Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

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 at various spiritual centers throughout the U.S. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and appears also in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness Of The Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for a New Humanity. He has also worked with the great Iranian Sufi dancer, Banafsheh Sayyad, in producing a film, In the Fire of Grace, which marries Sufi inspired dances to the stages of Rumi’s understanding of the path of Divine love.

He has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.

Website: andrewharvey.net

Some of Andrew's many books:

Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe

The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

Light the Flame: 365 Days of Prayer

Movie referred to during the interview: A Human Search: The Life of Father Bede Griffiths (1993)

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 1/25/2016

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction and Welcome

00:04:48 - Returning to the Sources of My Childhood

00:08:24 - Mystical Experiences and Life Changes

00:11:34 - The Purpose of Our Souls' Work

00:14:54 - The Transforming Power of Love

00:18:22 - The Dark Night: A Process of Divinization

00:21:27 - Embracing the Depths of the Shadow

00:24:44 - The Urgency of Preparing for Evolutionary Shattering

00:29:39 - The Marriage of Opposites

00:35:12 - The Marriage of Mission and Heart

00:39:34 - The Power of Love in the World

00:43:37 - Networks of Grace and Radical Social Work

00:48:43 - The Paradigm of Deep Cooperation and Collaboration

00:53:56 - Creating an Alternate Reality

00:59:03 - The Transformation of Birthing the Divine in the Human

01:03:43 - The Power of Unconditional Forgiveness

01:08:24 - Changing the World Through Collective Action

01:13:20 - The Process of Transformation through Divine Self

01:18:55 - The Price of Spiritual Awakening

01:23:36 - Gratitude and Appreciation for a Difficult Breakup

01:27:46 - Abusive Power in Spiritual Circles

01:31:08 - The Modulation of Softness and Flexibility

01:34:36 - Mystical Christianity and Hinduism-Buddhism Integration

01:38:21 - Finding Grace in Everyday Joys

01:42:23 - The Endless Evolution of Enlightenment

01:46:38 - Enlightenment and the Sacrifice of Ramana Maharshi

01:49:30 - Cultivating Humility through Practices

01:53:00 - The Dance Between Light and Dark

01:56:39 - The Primordial Love Relationship

01:59:24 - Life well-lived in progress

02:02:28 - Free resources and ongoing project

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