Title: Oxford Rabbi

Gender: Male

Age: 48

Sun Sign: Libra

Chinese Sign: Metal Ox

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

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Dr. Marc Gafni is a cutting-edge evolutionary, visionary, a gentle and provocative spiritual artist and teacher, academic, public intellectual, author, and social activist and lover of people. He is an ordained Rabbi and holds a doctorate, written on Nondual Humanism in Kabbalah taken at Oxford University under the co-supervision of Prof. Moshe Idel.                        

Marc Gafni is the author of five published  books with three more forthcoming, including the National Best Seller Soul Prints and Mystery of Love. Soul Prints won the Napra Award for the best Spirituality Book of 2001. It was a main selection for the One Spirit Book Club, the basis of a National PBS special, the Amazon.com best book of 2001 in the Jewish Thought category and starred review in Publishers Weekly. Soul Prints was also made into an audio series by Sound True Recordings. Soul Prints is published by Simon and Schuster.

Marc Gafni's second major English language book, also published by Simon and Schuster, The Mystery and Love talks of the profound relationship between the Erotic and the Holy. Mystery of Love met with much critical acclaim and was an audio lecture series called The Erotic and the Holy published by Sounds True.

Dr. Marc’s other books in Hebrew include Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value, Re-defining Certainty from “It is True” to “I am True”; he is a co-author of Lillith: Re-Reading Feminine Shadow and has two major academic volumes forthcoming entitled, Nondual Humanism and the Unique Self: The Dialectical Theology of Mordechai Lainer of Izbica, as well as The Dance of Tears: A Integral Re-Reading of Hebrew Ritual.

Marc Gafni has created and run leading edge spiritual contexts from seminars, to teachings, to communities his entire life. His last spiritual experiment was his co-leadership in the fostering of a Jewish Renewal movement in Israel.

Marc Gafni is a Co-founder and teacher in residence with Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Sofia Diaz at iEvolve: Global Practice Community. iEvolve is an International spiritual movement and community committed to the evolution of Spirit. iEvolve is dedicated to spiritual and social activism, and to the development and sharing of a language of Spirit and love which might positively in-form the future of our  planet. He is also a teacher in residence at the Awakened Life Foundation, founded by Sally Kempton.
 
One of the projects of iEvolve and Awakened Life is the producing a Great Library of Books on the human spirit with real implications for creating a better world for all of our children and grandchildren. The books, coordinated with public sharing and teachings, as well as television and movie projects, will be rooted in the Evolutionary Kabala in particular and Evolutionary Spirituality in general. The books will be universal in scope and audience even as they emerge from the matrix of the sacred texts which in-formed Marc’s evolution as well as by his sacred autobiography. His self-description; “A person making mistakes in the right direction”.

Marc has also, like many teachers and public figures, been the subject of false attacks on internet hate sites, and in other forums. He is currently developing a movie and writing a book on the complex and often tragic role of the internet as it interfaces with masculine and feminine shadow in the public square. At the same time, Marc, like every authentic teacher, has sought to evolve through his genuine mistakes and to transform suffering into love. For more on Dr. Marc Gafni please his extensive website at www.marcgafni.com.