阿玛斯（A.H.Almaas）

21世纪最重要的心灵导师之一，“钻石途径”创始人。1944年生于科威特，学术专长是物理、数学及心理学。1975年，在科罗拉多州及加州创立Ridhwan学苑，学员遍布世界各地。1986年，创立钻石丛书出版社。其深度心理治疗方法在西方超个人心理学领域具有重要地位，钻石途径及研习机构目前仍发行有关阿玛斯教诲的录像带及录音带。

阿玛斯具有完整的现代心理学背景、丰富的个案经验，并受过最高层的佛法训练和东方修炼法门，又撷取了葛吉夫的教诲、苏菲神秘主义、金刚乘和禅宗的精髓。他最主要的贡献是将西方心理学与东方智慧整合起来，发展出一条循序渐进、直接而精准的 “钻石途径”。

阿玛斯认为，我们的心灵就像一颗有许多切面的钻石，大部分的心理学派与灵修体系，只琢磨了这颗宝石的某些面向。他开创的“钻石途径”则运用广泛的方法，整合了情绪治疗、认知治疗、直觉式的揭露、呼吸技巧、静坐冥想及精微能量的探讨，来探索心灵的深度和广度，帮助人们面对各种心理障碍和关卡，活出充满关爱、智慧、喜悦、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.