In this book, Dominic introduces and elucidates the practice of diamond inquiry, the primary practice of the teaching of the Diamond Approach. While central in this teaching, the practice can be useful in whatever path you happen to be on. Diamond inquiry is handy even if you are not on any spiritual path or engaged in any practice, because it clarifies what you experience and connects you to deeper strata of what you are. It takes you to greater intimacy with your subjectivity and gives you greater freedom in what you experience and how to live it. It helps to liberate you from many of your emotional or mental patterns that trap you in suffering or limit your life.
Most teachings recognize that fundamentally we are each whole, and we are all one. We discover this in time in our practice or path. But we tend not to consider this truth and its implications from the beginning of the path. If we believe that reality is one, why do we not generally consider (at least at first) that our spiritual depth and ordinary experience are one? Oneness means that everything in each of us is interconnected to everything else in us, at all psychological and spiritual levels.
The practice of diamond inquiry presented here is based on this fundamental truth—that whatever experience we have at the moment is inherently connected to our inner depths, but we simply do not see or recognize that. If we understand our everyday ordinary experience more fully than we do at first, it can lead us to hidden dimensions.
has the potential of integrating your ordinary experience with the transcendent and timeless truths of spirit and being, helping you live your spiritual illumination, instead of it remaining only as an inner experience.
By encouraging you to remain with your experience, whatever it is, he takes you gently and gradually to deeper levels of your psyche and finally to the very presence of your spiritual nature. And he does it with simple, easy-to-understand language and metaphors.
Introduction Scuba Diving For The Soul
As he spoke, I realized that this exactly describes what the inner adventure of diamond inquiry (or, simply, inquiry) has been for me. I had been trying for years to describe to people the magnificent world of inquiry and the Diamond Approach. Usually when I’m asked what I do, I say sexy words like “spirituality” and “psychology” and “personal development” and I watch the shutters come down behind most people’s eyes. Not always, but mostly. A polite smile and on to the next topic. Or I backpedal to “Well, I used to be in finance!” to establish some sort of credibility. At least people know what that is. But really, inquiry is just like scuba diving in the ocean of your inner world. It is as utterly thrilling as lowering yourself into a coral reef or an underwater cave to discover something that you could never have imagined until you encountered it. It is every bit as surprising, magnificent, and unexpected as any ocean diving trip could be, if you know how to enter this world and discover its secrets. One reason you might want to inquire is to discover the richness and wonder of your inner world.
DIVING FOR HIDDEN TREASURES The inner world is not only an exciting adventure. It is even more personally meaningful than that. The secret depths of the inner world are the very things that
we spend our lives longing for: love, wonder, connection, support, belonging, value, meaning, kindness, passion, joy, freedom, determination, power, peace, space. Somewhere between the surface and those magical depths we find the trenches where those things seem to be missing: experiences of being unloved, unsupported, not belonging; of feeling worthless, meaningless, and so on. We manage the circumstances of our ordinary lives above the ocean, sometimes tying ourselves up in knots, to get as much of these qualities as we can and to avoid the trenches. We are heavily influenced by the beliefs and conditioning we grew up with about what these things are and how to get them or even if we can get them. It might never occur to us that the true source of all of these qualities is our very nature, hidden in the depths of our own inner world.
Inquiry does not aim for one particular state such as compassion, openness, love, or joy—no matter how wonderful those states are. Instead, inquiry opens you to the possibility of finding whatever it is that is most needed for your particular, personal next step. For example, one time you might need love, but at another time love might not do it—you really need your strength! Sometimes in your life you will need to feel and know your value, while at other times what you most need is to feel some space. Magically, you do not need to know and you do not need to decide—indeed you cannot! But by following and exploring in the way you will learn here, you will be led by the inquiry to exactly what is needed. It is just how the inner world works. In time, you will discover all sorts of different qualities that you might never have imagined.
PRACTICE FOR CONTEMPORARY LIFE Diamond inquiry is a practice for contemporary life. We do not live in monasteries. We live rich and full existences with spiritual lives, family lives, love lives, bodily health, sex lives, work lives, financial lives, political lives, community lives, interests, and so on. With inquiry, you can approach and explore experience related to any aspect of life, inner or outer, to find out its deeper truth, to see how it connects with your inner depths. As you do this, you clarify and transform where you are coming from within yourself in meeting that area of life.
It brings more truth, exposes the barriers to your inner depths in each situation, and in time allows more realness and freedom, helping you find exactly what you need. And it all happens right in the midst of life, not by leaving life. This makes it uniquely relevant and effective for people today, whether they would think of themselves as spiritual in any traditional sense of the word or not.
Whatever your experience with the inner world, I invite you to approach diamond inquiry in as open-minded a way as you can, not assuming it to be the same as what you know. There are other practices called inquiry, from other traditions or approaches, and you may find that diamond inquiry shares certain elements with your practice. But it is nonetheless quite distinct, and it may take some time to really “get” the particularity of this practice. The more you discover it, the more you may appreciate its uniqueness. This book does not require you to believe anything. The same is always true of the practice of inquiry, and indeed of the Diamond Approach more broadly.
The book is arranged in three parts. If you were doing a scuba diving course, you would typically start in the pool learning the basics, rather than in the sea. Part one is like this, starting off with some important preparations.
Kath meditation cultivates your ability to concentrate, which is like learning to stay steady in the water. Sensing, looking, and listening help you get more in touch with your immediate experience in an ongoing way, which is like submersing yourself in the water. In part two, we head out to sea, introducing the fundamentals of the practice of diamond inquiry itself. You will practice diving into the ocean of your inner world and noticing your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and life circumstances, which are like the sea creatures, coral, and seabed of the inner ocean. Then you will learn how
to explore using various questions or questioning attitudes. You will also discover the remarkable openness of inquiry and the transformational magic of it.
PART ONE At the Pool—Preparations for Diamond Inquiry
ONE What Is the Inner Ocean?
The inner world is in some ways just like the ocean: an entire world beneath the surface of everyday living. From the seashore of ordinary life you might see only a few shells washed up on the beach, some disturbance in the water, or the occasional fish jumping out. But these only hint at the magical world that lies beneath, filled with extraordinary life and hidden treasures. Inquiry means diving in to explore the wonders and riches up close. This is a living world teeming with your thoughts and beliefs, your memories and associations, your feelings and urges, your sensations and impulses, and your very consciousness and beingness itself. The deeper secrets of the inner ocean are known to very few. Most people might have some idea about fish and coral in the sea. But far fewer know where and how to go diving for pearls, or for hidden jewels and treasures. Similarly, most people have some idea about their thoughts and emotions and the sensations of their bodies, even if they are not deeply in touch with them on a day-to-day basis. But fewer people know of the deeper possibilities beyond a glimpse, much less how to talk about them. Maybe there is the odd moment when there is a profound feeling of peace, or of connectedness with all of the world. Perhaps there is a deep recognition of the goodness of life or a feeling of joy at the wonder of life. These tiny glimpses sometimes slip by barely noticed, and sometimes they have a very deep impact, possibly changing a life forever. Yet for some reason we seldom consider that these hidden treasures of the inner world are there, accessible in everyday life, to be explored and discovered. There are very few places or social situations in which one would discuss them, and we often do not even have the words to talk about them!
Something catches your interest and you follow it, wondering what it
is, what it is doing there, where it is taking you, what it is about. When you go diving in the sea, there is no fixed formula, no single way to explore underwater caves, to discover the secrets of seahorses, or to restore a coral reef to life. It is up to your curiosity, interest, and skill to guide you. You find yourself in the territory and then navigate according to what is going on right there. Diamond inquiry is the same. In this kind of inquiry, there is no set formula.
Your inner ocean pulses with the sensations of all different parts of your body from your toes to the top of your head. It is alive with your sense perceptions of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching the world around you and the world inside you.
Your inner life is lit up by your mind. Here, mind means the conventional sense of your thoughts, the flow of your inner dialogue, the images of your imagination and memory, and the beliefs that shape and structure your experience and help you make sense of it. Mind can also refer to your very capacities of awareness and consciousness themselves—the direct knowing of what is happening in your experience as it is happening.
Mind can be used in the Buddhist sense, referring to the whole of the inner ocean, but we will not be using it in that sense here. • Your inner life is colored and animated by your feelings and emotions. These can range from emotional reactions such as anger, sadness, fear, or boredom to more positive feelings such as happiness, love, or contentment.
We will see as we go diving that
these qualities can appear as qualities of presence, as the very immediate hereness of your consciousness. You will learn that it is possible to directly sense and know the presence of your own beingness, with all these different qualities.
The inner world and your essential nature are shaped by all the memories, impressions, learnings, and associations that have come from your personal history. Your learning stretches back from something you experienced a moment ago, or learned yesterday, all the way back to your childhood and your earliest life. This vast learning we call your conditioning.
Your inner life and your conditioning include particular judgments that you should be this way or that way and should not be other ways.
Your inner life is centered around your sense of yourself, your identity. Who and what you experience yourself to be has many levels and is continually changing. It includes everything that you experience as “me” at different times, including ideas in your mind or familiar feelings that you have, your sense of self based on your history or the immediacy of your presence. There are even ways of experiencing your identity as a boundless infinite presence, as no sense of self at all.
This is sometimes called the “first-person givenness” of experience, the fact that your experience is your experience.
All these elements are like a living underwater ecosystem where everything is interconnected and dependent on everything else.
In diamond inquiry, you directly explore your conscious experience in a way that unlocks these potentials.
Best of all, in a way that even real ocean scuba diving cannot match, these discoveries are you—they are the very nature of who and what you actually are. The inner world is invisible to the ordinary eye at first. But as you learn how to see and touch this world, the adventure becomes even more immersive than the highest definition or most vivid 3D television or movie. You are not exploring something outside of yourself; in diamond inquiry you are exploring your very consciousness itself. It is intimate, immediate, personal, meaningful, and relevant. It brings you to that which feels most meaningful and central in any given aspect of your life.
EXERCISE: PEEKING BELOW Now, having touched on some of the possibilities, you are going to take your first step toward an inquiry exercise. For this informal exploration, you can just sit comfortably in a quiet spot. This will take about five to ten minutes. You can keep a notebook or journal next to you if you like. As you do this exercise, you can speak your observations out loud or jot down notes on paper. In this first exercise, you will simply take some time to be aware of the elements appearing in the flow of your inner world right now in what we call a continuum of awareness. You are going to dip your head into the water and look around to see how the water is, what sort of seabed you are over, what fish are swimming nearby—by this, I mean whatever arises in your awareness as you are doing this practice. What kind of feelings are around? What is on your mind? What sensations are you in touch with? See if you are in touch, as you are looking, with any of the elements that were just mentioned. You do not need to try to hold on to that list or remember it, or to be limited by it. Just peek at your immediate awareness now and see what you find arising in your experience this moment. Inquiry is always about the direct immediacy of your experience, and this is the first moment in this book to check that out directly. Take your time as you are doing this exercise, as if you are totally at leisure. There is no pressure, no rush, no specific thing you are supposed to find, so you cannot get it wrong. See if you can take the attitude of “Hmm…what’s here? What’s going on inside me? What am I noticing?” Contemplate your inner world with open interest. To assist your inquiry, speak your observations out loud, or use a journal to write a sentence or phrase about what you notice. Then take a moment and pause. And then see what is happening in the next moment. You simply keep repeating this moment by moment, looking in to see what is there and noting whatever it happens to be. The exercise might go something like this, with a comfortable few-seconds pause between each awareness: “I’m experiencing a feeling of curiosity…I feel a slight apprehension…there’s an ache in my hip…I feel excited about my date tonight…I have an urge to get up, I’m not sure I want to carry on with this…I wonder if I’m doing this right…hmm…not much…still not much…I see the view out the windows…I feel a sense of stillness…the stillness feels like a deep vastness…” and so on. Stay with the flow of your inner experience without particularly trying to do anything to it or make anything happen. If you do find yourself trying to do something or make something happen, then you could simply notice that as what is arising. You might say, “Oh, now I’m trying to find something to say,” or “Now I’m trying to make myself feel good in some way.” If you find yourself judging what you are experiencing, you might just notice and mention that. So the exercise is simply to notice whatever it might…
Two: The Practical Diving Gear of Inquiry
So let us begin with some of the basics about how, when, and where to inquire.
WHERE AND WHEN TO INQUIRE It is good to make time for a regular, formal inquiry practice when you are least likely to be disturbed, when there are not too many other things pulling on your attention. Developing the skill of inquiry is just like learning any other skill: it takes time and regular practice. Without regular practice, you simply cannot learn to inquire, any more than you could learn to go diving in the sea without practicing that. Fifteen to twenty minutes is a good practice period. If something captures your interest during your practice, there is no reason not to inquire for longer if you like. But even in that case, take a break after fifteen to twenty minutes. Have a walk, sit quietly, or do a short meditation for a few minutes before going into another period of inquiry. This will help your inquiry to land. While it may seem that “more is better,” in fact it is best to let your system absorb and digest what you have found, rather than continuing to take in more and more.
Ideally, you want to be able to say and express whatever you want during your inquiry—this will give you maximum freedom. That said, if for some reason the only place available is somewhere with others nearby, then you can always do a silent written inquiry, with less outward expression. There is no set posture or position for inquiry. You can do it sitting at your desk or a table or on the sofa, speaking out loud or writing in your notebook or on a computer.
Conversely, if you are uncomfortable sitting in a particular chair or if you get tired standing, then your attention may be dominated by your discomfort rather than your inquiry, so then those are not good positions for you.
INQUIRY ON YOUR OWN Inquiry is easily practiced on your own.
Monologue Inquiry The most common way to inquire is to do a monologue, which involves talking out loud. Here, you are speaking out your inquiry, exploring your experience and talking about it as you do so. There are many benefits to doing your inquiry out loud. Speaking and hearing yourself often has a tangibly different impact than simply relying on thought.
You can also do your inquiry in written form on your computer or in your journal. Some people like to write things out in full, and others prefer to simply jot down key points as they explore without writing out full sentences. This
Silent Inquiry In time, you will be able to inquire silently by yourself—for example, just sitting or walking and contemplating your experience. You will be able to inquire “on the fly” when something interesting comes up, even while you are doing something else. That said, even after decades, there is often an extra level of clarity and definiteness that comes with the discipline of formally doing it out loud or in writing, so this is always recommended as the backbone of your practice.
INQUIRY WITH SILENT WITNESSES Other people can be tremendous support for inquiry. You can meet and inquire in person together, or you can use Skype, Face-Time, Zoom, or the like to meet virtually and inquire. You can inquire with one other person or with a couple of other people. Inquiring with a silent witness is like going diving in your inner world with a diving buddy. Your buddy completely lets you lead the dive, going wherever you want to go and exploring whatever you want to explore while simply staying present with you. They are not there to tell you what to do or where to go, or whether your inner ocean is right or not! They are just there to witness and accompany you while you dive.
When you are inquiring with witnesses, you are not doing it for their benefit or entertainment. You do not need to try to explain yourself to them or make sure that they understand you or your experience. You are not telling them a story. Your exploration is really just for you. It is for your own recognition and understanding of yourself and your experience. It is purely for your own benefit to discover a bit more of what is true for you. The witnesses are just there to support you in doing your own exploration.
Being the Silent Witness As the witness, your job is to remain as neutral, present, and open as you can. In chapter 5, you will learn a practice called sensing, looking, and listening; as the witness, all you need to do is to sense, look, and listen and remain connected with whatever is going on inside you while attending to the other person. The more you sense yourself, the more you will naturally feel how the other person’s inquiry might be affecting you. For example, you might be touched by what they say; you might feel happy, or judgmental, or like you want to give them advice. It is part of the practice to allow and feel whatever it is that happens inside you as you witness them, but not to overtly express any of it. You stay outwardly silent and neutral. You give the person doing the monologue the space to see and experience whatever they do, however they do, without overtly influencing them. You do not need to make them feel better, therapize, fix, coach, advise, nudge, encourage, or discourage them in any way.
After one person’s monologue period, take a further five minutes to continue the inquiry, during which the witnesses can offer some questions to help the inquirer see and understand a bit more about their experience. So each person will get, say, fifteen minutes of monologue and then a further five minutes of ongoing inquiry with questions from the witnesses. Inquiring with an active witness is also like having a diving buddy along with you, but now they are doing a bit more.
As with being a silent witness, the active witness’s intention is not to advise, fix, or change anything, nor is it to get a person to see the brilliant insight you might have had about them.
You can relate to a book purely as intellectual information to take in mentally and think about, and that has a certain utility, but this is not the most practical and transformational use of it. A more practical approach is to treat the book as a boat that takes you out in the direction of a particular aspect of your inner world and then starts shining a few flashlights down into the water to give you hints for what to look out for.
“Hey, just hang out by that opening for a while and let’s see what happens!” Sometimes the most interesting doorways in our experience are those that we ourselves would simply skim past unless someone else helped us to see them. Or you might not want to explore some particular experience by yourself because it feels unfamiliar or unsafe. A teacher can be very helpful in all these situations.
Three: Seeing Underwater with the Mask of Friendly Interest
For example, you might think that anger is bad. Maybe you wish you weren’t so nervous at work or that you were more loving and spiritual. Maybe you wish you could break this or that habit, or not feel sad about some particular situation. You might want to get rid of those critical thoughts that come up every time you see your friend. If you have done some spiritual work, you might have decided you want to be free from your ego, or to let go of your mind and its busyness, or to move into acceptance (and paradoxically away from whatever it is that you are experiencing). You might encounter various discomforts, tensions, or even illness in your body. These are examples of elements arising within your inner ocean that you might find yourself wanting to reject, change, move away from, or at any rate not experience fully. As you begin to look, you will probably see all kinds of preferences, attitudes, and even judgments about what you encounter in your experience. You might notice that you try to avoid certain feelings, perceptions, or thoughts. You might see yourself trying to change yourself, your life, or those around you, so that you do not have to experience certain elements that come up in your inner world. Or you might be on a self-improvement path, determined to be the very best you and only think positive thoughts.
But there is a fundamental difficulty with this. Trying to change, fix, or improve your experience is basically rejecting yourself and what is going on inside you, and that seldom makes you feel better. Think about it for a moment. Suppose you are sitting with a friend, and your friend is upset. What would be more helpful? Would it help things if you yelled at your friend and told her to get over it? Would it help if you pushed her away and told her you only want to see her when she is in a good mood? How would that make her feel? Probably not great. She might put on a brave face for a bit, but sooner or later that upset would probably come back, and either she would have to hide it from you next time or pretend it wasn’t there, which would mean being fake with you. None of that would deepen your friendship! In contrast, imagine how it would be if you said to her, “Oh wow, you seem really upset! What’s going on? Tell me what’s happened!” How would it be to have a friendly, interested attitude to find out what is upsetting her and to be with her just as she
This is the kind of friendly interest you bring to your experience when you inquire. You try to be kind and curious about yourself and your situation.
So contemplate this for a moment. What if nothing is wrong or broken? What if nothing that happens within you is a mistake? What if you do not have to change yourself? What if you can simply be kind and interested in what is happening within you? What if you could be that kind of friend for yourself? You do not have to like it if it is not comfortable. You do not have to get rid of your preferences.
Even when there is a raging shark or dying coral reef in our immediate focus, even when we are upset or afraid, there can be an atmosphere of care and curiosity. The waters of the inner ocean are alive, warm, intimate, friendly; they embrace every inner experience with curiosity in just the right way. We can begin to sense and recognize the very presence of friendly, interested consciousness as who and what we are. If we follow the kind curiosity of our inner world to its very source, we might find it emanating from a shining green jewel of pure friendliness, whose warmth and light can pervade the inner world. We will see more about these inner treasures as we go.
EXERCISE: EXPLORING YOUR ATTITUDE If you like, you can begin with a bow, a dedication. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow deeply, honoring your inner nature and truth with a friendly, open, and interested attitude toward you and all that you might experience. Now take some time to explore your attitude toward your inner experience. You want to see and understand some of what limits your friendly attitude toward yourself. You can do this in three parts. First, take, say, ten minutes to make a list of some experiences that you are not so friendly with. See what elements of your inner world you usually judge or want to change, fix, or get rid of. These might appear as feelings that you do not like to feel. They could be positive or negative—maybe you do not like to feel frustration or failure, emotional pain or discomfort of some kind, or perhaps too much excitement or love. They could be sensations that seem unwelcome to you—maybe you think something is wrong if you feel empty in some way or if you feel some kind of pleasure or tingling. And they could be thoughts or perceptions that you do not like to admit, such as seeing selfishness in your actions or those of a friend. Just roll with it. Let various experiences come to mind that you tend not to welcome and be open to. After you have made your list, pause and take a moment to notice how it has affected you to do this. How are you feeling in the moment? How is it to look at this list and recognize the elements of your experience that you usually push away? How is your breathing? Take a nice deep breath, filling first your belly and then your chest and then simply letting it out freely through your mouth. And another one. Then, for the second part, take another ten minutes to explore some of your own reasons for being less than open and friendly with these various experiences. You are going to practice being friendly and interested in what limits your friendly interest! I have mentioned some of the possible reasons earlier, and you might find others. Choose an item on your list and explore for yourself why you are not open and interested in yourself when you are having that experience. Ask yourself in a friendly, interested way, “What is right about not being welcoming of and interested in that experience?” Some part of you must think that there are good reasons not to go there or you would not have this attitude, and you are inviting yourself to see and understand these attitudes and beliefs. You might think the feeling is inappropriate, or negative; perhaps it seems not to be going anywhere, or pointless; or irrelevant. You might have seen other people experience something similar and not want to be like them. So there might be all sorts of reasons.
In the last part of the exercise, you will now directly explore what it is like to be with yourself in a friendly and interested way, using a Gestalt technique. We sometimes use this technique to explore the connection between two parts of our inner world. If you can, take two chairs and arrange them as if there are two close friends that really care about each other sitting and talking together, in whatever way seems most comfortable and friendly to you. Designate one chair to be “you,” just as you are. Designate the second chair to be the attitude and feeling of friendly interest. Begin sitting in “your” chair. As you sit here, just being yourself, imagine a kind, interested person, as if you were sitting with the most warm and friendly person. Allow whatever comes up as you do this. You might feel quite touched by the possibility. You might have no sense of it at all and think it is a silly exercise. You might feel that you do not want them to get too close to you, or it might feel relaxing to be finally sitting with someone who is not trying to change you. Just allow and notice whatever happens and try to stay curious about whatever comes up. Now see if there is something you would like to say to the presence in that other chair—and if there is, go ahead and say it as if you are speaking to someone sitting there. Then move over to the chair of friendly interest and imagine yourself relating back to “you” in “your” chair in this kind way. Notice how you feel in this position. How is it to imagine looking back at yourself, relating to “you” sitting there, in a friendly way? What would you say to yourself? Take your time to feel this out. If nothing comes up, try starting with a simple “Hi!” And then continue the conversation, physically moving back over to “your” chair and letting yourself receive the friendly interest coming from the other chair. And see what you want to say back.
Before moving to the next chapter, here is a way to continue practicing, to help you see more. Take five to ten minutes to practice at different times of your day. Start off remembering this attitude of friendly interest and then dip into your inner experience and see where you are: What is on your mind? What circumstances are up for you? What are you feeling? How is your energy? Stay in the flow of your experience and see what happens as you do. At the end, take a moment to look back and see if you were able to be open and friendly with whatever was going on. Also notice if you had trouble with that, if you were rejecting your experience or trying to fix or change something. If so, what limited your friendly interest in your experience? How does it seem to affect things when you are more friendly or less friendly?
Question and Answer: Friendly Interest I just do not feel friendly and interested in myself at all. I do not seem to care about myself or about this experience that I’m having. I certainly do not want to know anything more about it! How can I inquire from here?
When I look inside my inner world, I just start to feel anxiety. Surely this is bad for me, and a friend would want me to feel better!
When I do the practice, I find the same old thing coming up over and over. I’ve been working on this same issue for so many years and I’m not getting anywhere! Surely this is a waste of time.
A short period of this meditation—perhaps five minutes—before you inquire will support your inquiry practice. Once a day, a longer period—say, twenty minutes—is optimal, if you can. Occasional practice up to forty minutes every so often is even more beneficial, if and when you can manage it. EXERCISE: KATH MEDITATION
The liberating magic will start happening the more you feel and recognize the inner critic’s activity and the truth of how it affects you, and how you feel about that. The more you clarify both sides of this dynamic—the criticized one, and the criticizer—the more it will open up and transform. Conversely, the more you avoid it, ignore it, argue with it, rebel against it, pretend it is not there, pretend it is OK, spiritualize it, or stay vague about it, the more it will remain intact and limit your freedom to murky nets and little ponds.
satisfying and real for you. In time, you may realize that it is simply your own presence, your own friendly, curious, and open beingness right there in the immediacy of your own experience that guides and directs your inquiry. One day it may even feel like the very consciousness and beingness of the whole universe itself, unfolding and revealing its magical potentials in your personal life through this play of gradual learning, unfolding, discovery, and revelation.