provide certainty or explain suffering, and taught the spiritual path of dancing with the uncertainty as a way of realizing the highest human potential.
At this stage, Marc Gafni began to read the Bible through the prism of what he called ‘biblical myth’ or ‘biblical archetypes.’ This work became the basis for the television shows that Marc Gafni created, wrote, and hosted for several years on National Israeli Television.
During the second stage of his study and teaching, Marc Gafni shifted much of his focus to the teaching of Hasidism, particularly an esoteric Kabbalistic teaching described by Gafni as ‘Unique Self.’ This idea has been incorporated into the Integral seminars of Ken Wilber, the Big Mind process of Genpo Roshi, and the teachings of many other spiritual teachers who were exposed to Marc Gafni’s teaching through the Integral Institute.
The idea of ‘Unique Self,’ which is the basis of his bestselling book Soul Prints, forms an important foil and paradoxical complement to the classic Buddhist teaching of No Self. Marc Gafni’s teaching seeks the integration of these two seemingly disparate moments of realization.
During this time, Marc Gafni also wrote a two-volume, 1200-page work on non-dual humanism and its expression as Unique Self. A small part of this work became his doctoral dissertation for Oxford University. These two volumes are now being prepared for publication as a project of the Idra Foundation.
In the third stage of his work, Marc Gafni turned his attention to the interrelationship between the erotic, the sexual, and the sacred. Marc Gafni’s work here described four faces of Eros that underlie all evolved reality, and went on to unpack how the experience of the sexual