Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The cardiologist proclaimed that his most important role was to allay each patient’s fear of his heart – of being attacked by it.

I’ve long advised suffers to listen to their hearts – and give thanks.

Every day in my still meditation I repeat these – shall I call them prayers?

May I be
a clear channel
for Your healing.

and

Help me
to help You
to heal.

and

I open my heart
to those who want
healing through me.

Then in my mind I go through a whole list of countries and of many of the

When as a medical student I tried to study biochemistry, I became overwhelmed by the hundreds of equations and diagrams. They were so confusing because they seemed not to make broad sense. There seemed to be no overall perspective, just so many little independent facts.

I spent nearly a year preparing a large master flowchart showing

Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love.

But always there will be some hate remaining, never only love. Never transcendental.

They do not Know that there is a Deep Unconscious

Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the abdominal muscles, but I could not find it on examination.

Yet there must have been a problem. When I asked

Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.

To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”

Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.

It seems to me that the tragedy of Freud is that knowing his deep inner shall I say despair he chose what he called self-analysis rather than meditation: to find out what and why rather than Who?

Every morning I would lie in bed and look up at the skylight. And every morning became obsessed by the one corner that was not square.

Hindu sages speak of finding “the Unseen through the seen” — looking past the physical to perceive the divine, cosmic reality that lies behind it.

As with sages, so with healers.  The Unseen within us is the Soul and the task of every healer is to find it within every sufferer.  The true healer is a