Facets of a Diamond – Blog
A sufferer presents me with his life problems. And it's my role – as best I can – to go through that superficial presentation to his deep, deep Self – to his Soul. And, hopefully, to then guide him There – for only there will he at last find Peace and Belovedness.
As I listen to the music of Beethoven, Brahms and so many others, and I similarly sense their life problems, their alienation from their Souls: Beethoven from his, Tschaikovsky from his. And also their interpreter’s: Fürtwangler's from Beethoven's and his own. (The interpreter has this double task.)
It's one thing to believe that, say, your mother, in spirit, comes to you through a medium, and that “she” is helping you in your life. But it's quite another to believe that there are many, perhaps innumerable, spirits guiding you.
The thymus changes atmospheric chi, via the breath, into the electromagnetic chi that flows through our acupuncture system. Dr. Diamond suggests an awareness of it can help the Life Energy of the photographer.
One of the Photography for Healing video series.
"My first Vision of Light."
– Blake, “To Thomas Butts”From the root BHA, to shine, light, bright, is derived our epiphany and theophany, and photo.
Every day I write whatever comes to me to write about. And I love doing it. But if I am asked to write about a particular topic – even one I know well, and may of my own volition have written about previously, I don't enjoy the writing experience nearly as much.
Dr. Diamond has composed a large number of special therapeutic songs which he calls lilts. Like his original artwork and photography, his lilts are created with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the performer and his audience.
However much you may believe that you believe in jiriki (self-power) that's still Tariki (Other Power) acting through you.
In this free video, Dr. Diamond discusses how, up until recently, medicine has disregarded the value of such a crucial organ for our health and wellbeing.
I’ve searched for years for the appropriate word of that which I photograph.
“Subject” makes it inferior, under me.
“Object” too cold, unfeeling.
For me, a major – perhaps the major – criterion of any work of art is whether the viewer believes not that the artist has painted it, but that it has been painted through him.