On my recent trip to India, I had a blazing insight: that the journey that we take together this time in Lent should be one of concentrated and radiant celebration, helping us prepare for the light of the resurrection by making a different commitment: this time we shall fast throughout Lent from despair, paralysis, self-absorption, and separation from divine love.

This journey will begin in joy, taking us systematically and joyfully through all the different stages of rapture, self-knowledge and awakening that could possibly embolden and strengthen us for the great work of rebuilding humanity. You will see how each quotation builds on the previous one and prepares us for the final ten days, when you’ll receive the fullest inspiration to reimagine a sacred world and a new kind of human being, nothing less than our resurrected selves.

This of course changes everything about the journey, implying something holy and revolutionary—that the true journey now for us in our world crisis is one that prepares us in joy, faith, peace and passionate purpose to be midwife warriors of the birth.

I hope the journey I have created in love for you will fill you with such sacred joy and confidence in your true selves that when Easter comes this year, you will know that it is you that is being reborn and expanded and invited into the giving of yourself to the birth in our time. I feel so honored to be accompanying you on this wonderful journey.

Each day begins and ends with a prayer. I suggest you devote thirty minutes each morning and evening as follows:

• First, before reading the prayer, spend 10 minutes in silent meditation to clear your spirit, allowing you to receive the power and imprint of the prayer.
• Next, read and re-read the prayer for 10 minutes. Dive deeply into each holy word or phrase, asking for guidance and healing. Note the feelings, emotions or images that present themselves.
• Finally, for 10 minutes pray calmly and with passionate focus, keeping your heart open; pray the prayer again, letting it flow through you. Sit calmly for any time left. Rest and when you are ready, jot down any thoughts or images you want to include in your journal and write about more fully later. 

Before you begin this journey, have a journal on hand so you can track what arises in you as the days pass. This becomes a valuable record not just of memory but of your own transformative experience during this stage of your soul’s journey, one that will inspire you as you continue on your own unique path.

My dearest friends, please join me on this mystical prayer journey inspired by spiritual traditions through the ages and designed in this time of great change to give you all the strength, stamina and inspiration you will need.

Let us begin this deep journey of compassion and joy—for ourselves and all we love in this life.

With boundless love,
Andrew