Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
In 1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled “The Poetics of Music.” I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.
Dr. Diamond eloquently shares his view of human consciousness. It consists of 3 layers: the conscious; the superficial unconscious of love and and hate; and, underneath everything, the Deep Unconscious - of pure love.
To paint can mean to apply cosmetics, to falsify. "Let her paint an inch thick" - Hamlet about his mother (5.1.184) and "I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another ….. To a nunnery [brothel], go." - Hamlet to Ophelia (3.1.142)
In the psychiatry journals, many advertisements for drugs. But none for Compassion, for Caring – for Healing.
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
I remember back in 1960 attending a lecture by a visiting psychiatric dignitary, I believe it was E.J. Anthony. His subject was the children of schizophrenic mothers.
Dr. Diamond tells of a remarkable, healing church he finds on Cyprus. It is tiny, and acts as a "womb of love," greatly raising the Life Energy of those who enter.
There were seven Cleopatras, the last one – the one of our fantasies – was Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt. The name is Macedonian meaning “Famous in her Father.”