Hidden Journey
  • Published: 31 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448146437
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Hidden Journey

A Spiritual Awakening

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Andrew Harvey's classic account of spiritual search and awakening available again from Rider

Andrew Harvey, an Anglo-Indian novelist and poet, expands on the spiritual transformation that he described in part in Journey in Ladakh. Beginning in 1978 when he first met Meera, the Indian woman who would be his Master, Harvey (who at the time was teaching literature in England and the US), struggled for-- and against-- enlightenment for nine years. With other disciples he followed Meera, who he came to see as Ma, the Divine Mother. In India and then in Germany, under her guidance, he confronted his confused sexuality, his attachment to intellect and reason, his pride and his fears.

Harvey's precise, passionately told story will touch sceptics as well as seekers.
  • Published: 31 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448146437
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey is the founder and director of the Institute for 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. An internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, he is the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, as well as The Hope, Journey to Ladakh, The Return of the Mother, Son of Man, and The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions. He is also co-author of the best-selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. His work has been honored with the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award (both for Mary's Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations, with photographs by Eryk Hanut), and the Christmas Humphries Award for A Journey in Ladakh. Born in south India in 1952, Harvey studied at Oxford University and became a Fellow of All Soul's College in 1973.

https://www.andrewharvey.net

Also by Andrew Harvey

Radical Passion
Heart Yoga
A Journey In Ladakh
Teachings of the Hindu Mystics
The Direct Path
The Way of Passion
The Return of the Mother
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Praise for Hidden Journey

Hidden Journey is a remarkable book for two reasons. First, there is the magnitude of its assertions and of the experiences which Harvey describes... Second, Harvey has brought intellectual rigour and style to a subject - mystical religious experience - which usually makes people feel uncomfortable

Mick Brown, Sunday Telegraph

Reviewing Andrew Harvey's latest book is like formulating an opinion on Revelations and the Gospel of St John simultaneously... He gets as near as anyone could to describing the indescribable slide into the vortext of God

Monica Furlong, The Literary Review

This is not a book written to draw the spiritually curious towards one cult or another; the teacher is a gate and means to God, in whose majesty the writer in the end dips and plunges like a dolphin in the sea... Wonderful, extraordinary stuff, and so beautifully written that it seems a crime not to bring it to the notice of others

Ann Wroe, The Tablet

Few writers can communicate this most difficult of subjects. Mr Harvey does so with a clarity and beauty of expression that make his book worth reading even by those who will be sceptical of what he describes. Best of all, he is not a proselytiser, much less a saint... His story is that of every modern man longing for enlightenment, stumbling, worrying and - just occasionally - glimpsing what he hardly dares look for

The Economist

Astonishing and gripping and memorable

Peter Levi, The Spectator
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