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Summary: A passionate tale of love and spirit
Review: Harvey's Sun at Midnight is a magnificently written love story with several levels. I found it immensely moving, heartbreaking at times, and supremely courageous. On the first level, it is a major vindication of the ability of two men, Andrew and his husband Eryk, to be passionately devoted and committed to each other in sickness and health until death do us part. Secondly, it is a story of spiritual partnership as the new model for committed relationships. In this love story, the search for personal union with God, the Divine Mother, comes first, and the human love story is correctly seen as the principal means to that end. Thirdly, precisely because human love and its sexual expression are the principal means to the divine, Sun at Midnight is about the marriage of spirit and matter, soul and body, spirituality and sexuality -- a reconciliation that is essential if Christianity and the West are to be restored to spiritual balance health. Like all great love stories, this one describes terrible and frightening trials. These trials are compounded by the fact that Harvey's mystical path has taken him into the subtle levels of consciousness -- where evil in the pure sense is encountered. The reviewer for the Washington Post thought this part of the book an overwrought "soap opera" but it was clear to me that the reviwer, though an associate professor of theology, had little if any understanding of the mystical path. Before resurrection into Christ Consciousness, one literally has to plough through hell and encounter evil head-on. It is not soap opera. It takes all the courage and faith one can muster and then some. Harvey recounts these trials in great detail, a service that will help those on the mystical path for years to come, especially those who have the misfortune to fall into the hands of a false guru. Sun at Midnight is a spiritual gem. Jim Marion, author of "Putting on the Mind of Christ, The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality."
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Summary: A Daring Journey
Review: I have just finished reading Andrew's most recent memoir, "Sun At Midnight." His brutal honesty, willingness to show his own part in the deceptions wrought by Mother Meera, the profound love and trust shared by him and his beloved husband Eryk, the virulent, destructive hatred unleashed upon them as Andrew, the master disciple, extricated himself from this false guru's clutches, the wisdom teachings of those who companioned them through their dark days all serve to validate the authenticity of his and Eryk's experiences. The message is an essential one for these times when rampant spiritual abuse and misuse of power is all too common in every religious tradition. I am grateful to Andrew and Eryk for daring to share their story. It will hopefully open the eyes and give courage to all who must leap out of the arms of false gurus and into the darkness of what Andrew calls the Direct Path.I would like to encourage readers who find themselves off-put by the one section that uses raw sexual language and graphic images to describe Andrew and Eryk's intimate experiences of tantric ecstacy, to skip that section if need be, but please don't give up on the book. You will be richer for having made the journey with Andrew and Eryk to the very last page.
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Summary: Self-absorbed mysticism
Review: I picked up this book hoping to learn something about enlightenment, and instead learned only about the extent of Mr. Harvey's self-aborption and narcissism. In a previous book he recounts his discovery of the path to truth through guru Mother Meera. Ah, but in this book we learn she wasn't the path to truth afterall, he was duped, but as a result he has now learned the REAL path to truth. How do we know he's found the REAL path to truth...this time? He tells us he has! The author clearly has great credentials, with his scholarly Oxford background raised at every opportunity. It does not, however, make him an expert in all things of the heart and spirit. Mr. Harvey needs to step outside of his fantasy world, take a walk in the forest, and realize he's just a mere mortal like the rest of us.
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Summary: Self-absorbed mysticism
Review: I picked up this book hoping to learn something about enlightenment, and instead learned only about the extent of Mr. Harvey's self-aborption and narcissism. In a previous book he recounts his discovery of the path to truth through guru Mother Meera. Ah, but in this book we learn she wasn't the path to truth afterall, he was duped, but as a result he has now learned the REAL path to truth. How do we know he's found the REAL path to truth...this time? He tells us he has! The author clearly has great credentials, with his scholarly Oxford background raised at every opportunity. It does not, however, make him an expert in all things of the heart and spirit. Mr. Harvey needs to step outside of his fantasy world, take a walk in the forest, and realize he's just a mere mortal like the rest of us.
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Summary: A Journey of Faith and Courage
Review: Reading Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut's journey through the dark night of the soul was compelling, heart-breaking, and inspirational. Rarely, does one encounter such authenticity and courageous action in the shadow of manipulative darkness. Andrew's telling of the love and steadfast faith shared by himself and his beloved, Eryk, leaves the reader with a renewed sense of hope, trust, and faith. This book is a guide for living one's truth and it offers a model for how to walk through the fires of transformation with grace, integrity, and sacred awareness.
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Summary: A Heart Captured by LOVE
Review: Sun at Midnight is Andrew Harvey's articulate attempt to share the horrendous nightmare of the "dark night" of his soul. In truth, there are no words for this spiritual experience. The necessary break with his spiritual teacher left Andrew's heart torn wide open, and as love for his teacher leaked out it was replaced by Love from the Divine Feminine who claims him for Her own and who gifts Andrew with compassionate spiritual leadership.
I found this to be a deeply inspiring book; one that will be easy to identify with for those who had or who are currently struggling with their own "dark nights". Andrew Harvey will provide the light of understanding for what you are experiencing, the courage to continue, and the firm belief that LOVE conquers all.
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Summary: A Heart Captured by LOVE
Review: Sun at Midnight is Andrew Harvey's articulate attempt to share the horrendous nightmare of the "dark night" of his soul. In truth, there are no words for this spiritual experience. The necessary break with his spiritual teacher left Andrew's heart torn wide open, and as love for his teacher leaked out it was replaced by Love from the Divine Feminine who claims him for Her own and who gifts Andrew with compassionate spiritual leadership.
I found this to be a deeply inspiring book; one that will be easy to identify with for those who had or who are currently struggling with their own "dark nights". Andrew Harvey will provide the light of understanding for what you are experiencing, the courage to continue, and the firm belief that LOVE conquers all.
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Summary: A terrible and reverent gift
Review: SUN AT MIDNIGHT is as its subtitle suggests: "a memoir of the dark night of the soul." The unimaginable horrors, sacrifices, and death threats that Andrew and Eryk experienced are a terrible and reverent gift to any reader who is ready and willing to search within their own heart for any hint of homophobia and/or to any whose life seems broken. Their suffering is one example of the unspeakable blindness, illusion, fear, and dire dangers now plaguing the entire world in every arena. Yet we are not left without hope. This journey of body and soul into hell and back points the way toward our human-Divine identity and the beauty and redeeming power of Love/love. SUN AT MIDNIGHT shows the terrifying process of suffering the barbs of ignorance and one way through it. The sacred love of Andrew and Eryk through this terrible ordeal is truly inspiring.
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Summary: The most courageous love story of our time.
Review: There is nothing about "Sun at Midnight" that is not utterly revolutionary. This is not merely a story or a memoir, but a living energy vortex with a distinct heart and soul. In a roller coaster of gripping, poetic language that Harvey has become famous for, he recounts his disengagement from his homophobic guru, Mother Meera, after she tells him that he is not to be with the love of his life, Eryk Hanut. This assertion from Meera triggers in Harvey a careening avalanche of self-doubt in his spiritual path, which he bares with a psychological clarity and flayed courage that is undeniably rare. We are completely captivated as we watch every gruesome detail of this passionate Phoenix crash and burn, ultimately to be reborn again as a true revolutionary of our time.
The soul of this book is nothing less than a wake-up call to all seekers to embrace a new spiritual paradigm based on love, on groups of friends helping each other, on mentors which offer guidance but never disempower, and, most of all, on Tantric love relationships, gay or straight. The heart of this book is the personal story of two men's experience of discovering true love. Anyone who reads this book will be permanently moved to his/her core, and anyone who denies the impact this tale makes on the spiritual world and in the realm of intimate relationships isn't paying attention.
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Summary: The most courageous love story of our time.
Review: There is nothing about "Sun at Midnight" that is not utterly revolutionary. This is not merely a story or a memoir, but a living energy vortex with a distinct heart and soul. In a roller coaster of gripping, poetic language that Harvey has become famous for, he recounts his disengagement from his homophobic guru, Mother Meera, after she tells him that he is not to be with the love of his life, Eryk Hanut. This assertion from Meera triggers in Harvey a careening avalanche of self-doubt in his spiritual path, which he bares with a psychological clarity and flayed courage that is undeniably rare. We are completely captivated as we watch every gruesome detail of this passionate Phoenix crash and burn, ultimately to be reborn again as a true revolutionary of our time.
The soul of this book is nothing less than a wake-up call to all seekers to embrace a new spiritual paradigm based on love, on groups of friends helping each other, on mentors which offer guidance but never disempower, and, most of all, on Tantric love relationships, gay or straight. The heart of this book is the personal story of two men's experience of discovering true love. Anyone who reads this book will be permanently moved to his/her core, and anyone who denies the impact this tale makes on the spiritual world and in the realm of intimate relationships isn't paying attention.
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