DR. MARC GAFNI & ANDREW COHEN IN DIALOGUE
EPISODE FOUR JUNE 3rd 2021

Dear Friend,

Manifest Nirvana is delighted to announce the next in our series of dialogues between Dr. Marc Gafni and Andrew Cohen, organised jointly with One Mountain, Many Paths.

In these conversations, Marc and Andrew will probe the intersection of absolute meaning and relative reality, within the context of the most destabilised and destabilising time in recent history.

Their dialogues will look deeply into the relentless challenge of being human, particularly at this unique moment in time, while simultaneously celebrating the profound cosmic and metaphysical significance of human incarnation.

For more about the context and intention behind these conversations please visit the event page.

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Episode 3: Facing The Truth With Eyes Wide Open

Facing the truth on its own terms is one of the most difficult and demanding of all spiritual practices. It means cultivating a capacity to see things as they actually are, rather than as we would like them to be, and this presents most of us with an enormous challenge.

Our ability to see clearly is invariably distorted by fears and desires that are both seen and unseen, conscious and unconscious – and few of us are even aware of the culturally-defined perceptual frameworks that define how we view, experience and interpret reality as a whole.

To see with such unobstructed clarity requires enormous self-awareness and courage. We need a deeply informed understanding of both our personal psychological makeup and, maybe more importantly, how culture shapes our perception of reality.

It is our individual and collective choice-making that creates the world that we all share, and that is why making this huge effort to see clearly is so vitally important. Unless we are able to interrogate even our most deeply held assumptions, the actions we take and our shared future will be more an expression of our conditioning than of free and consciously-informed choice.

Of all the gifts of profound spiritual attainment, the evolved capacity for clear perception may be the most important of all – and accessing this capacity calls upon us to ask some challenging questions:

• Do we have the courage to deeply interrogate our own thought process?
• Do we have the integrity to constantly question our feelings, pleasant or unpleasant, profound or mundane?
• Can we access the kind of inspired curiosity that compels us to incessantly question the way we perceive the world?
• In aspiring to see clearly, do we have the spiritual conviction and courage to question absolutely everything?

In this, their fourth public dialogue, Marc and Andrew will examine how we can so easily and unknowingly delude ourselves and each other – and conversely, how we can begin to face ourselves, each other, and the world around us with greater clarity, trust and love.
 

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Dr. Marc Gafni and Andrew Cohen are spiritual teachers and thought leaders who share a strong foundation in an evolutionary approach to spiritual awakening and practice. Both are original and innovative thinkers who have produced pioneering bodies of work in evolutionary spirituality, and formulated many of its core tenets.

Their teachings uphold and demystify the foundational principles of traditional, modern and postmodern wisdom streams, weaving them together into an integral whole. The aim of these dialogues is to generate a creative and dynamic evolutionary tension – to catalyze an awakening to higher and deeper states and stages of consciousness, liberating insights and life-affirming perspectives.

The dialogues will unfold organically over time as an inspiring example of emergent spirituality in action – one that gives rise to its own unique tapestry of coherence and meaning.

MARC GAFNI & ANDREW COHEN IN DIALOGUE
EPISODE FOUR JUNE 3rd 2021