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Glossary
Diamond Approach
Glossary of Spiritual Wisdom
From the teachings of A.H. Almaas
Absence
Absence (Crystalline Absence)
Absolute
Absolute (Perceived Darkness of)
Absolute Absence
Absolute Dimension
Absolute Identity
Absolute Nature
Absolute Truth
Absorption
Abuse
Abuse (Sexual Abuse)
Abyss
Acceptance
Acting Self
Action
Action (True Action)
Activity
Actualization
Addiction
Adult
Adventure
Aggression
Aim of Inquiry
Alchemy
Alienation
Aliveness
Allowing
Aloneness
Aloneness (Pure Aloneness)
Ambition
Analysis
Angel of Revelation
Anger
Anguish
Annihilation
Anxiety
Appearance
Appreciation
Appropriation
Archetype
Arising
Arrival
Arrive
Arriving
Assemblage Point
Assumptions
Atman
Attachment
Attention
Attunement
Authenticity
Autonomy
Autopoiesis
Avoidance / Avoiding
Awakening
Awakening (Endless Awakening)
Awakening (Primary Awakening)
Awareness
Awareness (Pure Awareness)
Baby's Experience
Balance
Barriers
Basic Fault
Basic Knowing
Basic Knowledge
Basic/Original Concepts
Beast
Beauty
Being
Being (Divine Being)
Being (Living Being)
Being (Nondifferentiated Being)
Being (Personal Being)
Being (Pure Being)
Being (Simply Being)
Being (Supreme Being)
Being (Total Being)
Being (Undifferentiated Being)
Being / Nonbeing
Being as Such
Being Oneself
Being Personal
Being Present
Being Real
Being Where You Are
Beingness
Beings of Light
Belief
Belly Center
Beloved
Beloved (Inner Beloved)
Beloved (Ultimate Beloved)
Betrayal
Beyond Mind
Biochemistry
Birth
Black Diamond
Black Essence/Aspect
Black Latifa
Black Light
Black Space
Blame
Blessing
Bliss
Blockage
Blue Diamond
Blue Essence/Aspect
Blue Latifa
Blueprint
Boats
Body
Body Centers
Body Ego
Body Image
Body of Light
Borderline
Boredom, Boring, Bored
Boundaries
Boundless Dimensions
Boundless Light
Boundlessness
Brain
Brilliancy
Brilliancy Diamond
Buddha
Career
Castration
Cathedral
Cathexis
Certainty
Cessation
Chakras
Change
Channel
Chasm
Chest
Child
Choice
Citadel
Clarification of the Soul
Clarity
Clear Diamond
Clear Essence
Clear Light
Coemergence
Coemergent Nonduality
Cognition
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Filters
Cognitive Process
Commitment
Compassion
Complete Man
Completeness
Completeness (Incompleteness)
Completion
Compulsion
Concept/Nothing Diamonds
Concepts
Concepts (Experience-Near Concepts)
Conceptualizing
Conditioning
Conflict
Confusion
Connection / Disconnection (i)
Connection / Disconnection (ii)
Consciousness
Consciousness (Individual Consciousness)
Consciousness (Pure Consciousness)
Consciousness (Self-Consciousness)
Constraints
Contact
Contentment
Contraction
Control
Cosmic Being (Personal Cosmic Being)
Cosmic Consciousness
Cosmic Identity
Cosmic Pearl
Cosmic Reality
Cosmic Shell / Cosmic Hole
Courage
Creation
Creation (Continual Creation)
Creativity
Creator of Form
Crystal Guidance
Crystal Heart
Crystal Vehicles
Crystalline States
Curiosity
Cynicism
Death
Death Space
Defending
Defense
Delusions
Dependency
Depression
Depth
Design
Desire
Despair
Destiny
Detachment
Development
Developmental Psychology
Devoid of . . . .
Devotion
Diamond Approach
Diamond Body
Diamond Consciousness
Diamond Dimension
Diamond Dome
Diamond Eye
Diamond Guidance
Diamond Inquiry™
Diamond Issues
Diamond Knowledge
Diamond Level
Diamond Mind
Diamond Samadhi
Diamond Structures
Diamond Vehicles
Diamond Will
Diaphragm
Dichotomy
Differentiation
Difficulties
Dimension (Core Dimension)
Dimension (Crystal Dimension)
Dimensions (Formless Dimensions)
Dimensions of Experience
Direct Experience
Direct Knowledge
Direct Perception
Direct Transmission
Disappear
Disappearance
Disappearing
Disappearing (Fear of)
Discernment
Discipline
Discovery
Discriminating Intelligence
Discrimination
Disidentification
Dissociation
Dissolution
Dissolving
Distortion
Divine
Divine Coma
Divine Darkness
Divine Eros
Divine Light
Divine Love (Nondual Love)
Divine Mind
Doer (No Doer)
Doer (Only Doer)
Doer (Personality Beliefs)
Doubt
Dread
Dreaming
Dual Unity
Duality
Dynamism
Education
Effort
Effulgence
Ego
Ego Activity
Ego Alien/Ego Syntonic
Ego Boundaries
Ego Death
Ego Defense
Ego Deficiency
Ego Development
Ego Functions
Ego Ideal
Ego Identity
Ego Inadequacy
Ego Life
Ego Line
Ego Metabolism
Ego Self
Ego Structures
Ego Structures (Preconceptual / Precognitive)
Ego Structures (Prenatal)
Ego Structures (Preverbal)
Elixir
Emanation
Embodiment
Emergence
Emotional States
Emotions
Empathy
Emptiness
Emptiness (Deficient Emptiness)
Emptiness Wound
Encounters (third kind)
End State
Energies
Energy (Pure Energy)
Enlightenment
Enlightenment (Traceless Enlightenment)
Enlightenment Drive
Enlightenment Factors
Enneagram and the Diamond Approach
Enneagram of Avoidances
Enneagram of Ego Ideals
Enneagram of Holy Ideas
Enneagram of Specific Delusions
Enneagram of Specific Difficulties
Enneagram of Specific Reactions
Enneatypes and Fixations
Enneatypes: Characteristics of Key Essential Aspects (Endowments)
Enneatypes: Core, Shell, Keys
Enneatypes: Direct Approaches to Understanding
Enneatypes: Essential Endowments
Entity
Entityhood
Eros
Error (Momentous Error)
Essence
Essential Activation
Essential Aspects
Essential Conscience
Essential Development
Essential Endowments
Essential Experience
Essential Ground
Essential Heart
Essential Identity
Essential Love
Essential Nous
Essential Person
Essential Presence
Essential Qualities
Essential Realization
Essential Retrieval
Essential Self
Essential Soul
Essential States
Essential Truth
Essential Will
Eternity
Evil
Evolutionary Force
Existence
Existence (Nonexistence)
Existence (Pure Existence)
Existence (Ultimate Existence)
Existence Pearl
Experience
Experience (Immediacy of)
Experience (Nonlocal Experience)
Experience (Personal Experience)
Experience (Pure Experience)
Experiencer
Extension
Extension Object Relation
Eyes
Fabrications
Failure
Faith
Fakeness
False Pearl
False Will
Falsehood
Father
Fear
Featurelessness
Feeling
Feeling (Pure Feeling)
Feels Like . . .
Field (Unified Field)
Field of the Soul
Fixation
Flame of the Search
Flexibility
Flow
Fluid
Fluidity
Focus (i)
Focus (ii)
Forehead
Forgetting
Forgiveness
Form
Form (Prenoetic Form)
Formless Realms
Fountain Metaphor
Fountain of Knowledge
Fragmentation
Free Will
Freedom
Freedom Vehicle
Friend
Frustration
Fulcrum
Fulfillment
Fullness
Functioning
Functioning of . . . (i)
Functioning of . . . (ii)
Gaps
Generosity
Genital Hole
Genitals
Ghost
Gift
Gnosis
Goals
God
God's Will
Godhead
Gold Essence/Aspect
Gone (Dissolutions)
Good / Bad
Good Mother
Goodness
Grace
Grandiose Self
Gratification
Gratitude
Great Sphere
Greed
Green Diamond
Green Essence/Aspect
Green Latifa
Grief
Ground
Ground (Fundamental Ground)
Ground (Ultimate Ground)
Ground Dimension
Growing Up
Growth
Guest
Guidance
Guilt
Happiness
Harmony
Hatred
Havingness
Head Center
Healing
Heart
Heart (Courageous Heart)
Heart Center
Heart of God
Hell
Helping
Helplessness
Hereness
Hierarchy / Nonhierarchy
Holding Environment
Holes (Theory of)
Hologram
Holy Ideas
Home
Honey
Hope
Hopelessness
HU
Human Being
Human Life
Human Maturity
Human Nature
Human Potential
Human Soul
Humanness
Humility
Hurt (i)
Hurt (ii)
Hurt (iii)
I (the I)
Id
Idealization
Idealizing Transference
Ideals
Ideas
Identification
Identity
Identity (Child Identity)
Identity (Gender Identity)
Identity (True Identity)
Identity and Attachment
Ignorance
Illumination
Illusion
Image
Imagination
Immanence
Impeccability
Impersonal
Impersonal Emptiness
Impersonal Witness
Impressionability
In the Moment
Incompleteness
Indeterminacy
Indeterminate
Individuality
Individuation
Individuation Narcissism
Indulgence
Inertia
Inexhaustibility
Infant Soul
Inferiority
Infinity
Inner Child
Inner Content
Inner Development
Inner Experience
Inner Forms
Inner Hearing
Inner Journey
Inner Mother
Inner Perception
Inner Realization
Inner Seeing
Inner Smell
Inner Taste
Inner Touch
Inner Work
Innocence
Inquiry (Dialectic)
Inquiry (Hyperdrive of)
Inquiry (Open-Endedness)
Inquiry (Power Drive of)
Inquiry (Superluminal Drive of)
Insecurity
Inside and Outside
Insight
Instinct
Instinctual Drives
Integrated Dimension
Integration
Integrity
Intellect
Intelligence
Intelligence (Pure Intelligence)
Intelligence of . . .
Intention
Interference
Intimacy
Introjection
Intuition
Ipseity
Isness
Issues
Jabba the Hutt
Jackal
Jealousy
Jesus Christ
Job
Journey of Ascent
Journey of Descent
Journeys (Three)
Joy
Judgment
Kath
Kenosis
Kernel of the Kernel
Kidney
Kindness
Knowing
Knowing (Direct Knowing)
Knowing (Not Knowing)
Knowing (Unknowing)
Knowingness
Knowingness (True Knowingness)
Knowledge
Knowledge (Master of)
Knowledge (Ordinary Knowledge)
Knowledge (Pure Knowledge)
Knowledge (True Knowledge)
Kundalini
Lataif
Lava
Lead Pearl
Learning
Legs
Letting Go
Levels of . . . (i)
Levels of . . . (ii)
Levels of . . . (iii)
Liberation
Lies
Life (Essential Life)
Life (Personal Life)
Life (Pure Life)
Life (Real Life)
Life (True Life)
Life / Life is
Life Force
Lifeline
Light
Light (Pure Light)
Light (Transcendent Light)
Limitations
Liver
Living
Living (The Process of Living)
Living Daylight
Locus of Experience
Logic
Logos
Logos (Universal)
Logos-Speaking
Loneliness
Longing (Deep Longing . . . )
Longing For . . .
Longing Is . . .
Looks Like . . .
Loss
Loss of Essence
Love
Love (Blocking Love)
Love (Boundless Love)
Love (Magnetic Love)
Love (Passionate Love)
Love (Pure Love)
Love (Unconditional Love)
Love of Truth
Lover
Loving Kindness
Loving Light
Luminosity
Macrocosm
Malleability
Man of Spirit
Man of the World
Mandala
Manifestation
Manifestation (Pure Manifestation)
Markabah
Maturation
Meaning
Meaningful
Meaninglessness
Meditation
Memory
Mental Anguish
Mental Images
Mental Pathologies
Mental Relationships
Mercury
Merging Essence
Merging Love
Metabolism
Metabolism (Psychic Metabolism)
Metaphysics
Metapsychology
Microcosm
Mind
Mind (No Mind)
Mind (Ordinary Mind)
Mindfulness
Mirror Like Awareness
Mirror Transference
Mirroring
Mobius Inquiry
Morphing
Mother
Motivation
Mountain Metaphor
Muscle
Mystery
Mystical Knowing
Mystical Poverty
Nameless
Naming
Narcissism
Narcissism (Central Narcissism)
Narcissism (Fundamental Narcissism)
Narcissism (Oedipal Narcissism)
Narcissism (Oral Narcissism)
Narcissism (Pathological Narcissism)
Narcissism of Everyday Life
Narcissistic Abyss
Narcissistic Constellation
Narcissistic Emptiness
Narcissistic Impasse
Narcissistic Issues
Narcissistic Rage
Narcissistic Shame
Narcissistic Supplies
Narcissistic Transference
Narcissistic Vulnerability
Narcissistic Wound
Nature (Ultimate Nature)
Nearness
Necessary Awakening
Needs
Negative Merging
Neonate
Nervous System
Network
Neurosis
Neurotic
Night
No Diamonds
Nobility
Noesis
Noetic Form
Nonattachment
Nonbeing
Nonbeingness
Nonconceptual Awareness
Nonconceptual Dimension
Nonconceptual Presence
Nonconceptual Reality
Nonconceptual Truth
Nonconceptuality (Total Nonconceptuality)
Nondimensionality
Nondoing
Nondual Love (Divine Love)
Nonduality
Nonlocality
Nonlocality (Total Nonlocality)
Not This / Not That
Nothing
Nothingness
Nourishment
Nous
Now (The)
Object Constancy
Object Love
Object Relation (Central OR)
Object Relation (Frustrating OR)
Object Relation (Positive OR)
Object Relations
Objectification
Objective Consciousness
Objective Dimensions of Essence
Objective Love
Objective Perception
Objective Person
Objective Personal Essence
Objective Reality
Objective Truth
Objective Understanding
Objectivity
Obscurations
Obstacles
Old Age
Omnipresence
Oneness
Ontology
Opaqueness
Openness
Openness (Pure Openness)
Opportunity
Optimizing Force of Being
Organ of Action
Organ of Experience
Organ of Realization
Organs of Perception
Orientation (i)
Orientation (ii)
Orientation (iii)
Origin
Original Sin and the Redemption
Otherness
Overwhelm
Pain
Paradox
Parenting
Particulars
Passion
Past
Pathologies
Pathologies (Mental Pathologies)
Pathology
Patience
Pattern
Pea
Peace
Peace (Pure Peace)
Pearl (Diamond Pearl)
Pearl (Macrocosm Pearl)
Pearl (Microcosm Pearl)
Pearl (Supreme Pearl)
Pearl Beyond Price
Pebble
Pelvis
Perception
Perception (Pure Perception)
Perception (Subtle Perception)
Perceptivity (Pure Perceptivity)
Perfections
Perfections of Being
Perineum
Person
Person (Pure Person)
Person (Supreme Person)
Person (True Person)
Personal
Personal Essence
Personal Essence (Supreme Personal Essence)
Personal History
Personal Love
Personal Mind
Personal Will
Personality
Personality Aspect
Personality Sectors
Personalization
Perspective
Phenomena
Philosophers' Stone
Physical Body
Physical Matter
Pink Essence/Aspect
Plastic/Plasticity
Platinum
Platonic Form
Pleasing
Pleasure
Pleasure (Pure Pleasure)
Point
Point Diamond
Point of View
Polarity
Pomegranate
Poor in Spirit
Positions
Possessions
Postmodernism
Posture
Potential
Potential (Pure Potential)
Poverty
Power
Practice
Practice (Spiritual Practice)
Practice (Total Practice)
Practicing Period
Prayer
Preciousness
Preferences
Prejudice
Presence
Presence (Dynamic Presence)
Presence (Nondifferentiated Presence)
Presence (Primordial Presence)
Presence (Pure Presence)
Present Moment
Prickliness
Pride
Process of . . . (i)
Process of . . . (ii)
Process of . . . (iii)
Process of . . . (iv)
Process of Understanding
Projection
Protoplasm
Psyche
Psychic Impressions
Psychic Structure
Psychodynamic Issues
Psychological Constellations
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Purification
Purity
Purpose
Questions
Quiddity
Quintessence
Quintessential Dimension
Radiance
Radiance (Pure Radiance)
Radical Nonconceptuality
Rapprochement
Reactivity
Real Person
Real Relationship
Real Time
Reality
Reality (Living Reality)
Reality (Supreme Reality)
Reality (Ultimate Reality)
Realization
Realization (Dynamic of Realization)
Realization (Pure State)
Realization (Runaway Realization)
Realness
Reason/Rationality
Reasoning
Rebirth
Recognition
Red Diamond
Red Essence/Aspect
Red Latifa
Red Sulfur
Refinement
Regression
Reification
Reification (De-Reification)
Rejecting Object Relation
Rejection
Relating
Relationship to the Teaching
Relationships
Relative Truth
Remembering
Rending Veils
Renunciation
Repression
Resistance
Responsibility
Resurrection
Revelation
Revenge
Reverence
Ridhwan
Riemannian Manifold
Rightness
Rigidity
Sacred
Sacred Cows
Sacred Impulse
Sacrifice
Sadness
Samadhi
Samadhi (Diamond Samadhi)
Samadhi (Obsidian Samadhi)
Samsara
Schizoid Character
Schizoid Defense
Science
Search
Secondary Autonomy
Secret
Security/Insecurity
Seeking
Self
Self (Commanding Self)
Self (Conventional Self)
Self (False Self)
Self (No Self)
Self (Oedipal Self)
Self (Primal Self)
Self (True Self)
Self Awareness
Self Boundaries
Self Concept
Self Entity
Self Esteem
Self Expression
Self Identity
Self Identity Structure
Self Image
Self Knowledge
Self Love
Self Object
Self Organization
Self Realization
Self Realization (Primary)
Self Recognition
Self Reflection
Self Rejection
Self Representation
Self Respect
Self Sacrifice
Self Seeking
Selflessness
Sensation
Sense of Self
Senses
Sensing
Sensitivity
Sensitivity (Pure Sensitivity)
Sensitivity to . . .
Separate Observer
Separateness
Separation
Separation - Individuation
Separation Anxiety
Service
Sexuality
Shaking, Trembling
Shakti
Shame
Sharing
Shedding
Shell
Shining
Simplicity
Sincerity
Singularity
Skandhas
Society
Socrates
Socratic Method
Solidity
Son of God
Sorrow (Objective)
Soul
Soul (Animal Soul)
Soul (Desire Soul)
Soul (Essence of)
Soul (Libidinal Soul)
Soul Child
Source
Space
Space (Inner Space)
Speaker
Specialness
Specificity
Spirit
Spirit (Pure Spirit)
Spiritual Centers
Spiritual Development
Spiritual Enlightenment
Spiritual Light
Spiritual Materialism
Spiritual Maturity
Spiritual Path
Spiritual Realization
Spiritual Sleep
Spirituality
Spleen
Splitting
Spontaneity
States
Stations
Steadfast
Steadfastness
Stillness
Stomach
Stream / Streaming / Flow
Strength
Striving
Struggle
Student
Stupa Diamond Vehicle
Subject/Object
Subjectivity
Substance/Essential Substance
Substantiality / Insubstantiality
Subtle Experience
Subtle Perceptual Capacities
Suchness
Suffering
Superego
Support
Support (Essential Support)
Support (Inner Support)
Supreme (the Supreme)
Surprise
Surrender
Survival Instinct
Symbiosis
Synthesis
Tantra
Taste (or Experience) of . . .
Teacher
Teaching
Technique
Terror
Thinking
Thinking (True Thinking0
Thoughts
Thread (Personal Thread)
Thread of . . . .
Thymus
Time
Timelessness
Transcendence
Transference
Transformation
Transformer
Transparency
Traps
Trauma
Triad: Self, Being, World
True Nature
True Nature's Nature
Trust
Trust (Basic Trust)
Truth
Truth (Ultimate Truth)
Turning Away
Turning Toward
Turnings of the Wheel
Ultimate
Ultimate (Particular Ultimates)
Ultimate Mystery
Unconscious (the Unconscious)
Unconsciousness
Understanding
Undifferentiated Matrix
Unfolding
Unfoldment
Unilocality
Union
Unity
Unity of Being
Universal Concept
Universal Consciousness
Universal Heart
Universal Heretic
Universal Love
Universal Mind
Universal Nous
Universal Soul
Universal Thinking
Universal Transformation
Universal Will
Universal Witness
Universe
Universe (Living Universe)
Unknowable
Unknowing / Unknowingness
Unmanifest
Vajra Body
Value
Vehicle
Veils
View of Totality
Virtual Dimension
Virtue
Virtues (Christian Virtues)
Visions
Vital Energy
Void (The Void)
Voidness (Pure Voidness)
Vulnerability / Invulnerability
Waiting
Waking Up
Wanting
Water Chandelier
Weakness
What Is
What Next ?
White Essence/Aspect
Who Am I
Wholeness
Will
Will (Personal Will)
Willfulness
Window
Wisdom
Wisdom Traditions
Wish (Symbiotic Wish)
Witness/Witnessing
Wonder (A Wonder)
Wonder (No Wonder . . . )
Wonderment
Word Concept
Work (The Work)
World
World (Representational World)
Wounds/Wounding
Yellow Latifa
Yoga
You
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