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.

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