Almaas & the Diamond Approach

Enlightenment is not a destination—it is a never-ending process of discovery and unfoldment. With Endless Enlightenment, cutting-edge teacher A.H. Almaas presents the latest evolution of his profound teaching, offering what he calls the view of totality through more than seven hours of insight and inquiry practice.

What do desire and passion have to do with the spiritual life? They are an essential part of it, according to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that pursuing desire will take you more into the egoic world. And for most people, that is exactly what happens.

A.H. Almaas, whose writings brilliantly illustrate the unity of modern depth psychology and traditional spiritual wisdom, is a respected, pioneering teacher.

The keys to self-knowledge and deep contentment are right here before us in this very moment—if we can simply learn to live with open awareness. In The Unfolding Now—based on transcripts of a summer retreat for the members of his spiritual school—A.H.

The world’s great spiritual traditions recognize that direct knowledge of the self or soul leads to an understanding of the nature of the cosmos and of the Divine itself. But what is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is the soul’s journey in life?

The enneagram is a widely used method of deciphering your personality by identifying yourself among nine basic types.

This fourth volume in the Diamond Heart series contains talks by Almaas, the founder and director of the Ridhwan School, to a group of his students in Colorado and California on the topics of spiritual maturity and non-conceptual reality.