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The Direct Path
- Narrated by: Andrew Harvey
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The way of the mystic is a path to divine union that requires no temple, no money, no guru, no priest, no system. By following it you can reveal your own sacred purpose on Earth, regardless of faith, age, sexual orientation, or gender. In The Direct Path, Andrew Harvey confronts 2,000 years of distortion about the mystical life and challenges you to begin your own personal transformation via the direct path.
In this two-session program, we learn how to free ourselves to follow this true path to the "highest temple of God" - through our bodies and their sacred life in the world. With scholarship and passion, Harvey describes the enormous sacrifices and rewards of the direct path to the divine and the traps you will inevitably face along the way. Join him to explore:
- How mysticism can lead to escapism
- Why our sexuality must be honored for its sacred purpose
- The five temptations every mystic faces
- And more
The true mystic of today, Harvey concludes, is also a "revolutionary activist" who votes and reads the paper while embracing the daily disciplines of contemplation, prayer, and service. With The Direct Path, Andrew Harvey offers a vision of a possible world that honors the divinity in every living thing while laying to rest the falsehood that the mystical life is reserved for a chosen few.
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- Tiffany
- 01-12-2021
Bit narrow and rigid
I was quite impressed, although not a fan of his exercise suggestions, until it got to the part about Tantra.
My understanding from what he says is that the only way to complete the Direct Path is to have a Tantra lover. This feels very narrow minded, exclusionary, and contradictory. He claims at the start that we're all able to get there, yet I've heard him say elsewhere that Tantra mates are rare - how does that work? As I'm not going to leave my non-spiritual practising husband, I suppose, based on what is in this book, I will not be completing the direct path to divinity in this lifetime.
I'm also not too keen on calling God 'Beloved'. That word feels condescending to me, I cannot use it on anyone. His insistence that we must use that name and only that name feels very rigid and narrow. When combined with the exercises using the name, it feels too condescending an attitude towards the Divine.
I wanted to like this, I purchased it because I was so impressed by a talk I heard him give elsewhere, but I couldn't get past the narrowness, and to a degree the arrogance, of some of the content. Perhaps I was the wrong audience?
I still think there's value here, but you need to be able to allow yourself to feel for what is right for you.
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