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An inspiring manual for navigating humanitys collective dark night and enacting personal and planetary transformation

Explores how Sacred Activismspecifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired actionoffers an antidote to the crises facing our world

Reveals how to uncover and sustain joy and how to use it as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times

Includes practical maps of the dark night process and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from the secret depths of the mystical traditions

Presenting a manual for navigating humanitys collective dark night, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical traditions and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world.

Offering a deep discussion of our global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, the authors examine the dangers of a growing constellation of intractable crisesauthoritarianism both in America and abroad, climate change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual malaise. They then explore the antidotes to these crises: Sacred Activismspecifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired actionand a profound understanding of our evolutionary ordeal and its potentialities. Examining the power of joy to help enact personal and planetary transformation, they explain how joy, or ananda, is a force all mystical traditions recognize as the essence of the Divine. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in ourselves and how to use joy as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times.

Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors show how the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation process and how its very intensity makes it the potential seedbed of a new embodied, divine humanity. They offer practical maps of the crises, of the shadows that this global dark night is casting, and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from mystical traditions. Sharing a vision of a new and focused global moment of love in action, the authors reveal that apocalypse is not inevitableif enough people awaken to the extraordinary possibilities of Sacred Activism.

Author: Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions International
Published: 11/29/2022
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781644115602
Language: English