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{{short description|British author, religious scholar, and teacher of mystic traditions}}
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'''Andrew Harvey''' (born June 9, 1952) is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of [[mysticism|mystic]] traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes, beginning with his 1983 ''A Journey in [[Ladakh]]''. He is the author of over 30 books, including, ''The Hope, A Guide to Sacred Activism'', ''The Direct Path'', the critically acclaimed ''Way of Passion: A Celebration of [[Rumi]]'', ''The Return of the Mother'' and ''[[The Son of Man (book)|Son of Man]]''.<ref>[http://www.hayhouse.com/authorbio.php?id=451 Author Biography] [[Hay House]].</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Soul Searching|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/books/soul-searching.html?pagewanted=all |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 August 1991 | first=Jane | last=O'Reilly | accessdate=25 April 2010}}</ref> He was the subject of the 1993 [[BBC]] documentary "The Making of a Modern Mystic"<ref>{{Citation|title=The Making of a Modern Mystic (1993)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_making_of_a_modern_mystic_1993|language=en|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> and is the founder of the [[Sacred Activism]] movement.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The hope : a guide to sacred activism|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2009|publisher=Hay House|isbn=978-1-4019-2003-6|edition=1st|location=Carlsbad, Calif.|oclc=262892403}}</ref>

Harvey lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he continues to write when he is not lecturing. Harvey conducts workshops on Sacred Activism, the teachings of Rumi, [[yoga]] and practices that will lead to deeper spiritual awareness. Harvey travels with students to sacred sites in [[India]], Australia and South Africa, and offers personal spiritual direction. [[Watkins Books#Watkins' Spiritual 100 list for 2012|Harvey was listed as number 33]] in the Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012 |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 March 2012 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6HMtYeqnv?url=http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012 |archive-date=14 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2012, he was nominated for the [[Templeton Prize]], which was awarded to the Dalai Lama.

==Early life and education==
Harvey was born in [[Coimbatore]], [[India]] in 1952<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://conscious.tv/text/41.htm|title=Conscious TV - Andrew Harvey – The Death and the Birth|website=conscious.tv|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> and lived there until he was nine years old. He was educated at English [[boarding school]]s and then the [[University of Oxford]], where he later taught [[Shakespeare]] and French literature until 1977. He wrote his [[dissertation]] on [[Insanity|madness]] in Shakespeare and [[Erasmus]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harvey|first=Andrew|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/magazine/the-merry-mystic.html|title=The Merry Mystic|date=1993-10-03|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Career==
At 21 in the early 1970s, Harvey became a [[Oxbridge Fellow|fellow]] of [[All Souls College]], [[University of Oxford]].<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=990 Andrew Harvey] Random House.</ref> By 1977 he had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978 he met a succession of Indian saints and sages and began his study and practice of [[Hinduism]]. In 1983, in Ladakh, he met a [[Tibetan people|Tibetan]] [[adept]], [[Thuksey Rinpoche]],<ref>http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Thuksey_Rinpoche</ref> and undertook with him the [[Mahayana Buddhist]] [[bodhisattva]] vows; later, in 1990, he would collaborate with [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] and [[Patrick Gaffney (Buddhist)|Patrick Gaffney]] in the writing of ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/tibetan-book-living-and-dying/|title=The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying|last=Rolston|first=Dean|website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|language=en|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> In 1984, Harvey began a ten-year-long exploration and explication of Rumi and [[Sufi]] mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis under the guidance of [[Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch]], the translator of Rumi into French.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Direct Path|last=Harvey, Andrew|isbn=978-1-4090-0388-5|location=London|pages=23|oclc=1100655877|date = 30 September 2010}}</ref> In 1992, he met Father [[Bede Griffiths]] in his [[ashram]] in south India near where Harvey had been born. It was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile Eastern with [[Western mysticism]].

While in India, Harvey encountered [[Mother Meera]], who became his [[guru]] and the subject of his book ''Hidden Journey''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiritualteachers.org/mother-meera/|title=Mother Meera|last=Shawn|first=Author|date=2016-08-19|website=SpiritualTeachers.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> His memoir, ''The Sun at Midnight'', describes their subsequent break and his disillusionment with gurus.

For the last 30 years, Harvey has travelled widely, living in India, London, Paris, New York and San Francisco, studying, teaching at university level and in seminars and workshops. A prolific writer, Harvey has authored or co-authored over 30 books. His focus since 2005 has been the advocacy of what he terms "Sacred Activism". He is the founder and director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, which trains leaders and [[social justice]] advocates.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.andrewharvey.net/home|title=Home|website=Andrewharvey|language=en|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref>

==Teachings==
Harvey is a scholar of mystic traditions. He envisions true [[spirituality]] to be the [[:wikt:deify|divinisation]] of earthly life through [[spiritual practice]]. These practices can take many forms and can be taken from religious traditions.
Harvey sees six poets and religious figures as having universal appeal:
:*[[Siddhartha Gautama|Buddha]] as portrayed in the ''[[Dhammapada]]''
:*[[Jesus]] as portrayed in the ''[[Gospel of Thomas]]''
:*[[Rumi]], a 13th century [[Sufi]] poet.
:*[[Kabir]], a 15th century Indian poet
:*[[Ramakrishna]], a 19th century [[Hindu]] [[sadhu]]
:*[[Aurobindo]], a 20th century Hindu philosopher-[[Wise old man|sage]]

Harvey also emphasises the Divine Feminine, as expressed in the [[Virgin Mary]], [[Kali]], the [[Black Madonna]] and [[Mother Nature|Mother Earth]].

Since 2005, Andrew Harvey's work has focused on teaching Sacred Activism around the globe. Harvey describes sacred activism as "the product of the union of a profound spiritual and mystical knowledge, understanding, and compassion, peace and energy, with focused, wise, radical action in the world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.andrewharvey.net/sacredactivism|title=Sacred Activism|website=Andrewharvey|language=en|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening'', 1991<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hidden journey : a spiritual awakening|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=1991|publisher=Holt|isbn=0-8050-1454-3|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=22278056|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hiddenjourneysp000harv}}</ref>
* ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]: A New Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West'' (co-editor), 1992<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Tibetan book of living and dying|last=Sogyal, Rinpoche.|date=1992|publisher=Harper San Francisco|others=Gaffney, Patrick, 1949-, Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|isbn=0-06-250793-1|location=[San Francisco, Calif.]|oclc=25552286}}</ref>
* ''The Way of Passion: A Celebration of [[Rumi]]''. North Atlantic Books/Frog, 1994.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The way of passion : a celebration of Rumi|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2001|publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam|others=Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.|isbn=1-58542-074-3|edition=1st Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam|location=New York|oclc=44573434}}</ref>
* ''The Divine Feminine: Exploring the Feminine Face of God Throughout the World'', 1996 {{ISBN|1-57324-035-4}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=The divine feminine : exploring the feminine face of God throughout the world|date=1996|publisher=Conari Press|others=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-, Baring, Anne, 1931-|isbn=1-57324-035-4|location=Berkeley, CA|oclc=34151580}}</ref>
* ''Light upon light: inspirations from Rumi''. North Atlantic Books, 1996. {{ISBN|1-55643-206-2}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Light upon light : inspirations from Rumi|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=1996|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=1-55643-206-2|location=Berkeley, Calif.|oclc=33983720}}</ref>
* ''Mary's Vineyard: Daily Meditations, Readings, and Revelations''. with Eryk Hanut. Quest Books, 1996. {{ISBN|0835607453}}<ref>{{Citation|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|title=Mary's vineyard|date=1997|publisher=Quest Audio|isbn=0-8356-2009-3|oclc=39665695}}</ref>
* ''The Essential Mystics: The Soul's Journey into Truth''. Castle Books, 1998<ref>{{Cite book|title=The essential mystics : the soul's journey into truth|date=1996|publisher=HarperSanFrancisco|others=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|isbn=0-06-250904-7|edition=1st|location=[San Francisco]|oclc=34742352}}</ref>
* ''The Essential Gay Mystics'', 1998 {{ISBN|0-06-250905-5}} (cloth), {{ISBN|0-06-251524-1}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=The essential gay mystics|date=1997|publisher=Castle Books|others=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|isbn=0-7858-0907-4|location=Edison, N.J.|oclc=39865383|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialgaymyst00harv}}</ref>
* ''[[The Son of Man (book)|Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ]]'', J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998<ref>{{Cite book|title=Son of Man : the mystical path to Christ|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=1999|publisher=J.P. Tarcher/Putnam|isbn=0-87477-992-8|edition=1st trade pbk.|location=New York|oclc=40954120|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/sonofmanmystical00harv_0}}</ref>
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JfRcWr3ajLUC&pg=PT1&dq=Andrew+Harvey+writer&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom]'', with Eryk Hanut. Quest Books, 1999. {{ISBN|0-8356-0767-4}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Perfume of the desert : inspirations from Sufi wisdom|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=1999|publisher=Quest Books|others=Hanut, Eryk, 1967-|isbn=0-8356-0767-4|edition=1st Quest|location=Wheaton, Ill.|oclc=39810984}}</ref>
* ''The Return of the Mother'', 2000<ref>{{Cite book|title=The return of the mother|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2001|publisher=J.P. Tarcher/Putnam|isbn=1-58542-073-5|location=New York|oclc=44613074}}</ref>
* ''A Journey in [[Ladakh]]: Encounters with [[Buddhism]]'', 2000. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. {{ISBN|0-618-05675-0}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=A journey in Ladakh|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2000|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=0-618-05675-0|edition=1st Mariner Books|location=Boston|oclc=43978270}}</ref>
* ''The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Through the World's Traditions'', 2001 {{ISBN|0-7679-0299-8}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Direct Path|last=Harvey, Andrew|isbn=978-1-4090-0388-5|location=London|oclc=1100655877|date = 30 September 2010}}</ref>
* ''The Sun at Midnight: A Memoir of the Dark Night'', 2002 {{ISBN|1-58542-179-0}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sun at midnight : a memoir of the dark night|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2002|publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam|isbn=1-58542-179-0|location=New York|oclc=49719105}}</ref>
* ''A Walk With Four Spiritual Guides: Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, And Ramakrishna''. SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|1594731381}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=A walk with four spiritual guides : Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Ramakrishna|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2003|publisher=SkyLight Paths Pub|isbn=1-893361-73-X|location=Woodstock, VT|oclc=51177404|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/walkwithfourspir00andr}}</ref>
* ''The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism'', Hay House, 2009. {{ISBN|1-4019-2003-9}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=The hope : a guide to sacred activism|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2009|publisher=Hay House|isbn=978-1-4019-2003-6|edition=1st|location=Carlsbad, Calif.|oclc=262892403}}</ref>
* ''Heart Yoga: The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism, North Atlantic Books. 2010. {{ISBN|9781556438974}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Heart yoga : the sacred marriage of yoga and mysticism|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2010|publisher=North Atlantic Books|others=Erickson, Karuna.|isbn=978-1-55643-897-4|location=Berkeley, Calif.|oclc=430839021}}</ref>
* ''Radical passion : sacred love and wisdom in action. North Atlantic Books. 2012. {{ISBN|9781583945032}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Radical passion : sacred love and wisdom in action|last=Harvey, Andrew, 1952-|date=2012|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=978-1-58394-503-2|location=Berkeley, Calif.|oclc=775415649}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.andrewharvey.net/ Andrew Harvey official site]
* [http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/2009/11/Sacred-Activist.aspx 10 Ways to Become a Sacred Activist by Andrew Harvey]

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