The Integral Stage THE JOURNEY TO COSMO-EROTIC HUMANISM: "UnCertainty" w/ Marc Gafni
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Dec 31, 2022 AI Snips
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Gafni's Paradoxical Experience of Life
- Marc Gafni's mother's Holocaust experiences shaped his understanding of suffering and the need to reconcile it with life's goodness.
- He juxtaposes this with his own simultaneous experiences of pain and ecstatic joy.
Relationship Requires Intrinsic Worth
- True relationship with others becomes possible only after experiencing one's own intrinsic worth.
- Until then, relationships are instrumental, used to fill a void within oneself.
Leah and Judah: Birth of Messianic Consciousness
- Gafni discusses the biblical story of Leah and Judah, highlighting Leah's initial inability to love her children non-instrumentally due to her own lack of self-worth.
- Only with Judah does she experience her own value and thus love him unconditionally, birthing Messianic consciousness.