Mysticism

Andrew’s work with Kabir brings fierce poetry into a world that needs courage. His teachings invite the reader to encounter the poems as a living practice, not only as words on a page.

Turn Me to Gold gathers 108 of his poems. A year-long course, a dedicated teaching and an album of music inspired by Kabir open the same door in different ways.

Hidden Journey, The Divine Feminine with Anne Baring and The Return of the Mother trace one of the central passions of Andrew’s life: the recovery of the Divine Mother in every tradition.

For Andrew the Mother is not a soft idea. She is the ground of compassion, justice and the sacredness of all life, and her return asks something real of us.

Andrew was born in Coimbatore, south India, and lived there until he was nine; those years planted his sense of the unity of all religions. In 1977 he returned to India, where a series of mystical experiences began his spiritual path.

In Ladakh in 1983 he took the Bodhisattva vows with Thuksey Rinpoche, and A Journey in Ladakh won the Christmas Humphreys Award. In 1992 he met Father Bede Griffiths in south India, reconciling the mysticisms of East and West. Alongside them stand Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, whose vision of divine transformation he draws on deeply.