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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There are three levels of experiencing faith. The first level results from experiencing Essence as your inner nature; this is the individual level of faith. The second is the boundless level, in which you recognize Essence as the nature of everything. At this level, you have faith in God or reality. The third level is from the perspective of reality, the level of the Holy Ideas. Here, you experience and understand reality directly and objectively, perceiving and understanding its dynamics—what it is and how it works.
Diamond guidance is unexpected in its truth and presence and mysterious in how it functions in guiding our investigation and exploration of the truth of experience. In its full realization it guides and helps at all levels of experience, from the ordinary ego level to the various spiritual levels of experience and realization. It has the uncanny capacity to combine the data of our experience in the here and now with data and knowledge from the past, i.e., learned knowledge.