Karen Johnson: The Jeweled Path: Meet the Diamond Approach

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Karen Johnson is a co-developer and long-time teacher of the Diamond Approach, a spiritual and philosophical modality that strives toward inner realization. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Karen speaks with Tami Simon about the experience of developing the Diamond Approach into what it is today, including how she first met Hameed Ali—the man who would take up the pen name A. H. Almaas. Drawing on her recently released book The Jeweled Path, Karen relates how she discovered presence in the midst of great turmoil, as well as how that discovery set her on a lifelong path of spiritual inquiry. Tami and Karen discuss the principles behind the Diamond Approach, including an explanation of "wisdom vehicles" and how they manifest in the course of daily life. Finally, they talk about the Diamond Approach's stance on ultimate truth and how Karen hopes the Approach will impact the world. (67 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
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0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Karen Johnson.
0:44.7	Karen is the co-developer of the Diamond approach along with longtime colleague
0:51.2	A.H. Allness.
0:53.5	Karen has received a master's degree in psychology
0:56.4	from JFK University, and has been teaching
0:59.8	with A.H. Allmas for over 40 years.
1:03.3	Karen has written a new book called The Jeweled Path, the biography of the Diamond
1:10.3	approach to inner realization, where she reveals the personal experiences that
1:16.6	birthed the teaching of the Diamond Approach and furthered its development.
1:22.1	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Carrot and I spoke about
1:26.5	the origins of the diamond approach as a contemporary spiritual path, how she first met A.H. Almas, which is the pen name for
1:37.4	Hamid Ali, and how the remarkable discoveries of this contemporary path occurred right in the midst of the suffering
1:47.5	and trials of her very human life. We talked about how she first discovered presence as something she describes as palpable, dynamic,
2:00.0	viscous, a weightless weight, and how this became an igniting force of spiritual awakening.
2:08.8	We also discussed how wisdom vehicles appeared to both her and How Wisdom She helped us understand what are wisdom vehicles, and she introduced us to the vehicle of diamond guidance and the freedom vehicle.
2:30.0	Get ready to meet the diamond approach. Here's my conversation with Karen Johnson.
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