We have been hearing from people in our global community how much the tumultuous international events of this time are impacting them. So again this month we are sharing a teaching excerpt and practice from the Spirituality in a Fractured World course that you can […]
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To support our global community, we want to share a teaching excerpt and practice from the Spirituality in a Fractured World course that you can do at home today. Past participants in the SFW course have said the teachings and related exercises had a tremendous
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https://vimeo.com/1051651200 Enjoy this free video recording of our January 26, 2025 webinar with Diamond Approach founders A. H. Almaas (pen name of Hameed Ali) and Karen Johnson to explore how we can deepen our inner stability, stay rooted in realization, and bring beauty to stormy
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This year’s theme of exploration was designed to meet us exactly where we are – amidst the very human challenges we face every day. Escalating conflict, an epidemic of disconnection, global instability – everywhere we look we see the unconscious expression of our primal animal instincts playing out
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What does it mean for this life in a human body to be all that it can be—for the truth of our inner nature to come forward and be how we live? We each have a unique relationship with our body that includes both
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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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