Books written by A. H. Almaas

The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life

What do desire and passion have to do with the spiritual life? They are an essential component of it, according to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson.
The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life

When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential.
Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart

However, the path of spiritual love is not without challenges. Almaas explores the barriers that tend to block our experience of loving awakening and provides experiential exercises throughout the book to help readers along their path.
The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

Well-known spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas uses the metaphor of the mysterious philosopher's stone to discuss a tremendous liberating power that leads to endless enlightenment For millennia alchemists sought the philosophers’ stone, the ...
Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart

However, the path of spiritual love is not without challenges. Almaas explores the barriers that tend to block our experience of loving awakening and provides experiential exercises throughout the book to help readers along their path.
Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey

In this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience—a way of investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors through a ...
Luminous Night's Journey: An Autobiographical Fragment

In Luminous Night's Journey, Almaas shares excerpts from his personal journal, which describe a certain thread in his own journey of realization and the processes involved in integrating that realization.
The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization

The founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization examines narcissism through a spiritual lens, presenting it as our greatest barrier to understanding our truest self In this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual ...
Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man

This five-volume series is a collection of Almaas’ lectures on the Diamond Approach. In Elements of the Real Man, he covers topics such as faith, commitment, nobility and suffering, truth and compassion, allowing, and growing up.
Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery

This is the last of the five-volume Diamond Heart series of transcribed and edited talks given by A. H. Almaas to inner-work groups in California and Colorado.
Runaway Realization: Living a Life of Ceaseless Discovery

Spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas presents the highest level and most profound teachings of the Diamond Approach on the true nature of reality and the path to enlightenment The teaching in this book is off the map—because reality itself ...
Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life

The founder of the Diamond Approach guides readers through the difficult process of understanding and accepting our true identity We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty.
Inner Journey Home: The Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality

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.
The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being, an Object Relations Approach

In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development.
The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

He asked Elianne Obadia, whom he had supervised on other projects, to do the primary editing and worked with her to turn the transcripts of the talks and meetings into chapters with practice exercises. Elianne, with Byron's guidance, ...
Keys to the Enneagram: How to Unlock the Highest Potential of Every Personality Type

A. H. Almaas brings us back to this original mission as he shares the essential keys that will help readers break free from the limitations and distortions of each type’s fixation—and to express their true spiritual nature in everyday ...
The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

Well-known spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas uses the metaphor of the mysterious philosopher's stone to discuss a tremendous liberating power that leads to endless enlightenment For millennia alchemists sought the philosophers’ stone, the ...
Diamond Heart: The Freedom to Be

Founder and spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas continues his study of the Diamond Approach to uncovering the many facets of our human potential We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty.
Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man

This five-volume series is a collection of Almaas’ lectures on the Diamond Approach. In Elements of the Real Man, he covers topics such as faith, commitment, nobility and suffering, truth and compassion, allowing, and growing up.
The Inner Journey Home: The Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality

The third, that of neshama, corresponds more closely to our contemporary concept of soul, but is more like what the ancients meant by spirit. (See appendix A.) The notion of soul in the Christian tradition is similar to that of Greek ...