Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • January 2, 2020

    What if there are no wrong notes in music? Often, on investigation, I find that (unconsciously) the musician wanted to play the allegedly wrong note because he felt in his mind that it would sound better that way.

  • December 31, 2019

    Dr. Diamond discusses using the power of music, innate in us all, to help transcend traumatic experiences such as surgery.

    Based on these insights, Dr. Diamond has written a remarkable book of the same title, to encourage others to view surgery as a spiritual, transcendental experience, rather than one rooted in fear and anxiety.

  • December 26, 2019

    The Photographer as Healer must first have found God in himself to then find God in the subject.

  • December 24, 2019

    Tips and approaches for drumming with high Life Energy. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.

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  • December 19, 2019

    An unpainted space that represents the sky is not blank, is not empty.

  • December 17, 2019

    Each composer has his own acupuncture meridian of communication. In Beethoven’s case, it is the kidney meridian, the meridian of sexual indecision. An example of Dr. Diamond’s totally original research into the field of music and healing. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.

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  • December 12, 2019

    There is a Japanese saying about calligraphy and painting: Izen hitsugo, “Mind before, brush after.”

  • December 10, 2019

    Dr. Diamond recounts how he helped a professional pianist overcome his antipathy to the music of Bach. A beautiful example of how music and life interconnect. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.

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  • December 8, 2019

    “A hundred billion stars in our galaxy, hundreds of billions of galaxies beyond our own.”
    –Richard Panek, The 4% Universe

    And there’s the other 96% of which we know nothing – the so-called dark matter and dark energy.

  • December 5, 2019

    All activities – including art, of course – are the result of Guidance. And the extent to which the artist’s ego intrudes is also Guided.