Friday, October 17, 2014
Andrew Harvey and Terry Patton in dialogue--This Sunday
from Beyond Awakening
Please join us for:
Andrew Harvey:
“Reckless Love and Friendship at the Edge”
Sunday, October 19th
at 10 a.m. Pacific
Dear Dorothy,
Recently I recorded a conversation with the astoundingly eloquent and learned, mystical poet-on-the-fly Andrew Harvey. We’ve entitled that dialogue "Reckless Love and Friendship at the Edge" and we’ll be broadcasting it on Sunday, October 19th at 10am Pacific.
Andrew and I have always been able to converse frankly and passionately and catalytically. And yet over the last few months our practice of “sacred conversation” has begun to venture more and more boldly, wildly, and fruitfully into edgy, unknown territory. So we decided to start recording our conversations, and also to begin to teach together (we’ll be co-leading a 4-day seminar in the San Francisco Bay Area, March 5-8, 2015. More on that soon).
This is the first of these “basement tapes” — and the conversation ranges widely, probing into a number of the most alive and edgy topics we’ve been contemplating in our exploration of “what really matters”.
You'll hear us discuss practicing with metabolizing the horrors in the daily news (it took place during the surge of ISIS’s atrocities), the evolution of contemporary spirituality, a frank and passionate exchange on the sacred, catalytic, tantric, alchemical nature of sexuality, and a contemplation of the subtle nature of anxiety, and the process of facing and transmuting the deep biologically-based anxiety that operates in the very cells of the body.
I hope you'll listen in to this vibrant conversation where Andrew and I drop more deeply into our own friendship and the catalytic nature of the conversation itself, making it an offering to the evolution of love and dharma.
I’ve written a blog which further details what you'll be hearing here.
To our evolution,
Terry
How to Participate:
Andrew Harvey
"Reckless Love and Friendship at the Edge"
Sunday, October 19 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific*
*Find your local time
Listen live by phone or online, or download the recording anytime.
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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.
No one brings together the world's wisdom traditions in such a potent and timely way as Andrew Harvey. Perhaps it’s because in many ways he has lived them. He was born in South India and lived there until he was nine, which he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred.
As a young man, disillusioned with Oxford, he returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices, including studying Hinduism, undertaking the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows, and engaging an exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis. He also has a rich, scholarly knowledge and deep personal experience of the meanings behind the Gnostic Gospels and Christian Mysticism.
He 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.
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About Our Host:
Terry Patten co-developed Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at Integral Institute. He hosts the acclaimed online teleseminar series Beyond Awakening: The Future of Spiritual Practice. He speaks and consults internationally—inspiring, challenging, and connecting leaders and institutions worldwide.
In his cutting-edge writings, talks and teaching, he not only inspires transcendental awakening, love and freedom, but calls us to accept and incarnate our full humanity. He was the senior writer and co-author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. His 8-session course, Integral Spiritual Practice guides students step-by-step in establishing a heart-centered do-able daily integral practice. His personal web site is http://www.terrypatten.com/
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