A. H. Almaas’s Realization of the Absolute
The Diamond Approach, as elucidated by A. H. Almaas, is not just a philosophy but a living experience, a journey into the very fabric of our existence. Almaas’s realization of the Absolute transcends the boundaries of conventional spirituality, inviting us into a realm where the ultimate truth is not separate from our everyday life. In this context, the Absolute is not an abstract concept but a palpable reality that can be directly experienced. It is the ground of Being itself, the source from which all phenomena arise and to which they return. When you engage with the teachings in “Luminous Night’s Journey,” you’re not just reading words; you’re being offered a map to navigate the terrain of your own soul, guided by the profound insights Almaas has gleaned from his own journey.
In “Luminous Night’s Journey,” Almaas doesn’t just share knowledge; he extends an invitation to a transformative experience. The book serves as a mirror, reflecting not just the author’s deep realizations but also the potential for awakening that resides within each of us. As you turn each page, you may find yourself confronting your own assumptions, breaking free from the limitations that bind you, and stepping into a space of genuine freedom. The teachings here are not meant to be merely understood but to be lived, breathed, and embodied. In accepting this invitation, you are gaining intellectual understanding and opening the door to a radical transformation that can touch every facet of your life.
LUMINOUS NIGHTS JOURNEY: An Autobiographical Fragment
In Luminous Night’s Journey, Almaas shares excerpts from his journal, which describe a certain thread in his journey of realization of the Absolute and the processes involved in integrating that realization. This publication marks a fortunate development in our knowledge of how Being is realized in and through the human soul: The process of the realization of the Absolute and integration of true nature described in the voice of one who articulates precisely and vividly the psychological and epistemological barriers that confront the individual consciousness as realization is integrated into the context of personal life.
Almaas describes how his participation in the unfolding manifestation of Being ushers him into realms that expose and transform increasingly deep ego structures and attachments. Luminous Night’s Journey clarifies how the unveiling of Being and the exposure of ego structures constitute one process, leading to the soul’s integrated realization of absolute nature and the manifestation of the human being as a personal embodiment of that nature.
Chapters
- Intimacy
- The Personal Trap
- The Impersonal
- Objective Sorrow
- End of the World
- The Real World
- The Absolute
- Mystical Poverty
- The Beloved
- Ripening of the Soul
- The Mystical Marriage
- Coemergence
- Absolute Action
- Life and the Deathless
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This book follows a particular thread in the process of self-realization. Each chapter describes a self-contained segment of this process. Thus, even though the book as a whole consists of one thread, each chapter is independent. The thread that runs through all the chapters is a chain of processes and experiences I have personally selected for this book out of a much larger field of experience. I chose this particular thread partly because of my personal interest in reviewing it and partly because it illuminates a process rarely discussed in spiritual literature.
Most serious spiritual writings focus on the process of realization of absolute, true nature or divine essence. This is the ultimate nature and source of ourselves and of everything. The thread I follow in this book sheds light on the obscure process of how the soul, the individual consciousness, becomes integrated into this absolute nature as and after the source of all experience is realized. I want to relate my experience and understanding that individual consciousness does not merely die away or get discarded and describe how it becomes clarified and integrated. This integration turns out to be the process through which the absolute manifests as an individual human being who embodies this ultimate truth in a personal life in the world. – A. H. Almaas