Facets of a Diamond – Blog
It is a first step for the patient to express his feelings through art. But what feelings?
Dr. Diamond discusses the tendency for painters, towards the end of their lives, to depict the Yoni, unconsciously seeing death as a return to the Great Mother. Another talk in the Art for Healing series.
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Not only is music associated with The Mother, with our mothers – but especially so is the drum. Marija Gimbutas, drawing on her most extensive analysis of the signs and design patterns that appear repeatedly in the cult objects and painted pottery of Neolithic Europe, writes concerning the Goddess and music about "the intimate relation between the drum and the Goddess."
“How can you do this to me?” the conductor stamps his foot and yells at the orchestra.
Dr. Diamond discusses the relationship between words and music in popular song. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.
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My soul is an enchanted boat.
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.– Shelley
The pulse, the mother, music and water. Let's see if we can draw all these together. When we think of the word pulse, words invoking fluidity come to us like blood, flow, and waves. One of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) definitions of pulse is "the rhythmical recurrence of... undulations." It gives this illustrative quotation: "like the pulse of the flowing sea."Suppose a limb falls off a tree. Immediately the roots will start to compensate.
Dr. Diamond discusses the powerful therapy of Re-Mothering and his classic book about it. The book can be purchased here.
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What could make pure art? Obviously it cannot be created with notes of music and instruments, nor with paints and brushes, nor with cameras, nor with marble and chisels, since every medium has gross limitations. A medium is not full of life. We can bring it to life, but by itself it does not live.