Almaas & the Diamond Approach

Well-known spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas, originator of the Diamond Approach, here uses the metaphor of the mysterious philosopher’s stone to discuss a tremendous liberating power that leads to endless enlightenment.

For the first time in print, well-known spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas presents the highest level and most profound teachings of the Diamond Approach on the true nature of reality and the path to enlightenment.

This is the last of the five-volume Diamond Heart series of transcribed and edited talks given by A.H. Almaas to inner-work groups in California and Colorado in the1980s.

Here the author of The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram shows how the ancient and muliti-dimensional nine-pointed symbol elucidates the most intractable pitfalls of our psyches and, through our understanding them, can lead us to our highest virtues.

Intelligence is one of the defining characteristics of human beings: an inherent ability to respond to the world with awareness, knowledge, learning, and insight.

Over the past 25 years, A.H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology.

In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—“the pearl beyond price”—in the context of living a normal human life.