In this book Almaas brings together concepts and experiences drawn from contemporary object relations theory, Freudian-based ego psychology, case studies from his own spiritual practice, and teaching from the highest levels of Buddhist and other Eastern practices. He challenges us to look not only at the personality and the content of the mind, but also at the underlying nature of the mind itself.
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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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So far I've read three of the Diamond Approach books: "Essence," "The Diamond Approach," and "Diamond Heart, Book One." For someone working alone, "The Void" is the most helpful because it is the most specific about techniques.
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Well written, very interesting. Helped me get some space from all the structures, self imposed rules I have placed on my self. Short book, it doesn't take long to go through it, but you'll want to read it again.
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You've read Freud, Jung, perhaps Teillard de Chardin, Aurobindo, J.G. Bennett, Idries Shah, and so on. The poetry of Rumi and Hafiz calls you to the 'beloved' 'like a broken man walking behind a farting camel'. You have done group and individual psychotherapy, yoga, zen and so on. You have attended workshops, prayed, found a 'right livelihood'. Travel is a genuine adventure. Something propels you to examine the mysteries of the perennial philosophy, it is just something you must do. Your appetite is voracious; you yearn for that 'missing piece'. The great novel that is your life is page turner you just cannot put down.
Almaas is one of the great teachers of the age, and this little book is a good place to meet him.
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In ordinary usage, the word "mind" refers to thoughts, the thinking process, or the thinking apparatus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genital hole, deficient emptiness, golden fullness, symbiotic gratification, symbiotic wish, phallic identification, undifferentiated matrix, orgastic potency, merged state, experiencing space, object anxiety, space arises, psychodynamic understanding, personal essence, dense space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Great Space, Wilhelm Reich, Edith Jacobson, Harry Guntrip, Heinz Kohut, Alice Miller, Chogyam Trungpa, Sigmund Freud, Tarthang Tulku, The Grades of Emptiness, Trungpa Rinpoche New!
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In ordinary usage, the word "mind" refers to thoughts, the thinking process, or the thinking apparatus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genital hole, deficient emptiness, golden fullness, symbiotic gratification, symbiotic wish, phallic identification, undifferentiated matrix, orgastic potency, merged state, experiencing space, object anxiety, space arises, psychodynamic understanding, personal essence, dense space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Great Space, Wilhelm Reich, Edith Jacobson, Harry Guntrip, Heinz Kohut, Alice Miller, Chogyam Trungpa, Sigmund Freud, Tarthang Tulku, The Grades of Emptiness, Trungpa Rinpoche New!
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- Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (The Master Work Series) by Otto F. Kernberg on page 116, page 120, and Back Matter
- Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations, and the Self by Harry Guntrip on page 113, page 134, and Back Matter
- The Function of the Orgasm; Sex-economic Problems of Biological Energy by Wilhelm reich on page 96, and Back Matter
- Ego Psychology & the Problem of Adaptation by Heinz Hartmann on page 74, and Back Matter
- The Restoration of the Self by Anna Freud on page 121, and Back Matter
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- Spacecruiser Inquiry (Diamond Body Series) by A. H. Almaas in Front Matter
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