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Spirituality and Psychoanalysis documents an all-day conference exploring the meeting ground between these two disciplines. Hameed Ali was a featured guest who shared the podium with Zen Priest, Dianne Musho Hamilton, and Peter Carnochan, Charles Dithrich and Karen Peoples of the psychoanalytic community. In his presentation that opens the day, Hameed has the opportunity to articulate the way he sees the Diamond Approach to spirituality drawing on the understandings of psychoanalysis, as well as going beyond them. Later, there is discussion between members of the panel and then questions from audience members to the panel. This is an unusual and fascinating context to experience Almaas in dialog with psychoanalytic practitioners—something he has been interested in since he wrote his Diamond Mind books, such as The Pearl Beyond Price and The Point of Existence.
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The Knowing that Unfolds the Now
A public talk given by A. H. Almaas at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, on October 5, 2008, to introduce his new book, The Unfolding Now. Join Almaas in this journey of inquiry and curiosity as he offers the experience of what it means to be where you are in the moment, allowing your inner unfoldment to manifest. This DVD provides a rich understanding and exploration of the simplicity of being ourselves without the interference of our habitual patterns.
2 Hours, 1 DVD. Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $25

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The Now of All Times
This video is of the public talk given by A. H. Almaas at St. Johns Presbyterian Church on July 18, 2008 to introduce his new book, The Unfolding Now. In this DVD, Almaas discusses the method of the Diamond Approach as a practice of "being where you are." It is a way to allow, accept and enter into whatever we are experiencing in the moment as contrasted to other spiritual methods designed to alter the individual's current state or promote the development of a certain realized condition. In this approach, being where you are becomes a spiritual path of inner "non-doing" that is integral to daily life rather than a spiritual practice that only occurs in a particular context in one's life.
1 Hour and 26 minutes, 1 DVD. Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $25

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Portals to the Timeless
Recorded at an exclusive full-day workshop at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, May 6, 2001. Since our everyday experience expresses the qualities of our true nature, the precise understanding of this relationship can function as a bridge to awakening and realization. Working with the relation of true nature to ego manifestations, we can use these manifestations as portals to the timeless truths of our true nature.
3.5 Hours, 2-DVD set. Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $40

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The Essence of Intelligence
The Essence of Intelligence presents A. H. Almaas talking to a live audience in Amsterdam in June, 2006, at a book signing for his just released book entitled Brilliancy. In his talk, Almaas addresses the question of how a spiritual perspective can inform our understanding of human intelligence. He describes intelligence as more than just a characteristic of functioning, more than a capacity that makes our thinking or actions effective. Intelligence is fundamentally a presence of pure consciousness, a specific perfection of our spiritual nature that we can experience directly. This quality, which Almaas calls Brilliancy, has a radiant brightness, a liquid smoothness, and an exquisite elegance that, when realized, allows it to transform our capacities and benefit all aspects of human life.
90 minute DVD - Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $25.00

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The Inner Journey Home
On the occasion of the publication of The Inner Journey Home, the magnum opus of his spiritual teaching, A.H. Almaas gave public talks to introduce the Diamond Approach® to a larger audience. Viewing these talks gives the listener a profound and fascinating insight into the nature of the human soul and spiritual reality. Provocative for newcomers and illuminating for current practitioners of the path, each of these three presentation explores a different aspect of the inner journey described in the book.
3 DVD's - Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $50.00

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The Essence of Creativity
This 2-DVD set makes available to the public presentations by A.H. Almaas and E.J. Gold that were part of a one-day art auction and discussion in Grass Valley, California, October, 2003.

The first disk is a talk given by A.H. Almaas on the experiential nature of creativity. He takes the audience on a fascinating journey to discover why being creative is so highly revered in our culture. He sees the narcissistic side in the desire to be recognized and appreciated as special and unique, but he also looks at the deeper longing to feel connected to the outflow of dynamic creative arising. This arising is the ultimate nature of everything emerging from the selfless source—the Absolute. From this, Almaas finds that creativity is truly a combination of generosity and service when it connects us to our deepest nature.

The second disk is primarily a question and answer process between Almaas, Gold and the audience on various topics including artistic passion, creative discipline and the essential artistic experience.
2 DVD's, approx. 110 minutes -
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Spacecruiser Inquiry
A Public Talk at St. Johns Church, April 2002

Join A.H. Almaas in this very special teaching given at St. John's Church in Berkeley on the eve of his book signing talk for Spacecruiser Inquiry. A.H. Almaas relates some of the stories of his personal experience in the development of his understanding of inquiry.
90 minute DVD - Zero Region (NTSC/PAL hybrid) - $25.00

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The Extra Dimension
Hameed Ali discusses perception of the "extra" spiritual dimension of the real world relative to "Flatland."
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Exploring Personal Essence
A.H. Almaas is interviewed by Jeffery Mishlove, the host of Thinking Allowed, a national public television series. The result is an intimate conversation covering a wide range of topics associated with the Diamond Approach®. Almaas discusses the nature of Essence, the method of inquiry, the role of the heart in understanding, and many other aspects of spiritual work. The interview communicates the flavor, range and depth of Almaas' work.
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The Essence of Being Human

A human being is a multifaceted-multidimensional person. We each can be a window onto the mysterious vastness of the universe and a unique expression of its beingness. When mature, we each can be the intelligent response of mysterious being in the world
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Luminous Night's Journey Series

 

These videos were produced during public talks in 1993 and 1994 in Colorado and California, during which A.H. Almaas presented material from his personal journal, which describes his own journey of realization and the processes involved in integrating that realization. Much of this material is also included in the book Luminous Night's Journey.

 

The method of open inquiry which characterizes the Diamond Approach®, the spiritual path which has arisen out of Almaas' work, is beautifully demonstrated in these tapes. Almaas describes how his participation in the unfolding manifestation of Being ushers him into realms which expose and transform increasingly deep ego structures and attachments. The Luminous Night's Journey Series 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.

 

The talks include additional commentary and responses to questions from the audience that are not included in the book. The videos can be ordered individually or as a full set of eight videos.


1. Intimacy
The purity of self-realization of true being is not only simplicity and timelessness, but also a fundamental aloneness. This aloneness is transcended only when self-realization becomes intimacy with everything, as an inner clarity that is indistinguishable from a heart in-touchness.
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2. Objective Sorrow
True realization entails suffering, which sometimes touches others. It is not complete without the real presence of heart-felt sorrow for all pain caused, but more necessarily for the insincerity of oneself and other, in the forgetting of true and essential being.
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3. Mystical Marriage
The process of inner transformation becomes at some point a rapproachement between the soul and absolute being. This subtle process deepens and reveals the unity of the two, until they are one, where absolute becomes body, and the soul its face.
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4. Coemergence - Limited Supply
The process of realization goes through many stages, where the individual soul becomes increasingly integrated into absolute being. One such subtle stage is when the soul becomes so much part of the absolute that it is its awareness, where the absolute is mystery and soul is its awareness in the world.
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5. Absolute Action - Limited Supply
Subtle and detailed discussion about the relation of absolute being and pure awareness. This leads to the understanding of action as the dynamism of the mystery of the absolute as it expresses itself as the changes and movements of the soul.
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6. Life & the Deathless- Limited Supply
Realization of absolute being confronts us with the mystery of death, for it is a fundamental way of dying to the world. True and impartial inquiry into the question of death reveals our inner concerns about leaving the world. This may usher us into the realization of the absolute mystery as a personal living in the world.
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8. LNJ: The Soul and the Absolute
The realization of the absolute begins a dialogue between it and the individual soul. Realization alternates between being the fathomless immensity of the absolute, where all reality appears as its apparel; and the individual consciousness, as a inseparable extension and expression of this mystery. 90 minutes.
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