Diamond Approach with John Davis

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John Davis has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 1975. He heard about A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali) through a friend and initially signed up for a 3-month training. During a time in his life when he was trying a great many different paths and systems for personal growth and transformation, John found a quality of genuineness and clarity which encouraged him to study more with Almaas. Over the next few years, John’s sincerity and openness to this path deepened quite naturally, he undertook training with Almaas, and in 1983, he was ordained as a teacher of the Diamond Approach.

The work of Almaas is rapidly gaining recognition. A review of his most recent book, INNER JOURNEY HOME (Shambhala Publications), begins: “Hameed Ali, writing under the pen-name A. H. Almaas, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time. His presentation of [the Diamond Approach] is distinguished by a thoroughgoing effort to  bring modern Western concepts and understanding of the traditional work of spiritual development and realization. And, judging from the schools, groups, and many students now practicing this work in the US and Europe, the effort appears to be yielding impressive results. Furthermore, a wider public, going far beyond the immediate circle of his students is coming to appreciate Almaas’ unique contribution.”

The Diamond Approach is unique among spiritual systems in its understanding of the full spectrum of human development from infancy through the development of a sense of individuality and a unique, integrated, and personal sense to self, and on to the lived realization of our nonduality with the ground of being. This understanding, its integration of methods for working with emotional and somatic phenomena, mental images, beliefs, and psychodynamic issues, and its insistence on direct exploration of one’s immediate experience makes the Diamond Approach a particularly effective method for self-realization. This interview with John Davis introduces the Diamond Approach with a focus on what it means to be ourselves as essence or true nature, rather than as a product of the conditioning of our pasts.

John wrote the first introductory overview of this work, THE DIAMOND APPROACH: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEACHINGS OF A. H. ALMAAS (Shambhala Publications, www.shambhala.com). Currently, he teaches several Diamond Approach groups in Vancouver and Colorado, and he teaches an online course on the Diamond Approach through Naropa University (www.naropa.edu). The father of three, John lives with his wife near Boulder, Colorado.

An evening with John Davis introducing  the Diamond Approach will be offered Monday, July 28, 2008 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace  1825 West 16th Ave, Vancouver (at Burrard) In Room 201
For more information contact Carole Finnegan at 604 254 2225 or cefinnegan@yahoo.ca

VISIT  www.ridhwan.org OR www.ahalmaas.com