Andrew Harvey – Living the Divine Human
Description Of Living the Divine Human
Have you hungered for a complete approach to spiritual awakening — one that fuses Heaven and Earth, masculine and feminine, stillness and action, into one
alchemical path?
Are you yearning for the truth and willing to go through whatever changes are necessary to stand as the sacred, powerful being that you are?
In the Living the Divine Human training, he builds upon the realizations of the great mystics of the past and shows how they all point toward the unification of multiple wisdom streams, which together illuminate our way forward to a truly divinized life.
In this powerful course, Andrew will show you exactly how to remove the limitations on your spiritual growth and walk a path that is at once heavenly and humble, enlightened and embodied, passionate and full of life.
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This pathway leads into the heart of divinized sexual relationships, transformed relationships with the Earth and with animals, a new relationship with God/Goddess, and a new kind of sacred evolutionary movement for change.
It is both fiery and tender at the same time.
If you are sincere in your hunger for divine truth, and committed to both your spiritual growth and sacred service, this course was designed for YOU.
During the 12 modules, Andrew will cut through surface truths to liberate the magma at your core and, in its liberation, allow you to discover fresh ground on which you can stand for the next stage of your spiritual journey.
The Importance of Embodying Your Divine Human
Living the Divine Human offers a foundational, even essential, set of teachings for seeing THIS planet as divine — given to us to steward and cultivate peace, communal prosperity, health and justice.
It is a path based on Oneness and seeing ourselves as a sacred family. It is a path of blessing, wholeness and embodiment.
It is a love-filled antidote to the soul-deadening, destructive greed, which holds enormous sway over our culture, our businesses, our politics and our minds.
Our collective crises are now leading us into an intensely personal and collective rite of passage that requires us to face and heal our shadow in order to reclaim our full divinity and open to this higher octave of possibility.
If you can consciously embrace this transformative journey, you not only transmute your suffering but fulfill the ultimate purpose of evolution — which is to bring Heaven to Earth and birth God in humankind.
That is what awaits you on the other side of becoming a Divine Human.
The Importance of a Sacred Guide
Living the Divine Human has been created for heart-centered, open-minded, globally-concerned seekers, like you, to begin on a profound, life-changing odyssey together.
The journey will help you clear away lingering falsehoods that have distorted so many religious (and New Age) traditions. It will lead you instead into profound openings, mind-expanding recognitions, and the next steps on your path to transformation of body, mind and soul.
You’ll have the chance to unlock the innermost, esoteric secrets of divinization and receive the hidden truths, liberating methods and profound blessings of not only Andrew, but of many extraordinary mystics.
The goal is to pioneer and practice a 21st century embodiment of the Divine: grounded in sacred action, steeped in wisdom and illuminated by a sacred fire.
The only requirement to enter this journey is a commitment in your heart to walk the path with real dedication, as the course is for those with a powerful love for this world and a sincere desire to become an emissary of the Divine.
How to Embody the Divine Human in Your Daily Life
So, if you are one of those rare individuals who has heard your soul’s calling and yearns to make living as a Divine Human a priority in your life, then this is a truly special opportunity for you.
This life-changing experience is being offered with the sincere intention of fueling the sacred fire in your heart and empowering you to make permanent shifts in your awareness — while expanding the collective field of transformation to saturate your life, your community, and eventually our planet.
When you complete the course, you will not only have developed deep friendships and connections with a community of awakening souls, but you will also have integrated more fully the path of divinization into your daily life.
In Living the Divine Human, you will receive:
- Specific teachings from 4 initiatory streams that are essential for becoming a Divine Human (shamanic, tantric, transcendent and sacred activism)
- Clarity around the actual stages of the path — drawing from evolutionary traditions like Kabbalah, Shaivism, Sufism and Hinduism
- A deeper view of the Divine Evolutionary plan and its unfolding
- A clear understanding of the 4 laws of shamanic wisdom and how they apply to your life
- Insights on the inner science of transfiguration and how to navigate the “dark night of the soul”
- Profound wisdom on marrying spiritual practice and sacred action to heal the world
- 7 sacred practices that can deepen your journey and allow the alchemy of your heart to work its magic
- A powerful activation and integration of passion into the core of your spiritual life
What you’ll learn in Living the Divine Human
What You’ll Learn in Living the Divine Human
In this 12-part transformational intensive, Andrew will guide you through the fundamental spiritual skills and competencies that you’ll need to successfully embody your Divine Human with tools that will make this sacred integration real to you and active in the depths of your life.
Each session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to sustain your path as a Divine Human in everyday life.
Module 1: The Birth of the Divine Human
Drawn from his own experience with major mystical traditions as well as the work of evolutionary mystics such as Sri Aurobindo and Father Bede Griffiths, Andrew Harvey will present his vision of our world crisis as the birthing ground of a new kind of human being — the Divine Human. He will show that this birth springs from both an unflinching look at the extremes of the crisis and a celebration of our essential divine identity.
He will lay out an overview of the four essential streams of divine wisdom that now have to be fused to make this birth possible — the shamanic, the transcendent, the tantric and sacred activism.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- A deeper understanding of the Divine Evolutionary plan
- A vision of the dance of opposites, through which this plan works
- An overview of the evolutionary worldview of the major mystical traditions
- The essence of the living experience of divine transformation of Sri Aurobindo and Bede Griffiths and what you can learn from them
- An initiatory understanding of the 4 essential streams of evolutionary wisdom and how they work together in your transfiguration
Featured Practice: The “I Am” practice of divine identity from Ramana Maharshi that leads to realization of Self
Module 2 Part 1: The Shamanic Ground
Drawing on his own experiences of shamanic initiation — in Ecuador with an Amazonian shaman, with the white Lions of Timbatati in South Africa, and with aboriginal elders in Australia — Andrew will unfold his vision of the necessity of honoring the shamanic vision and its wisdom as the grounds of divine evolution. Special stress will be placed on four laws of this wisdom; the law of interdependence with the creation; the law honoring the rhythms of creation; the law of celebration of creation and of life as sacred, and the law of taking responsibility for honoring these laws.
He will go into detail about the Aboriginal vision of Kanyini, and he will also show the shadow of shamanic wisdom — it’s overly strong fusion with nature and lack of complete knowledge of transient origin.
In this module, you will:
- Experience a deep awareness of the necessity of shamanic wisdom for our survival.
- Develop a clear understanding of the 4 laws that this shamanic wisdom reveals.
- Receive insights into the sacred equality of the creation of life.
- Gain an expansive vision of the splendor and sanity of aboriginal knowledge.
- Receive a profound understanding of the shadow of shamanic wisdom.
Featured Practice: An Australian aboriginal practice to experience directly the sacred life in all things, realizing that all the world is “looking back” at you with eyes of divine compassion
Module 2 Part 2: The Shamanic Ground
Building on the teachings in Part 1, Andrew goes deeper with the material through discussion, experiential exercises and Q&A.
Module 3 Part 1: The Celebration of the Transcendent Revelation
Andrew Harvey will celebrate the revolution of the Axial Age; its breakthrough to living knowledge of divine origin. Drawing on the great Axial pioneers — the sages of the Upanishads, the Buddha and Lao Tzu — he will show how this knowledge of transcendent origin gives human beings a radical new level of divine truth and power. He will also explore the shadow of transcendental revelation — a dedication to transience, a devaluation of the creation, body, sexuality and relationship, and an over emphasis on human uniqueness.
In this module, you will:
- Receive a deep understanding of the radical breakthrough of the Axial Age.
- Open to a vision of how this breakthrough enlightens the shadow of shamanic wisdom.
- Deepen your awareness of how the vision of transcendental identity opens up new powers for humanity.
- Gain deeper knowledge of the interconnection of Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism — and its evolutionary meaning.
- Become aware of the cost of the shadow of the Axial Age.
Featured Practice: A sacred practice from the Hindu saint Rabia, involving the practice of saying the name of GOD to enter into ecstatic, divine union
Module 3 Part 2: The Celebration of the Transcendent Revelation
Building on the teachings in Part 1, Andrew goes deeper with the material through discussion, experiential exercises and Q&A.
Module 4 Part 1: Tantric Revelation
In this module, Andrew will transmit his vision of how the Tantric Revelation of later Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism and Christianity corrected the addiction to transcendence inherent in the Axial Age. Special emphasis will be given to Jesus and the revolutionary fusion in his work and life of the shamanic, transient and tantric knowledge of the Divine, and how this fusion opens up a path of transfiguration for all human beings.
In this module, you will:
- Learn how the Tantric Revelation depends on a dynamic vision of the motherhood of GOD and reveals the five great passions that must be combined to integrate this completely:
- The passion of GOD as mother
- The passion of creation as the embodied mother
- The passion of compassion for all sentient beings
- The passion of tantric relationships
- The passion for radical action to honor the mother’s laws
- Gain clarity about the true main shadow of Tantra — license in the name liberation.
- Receive a deeper understanding about the temptation to use the powers that Tantra gives for personal glory, and not the service of humanity.
Featured Practice: The Gazing Practice of Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, which you can practice with your beloved, your companions or even a cherished pet
Module 4 Part 2: Tantric Revelation
Building on the teaching in Part 1, Andrew goes deeper with the material through discussion, experiential exercises and Q&A.
Module 5 Part 1: The Transfiguration of the Body & the Birth of the Divine Androgyne
In this module, we really bring together the streams and plunge deep into the transformation of the body by unifying the masculine and feminine sides of our nature. Many of the great spiritual teachers embodied both masculine and feminine characteristics, and it is in the full embrace that we are born into a new kind of wholeness and open the pathway to a divinized body and divinized sexual relationships.
In this module, you’ll:
- Develop an expanded range of understanding of the sacred masculine from Sufism, Mahayana Buddhism, the Cult of Dionysus in Greek Mysticism and the complex vision of Shiva and Shaivism.
- Experience deeper mystical practices to connect with the Divine Mother.
- Develop an expanded capacity for deep forgiveness of oneself and others
- Develop practices to heal the imbalance in the individual and collective psyche.
- See how the 5 crucial shadows of our global crisis align, dovetail and collude to keep our world crisis going.
Featured Sacred Practice : The Golden Light Embodiment Practice in which you visualize golden light pouring from the Mother’s outstretched hands to wake up the energy centers known as the chakras, helping the body go through an archetypal transfiguration and blessing — Andrew says this is the most powerful practice he knows!
Module 5 Part 2: The Transfiguration of the Body & the Birth of the Divine Androgyne
Building on the teaching in Part 1, Andrew goes deeper with the material through discussion, experiential exercises and Q&A.
Module 6 Part 1: Sacred Activism
As you fuse the four sacred streams into one and begin to birth the Divine Human in you, it becomes more apparent and imperative to engage in right actions to help our world evolve, heal, and manifest its glory. The Sacred Activist marries the mystic’s passion for God with the activist’s passion for justice and out of the two, a holy “third fire” is born in which you become a living flame of love in action.
In this module, you will:
- Learn the art and discipline of sacred activism — awakened love and service in action.
- Discover your Buddha heart filled with holy power as an inner form of sacred activism that you can access when dealing with difficult people and explosive energies.
- Understand the evolutionary re-engagement necessary to complete the birth of your divine humanity.
- Go beyond the pursuit of personal enlightenment to discover how you can co-create an awakened culture and society.
- Experience powerful practices to awaken and embody more of your innate divinity through focused prayer and action that flows from your heart.
Featured Sacred Practice : Tonglen Practice for you to face and transform pain, suffering, horror, chaos and even madness by visualizing all the dark pain of a situation as a black smoke that dissolves and transforms in your Christ/Buddha heart, expressing again as love
Module 6 Part 2: Sacred Activism
Building on the teaching in Part 1, Andrew goes deeper with the material through discussion, experiential exercises and Q&A.
Module 7: The Way Forward
In the 7th module, Andrew will offer the way forward by integrating the four streams of tantric, transcendent, shamanic and sacred activist transmission. He will address the way forward through whatever may now unfold as the potential birth of the Divine Human in you.
In this module, you will:
- Understand more deeply how you can walk a pragmatic path of love in action.
- Learn how to effectively organize networks of grace and circles of support for those doing this birthing work.
- Discover ways to more fully integrate your core practices into your daily life, and embody the Divine Human moment-to-moment.
- Recognize and avoid the pitfalls, perils and temptations on the path of illumination.
- Experience union by passing through the Dark Night into the New Dawn.
- Become a midwife for the birth of divine consciousness into the world.
Featured Sacred Practice : A profound shadow practice that includes a Taoist Laughing Dance — exploding you with laughter and playfulness even as you work with deep shadows
About Andrew Harvey
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. Andrew Harvey 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.
Andrew Harvey is also coauthor of the best-selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and has 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.
Andrew Harvey has written and edited over 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.
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