

Mystics — and many other spiritual and philosophical traditions — view darkness and turmoil as part of a sacred realignment or transformation.
What if the sacred realignment that we’re collectively experiencing can help us recognize and actualize radical joy as we grow our capacity to embody our divine humanity ?
This journey begins with how deeply we can embrace the wonder of life, the extraordinary beauty of unity and differentiation, and the endless possibilities each moment holds for creating ourselves and our lives anew with the many sources of joy, bliss, and inspiration we have immediate access to — despite the darkness that surrounds.
Joy doesn’t have to be a luxury of modern times — joy can be a sacred act of rebellion against the darkness and despair of our era.
In fact, embodying the joy of our divine humanity is the sacred calling of our time, says Andrew Harvey, teacher of mystic traditions and founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism...
... as it’s ultimately a return to God itself as we are consecrated by the Dark Night and led through this portal of deep reckoning, hope, and grace to a joyous new beginning.
During this illuminating course with Andrew, you’ll activate the seven sacred joys that connect you with the ecstatic bliss of being human and usher a return to the divine — which is really the realignment with your own true essence.
He’ll guide you to revel and be renewed by these unsung joys of life — awe and gratitude, inspiration, the creative power of nature, animals, friendship, sublime sexuality, and sacred activism — to nurture your heart, guide you through darkness, and bring enchantment to your daily life.
Drawing on 40 years of experience and mystical education, Andrew believes that joy can fuel our divine evolution — staying connected to the glorious power of joy is how we remain connected to each other and our essential selves.
He’ll offer a visceral introduction to the potential of embodied sacred joy through mystical wisdom, ancient practices and technologies, and visualizations that help you access the awe and creative potential of your divine humanity.
Joy blesses pain, heals the divisiveness between people, and brings instant enchantment and possibility to our daily lives...
In essence, it’s the illuminating force that can guide us out of the birthing canal of the dark night and into a new world that even now beckons us with the promise of peace and potential.
As you allow yourself to fully experience the true joys of life, you’ll be awakened by the enduring dream of life through the glimpse of heaven that exists in the simplistic bliss of being human.
Through sacred joy, you’ll gain greater agency to source your life from courage, curiosity, love, and acceptance... and there are so many paths to get there!
Join us to be immersed in the deeper inflections and possibilities of joy and its pivotal role in helping us envision and embody our divine humanity.
In this 7-week transformational course, Andrew will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to activate the seven sacred joys and empower your divine humanity.
You’ll connect with Andrew and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Andrew’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Andrew. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to bring instant enchantment to your daily life through the sacred power of joy.

Be immersed in the three great joys that the vision of radical regeneration and the birthing of a new divine humanity opens you to — awe, gratitude, and alignment to the essential joy of the Divine.
First, the joy of awe as a vast, fierce, and amazing process. Second, the joy of astounded gratitude for the revelation of the Dark Night as a birthing canal.
And third, the joy of aligning with the fundamental nature of the Divine and its evolutionary alchemical force — and in doing so, becoming a secret agent of the great birth.
Drawing on 40 years of experience and mystical education, Andrew will share why mystical traditions believe the nature of God is joy ...
... and explore our connection through original blessing with that joy — and the fuel and food for our evolution that joy gives us.
You’ll also discover a perspective that can help you remain connected to the glorious birthing power joy offers us.
During this module, you’ll explore:

Sacred inspiration is the oxygen of joy. Learning how to attune our lives to every available form of sacred inspiration is a marvelous way to collaborate with the great birth.
We have available to us the great sacred technologies of the ancient systems, the sublime sacred texts, the great treasure house of the mystics of all traditions, the splendor of art, the initiatory blessing of music, and more.
Andrew will offer ways to become receptive to the divine power of sacred inspiration in all these realms... but will concentrate on the radiant invigoration mystical poetry can give you.
He will offer three short revelatory poems from Kabir, Han Shan, and Rumi, which will connect you to your divine essence, its joy, its dignity, and its creative power.
This week, you’ll discover:

The greatest mystics of all of the traditions have told us with one glorious voice that creation is the Divine constantly transforming.
The Upanishads say the wise one sees the One flaming in all creation. William Blake invites us to see eternity in a grain of sand. All of us have known moments of sublime peace and rapture in the depths of nature.
In this module, Andrew will reveal what he has learned of the two great joyful and healing powers — and what immersion in divine nature can open for you.
You’ll explore the power of the awe that Gerald Manley Hopkins describes when he writes, “God’s grandeur will flash out like shining from shook foil”...
... and the joy of aligning yourself consciously with the beauty and nourishing power of nature so as to be renewed by it on your quest.
Learning how to participate in the great creative joy that is evolving all universes and manifests in all of them is one tremendous key to living true joy in its fullest.
In this module, you’ll:

The vision of radical regeneration reveals what all Indigenous and embodied mystical traditions know — animals are our equals, equally holy, equally divine, and gifted with astonishing inner and outer powers that can instruct, ennoble, and fill us with joy.
To guide you into this truth, Andrew will show that all of us need to do two things: dissolve within ourselves the anthropocentric fantasy that patriarchal traditions sell that humanity is unique and the center of creation.
Secondly, we will need to experience the dazzling beauty, the power of love, and the great wisdom that live in animals to realize for ourselves what Rumi meant when he wrote, “Adore the beloved and the beloved will reveal to you that all created beings are filled to the brim with wisdom... our one drop from his river of infinite beauty.”
Drawing on his own experiences with the white lions in South Africa, with the animals of Namibia, and with his own beloved cats...
... Andrew will also share his discovery of how loving an animal with your whole being and receiving their love fully allows you to reclaim your own divine animal — and so further the birth in you of your own awareness.
This week, you’ll:

There is a mysterious remark by Shams of Tabriz: “The universe was created for two friends to enjoy.” Behind this glorious and ever richer remark is a whole mystical tradition of friendship as the most nourishing and exhilaratingly joyful experience of God, the friend.
Drawing on Sufi, Christian, and Buddhist traditions, Andrew will share his understanding of sacred friendship as the birthing place of one of our most powerful and needed joys.
The joy of feeling and knowing yourself unified with another in the One.
You’ll hear Andrew’s own experience of sacred friendship with two of his greatest friends — a man and a woman — with whom he experienced a level of tenderness and transmission that transformed his understanding of what friendship can be.
In this module, you’ll:

The ancient tantric traditions of India, Tibet, and China reveal a universe ablaze with energies of joy. For these systems, everything that exists is the evolving child of a passionate sacred marriage between the utterly transcendent and the totally imminent.
What these systems know and what we need to reclaim with the aid of pioneering Christian mystics and Kabbalists also, is a vision of what Andrew calls sublime sexuality — a sexuality suffused and burning with adoration of the other.
When adoration of the Divine and the other marries passionate sexual desire, a third force is born that over time transfigures each being: heart, mind, soul, and body.
Andrew will share his own beginners’ experience of the great healing joy such immersion in total love can bring.
This week, you’ll:

The greatest joys the vision of radical regeneration reveals are given to those who also pursue the path of transfiguration and the path of divine service in sacred activism.
The new humanity will be at once increasingly transfigured and more and more creative on every level in the messy real world.
Andrew will give his new vision of sacred activism for our global Dark Night and offer the seven laws or sacred suggestions that he believes offer us the clearest road to experiencing in our own lives — what Rumi meant when he wrote, “real lovers serve ardently, hopefully in an ecstasy of awe.”
When we begin to discover in ourselves this ardor and help and ecstatic awe, we taste directly the golden waters of the great birth.
In this final session, you’ll discover:
In addition to Andrew’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.

Jill Angelo is an animal rights activist, an animal chaplain, and the creator and guardian of MoonDog Farm, which houses a variety of animals in need. In this video dialogue, Andrew asks Jill about how she sustains her joy while being aware of the horror of animal cruelty and all the challenges of dealing with it. They celebrate together the rugged happiness that’s born when you find the purpose of your life in sacred activism.
Register by June 15 to claim this bonus before it expires.

Andrew and Mirabai have devoted much of their time to translating important mystics. In this video dialogue, Andrew asks Mirabai, an interspiritual teacher, to select three poems she loves and plunge into their meanings — and into the practice of Lectio Divina, divine Reading. Andrew presents three of his favorite translations, and the two of them celebrate the joy that close reading of the great mystics can empower us with.
Register by June 27 to claim this bonus before it expires.

Buddhist teacher Cynthia Jurs’ wonderful work of burying sacred vases in sacred places all over the world led her to understand that Gaia herself is a divine being that wants to fill us with her strength, resilience, and joy. In this video dialogue, Andrew and Cynthia explore her vision. Cynthia also shares a simple practice that can help everyone connect with Gaia and live in her strength and joy.

In this video dialogue, Andrew plunges into spiritual theologian Matthew Fox’s brilliant and radical vision of creation spirituality, a spirituality dedicated to celebrating the creation as divine and our joyful connection with it. Andrew will also ask Matt personally about how his vision has filled his life with joy and purpose. The two of them share the joy of creation in their own unique ways.
This course with Andrew Harvey was the best online course I have ever taken, bar none. Andrew is a mystical saint. It is a rare privilege to hear him today. He radiates a transcendent joy that overcomes all opposition.
— Phil Brattain, Belmont, California
The expertise, depth of lived experience, and generosity of Andrew Harvey was extraordinary. My spiritual practices have deepened because of this program, and my understanding of concepts and my own experience have grown. My commitment to my own process and to sacred activism has deepened. The administration of the program by the Shift Network made participation effortless. I am so very grateful for this important program.
— Joan, New Haven, Connecticut
This course brought me back to my true nature and has given me the tools to embody my truth in the world. Andrew Harvey and the faculty are amazing.
— Kristin, New York
This course was full of new perspectives and insights and wisdom about the spiritual journey and our relationship with God and how we can manifest our divine nature through service to humanity and the world. Andrew’s passion is infectious and sincere and loving.
— Jan Ankeny, Iowa
I listened deeply because the content was so moving, and Andrew Harvey has a certain magic with the way he delivers these sacred texts and brings them to the current situation in our world today. It takes us into what we are going to do to change this to heal both ourselves, our community, and the world at large beginning with our interior compassion and turning that to gold to take this out into our community. First locally, then globally to serve where we are most needed. I will never look at life as anything else but the gift to serve while I am still breathing. I find the teachings are profound, and I’m very moved to continue the work in my home community and wherever I am.
— Michelle M., San Diego
The Ultimate Rebellion Against Darkness & Despair offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Andrew Harvey will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from mystical scholar and teacher Andrew Harvey, founder of Institute for Sacred Activism — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to activate a new you and a new world through the sacred power of embodied joy. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
We feel honored that Andrew Harvey has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a mystical scholar, teacher, and founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning how sacred joy can bring you closer to the divine nature of your humanity, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.

Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Ultimate Rebellion Against Darkness & Despair — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before July 24, 2024 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
Every age has its teachers who keep the eternal truths alive for all of us. And when a generation is very, very lucky, it encounters a teacher so illumined that the words he delivers must be illumined as well. In the case of Andrew Harvey, the light he sheds is like a meteor burst across the inner sky.
— Marianne Williamson, author of Everyday Grace
Andrew is a genius and an inspired visionary who has the ability to interpret the meaning and significance of the chaos and patterns of change that are redirecting the compass of our contemporary culture.
— Caroline Myss, author of Intimate Conversations with the Divine and Anatomy of the Spirit
When the heart explodes in conscious oneness with the Beloved, what remains is a burning desire to be a servant to the One that enlivens all sentient beings, every speck of space. Andrew gives us a clarion call to go beyond admiration to activation of that same capacity within our own hearts so that we too may become a beneficial presence on the planet.
— Reverend Michael B. Beckwith, author and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center
Using humor, passion, and analysis, Andrew Harvey challenges us to wake up and get up off of our couches to become the spiritual activists we all can be. A powerful, provocative, prophetic appeal to sanity and activism for our apocalyptic times.
— Reverend Matthew Fox, author of Creation Spirituality and founder of Wisdom University

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker, and founder/director of the Institute of 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.
Andrew 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 U.S. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic, and appears also in Rumi: Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness of the Christ: Reclaiming Christ for a New Hum anity.
He is co-author of the bestsellingThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and has worked with the great Iranian Sufi dancer Banafsheh Sayyad in producing a film, In the Fire of Grace, which marries Sufi-inspired dances to the stages of Rumi’s understanding of the path of divine love. He has written or edited more than 30 books and received many awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award.
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage with live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is any connected device. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Q: Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
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A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
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