Dr. Marc Gafni is one of today’s most visionary scholars and spiritual teachers. He is Founding Director of the Center for World Spirituality and Wisdom Teacher In Residence at the Institute of Integral Evolutionary Tantra.
Dr. Kristina Kincaid is a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner and Brennan Healing Science Practitioner. A faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics, Dr. Kincaid is also the Director at the Institute of Integral Evolutionary Tantra.
Venwoude Summer Festival of Love 2013 © Chahat Corten
The Center for Integral World Spirituality is a vibrant community of Virtual Presence and Evolutionary Love Gatherings. We share tremendous Holy Purpose in bringing Unique Self teachings into the world. The Eros that unites us is grounded in simple truths of Unique Self teachings with which we all deeply resonate.
Most fundamentally, I fully embrace Marc’s dharma that we are each an irreducibly Unique expression of God, and that at this time on our planet, everyone of us is needed to Answer our Call to bring our Unique Gifts to a world that desperately needs us. The more we awaken to Unique Self, we feel that Call within the very marrow our Being.
That Call is being strongly answered by individuals from around the world. We are intimately connected by that Call in our virtual sangha, and during those amazingly wonderful times when we gather together in at places like Venwoude and Shalom and Esalen, and so many others. In our gatherings, there is a concentration of Evolutionary Love that is clarifying, uplifting, and joyfully life-altering.
Mauk Pieper, Chahat Corten and Dr Marc at the Summer Festival of Love
I just returned from the Accelerate event in Chicago this past weekend where Marc spoke to over 500 participants. In 90 minutes, like a Maestro, he brilliantly wove together the patterns that connect with great humor and humility, while transmitting, in the way only he can, the deepest and most profound teachings of Evolutionary Unique Self.
Like a match, he ignited a passionate flame in each heart, inspiring cutting-edge entrepreneurs to write outrageous love letters and commit outrageous acts of love in the world. Wow!
Stories were rewritten, poetry was made, tears ensued and Eros burned bright!!
He received an astounding, overwhelming, gratitude-filled five-minute standing ovation!
I stood in that room clapping, tears streaming, realizing I was witnessing love evolving and the very source code turning, manifesting through the form of each individual Unique Self in the room. There is, was, a gorgeous, seamless — but not featureless — whole!
Oh and PS one more thing!!
While standing at the coffee break and riding the elevator, numerous participants were heard saying Dr. Marc’s talk was the total highlight and best presentation of the entire seven day program!!
Deepest Bow to Dr. Marc for his unwavering devotion and tireless commitment for the evolution of love that lives as the God that is every human being!!
Love is all around, and this newsletter is dedicated to all those wondrous ways that love shows up in the world and in our work at the Center for World Spirituality.
3,000 people take Unique Self Mini-Course: 
We are delighted to announce that 3,000 people have participated in the Unique Self Mini-Course.
The Mini Course is a four week course with fantastic supplemental materials and has been described by many people who participated as life changing. It offers a core shift in your experience of yourself and the way you are able to show up in the world. You can still take this course right now. It is absolutely free – our gift to you and the awakening of Your Unique Self.
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The ten week Unique Self course has also exceeded even our wildest dreams. Each week of this ten week course people have gathered from all over the world to directly participate together in the Awakening of Unique Self. For those of you who are in the teaching, you know that Unique Self is not about being an isolated individual. Rather, Unique Self is the great connector. Unique Self creates a powerful evolutionary we-space in which every irreducible Unique Self shows up in full splendor and commitment. Each week the course deepens, and course participants and all involved in the course are consistently reporting genuine experiences of transformative insight, awakening and community. This past week’s theme has been love: Love as a Unique Self perception, Love as the very force that animates the whole cosmos, Love as the strange attractor driving evolution, and Love as the decision to open up in every moment, even in the midst of pain and fear. As Dr. Marc said in a beautiful meditation during the call:
Even though you have habits of closure, right now, in this moment, you can always practice opening to feel; open to feel what you are feeling now, whatever it is, and when you open to it, your heart opens and melts away that which is in the way.
You can still join the course, listen to the previous sessions, participate in the online portal and this awesome community of likeminded people, get feedback from Dr. Marc, and ask your questions in the next Q&A session. To jump in wholeheartedly, sign up here.
Love, particularly outrageous love in response to outrageous pain is the animating ethos and eros of the Center for World Spirituality. Love is not just a word. It is love in action.
Marc Gafni during a recent retreat at Shalom Mountain:
The one thing we all know is true
Every one of us in the room
Is that we live in a world of outrageous pain,
outrageous pain
Beyond imaginationThe world’s an outrageously painful place
And the only response to outrageous pain
Is outrageous loving
CWS is an Activist Think-Tank dedicated to formulating and articulating a global ethics for a global civilization. We are committed to evolving the source code of human existence.
Our vehicle is our Activist Think-Tank, which is at this very moment working on a series of landmark projects in the areas of spirituality, conscious capitalism, Unique Self, Eros, gender, and relationships. We believe that these landmark projects, when taken together, will unfold–for the first time in the modern era–a genuine shared narrative of spirit, a genuine framework for a world spirituality or world philosophy.
We live in inescapable frameworks. Therefore, the articulation of a shared global framework of meaning and responsibility, which we all might relate to globally is an urgent need of our time.
Such a framework honors the singularity of every great wisdom tradition, even as it identifies the underlying depth structures and unique contributions of each. When take together, these begin to articulate an authentic “users guide to the universe.”
In deep love and connectedness,
The CWS team
Thought Leaders Marc Ga
fni and Richard Barrett will engage in a free, 3-part monthly tele-series in April, May and June. See below for dates, times, full descriptions of each session, and how to register.
Do not miss this provocative and complementary series of dialogues between two globally recognized transformational thought leaders, Richard Barrett and Dr. Marc Gafni. Richard and Marc will share their latest thinking and technologies for transforming yourself, your workplace and the larger community or society in which you live.
Combining theory and experiential learning, they will show how personal transformation, organizational transformation and societal transformation are driven by the same core principles, and how the application of these principles leads to transformative change. Understanding these principles gives you the keys you need to implement sustained change in your own life and in the lives of the organisations and communities/societies you lead.
Richard Barrett (FRSA) is an author, speaker and social commentator on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre and an internationally recognized thought leader on values, culture and leadership. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT) currently being used in 60 countries to support more than 4,000 organizations and leaders in their transformational journeys. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank.
In the first dialogue Marc and Richard will discuss:
1) The difference between Ego Self, False Self, True Self
2) What is Your Unique Self and why is it critical to leadership
3) Why is Unique Self radically different then merely having a healthy ego
4) How to connect with your Unique Self/Soul
5) How to hear the call of your soul
6) How to answer the call of your soul
This dialogue is based on Marc’s book Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and Richard’s book What My Soul Told Me: A Practical Guide to Soul Activation (2012).
Register Here—->
For your convenience, you will be registered for all three events. However, you can attend any or as many events as you would like.
In the second dialogue Marc and Richard will discuss:
1) What is the Corporate Soul
2) How your Unique Self relates to the Corporate Soul
3) How the organisation develops its own sense of Unique Self
4) How developing the Unique Self of the organisation and liberating the Corporate Soul lead to improved performance
5) What every leader needs to know about employee engagement, the Unique Self and the Corporate Soul – The Four Conditions for Whole System Change
This dialogue is based on Marc’s book Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and Richard’s books Liberating the Corporate Soul (1998), Building a Values-Driven Organisation (2006), and The Values-Driven Organisation: Unleashing Human Potential for Performance and Profit (to be released in July 2013).
Register Here—->
For your convenience, you will be registered for all three events. However, you can attend any or as many events as you would like.
In the third dialogue Marc and Richard will discuss:
1) Does a community or nation have a Unique Self/Soul
2) The practical challenges in actualising the Unique Self of a nation
3) Building a values-driven community or nation
4) What contribution can business make to the unfoldment of the societal soul
5) The role of democracy in societal transformation
This dialogue is based on Marc’s book Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment and Richard’s book Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations: The Impact of the Evolution of Human Consciousness on World Affairs (2012).
Register Here—->
For your convenience, you will be registered for all three events. However, you can attend any or as many events as you would like.
We hope you will join us!
