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Embodying the Light with Andrew Harvey
By Reviewer
At the age of 25, when I was in despair at my life as an Oxford professor, it was to south India that I returned for inspiration. There in Pondicherry, I met the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and had the first mystical experiences that determined my destiny. It was in Pondicherry in 1978 that I met Mother Meera and began my exploration of Hindu mysticism;it was in 1993 that I met my spiritual father, Father Bede Griffiths, in his ashram near Trichonopoly and began, under his guidance, a journey that attempts to reconcile all faiths and doctrines in what I have called‚ “Direct Path.”
Nov 16, 2006, 07:12

Andrew Harvey was born in South India and lived there until he was nine years old, a period he credits with shaping his vision of the inner unity of all religions.  He left India to attend private school in England, and then entered Oxford University to study history.

After Harvey became disillusioned with life at Oxford, he returned to India to begin his spiritual search.  He has continued to study a variety of religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.  Harvey has written and edited over 30 books including Mary's Vineyard, A Journey to Ladakh, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (coauthored with Sogyal Rinpoche), Dialogues with a Modern Mystic, The Way of Passion:  A Celebration of Rumi, Hidden Journey, and Son of Man.

He was the subject of the 1993 BBC documentary The Making of a Mystic. Currently Andrew Harvey is collaborating to establish The Global Interfaith Center.

PreConference All-Day Retreat —
Embodying the Light: Practices for Tantric Tenderness
Friday, January 19, 2007
New Mexico Room 9:00pm  to 5:00pm

Andrew believes that the purpose of mystical discipline is to embody the light.  From this radical embodiment of divine presence and from authentic sexual liberation flow what he calls Tantric tenderness - a warm lucid love for all life and all sentient beings that can be both sexual and non-sexual.

For several years now Andrew Harvey has been working on a marriage between physical yoga and mystical practice and will share the sequences of asanas, prayers, visualizations, and meditations that he believes open up most completely the energies of Tantric tenderness and give access to its joy power.

Goals:
To help people understand what Tantric tenderness is and give them techniques to help realize and sustain it.

Learning Objectives:
• To help people understand the link between authentic sexual liberation and the tender love for all life,
• To help people awaken and recognize Tantric tenderness, and
• To help people to find and develop those practices that sustain Tantric tenderness that are most attuned to their own minds and bodies.

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