This previous week I obtained information from Andrew Harvey, a great good friend and co-worker of mine within the discipline of a renewed spirituality, one which brings service, “sacred activism,” and wholesome mysticism collectively. He and I’ve taught collectively on many events, together with a sequence on “The Christ Path” at a number of areas within the nation, in addition to courses collectively on the College of Creation Spirituality.
Andrew is English and retains his charming accent, sports activities a real love of studying, and a profound information and appreciation of the mystics. He’s additionally a champion of the Divine Female. One in every of his many highly effective books I particularly admire is his wealthy quantity on The Return of the Mom. Andrew grew up in India and absorbed an incredible love of the tradition there, steeped as it’s within the riches of Hinduism, Buddhism and different religions of antiquity. As a younger man he attended Oxford College in England, however was not glad by western academia’s method to spirituality. He got down to discover paths that labored for him and lots of others.
Our paths crossed on quite a few events. His particular charisma for friendship and bountiful humorousness rendered him numerous mates with movers, shakers, activists and knowledge keepers across the globe. He has spent critical time befriending white lions in Africa, in addition to rednecks in Arkansas, the place he selected to dwell for a number of years.
His deepest mentor has been Benedictine monk Father Bede Griffiths, additionally an Englishman and Oxford graduate, who left the college an atheist, however quickly encountered Thomas Aquinas and have become a Christian below the mentorship of C.S. Lewis. Andrew is deeply indebted to Fr. Bede who lived in an ashram in India for 50 years, and was with him over the past months of his life. (Which adopted on Bede’s ultimate journey to the Bay Space the place, amongst different issues, he and I engaged in a wealthy public dialogue. He wrote an Afterword for my ebook, Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, and assisted in bettering my translations of Aquinas so that they extra clearly matched the queen’s English.)
In an earlier DM, I shared the rupture Andrew underwent final 12 months when his condominium burned down, he misplaced his beloved cat companion, and all his books.
He tells us within the letter under of the most recent stage of his vocational journey. I very a lot suggest you learn it and hearken to his video filled with knowledge as properly.
My Pricey Pal,
As a lot of you realize my house base is now in Kashmir.
Kashmir for me, is the house of my soul and I’ve come right here to not retreat, however to go ahead in my very own realization in order to have the ability to pour myself out to be of the deepest assist I can in our excruciatingly harmful world.
I’ve simply been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Broughton Corridor in England and was requested to do a one-minute video to crystalize my imaginative and prescient of the longer term, which will likely be performed on the British Movie Society in London on Could twentieth.
That is the primary transmission I’ve completed from the center of my new life, and I’m deeply honored to share it with you within the hopes that it evokes you to maintain embodying hope in interior and outer sacred motion in these exploding occasions.
Could the Divine blessing of the chic fantastic thing about Kashmir penetrate your complete being as it’s starting to penetrate mine.
Please share this video with everybody you realize if you would like and know that it involves you with my deepest love.
All the time your good friend,
Andrew
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Andrew Harvey within the Valley of Saints, Kashmir, India. Used with permission.
Queries for Contemplation
Have you ever crossed paths spirituality or intellectually with Andrew Harvey? How has he assisted you in your non secular journey?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations.
Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint For Our Occasions.
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen.
Ardour For Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Occasions.
Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality.
The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Knowledge for Exhausting Occasions.
Julian of Norwich: Knowledge in a Time of Pandemic—and Past.
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
The Beloved Will Information You: John of the Cross & The Triple Darkish Evening of Our Occasions.
