The Hope

by Harvey, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781401920029
• ISBN10: 1401920020
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Hay House Inc

Summary

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE SEE OUR PAPERBACK EDITION, ISBN: 978-1-4019-2003-6. The Hope, a new book by acclaimed author Andrew Harvey, is a simple yet compelling guide to help people respond to current global challenges. This no nonsense work provides a succinct vision of todayrs"s world crisis and the need for sacred activism-the fusion of the deepest spiritual knowledge and passion with clear, wise, radical action. Harvey lays out seven laws for sacred activism, covering everything from the necessity of incorporating a spiritual practice into your life , to the transformation of anger into wise energy, to the importance of community. Through these laws he shows that neither the noble, pragmatic work of the activist nor the private spirituality of the individual is enough to change the world. These two must be fused to become an unstoppable force of transformational love. Just as Julia Cameron inThe Artistrs"s Waygave millions of people a precise and interactive handbook to help them discover and explore their creativity,The Hopewill give the most practical possible help to all those who realize the urgent truth of the Dalai Lamars"s advice and want to act as effectively as possible from wisdom and compassion.

Author Biography

Andrew Harvey was born in south India in 1952. At 18, he moved to England to attend Oxford University. In 1977, he returned to India, and over the next 30 years he plunged into myriad mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. Hinduism consumed his studies for five years beginning in 1978. In 1983, he met the great Tibetan adept, Thuksey Rinpoche, and undertook the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows. In 1990, he collaborated with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney writing The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In 1984, he began a ten-year exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in south India, and it was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism.

Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and also appears in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness of the Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for A New Humanity. He is also the Founder/ Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism.

Andrew Harvey lives in Chicago and travels the world extensively teaching about sacred activism.