The world's great spiritual traditions recognize that direct knowledge of the self or soul leads to an understanding ofcosmos and of the Divine itself. But what is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is the soul's journey inpath lead, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way?These fundamental questions are explored here in detail according to the investigations of the Diamond Approacicombines systematic inquiry into persona] experience, the practice of traditional spiritual methods, and the applicaticpsychological research.The Diamond Approach has developed an original understanding of the soul that unifies modern and ancient conisoul as both our ordinary self and its spiritual ground. In brief, the soul is you'the locus of your self-awareness, incsubjective field of individual experience and consciousness, mind, heart, spirit, consciousness, will, and all "inner estructures and levels of soul are explored in the book, including egoic and cognitive structures that pose obstacles tosoul's true nature. This examination is followed by an in-depth overview of the soul's journey to its goal: the realizatreality in which self, world, and God unified. In this overview the various spiritual dimensions and aspects of realityexamined.