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One of the core tenets of an Integral Planet, the Emergence Project, and a World Spirituality Based on Integral Principles is to be All In for All Life.
To be All In for All Life, you’ve got to be willing to participate in the pain, to wake up and feel it. But what we’ve done is numb ourselves to the pain to the point where we have become comfort. Comfort is the opposite of pain.
So we are never awake. Pain and pleasure are related. Pain is the pain of loneliness, alienation, starvation. It is the pain of a world desperately crying out to be heard. Millions of voices are subsisting below the poverty line. It is disconnected from itself, separated from a vision of meaning and a shared spiritual language.
We must be willing to engage with it, beginning with the immense physical pain of people on this earth as well as animals. You cannot be All In for All Life if you spend your waking hours anaesthetizing yourselves to the pain. Love, joy, and creativity can’t be realized through a spiritual and ethical bypass of the pain; they have to move through and transmute the pain.
To be All In for All Life is to engage the pain in a way that is transformative. Why do people shut down? How do you engage the pain in a way that doesn’t make you mad? These are the questions we will be engaging in the next parts.
The Center for World Philosophy & Religion is an Activist Think Tank. It is a group of people who think about the structure of the way things work and how we can make it better. We are engaging the deep structural issues that affect how society works, how love flows, how compassion unfolds, the way politics unfolds, the way economics are structured. We are inspiring action.
At the Center, we may be the only think tank of this kind in the world today. Actually, the essential source code issues – how to create a shared language of meaning and spirit in the world today – are peripheral in our society today. It’s left to fringe conversation and never enters the mainstream to evolve the dialogue. We have started along with other visionary thinkers such as Ken Wilber along with our talented and dedicated faculty, our leadership team, and our Scholars.
We are engaging these source code issues through three primary modalities.
First, we have our Dharma Labs.
Dr. Marc Gafni also teaches live online at our sister organization One Mountain, Many Paths – Live Online Services Every Sunday at 10 am PT.
Second, we are writing a series of books and white papers which change and evolve the source code of consciousness in key areas of society. We are engaged in medicine, secondary school education, business, psychology, and the recovery movement. We are developing a practice based on “outrageous acts of love.” We are spearheading the Digital Intimacy project, a success project, and coaching. We are evolving the meaning of enlightenment through the “democratization of enlightenment” teaching, entrepreneurship, spiritual practice, our understanding of the masculine and feminine. And on and on. Each one is a source code changing move, an engagement in the ongoing evolution of love.
Third, we are offering live and evergreen online courses which have so far brought together more than 5,000 people.
We’re going to acknowledge and celebrate who you are by giving you a magical evening of surprise…of dharma..of music and food and wine and connection.
Strategically designed to bring some of the best in the Bay Area together to meet, to be celebrated and inspired, The Outrageous Acts of Love Dharma Parties are dedicated and created for folks like you doing amazing work in the world.
Tbird Luv, Marc Gafni and The Center of Integral Wisdom along with a collective of dharma angels, created this special event to celebrate your life and all that you have inspired through your work…your ideas…your projects and the way you interact with those who you encounter.You never know who is watching!
It is an INVITE ONLY private gathering of lovelies and badass movers and shakers from social innovation..social justice..technology and business…the performing and healing arts and spirituality.
We are a network of Evolutionary Solutionaries on a Love-alutionary Mission.
If you’re someone who is about fierce contribution and taking action to make our lives and the world We live in A GREATER Place – then you are an Outrageous Lover.
You and what you inspire in your community is beautiful.
Highly inspirational and contagious, We synergize our collective talents and energy under one roof to inspire OUTRAGEOUS acts of LOVE in response to the OUTRAGEOUS pain in the world.
Tbird Luv & Dr. Marc Gafni
Photos courtesy of Lily Dong
Our guest list is five star! We will make sure that you will have plenty of time to network, get to know one another and get your groove on!
With over 100 people who attended our Jan. 11th event ~ we had such a powerful response that we have gathered in The Bay Area once again on April 19th to reconnect, celebrate and continue to make magic in the form of Outrageous Acts of Love projects, products, programs and POSSIBILITY!
If you’re interested in being a guest at our Outrageous Acts of Love Dharma Parties, or playing behind the scenes, please contact us here.
We look forward to EXPLODING OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF LOVE all over the planet and into the hearts of humanity.
Cheers to Our Collective Mojo!
Tbird Luv & Marc Gafni
Here is a teaching from our Dharma Party in January 2014:
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In World Spirituality we use practices from all different traditions as well as modern psychology and postmodern perspective taking. Basically, those practices can be divided into practices to wake up, grow up, show up, lighten up, and open up. Make sure that you practice in every of those areas since that ensures a harmonious development for you and also acts like a cross-training–boosting your overall development in all those areas.
Further down, you’ll find 3 videos with transcripts that Marc Gafni has made as introductions to these terms and areas of practice. For a deeper understanding read his Article on the World Spirituality Essentials.
But let’s start with our Ten Commitments of World Spirituality Based on Integral Principles.
The journey begins with a recognition of the fullness and depth of reality and to the specific experience and innate dignity of every human life. Every human being has an innate right to participate with joy in the fullness and depth of reality.
Awakened heart is a set of meditative practices which open the practitioner to the subtle dimensions of the heart, fostering the fullness of love and compassion.
Unique Self is a set of enlightenment principles and practices containing teaching maps and technologies which allow a person to identify the nature of their Unique Self.
Unique Self is the recognition that you are the personal face of essence, that God is having a You experience, that God loves you so much that His love signature is written all over you. Unique Self is the recognition that God lives in you, as you, and through you in the fullness of your being and becoming and that to love God is to let God see through your eyes.
Your Unique Self creates your Unique Perspective, which is in effect your unique love intelligence seeing the world through it’s own eyes. Unique Perspective creates Unique Gifts, which can be given only by you. Giving those gifts is your Unique Obligation. In doing so, you identify and embrace the Unique Life Mission for which you were born on this planet in this time and this place. That is what it means to answer the call.
Shadow Work is an intensive surfacing and cleansing practice, which shatters the lies of shadow and allows the person to once again tell the truth about who they really are. World Spirituality shadow work directly causes a person to reconnect, evolve, purify, or simply reclaim the dis-owned shadow dimension of their authentic and Unique Self. It is based on the 3-2-1-0 practice, which follows Unique Shadow back to Unique Self.
Awakened Eros is an embodiment practice in which the full power, aliveness, and wisdom of the human body is accessed and integrated into the fullness of the person’s life. The four faces of Eros, interiority, presence, yearning, and wholeness–which are embodied in daily living–are the core of Eros. The failure of Eros always leads to a collapse of ethos. So we realize that in source, Ethos and Eros are one.
States and Stages are both an experiential and mapping practice. To wake up is to awaken to your highest state and to grow up is to evolve to your highest potential stage. In state practice, a person gains access to state experiences, which tells the person something important about their true nature and mission in the world. In stage practice, a person studies the trajectory of human evolution in the life of the individual and in the lifespan of human history and culture along the major lines of development. In so doing, one is able to identify both their own location and to set concrete goals for the next stage of their evolution.
Social Service practice is the commitment of World Spirituality and of individuals to commit significant time to the betterment of the lives of others. In the experience of wholeness, you cannot be satisfied if someone else is starving. This is a violation of Eros.
Integrity is an evolutionary quality. In understanding this, an individual recognizes that integrity and not mere survival is the lodestone of human existence. Skillful means practice is a set of understandings, insights, and technologies that foster effective communication, teamwork, and relationship building skills, which all serve the larger integrity of the system or individual.
Devotional Work Practice serves the Divine within us and beyond us by recognizing, praising, honoring, connecting, and disclosing that very divinity. The commitment to devotion is a commitment to fall in love with reality time and again.
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