Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
ALBERT NAHMANI: Yes, all mystics there. It's known as the
spiritual capital of Morocco, that's where Kings like to be buried
there because of that spirituality.
TRIP: In 1987 after decades of self-inquiry, meditation, and
spiritual group dialogues, Albert's search for who or what he was
dissolved when he experienced the absolute reality known in
Buddhism as the "Clear Light of Dawn", and in Kabala as "Beyond
the Barrier". Early in his search, Albert was guided by the
teachings of J Krishnamurti, and later by Murshid James Mackie,
a follower of Meher Baba, and the founder of Sufism Reoriented.
Through his book, What Am I, and a variety of other means,
Albert Nahmani shares his understanding of consciousness and
self- realization in the tradition of nonduality and Kabala.
Welcome, Albert.
ALBERT NAHMANI: Thank you.
TRIP: I'm curious. How does your sharing currently manifest? It
appears that you've got a fair number of folks that enjoy dialogues
with you of various types.
WIZARD: I would like to comment on the title, What Am I, and
how that trumps, Who am I. Because Who am I, which is selfinquiry
that was expounded upon by Ramana Maharshi from the
Ribhu Gita, tends to insinuate there might be a more subtle
personality in the who. And what is a more impersonal and
formless that trumps the who. And I don't know about the
translation in Southern Indian language into the who, but I think
what trumps who.
TRIP: Yes, Albert, it's interesting, almost everyone takes their cue
from Ramana Maharshi, or whatever that tradition, that Advaita
tradition is, and it's all about who am I. We have AHAM here,
which is a local Ashram in North Carolina, that teaches selfinquiry,
and they use the who am I, but very few people ask the
32