Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The very essence of the work of the psychoanalyst George Frankl: 1. all children are born loving     and 2. human nature is essentially good.

Richard Storry writes of the “devoted attention given, throughout its waking hours, to the Japanese child by the mother,” noting that “the conscious and unconscious Japanese memory of childhood in Arcadia depends surely on the constant proximity, concern, and availability of the mother.”

What matters more: “I love you” or “I Know you love me”? I believe the second – and my love is in grateful return for hers.

Our word physician is from the Greek phusis: physics and physical things. So a physician is concerned with the physical body, the physique.

It is said that when drowning your whole life flashes before your eyes. If so, then at that very instant we suddenly Know why we have lived.

Chi is everywhere – Heaven’s Breath. Around us everywhere as etheric chi. When inspired into the body it is transmuted into bodily chi by the thymus, the controller of the acupuncture system. From there it flows through the meridians in a definite sequence, bestowing this energy, this “love,” on every organ and tissue. Then finally exiting to rejoin the etheric chi.

As a doctor, my work was to help, to encourage, to treat, perhaps even at times to heal. Always underneath is a degree, often a large degree, of preaching, of fear-mongering: “Do this – or else.” The other day I overheard a (lay) “healer” telling a “patient” that he could possibly come to need a colostomy. Telling – terrorizing.

In the draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

For years I had to use a faulty electric hand drier in the toilet of an office building I visit very frequently. Sometimes it would turn on when, as instructed, I placed my hands under the nozzle, or if I hit it – just so. But next time in the same place, it would not.