Sally Kempton And Andrew Harvey – The Evolutionary Goddess

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Sally Kempton and Andrew Harvey – The Evolutionary Goddess

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.

By connecting with the powers and qualities these goddesses carry, you’ll:

Understand why the Goddess is central to empowering us in our sacred action and service.
See how Goddess energy can transform your relationship to personal and transpersonal power.
Begin to experience deeper and subtler levels of reality around you.
Discover hidden sources of spiritual power within your body
and mind.
Become skilled at invoking fierce goddess energies for both protection and liberation.
Invoke the Goddess to unleash your power as poet, dancer
and artist.
Enhance your creativity and powers of manifestation.
Identify and begin to release deep-seated karmic patterning.
Discover a healthy and empowered vision for the Sacred Feminine in your spiritual life.
Discern the difference between egoic desire and enlightened desire, and how to know when your desires are aligned with your highest truth.
Expand the sense of beauty in yourself, and harness it as a tool for creative expression.
Experience deeper levels of bodily fulfillment, opening currents of bliss in your cells.
Learn why variations on the Black Madonna have been so central to major historical mystics and their realization.
Transform your relationship with disappointment and failure, finding the hidden power within them.
Begin to engage in sacred activism that truly transforms the world.
Experience the dissolution of the tyranny of sin, shame and oppression in relationship to your body, pleasure and life itself.
Shift your relationships with animals and Mother Earth.
Learn to forge relationships that generate a field for the sacred marriage.

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

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