Almaas | Ridhwan Google Tag Manager   Teaching Method A. H. Almaas Ridhwan School Online Courses Ways to Engage Blog Donate Portal Login Homepage See More Pages Main Pages Home The Teaching The Method The Ridhwan School Ways to Engage Friends of Ridhwan About Us By Region Asia Australia/New Zealand Diamond Approach Online/Diamond Net Europe South Africa US Middle US Northeast/Eastern Canada US South US West/Western Canada Pages A. H. Almaas Public Events Blog The Store Donate The Teachers Resources Recommended Books Recommended Articles The Library The Glossary FAQ Almaas Portal Login Search Teaching Method A. H. Almaas Ridhwan School Online Courses Ways to Engage Blog Donate Portal Login A. H. Almaas Founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization A. H. Almaas Founder of the Ridhwan School for Spiritual Development 1 2 Featured Video From the Archives: In a talk from 1993, A.H. Almaas discusses impeccability in terms of doing this Work, the Diamond Approach, and brings in a paradox related to impeccability. There’s a danger for the ego to believe that what happens in the Work is the result of the ego’s efforts and actions. This brings in the paradox. Almaas also talks about the perspectives of Chesed and Geburah, usually translated as mercy and severity, or abundance and might. More videos >>     A. H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali, founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the Diamond Heart series, The Pearl Beyond Price, The Void, and The Alchemy of Freedom. He is the founder of the Ridhwan School for Spiritual Development, an inner work school devoted to the realization of True Nature. The orientation of the school is directed toward guiding students to realize their true nature to the fullest realization and further still to endless enlightenment. Read more about A. H. Almaas >> Find events with A. H. Almaas >> . Recommended Videos The Interplay of Grace and Effort on a Nondual Path Emptiness, The Edge of the Unknown Perception and Reality SAND2018 Panel Appreciating the Human Being Human Is a Development More Videos Recommended Articles At the Cutting Edge of Using Psychological Concepts in Soul Work is Spiritual Teacher Hameed Ali The Passionate Love for Truth Spiritual Work and Psychotherapy Uncovering the Essential Self Experience, Self, and Individual Consciousness More Articles Recommended Books Love Unveiled The Jeweled Path The Alchemy of Freedom Runaway Realization The Power of Divine Eros More Books From The Glossary Explore More Glossary Terms >> B When We are Simply Being, Our Experience of Ourselves is Direct, Immediate and Free from the Influence of the Thick Veil of Accumulated Memories, Ideas, Ideals and Images We have seen that in order for us to be authentically and fully ourselves, our identity must include the ontological depth of the soul, essential presence, and that to be presence means simply to be. When we are simply being, our experience of ourselves is direct, immediate, spontaneous, and natural, free from the influence of the thick veil of accumulated memories, ideas, ideals, and images. We have also seen that conventional experience does not allow the experience of self-realization because conventional experience is virtually determined by this thick veil of personal history. B When a Person is Identified with Something Other than Primordial Presence, He is Not Simply Being In the experience of self-realization, the self recognizes its identity as presence. When a person is identified with something other than the primordial presence, self-realization is absent. He is not then being himself; he is not simply being. He is not one with his essence. The most fundamental and deepest aspect of the soul is absent in his experience of himself. This is the root of narcissism. In narcissism, the experience of the self is disconnected from its core, from the depths of what it is. It is estranged from its true nature, exiled from its primordial home. Subscribe to the Diamond Approach Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates Sign Up   See past editions of the Diamond Approach newsletter   ​Connect With Us           About Us About Us Search form Search FRIENDS OF RIDHWAN VISIT THE STORE SEE SITEMAP Main Pages Home The Teaching The Method The Ridhwan School Ways to Engage Friends of Ridhwan About Us By Region Asia Australia/New Zealand Diamond Approach Online/Diamond Net Europe South Africa US Middle US Northeast/Eastern Canada US South US West/Western Canada Pages A. H. Almaas Public Events Blog The Store Donate The Teachers Resources Recommended Books Recommended Articles The Library The Glossary FAQ Privacy Terms of Use Portal Login Copyright © 2021 Ridhwan Foundation