Course Syllabus
Overview of the Course – with Hameed Ali
In the course overview, you will:
- Learn about the unique aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
- Understand how to engage your life to support spiritual growth and increased awareness
- Discover how to approach mundane experience in a way that opens them up to new levels
- Explore what it means to all the dimensions of our human potential
Course Modules
Module 1 – The Diamond Approach: A Personal Path – with Jeanne Rosenblum
In this module, you will:
- Become acquainted with the various aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
- Discover how to find something true in yourself wherever you are in yourself
- Be guided through an introduction to a practice to explore and honor your personal spiritual path
Module 2 – Being in Touch with Our Experience – with Rob Merkx
In this module, you will:
- Be guided to understand why it’s important and valuable to be in touch with your experience
- Explore how every experience can be a doorway to True Nature
- Recognize the barriers to being in contact with your experience
Module 3 – Presence in the Flow of Experience – with Rob Merkx
In this module, you will:
- Explore the idea of presence as a palpable substance of reality and quality that is found in the here and now
- Recognize the different ways to notice presence
- Perceive the dynamic nature of presence that emerges when one allows what is happening without judgment
Module 4 – The Essential Qualities of Being – with Zarina Maiwandi
In this module, you will:
- Explore the infinite richness of your inner life
- Understand the various qualities of being, such as love, joy, clarity, confidence, peacefulness, and determination
- Sense the doorways to becoming more in touch with the differentiated qualities of being
Module 5 – Nondual/Boundless Dimensions – with Zarina Maiwandi
In this module, you will:
- Learn how we can discover a presence that has no bounds, moving into nondual expansion
- Understand the inclusive, unified, and vast expanse that includes what we are, what we see, what we don’t see, and beyond
- Begin to discriminate into a subtler dimension of awareness that can yield to a bottomless nothingness that is the source of everything
- Explore how reality is full of open places and spaces, and how every part of experience can be a wormhole that can lead beyond time and space so that you may come to know the unbounded freedom of reality as who and what you are
Module 6 – Daily Life – with Jeanne Rosenblum
In this module, you will:
- Explore what it really means for Being/spirit to live a human life
- Inquire into how realization can be integrated into everyday life
- Discover how cultivating greater awareness of the patterns we have developed throughout life can lead to different aspects of life undergoing transformation
- Engage in various ways to support the integration of spiritual experience into daily life
Q & A Sessions
In this module you will find information about the two live Question-and-Answer (Q&A) sessions with the course teachers:
- July 1st at 12pm PDT
- July 20th at 10am PDT.
Course Completion
In this module you will complete the course and explore next steps.