mirrors and models the erotic in all other dimensions of living, including the dimension of the sacred. The first book to emerge from this study was The Mystery of Love, followed by the Sounds True audio series On the Erotic and the Holy. Marc Gafni is currently preparing to release for publication The Erotic and the Holy, a more extended treatment of this topic.
In the fourth stage of inquiry, Marc Gafni shifted his focus to the psychological and spiritual ‘Shadow Teachings,’ which he sees as being an esoteric strain within the Hebrew wisdom tradition. Here, he seeks to evolve the understanding of shadow beyond Jung’s conception, and to connect shadow work with the non-dual teachings of Kabbalah as well as with the ‘Unique Self’ teaching. Gafni’s work on shadow identifies three distinct primary forms of shadow, which include not only one’s hidden dark side, but also one’s distorted ‘Unique Self,’ and one’s unrealized divinity. A book of these teachings is currently under preparation.
Marc Gafni’s fifth stage focused on the nature of enlightenment. In some groundbreaking dialogues with Ken Wilber, Moshe Idel, Andrew Cohen, and Jean Houston, Marc Gafni introduced the radical hermeneutic that all of Hebrew wisdom may be properly understood as an enlightenment tradition. Moreover, he showed that the most important single Kabbalistic idea, which lies at the heart of Luria’s Kabbalah, is what Abraham Kuk called Evolutionary Enlightenment. In Gafni’s understanding, the goal of this tradition is to achieve a democratization of enlightenment-an enlightened society, rather than simply an enlightened elite. Marc Gafni and other teachers are now preparing a work on postmodern enlightenment teachings. Here, they will also address the