Radical Regeneration
Autor Carolyn Baker, Andrew Harveyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2020
-Matthew Fox, American priest, theologian, and author The genius of this book is the knowledge that this catastrophe is a necessary precursor to a radical transformation that we are co-creating with the divine. Radical Regeneration is an indispensable guide for what lies ahead.
-Betty J. Kov cs, Ph.D., author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World
This book, Radical Regeneration, is a radiant offering of the possibility of the evolution of human consciousness in the midst of extinction. It's exactly the fierce and sacred medicine we need right now.
-V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology
Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker invite us to rise to these times as a grand initiation, to be renewed in splendor, or to stand idly and be swallowed by Kali, the goddess of time and death.
-Alberto Villoldo PhD, Bestselling author of One Spirit Medicine and Shaman Healer Sage
If ever we needed a guidebook that truly addressed the crises of our times while inspiring us with guidance and wisdom, this is that book.
-Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Intimate Conversations with the Divine
What is being made crystal clear is that humanity stands at a monumentally fragile threshold with two stark choices placed before it in a situation of complete uncertainty: Those choices are: 1) To continue to worship a vision of power, totally distanced from sacred reality 2) Or to choose the path of submitting bravely to the alchemy of being transfigured by a global dark night event that shatters all illusions but reveals the greatest imaginable possibility being born out of the greatest imaginable disaster. If humanity chooses the second path, which is what is being celebrated in this book, then it will have trained itself in the new radical unity necessary to weather the even worse crises that most certainly will quickly follow.
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ISBN-13: 9781663211958
ISBN-10: 1663211957
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: iUniverse
ISBN-10: 1663211957
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: iUniverse
Notă biografică
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, spiritual teacher, and the author of more than 30 books. The founder and director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, he lives in Chicago, Illinois. Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., is a former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history. The author of several books, she offers life and leadership coaching as well as spiritual counseling and works closely with the Institute for Sacred Activism. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Extras
Introduction to Part Two: Return to Joy
Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world, Andrew Harvey, in a dream vision, was given a message that changed his life. A golden banner was unfurled in the sunlit sky above, and on that banner were written these words: Joy is the power. Immediately he understood, viscerally and cellularly, that the tremendous challenges we all face at this time cannot be met by grief or heartbreak or despair alone. What is needed for all of us is to find the way back to what all spiritual traditions know as the essence of reality—the simple joy of being that is the indispensable foundation for all meaningful living and all truly effective action.
We live in a civilization that has lost the essential truth of reality as it has been known in all the mystical and indigenous traditions. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, civilized humans are madly engaged in what is portrayed to them as a pursuit of happiness, but in most cases, they have little experience of joy as the ultimate nature of reality.
The obvious question that arises from this statement is: What is the difference between happiness and joy? Part two is an attempt to discern the difference based on the fundamental assumption, derived from the great spiritual and mystical traditions, that joy is the ultimate nature of reality. Happiness is circumstantial; it is a state that, as everyone knows, comes and goes. The joy of which we speak is not predicated by shifts of fate or the play of emotions.
Knowing this makes clear to everyone that the true task of life is to uncover this primordial joy in oneself and then live from its peace, energy, radiant purpose, and embodied passion. This of course demands a lifetime commitment to working with all the forces in oneself that occlude the sun of this joy and becoming clear about all the forces in the world—and especially within our culture—that do not believe this joy is real and sometimes have a conscious agenda to destroy its manifestation.
Living in sacred joy not only reflects the truth of absolute reality but is the ultimate achievement a human being is capable of and the ultimate sign that someone has awoken to their fundamental divine nature and its responsibilities in the world. When asked what the true sign of a great teacher or an authentically awakened person is, His Holiness the Dalai Lama replied, “He or she radiates joy in whatever circumstances arise.” This radiation of joy has nothing to do with our current banal understandings of happiness, but has everything to do with a rigorous discipline of seeing through the illusions that govern and distort human behavior—and seeing through even the illusion of death, because what is revealed in awakening is the inner divine self that no defeat or ordeal or even death itself can touch or destroy.
True joy is born from this realization. Reading about this or even thinking deeply about this is just the beginning. What has to be undertaken is the challenging and demanding journey toward knowing this viscerally and beyond any doubt.
If you want to live in the joy that is actively creating all the universes and is your own true father/mother, then you have to undertake the journey of allowing the illusions that prevent you from living in the constant sun of your real nature to die.
We see the reality of this awakened condition emanating from the presence of the Dalai Lama, shining in the noble face of Nelson Mandela, vibrant in the witness and grace of Jane Goodall, and radiating in the patience and compassion of hundreds of thousands of nurses, doctors, aid workers, environmental activists—ordinary, extraordinary beings of all kinds who have turned up in often very difficult circumstances to commit themselves to the work of love and justice.
These are examples that anyone can relate to, and it is very important to understand that if joy is the ultimate nature of reality, the journey toward it can be undertaken by anyone, whatever they have done and however dark with despair their lives may have become. For example, Milarepa became the greatest saint of Tibet after being a black magician who caused the death of 150 people. Luis Rodriguez, former gang member and prison inmate, is today an award-winning poet on a spiritual path, an urban peace activist who ran for California governor in 2014.
Andrew has worked with men recently released from prison, gang members and murderers who have decided to transform their lives and serve. Is this not the essence of the story of Jesus, who associated with criminals and prostitutes? No one shows this more clearly than Jesus himself, who scandalized the hypocrites of his day by surrounding himself with those whom society had condemned or rejected.
Horrific experiences need not annihilate your opportunities to live in joy. In fact, for some human beings, they can be the crucible in which a commitment to live in embodied joy is made final.
If you want to live in the joy that the great teachers and servants of humanity have lived in, then four things are required:
• First, you must accept at the deepest level possible that ultimate reality is sourced from a boundless joy.
• Second, you are called to do the rigorous work of understanding the shadows of your past and the psychological labor of clearing the clouds from your essential sun.
• Third, you cannot avoid that to which all spiritual traditions call us: uncompromising and calmly relentless spiritual work to align yourself, in all circumstances and as much as possible, with the powers of divine light.
• Fourth, one must commit themselves to the amazing and dangerous task of embodying and enacting divine truth in the world, as, as all spiritual traditions know, the greatest joy is only known by those who have not merely tasted divine truth but who have pledged themselves thusly.
The following chapters reveal how you can come to incarnate this joy. In chapter 6, we highlight examples of individuals who inspire us not only with the joy they radiate but also the fact that their lives have included suffering.
In chapter 7, we will explore in detail the saboteurs of joy—those forces in us and in our current civilization that threaten this crucial experience. These must be faced squarely; otherwise, they will undermine any serious attempt to live in freedom and in the energy of joy.
In chapter 8, we examine the personal and collective shadows that must be made conscious and integrated so that joy can be fully experienced and transmitted.
In chapter 9, we focus on cultivating joy through awakening and through navigating the dark night of the soul into union.
In chapter 10, we present this essential joy as a sun with myriad, interconnected rays, each one fortifying and helping to birth a comprehensive experience of joy in the core of the human being.
At the end of each chapter we offer specific exercises or practices that can be utilized to enhance, deepen, and embody the presence and power of radical joy in one’s life.
As you embrace these words and take them to heart, dear reader, our desire is that you will experience the essence of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s beautiful declaration of joy:
“Joy is inexpressibly more than happiness. Happiness befalls people; happiness is fate, while people cause joy to bloom inside themselves. Joy is plainly a good season for the heart; joy is the ultimate achievement of which human beings are capable.”1
Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world, Andrew Harvey, in a dream vision, was given a message that changed his life. A golden banner was unfurled in the sunlit sky above, and on that banner were written these words: Joy is the power. Immediately he understood, viscerally and cellularly, that the tremendous challenges we all face at this time cannot be met by grief or heartbreak or despair alone. What is needed for all of us is to find the way back to what all spiritual traditions know as the essence of reality—the simple joy of being that is the indispensable foundation for all meaningful living and all truly effective action.
We live in a civilization that has lost the essential truth of reality as it has been known in all the mystical and indigenous traditions. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, civilized humans are madly engaged in what is portrayed to them as a pursuit of happiness, but in most cases, they have little experience of joy as the ultimate nature of reality.
The obvious question that arises from this statement is: What is the difference between happiness and joy? Part two is an attempt to discern the difference based on the fundamental assumption, derived from the great spiritual and mystical traditions, that joy is the ultimate nature of reality. Happiness is circumstantial; it is a state that, as everyone knows, comes and goes. The joy of which we speak is not predicated by shifts of fate or the play of emotions.
Knowing this makes clear to everyone that the true task of life is to uncover this primordial joy in oneself and then live from its peace, energy, radiant purpose, and embodied passion. This of course demands a lifetime commitment to working with all the forces in oneself that occlude the sun of this joy and becoming clear about all the forces in the world—and especially within our culture—that do not believe this joy is real and sometimes have a conscious agenda to destroy its manifestation.
Living in sacred joy not only reflects the truth of absolute reality but is the ultimate achievement a human being is capable of and the ultimate sign that someone has awoken to their fundamental divine nature and its responsibilities in the world. When asked what the true sign of a great teacher or an authentically awakened person is, His Holiness the Dalai Lama replied, “He or she radiates joy in whatever circumstances arise.” This radiation of joy has nothing to do with our current banal understandings of happiness, but has everything to do with a rigorous discipline of seeing through the illusions that govern and distort human behavior—and seeing through even the illusion of death, because what is revealed in awakening is the inner divine self that no defeat or ordeal or even death itself can touch or destroy.
True joy is born from this realization. Reading about this or even thinking deeply about this is just the beginning. What has to be undertaken is the challenging and demanding journey toward knowing this viscerally and beyond any doubt.
If you want to live in the joy that is actively creating all the universes and is your own true father/mother, then you have to undertake the journey of allowing the illusions that prevent you from living in the constant sun of your real nature to die.
We see the reality of this awakened condition emanating from the presence of the Dalai Lama, shining in the noble face of Nelson Mandela, vibrant in the witness and grace of Jane Goodall, and radiating in the patience and compassion of hundreds of thousands of nurses, doctors, aid workers, environmental activists—ordinary, extraordinary beings of all kinds who have turned up in often very difficult circumstances to commit themselves to the work of love and justice.
These are examples that anyone can relate to, and it is very important to understand that if joy is the ultimate nature of reality, the journey toward it can be undertaken by anyone, whatever they have done and however dark with despair their lives may have become. For example, Milarepa became the greatest saint of Tibet after being a black magician who caused the death of 150 people. Luis Rodriguez, former gang member and prison inmate, is today an award-winning poet on a spiritual path, an urban peace activist who ran for California governor in 2014.
Andrew has worked with men recently released from prison, gang members and murderers who have decided to transform their lives and serve. Is this not the essence of the story of Jesus, who associated with criminals and prostitutes? No one shows this more clearly than Jesus himself, who scandalized the hypocrites of his day by surrounding himself with those whom society had condemned or rejected.
Horrific experiences need not annihilate your opportunities to live in joy. In fact, for some human beings, they can be the crucible in which a commitment to live in embodied joy is made final.
If you want to live in the joy that the great teachers and servants of humanity have lived in, then four things are required:
• First, you must accept at the deepest level possible that ultimate reality is sourced from a boundless joy.
• Second, you are called to do the rigorous work of understanding the shadows of your past and the psychological labor of clearing the clouds from your essential sun.
• Third, you cannot avoid that to which all spiritual traditions call us: uncompromising and calmly relentless spiritual work to align yourself, in all circumstances and as much as possible, with the powers of divine light.
• Fourth, one must commit themselves to the amazing and dangerous task of embodying and enacting divine truth in the world, as, as all spiritual traditions know, the greatest joy is only known by those who have not merely tasted divine truth but who have pledged themselves thusly.
The following chapters reveal how you can come to incarnate this joy. In chapter 6, we highlight examples of individuals who inspire us not only with the joy they radiate but also the fact that their lives have included suffering.
In chapter 7, we will explore in detail the saboteurs of joy—those forces in us and in our current civilization that threaten this crucial experience. These must be faced squarely; otherwise, they will undermine any serious attempt to live in freedom and in the energy of joy.
In chapter 8, we examine the personal and collective shadows that must be made conscious and integrated so that joy can be fully experienced and transmitted.
In chapter 9, we focus on cultivating joy through awakening and through navigating the dark night of the soul into union.
In chapter 10, we present this essential joy as a sun with myriad, interconnected rays, each one fortifying and helping to birth a comprehensive experience of joy in the core of the human being.
At the end of each chapter we offer specific exercises or practices that can be utilized to enhance, deepen, and embody the presence and power of radical joy in one’s life.
As you embrace these words and take them to heart, dear reader, our desire is that you will experience the essence of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s beautiful declaration of joy:
“Joy is inexpressibly more than happiness. Happiness befalls people; happiness is fate, while people cause joy to bloom inside themselves. Joy is plainly a good season for the heart; joy is the ultimate achievement of which human beings are capable.”1
Cuprins
Introduction to the Radical Regeneration Quartet
PART ONE
Savage Grace
Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe
Foreword to Part One by Matthew Fox
1 Kali Takes America
Reconnecting with the Destroyer/Creator
2 Resisting the Modern Face of Fascism
3 Living Resiliently amid Global Psychosis
4 Regeneration
The Legacy of Love in Action
5 Celebrating Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration
Suggested Reading List for Part One
PART TWO
Return to Joy
The Journey beyond Happiness
Introduction to Part Two
6 Joy 133 The Ultimate Nature of Reality
7 The Adversaries of Joy
8 Personal and Collective Shadows
Confronting the Crisis Directly
9 The Myriad Flames of Joy
10 Dialogue on the Road to Joy
Conclusion to Part Two
Suggested Reading List for Part Two
PART THREE
Saving Animals from Ourselves
A Manifesto for Transforming Our Relationship with the Divine Animal Within
Introduction to Part Three
11 Opening to the Initiation
12 A Revolution in Perception
What Could More Than Human Consciousness Offer Humans?
13 Preparing the Ground of Initiation
14 The Tortured Human Animal
15 When We Cannot Look, We Cannot Act
16 What Is Being Done for Animals?
Suggested Reading List for Part Three
PART FOUR
Radical Regeneration
Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction
Foreword to Part Four by Paul Levy
Introduction to Part Four
Covid’s Implacable Errand by Carolyn Baker
Prayer to Kali by Andrew Harvey
17 Radically Reframing the Crisis
18 Stage One of the Initiatory Process
The Magnificent Vision of Possibility
19 The Descent
The Apocalypse and the Antichrist
20 The Quantum Field and the Human Mutation
21 Transmutation
The Birth of the Divine Human
22 Nobility of Soul
Conclusion to Part Four by Ludwig Max Fischer
Suggested Reading List for Part Four
Appendix 1 of Part Four:
Regarding Shadow Healing
Appendix 2 of Part Four:
The Death of Certainty in a Torrent of Trauma
Afterword
Notes
About the Authors
Index
PART ONE
Savage Grace
Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe
Foreword to Part One by Matthew Fox
1 Kali Takes America
Reconnecting with the Destroyer/Creator
2 Resisting the Modern Face of Fascism
3 Living Resiliently amid Global Psychosis
4 Regeneration
The Legacy of Love in Action
5 Celebrating Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration
Suggested Reading List for Part One
PART TWO
Return to Joy
The Journey beyond Happiness
Introduction to Part Two
6 Joy 133 The Ultimate Nature of Reality
7 The Adversaries of Joy
8 Personal and Collective Shadows
Confronting the Crisis Directly
9 The Myriad Flames of Joy
10 Dialogue on the Road to Joy
Conclusion to Part Two
Suggested Reading List for Part Two
PART THREE
Saving Animals from Ourselves
A Manifesto for Transforming Our Relationship with the Divine Animal Within
Introduction to Part Three
11 Opening to the Initiation
12 A Revolution in Perception
What Could More Than Human Consciousness Offer Humans?
13 Preparing the Ground of Initiation
14 The Tortured Human Animal
15 When We Cannot Look, We Cannot Act
16 What Is Being Done for Animals?
Suggested Reading List for Part Three
PART FOUR
Radical Regeneration
Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction
Foreword to Part Four by Paul Levy
Introduction to Part Four
Covid’s Implacable Errand by Carolyn Baker
Prayer to Kali by Andrew Harvey
17 Radically Reframing the Crisis
18 Stage One of the Initiatory Process
The Magnificent Vision of Possibility
19 The Descent
The Apocalypse and the Antichrist
20 The Quantum Field and the Human Mutation
21 Transmutation
The Birth of the Divine Human
22 Nobility of Soul
Conclusion to Part Four by Ludwig Max Fischer
Suggested Reading List for Part Four
Appendix 1 of Part Four:
Regarding Shadow Healing
Appendix 2 of Part Four:
The Death of Certainty in a Torrent of Trauma
Afterword
Notes
About the Authors
Index
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Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical tradition and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world.
Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical tradition and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world.