Brilliancy

The Essence of Intelligence

"A.H. Almaas is one of the foremost spiritual teachers of our time. His methodology for realizing true nature is precise, teachable, and remarkably clear. This book gives the reader a sense of what it is like to do "The Work" of the Diamond Approach, incorporating both lecture material and transcripts...

Diamond Heart Book I

Elements of the Real in Man

We live in a world of mystery, wonder and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being aware rather of a world that is mostly strife, suffering or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential...

Diamond Heart Book II

The Freedom to Be

Discusses the perils of too much success in spiritual work: how holding on to the "achievements" of essential development can interfere with the pursuit of truth about the nature of reality. There are two contenders for your attention: essence and personality. From the perspective of essence, self-realization means realizing or...

Diamond Heart Book III

Being and the Meaning of Life

Discusses in detail the issues and understandings involved in actually shifting the personal identity from personality to Essence. This is not an abstract or esoteric work, but a useful exploration of specific personal issues faced by students in the process of self-realization. How do you know that the knowledge you...

Diamond Heart Book IV

Indestructible Innocence

Talks on the topics of spiritual maturity and non-conceptual reality. Describes the understanding and practices needed for the integration of spiritual insight and experience into one's life. A view of understanding the basic unity of reality, and brings forth the issues involved when this understanding of unity confronts the egocentric...

Diamond Heart Book V

Inexhaustible Mystery

Inexhaustible Mystery is the last of the five books in the Diamond Heart series. Taken primarily from transcripts of talks given in the author's popular Diamond Approach groups, the books progress in subtlety and depth in describing the way reality manifests its mysteries in various facets and dimensions, offering understanding...

Essence with the Elixir of Enlightenment

The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Essence: "Almaas demystifies enlightenment, helping us to see it, not as some mysterious event, but rather as a down-to-earth, understandable process with definite stages and sign posts--a process in which the personality gradually releases its grip on our being, and allows essence to emerge and transform the personality itself. Essence...

Facets of Unity

The Enneagram of Holy Ideas

Presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a unique view of reality offering valuable insight to those on the spiritual path. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea leads to the development...

Inner Journey Home

Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality

This book presents the larger view of the Diamond Approach® to Self-realization, its metaphysical underpinnings, its overall structure, and its metapsychology. From the Preface by the Author: "As a human individual I am the author of this book, but not the source of the teaching presented in it. The real...

Luminous Night's Journey

An Autobiographical Fragment

This book is very special as it contains a new kind of teaching: excerpts from Almaas' personal journal, which describe a certain thread in his own journey of realization and the processes involved in integrating that realization. This publication marks a fortunate development in our knowledge of how Being is...

Pearl Beyond Price

Integration of Personality into Being: An Object-Relations Approach

Book One - The Nature of the Pearl Beyond Price The Personal Essence: The Man of Spirit and the Man of the World; Being and Ego The Discovery of Personal Essence: Autonomy; Beingness; The Personal Element; Contact The Essential Person: Personal Essence and the Man of the World; Personal Essence...

Spacecruiser Inquiry

True Guidance for the Inner Journey

"This book is designed to open you up to the nature of this most mysterious and personal journey. It is not a travelogue of magical and exotic places but an awakening to the capacities and possibilities in your soul for participating in the inner unfolding of your Being. What follows...

The Point of Existence

Transformation of Narcissism in Self-Realization

The Point of Existence describes the underlying spiritual basis for the common understanding of narcissism, which is the experience of a disturbance in the inner sense of self and the resulting need for constant reflection from the outside. This vulnerability in the inner experience of identity arises out of a...

The Unfolding Now

Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

From the Editor’s Preface The hidden richness that rests in our life, in our heart, in our experience is here—not over there, in some better life, in some other house, in some other career, in some other relationship or country or spiritual school. One time, perhaps, we actually knew that—and...

The Void

Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure

"The Void, in a remarkable and direct way, introduces us to the space or ground of mind within which mental structures operate. [Almass] shows how inner spaciousness can be experienced in somatic, psychological and spiritual ways, details some of the many levels of inner space and, more importantly, illustrates how...

Work on the Super-Ego

This monograph explores the biggest barrier to our growth and unfoldment, no matter what our stage of development – our inner critic. It discusses the etiology and functioning of the super-ego in our lives and gives practical methods for dealing with it individually, in relationship, and in working with others.”...