Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey (Diamond Body Series Book 1)

Over
the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in
integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the
Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism,
Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology. In
this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to
describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience—a way of
investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors
through a process of open-ended questioning. The method is called the practice
of inquiry, and
Spacecruiser
Inquiry

reveals what it means to engage with this practice as a spiritual path: its
principles, challenges, and rewards.

The
author explores basic elements of inquiry, including the open-ended attitude,
the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not-knowing, and the process
of questioning. He describes the experience of "Diamond
Guidance"—the inner wisdom that emerges from our true nature—and how it
can be realized and applied. In this process Almaas looks at many of the
essential forms of Diamond Guidance, including knowing, clarity, truth, love,
intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, and determination. Also included
are exercises and questions and answers from the original talks by Almaas on
which the book is based.