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From New York to True Nature Ian McKay interviews Jessica Britt, a Diamond Approach teacher, about her spiritual journey. Jessica has been a teacher of mine for over 20 years. In addition to teaching the Diamond Approach, Jessica works with the Medicine Wheel .

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It All Comes Down to Sensing, Looking & Listening I was meditating. My mind was restless. As I worked on concentrating my attention, I naturally began sensing, looking & listening. It was early morning, about 5am. Quiet with just a bird or two. [/caption] As I worked with sensing, looking and listening, I realized that [...]

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A couple of notes from the Ridhwan 2009 Summer Retreat: The View of Totality is outside dual and non-dual, it includes both. Mysterious Being is behind the evolution of the universe and life and consciousness and the soul.As it evolves our experience, it manifests as the enlightenment drive. Our responsibility, viewed from the perspective of [...]

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Obsidian Samadhi

Obsidian Samadhi – Diamond Approach Summer Retreat I’m at the annual summer retreat for the Ridhwan School (Diamond Approach). About 700 students are gathered at Asilomar near Monterey California. Hameed Ali, who writes under the pen name A.H. Almaas began the first session with a meditation he calls Obsidian Samadhi = clear awareness, calm alertness. [...]

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I just returned from a 10–day retreat with A.H. Almaas. The retreat was held at Asilomar near Monterey, California. The focus of the retreat was Quintessence which Almaas refers to as the Essence of the Essence. In his book, Brilliancy: The Essence of Intelligence, he refers to brilliancy as the essence of the essence. I [...]

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These images represent the following sentence taken from the home page of www.ahalmaas.com – The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of Reality and a method of working on oneself that leads to human maturity and liberation. …and interpreted in images by phrasr. See the show here What do [...]

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The End of Ambition

Yesterday, A.H. Almaas began his lecture with: We are all engaged in an interesting endeavor – to actualize something invisible in our lives, something not seen by the ordinary senses. This something transcends the biological imperatives of life. Our purpose transcends the simply biological. The lecture went on to explore the phenomena of sexual desire [...]

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