3 Days of Innovation, Inspiration and Hope

Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator ANDREW HARVEY Renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher, writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. LECTURE / BOOK SIGNING DETAILS: Date: September 23-25, 2011 Friday September 23 2011, from 7-9 pm, Saturday September 24 2011, from 9-4 pm Sunday September 25, 2011 from 9-2 pm Location: Power Up Your Life, Old Town Hall, 14 Bridge St, Almonte, Ontario, Canada K0A 1A0 COST OF EVENT is $250.00 with 100.00 nonrefundable if you cancel. BOOK NOW!

Friday
6pm-7pm: Registration
7pm -9pm : Andrew will be showing the movie Dancing in the Flames. Powerful, insightful, provocative, Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames explores the inspiring life and many ‘deaths’ of one of the western world’s most important wisdom keepers, and sends a clarion call to a planet in the midst of “a shedding of its outworn skin”. Renowned Jungian analyst and author, Marion Woodman is celebrated for her work on feminine psychology and addiction, but her words and her wisdom speak to nearly everyone. With insight from our guide, the brilliant mystic and author Andrew Harvey, Marion explores the mysteries of her soul’s journey and reveals a series of psychological ‘deaths’ and ‘rebirths’ that have made her who she is today. From her battle with anorexia, to her revelatory experiences in India, to her ever-evolving marriage, to her dance with cancer, Marion has ‘died into life’ and thus is a perfect teacher and mid-wife for this critical period in our history. Through the use of stunning animation from Academy Award winning artist Faith Hubley, lmmaker Adam Greydon Reid seamlessly weaves Marion’s inner and outer lives together and transmits a core truth of what it is to be human.
9pm-10pm: Music and coming together to celebrate the weekends event.

Saturday
9am-4pm: "Someday after we have mastered the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love," Teilhard de Chardin wrote,
"and then for the second time humanity will have discovered re." This is what Andrew Harvey calls the third re. The re of love and wisdom in action that is created when the re of the mystic's passion for God is fused with the activist's passion for justice. Explore the third re of Sacred Activism, the ve kinds of service that can birth this re, and how to organize this re in action for a global grass roots revolution of love. Then delve into the return the Divine Feminine in our time, which is making possible a tantric revolution that consecrates and divinizes sexuality so its power and radiance can give sacred activists everywhere the re-fuel and the bliss energy to do their work of transforming the world. An understanding of the authentic Divine Masculine is similarly crucial now at a time when the masculine, divorced from the sacred and out of control, is destroying the planet. Using the God Shiva as an archetype and referring to Jesus, Rumi, and Ramakrishna, Andrew will oer mystical practices to access both divine presences within your body. There is a way to be a conscious creator with God in this stupendous birth of the Divine Human taking place through the chaos of our time; it is Sacred Activism. Join Andrew to immerse yourself in it.

Sunday
9am - 2pm: Andrew lays out seven laws for sacred activism, covering everything from the necessity of incorporating a spiritual practice into your life, to transforming anger into wise energy, to the importance of community or what he called “Networks of Grace” and more. Through these laws he shows that neither the noble, pragmatic work of the activist nor the passive spirituality of the individual is enough to change the world. These two must be fused to aect real change.

The following is excerpted from his new book The Hope: a Guide to Sacred Activism (Hay House): In a recent article in the "New York Review of Books" Bill McKibben wrote: "The technology we need most badly is the technology of community - the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done. Our sense of community
is in disrepair." It is essential, therefore, that sacred activists, while pursuing their individual spiritual paths and embracing their own specic kinds of service, learn to work together and to form empowering and encouraging 'networks of grace' - beings of like heart brought together by passion, skill and serendipity to pool energies, triumphs, griefs, hopes and resources of all kinds. When people of like mind and heart gather together, sometimes miraculously powerful synergy can result. Such "networks of grace" can only be as transformative
as our crisis needs them to be, if those who form them work constantly on the seductions of power, glamour
and celebrity, and develop ever-deeper discrimination. Learning to discern the real gold of authentic networks
of grace, from the false glitter of networks of power and self-importance, is dicult and demands prayer, humility, patience and shadow-work, and the unglamorous ability to wait on results and not force them before the Mystery has had a chance to form them completely.

This book is a sequel to Andrew's The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism (Hay House - September, 2009) which has received great acclaim and which has begun a global movement of Sacred Activism. Sacred Activism is the fusion of the two noblest res in the human's heart - there of the mystic's passion for God, and the re of the activist's passion for justice. Now, it's time to engender a third re, which is the re of love and wisdom in action.
In The Hope, Andrew makes it clear that all those who respond to the call for Sacred Activism need to take very seriously the necessity of cultivating a serious sacred physical practice so as to make the whole being strong enough to do the great work of transforming the world through sacred action. The most powerful and widespread sacred physical practice now available to the world is that of yoga which is estimated to have over 30 million practitioners in the U.S. alone. Heart Yoga is a tender and passionate invitation to yoga practitioners everywhere
to take their practice to the next level of direct divine self empowerment.

EVENT UPDATE !!

Andrew will be signing his book “The Hope” on

SINGING PEBBLE  BOOKSTORE
Thursday, Sept 22 from 2:00-4:00
202a Main St, Ottawa, Ontario 
613-230-9165
Info@singingpebblebooks.ca

Mill St. Books : 52 Mill St, Almonte
Friday Sept 23rd   from 2pm – 4pm and at the event on Friday evening.
Please call Mill St. Books to reserve your copy 613-256-9090 or
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