This teaching developed within the context of an awareness of many other teachings because we are in the information age, where all cultures and all teachings and the whole world are interconnected. We are no longer separated into discrete spiritual communities doing our practices in isolation. Because of this development, this teaching cannot help but deal with the fact that there are many kinds of realizations and many kinds of teachings. Although I did not set out to account for the variety of contemporary spiritual practices, this teaching naturally developed in a way that understands the wisdom of other spiritual traditions because true nature responds to the particulars of the situation at hand. – The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers’ Stone and the Secrets of Existence, Ch. 10
What characterizes the aliveness of this teaching is an ongoing stream of realization, enlightenment, and understanding that continues to grow, deepen, expand, and open up to ever further ways of experiencing reality. Another interesting characteristic of the living nature of this teaching, which is really a characteristic of all life, is that the discovery of a new way of experiencing does not displace the old way of experiencing. Living is an evolution from one thing to the next. Life evolves from what went before and always becomes more fully manifest. It develops more capacities, more richness, more variety, and more creativity in the way it manifests itself. The living and evolving nature of the teaching is apparent in the orientation and the view from which the teaching is presented. Each time we meet together as a school, everything we have explored is presented from a new perspective. The understanding of the teaching as we have learned it is simply opened up further. It’s not so much that the understanding of it has changed but that the understanding has expanded. Like life itself, the teaching builds on itself, living and evolving from one form to another. – A. H. Almaas, Runaway Realization: Living a Life of Ceaseless Discovery, pg. 168