Radical Regeneration

Radical Regeneration is an inspiring manual for navigating humanity’s collective dark night and enacting personal and planetary transformation.

This work explores how Sacred Activism—specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action—offers an antidote to the crises facing our world. It reveals how to uncover and sustain joy and how to use it as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times. The book includes practical maps of the dark night process and of the four-part path to transfiguration, drawn from the secret depths of the mystical traditions.

Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker present a manual for confronting humanity's collective dark night by drawing from mystical traditions and Sacred Activism. The authors discuss our global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, examining dangers such as authoritarianism, climate change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual malaise. They propose that Sacred Activism and a deep understanding of our evolutionary ordeal can serve as antidotes to these crises.

The authors examine the power of joy, or ananda, recognised by all mystical traditions as the essence of the Divine, in enacting personal and planetary transformation. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in ourselves and how to use it as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in these perilous times.

Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors argue that the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation process. Its intensity could be the seedbed of a new embodied divine humanity. They provide practical maps of the crises and the shadows that this global dark night is casting, as well as the four-part path to transfiguration from mystical traditions. Sharing a vision of a new, focused global moment of love in action, the authors insist that apocalypse is not inevitable—if enough people awaken to the extraordinary possibilities of Sacred Activism.