Posts Tagged: Thought Leader Dialogues

Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen & Marc Gafni: Kosmic Creativity

In this dialogue (conducted for KenWilber.com/Integral Naked in 2011), Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, and Marc Gafni each offer a 20-minute overview of central topics related to creativity including its connection to evolutionary spirituality and its role as a moral imperative.

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Ken Wilber, Riane Eisler & Marc Gafni: Caring Economy

Riane Eisler, JD is the President of the Center for Partnership Studies and internationally known as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of groundbreaking books such as The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 26 foreign editions, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Dr. Eisler has received many honors, including honorary PhDs and peace and human rights awards. She lectures worldwide, with venues including the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Department of State, Congressional briefings, universities, corporations, conference keynotes, and events hosted by heads of State.

Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni discuss with her from an Integral Wisdom, Unique Self, and World Spirituality perspective her latest book The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.

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Marc Gafni: The Future of Love

Listen to Marc Gafni’s keynote speech on the Future of Love from the correspondent teleseries.

This series started in 2010 in preparation for the Second Integral Spiritual Experience that was lead by Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, and Diane Hamilton. We include some of these dialogues in this broader series on Love & Eros.

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Diane Hamilton, Sally Kempton & Marc Gafni: Future of Love ISE 2

Listen to this dialogue on the Future of Love from the correspondent teleseries.

This series started in 2010 in preparation for the Second Integral Spiritual Experience that was lead by Marc Gafni, Sally Kempton, and Diane Hamilton. We include some of these dialogues in this broader series on Love & Eros.

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Andrew Cohen & Marc Gafni: Future of Love

Listen to this series of three dialogues between Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni as part of the series The Future of Love.

Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni have engaged in dialogues in both formal and informal contexts over a number of years, beginning at a shared retreat in Israel in 2005. One of the major motifs of the dialogues was an attempt to clarify the distinctions between their two visions of enlightened consciousness.

Over the years, students from different communities asked for the distinctions to be elucidated and laid out in a clear fashion. What emerges is that Andrew and Marc share the belief that the realization of classical enlightenment, what is often called True Self, is the ultimate goal of the enlightenment journey. Both Andrew and Marc point to a realization beyond being, beyond the realization of one’s true nature. This evolutionary realization is called Authentic Self by Andrew and Unique Self by Marc.

There has been another dialogue between them that charts some of the shared features and differences between these two visions.  You can read the partial transcript of that dialogue here.

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Clint Fuhs & Marc Gafni: Future of Love

Clint Fuhs and Marc Gafni have engaged in a series of dialogues about basic themes of Integral Theory.

This one is about the Future of Love.

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Daniel Pinchbeck & Marc Gafni in Dialogue 2

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York’s East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered on spirituality, philosophy and activism. And he has just launched Center for Planetary Culture, a hybrid form between a traditional think tank, a technology incubator, and a media destination site, with a grant from Tides Foundation.

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Daniel Pinchbeck & Marc Gafni in Dialogue 1

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York’s East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered on spirituality, philosophy and activism. And he has just launched Center for Planetary Culture, a hybrid form between a traditional think tank, a technology incubator, and a media destination site, with a grant from Tides Foundation.

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Daphne Rose Kingma & Marc Gafni in Dialogue

Daphne Rose Kingma, author of The Future of Love, gave an inspiring keynote address at Integral Spiritual Experience 2. After our annual week-long practice retreat, Dr. Marc Gafni and Daphne Rose Kingma came together again to discuss the next step of the journey””how do we navigate the post-conventional territory of love?

The postmodern revolution raised our expectations for love and intimacy””now many of us want to find a “soulmate”, not a mere spouse. The sexual revolution changed the context of commitment in relationships””a series of monogamous relationships is the new norm for many of us. And spiritual awakening changes the very definition of love””if you love everyone, how is your love for your beloved in any way “special”, and how does it meet his or her need to be adored and cherished? Human love dwells in the in-between zone of human paradox, yet it needs a spiritual and an evolutionary context. Love is not only about fulfillment, it is also about self-sacrifice and giving.

So what are the five principles for navigating the post-conventional territory of love? You’ll just have to tune-in to find out!

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