“Does the Botticelli Make Me Feel More Matrophilial?”
How many millions have puzzled over Botticelli's “La Primavera” – and the infinite reproductions. And all the basic question: What's it about?
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New audio download released! – “Tariki and Jiriki: Other Power or Self Power?”
The dualism between Tariki – Other Power – and jiriki – self power is central to Dr. Diamond’s work, and indeed is one of the fundamental questions of philosophy. In essence, are our lives basically determined or are our actions the result of free will?
“Healing Invokes the Deep Unconscious”
Treatment deals only with the conscious – what the patient knows to complain of. Therapy deals with the superficial unconscious. At its best reducing the hate, but never inducing pure love.
Video: Words – Signifiers of Reality
Words are merely signifiers of reality, not, as we so often treat them, reality itself. Their application, whether as a simple name given to an object or a whole story created about it, forces us to see the object in a particular way, and so limits our perception.
“Music: Flowing Like Honey”
Music should be mellifluous, meli from the ancient word for honey, and fluous, flowing. So Music should flow like honey: smoothly, sweetly.
“The Role of the Healer”
No sufferer ever leaves the healer without his Life Energy being enhanced. With him now passionately, enthusiastically, whole-heartedly and gratefully Embracing all of his life. Anything less than that is, at best, only therapy, and perhaps no more than treatment.
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.
“A Tribute to John Kerridge”
My dear friend and psychiatric mentor, John Kerridge, used to quote this to me.
“A Treater, Not a Healer”
I was in the waiting room of a famous “Complementary Medicine” practitioner, observing the patients entering his office and leaving it. Their Life Energy – their Love of Life, their desire to Embrace Life, was unchanged.
New audio download released! – “Jubilation: An Introduction”
Jubilation is a special way of singing, using only vowels, that greatly raises the Life Energy. It can be done by anybody regardless of musical skill and is original to Dr. Diamond’s work.