Facets of a Diamond – Blog

My deepest intention is that some day a sufferer, no matter how afflicted, will be able to look at a painting, at a photograph, and be instantly released from those chains and so be fully healed.

The art of photography is the art of relationship. I take very many pictures, and I love to do so because I love the relating.

This is probably the simplest and most direct statement that I can make about music.

When a doctor approaches a patient he must think not only of the mechanics of the physical cure, but also of aiding the person in healing his spirit. This cannot be learned in medical school, it is not in the medical textbooks, nor does it qualify as a diagnosis for insurance companies. But it is what really matters.

Over all my years of endeavoring to heal, I have found time and again that I cannot work with

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds.*

For music is the mother, and such a man has rejected her. He has no desire for the conciliation which is, I

To be healed, to be whole, is to be one with one’s Soul. And it is my belief that we need to go out to come in: to find our mother’s Soul in order to then find our own: meditation outwardly directed. (Initially we may find the Soul of

Every day as part of my healing meditation I give thoughts to many who have come to me for help. And then as a general statement: “To those who read me, and want to read me; hear me, and want to hear me; and see me, and want to see me – in order to be healed through me.”

For a work of art to be healing, the viewer needs to enter it as a Sanctuary.

As when each night we re-enter our mother, come into the Womb of Love, to dream of Her.

It is one thing that through a medium you come to know that your mother is still “alive” and loving you. But quite another to become aware, convinced, that you have many guides controlling your life according to the Karmic Plan.

We endure our lives of anguish
for the spirit within.
The sage knows this,
and accepts,
that his life is altruistic.