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.
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We can explore freedom in many other ways. It is a profound contemplation because freedom changes meaning as more degrees of freedom are recognized. We discover the freedom of the heart to appear in ways that we haven’t thought possible; the freedom of the mind to perceive, discern, know, and think in new ways; the freedom of acting, communicating, and relating as Total Being. Freedom also becomes connected with maturation. The more mature we are, the more we are able to handle further degrees of freedom.
So each one of us is experiencing Total Being in one or another of its presentations all the time. And our practice is simply to find out what it is right now, to inquire into its nature; and, as we inquire into it, the inquiry itself, which feels like an invitation, is Total Being expressing its intelligence and revealing other possibilities as part of actualizing its potential. We experience the gravitational pull of Total Being manifesting further potentialities as our love of discovery.