A.H. Almaas Diamond Approach
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Synthesis

Synthesis is not experienced as putting things together in a unified whole: this is the quality of the synthetic capacity the mind. The Being capacity for synthesis manifests in the ability to see the unity before differentiation. One does not bring two things together; one simply does not see them as two. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 172)

 

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Personal Essence and synthesis

One can see from the perspective of the nondifferentiated Being, the Supreme reality of the oneness of existence, that all aspects of Essence are differentiations proceeding from this original undifferentiated source. The Personal Essence is the synthesis of all differentiated aspects of Essence... So individuation is the integration of the results of differentiation. The incomparable Pearl is the individuation on the Being level. It is a new synthesis, which in a sense creates a personal Being from the impersonality of the nondifferentiated Being. The capacity for synthesis on the Being level belongs to another aspect of Essence-objective understanding. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 171)

 

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Synthesis and brilliancy

So experientially, the state of synthesis means a sense of no gap. Nothing is missing. The way it is recognized in terms of affect is a sense of completeness, absolute completeness. That “I am complete.” Usually, we don't know what it means to be complete. We have never felt being complete in a real way. Completeness is a very unusual perception. To know it, one has to actually be the aspect of intelligence, be the Brilliancy, and be it completely. It is not, “I'm experiencing it, tasting it, feeling it, using it,” and so on. No. That kind of experience means there is a sense of incompleteness. The completeness happens when the person totally settles into the actual aspect of Brilliancy. The completeness cannot be described in words. It can only be contrasted to other kinds of experiences. In completeness, there is no need, no wanting, no desire, and no interest. There is no movement and no impulse toward movement of any kind out of the completeness because nothing is missing. There is not even curiosity, no stirring at all in the mind. And completeness is not a collection of parts but a seamless presence. It is a beingness that is a sense of amazing purity and innocence, radiance and brilliance. Its texture is a sense of smoothness, delicacy, exquisiteness and brightness. A completeness that defies words, really. (Essence of Intelligence, pg 299)