Andrew Harvey.

Melded Eastern mystioism with Western ideals to forge a direct "path to God"

When ordered by his guru in 1993 to leave his male lover and write a book about how his guru's divine force turned him straight, Andrew Harvey Andrew Harvey (born 1952) is a Shakespeare scholar and mystic who was born in India. He envisions true spirituality to be the divinization of earthly life through spiritual practice. These practices can take many forms and can be taken from any religious tradition. disobeyed. He left his guru and took his lover as his husband. The Indian-born writer endured denunciation DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bro. C. L. 447; 2 Id. 389; Ayl. Parer. , persecution, and death threats for his defiance. But he also found enlightenment in a belief system incorporating Eastern mysticism Eastern Mysticism is a somewhat imprecise term summarizing mystic traditions of the Middle East, India and the Far East, including mystic elements in

Gnosticism
Sufism
Yoga
Vedanta
Buddhism
Taoism

and a Western vision of justice. Harvey, 49, says he discovered a "path to God without dogma DOGMA, civil law. This word is used in the first chapter, first section, of the second Novel, and signifies an ordinance of the senate. See also Dig. 27, 1, 6. , priests, and gurus." His new book, The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions, introduces that path to the public at large.

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Date:	Aug 14, 2001
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