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Sally Kempton & Andrew Harvey
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Have you been yearning for a distinctly feminine spiritual path that is embodied, juicy and fulfilling... and actually leads to real awakening and profound impact in the world?
Have you suspected that goddess worshipping lineages are working with sacred forces rather than symbols and metaphors – forces that can liberate you into a wholly new way of being?
Do you want to be part of healing the split between masculine and feminine that has plagued the last 5,000 years (or more)?
If you answered YES to any of the above questions, you are, whether you know it or not, already beginning to walk the path of the Evolutionary Goddess – another name for the Divine Feminine force that is healing, uplifting and transforming our world.
This IS the time in which the old polarities are breaking down. Women are rising up in positions of power and influence AND reclaiming many dimensions of our being that have been suppressed. The feminine is rising in our lives and in our world – including in men – acting as the catalyst for healing, transformation and growth in our world.
This re-honoring of the Divine Feminine is equally important in our spiritual practices, which have been heavily tilted toward the masculine for thousands of years – often to our detriment.
Too often, traditional visions of spirituality have denied the body, contributed to self-judgment and emphasized ego-slaying in lieu of nurturing a truly divine embodied life.
We’ve been paralyzed by notions of sin, shame and self-judgment that actually had nothing to do with the Divine and more to do with unconscious masculine dominance.
Whether you explicitly believe these ideas or not, they have been part of the air we have all breathed and they affect us on a subconscious level, restraining us from tasting, touching and feeling the embodied, glorious divine humans that we actually are.
That’s why it’s time for a spiritual path that evokes, awakens and communes with the feminine forces of the universe always available to support you – if only you can learn how to open to their power.
In Tantric lineages of the East, such a path has been kept alive but is almost always taught from the perspective of male teachers. Only now have these ancient transformational traditions been taught by all genders, thanks to powerful female teachers who bring a new dimension and depth to these practices.
In the West, mystics have long venerated Mother Mary, the Black Madonna or the Shekinah, building upon more ancient practices focused on Isis, Demeter and other Goddess figures that were the focal point for much of spiritual life before the Abrahamic faiths.
In shamanic and indigenous traditions there’s always been a deep reverence for Mother Earth and the feminine creative forces of life.
All of these streams are now converging into one great river of evolutionary energy that we are calling The Evolutionary Goddess, who is healing and uplifting people to a new level of sacred reverence for all.
The Evolutionary Goddess is not an abstract and impersonal force. She is both the body of the world and the animating force for evolution. She is Mother to us all. And she is also YOU since there is ultimately no separation between you and the Divine in this emerging paradigm.
Walking the path of The Evolutionary Goddess is about embodying your divinity in all its glory, in service to real challenges, including the massive suffering in the world. It’s about becoming a redemptive force of awakening and change by standing in the vast, unconditional love at your core and expressing it through compassionate action on behalf of all beings.
This new, inclusive path promises to create a sacred marriage of masculine and feminine qualities that leads to a life of reverence, ecstatic mindfulness and delicious fulfillment.
Drawing on the transformative power of goddess practices passed down for millennia, this path empowers you to awaken, recognize this world as the literal embodiment of the Goddess and move through it with greater power, integrity and clarity.
Advanced initiates through the ages have created a reverential relationship with the Goddess in many forms and experienced the beautiful, blessed current of sacred energy these practices bring.
By entering into these practices – whatever your religious or spiritual background – you can begin to relate to the unique qualities of the Goddess, both in the world and in your body.
A Feminine Path of Healing, Awakening and Liberation
Through goddess practice, spiritual liberation is less harsh but no less effective than the traditional path, and rich in subtle eros, heartfelt love and fulfilled desire.
This path not only feels better to walk, it also leads to the kind of radiant life we all desire: conscious, alive, ecstatic, impactful and infused with grace. And this is also the most important foundation for sacred action to address the world’s most pressing problems.
The Evolutionary Goddess path helps us shed millennia of sin and shame, reclaiming the rightful role of pleasure in incarnating a truly divine life.
As this path arises in the hearts and minds of a new generation of practitioners, the heroic ideal of adepts straining to break free of this world is shifting toward sacred pioneers who can bless, savor and nourish life into its fullest expression – and guide you to do the same.
If you are called to go beyond a spirituality that feels dry and remote and into something that is juicy, fecund and beautiful – then The Evolutionary Goddess program has been created just for you.
It’s more than an online course; it’s an actual ignition of sacred qualities that can – should you choose to continue and deepen the practices – bless your life for years to come with specific powers and capacities required for a divinely human life.
Over the course of 9 modules, you’ll reveal great blessing forces that are available when you invite The Evolutionary Goddess to live in you – and permeate your body, mind and emotions.
Many of these wisdom transmissions have thousands of years of history and reverence behind them, whereas others are newly emergent. Each Goddess figure historically – from Kuan Yin to Kali to Sekhmet – offers a kind of medicine to heal, initiate or open a specific area of your life.
Taken together, engaging them can liberate YOU to become the powerful, sovereign – even majestic – being you are capable of becoming.
Each module in the The Evolutionary Goddess will help activate and deepen inner channels that call forth the blessings of different dimensions of the Sacred Feminine, from compassionate wisdom to fiery passion.
Miracles happen when you align with the Goddess. She lends you her power and love, and brings alive your connection to the evolutionary Self, to others and to the physical universe.
Once these channels are activated, you can continue to open and deepen the relationship over time, infusing the enlightened qualities of the Divine Feminine into your life in ever-profound ways.
By the end of the 9 modules, you’ll emerge with a literal re-wiring of your brain around what it means to engage in spiritual practice, meditation and contemplation. You’ll have a deep understanding for how goddess visualizations, embodiment practices and meditations can empower you with healing and transformation as well as the ability to engage these practices for specific challenges.
The Importance of Sacred Guides
The crucial call for human beings to awaken and live in a new way can be answered in part when we understand the role of these Sacred Feminine energies in spiritual evolution. And there are no better guides into these mystical realms than authors and renowned spiritual teachers Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey who are teaching together for the first time.
Sally is the author of Awakening Shakti: The Transforming Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, a book that has transformed the practice of many women in the yoga, business, academic and artistic worlds. She is a deep, transmitted practitioner of the Hindu goddess tradition and brings alive the wisdom and awareness of these deity figures.
Sally offers unique insights into both the dark and light sides of our relationship to the Divine Feminine. Her students attest to her ability to transmit a direct experience that can bring these energies alive in your own life.
Andrew Harvey is the prolific author of over 40 books and spiritual classics, including The Return of the Mother, The Son of Man and The Essential Mystics. He’s also one of the most inspired and illuminating speakers on the subject of global mysticism. He has a remarkable gift for opening our eyes and peeling away the falsehoods to reveal the wild, liberating truth at the core.
On a personal level, he’s been through the fires of the inner Dark Night, the heart-opening illuminations, and the intense disillusionments that have cracked him open to divine consciousness, bringing him to his knees again and again.
Andrew knows the terrain of birthing the divine human and reclaiming the Sacred Feminine in a way that few others do. Because of his scholarly depth and personal experience, there is perhaps no more articulate, passionate and perceptive teacher to lead people on this journey.
During the 9 modules of the The Evolutionary Goddess, Sally and Andrew will lead you into the powers and mysteries of this path through a radical transmission of the living practice of Indian Tantric tradition, as well as igniting understandings from Christian, shamanic and Sufi lineages.
You’ll learn how to invite and invoke these energies and embody the qualities of the empowered feminine. Because Goddess energies are at the heart of ALL life, this is a path to extraordinary aliveness and the emergence of your own divine nature.
Where masculine spirit often arises as empty spaciousness, the feminine reveals the fullness of blissful presence within everything. Her gift is the arousal of the heart. Goddess practice is all about merging the inner and outer realms, aligning the freedom of pure awareness with the pulse of enlightened love and empowered action in service of the world.
During the 6-month journey together, Sally and Andrew will open your body, mind and soul to a new understanding of what modern Goddess practice really is. Ultimately, they’ll reveal to you that the Goddess is the real power behind both inner awakening and the fulfillment of different spiritual and worldly levels.
They’ll share how you can open internal gateways to expand your capacity for pleasure and joy while at the same time cultivating the ferocity and fire that burns through illusion and gives notice to oppression to stop it in its tracks.
Ultimately, The Evolutionary Goddess is both light and shadow, refined and primal, wild and infinitely merciful. She is the “Creatrix” of life itself.
And it is now time to reclaim Her in ALL Her glory.
What You’ll Discover in These 6 Months
In this 6-month transformational course, Sally and Andrew will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies that you’ll need to integrate the Goddess into your daily life and as the key to healing the world.
Each weekly, LIVE contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to open, cultivate and harness the capacities of the Goddess in yourself.
Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Module One: Establishing the Goddess as the Ground of Your Being (April 14 & 21)
In this first module, we’ll enter the full radiance of the transcendent Great Goddess, the Shakti at the heart of the world. These first couple weeks are an initiation into the full mysteries of the Sacred Feminine as pure Divine Presence. Exploring the Great Mother as Maheswari, the sublime all-embracing power of Shakti, Bhuvaneshwari, whose nature is the spaciousness that contains all that is, the transcendent Mary, the formless Ain Sof, we’ll tune into the Divine Feminine at the heart of the universe.
In the initiatory practices, you’ll establish your connection with the transcendent mother energy as she exists across cultures, and the human heart. Establishing this primal connection with the healing and nurturing spaciousness of the Mother energy lets us take the great adventure of engaging with the Divine Feminine in all her wildness, variety and beauty of her different forms. We tune into the light of the Mother as the protector, so that you can take refuge in her and access her healing Shakti in every moment.
You’ll learn:
- Who is the Divine Mother, and what does it mean to live in her presence?
- How to receive a series of initiations that will flow through your life during this course.
- History of the Sacred Feminine in religion and culture.
- What is true sacred presence.
- The art and practice for relating to the Divine Feminine as the world, as others, and as yourself.
- Ways to receive protection from the feminine.
Module Two: Accessing Your Shamanic Powers (April 28 & May 5)
In this module, we discover the Divine Feminine as the initiatory power of the shamanic traditions. Exploring the ancient earth-goddess traditions, we’ll discover the revelations of the great Neolithic mother traditions, and how they connect to modern shamanic ritual. We’ll examine the Taoist revelation of practices for activating the shamanic body, as well as the land-wisdom of the Aboriginal and Andean traditions.
These classes will deeply explore the embodied sensual fierceness of the wild feminine, manifesting through the Great Cats, and the lion Goddesses Sekhmet, Durga, and Simhavahini. We’ll also look at plant mystery, and the shamanic power of shadow and how to move through and past it through deep surrender to the natural world.
You’ll discover:
- How the Goddess reveals the heart of the power path.
- Ways to draw from the powers of sacred sites for healing and health.
- How to activate and draw from your true source of power at any time.
- How to access your divine guide.
- Animal powers of the Sacred Feminine.
- The power shadow and the light of power.
Module Three: Activating Your Compassion (May 19, 26 & June 2)
What does it mean to shed tears of compassion? This is the wisdom embodied in the exquisite vision of Divine Feminine compassion. In Mary, the Black Madonna, Kuan Yin, the Buddhist tradition of Green and White Tara, and even in the native American vision of White Buffalo Calf woman, we see how the Divine Feminine pours liberating light into the world, and reveals the power of transmuting grief and suffering into liberating compassion for self and others.
You’ll discover:
- How to transform grief into compassion.
- Powerful prayers that help you draw support from the Wisdom Goddesses of compassion.
- How to surrender into the lap of the Goddess, so that She can heal your wounds.
- Ways to invoke Goddess powers for helping and holding others.
- The freeing power of compassion and how to direct this liberation inward and outward.
Module Four: Embracing the Passionate Lover (June 9 & 16)
Long lost to the world, the healing sensuality of the ancient lover-goddesses is the revelation that brings together spirit and body. The lover goddesses open us to the divine love affair of spirit and body, and show us how to let ourselves be loved open by the innate bliss at the heart of the body and the physical world.
We’ll explore our connection to the Goddess as Lover, learning how to surrender our blocks to experiencing our own capacity for embodied passionate realization. This module draws us into the mysteries of Isis, Aphrodite, the mystical Shekinah of Hebrew wisdom expressing itself through the Song of Songs, and especially the Tantric gifts of Lalita Tripura Sundari, whose passionate, erotic vision leads us into the blissfulness of opening the physical body to allow space for Shakti to fill the heart.
You’ll discover:
- The mystical truths behind sacred passion and sexuality.
- The revelations of the inner beloved.
- The Goddess as Beloved and as Lover.
- How to create relationships that generate a field for the sacred marriage.
- Ways to experience the world as the Goddess and Lover.
- The spiritual mysteries behind what you long for when you long for love.
Module Five: Opening to the Pure Space of Higher Wisdom (June 23 & 30)
The secret of true embodied self-realization, according to Tantric and Taoist sages, is the grace of the Divine Feminine. Without her, we can’t awaken past limitation. These great spiritual adventurers came to know Wisdom as a feminine power who alone opens the doorways to the Absolute.
This module lets us discover the Goddess as the liberator. Through the mind-bending revelations of Chinnamasta, the headless one, and of Vajrayogini, Goddess of absolute truth, we are able to go beyond ego and recognize the Self as pure awareness. As Prajnaparamita, the Wisdom Goddess of Mahayana Buddhism, the Divine Feminine manifests for us as the great Mind, whose essence is pure spaciousness, exploding with insight, light and deep love.
You’ll discover:
- How to activate sacred awareness in meditation.
- How to open to the initiatory path and practices of the Wisdom Goddesses.
- Divine space, inner space and recognition of true interconnectivity.
- Why true wisdom reveals itself through feeling and intuition – and how the Goddess can give you access to all this!
Module Six: Activating Your Divine Creativity (July 7, 14 & 21)
Here we enter the extraordinary recognition of the innate creativity at the heart of life. The Divine Feminine – whether she manifests as Shakti, the creative life force, or as Saraswati and Athena, guardians of the space of art, music and innovative insight. The Goddess has been the force behind creative revelation in all our lives. Artists understand that the ego cannot create. Real creativity arises from the mysterious realm of Shakti.
In this session, we’ll learn how to access our own muse-like feminine energy, and deeply engage the goddesses who seed creative activity. We’ll work with art, dance, writing or voice to tune into the sacred creativity that wants to move through us.
You’ll learn:
- How to invoke the Goddess to unleash your power as poet, dancer and artist.
- How sacred music can evoke inner revelation.
- Infallible practices for letting the Divine Feminine create through you.
- Healing your voice and the blocks to your authentic expression.
- How to birth ecstatic creativity in your children.
Module Seven: Savoring Life as
Abundant Beauty (July 28, September 1 & 8)
As the Goddess comes alive in your life, she empowers you to see the sacred beauty that transfigures the world. This is her face as Lakshmi, the Goddess of harmony, beauty and wealth, who manifests as everything that makes life lovable. One of the Goddess’s Tantric names is Sundari, the beautiful one.
In this module, we learn how to let the beauty in the natural world kiss us open to the Divine. Following her subtle guidance, invoking her in our lives, we invite her to transform our vision so that we can see her presence even in ugliness and terror. Lakshmi is the most accessible form of the Divine Mother, and along with Sundari and Aphrodite, she fills our lives with sweetness in any moment we turn to her.
You’ll learn:
- How to draw on the power of beauty in every situation.
- How to discover and experience the manifest qualities of your own beauty.
- Adoration, worship and ritual as a transformative spiritual path.
- The beauty mysteries of the Goddess.
Module Eight: Blazing with the Fire of Transformation (September 15 & 22)
We are living in the Goddess’s time of revolutionary transformation. As humanity faces the greatest crises of our history, the Goddess is present to take us through this fire. Her own transformative inner fire, Kundalini, breaks us through our limitations, our collective egotism and our conceptual prisons.
As Kali, the force of destruction and liberation, and as the Black Madonna, she guides us through the dark unconscious in order to birth the new, she invites us to partner with her in the work of personal and collective change, the birthing of a new form of divine human consciousness and to live out the sacred marriage of Divine and human.
In this module, we’ll find the love behind her fiercest face and open to the radical transformation she offers.
You’ll learn:
- To recognize the Goddess’s face in the changes of your life.
- How to embody her fire to help you break through your own limitations.
- How to harness her power to guide you through dark times to the light and new birth beyond.
- To use her fire of transformation to aid in collective change for the world.
Module Nine: Embodying the Goddess Through Justice and Sacred Activism (September 29 & October 6)
None of us, as individuals, are big enough to right the wrongs of the world, yet each of us, as the embodied Divine Feminine, has the power of sacred justice in our hands. In the Marian tradition of Christian mysticism, the Divine Feminine is the subtle hand that transforms injustice and oppression, working through each of us in the way that best suits our talents and resources. What does it mean to live as a sacred activist without burnout and despair?
In this final module, we’ll come to understand what it is to live in the body of the Mother, to experience her protection and revelation not only for ourselves but for the healing of the world.
You’ll learn:
- What the Goddess is asking of you and how to merge Her desires with your soul’s longing.
- How to harness Goddess energy to heal the world.
- What real sacred activism is.
- How to live a more embodied life as the Sacred Feminine.
Final Integration Session
(October 13)
This final session will be a time to integrate all you’ve learned and celebrate the transformations that have taken root within the powerful sacred communal container we’ve created over 6 months.
The Evolutionary Goddess Bonus Collection
In addition to Sally and Andrew’s transformative 6-month virtual course, you’ll also receive these powerful training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course – and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
How the Mother and Evolution Dance Together
Audio Dialogue with Andrew Harvey and Sally Kempton
In this special session, Andrew and Sally look at the role of the Great Mother in our individual and collective unfolding. Drawing on many diverse streams of spiritual wisdom, these two bright lights will help you move forward on your path with greater openness and understanding.
Practicing with the Dark Goddess: A Look at Kali in the Indian Tradition of Shakta Tantrikas
Audio Dialogue with Sally Kempton and Aditi Devi
In this dialogue, two accomplished women practitioners look at how a traditional tantric Kali practice can bring about transformation, discussing specifically the ways in which the hundred names of the Goddess Kali express her qualities in our life experience.
Aditi Devi is the author of Approaching the Primordial Dark Goddess Through the Song of Her Hundred Names and a recognized Western teacher of traditional goddess practice in the Shakta traditions of India and Nepal. She has a PhD in anthropology and is an accomplished scholar of tantra.
Living Kanyini: Elder Bob Randall shares the timeless wisdom of the Anangu
Video Dialogue with Bob Randall and Andrew Harvey
In this intimate conversation, Elder Bob Randall shares ancient answers for our troubled times with Andrew Harvey. Kanyini, or unconditional love with responsibility, is a system of connection with everything, anchored in the timeless wisdom of the Anangu of the Central Desert area of Australia. The teachings of Kanyini have the potential to transform our planet and bring a return to your true oneness with nature and others.
Bob Randall is a Yankunytjatjara Elder and a traditional owner of Uluru (Ayers Rock). Bob is one of the Stolen Generation of the Aboriginal people, taken from his family at the age of seven. Throughout his life, Bob has worked as a teacher and leader for Aboriginal land rights, education, community development and cultural awareness. In the early ’70s, Bob’s song "Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away)" became an anthem for the Aboriginal people. He is the author of two books: his autobiography Songman and a children’s book, Tracker Tjginji.
What People Are Saying About Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey...
Sally Kempton is a true gift to the yoga world, for she is able to communicate the living wisdom of meditation through her natural, engaging and flowing style... Sally awakens meditation from within.. she enlivens the full spectrum of the Goddess, from independent protector, to lover, to dynamic and powerful creatrix.
– Shiva Rea, founder of Prana Flow Yoga and author of Tending the Heart Fire
Sally Kempton has given us a mythic manual for a new kind of feminism – a feminism of the soul. And this is a good thing, because humanity needs feminine power now as both a healing tonic and a source of reinvention.
– Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
Sally Kempton is well equipped to guide us on how to love our way to the divine life and the joyous oneness it epitomizes. I often recommend Sally to my own meditation students as a realized guide on the path of awakening. We are all blessed to have her and her genuine tantric lineage and teaching transmission in our lifetime.
– Lama Surya Das, author of Natural Radiance and Buddha Standard Time
Sally Kempton is one of the great realized teachers on the meditation path, whose integral understanding of life merges seamlessly with her mastery of meditation. She is a guide for our time.
– Ken Wilber, author and founder of Integral Institute
The ancient science of Tantra is one of humankind’s most profound spiritual paths. However, for its sublime wisdom to truly come to life, it must be illumined by a master teacher, one who has directly experienced its sublime vision. Sally Kempton is such a teacher, a rare and precious gem for our modern age and a tangible link to the heart of Tantra.
– Rod Stryker, founder of ParaYoga and the author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom
With her signature combination of sound research, personal experience, and engaging storytelling, Kempton offers an authentic, experiential guide to working with eleven goddesses who embody the totality of life’s beauty and challenges. I recommend it highly!
– Constantina Rhodes, PhD, author of Invoking Lakshmi: The Goddess of Wealth in Song and Ceremony
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. Andrew is a spiritual, intellectual, and cultural mystic whose passion is to awaken people to a new and essential empowerment in this world: sacred activism. He has defined and grounded the route, the means, and the way individuals can and should respond to the chaos and rapid changes that now characterize our contemporary spiritual and cultural life. Andrew’s research reflects his superb academic background as a professor at Oxford and his passion clearly reveals that his soul is on fire with a grace that comes from the Divine.
– Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts
Amid the myriad challenges we face on earth – the population explosion, environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, war, apocalypse-think, and more – it is easy to be overwhelmed by a sense of futility and hopelessness. Now comes a singularly courageous, charismatic individual, Andrew Harvey, with an answer to all of these challenges: personal transformation and empowerment through an encounter with the Divine Feminine. This process is not esoteric, but is entirely natural and as near as our own shadow. Harvey’s sacred activism is a corrective to the doomsayers and do-nothings who are part of our problems. He is a modern version of a fiery, Old-Testament prophet, whose words were ignored at great peril. We must attend to Andrew Harvey’s message. Not only will it help us humans regain our sanity, it just might save our skins.
– Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
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, this film is recommended for anyone who cares about the survival of their grandchildren or planet or both. Is anyone listening?
– Reverend Matthew Fox, author, Creation Spirituality and founder of Wisdom University
Andrew Harvey is one of the world’s irreplaceable resources.
– Lance Morrow, writer, Time magazine
Andrew Harvey is an enlightened spirit-a messenger from the Divine.
– Gloria Vanderbilt
Our world is awash with activism, is drowning in activism, but it is the wrong kind. Andrew Harvey’s sacred activism is the only form that is likely to save us from the narrow, destructive preoccupations that seem to mesmerize us humans. Only an attention to the heart – for sacred and heart reflect a common meaning – can generate the hope, courage, and vision required for our troubled times. It is important to realize that Andrew Harvey’s message is not a matter of philosophy, but of survival.
– Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN
Amid the gloom-and-doom predictions and total denial so prevalent today, Andrew Harvey’s is a singular voice speaking truth about our current situation. In impassioned yet pragmatic terms, he lays out the grave problems humanity faces, from WMDs and environmental desecration to epidemic levels of attention disorder, outlining the grim fate that awaits us if we fail to mend our ways. But unlike the chorus of modern-day Cassandras, Andrew doesn’t leave us there, mired in despair. Setting out a course of radical and reasoned action, he empowers us to become spiritual activists and reclaim our planet from the suicidal trajectory we’re traveling. We could have no more compelling guide to today’s challenges and their solutions. It’s breathtaking to hear so unsettling a subject articulated with such intelligence and grace.
– Joan Duncan Oliver, journalist and author, Happiness: How to Find It and Keep It
At this critical juncture in history, Andrew Harvey’s teachings on Sacred Activism are sounding a clarion call to all who care deeply about the future of humanity and of the planet. We cannot open to creative solutions to the enormous challenges that confront us without looking truthfully and fearlessly at the horrific things that are taking place in our world and at the same time holding to a powerful vision of what is possible through a radical transformation of our consciousness. The Chinese character for the word crisis contains the characters for danger and opportunity, and in this powerful film, Andrew Harvey clearly outlines both these elements of our current world crisis as he makes the case that the darkness of our time is also the birth canal for the emergence of a divine humanity. He passionately calls us to dedicate ourselves to being midwives of this birth, and describes in very practical terms the five dimensions of service that comprise a commitment to live as Sacred Activists. I cannot imagine a more important teaching for our time.
– Rev. Diane Berke, Spiritual Director, One Spirit Learning Alliance
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Twenty-Two 90-Minute Class Sessions with Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with pioneering contemporary spiritual teachers Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey – from the comfort of your own home. Each class session helps you create the specific skills and abilities to gain insight and transform the way you act in the world by having access to the levels of power, via the goddesses.
Twenty-Two Audio Recordings of Each Class Session
After each class, the audio will be available to you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way, you’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere – on your iPod, in your car, and at your convenience.
Twenty-Two PDF Transcripts of Each Class Session
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
Twenty-Two 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
Following each class session there will be a live 30-minute interactive practice session, where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
After each lesson, you will then have the option to do related exercises and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your learning after each class. Here, you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students – and get access to additional resources to take your learning experience to an even deeper level.
The Evolutionary Goddess
Bonus Collection
- How the Mother and Evolution Dance Together
Audio Dialogue with Andrew Harvey and Sally Kempton
- Practicing with the Dark Goddess: A Look at Kali in the Indian Tradition of Shakta Tantrikas
Audio Dialogue with Sally Kempton and Aditi Devi
- Living Kanyini: Elder Bob Randall shares the timeless wisdom of the Anangu
Video Dialogue with Bob Randall and Andrew Harvey
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Evolutionary Goddess Program
We, at The Shift Network, feel deeply honored that Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey have chosen to partner with us on this exclusive, LIVE online training. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from Sally and Andrew – beloved visionaries of reclaiming the great “She” at the core of our lives as the impulse that is driving us to evolve and manifest the wonder of our full sacred potential.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals – which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll also be able to benefit from Sally and Andrew and their guests’ incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home – at your own pace!
If you are serious about integrating the Divine Feminine into your life, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones – and our world – to take this one-of-a-kind training.
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What Students of Sally Kempton are saying...
The profound journey I experienced in participating in Sally Kempton’s Wisdom Goddess Empowerment course through the Shift Network, has totally revolutionized my spiritual practice, my relationship to myself and my own inner energies, and my experience of the Divine Feminine, both in specific forms and as Shakti itself – the all encompassing power. As a long time meditator and spiritual practitioner of over 15 years in a Kundalini based spiritual tradition, the transmission of wisdom, power, and spiritual experience that Sally brings to her course students is on par with the most enlightened of spiritual masters. I have been completely blown away! Sally brings this incredible spiritual potency in a deeply human and relatable way with a tremendous level of personal experience along with humor, compassion and wit. Her personal integrity is palpable! And I was astounded by how she met each of the course participants in non-judgmental and uniquely skillful way, connecting to each individual, whether beginners or long time sadhakas. I look forward to her next course and to deepening my spiritual journey with her and the wonderful community of seekers that gather in her courses. My deepest gratitude to Sally, of which no words are adequate. And many thanks to the course moderator Nadirah Adeye, and to the Shift Network for providing this course in such an easily accessible and affordable way. I say thank you again and again!
– Brian Buczynski Ringoes, NJ, USA
Sally’s capacity to sincerely support others in enlivening sacred feminine energy and awakening deepening insights about the dance with Shakti in their own lives is remarkable. These facilitated encounters with each of the great Hindu Goddesses are so deeply personal and transpersonal that one is deeply moved and uniquely changed through each meeting. I would highly recommend this particular course to anyone who feels truly called to wake up and deeply celebrate their fuller potentials.
– Deanna S. Kenora, Ontario, Canada
This course with Sally Kempton was even better than I had envisaged. Sally’s remarkable grounding and deep spirituality makes her take us on a deep journey ~ and navigate the complex world of the goddesses with ease. She has such a loving and giving heart. She truly embodies what she teaches. I was immensely benefited by this course.
– Sukhvinder Srikar, Kolkata, India
This course has truly met it’s stated goal in my life as it did awaken, and opened my inner eye to recognize this world as an expression of the Divine. I am now moving with greater ease power, integrity and clarity in my daily life. I felt true grief when I opened up the final email saying the class was over. I have sat under many teachers but none that I loved as much as Sally. I will miss the weekly calls with her.
– Lynda Meeder Santa Cruz, CA
Sally Kempton has been walking the path of transformation, love and learning for decades; she has had a great teacher that comes from a strong lineage. I love her straightforwardness and gentleness and that the most mundane question is treated and met by the same curiosity and love by her as the lofty ones. If you are in search of love, light , knowledge, any kind of opening and healing, this course can only benefit you. Make a nice place to sit for meditation and the benefits will only multiply. She is a Gem and so is the Goddess, and you’ll see: so are You!
– Lilla Kultsar, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sally Kempton is a rare gem. Here is a guru who is authentic, wise and has a deep understanding of the Goddess traditions and life in the modern world. She has a rare gift of expression, getting to the core in simple to understand practical lessons. Whether one is a beginner or an advanced yogi, I think will benefit immensely from her wisdom. Our generation is so fortunate to have her guidance and blessings. Thank you to the Shift network for offering such a profoundly transformative course. I am looking forward to deepening my practices in the next course.
– Madhavi Kadiyala, New York
The Wisdom Goddess Empowerment course introduced me to several goddesses I was not familiar with and reacquainted me with the ones I do know. The depth of the material was perfect. I will be returning to the meditations, mantras and recordings again and again. I have been skeptical about e-courses because in the past they have been so general, I didn’t feel I was learning anything new. This course is so well organized and filled with very relevant materials.
– Nancy, Springfield, IL
Actively listening to and meditating with Sally, and participating on my own, through the archived material on our course homepage, resulted in a Deepening awareness of the Goddesses appearing to me in the form of humans and animals with needs I could comprehend and serve. My open heart magnetized the Higher and Wider path to embodying the Love which the Divine Feminine is calling me forth. I am so grateful for the renewed sense of serving ALL.
– Edie Monaghan, Vero, FL, USA
The wisdom goddess course with Sally Kempton was a deep and life transforming energetic experience of divine shakti. This is something that has been revived within my body , mind and soul. Sally’s transmissions were so sweet and you can feel that this is a very safe environment for spiritual awakening. I never realized how deep and real these shaktis of divine mother were, until I was given the proper guidance by Sally to be aware of divine mother within and everywhere.
– Nalini Devi Ganapati, Los Angeles, California.
Sally Kempton brings a wealth of knowledge, experience & her own relationship to the Goddesses which gives her teachings an incredibly gentle, clear & tangible quality. I have been following the Goddess for 20+ years & I learned & gained so much from this course. I will continue to explore the material & practice with the different Goddesses for many years to come. I absolutely loooove & treasure the full experience of this course; what a beautiful opening into soul filled work that will continue to unfold over time. A thousand blessings & rose petals to Sally Kempton & The Shift Network for this incredible experience!
– Pamela Venus, Cleveland, OH
What Students of Andrew Harvey are saying...
I LOVED this course. It brought me to tears several times! The content was superb. The extras were thought-provoking and relevant to today’s issues. I found Andrew himself to be such a shining example of the kind of human we can ALL be. He’s a great example of humility and grace, and his knowledge of the subject matter is both academic and personal. To live the way he does is something to aspire to – or to let loose from within! Thanks SO much! More, more, more Andrew Harvey, please!
– Lisa Talamantez, Chicago, Illinois
The Christ Path with Andrew Harvey was a life changing experience. Every lecture was the perfect balance of grounded realism and Spiritual ecstasy. I am so grateful for this beloved, authentic, passionate and visionary soul and the urgent message he brings at this time. I hope his message is heard by many for the sake of the planet and all beings!
– Amata Boccella, La Cienega, New Mexico
The Christ Path course was life altering. It offered a clear, challenging and supportive template for continuing on the vital evolutionary path of the sacred activist. Andrew Harvey is a true reflection of what a divine human is and his teaching style is exceptional.
– Melanie, Herndon, Virginia
This course was such a blessing for me. I have been studying Andrew’s teachings on the Mystic Christ Path for several years. Andrew is more than a pioneer in this area, he is a visionary and a prophet for our time. The richness of his scholarly work and the depth of his personal mystical insights are so far ahead of anyone else’s teaching at this time. The world is finally starting to catch up with him and we are all blessed that he continues to share so generously with the world. Thank you The Shift Network for making his teachings available in a format that makes it easy to access and study in even more depth. His teachings are truly priceless.
– Stephanie, Charlotte, North Carolina
This course profoundly stirred my soul, gave me clarity on my meandering spiritual journey of decades and a sense of coming home. The Vision Andrew shared and the practices he offered are a wonderful start to finding my way ahead on this awesome Path.
– Evelyn, Arizona
Andrew Harvey is the living proof of what he is speaking about and his love and compassion for Christ and for the Christ Path shines through every word he speaks. His whole being is enlightened by the Christ energy. He is a very powerful and touching ‘love generator’.
– Christine, Austria
Andrew’s teaching was intense, exciting and captivating, and I highly recommend the Christ path for anyone seeking further enlightenment on this extraordinarily uplifting subject matter!!
– Rich Jacobs, Denver, Colorado
Sometimes it happens that just the right information and encouragement comes along at just the right time in my spiritual walk. Andrew Harvey’s teaching had the beautiful and timely feel of a personal miracle for me. I am very grateful.
– Joan Marie Cook, Texarkana, Texas
The course gave me roots to a new understanding of Jesus and his story- and the radical importance it has for our humanity. integrating these aspects of the Christ path opens new possibilities for stepping into action from a radical loving place.
– Elena, Slovakia
I AM truly BLESSED to have been able to take part in this course. I have benefitted GREATLY from listening to Andrews lectures over and over on a daily basis.. they have changed my life...There is so much to absorb and each day I have gained another GEM... Thank YOU Andrew and team.
– Jean, South Africa
If you have both an intellectual and a feeling sense of the mystic tradition, this is a must-do course. An extremely knowledgeable teacher, familiar with all the major traditions, will lead you along the path of his favourite teacher, Jesus, without the need to set aside any other of the major traditions or teachings. Highly recommended for providing depth of background, practices, and ways to apply the teaching as you go forward in your life. I finally see how to bring all of these facets of spiritual life together. A very important course!
– Daphne, Vancouver, British Columbia
About Sally Kempton. . .
Sally Kempton is known and loved for her ability to transmit meditative states and create transformative shifts in others. A former monk in an Indian order, she teaches internationally and was the author of the Yoga Journal column, Wisdom, for many years. Sally has a deeply mature understanding of the interface between deep spirituality and self-actualized living. She herself lives the path she teaches. Her books, Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, have become classics – and have revolutionized thousands of people’s experience of their inner life.
About Andrew Harvey. . .
Andrew Harvey is the author of over 30 books, including, The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, The Direct Path, the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, The Return of the Mother and Son of Man. At the age of 21, Andrew became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor. By 1977, Andrew Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next 30 years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1990, he would collaborate with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Andrew Harvey 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 the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary, The Making of a Modern Mystic, and appears also in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness of the Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for A New Humanity. Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California, and your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference, and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers, and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is April 28, 2015. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we'll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we'd love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there is something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com, and we'll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
