Andrew Harvey - Evolutionary Love Relationships: Passion, Authenticity, and Activism

About the Authors

A ndrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. He has written and edited more than 30 booksincluding the best-selling titles The Hope and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying . He has won the Christmas Humphries Prize ( A Journey in Ladakh ), the Nautilus Prize twice ( The Hope , Light the Flame ), and appeared in two recent films ( Dancing in the Flames , and Ethan Hawkes Seymour: An Introduction ). He was also the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic . He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Sacred Activism. He is a kind-hearted rascal with a penchant for red pashminas, Maria Callas, white lions and Chicago pizza.

C hris Saade is an author, life coach, psychological and philosophical teacher, and the co-director of the Olive Branch Center with his wife Jessie Thompson. After closing his psychotherapy private practice, Saade spent 20 years training therapists, coaches, and ministers in his two models: Integra: 6 Keys for Heart-Centered Living , and Individual Authenticity and Global Solidarity.

Saade has led nearly 250 multi-day cutting-edge workshops for professionals and the general public. He continues to offer personal life-coaching.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he was involved in peace groups before and during the Lebanese war. Those difficult years lead him to develop a great respect for freedom, authenticity, diversity, peace, and a passion for justice, especially for children.

Saade is the author of Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace , Passion for Justice ; and Prayers for Peace and Justice ; as well as Prayers from the Heart . The Saade-Harvey team has also created the CD set: Sacred Activism and the Epic Spirituality of Love . He resides in San Diego.

Permission to use image here and on back cover granted by Ginger Wagoner, Photosynthesis Inc.

Acknowledgements

Andrew Harvey

To Janet Thomas, for her unerring eye.

To Jenny Di Angelo, for her passion and help.

To Jeff Brown, for believing.

To Anne Andrews, for her staunchness.

To Frances and Mike Calhoun, whose love inspires me.

To Ellen Gunter, great friend and co-conspirator.

To Jill Angelo, soul-sister and true sacred activist.

To Caroline Myss, always.

Acknowledgements

Chris Saade

M y ability to participate in the creation of this book is largely due to the support, love, input, feedback, challenges, partnerships, and life-lessons afforded me by precious relationships. A quick mention here will only portray a tiny bubble of my gratitude.

First, to my wife, Jessie Thompson, I offer my deepest gratitude for her spirit. I am blessed by her commitment to look outward with me in service to the world. She is a passionate advocate for diversity, justice, and inclusion. I am gifted by her loving support.

To my daughter, Amal Maria, I cannot thank her enough for her insightful wisdom, and for her inspiration as she contributes to the community through her dramatic artistry, among them her efforts to serve children and promote causes of justice. I am very grateful for her beautiful heart and spirit. I am also very grateful to my wonderful stepsons, their partners, and my sonin-law.

To Andrew Harvey, the co-creator of this book and my dear friend, I offer plenty of heartfelt thanks. I honor his sacred pursuit of the relationships of the future. His work calls me to my edge and inspires me to go for broke. I am grateful for the dance we do, inspiring one another to greater heights within our work and our pursuit of love-in-action for the Earth, its people, and animals. He is undoubtedly a most generous and passionate heart fire.

In addition to my family, I am blessed by many companions of heart and soul. To Casey Robertson, my soul sister, I celebrate the deep diving she does in her life to live authentically, and the rich nuggets of wisdom she mines from her unremitting pursuit of authenticity and generously brings to our dialogues. Her huge heart, nurturing, and intuitive nature fuel and feed my pioneering work. I also want to thank Barry Sherman for our cherished decades of friendship, his years of service to children, championing the disadvantaged, and speaking truth to power. He is ever present to me in my writings. To Ginger Wagoner, my long standing friend, I offer much gratitude for her genuine heart-dedication to the work we do. In addition to being an artist and highly skilled photographer, she is also my trusted assistant, an excellent editor, and a voice for justice and diversity.

The choice to write has brought me the gift of working with many other people of soul and great commitment. I commend Victoria Gailey, our fantastically detailed office manager, for her thoroughness, creative problem solving, and commitment to the message I endeavor to promote. To Sarah Mae Baucom, I offer great appreciation for her excellent assistance. Her good nature and wise mind is an enrichment to our time working together. Likewise, I am grateful to stellar editors Janet Thomas, Jenny DAngelo, and Jessica Bowling. Their commitment to refining my voice and yet keeping it true to my spirit is a talent in itself, as well as their commitment to detail and prompt assistance.

My sincere appreciation for our publisher Jeff Brown is profound. To Jeff, I offer my gratitude for his passion, his care for a heartfelt relatedness with others, and his desire to advance a deeper way of loving for humanity. I am thrilled by our common interest in pursuing a spirituality of the self, one that refuses self-bashing and self-transcendence, and instead hungers to see each self matured into nobility and service.

I also wish to extend my gratitude to my dearest friends of the heart, my companions of the self and spiritual development circles at the Institute for Life-Leadership and Coaching (theilc.org) and at the Olive Branch Center (theolivebranchcenter.net). I am indebted to them for the countless weekend retreats of exploration, delving deep into the heart, cultivating cutting-edge relationship tools, and, mostly, supporting one anothers raw authenticity. Their wit, intellect, commitment to authenticity, joie de vivre, and pursuit of love-in-action have all contributed greatly to my journey as a writer.

And to those of you inspired to pick up this book and discover its contents for yourselves, I am grateful that there are people like you in the world. Thank you for joining us in our pursuit of evolutionary love relationships.

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