A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas is the pen name of Hameed Ali, originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been teaching individuals and groups in Colorado, California, and Europe for some twenty-five years. He is the founder of the Ridhwan School and the author of numerous books, including Spacecruiser Inquiry, Essence, and The Pearl Beyond Price.
Titles by A. H. Almaas
The Essence of Intelligence
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy / Psychology
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 336 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-59030-335-1 / May 2006
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Intelligence is one of the defining characteristics of human beings: an inherent ability to respond to the world with awareness, knowledge, learning, and insight. Most considerations of human intelligence are based on the notion that intelligence is a product of brain functioning. A. H. Almaas introduces...
An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 224 pages / 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
ISBN 978-1-57062-406-3 / July 1999
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The Diamond Approach has been developed and taught over the last twenty-five years by Hameed Ali (known chiefly by his pen name, A. H. Almaas), who is widely recognized as a leader in the integration of spirituality and psychology. This is the first book to introduce the complete spectrum of his...
Indestructible Innocence
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 392 pages / 5 x 8
ISBN 978-0-936713-11-3 / September 2000
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We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the parts that are mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. The situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential...
Elements of the Real in Man
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 240 pages / 5 x 8
ISBN 978-0-936713-01-4 / September 2000
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This four-volume series presents a collection of talks given by Almaas on topics such as faith, commitment, nobility and suffering, truth and compassion, allowing, and growing up. Through these talks, Almaas offers valuable guidance and advice for those on a spiritual path, and he explores the challenges...
Being and the Meaning of Life
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 232 pages / 5 x 8
ISBN 978-0-936713-05-2 / September 2000
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We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the part that is mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential...
The Freedom to Be
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 224 pages / 5 x 8
ISBN 978-0-936713-04-5 / September 2000
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We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the parts that are mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. The situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential...
The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 320 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-936713-14-4 / September 2000
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Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each...
Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality
A. H. Almaas / Psychology
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 752 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-59030-109-8 / April 2004
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What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the...
An Autobiographical Fragment
A. H. Almaas / Psychology
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 160 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-936713-08-3 / January 2000
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In Luminous Night's Journey, Almaas shares excerpts from his personal journal, which describe a certain thread in his own journey of realization and the processes involved in integrating that realization. This publication marks a fortunate development in our knowledge of how Being is realized...
Integration of Personality into Being
An Object Relations Approach
A. H. Almaas / Psychology
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 536 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-936713-02-1 / September 2000
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In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—"the pearl beyond price"—in the context of living a normal...
Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization
A. H. Almaas / Psychology
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 632 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-936713-09-0 / September 2000
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In this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual understanding of narcissism. He presents a detailed map of the steps involved in working through barriers that prevent us from recognizing the most essential nature of our true identity.
True Guidance for the Inner Journey
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 400 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57062-859-7 / April 2002
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Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with...
Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
A. H. Almaas / Philosophy / Psychology
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 272 pages / 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN 978-1-59030-559-1 / June 2008
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In his most accessible work to date, contemporary mystic A. H. Almaas shows readers how being present and aware in the moment leads to the discovery of our True Nature. This relaxed condition of simply “being yourself ” allows us to be free from worries, attachments, feelings of inadequacy,...
Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure
A. H. Almaas / Psychology
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 176 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 9780936713069 /
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In this book Almaas brings together concepts and experiences drawn from contemporary object relations theory, Freudian-based ego psychology, case studies from his own spiritual practice, and teaching from the highest levels of Buddhist and other Eastern practices. He challenges us to look not only...