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Science and Spiritual Inquiry

A. H. Almaas describes the influence of science on his method of spiritual work. Almaas believes that incorporating scientific principles into spiritual inquiry can provide valuable insights into our spiritual nature. 00:00 🔬 Science has influenced the speaker's spiritual work by training their mind with the scientific method, incorporating scientific principles into their approach. 01:08 🔬 The methodology of science and spiritual inquiry are not the same, but they offer insights into our spiritual nature. 01:38 🔬 Almaas emphasizes the importance of verifying relationships before making statements of truth in scientific and spiritual inquiry. "The Diamond Approach is an open and open-ended inquiry into the various elements of our experience and its patterns. When that inquiry is sincere and intelligent, it is bound to encounter the psychological and epistemological barriers against the free unfoldment of the soul. Challenging such barriers by questioning them leads to the insightful and directly felt comprehension of these barriers. In this way, inquiry and understanding penetrate the barriers and open up our soul to the still-unknown possibilities sleeping in its depths." - A. H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry, ch. 1 "In the history and literature of the Work, we see that knowledge of what we are calling “Essence” is the goal of the Work. In Western philosophy, we find Plato talking about pure ideas, or the Platonic forms. Plato, a student of Socrates (who was doing the Work), wrote about Socrates’ discussions with his students concerning what are called the “eternal verities.” (We call them the qualities of Essence. These include courage, truth, humility, love, and so on.) Socrates wanted to show how people learn these things. He demonstrated that we can’t learn these from someone else. No one can teach you the quality of courage or love. In his final arguments, he showed that we know these things only by remembering them." - A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book One, ch. 3 "When inquiry is open and open ended, it discloses the knowledge that is always available within experience. An open-ended inquiry means that the rigid patterns in our experience can be transformed into fluid patternings of a self-organizing flow. Before we enter into the process of questioning and inquiry, our experience is rigidly patterned; it arises in repetitive, compulsive, obsessive patterns. When we look into and challenge what is determining and fixing these patterns, their rigidity dissolves and our experience starts unfolding in new ways." - A. H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry, ch. 5 "These lines of thought all explore the nature of the human being as self or subject and its relation to existence, to the divine or ultimate reality, or Being. In the West, a particularly potent thread of this exploration began with the Platonic inquiry as developed by Socrates. We will see in the course of our investigation how pursuing deeply Socrates’s admonition, “Know thyself,” is a powerful path of liberation from the “cave of illusion,” and how, in our own times, we have knowledge and techniques available to help us engage in this inquiry with more precision and ease." - A. H. Almaas, The Point of Existence, ch. 1 "The Diamond Guidance can be accessed and used not just in our work but in many ways—for example, in a philosophic or scientific inquiry. In the Diamond Approach, we inquire specifically into our own personal experience. Inquiry is an application of the Socratic method to the immediate reality of our life." - A. H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry, ch. 3 “Plato states the Socratic commandment, but adding a mystic coloration, by explaining that the ‘care of the soul’ means ‘the purification of the soul.’ This purification is realized when the soul, going beyond the senses, is possessed by the pure world of the intelligible and spiritual, and communing with it, as with that which is connatural and similar in kinship . . . It is not an ecstatic and alogical contemplation, but a cathartic effort of inquiry and progressive ascent of knowledge . . . Hence the soul is cured, purified, converted and elevated by knowing. And this is virtue.” (Reale, A History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle, p. 166.) - A. H. Almaas, The Inner Journey Home, Appendix A https://www.diamondapproach.org/publi... #openendedinquiry #socraticinquiry #socraticmethod #platonicforms #socraticcommandment #knowthyself #caveofillusion