enlightened relationship of the masculine and the feminine in the postmodern world.
During this fifth phase, Marc Gafni engaged in a series of recorded dialogues with World Thought leaders including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ram Dass, Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, Michael Beckwith, Bill Ury, Don Beck, Father Thomas Keating, Byron Katie, and Jean Houston. Emerging out of some fifteen dialogues with Ken Wilber, Marc presented two lecture series entitled Integral Judaism and Integral Kabbalah, which are now being prepared as two separate books.
In the present phase of Marc Gafni’s life, he has turned his attention in two paradoxically different directions.
The first is intense inner spiritual and psychological reflection on the course of his life.
The second is partnering with social activist leaders to create a new, grass roots human rights movement, which might effectively engage three major issues: genocide, human trafficking, and global warming.
While Marc Gafni will continue teaching, he wishes to do so as a spiritual ‘artist’ rather than as a rabbi, guru, or formal teacher. (Keep reading for more on Marc Gafni’s rabbinical ordinations, academic background, and teachers.)
“I am an aspiring Heart Master,” says Marc Gafni. According to the Master of Piacezna, a great Hasidic teacher who fought and loved in the Warsaw Ghetto and died in the Treblinka concentration camp, this is said to be the true goal of a human being. To master the heart means to own one’s own heart. To master the heart means to live with radical openness balanced with radical self-awareness and radical self-control. To be a Heart Master is to have the ability to inspire and help others to live this way as well.