https://vimeo.com/1013218117/2104c40e8f?ts=0&share=copy Enjoy this free video recording of our September 22, 2024 webinar with Diamond Approach teachers Linda Krier and Jessica Britt for a critical, timely, and new teaching on the powerful synergy between body, instincts, and spirituality that allows us to be more authentically available […]
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This autumn, we’ll be deepening our 2024 focus on the instinctual human drives by highlighting the essential role of the body in learning how to alchemize these primal forces into fuel for the spiritual journey. As you may recall, we kicked off the year with Diamond Approach founders, A H Almaas (Hameed Ali) and Karen Johnson teaching the Human Instincts
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To support our community in this year’s theme of the instincts, this blog post is adapted from the content of Runaway Realization by A.H. Almaas. “The enlightenment drive is enlightenment expressing itself as a drive. It is true nature in its freedom expressing itself as
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“Liberation doesn’t happen by liberating from this animal part of ourselves. It’s liberating the animal to develop into what it really means to be a real human being in the world.” -Karen JohnsonThe Power of Divine ErosInsights at the Edge interview with Tami Simon, A.H.
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“When we talk about “erotic” in the spiritual sphere, it means that the divine and the physical and the love are all one presence. It has all of those characteristics. It’s pleasurable and fun and full and beautiful. It doesn’t have to distinguish between physical
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To usher in Diamond Approach Online’s 2024 theme of working with the instinctual human drives, Diamond Approach founders A.H. Almaas (Hameed Ali) and Karen Johnson were interviewed for their reflections on the social, sexual and survival instincts. At this time of uncertainty – when we
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Watch this free talk where A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson explore how working with your social, sexual and survival instincts can enhance your spiritual life.
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“Divine eros is a topic that invites the purity of our spiritual nature to combine with the power of our animal instinct. Instinct is animal, and “animal” generally means “primitive.” The animal in us is a powerful primitive force that humanity still hasn’t learned to
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Did you know that each year Diamond Approach Online offers a central theme and inquiry invitation for our public community? As 2023 began, over 1000 people from around the world were exploring the transformational power of the Enneagram to take them beyond their habitual self
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What is love at the spiritual level? It is not just an emotion, though it does have affect like our emotions have affect. That affect is sweetness, goodness and happiness. But it is much more than emotion. It is an actual presence that fills our
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