WHAT TO EXPECT ON YOUR VOYAGE

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    Inner Discovery

    Inquiry: your personal vessel for exploring the mysterious realms of spirit

  • Diamond Guidance icon

    Diamond Guidance

    A cosmic force to empower your practice

  • Expanded Awareness icon

    Expanded Awareness

    Gain insights into the ego, emotions, and your unconscious patterns

  • Spiritual Liberation icon

    Spiritual Liberation

    Uncover the infinite potentials of human consciousness

  • Daily Practice icon

    Daily Practice

    A wealth of Inquiry exercises to access knowing at the ever-deepening levels

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    Community Support

    Deepen your practice with the help of fellow students in your Inquiry group

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YOUR CREW

A.H. Almaas

A.H. Almaas

is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali, a leading voice in contemporary spirituality who has written more than 14 books, including Runaway Realization and Spacecruiser Inquiry. He is founder of the Ridhwan School, an organization with members in North America, Europe, and Australia that is dedicated to promoting the Diamond Approach. With Sounds True, he has published the audio-learning program The Diamond Approach and the online courses Endless Enlightenment and Realization Unfolds (with Adyashanti).

Karen Johnson

Karen Johnson

is a co-founder of the Diamond Approach and a colleague and friend of Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas). Karen and Hameed co-authored the book, The Power of Divine Eros, the Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life. Her life is dedicated to the discovery of inner freedom and sharing these treasures with humankind.

Jessica Britt

Jessica Britt

has been a student of A.H. Almaas since 1978. A Diamond Approach teacher since 1985, Jessica was an original member of the Ridhwan School's leadership council. Presently Jessica is a training director, leading groups in Europe, Canada, and the US.

Sandra Maitri

Sandra Maitri

is a longtime teacher of the Diamond Approach, and a member of its leadership council. She leads groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the United Kingdom, and has a private practice in Marin County, California. She is the author of The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul, and The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home.

Tami Simon

Tami Simon

(host) is the founder and publisher of Sounds True and a pioneer in the conscious business movement. Tami hosts a popular weekly podcast called Insights at the Edge, where she has interviewed many of today's leading teachers, delving deeply into their discoveries and personal experiences on their own journeys. With Sounds True, she has released the audio program Being True: What Matters Most in Work, Life, and Love.

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COURSE TOOLKIT

Your registration for Inquiry includes:

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  • Nine video learning sessions

    with A.H. Almaas joined by Diamond Approach co-founder Karen Johnson and master teachers Jessica Britt and Sandra Maitri—over 14 hours of in-depth training in the core attitudes of effective Inquiry
  • Three online Inquiry Group sessions

    facilitated by a certified Diamond Approach teacher, allowing you to practice in a supportive setting
  • Four live Q&A sessions

    one with each of the course master teachers
  • EXCLUSIVE Membership

    in a private Facebook group, where you can connect with other students to share insights and form practice partnerships or triads
  • Written course materials

    including session summaries and highlights, weekly exercises for solo, partner, or triad practice, questions for reflection, and more
  • 14.25 continuing education credits

    are also available for purchase

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YOUR ITINERARY

Inquiry is a method that enables you to dive into the depths of who you are, open to your own mystery, and find your own answers.

The Inquiry online course is structured as a twelve-week voyage to places where no one has gone before—because each one of our journeys will be unique.

The details of each week follow: weeks four, seven, and ten are of special import as these are your live Inquiry Group sessions. The remaining nine weeks present video sessions hosted by Sounds True publisher Tami Simon along with A.H. Almaas, Karen Johnson, and our master teachers.

Welcome Aboard!

The course starts on April 16, 2018.

All live sessions 10-11am Pacific Standard Time

WEEK ONE 4/16/2018 Introduction to the Diamond Approach to Inquiry

In our opening session, A.H. Almaas introduces the metaphor of the spaceship and how the practice of Inquiry could be compared to piloting a research vehicle that travels to unseen places and unknown dimensions.

Topics include:

  • How the Diamond Approach to Inquiry differs from other schools of inquiry, such as psychological inquiry, scientific inquiry, Socratic inquiry, and others
  • The importance of open-ended Inquiry
  • Living your realization
  • Being at “the razor’s edge” of your security
  • Why Inquiry discards no aspect of our experience

WEEK TWO 4/23/2018 The Adventurous Spirit: Uncovering Your Curiosity

What does it mean to have an adventurous spirit? In this session, Karen Johnson emphasizes the importance of becoming curious about your own experience—even when we encounter pain, challenges, and various kinds of suffering.

Topics include:

  • How life experience can dampen our natural curiosity
  • Why "real adventure" includes obstacles
  • Valuing the immanent and the transcendent
  • Staying in touch with the inner drive to know more

WEEK THREE 4/30/2018 including Live Q&A on 5/5/2018 The Marriage of Love and Truth

One of the key attitudes to support the practice of Inquiry is the love of truth for truth’s sake. In this session, Jessica Britt explores this attitude and the sincerity that must come with it.

Topics include:

  • Distinguishing self-study from narcissism
  • The discovery of "fundamental goodness"
  • "Landing and settling"
  • Trust in the process

A 60-minute Live Q&A Session with Sandra Maitri on Saturday, May 5

WEEK FOUR 5/7/2018 First Inquiry Group

Meet with a certified Diamond Approach instructor to discuss the journey so far and practice with the support of your fellow students.

WEEK FIVE 5/14/2018 Radical Openness

Openness is critical to the practice of Inquiry. In this session, Karen Johnson explores how we "unwrap" anything and everything in our experience that obscures transparency to our true nature.

Topics include:

  • What it means to "make space"
  • Allowing as a kind of radical openness
  • "Liberating" your history
  • The underlying purity of our true nature

WEEK SIX 5/21/2018 Do We Dare Question Ourselves?

In this sweeping (and humorous) session, A.H. Almaas brings together all of the elements we have explored so far—curiosity, love of the truth, and openness—and introduces us to a further skill that we need, which is to probe and drill deeper into our experience by daring to ask questions.

Topics include:

  • Different teacher, different expression of realization
  • The accretion of ignorance and conditioning that covers our true nature
  • Using Inquiry to find meaning in experience
  • "Luminous darkness"

WEEK SEVEN 5/28/2018 including Live Q&A on 6/2/2018 Second Inquiry Group

A second opportunity to meet with a Diamond Approach instructor to share insights and practice in a supportive setting.

A 60-minute Live Q&A Session with A.H. Almaas on Saturday, June 2

WEEK EIGHT 6/4/2018 Tender Turning

In the Diamond Approach, we are continuously aligning ourselves with the qualities and characteristics of our deepest nature. In this session, Sandra Maitri focuses on the quality known as "lovingkindness".

Topics include:

  • The effects of lovingkindness
  • The importance of being nonjudgmental toward our experience
  • Inquiry as a process of opening "un-metabolized" experiences
  • Being present to one's pain

WEEK NINE 6/11/2018 Bold Adventure

What is necessary to expand our levels of access to the different qualities that support the practice of Inquiry? In this session, Jessica Britt discusses a certain kind of boldness, courage, and strength that will help us move from the known to the unknown.

Topics include:

  • The nature of our personality structures
  • Discharging tension versus Inquiring into it
  • Natural dignity
  • Taking a bold stand for oneself

WEEK TEN 6/18/2018 including Live Q&A on 6/23/2018 Third Inquiry Group

Your third chance to meet with fellow students and a Diamond Approach instructor to share your experiences and continue to deepen your practice.

A 60-minute Live Q&A Session with Jessica Britt on Saturday, June 23

WEEK ELEVEN 6/25/18 Staying the Course

One of the qualities of true nature is that of being steadfast. In this session, Sandra Maitri discusses this quality and how, as we align with it, we align our consciousness with one of the prime characteristics of our deepest nature.

Topics include:

  • The "thin" nature of ego structure
  • The Enneagram and the archetypal nature of repetitive patterns
  • Becoming skillful about what fulfills the soul
  • Integrating experiences of spiritual awakening

WEEK TWELVE 7/2/2018 including Live Q&A on 7/7/2018 Diamond Guidance

In our final session, A.H. Almaas introduces Diamond Guidance, a "vehicle of wisdom" associated with the practice of Inquiry that is not created by the human mind.

Topics include:

  • Inquiry as an expression of spiritual realization
  • The diamond quality of consciousness
  • How Diamond Guidance allows our "higher intellect" to function
  • Becoming "an instrument of illumination" for oneself and others

A 60-minute Live Q&A Session with Karen Johnson on Saturday, July 7

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PROGRAM SUMMARY

Here’s a summary of everything you’ll receive when you register for Inquiry:

  1. Nine video learning sessions—over 14 hours of in-depth training

  2. Three online Inquiry Group sessions with a certified Diamond Approach teacher

  3. Four live Q&A sessions, one with each teacher

  4. Membership in a private Facebook group

  5. Downloadable session summaries, highlights, and questions for reflection

  6. Weekly exercises for solo, partner, and triad practice

  7. 14.25 Continuing Education credits (available for purchase separately)

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JOIN THE ADVENTURE TODAY

We invite you to join us for Inquiry: The Vehicle of Endless Enlightenment

We unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all Sounds True products for one year when purchased via our website. However, if you are not 100% satisfied with Inquiry for any reason, simply return it with receipt for a full refund.

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Tami Simon, Founder of Sounds True

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