Facets of a Diamond – Blog
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
For Paracelsus, the imagination was “the central function of man and the source of all his activities.” Blake, heavily influenced by Paracelsus, went one step beyond, capitalizing imagination which could be of anything. Blake referred to Imagination as variously “the Divine-Humanity,” “The Divine Vision,” “the Divine Arts of Imagination.”
Dr. John Diamond discusses three types of yoga that he considers integral to his work: karma yoga (selfless action), bhakti yoga (devout love), and hatha yoga (raising the life energy) – and the deep principles that serve as their foundation.
S. Foster Damon writes that for Paracelsus the imagination was “the central function of man and the source of all his activities.”
Sometimes, etymology can be disappointing. I see that our word crystal is from the root KREU, meaning cruel, cold, freezing. Hence cruel and cryogen.
Is there anywhere a recording, a transcription, of a composer’s mother’s music?
Dr. John Diamond introduces his unique, mother-centered approach to Yoga.
One in the series of “Mothers and Mothering” videos.
See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.
A zygote is “the union of two gametes, first cell of the person to be” (Joseph T. Shipley). Our word zygote is derived from the root IUEG, to join together, to unite, hence also union and yoga.