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Enlightenment Drive
In this enlightening video excerpt, A. H. Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach, delves into the profound concept of the enlightenment drive. This teaching is part of a broader course on the social, sexual, and survival instincts, which are essential for our physical existence and well-being.
Almaas explains how the enlightenment drive emerges when these fundamental instincts are harmonized and satisfied, leading to a deeper spiritual awakening. By integrating these primal forces, we pave the way for the awakening of our true nature and the realization of our inherent beingness, guiding us toward a more liberated and enlightened existence.
(The referenced course above can be found here: online.diamondapproach.org/human-instincts-on-the-inner-journey-hij-wi24/?HIJ-EV&UA-cam&Social&)
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Realization in the Rough: Reconciling our Animal Instincts with the Spiritual Path
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Join us for a free, on-demand talk with Diamond Approach founders A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson to discover a fresh outlook on how the powerful and polarizing forces within and around us can be transformed into fuel for the spiritual journey. Watch the full talk here: online.diamondapproach.org/realization-in-the-rough/ In this talk you’ll discover… ♦ What the social, sexual, and survival insti...
Human Instincts on the Inner Journey
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Join Diamond Approach founders A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson to learn how to engage your primal power as a pathway to realization. Escalating conflict, an epidemic of disconnection, global instability-everywhere we look we see the unconscious expression of our primal animal instincts playing out in harmful, distorted ways. When these powerful forces constrain the human heart, they cause persona...
Way of Love: Waking the Divine in the Human Heart
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Join us as Diamond Approach teacher and named lineage successor of A.H. Almaas, Zarina Maiwandi, leads a 3-part exploration of what love really is, the ways it shows up in our human experience, and how we can move through inner obstacles to realize its full expression. We are also be joined by special guest, A.H. Almaas, who teaches the opening session. Learn more here: online.diamondapproach.o...
Exploring Your Relationship to Love
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#summeroflove #awakenedheart #ahalmaas #diamondapproach The final video has just been released and this week, A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi answer the question: What can support me in exploring barriers to love? Watch as they discuss the ways the Diamond Approach methodology and practices not only meet us exactly where we are in matters of the heart, but how they guide us through our inner ba...
Changed by Love
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#summeroflove #awakenedheart #ahalmaas #diamondapproach A new video has just been released and this week, A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi answer the question: What changes as we come closer to love? Watch as they discuss the profound ways our lives and our world transform as we awaken to our loving nature. Join us on Sunday, September 17, 2023 as A.H. Almaas Zarina Maiwandi guide us in an explo...
Coming Closer to Love
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#summeroflove #awakenedheart #ahalmaas #diamondapproach In this week’s video, A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi answer the question: How do we come closer to love? Watch as they explain how our ordinary, day-to-day experiences and facing our hurts and pains around love are the very doorway we’re seeking to open our hearts more fully. Join us on Sunday, September 17, 2023 as A.H. Almaas Zarina Mai...
Everything is Love
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#summeroflove #awakenedheart #ahalmaas #diamondapproach Many spiritual traditions teach us that everything is made of love, but how can this possibly be true in a world so full of violence, trauma, and hatred? Watch as A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi share a new perspective that helps us discover the truth about love and see the wholeness that underlies all experiences. Join us on Sunday, Septe...
Illusions of Love
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"It's a kind of real misconception to think that Divine Love means looking at things through rose-tinted glasses . . .forced positivity." - Zarina Maiwandi Enjoy this free video series as author and co-founder of the Diamond Approach, A.H. Almaas, and Diamond Approach teacher, Zarina Maiwandi, explore some of the deepest questions we all have about love and longing. A new video is released ever...
Nondual Love | Amsterdam Book Talk | With A. H. Almaas
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Love is a transformative aspect of the spiritual path-and, in fact, it is our very nature. A. H. Almaas takes us on a journey beyond a narrow, individual understanding of love into an exploration of what he calls the boundless dimension of Divine Love. This is not the kind of love that we feel toward someone else; it is nondual, love without boundaries. Or put another way, it is universal true ...
Freedom from the Superego (Inner Critic)
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A. H. Almaas talks about the importance of freedom from the superego. As we deal with the superego, we learn that the intention of this major coercive agent within us is to try to direct our experience. Basically, the superego is trying to make you feel one thing and not another: “This is acceptable; that is not acceptable. This is okay; that is not okay.” But the superego can manifest not only...
Longing for Love
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We all long for love. We search for it in relationships, in our careers and hobbies, in religion and spiritual traditions, or in any number of passions, obsessions, and distractions, but nothing quite seems to achieve it. What is it that we are really longing for and how do we find a love that truly satisfies? Watch as A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi explain where longing really comes from and ...
Separated From Love
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Diamond Approach founder and author A.H. Almaas and Zarina Maiwandi answer the question: How do we get separated from love? Watch as they discuss the ways we lose contact with love, how that separation shows up in our lives, and what it is that we’re really separated from. Starting June 7th, 2023 a new video will be released every two weeks throughout the summer. Learn more and sign up here to ...
The Source of Love
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“What might change for someone who comes into greater contact or realization of divine love is everything. Everything can change.” -Zarina Maiwandi, Diamond Approach teacher Join A.H. Almaas, co-founder of the Diamond Approach, and Diamond Approach teacher, Zarina Maiwandi as they delve into the profound topic of love and longing. Starting June 7th, a new video will be released every two weeks ...
The Truth About Love
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Enjoy this free video series as author and co-founder of the Diamond Approach, A.H. Almaas, and Diamond Approach teacher, Zarina Maiwandi, explore some of the deepest questions we all have about love and longing. In this video, they discuss some of the most common misunderstandings we have about love and what they’ve discovered is actually true. Starting June 7th, a new video will be released e...
Enneagram Point 2
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#shorts | What is the Diamond Approach Path?
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#shorts | What is the Diamond Approach Path?
Introduction to the Diamond Approach
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Introduction to the Diamond Approach
Three Main Practices of the Diamond Approach
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Three Main Practices of the Diamond Approach
Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas | A Live Book Talk
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Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas | A Live Book Talk
What is a Modern-Day Spiritual Path?
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What is a Modern-Day Spiritual Path?
Introduction to Nondual (Divine) Love
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Introduction to Nondual (Divine) Love

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  • @JohnDupuyintegralrecovery
    @JohnDupuyintegralrecovery Місяць тому

    I love these two men! It is beautiful to see and feel them here together.

  • @arabianbrahma
    @arabianbrahma Місяць тому

    Dear Almaas, Do you think Dzogchen is just a fantasy? I have friends practicing Theravada, Hinduism, Sufism and magic, they have achevied some forms of realization and siddhis compared to many I know who practice Dzogchen for decades and some of them have done 3-6 years retreat but no serious result, when I ask them why they tell me Dzogchen is about liberation in Bardo (after death) !! This sounds like religious faith Islam/Christianity which promises results after death.

  • @mdthequeenbee3184
    @mdthequeenbee3184 2 місяці тому

    This whole talk has been a blessing…❤

  • @8888cjstarwoman
    @8888cjstarwoman 2 місяці тому

    in the 70 s it was all about being turned on

  • @8888cjstarwoman
    @8888cjstarwoman 2 місяці тому

    appreciate this timely video.

  • @AlexanderSamarth
    @AlexanderSamarth 2 місяці тому

    Here because of Thusness.

  • @howardleekilby7390
    @howardleekilby7390 4 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Ekkiert8
    @Ekkiert8 4 місяці тому

    I agree. I develop empathy through understanding and for that I seek knowledge about every topic. To free myself from the bias if indoctrination and see the world and humans in a different light 🌸

  • @shaundisch2020
    @shaundisch2020 4 місяці тому

    1) You said, "Beyond awareness." What could be beyond naked awareness? 🤔 2) I agree with you about K. Maybe Krishnamurti needed more time to let his awakening finish. He had the force of the public eye on him. He still meditated for goodness sake. I love K and have benefitted from his writings immensely, but I prefer Nisargadatta's "I Am That", Alistair Shearer's Adi Shankara book "In the Light of the Self", The Gita, and Ramana Maharshi. 3) I love hearing you talk of your spiritual experiences, thank you. 4) Reading Krishnamurti convinced me to realize I needed to sit in silence and just be, and I did for thousands of hours. This led me to purification, kundalini, turiya for a day and naked awareness for who knows how long. Just saying that if he helped little old me, he could have helped millions. Nisargadatta talked of him. K also gave Joseph Campbell the book on the east that allowed him to write the book on myth that allowed George Lucas to write Star Wars which got the concept of The Force (God?) out there which I love for atheists etc.

  • @nancykirkendall7780
    @nancykirkendall7780 4 місяці тому

    Thank you

  • @farahfoulla
    @farahfoulla 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful. As usual ❤thank you Hamid❤

  • @michaelnowacki1083
    @michaelnowacki1083 4 місяці тому

    Is the "Felt Sense" of Focusing part of sensing/looking/listening, to be expected, or something different?

  • @josephh1283
    @josephh1283 5 місяців тому

    Fire

  • @Marie-von-M.
    @Marie-von-M. 5 місяців тому

    .

  • @lukystaify
    @lukystaify 5 місяців тому

    awesome talk, thank you

  • @murrik
    @murrik 6 місяців тому

    41:30

  • @murrik
    @murrik 6 місяців тому

    1:06:00

  • @ANANDSINDHU10
    @ANANDSINDHU10 6 місяців тому

    If we think we know! Its very difficult to the experience to open.. Knowing something and not knowing.. Is openness!! Is allowing to open Is alchemy ❤

  • @sunyata7777
    @sunyata7777 6 місяців тому

    This is such an excellent talk, thank you 🙏🙏

  • @murrik
    @murrik 6 місяців тому

    32:00

  • @murrik
    @murrik 6 місяців тому

    5:30

  • @paris8711
    @paris8711 6 місяців тому

    Very nice lecture. These series are very interesting. Thank you for your generosity dear @Almaas. I would like to ask you if you could make a lecture about Ibn Arabi. I know you know quite a lot about him. It would be interesting to hear specifically about the "perfect human being" as a microcosm. I think it might have some link with dzgochen as the "self perfected state".

  • @yura13berlin
    @yura13berlin 7 місяців тому

    Something I don't understand - basic problem of human civilization is "inner judge", which is a real reason for all psychological problems, which manifested in wars, broken or toxic relationships...etc, and so few people realized, that ingenuous Byron Brown book - is a true key to solving major human problems. I really was so lucky to read this Byron Brown book, which raised myself to highest possible height of truth understanding.

  • @krumplethemal8831
    @krumplethemal8831 7 місяців тому

    I think there is confusion between Dogen and awakening. Many take zen from the point of view of simplicity, in fact too simplistic. One thing to remember is Dogen was well versed in the Dharma before he traveled to China. He knew the Buddha's teachings very well. So when you hear, just sit. That's it, just sit. Well you can just sit for a trillion life times and you still won't awaken. You need to also have a broad knowledge of the Dharma or just sitting won't do anything..

  • @bahez761
    @bahez761 7 місяців тому

    I came across Dogen through Heidegger. For me it's really along journey with plenty of joy and wisdom to understand what Dogen saying, by practicing spirituality. So for me to experience Dogen's idea of Time being is a philosophical and spiritual journey. Thank you so much for the wonderful explanation.

  • @peacefulisland67
    @peacefulisland67 8 місяців тому

    We might be careful how we criticize others' approaches to spirituality. Each body has a specific constitutional make up and while there are many that do change, most of us can only try our best and hope to not create too much chaos. From my side, sampling from many sources on the subject of spirituality has given me a more three dimensional view of what it even means, what love might be, and reasons why they even exist. This body/mind has more than a few blank or scarred areas, and I have to hear from many voices and styles how to even begin to hear and then interpret what is being transmitted. Thank God more people than not have allowed me the art of this process, with grace. It not only helped me to feel part-of, but also is giving me, over time, the autonomy and confidence to come full circle and choose my own more simplified path. Plus, if I didn't partake of the buffet, I'd never have found either of you. 🤗

  • @williamcallahan5218
    @williamcallahan5218 8 місяців тому

    When Buddhism talks about "cause and effect" in the context of emptiness they are talking about conventional experience, not ultimate reality. (@ 9:24) Of course there is nothing like cause and effect going on ultimately.. It's empty and as Nagarjuna says even emptiness is empty. I am having second thoughts about A H A now after listening to this video. He says people wake up for no reason, like Ramana Maharshi. That is assuming a lot, it assumes you believe there are no reasons because none are OBVIOUS. We don't know anything.

  • @williamcallahan5218
    @williamcallahan5218 8 місяців тому

    Does realization happen cause of practice? I like the way Dogen talks about it... practice / realization is one thing. But I think, or it seems to me, that no it doesn't "happen", realization already is. I only began practice cause I had a recognition that Awareness "already is". Recognition can happen for the character but??? that's another conversation.

  • @markrockliff2742
    @markrockliff2742 8 місяців тому

    That was interesting.

  • @RobMatthews21
    @RobMatthews21 9 місяців тому

    Lots of talk about it but not much of value. Why focus on Norbu’s approach. The translation of many of the original texts are available. I agree with him it’s not about intelligence.

  • @chriselamri
    @chriselamri 9 місяців тому

    Jessica Britt is so awesome! Thank you 🙂!

  • @000pete9
    @000pete9 9 місяців тому

    Go read the books, oneself will have a better or more complete content.

  • @Magik1369
    @Magik1369 9 місяців тому

    The One and the Many are co-emergent and perfectly Unified without any contradiction between Unitary consciousness and the individuation and realization of Souls, each of which has a unique personal essence. Advaita Vedanta is solipsism and is lopsided emphasis on the One to the exclusion and de-valuing of the many. At least some forms of Vedanta take this lopsided view. Other schools recognize the Soul and its eternal nature.

  • @kaleabembaye7699
    @kaleabembaye7699 9 місяців тому

    i was reading the key to the enneagram and on page 57 read that u wrote about jiddu krishnamurti and about how he is a 6 and he didnt overcome his fixations it is a very strong claim how are u going to prove that ? and i cant help but wonder that u might be saying that because he was against all so called Gurus and that Enlightenment or awareness it is not a process or cant BE through practice or following any Discipline and on ur teaching there is practice and disciplines correct me if i am wrong and please understand that i am not doing this to defend my beliefs but honestly know what the truth is by asking honestly .

  • @lindaraereneau484
    @lindaraereneau484 9 місяців тому

    After 50 plus years of dzochen, before finding the works of Almaas, I had come to the view of totality on my own. He is amazing and brings a great richness to the flowering, the evolution, of the human as a an expression of the infinite. His view of totality embraces all views and paths as real ways ultimate reality can be experienced and expresses itself. Duality is a real way the ultimate expresses itself; enlightenment requires an individual to exprience it. If ultimate reality could not individuate itself, it could not know itself. If there were not the changing, it could not express, create, experience anything. Or forget and lose itself in creations and reduscover its true nature. The dzochen realization, or enlightenment by any name or path, is a beginning, not an end. For example, many non-dual teachers have not yet opened the heart. There are infinite dimensions in enlightenment. There is no end point; there is endless discovery. Even ultimate reality can be experienced in infinite ways: as fullness, as void, as love (a state, not an emotion), as clarity, as timelessness, an infinite point or spaciousness. Also, enlightenment deepens, reveals more facets, becomes more abiding. It does not relieve us of all the human psychological challenges we have. It is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It's not a quick fix-all. It doesn't solve all one's problems or mean you will be happy all the time or escape pain. It is a beginning, however great and abiding the enlightenment is. Now the real work begins. A great contribution Almaas makes is to bring many tools developed in the west, such as depth psychology, to help with the human side of things, the obstacles on our side that arise both before and after realization.

  • @lindaraereneau484
    @lindaraereneau484 9 місяців тому

    This is why remote viewing works, too. They (Buchanan, Macmonigal, Smith, etc.) explain it as possible through the "subconscious," and say it's scientific, but without saying where this sub is or where it is located or what it is.

  • @markrockliff2742
    @markrockliff2742 9 місяців тому

    The problem Type nine has is that it will have conflict with others if the nine yield to being its authentic Self. A nine experiencing its phycology at the health levels where presence is active and wants to express themselves via the unity of all three instincts and via the individual expressions of all three instincts when relating to others. Via the willingness to impress the view point from one of and all three, sensing to the instinctual level and feeling to the instinctual level and thinking to the instinctual level which means transforming self image in the act of expression expressing the instinctual drive as an obvious. The Nine also wishes to express all six instinctual variants in the same way to demonstrate the obvious. At this level of micary or natural expression, the Nine can take the world view point of each of the eighteen Egoic Mind Sets and appear as the argument of any of the 108 egoic mind sets the wishes to. The reality is people do not like being mirrored this amount of flux within the human expression. I am a Type nine and I know when I was in primary school my class mates directly and indirectly requested me not express myself with that level of depth. They were amazed and ok with it, but not ok with being mirrored that level of minds operation as a constant or regular expression. I hear all kinds of teachers who are making good coin from teaching the enneagram and speaking all about the Presence one can experience. The problem is we don't have one teacher who can simple switch on and mirror the Authentic Self State to their students so as they the student, are instantaneously switch on as well. Why is it against the law to be switched on and to switch on other adult people who are attending a class on the enneagram and spiritual power? That is why there are two comments after four months and 879 views. The enneagram is not being teached properly. If a teacher of the enneagram can not walk into there own cass switched on and simply switch on the room and teach about the structure then they are not a real teachers of the enneagram in my opinion. Simply give forewarning that the class will be run by a teacher who will be beaming authentic presence from there own authentic being. Lets get real about the enneagram. The problem is people are scared to be real and deal within the real energy that the enneagram is. Want to impress UA-camrs then have two authentically switched on enneagram teachers having a conversation about the enneagram from the perspective of being switched on. We who have experienced being switched on will appreciate the wisdom being mirrored via the UA-cam-video. Don't be gutless do the real work and let it be seen in public on UA-cam. I am willing to offer myself as co presenter. I will be open to being switched on via the mirrored energy and we can talk about the enneagram live on UA-cam but you will have to pay my travel and accommodation expenses. Let's make UA-cam history. To save complication we can switch on before and then do the interview. If I have the inner freedom to do so I will demonstrate the flux of all three instincts, six instinctual variant's and eighteen egoic mind sets I spoke of.

  • @lolopatate6325
    @lolopatate6325 9 місяців тому

    congratulation , by your long studies you make simple and clear the essence and nature of this practice! So it shows a great perfection of comprehension and pointer keys essentials. Bravo... At a certain level tell that the mental is the great ennemy as great destructive, so you go before mental with confidence as mental just as a limited friend as just a road to reach and after it s up to you to integrate and recieve fortunately. in some instants... persistence , confidendence and profond wisdom and humility.

  • @user-bn2nq7dd8g
    @user-bn2nq7dd8g 9 місяців тому

    Es gab und gibt bis heute keinen kostbareren Talk von Hameed als diesen!❤

  • @markrockliff2742
    @markrockliff2742 9 місяців тому

    ---------- (9) -------- @--@ ------ @--@--@ -- (6)--@--@--(3) From each three Points: Three, Six or Nine. Travel the nine closest-spaces and a triangle is formed. Three triangles representing the three Primary Instinctual Forces. The Authentic self is not represented by one alone over the remaining two but the Authentic Self is represented by the Larger Triangle its vitality draws from all three triangles all three representations of an authentic self. Your egoic self complete with free will. ---------- @ ------- @--@ ----- @--@--@ --- @--@--@--@ ---------- @ ------- @--@ ----- @--@--@ --- @--@--@--@ ---------- @ ------- @--@ ----- @--@--@ --- @--@--@--@ It requires four Intervals of fair input to arrive at a hole and true conclusion. The larger triangle houses three enneagrams and more.

  • @Magik1369
    @Magik1369 10 місяців тому

    A. H. Almaas is one of the most important integral teachers of our time. This is a powerful message.

  • @stevenst.charles99
    @stevenst.charles99 10 місяців тому

    I very much appreciate your understanding of integrating, psychological roadblocks, i.e. trauma to one’s ability to progress spiritually through approach, describe. Does this mean that if one does not address their internal trauma early, they will not progress spiritually through this approach.?

  • @jstahl76
    @jstahl76 10 місяців тому

    What kind of sphere is Hameed holding? Is that Amber?

  • @quantessenz
    @quantessenz 10 місяців тому

    By all the criticism, I must say, Rupert explains it very well, especially at the end where he takes the analogy of the moon borrowing his light from the sun to illunimate the earth. Also a great conversation between both. Of course everybody has his own opinion, even after deep awakening.

  • @Magik1369
    @Magik1369 10 місяців тому

    The Diamond Approach will prove to be one of the greatest psycho spiritual paradigms ever created. It is fully integral. The "classic" teachings, world religions, etc. are deeply flawed and incomplete. The people who created these religions knew nothing about psychology. Buddhism even continues to cling to the false teaching of "Anatta", which is dangerous and which has resulted in many psychotics. This is why Almaas teachings are so important. The new movement in spirituality was ushered in by Sri Aurobindo and in part by Jung, who correctly taught about the personal evolving Soul.

  • @jstahl76
    @jstahl76 10 місяців тому

    What is PROJECT RAINBOW? What does that have to do with personal and collective trauma(s)? (And eras of historic and technological unfoldment - perhaps pathways into enlightenments via crises?) Where does the rainbow most specifically appear in this video? (Woman speaking about her uncovering details of her experienced trauma.) Why was the US President at the time of this video (2020) ridiculed about "his insane beliefs about an invisible plane"? (The F-35) What military and state secrets continue to make it difficult for the public to know the truth about "stealth technologies" and the space-&-time electromagnetic research projects that may have collectively (and personally) traumatic repercussions? What electromagnetic project allegedly took place on Long Island, subsequent to the initial RAINBOW research and application? What was the premise of the popular show STRANGER THINGS based upon? Did something change August of this year (2023) in the planetary memory fields of the significant scientific research-and-development events surrounding PROJECT RAINBOW?

    • @jstahl76
      @jstahl76 10 місяців тому

      Why did Thomas Pynchon name that Pulitzer-busting book GRAVITY'S RAINBOW?

  • @lashivanaty6804
    @lashivanaty6804 10 місяців тому

    🙏🩵

  • @user-ic8ld3kd4f
    @user-ic8ld3kd4f 11 місяців тому

    just wonder some parts missing, it hears as some parts cut out ...

  • @murrik
    @murrik 11 місяців тому

    59:00

  • @k.muller2631
    @k.muller2631 11 місяців тому

    I am very thankful, that this both teachers, who are so important for my own path an and also for the work with clients on their individual way, were coming and talking together. The work with all our feelings, emotions and also the opening for our spiritual beeing is so wonder-ful and so beautiful. Thank you very much!❤