Andrew Harvey – Rumi and the Way of Passion

Andrew Harvey presents his vision of the electric importance of the Rumi renaissance in today’s world. For Andrew, Rumi is a voice of the divine human that’s struggling to be born in our era, and his work is returning in force to give us the energy, wisdom and passion we need to transform our world. Andrew gives an overview of Rumi’s amazing life, with special emphasis on the mysterious relationship with Shams that transformed him.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover the sacred path that Rumi traversed, as well as his trials, heartbreak and eventual liberation into a radical state of divine rapture
• Examine the most influential people and events in Rumi’s short yet heroic life, culminating in his tumultuous relationship with Shams of Tabriz
• Explore Rumi’s path of divinization in the Beloved and what happens to a human being who truly becomes a living cell in the body of God
• Understand how the return of Rumi into the consciousness of our planet at this moment is not a coincidence and is vital for our individual and collective evolution
• Open to the fierce and gorgeous alchemy that Rumi underwent
• Allow the essence of Rumi’s wisdom to strip away falsehood and help you become more naked and transparent to the divine relationship
• Uncover the full spectrum of your divine identity and the ultimate expression of your human-divine genius

Sacred Practice: Shahada — the remembrance of the name of God
Featured Mystics: Rumi, St. John of the Cross, Rabia

In this module, Andrew Harvey plunges into the transmission at the heart of Rumi’s poetry — that of the ecstasy and responsibility of divine identity. Andrew explores the two different aspects of the divine in Islamic mysticism — the Jamal, or tender side of God, and Jalal, the ferocious aspect of God — and shows how they dance together with exquisite realism in Rumi poetry. Special emphasis is placed on the Jalal aspect and on how it transforms the mystic into a warrior, a midwife of love and justice in the world.

In this session, you’ll:

• Awaken to the splendor, majesty, beauty and power of your nondual divine identity with the Beloved
• Experience the transformative practices that Rumi used to evoke the ecstatic rapture and splendor of divine intoxication
• Discover the mystical process to enact the great transformation we are called to initiate and undergo at this critical time in our history
• Explore the two essential, interconnected spiritual forces of Rumi’s mystical transformation:
  • The Jamal aspect, which represents serenity, rapture, tenderness, peace and profound all-embracing compassion for all living things
  • The Jalal aspect, which represents sacred passion, divine ferocity and clarity about the co-evolution of inner and outer that helps bring the law of God into our world
• Discover how the marriage of these two mystical forces (Jamal and Jalal) merge to birth the fully embodied divine human
• Understand more deeply how to walk the path of the peaceful revolutionary whose every deed is love in action

Sacred Practice: Allah from Sufi tradition, enabling an experience of transcendent origin
Featured Mystics: Rumi, Ibn-Arabi, Meister Eckhart

Andrew dives deep into the vision of the creation of a manifestation of the Beloved that burns at the heart of the Koran and of Rumi’s poetry. After exploring the influence of the Muslim scholar and philosopher, Ibn Arabi, on Rumi, Andrew shares texts of Rumi that awaken the awe and reverence at the wonder of creation that modern humanity desperately needs to experience if we are to preserve our world.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover how Rumi awoke into the glory of creation as a manifestation of the attributes of the Absolute
• Experience Rumi’s personal sacred practice for exalted adoration of the Beloved
• Become initiated into what the universe truly is — an unendingly magnificent epiphany of the radiance of the eternal
• Wake up to the full majesty and splendor of yourself as one with the cosmos to incarnate divine love and justice into action on every level
• Empower yourself with the sacred energy you need to transform our cultural tendencies and history of unconsciousness, exploitation and domination
• Experience theophany — an eternal expansion into the grandeur of God and the manifestation of the attributes of the Divine… and how essential this is for human evolution

Sacred Practice: The Presence of the Beloved in Nature, a Sufi practice
Featured Mystics: Rumi, St. Francis, Moses Cordovero (Kabbalist), Shabestari (Sufi)

Andrew describes the depth and richness of true oneness and the experience of radical relationship on all levels that it leads to. As Rumi makes clear, such an experience is born from death of the full self, and demands a capacity for absolute surrender to love. Andrew then offers us eight different categories of relationships in oneness illustrated from Rumi’s own life which reveal an inspiring vision of what divine human life can become. A special emphasis is placed on Rumi’s passionate love of animals and on how his example could inspire us today to forge a wholly new relationship with the animal world.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover how Rumi was birthed into a sacred vision of the entire universe as a web of interconnected, ecstatic communion
• Understand how modern science and quantum physics are echoing Rumi’s sacred vision
• Experience the new global heart-mind that’s created from the marriage of the deepest perceptions of the mystics and the most radical revelations of science
• Awaken to the universe as a web of interconnecting, communing relationships, founded and fueled by divine love
• Explore the sacred principles and foundations of the emerging mysticism that’s being born on our planet at this time

Sacred Practice: Sacred Gazing, as practiced by Rumi and Shams, focused on realizing divine identity with another
Featured Mystics: Rumi, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Father Bede Griffiths

In this module, Andrew explores Rumi’s wisdom of the Dark Night in depth, even as our global crises deepen. Rumi’s wisdom about the way in which desecration can prepare the ground for new life is an essential foundation for renewed hope and sacred activism. No other teacher explores the Dark Night process as intensely, intimately or exuberantly as Rumi — and Andrew believes his witness offers us the most realistic source of radical inspiration for our time.

In this session, you’ll:

• Awaken to what all pioneers of divine embodiment discover: that the process of the divinization of the human (the “Birth”) necessarily passes through a great Death
• Discover the stages of this transformative death as it is understood in shamanic, Hindu, Mahayana and Christian traditions as the death of all the constructs of the separate self
• Understand why this process is essential in the unfolding of full awakening; and why it’s as excruciating and painful as it is redemptive and transfiguring
• Explore one of the greatest gifts of Rumi’s poetry: a full, naked and honest map of both the ordeals of this death as well as of the divine rapture and empowerment of the birth it follows
• Navigate Rumi’s map of transfiguration and its essential meaning and possibility for our contemporary crisis
• Receive Rumi’s powerful testimony, which is essential to enduring our global Dark Night and understanding how to hold on through faith and surrender so its ultimate truth can be realized

Sacred Practice: Surrendering to the Healing Power of the Dark, resulting in real physical surrender
Featured Mystics: Rumi, Jesus, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Attar

In this module, Andrew celebrates the wisdom and passion that are mystically infused throughout the Dark Night process. Rumi shows us that the diamond found in the ashes of the false self is the boundless energy of divine love. Andrew believes that accessing this passion with Rumi’s help and through our own discernment of the forces that block this passion in our world can keep us grounded in love and joy even in chaotic times. As Rumi wrote, “Let divine passion triumph and rebirth you in yourself.”

In this session, you’ll:

• Awaken to the enormous sacred passion that’s released like an atomic explosion from the death of the false self
• Become radically inspired and filled with the joy and power you need to help transform our planetary crisis into an opportunity for birthing a new world
• Understand Rumi’s explosion of passion that radiates throughout his work and how to awaken this passion in your own consciousness and life
• Become illuminated by its gorgeous flame, so that no defeats or ordeals can deter you from pouring your life out in service and love
• Understand the crucial testimony in Rumi’s work: he isn’t simply expressing enlightened consciousness, but a whole new level of creative passion (ishq )
• Explore the great poems in which this wisdom is infused, as a sign of the divine human, blazing with sacred energy at every level, wholly devoted to passion

Sacred Practice: Simplified Whirling Dervish practice that anyone can do
Featured Mystics: Rumi, Mirabai, Hadewijch of Antwerp (the Rumi of women mystics), Rabiah and Attar, Shams of Tabriz

Andrew shares the map of the Second Coming he was given by his great teacher, Father Bede Griffiths, and shows how Rumi’s own mystical experience and interrelationship with Jesus makes him humanity’s most eloquent guide into its next evolutionary stage. Andrew shares a linked sequence of four of Rumi’s greatest poems in which the full richness of the birth of a new humanity can be savored and celebrated.

In this session, you’ll:

• Explore the great evolutionary plan for the Second Coming… the birth of divine humanity
• Review the intimate relationship Rumi had with Jesus and Christ Consciousness
• Experience one of the most potent ways that the Divine is waking us up to an unprecedented embodied divine birth
• Discover the profound parallels in how Rumi underwent the same transfiguring process that Jesus revealed
• Embrace the “Christ within” teaching, seeing that we all have within us the same potential for transcendence that Jesus and Rumi expressed
• Incarnate more completely in mind, heart, soul and body in order to become a force of sacred love in the world — the ultimate expression of the Way of Passion

Sacred Practice: Sacred Activism
Featured Mystics: Rumi, Jesus, Teilhard de Chardin, Father Bede Griffiths

The Importance of Rumi for Islam & the World
Audio Dialogue With Charles Upton

Rumi is both a universal mystic poet and the flower of Islamic mysticism. To hold both together is the way to understanding both Rumi’s greatness and the greatness of the Islamic tradition. Charles is not only a fine poet, but a great scholar with a deep vision of Islam.

Charles Upton 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.

Andrew Harvey on Sacred Passion
Video Presentation From Andrew Harvey

In this incendiary video from the Caroline Myss Education Institute, Andrew uses the poetry of Rumi to light a fire in the ground of your heart and spark you to action. Illuminating the dire circumstances of humanity and our planet, he models the passion-fueled fountain of hope which he invites from each and every one of us. In this talk you will find out what Sacred Passion is and why we can’t live without it any longer.

The Eternal Wine: Poems of Rumi for Our Time
Audio Recording From Andrew Harvey

A selection of Rumi readings specifically selected by Andrew for their relevance to our current crisis. These highly thought- and emotion-invoking readings will assist you in exploring your spirituality and provide you with a catalyst to look within for your own answers to the questions that perplex us all. This special selection of Rumi readings is set to moving ambient music and read by Andrew himself.