Dominic C. Liber

Dominic C. Liber

DOMINIC C. LIBER is an explorer, teacher, and writer, following a lifelong passion for both the magical and mystical, and the scientific and rational. He leads groups and courses on the Diamond Approach, does research, and works one-on-one with students in the UK and in South Africa. He personally has found the Diamond Approach to be the most resonant and powerful way to discover, understand, and liberate the mysterious and limitless potentials of a human being.

Dominic C. Liber

DOMINIC C. LIBER is an explorer, teacher, and writer, following a lifelong passion for both the magical and mystical, and the scientific and rational. He leads groups and courses on the Diamond Approach, does research, and works one-on-one with students in the UK and in South Africa. He personally has found the Diamond Approach to be the most resonant and powerful way to discover, understand, and liberate the mysterious and limitless potentials of a human being.

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Dive-In with Heart | Free Online Workshop

Dive-In with Heart Online Workshop

Journey into the depths of your heart with author Dominic Liber as he introduces the powerful practice of diamond inquiry in this free, 90-minute workshop.

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Diving in the Inner Ocean

$16.95 - Paperback

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Diving in the Inner Ocean

This session will include:

Orientation:

An introduction to the Diamond Approach and diamond inquiry from Dominic Liber.

Guided inquiry:

The opportunity to practice inquiry, and to witness others inquiring into what’s naturally emerging in their experience.

The first steps towards:

  • Getting to know and understand yourself better
  • Discovering the freedom and satisfaction of spiritual transformation
  • Learning how to explore your everyday life with love, meaning, and a sense of belonging

30% off Dominic Liber’s book, Diving in the Inner Ocean!

Influenced by ancient traditions such as Sufism and Buddhism as well as by modern psychology, the Diamond Approach is a modern contemplative practice that offers dynamic, new perspectives on the true nature of reality and human potential.

Diamond inquiry combines the depth of meditation with the power of psychological insight. Developed by A. H. Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach and a leader in the integration of spirituality and psychology, this simple yet powerful practice is ideal for anyone wanting to explore their inner world.

In this free, 90-minute workshop, you will discover how to apply the powerful practice of Diamond inquiry to the realm of the heart.

WHO: Dominic Liber is a Diamond Approach teacher who has been rigorously trained in various spiritual modalities and psychological knowledge over many years. He is the author of Diving in the Inner Ocean: An Introduction to Personal Transformation through Diamond Inquiry.

WHEN: Online Workshop on Saturday, March 25, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. ET

We hope you will join us for this special event.

Dominic C. LiberDominic Liber is an explorer, teacher, and writer, following a lifelong passion for both the magical and mystical, and the scientific and rational. He leads groups and courses on the Diamond Approach, does research, and works one-on-one with students in the UK and in South Africa. He personally has found the Diamond Approach to be the most resonant and powerful way to discover, understand, and liberate the mysterious and limitless potentials of a human being.

A. H. AlmaasAlmaas is the pen name of Hameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been guiding individuals and groups in the United States since 1976. Over time the teaching has found a home in Europe, Canada, Australia, and beyond. Almaas is the author of many books, including Love UnveiledThe Unfolding Now, and Runaway Realization.

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At the Pool— Preparations for Diamond Inquiry

Exploring the Inner Ocean

Diving In the Inner Ocean

The following is an excerpt from

Diving in the Inner Ocean

by Dominic C. Liber

Diving in the Inner Ocean

$16.95 - Paperback

By: Dominic C. Liber

The Inner Ocean

In the sea, the fish, shells, seaweed, and coral are all linked with one another and with the water conditions, temperature, rock formations, and nearby cities. Similarly, your feelings and beliefs, your history and the personal details of what you love or enjoy, and the very qualities of your human nature itself are all intimately and meaningfully connected in the ecosystem of your inner life.

In diamond inquiry, you directly explore your conscious experience in a way that unlocks these potentials. You consciously enter into the very palpable sense of your experience and explore it just like a diver exploring a reef. You will discover wondrous treasures, terrifying monsters, deep trenches, infinite expanses, and limitless potential and freedom. You will find the snarled-up discarded fishing nets from years ago that are keeping the inner life-forms trapped within you. As you explore and understand what you find, it transforms and some new potential that was hidden within the garbage emerges with unforeseen beauty.

In diamond inquiry you are exploring your very consciousness itself. It is intimate, immediate, personal, meaningful, and relevant.

Best of all, in a way that even real ocean scuba diving cannot match, these discoveries are you—they are the very nature of who and what you actually are. The inner world is invisible to the ordinary eye at first. But as you learn how to see and touch this world, the adventure becomes even more immersive than the highest definition or most vivid 3D television or movie. You are not exploring something outside of yourself; in diamond inquiry you are exploring your very consciousness itself. It is intimate, immediate, personal, meaningful, and relevant. It brings you to that which feels most meaningful and central in any given aspect of your life.

And just like diving in the outer ocean, at the beginning it takes a certain amount of time in the proverbial pool to get used to the gear and to learn how to orient yourself and get about. You need to find your way around what might seem like a muddy little resort pond for a bit, before you clear the outlet into the swampy bay, and then the magnificent reef beyond, with glistening pearls hidden in the depths.

A. H. Almaas, one of the originators of the Diamond Approach, likens inquiry to a space cruiser in his book Spacecruiser Inquiry. The practice is a vehicle of inner travel through which you explore different inner experiential worlds, galaxies, and even universes. So perhaps diving and exploring the seas on this world is a good analogy for the first step toward exploring other planets. This book is intended to help you get started. It is a guide to entering the shallows of the inner world. If this whets your appetite for inner exploration and adventures, then when you have your bearings in the earthly seas, the distant planets and galaxies will be waiting.

Exercise: Peeking Below

For this informal exploration, you can just sit comfortably in a quiet spot. This will take about five to ten minutes. You can keep a notebook or journal next to you if you like. As you do this exercise, you can speak your observations out loud or jot down notes on paper.

In this first exercise, you will simply take some time to be aware of the elements appearing in the flow of your inner world right now in what we call a continuum of awareness. You are going to dip your head into the water and look around to see how the water is, what sort of seabed you are over, what fish are swimming nearby—by this, I mean whatever arises in your awareness as you are doing this practice. What kind of feelings are around? What is on your mind? What sensations are you in touch with? Just peek at your immediate awareness now and see what you find arising in your experience this moment. Inquiry is always about the direct immediacy of your experience, and this is the first moment in this book to check that out directly.

Take your time as you are doing this exercise, as if you are totally at leisure. There is no pressure, no rush, no specific thing you are supposed to find, so you cannot get it wrong. See if you can take the attitude of “Hmm . . . what’s here? What’s going on inside me? What am I noticing?” Contemplate your inner world with open interest.

To assist your inquiry, speak your observations out loud, or use a journal to write a sentence or phrase about what you notice. Then take a moment and pause. And then see what is happening in the next moment. You simply keep repeating this moment by moment, looking in to see what is there and noting whatever it happens to be.

The exercise might go something like this, with a comfortable few-seconds pause between each awareness: “I’m experiencing a feeling of curiosity . . . I feel a slight apprehension . . . there’s an ache in my hip . . . I feel excited about my date tonight . . . I have an urge to get up, I’m not sure I want to carry on with this . . . I wonder if I’m doing this right . . . hmm . . . not much . . . still not much . . . I see the view out the windows . . . I feel a sense of stillness . . . the stillness feels like a deep vastness . . .” and so on.

Inquiry is always about the direct immediacy of your experience.

Stay with the flow of your inner experience without particularly trying to do anything to it or make anything happen. If you do find yourself trying to do something or make something happen, then you could simply notice that as what is arising. You might say, “Oh, now I’m trying to find something to say,” or “Now I’m trying to make myself feel good in some way.” If you find yourself judging what you are experiencing, you might just notice and mention that. So the exercise is simply to notice whatever it might be that appears in your awareness moment by moment. It is as inwardly focused as meditation, but it is more active than meditation, in that you are noting out loud or in writing whatever you find happening in your awareness in that moment.

Do this for five or ten minutes. You can use a timer to keep time for you and tell you when to stop.

Afterward, take a breath, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Part of the magic of the inner world is that the very act of getting in touch can begin to change things. So notice how it has affected you to peer into your inner world in this way. Say or write a few sentences about that.

Take some time—perhaps five or ten minutes, a couple of times a day—to dip your head into your inner world and notice what is arising in your consciousness. Be as open and curious as you can be to see whatever shows up from the whole range of inner experience. You are hanging out with this question: “Hmm . . . what’s here . . . what am I experiencing?” You could try this at different times—perhaps when you wake up; after a meditation or yoga session, if you do that; after a workout; after a day at work; or after hanging out with a friend. Different situations will tend to bring up different elements in your inner world. And after you have peered around, take a minute to notice how it has affected you to do so.

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