Books
Your Sacred Calling: Awakening the Soul to a Spiritual Life in the 21st Century
Bodhi Ocean gifts the reader with fascinating tales from the Tao, the Upanishads, the Vedas, and the Christian gospels, using ancient wisdom to illumine Richard Harvey’s three-stage, psycho-spiritual model of human awakening: the journey of self-discovery, the transformation into authenticity, and union with the source of consciousness.
These profound wisdom teachings on separation, identity, destiny, spiritual birth, and stillness are profound windows on truth, a rich blend of ancient wisdom teachings and a modern-day, meta-psychology for the 21st century.
With important chapters like Being Born A Human Being: An Invitation to Live in the Divine Mystery, Who Needs A Guru?: The Discovery of the Divine in Your Life, and To Realize Consciousness: Merging with the Divine, you learn about transcending delusion, assimilating great wisdom and how to make it your own.
Bodhi Ocean expounds the reality of Love itself and echoes the great teachings of thousands of years on the importance of selecting a path, remaining true and committed to that path, and surrendering to the heart.
Sacred Attention Publishing, 2016
Pages: 309
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At the very heart of my work is a spiritual way that addresses the predicament of the modern era. This predicament, as I see it, is rather similar to the idea of the kaliyuga, a term from Hindu cosmology that denotes the darkening of the light, the time of least spirituality, morality, and transcendence. By facing the ego which has been highly developed and become extremely complex as the symbol of self-identification, separation, and division in the inner individual life and the outer collective world, we can prepare the ground for the revolution of individual and collective consciousness.
This consciousness will develop and create, over time, a sane, spiritual foundation for an authentic, compassionate way of relating to each other and to living in the world as a precious privilege and divine opportunity. The age of light follows the kaliyuga and those of us who have been true to our deepest self will arguably have helped to maintain the light of truth and consciousness for all beings.
My hope for this e-book is that you will learn something to deepen your present spiritual practice and understanding or, if inner work is relatively new to you, that you will find something here to further you in your personal and spiritual discovery.
My broad aim is to make deep psychological and authentic spiritual truths clear and accessible. I do not indulge in popular notions about spirituality. We will be little involved in the kind of psycho-spirituality that is about getting the things you want, feeling happier, becoming healthier in mind or body, or any of the other cosmetic self-improvements that so-called spirituality today seems most concerned with.
Spirituality in practice and reality is a more profound matter than any of these materialistic concerns. Real spirituality has absolutely nothing to do with morality, society, and relationships as you may know them, or happiness as you habitually think of it. Peace, fulfillment, satisfaction, or human experience in every way is dwarfed by the genuinely spiritual. This does not mean that attaining spiritual heights doesn’t make you a better person, a happier person, a person who is more moral and responsible in his or her relationships, capable, sensitive, and skilful with others and in the world. It may well do these things. But these things are not what spirituality is about. Spirituality is about eternity; it is about what is absolute.
Self published, 2013
Pages: 261
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The central message of Your Divine Opportunity is that there is something crucial we can do to affect our lives and the lives of those around us. That is to awaken to the true nature of our humanity. The life we are leading is entirely governed, limited, and adjusted to the circumstances, learnt lessons, and prescribed limitations of childhood and distant memory. In this book I will show you how we can turn the present seemingly pessimistic circumstances to our positive advantage and move toward optimism and in time further into the light of wisdom, and through realizing our full potential and fulfilling our human nature, how we may realize a sacred life.
Sacred Attention Publishing, 2020.
Pages: 148
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This book explores the path of personal and spiritual unfolding, with all its challenges and joys, from initial stages to Self-realization. It is a comprehensive guide to the process of the psycho-spiritual journey, or to how we discover who we really are.
Work on the personality is commonly thought to be what therapy is all about. But personal work is only a part of inner exploration. Beyond personal change, lie the challenges of authentic transformation and real consciousness. The fulfilment of these three stages of human development is our innate capacity, and it is attained through a single connected process of awakening.
Many tales of therapeutic encounters, teaching stories, ancient and modern, case histories are used to amplify and illustrate the inner journey, and this book offers an introduction to the inner journey, to clarify and/or inspire you if you have already begun it and give a clear and accessible model of how you can realize your true potential.
This is also a travelogue of the journey through the inner landscape, a glimpse of real experiences, a series of sketches of the inner journey to illuminate, inspire and encourage you to awaken to a most welcome stranger, your deeper self, to a life of empowerment lived out of your authenticity and to a dazzling light beyond anything you could ever think possible, your True Self.
Sacred Attention Publishing, Second Edition, 2017
Pages: 494
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How can we live a fully human life and allow the Divine to manifest through the contradictions and paradoxes that bring us to the very edge of experience, the precipice of the sensible world, and the expression of eternity in the field of space and time?
This book examines the predicament of the individual today, in terms of obsession, addiction, self-importance, self-indulgence, and self-aggrandizement, and offers the means, the power, and the strength to awaken to our spiritual awakening.
There are chapters on surrender, relationships, anger, now, disenchantment, love, maturity, devotion and awareness.
For those with a sense of urgency and spiritual longing to awaken, Moksha Dawn challenges conventional and more populist views of spirituality to discover our essential self.
Here you will discover how to initiate your transformation and the beginning of a journey to rediscover who you have always been and will forever be—the source of existence, and pure love.
Useless Tree Press, 2014
Pages: 244
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The Sacred Attention Therapy Group Work Manual is a long-awaited response to people who have thought of setting up and running Human Awakening Groups and have not been sure quite how to do it. It is also intended for therapists, group leaders, SAT students, SAT therapists, and anyone who wants to try their hand at setting up and running a therapy group. The manual is the product of Richard Harvey’s 40 years of experience and it offers a unique approach and insights into therapeutic group work.
“Group work tacitly infers that the natural habitat for human beings is coming together in gatherings. It is primitive and innate. We are communal beings. Modern life has fostered our removal from the gathering, from the rituals of togetherness. Contemporary humans have been separated from each other unnaturally in houses, in families, in relationships, in employment, in furtive meetings, and secretive lonely occupations. Simply the act of gathering together may be viewed as effective and positive in itself. What transpires as a result of such gathering together can be spectacularly transformational and—bearing in mind I am not given to using this term lightly, if at all—life changing.”
Sacred Attention Publishing, August 2018
Pages: 120
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