A. H. Almaas: God, Awakening, and the Diamond Approach to Spirituality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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A. H. Almaas (physicist/Diamond Approach creator) examines God, awakening, and analytical spirituality They explore how consciousness can be both unified and differentiated, and debate the limits of spiritual advice.- 00:00:00 - Introduction- 00:03:50 - The Diamond Approach- 00:14:32 - Socratic dialogue is superior to meditation- 00:17:43 - Depth psychology- 00:20:37 - Unifying Buddhism / Christianity / Emptiness / Somethingness- 00:22:27 - God: The Unknown Unknowable- 00:25:00 - Awakening vs. Realization- 00:30:12 - How are consciousness are the same AND different- 00:35:05 - Not everyone should be "realized" / "awakened" (including YOU, and that's okay)- 00:41:00 - Valuable vs. Should- 00:42:32 - The problem with spiritual advice from "gurus"- 00:52:15 - Curt's terrifying experience- 01:00:39 - Sometimes it's better to not be "awakened"- 01:04:53 - TOE has changed to be one step forward, instead of the final TOE- 01:06:02 - Integrating the analytic pursuit with the experiential (and Roger Penrose)- 01:12:22 - God's words of "I am that I am"- 01:13:54 - The expression of truth is love- 01:16:06 - Thoughts on Ken Wilber- 01:22:20 - DMT and God- 01:24:57 - Spiritual "path dependence" is what's generally not taken into accountSPONSORS:- Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off- Algo: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and https://algo.comRESOURCES:- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/6JlKf1QAvXA- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch- Karl Friston podcast (the most important TOE podcast): https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M- http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. SPONSOR: I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This channel is about theories of everything in the mathematically rigorous theoretical physics sense,
0:05.0	but as well as understanding the role consciousness has within physics, perhaps even without physics.
0:10.0	In order to have a meticulous and comprehensive understanding of toes,
0:13.0	then one should understand or at least attempt to understand the more experiential eastern approaches
0:18.0	rather than purely the Western analytical one.
0:21.1	Admittingly, the latter is the approach that I'm most comfortable with,
0:24.3	which is why I'm in an extremely lucky and blessed position,
0:27.6	since this initial foray into the Eastern area of spirituality is with A.H. Almas.
0:33.1	Almas is an eminence and lauded spiritual advisor who writes about and teaches an approach to spiritual development
0:39.8	informed by depth psychology and therapy called the diamond approach.
0:43.6	In fact, Almas is the Arabic word for diamond.
0:46.7	Given that Almas holds a PhD in physics, this episode serves as a copacetic introduction,
0:52.0	both to the regular viewers of this channel as well as to myself
0:55.2	to the ideas of what at least is demotically called the east click on the timestamp in the
1:00.4	description if you'd like to skip this intro my name is kirch i mungle i'm a torontoian filmmaker with a
1:06.2	background in mathematical physics dedicated to the explication of the variegated terrain of theories of everything.
1:13.0	From a theoretical physics perspective, but as well as analyzing consciousness and seeing its
1:17.9	potential connection to fundamental reality, whatever that is. Essentially, this channel is
1:22.5	dedicated to exploring the underived nature of reality, the constitutional laws that govern it, provided
1:28.2	those laws exist at all, and are even knowable to us. If you enjoy witnessing and engaging with
1:32.7	others on the topics of psychology, consciousness, physics, etc., the channel's themes, then do consider
1:38.7	going to the Discord and the subreddit, which are linked in the description. There's also a link to
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