Audio: Evolutionary We-Space – Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton in Dialogue
In this dialogue from the “Future of Love Teleseries,” Dr. Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton explore what it means to hold an Evolutionary We-Space, and the qualities of such a gathering. How does it deal with competition and jealousy? Who gets to lead, and what does it take to sustain it? It is with much honor and pleasure that we present this recording.
Sally Kempton has been practicing and teaching in a Hindu tradition for 30 years, twenty of them as a Swami, or Hindu monk of one of the Dasnami order of sannyasins. A former New York journalist who wrote extensively for the Village Voice, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The New York Times, she left her career in the early 1970s to study with her guru, Swami Muktananda. In the 1980s, she became one of the key teachers in the Siddha Yoga tradition as well as the first editor of a magazine, Darshan, which aimed at finding the shared truths within different spiritual traditions.
Sally has spent many years studying Kashmir Shaivism and yoga philosophy, as well as investigating esoteric mysticism as it appears in different traditions, including Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Sufism. Since 2002 she has lived and taught as a lay teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom. Her work aims at bringing the wisdom of non-dual philosophy and yoga into the problems and challenges of daily life. Sally’s teaching is based on the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, on the core texts of yoga and devotional Hinduism, and deeply influenced by Integral theory.
She is the author of three books, The Heart of Meditation, Meditation for the Love of It, and her most recent, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga. She also writes a column, “Wisdom,” for Yoga Journal, and teaches regular teleconference classes as well as retreats and workshops at conference centers like Kripalu, Esalen and Mt. Madonna.
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