Andrew Harvey 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. The process of divinization will result in the gradual elimination of ecological destruction and of all forms of prejudice, especially racism, misogyny, and homophobia. He lives in Nevada with his husband, the photographer Eryk Hanut.

Harvey sees six poets and religious figures as having universal appeal:

• The Dhammapada of Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha
• Jesus as portrayed in the Gospel of Thomas
• Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet
• Kabir, 15th century Indian poet
• Ramakrishna, 19th century Hindu Sadhu
• Aurobindo, 20th century Hindu philosopher-sage

Bibliography

• Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening, 1991
• The Tibetan Book of
  
  
  
  Living and Dying: A New Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West (co-author), 1992
• The Divine Feminine: Exploring the Feminine Face of God Throughout the World, 1996
• The Essential Mystics: Selections from the World's Great Wisdom Traditions, 1997
• The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi
• The Essential Gay Mystics, 1998
• Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ, 1999
• The Return of the Mother, 2000
• A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism, 2000
• The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Through the World's Traditions, 2001
• The Sun at Midnight: A Memoir of the Dark Night, 2002