Andrew Harvey – The Sufi Way of the Beloved with Andrew Harvey
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In the rapturous lines of a Rumi or Hafiz poem, we discover intimate, sublime and passionate descriptions of spiritual awakening.
These Sufi mystics were “drunk” on the wine of God — with ecstasy coursing through every cell of their beings. They related to the Divine as we would our most cherished lover, bequeathing profoundly beautiful words and stories that inspire us to lay our souls bare before God in a state of deep, ecstatic surrender.
In their mystical stories, there is an unrivaled reverence for the grandeur and majesty of God, not only as a transcendent Source but as the essence of all life. They see God in the petals of a flower, the touch of a child, or the play of light at sunset.
In the eyes of these mystics, all of life is a beautiful song that reverberates with holiness.
Sufi mystics offer us a vision of spiritual life that is at once exalted but also profoundly worldly; they live IN the world but not OF the world. They serve the Divine by illuminating the divinity in all things (and all people) leading to a more ecstatic relationship with life itself.
They are deeply enlightened but also profoundly humble, dedicated to serve the One through its expressions as the Many.
This profoundly passionate relationship with the Divine holds the key to creating a truly divine life as well as creating peace between major faiths, which have been increasingly polarized due to distorted versions of the authentic spiritual realizations at their cores.
The Sufi path is a path of direct experience through dance, poetry, prayer, and communion with the Beloved. It is about a deep level of surrender to the Divine and then birthing a life that expresses that Divine love in the world.
Ultimately, Sufis point the way to the universality of truth, love, wisdom, and a full embrace of major spiritual traditions. They represent the leading edge of Islamic faith and practice: a path of deep dedication to universal love.
That’s why it is so tragic that our vision of Islam has become defined by the most debased and distorted views held by fanatics and proponents of terrorism. Just as we should not define any religion by its most extreme adherents, so must we give Islam a chance to reveal its most sublime, elevated and universal expression.
This can be found in The Sufi Way of the Beloved, a 7-module program that offers you a profound initiation into esoteric wisdom, inspired stories, and profound spiritual practices.
Discovering the Sublime
Whether you are a Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, shaman, or someone who considers yourself spiritual but not religious, you will deepen and expand your spiritual life by spending seven sessions with one of the world’s most passionate and articulate translators of Sufism, Andrew Harvey.
Andrew is well-trained in all the major religious traditions but he has a particularly profound relationship with Sufism. Through his deep insights, scholarship, and storytelling, you will open a door to a new understanding of the importance of this mystical lineage and the role it can play in liberating you into a more devotional relationship with life.
If we are to create true peace between world religions, we need to understand the depths of Islam and its luminous gifts to the world, especially those expressed by the many Sufi teachers and masters who offer us the most accessible teachings.
In The Sufi Way of the Beloved, mystic-scholar Andrew Harvey will bring you into the inmost heart of Sufism to receive the blessing — and experience the initiatory power — of this sacred lineage.
If you’ve ever been curious about the fierce, noble and tender power of the Sufi path, Andrew Harvey is an ideal guide who can bring it vividly to life. He’s not only a scholar of many major faiths, he’s been a long-time student, translator and initiate of Sufi lineages and particularly the poets whose words resound with direct revelation.
Andrew is well known as the author of over 40 books and spiritual classics, including Rumi: The Way of Passion, The Essential Mystics, and The Son of Man, but if you haven’t heard him speak, prepare to be amazed. He’s become one of the most popular Shift Network faculty for a reason: his words are the exact medicine our souls need right now as we traverse a time of great trial on the planet.
He is a tsunami of love-wisdom, pouring forth his adoration for the Divine and his passion for the sacred marriage of mysticism and action. He beckons you into a state of rapture and deep appreciation for the splendor of the Universe while unflinchingly speaking truth about our delusions.
During the seven modules of The Sufi Way of the Beloved, he’ll take you into the hidden chambers of your heart, chambers deeply explored by these mystical “friends” who beckon you into the fire of life-transforming grace.
Not only will you shift your whole understanding of Sufism and discover the heart of this profound lineage, you’ll also understand Islamic concepts in a whole new way.
The power at the heart of this path is too precious for sincere seekers to overlook. Sufism offers a depth charge that can explode your heart into new delights and awaken the ecstasy of an intimate relationship with the Divine.
You’ll better understand how to navigate heartbreaks and “dark nights of the soul” to discover a timeless vision of the glory of Creation. You’ll deepen your appreciation for sacred poetry.
Knowing and feeling the magnificence in all life can impel us to start putting love and justice into action to protect our world on every level. It can empower us with the sacred energy we need to undo our habits of exploitation and domination.
By dancing into a deeper relationship with the great Sufi mystics, like Rumi, you’ll learn the REAL story of what it takes to awaken — and how you can apply these lessons in your life.
Sufis are also far from sweetness-and-bliss mystics; they look straight into the heart of darkness to transform it. There is a rigor, depth and sobriety that serve us well as we navigate the many collective challenges we face.
Over the course of this profound journey, Andrew will take you into your depths through a kind of alchemical communion with seven key mystics who offer insights on the stages of initiation you must experience to birth the Divine Human within.
During the seven modules, you’ll:
- Discover a practice of burning in the heart for the Beloved
- Recognize the centrality of the Divine Feminine to Islam
- Receive a profound overview of the Prophet Mohammed’s mystical teaching on divinization
- Understand the true meaning of surrender
- Learn the core Sufi practice of remembrance that enables you to stay aligned with the Beloved
- Understand the role of extreme suffering in extreme transformation
- Learn from the very different examples of 7 of the most renowned Sufi teachers
- Develop a deeper appreciation of the Prophet Mohammed’s teachings and stories
- See how integrating divine intelligence into how we design society can unite our spiritual ideals with societal principles
- Celebrate the Sufi quest for a more universal understanding that embraces all paths
If you’ve ever been awed by the love-drenched words of a Rumi poem, this is the program for you, one in which your natural mystical devotion is given free rein.
You’ll see the spiritual inheritance of Sufism and Islam with entirely new eyes. You’ll be initiated into an understanding of how the fusion of compassion and passion, equanimity and fire, tender love and sacred activism, can give rise to a sacred life that can change the world.
You’ll weep. You’ll soar. You’ll get very sober about engaging the challenges of our day. And you’ll celebrate the divine feast that we are given to savor in every moment.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Andrew will guide you through the core teachings illuminated by the Sufi mystics and transmitted through the passionate love of the soul.
Each contemplation and training 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 engage a sacred view of all of life, as well as how to bring divine intelligence into the way we design our societies and approach our global relationships.
Module 1: The Sufi Vision of the Way of the Beloved
In this module, you’ll discover:
- A vision of the Koran’s mystical sublimity
- An overview of the Prophet’s mystical teaching on divinization
- An understanding of the core map of the path to the Beloved
- A practice of the name of God, Allah, will be offered as a means to sustain absorption and surrender
Module 2: Two Martyrs of Love
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The mystical birth in Al-Hallaj’s death and the way it transformed a tradition
- The role of extreme suffering in extreme transformation
- Three of Rabia’s most potent poems
- A prayer practice with Rabia’s great prayer to the Beloved that will help you align with the One
Module 3: The Glory of the Glory
Ibn Arabi
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The glory of the Beloved as conveyed to Islam’s greatest philosophical genius
- The blessing vision of Islam and how it reflects the sacredness of the human
- A radical vision of the potential fusion of human and divine love and its revelations
- The core Sufi practice of remembrance that enables you to stay aligned with the Beloved
Module 4: Radiant Bewilderment as the Gate to Oneness
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The rigor and range of Sufi psychology
- Attar’s inspired mystical poetry, a favorite of Rumi’s
- A fiercely realistic sense of the rigor of the real path to union
- A practice of burning in the heart for the Beloved
Module 5: The Way of Passion
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Rumi’s personal journey to embodying the Beloved
- How to awaken divine passion in yourself
- The new energy released by divine passion in the divinization process
- A practice of invoking a descent of light into mind, heart, soul and the cells of the body
Module 6: The Way of Fierce Truth
An Invocation of the Transforming Presence of Shams
In this module, you’ll discover:
- An initiation into the radioactive grace field of Shams’s mysterious and still alive presence
- An immersion in the cauldron of paradox that is Shams’s teachings
- A vision of sacred dance as a way of embodying divine truth, beauty and energy
- A practice of saying the name Allah with the black light
Module 7: A Sufi Vision for the World
During this last module of the program, you will explore the extraordinary journey of Dara Shikoh’s life, the healing power of his knowledge of the deep union between Hindu and Islamic mysticism, and the significance of his adventure in the identity struggle that is now splitting and wounding Islam and the world. We’ll end with a vision of how the truths of Sufi mysticism could transform Islam and the nature of our reality.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- An introduction to one of the most inspiring sacred activists of Islam
- A vision of the mystical unity of Hindu and Islamic revelation
- A vision of a world unified in sacred diversity through a universal mysticism
- A 7-part body prayer that enables you to realize yourself as the living instrument of the Beloved’s love in action
The Sufi Way of the Beloved Bonus Collection
In addition to Andrew Harvey’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll also receive these powerful training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions will complement the course, deepening your understanding and practices.
In the Fire of Grace
Video with Banafsheh Sayyad
Banafsheh Sayyad, the founder of Dance of Oneness®, is a Persian sacred dancer, choreographer and transformational teacher. Awarded for her innovative dance, she is among the few bearers of authentic Persian dance in the world, an innovator of Sufi dance previously performed only by men and one of the few artists who has mastered a fusion of high level dance technique with spiritual embodiment. Her Dance of Oneness® is a science of embodiment — living our fullest potential through loving our body, our Self and living as a lover. It fuses the art of dance: rigorous technique and self-expression, healing and spiritual embodiment. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating thousands into the wisdom of their bodies and living the sacred in everyday life. With an MFA in Dance and an MA in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious movement. Banafsheh comes from a long lineage of pioneering performing artists. Her father, the legendary Iranian filmmaker, theater director and actor, Parviz Sayyad, hailed as the Charlie Chaplin of Iran, is the most famous Iranian of his time. Banafsheh’s film In the Fire of Grace with Andrew Harvey traces Rumi’s journey of the soul in dance.
Dancing As the Beloved of the Beloved
Audio Dialogue with Andrew and Banafsheh Sayyad
Banafsheh Sayyad, the founder of Dance of Oneness®, is a Persian sacred dancer, choreographer and transformational teacher. Awarded for her innovative dance, she is among the few bearers of authentic Persian dance in the world, an innovator of Sufi dance previously performed only by men and one of the few artists who has mastered a fusion of high level dance technique with spiritual embodiment. Her Dance of Oneness® is a science of embodiment — living our fullest potential through loving our body, our Self and living as a lover. It fuses the art of dance: rigorous technique and self-expression, healing and spiritual embodiment.
Rumi & the Way of Passion: Igniting the Divine Fire in Your Heart
First 2 Sessions of the 10-week Digital Course with Andrew Harvey
The Path to the Beloved
Audio Dialogue with Charles Upton
Charles Upton, born in 1948, is a San Francisco poet by background, a writer on metaphysics, “metaphysics and social criticism,” eschatology, demonology, the metaphysical exegesis of mythopoeia and Islamic themes. His books in this last category include Virtues of the Prophet, Reflections of Tasawwuf and, with Dr. John Andrew Morrow, The Words of Allah to the Prophet Muhammad: Forty Sacred Sayings. He is also the conceiver of the Covenants Initiative, an international movement of Muslims to protect persecuted Christians, based on Dr. Morrow’s book The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World. He was raised as a Catholic and educated entirely in Catholic schools. In 1988 he embraced Islam. Since that time, under two shaykhs, he has followed the Sufi path.
About Author:
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.
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