The God of the Encounter: The Glory of the Personal, Part 1
by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 1 of 3) The realization of the personal which has been derided as the separate self or ego is so important that I want to ask you to enter this even more deeply with me. You...
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by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 2) The most powerful expression of this realization is in the prophetic encounter with the divine mystery. This encounter runs like a thread from Abraham and Sarah to Moses,...
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by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 3) The sense of peril resulting from direct contact with the divine ground has nothing to do with any ideas that the people are sinful or the god wrathful. It is more like the...
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by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 4) It is precisely this fellowship of prayer and prophecy, which we might refer to as the second face of God. In this pointing out instruction, God in the first person would be...
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by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 5) *** God in the First Person: “All at once I found myself wrapped in a flame-colored cloud. For an instant, I thought of fire and immense conflagration somewhere close by in...
View ArticleThe God of the Encounter: The Glory of the Personal, Part 6
by Dr. Marc Gafni (part 6) Two Faces of All That Is This is the animating impulse that moved eastern spiritual teaching, motivated by love, to seek to free you from the illusion of separate self. Their...
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