Chris Elamri

Morocco To Stanford

Born in Virginia but grew up in Morocco since I was 1. Spent part of my childhood in Senegal (Lebanese family) and France in a tiny village in the Pyrenees (French family). Eldest of two younger brothers. Went to a French public school in Casablanca. Fairly military-style childhood but also major freedom if I had my shit together. Grew up very independent as a result. Parents never checked my homework, no curfews, etc.

Bought my first phone and computer with money made from doing lots of ads for Moroccan National TV haha. One ad for a vegetable oil company! I know... shame - never use that fucking poison! Highly ranked seed oil disrespecter here.

Friends with everyone in high school. Vibed with all people. Never got bullied. Apart from getting street mugged several times lol (ran for my life!). Once where I fought (success!) ...so they threatened to beat me up with machetes next time (no joke haha). Alert af walking to school but all fine in the end.

Played rugby, surfed every week, and did martial arts (Judo/Aikido and some Muay Thai) all childhood.

Sensitive kid who wrote poems and shit and could not stop pondering Existence. Nobody really cared or could seriously discuss this with me so kept it to myself.

Stopped believing in God around 12 (family both Christian and Muslim). I thought God must be a cope because people are afraid of death and the unknown and need meaning. If there is nothing after death then so be it. I just want the raw truth. No sugar-coating thx.

Fortunate to have been majorly red-pilled by a wonderful music teacher who seems to never age (looks 40 but is at least 80+). Would talk for hours about quantum physics, the nature of reality, conspiracy theories, Peruvian Shamanism instead of respecting the one-hour music session hahaha, we spent 2-5 hours every week passionately talking about everything. I fucking love this man.

Wanted to become a surgeon so spent a summer in an operating room (perks of Morocco haha). Saw 15+ phat babies born and 60+ insane orthopedic operations. Adjusted the operating light like a King (my only job). Surgeon would give me bones from patients haha.

Did Ayahuasca and also had a near-death experience at 16 almost drowning for an hour surfing that opened me up to deeper states of consciousness. Made me realize that there is far far more to how I can experience and know myself.

Hated the rigid french system and how much our school belittled us. Was a good student (also not from a wealthy family) - decided to go all-in, excel in my work and go to the US. Started learning English at 16 and preparing applications for US. Nobody knew wtf I was doing including my lovely parents.

Got into Stanford. Unbelievable to me. Left with zero nostalgia. I punched and broke my window twice. Even though very chill in general, still exploded from self-imposed pressure.

Stanford and The Startup Years

Studied electrical engineering. Then focused early on AI research stuff. Figured I would be an entreprenOr for life so went bananas and almost finished my degree within 2 years taking grad classes I was not ready for. Worth it.

Spent remaining two years launching startup projects and attending pretty much zero lectures. Tried to create Jarvis from Iron Man w/ a friend - worked 9 to 5 every day on top of uni work, partying, and a part-time job for several months. Laughably naive in hindsight. Great learning experience about AGI, limits, and wtf is intelligence again?!

Ended up also traveling to 20+ countries alone (best!), a fair amount of partying, and sublime to hellish experiences haha. Went crazy bananas a lil bit.

Explosive Experience In NY: First Encounter Of The Third Kind

Rewinding to being 19.. one day chilling in a NY park (sober!!) and yet again pondering Reality, I disappeared and went beyond time, space, no location; eternally everywhere and nowhere. No more Chrisness.

This was 10000x more profound than all experiences I have had including drugs including DMT (but that would be comparing apples to a forest... no experience touches this). 1000x is no dramatical exaggeration.

Felt like being drowned in ineffable black peace, totally saturated with pristine luminous transparent radiant clarity... indescribable freedom beyond bounds.

Kids were running around in the park and I felt I was them running around. I was EVERYTHING.

It did feel like a third encounter of the third kind in its impact, immensity, and otherworldliness.

There is so much to this world HOLY JESUS MOTHER FLYING FUCK or I becAMe EVERYTHING was the accurate technical analysis or so my mind said as I reflected on this a few hours later...

Regardless, I was touched deeply, indelibly. Impossible to forget. Impossible to argue against it. Impossible to philosophize away the depth, fulfillment, and preciousness that suddenly opened up void of whatever my mind says or does, transcendental of all things perceived.

This lasted for two hours or so before a friend joined me and it readily faded in potency as I tried to describe it haha. Did not really know how to make sense of this whatsoever.

This experience amplified a great fire within to dive deeper and led me a few months later to an invitation to my first meditation retreat in the Tibetan Mahamudra Tradition.

First Meditation Retreat: Lightning Strike

Got invited to a 10-day retreat in the Mahamudra Tradition, 20 years old by then.

I had a computer systems architecture exam to prepare for but decided to say fuck it and leave for the retreat. Worth it? HOLY SHIT YES.

One of the teachers drove me there (LUCKY ME!). Bombarded him with so many questions. I was incredibly excited and overzealous. I shared with him all my naive beliefs and looking back, he was so kind and empowering. So grateful.

Lived in a cold tent by myself and forgot to bring warm clothes so I was effectively freezing my ass off every night haha in the woods. mOrEE TiMe TO MeDitAte Must Be Free Now! FreEzing IS A LIE lol

Remember seeing most people at the retreat above 50+ but I truly felt Holy shit these are my fucking people so happy to be here. Something felt so palpably real in the atmosphere.

A music producer from London, next to me: Hey Chris. Do not stop going deeper into this. This is it. This is the most precious thing. You better be levitating at 40. Me: Yes sir. Reporting for duty. (So Much Love)

Despite all the enthusiasm, I was greatly resisting and efforting trying to do this or that to my experience. Then after 3-4 days, I gave up, surrendered and decided to simply listen with fresh eyes.

You know what? Only the false can die. I will always remain. Just die fucker. All-Is-Well. Nothing to fear. Trust the teachers. You know nothing. Drop everything you have ever known and carefully listen like the teacher is pouring gold, like a child seeing everything for the first time.

After different practices on opening up to greater compassion and cultivating the intention for the liberation of all sentient beings. Felt so inundated in kindness/tenderness thought my consciousness was completely electrified, frying in love. Unstoppably cried for more than 30 min. Felt myself to be like Mother of all beings.

Through different pointers on the nature of reality something exploded like a lightning strike... Suddenly I am above clouds reminiscent although different in flavor from the experience in NY.

Everything fresh, icy, searing, unobstructed lightness, reality popping in HD, freedom beyond bounds, interconnectedness with everything, deep rejuvenating dynamic restfulness, more depth, more dimensionality...

I felt like I had suddenly woken up from dreams, from the smallness of my little world, and suddenly feeling myself to be shining radiance. In complete awe and intimacy with everything around me.

Like a THUNDERBOLT FALLING FROM THE SKY WITHOUT RESISTANCE

I am flowing, radiating, shining. Everything is supremely poignant, pregnant of itself, oozing its Signature Vibe.

Utmost Preciousness Of Teachings And Entering The Endless Work

What happened after the first retreat? Would say I entered the The Pathless Path or The Work which is always already the case in a way but consciously recognizing it.

Went to more retreats primarily in the tradition of Tibetan Mahamudra and right after joined The Diamond Approach; following up w/ teachers and mentors to keep deepening on the path.

The Diamond Approach is a spiritual teaching that utilizes a distinctive form of inquiry into realization, where the practice is the expression of realization. Its aim is absolute freedom that can be described as living realization, a dynamic enlightenment where transcendent truth lives personally in the world.

Amazed and profoundly grateful at the utter preciousness of the era we live in. All esoteric teachings accessible? People moved hell and earth to get access to these in the past and we can just GoOGLE ...unreal.

One thing that transpired as I engaged the path deeper is the infinite depth and inexhaustible richness of simply Being and the endlessness of the journey of conscious evolution.

The journey commences for some sooner than for others, and for some more intensely than for others. We are fortunate if it has commenced at all. We are lucky that we are willing to dedicate so much energy and effort to it.— A.H. Almaas

Well, for me it feels like the best moments of my life were like tiny glimpses of the Truth shining forth and The Work is being more intensely who and what I truly am which is every moment not when I meditate, uncovering the depth of what I truly am, the real substance, beyond the confines of the familiar personality-world and learning to live/embody that truth in its full-blown glory in the midst of worldly life.

An invitation for a much much more intensely alive existence.

That does not mean there are not different phases of awakening, different depths of awakening, because there are. The idea that all awakening is the same is ridiculous. Not all awakening is of the same depth. That can vary tremendously. But to touch a little reality is still to touch reality.— Adyashanti

From Loss To Deeper Ground

Making almost two million dollars and losing it all at 25 while deep in practice revealed something crucial: the work was not choosing between consciousness and creation - it was discovering they were never separate.

I spent years dealing with a car accident where a truck hit me straight in the head, spine issues, businesses dissolving, and the pressure of so-called deeper realization.

What remained was more real than anything I had built.

This period of dissolution became the qualification for what I do now. Not because I figured it out, but because I learned to see there was no gap. Liberation and transformation, consciousness and form, depth and works in the world - they move together or not at all.

House Infinite emerged from this recognition. Not as a brand strategy, but as a principle: the empty vessel that births infinite worlds.

I have guided 100+ people through containers integrating their work in the world with living Truth where the latter is priority. Not using depth as a tool for outcomes, but discovering how living from Truth naturally transforms everything - including how you work, create, and serve.

This is not a method but a deepening relationship. It is what occurs when Love of Truth is actually primary.

Now based in Bali. Working with those committed to living Truth - through extended transformation containers (Deeper Work) and building timeless brands through House Infinite and select partnerships.

Needless to say, I keep learning and I am fired up to keep evolving, keep embodying the Real while simultaneously resting ever deeper in That Which Always Remains.