The Inner Journey Home: The Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality

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What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the practice of traditional spiritual methods, and the application of modern psychological research. The Inner Journey Home is the centerpiece of the Diamond Approach literature, providing a complete overview of the teaching...

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Overview

What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the practice of traditional spiritual methods, and the application of modern psychological research. The Inner Journey Home is the centerpiece of the Diamond Approach literature, providing a complete overview of the teaching with references to the author's other books for more details on certain topics.

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This informed and scholarly work effectively counters a materialist view of reality. Its value is further enhanced by appendixes presenting different cultural concepts of the soul and extensive endnotes grounding the author's views in other historical and philosophical works."—Library Journal

"This profound book offers a visionary understanding for anyone who wishes to know and traverse the territory of the psyche and the soul, the spiritual and the psychological. Almaas is among our wisest and most illuminated teachers, and this is one of his masterworks."—Jack Kornfield, author of After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

"Through his own wise and passionate inquiry, Almaas brilliantly illuminates a transformative path to inner freedom."—Tara Bennett-Goleman, author of Emotional Alchemy

Library Journal
The author of several books on spirituality (e.g., Spacecruiser Inquiry), Almaas developed the Diamond Approach to spiritual self-knowledge and founded the Ridhwan School, which is based on this approach. Here he offers a guide to the Diamond Approach, which integrates psychological and spiritual practices that can lead to the realization and actualization of one's true nature. Almaas sees the soul as the "vessel that contains and holds all of our inner events" and believes in a unity of reality consisting of soul or self, the world or cosmos, and God or Being. The first half of this book describes the nature of the soul and the process by which it creates what we call the self. The second half is an overview of how to use the Diamond Approach to find the true nature of reality, or "what we ultimately are." This informed and scholarly work effectively counters a materialist view of reality. Its value is further enhanced by appendixes presenting different cultural concepts of the soul and extensive endnotes grounding the author's views in other historical and philosophical works. Recommended for academic libraries.-Jerry Shuttle, East Tennessee State Univ. Lib., Johnson City Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590301098
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/27/2004
  • Pages: 640
  • Sales rank: 695,262
  • Product dimensions: 6.05 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.65 (d)

Meet the Author

A. H. Almaas is the pen name of Hameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been guiding individuals and groups in Colorado, California, and Europe since 1976. He is the author of Spacecrusier Inquiry, The Pearl Beyond Price, Facets of Unity, and other books. 

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Table of Contents

Editor's preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1 Soul
1 Soul or self 3
2 Organ of experience 15
3 Organism of consciousness 26
Pt. 2 Properties and functions of the soul
4 Noesis 45
5 Potential 63
6 Morphing dynamism 76
7 Impressionability of soul 94
8 Living presence 108
Pt. 3 Essence and soul development
9 Soul and essence 131
10 Animal soul 141
11 Normal development of the soul 151
12 Ego development of the soul 164
13 Liberating the soul 185
14 Primitive structures of the soul 200
Pt. 4 The inner journey of the soul
15 The inner journey 221
16 True nature 247
Pt. 5 Dimensions of true nature
17 Divine love and light 271
18 Being and knowledge 292
19 Awareness and the nonconceptual 324
20 Logos and creative dynamism 348
21 The absolute and emptiness 376
Pt. 6 Actualization of reality
22 The journey of descent 413
23 Reality 441
24 Separation of soul, God, and world 459
Epilogue 481
App. A Western concepts of soul 483
App. B Eastern concepts of soul 495
App. C Soul in sufism 517
App. D Essence in childhood experience 529
App. E Soul as autopoietic system 555
App. F Consciousness research 561
App. G Logoi of teachings 567
Notes 583
References 697
Index 705
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