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On Being Human: Exploring the Essence of Our Humanity

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Embracing our humanness means including our limitations and shortcomings as well as our endless, unfathomable potential. Using the perspective and teachings of the Diamond Approach, a modern spiritual path that offers various ways of understanding ourselves and reality, this online course will provide an opportunity to explore human nature. We invite you to bring your humanness, your sincerity, and your interest in discovering what is most true for you.

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Diamond Approach Inquiry: Discovering Inner Freedom

We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.

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Olivia Fermi
2021
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Bradshaw On: The Eight Stages of Man (1982) E4: Are You Still Getting a Report Card?

Episode Four: Are You Still Getting a Report Card? Psychologist/Theologian John Bradshaw traces human life through eight stages of psychosocial development (based on the works of Erik Erikson) focusing on the ego needs and strengths of each stage.

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John Bradshaw
2016
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Bradshaw On: The Eight Stages of Man (1982) E8: All Unwisdom Wise.

Episode Eight: All Unwisdom Wise. Psychologist/Theologian John Bradshaw traces human life through eight stages of psychosocial development (based on the works of Erik Erikson) focusing on the ego needs and strengths of each stage.

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John Bradshaw
2020
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The Void: Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure

The first volume in an eye-opening series on the Diamond Mind—a deep understanding of human nature—that combines Freudian psychology with Eastern philosophy and spirituality.

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A. H. Almaas
2000
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The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization

The founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization examines narcissism through a spiritual lens, presenting it as our greatest barrier to understanding our truest self. In this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual understanding of narcissism.

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A. H. Almaas
2000
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Luminous Night’s Journey: An Autobiographical Fragment

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.

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A. H. Almaas
2000
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Essence with The Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Essence has been combined with The Elixir of Enlightenment, a short introductory text directed toward students on the path who are frustrated by either the spiritual or psychological barriers that Western life can present.

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A. H. Almaas
1998
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Diamond Heart Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life

The founder of the Diamond Approach guides readers through the difficult process of understanding and accepting our true identity. We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty.

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A. H. Almaas
2000
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The Pearl Beyond Price—Integration of Personality Into Being: An Object Relations Approach (Vol. 2)

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 human life.

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A. H. Almaas, Lawrence Spiro
2025
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Whatever Arises, Love That: A Love Revolution that Begins with You

An exploration of unconditional love as the most powerful force for transforming every part of your life For spiritual teacher Matt Kahn, there are four simple words that point the way toward freedom and fulfillment: “Whatever arises, love that.

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Matt Kahn
2020
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