Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
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“Thanks, I Needed That!”
Is every experience, whatever it may seem to be, somehow Meant to help us with our mothers and, through them, to Beyond? There used to be a TV ad for an aftershave lotion. The man would apply it to his face – which he’d then slap. The punch-line: “Thanks, I needed that!”
“Was Omar Khayyam born in a cabbage patch?”
Was Omar Khayyam born in a cabbage patch?
Video: Lung 1 – The Most Basic Acupuncture Point
Any problem within the Acupuncture System can ultimately be traced back to left Lung 1, the most basic point, which Dr. Diamond associates with Matrophilia, the love of the mother.
“Suzie, My Lovely Rose”
"Go, lovely Rose …… That are so wondrous sweet and fair." Edmund Waller (at 85) "I envy the octogenarian poet who joined three words – Go, lovely Rose – so happily together, that he left his name to float down through Time on the wings of a phrase and a flower." Logan Pearsall Smith (at 66)
“The surgeon tells me”
The surgeon tells me – almost en passant – that he’s left instructions
Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
“No Not-Brahman”
The mantra, “Tat Twam Asi” (“Thou art That”), is the central dictum of the Upanishads. It defines the relationship between Thou, the atman (soul in every being), and That, the transcendent brahman (Absolute), which pervades the whole universe.
New audio download released! – “Music as Aspirational Play: A Case Study”
A talk by John Diamond, M.D. By working with an amateur recorder player and encouraging her to approach her music-making as “aspirational play,” Dr. Diamond is able to help her overcome her deep suffering. There is
“To every doctor”
To every doctor: At an unconscious level every patient is your mother.