“Meditating to a Boab Tree”
I’d like to be a boab tree, sitting like a Buddha in the sand. Firmly planted, well grounded, legs folded under.
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“The Only Prayer”
The only Prayer is Gratos:
Video: Healing and the Metaverbal
What art forms can most efficiently heal? Those that operate beyond words, or as Dr. Diamond calls it, are "metaverbal": above all music, but also the visual arts.
“Birthing Trauma and the Amygdala”
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.
“Photograph Light”
Photograph light...
New audio download released! – “Every Relationship Mutual Yin and Yang”
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).
Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
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.
“Enlightenment”
Not just to be aware of Guidance
Join us for a Celebration of Dr. Diamond’s life
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.
The London Times: John Diamond, 86 – Bestselling author and pioneer of holistic healing through the arts
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.