Facets of a Diamond – Blog

"Looke upon the rainebow, and praise him that made it, very beautifull it is in the brightnesse thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most high have bended it." — Ecclesiasticus xliii: 11–12

At one time, for a period of several months, I had almost no inclination to write anything: general essays, research findings, or even my so-called poetry. I initially thought that this was some form of blockage, then I realized that it was but the next stage in a process that had become apparent over the previous few years, which included the giving up of my “composing”—and especially of my seminars and lectures. At this time, when I received a speaking invitation my immediate thought was how to get out of it. It was not performance anxiety—I have never experienced that—but rather the absence of the desire to perform. And this I regarded not as a problem but a virtue, not as an impediment but a breakthrough.

I believe – fervently – that there is within each of us a Deep Unconscious of Pure, Pure Love, beneath the usual superficial unconscious of admixed love and fear.

In this free video, Dr. Diamond discusses the great spiritual healer, Harry Edwards (1893-1976), who lived in a state of Cantillation (high Life Energy).

My first patient, a married woman in her mid-thirties, was an inpatient in a neurosurgery ward. She had been suffering from severe headaches for many years. The neurosurgeon, though academically brilliant, seemed to have an unsympathetic attitude and was subjecting her to a number of painful procedures, which included pneumoencephalograms, blood tests, cerebral arteriography, X-rays,

I believe that the purpose of all artistic endeavors, and, for that matter, every activity, should be to enhance Life Energy: to encourage the Embracing of Life – enthusiastically, passionately, wholeheartedly and gratefully.

Dr. Diamond shows how, by comparing different recordings of the same work, one can “find” the composer. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks by John Diamond, M.D.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

Buddha’s First Noble Truth: life is anguish. The word is derived from the Indo-European root ANGH, "painfully constricted," which also gave us "strangle."

A free video introduction, by Dr. Diamond, to one of the deepest and most universal problems affecting health and relationships.

Who can ever establish when a case of heart disease really started? Was it with the first change in electrical activity, was it with the first symptom of pain in the chest, or was it when subtle biochemical changes occurred or when there were subtle pathological changes in the blood vessels of the heart, perhaps many years before the patient ever had a complaint?

For me taking a photograph is a momentary revelation of an instance of the universal unity. The subject and I are one.