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A Gift from the CIW Board Retreat 2017: Introduction by Dr. Marc Gafni: Never Bypass the Personal
Enjoy this beautiful introduction and story by Dr. Marc Gafni from our 2017 CIW Board Retreat: The Story of Levi Isaac of Berdichev Told by Dr. Marc Gafni from the book Your Unique Self by Dr. Marc Gafni When you fail to hold the personal, you may begin to engage in manipulation or possibly even psychological abuse. When you begin to see yourself as aligned with the process, which was the great teaching of Hegel, you may inadvertently give birth to the worst evils of Fascism, Communism, and Nazism, all of which were very heavily influenced by Hegel’s teaching that demanded [...]
Unique Selves in a Self-Organizing Universe: A Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein
From an unedited draft of the forthcoming book Towards a New Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein The core structural principle from Integral Meta-Theory involved in the formation of a Unique Self Symphony is the scientific principle of self-organization. The idea of self-organization is according to many the single most important scientific idea to emerge in the last sixty years. It exists at every level of reality and across all four quadrants. While many scientific accounts focus only on self-organization in systems and structures in biology or cybernetics (i.e., Lower-Right reductionism), there is a [...]
Blessed by Everything – Video by Marc Gafni
How can you feel the pain of the world and still be empowered? How can you become a beacon of light and love in the midst of all the pain you face - both yourself and the pain you see in the world? How can you become a beneficial healing presence on the planet? These are the questions that we need to answer in order to create a Politics of Love and an Integral Planet. In the video below, CIW President Dr. Marc Gafni shares a daily practice from his tradition called participating in the pain of Eros in exile. [...]