Spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas speaks with host Michael Taft concerning the centrality of affection to our spiritual nature, find out how to tell the difference between emotional love and spiritual love, how the injuries of affection can grow to be openings for awakening, various “flavors” of love, and the need of affection to approach truth.
A. Hameed Ali, whose pen name is A. H. Almaas, is founding father of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, a recent teaching that developed inside the context of each ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the series, and .
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Show Notes
00:38 – Intro
03:31 – The book ‘Love Unveiled’
04:24 – Love vs awareness in spirituality
07:11 – Difference between emotional love and spiritual love
10:59 – Relationship between consciousness and love
12:51 – Love is the maturation of realization
14:38 – Difference within the expressions of emotional vs spiritual/essential love
16:54 – Spiritual love as a medium and the nectars/flavors of affection
19:07 – Craving and desire in numerous traditions
25:37 – Teaching the opening of the guts
26:47 – Working with the barriers/obstacles in numerous qualities of affection
31:03 – Pointing towards the way in which into the guts
32:20 – Nectars of affection
34:08 – Phenomenology of affection
36:09 – The three centers of human beings
37:49 – Difficulties with feeling love and loved
41:47 – Working with the injuries in the guts
44:20 – Hameed’s favorite flavor of affection
45:18 – The three-volume series on love
48:23 – Outro
