The major precursor of our later amygdala responses is, I believe, in the very nature of our birthing. We are an evolutionary experiment. Due to our adoption of the full upright posture, the foetal head has become bigger and the female pelvis smaller. And so to enter the world (in itself a trauma), the head and body must undergo 180 degree twist.
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This insightful talk develops Dr. Diamond’s approach to the philosophy of relationships. In any relationship, such as that between a musician and his instrument, a photographer and his subject, or a painter and his paper, it superficially seems that one party is active (yang) and the other passive (yin).
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
Not just to be aware of Guidance
Following Dr. Diamond's sad passing in April, we are planning a special celebration of his life, at his Life Energy Arts Gallery in Mount Kisco, NY, on the afternoon of Saturday August 7, 3-5pm. August 9 would have been his 87th birthday.
When John Diamond was a medical student he related how two patients came into the hospital ward with similar injuries caused by a motorbike accident. They went on to develop the same infection for which they were given the same antibiotic. Yet at the end of the week one patient had died and the other was on his way to recovery.
All that matters in a work of art, if it is really to help us, is how how matrophilial it is: how much does it bring us closer to our mother's love?
Our word fascination comes from the same root that gave us basket: a binding together, an interweaving, a oneness of the fibers, a union, a fusion – yoga. Today the word is debased, has lost its essential magic; we even proclaim we are fascinated by TV ads! But it is not so. We are not fascinated – only attracted, drawn, to them (from the Latin trahere, to draw). Attracted to, but not bound to, one with. Merely superficial, momentary, evanescent, with little deep or lasting worth.
A talk based around the Buddhist conception of the Right Livelihood, one aspect of the Eightfold Path. What really makes a livelihood Right?
