阿瑪斯（A.H.Almaas）

21世紀最重要的心靈導師之一，“鑽石途徑”創始人。1944年生於科威特，學術專長是物理、數學及心理學。1975年，在科羅拉多州及加州創立Ridhwan學苑，學員遍布世界各地。1986年，創立鑽石叢書齣版社。其深度心理治療方法在西方超個人心理學領域具有重要地位，鑽石途徑及研習機構目前仍發行有關阿瑪斯教誨的錄像帶及錄音帶。

阿瑪斯具有完整的現代心理學背景、豐富的個案經驗，並受過最高層的佛法訓練和東方修煉法門，又擷取瞭葛吉夫的教誨、蘇菲神秘主義、金剛乘和禪宗的精髓。他最主要的貢獻是將西方心理學與東方智慧整閤起來，發展齣一條循序漸進、直接而精準的 “鑽石途徑”。

阿瑪斯認為，我們的心靈就像一顆有許多切麵的鑽石，大部分的心理學派與靈修體係，隻琢磨瞭這顆寶石的某些麵嚮。他開創的“鑽石途徑”則運用廣泛的方法，整閤瞭情緒治療、認知治療、直覺式的揭露、呼吸技巧、靜坐冥想及精微能量的探討，來探索心靈的深度和廣度，幫助人們麵對各種心理障礙和關卡，活齣充滿關愛、智慧、喜悅、活力的人生。

In Luminous Night's Journey, Almaas shares excerpts from his personal journal, which describe a certain thread in his own journey of realization and the processes involved in integrating that realization. This publication marks a fortunate development in our knowledge of how Being is realized in and through the human soul: The process of realization and integration of true nature described in the voice of one who articulates precisely and vividly the psychological and epistemological barriers which confront the individual consciousness as realization is integrated in the context of personal life.

Almaas describes how his participation in the unfolding manifestation of Being ushers him into realms that expose and transform increasingly deep ego structures and attachments. Luminous Night's Journey clarifies how the unveiling of Being and the exposure of ego structures constitute one process, leading to the soul's integrated realization of absolute nature and the manifestation of the human being as a personal embodiment of that nature.