Radical Passion by Andrew Harvey

Radical Passion by Andrew Harvey

This culmination of award-winning author Andrew Harvey's life's work bridges the great divide between spiritual resignation and engaged spiritual activism. A manifesto for the transformation of the world through the fusion of deep mystical peace with the clarity of radical wisdom, it is a wake-up call to put love and compassion to urgent, focused action. According to Harvey, we are in a massive global crisis reflected by a mass media addicted to violence and trivialization at a moment when what the world actually needs is profound inspiration, a return to the heart-centered way of the Divine Feminine, the words of the mystics throughout the ages, and the cultivation of the nonviolent philosophies of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Dalai Lama.

Harvey's concepts of radical passion and sacred activism fly in the face of restraint, of pessimism, of denial, of all that is inhumane, fusing the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice and for healing the division between heaven and earth, heart and will, body and soul, prayer and action. Sacred activism asks that we engage deeply on a personal, spiritual, and political level so as to become a fully empowered, fully active, and contemplative humanity that can turn tragedy into grace, and desolation into the opportunity to build and co-create a new world.

Unlike many spiritual books, Radical Passion does not veil the dark with artificial hope. It explores the catastrophes of our current times and celebrates the ecstatic hope and divinity that is possible-right now and in the future.

Andrew Harvey is a poet, writer, teacher, and mystic who has written a number of books, including A Trip in Ladakh and Return of the Mother. Harvey, a former fellow of All Souls College in Oxford and now a visiting professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, has a devoted following among spiritual and mainstream literary audiences.

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ISBN 13	9781583945032
ISBN 10	1583945032
Title	Radical Passion
Author	Andrew Harvey
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2012-10-23
Number of pages	592
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