Most Recent Blog-Posts

• Video-Teaching with Dr. Marc Gafni: Sexuality & Shame

  
  

  from the Mystery School of Love 2015 and the forthcoming Online Course “God Is Eros”

  
  

  Some Statements by Dr. Marc Gafni in this video:

  Guilt means I did something wrong. Shame means that I am wrong. Shame is the root of all evil.

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  Until we can get to a place of sex without shame, we will live in a world of violence and depression.

  Most violence in the world is in fundamentalist world, where sexuality is most repressed. The highest suicide rates in places with most sexual freedom, yet, no dharma, no sacred story of sexuality.

  In best sexual moments, the meaning of life is self-evident.

  Sexual shame is the experience that I cannot come home in the sexual.

  The start of the Irak war was directly related to our sexual confusion.

  The video ends with an invitation to a practice:

  Explore how the sexual has influenced your life by writing your own sexual sacred autobiography.

  5th Mystery School in Holland Coming Up from July 22 until July 29, 2017
  

  Our theme this year:

  A Return To Eros: Living The Erotic Life

  • Begin your day with body work and an Evolutionary Satsang
  • Open your heart, mind and spirit to Dr Marc Gafni’s teachings
  • Choose your afternoon workshop
  • Grow and transform

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• Health 3.0 and Unique Self Medicine on Medium

  
  

  Dr. Venu Julapalli, CIW Board Member as well as founder and president of Integral Gastroenterology Center, P.A., an active private practice in gastroenterology in Houston, Texas, is writing an amazing blog-series both on Medium and his personal blog about Conscious Medicine about the tenets of what he calls Health 3.0.

  Health 3.0 is of course very much related to what he and his brother Dr. Vinay Julapalli, in collaboration with the Center for Integral Wisdom and Dr. Marc Gafni, have called Unique Self Medicine.

  In his blog, Dr. Julapalli writes about the problem of medicine:

  In one way or another, we all sense that our approach to our health is flawed.  But we are not as conscious about this as we could be, from both the patient’s and the doctor’s perspectives.

  He then offers the following plan:

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• Unique Self Somatology

  
  

  On Suffering

  By Mary Ann Gray Voorhies

  In my last blog post I talked about what usually precedes spiritual growth, and the answer was pain or suffering. In Thomas Hanna’s book “The Lyrical Existentialists” he quotes a well known Danish Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard who was also a psychologist and peer to Friedrich Nietzsche — both of whom came to generally the same conclusions about spiritual growth and health and unhealthy states of mind. It was the concept of the healthy individual that guided them in all researches. The working concept that both of these scholars had of health was that it was a condition in which all constituent aspects of an individual’s existence are allowed to have full play in the conscious life. The implications of such a concept are that the given drives, impulses, emotions and frustrations experienced by the human psyche are not to be thwarted, ignored, or repressed but rather are to be consciously faced, expressed, and accepted. There is usually some event. The event does not take place in the world that is outside of us. It takes place in individual consciousness. Hence, by the very nature of things, can be known only within each of us in our solitude.

  “My soul is so heavy that thought can no more sustain it. Over by inmost there broods a depression, an anxiety, that presages an earthquake.” These are the words of an individual in psychological trouble: something in the world has failed him or her, disappointed him, abandoned him, something is not right. There are the classical literary figures of Marie Beaumarchais is Goethe’s “Clavigo,” Donna Elvira in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and Margaret in Goethe’s “Faust.” All of them have found something in the world in which they gave themselves in complete confidence and passion, and all of them were betrayed and came to grief. The spectacle of these women being deceived by their extraordinary lovers is the concrete exemplification of how the individual can be deceived by the world.

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