A. H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali, founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the Diamond Heart series, The Pearl Beyond Price, The Void, and The Alchemy of Freedom.
He is the founder of the Ridhwan School for Spiritual Development, an inner work school devoted to the realization of True Nature. The orientation of the school is directed toward guiding students to realize their true nature to the fullest realization and further still to endless enlightenment.
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The crystal aspects and vehicles manifest to challenge and highlight the conceptual barriers that oppose their corresponding nonconceptual truth, and as they dominate consciousness they move it to the nonconceptual dimension. It is important to see that nonconceptual truth is not mental ideas or images, but the solid bedrock of reality. It is more real and fundamental than what we ordinarily consider to be physical reality. Furthermore, because it is actual presence it can appear within conceptual experience, but such experience cannot approach it in its customary way.
Another example is that of radical nonlocality, where the meaning of unity of existence goes through a profound transformation. It becomes nonspatial unity. This nonspatial sense of unity recognizes that each form of manifestation is at once all the other forms. Each form of reality is totally united with all other forms—not in terms of perceived space, which has the sense of all forms being differently located waves of the same ocean, but absolutely, in the sense that all the waves are actually the same wave, all the points are actually the same point.