282. Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas)–2nd Interview - a podcast by Rick Archer

A. Hameed Ali was born in Kuwait in 1944. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the USA to study at the University of California in Berkeley. Hameed was working on his Ph.D. in physics when he reached a turning point in his life and destiny that led him more and more into inquiring into the psychological and spiritual aspects of human nature.

Hameed's interest in the truth of human nature and the true nature of reality resulted in the creation and unfoldment of the Diamond Approach®:

“The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of Reality and work on oneself that leads to human maturity and liberation. Because of our particular vision of Reality it is not completely accurate to think of this approach as spiritual work, for this work does not separate the spiritual from the psychological, neither does it see these two as separate from the physical everyday life and scientific investigation of the content of perception. However, because we live in a society where the prevailing thought is that of the separated facets of Reality, the closest category recognized in this mentality, to our approach, is that of a spiritual path or exploration.”Some of Hameed's many books:

Runaway Realization: Living a Life of Ceaseless DiscoveryThe Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life
The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of PresenceBrilliancy: The Essence of Intelligence (Diamond Body Series)
Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner RealizationWebsite: ahalmaas.com

Transcript of this interview1st interview with Hameed

Hameed Ali and Karen Johnson on nondual relationshipsInterview recorded 3/15/2015

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.YouTube Video Chapters:


00:00:00 - Introduction to"Runaway Realization"00:04:24 - The Journey to Realization
00:08:36 - Different Paths of Realization00:12:45 - Perception of Reality and Different Experiences
00:17:04 - The Individual Being and its Intrinsic Reality00:21:16 - The Enlightenment Drive and its Relationship to Instinctual Drives
00:25:30 - Aligning Humanity with True Nature00:29:18 - The Emphasis of Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism
00:33:17 - The Manifestation of Grace and the Illusion of Separate Self00:37:48 - The Illusion of Separateness and Development of Consciousness
00:42:14 - Different Ways of Manifesting Reality00:46:15 - The Two Conditions of Freedom
00:50:05 - The Endless Process of Actualization00:54:15 - The Development of Faculties and Expressing Realization
00:58:33 - The Process of Realization and Integration01:02:01 - Removing the Barrier of Goal-Oriented Thinking
01:05:28 - The Freedom of Being and Views01:09:40 - The Beginning of Fundamentalism
01:14:09 - Total Being and Non-Linearity of Time01:18:13 - The Concept of Time and Timelessness
01:22:14 - The Subtlety of Motivation in Spiritual Practice01:26:20 - The Practice of Living Life
01:30:25 - The Individual and the Whole Universe01:34:14 - Interpenetration of Time and Space
01:38:20 - The nature of reality and our creative potential01:42:30 - The Fine Gradations of Pure Presence
01:46:22 - The Nature of Consciousness and Knowing01:51:00 - The Knowingness and Being
01:55:02 - The purpose of creation and the expansion of happiness01:59:00 - Concluding Remarks&Future Interviews
02:02:06 - Next Week's Guest: Vasant Swaha

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