“‘God’ is Easier”
“God” is easier – more remote...
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Video: Everyone Basically Wants to Heal
We all are born healers, but along the way many of us lose our therapeutic zeal due to trauma. Dr. Diamond discusses how we can reawaken this ability in our adult life - how every profession can be a healing profession - by recognizing its origin in the basic desire to heal our own mothers.
“An Invocation”
In keeping with Otto Jespersen’s postulation that the original speech was gestural, and vowel-based, I have found that vowels actuate much more Life Energy than consonants, which are in a sense mere modifiers of the more basic overall gesture of the vowel. This led me to wonder if behind all the various words that societies have adopted for God there may be one that, at least for us in our society today, at an unconscious level so signifies.
“When my mother lay dying”
When my mother lay dying, I should have sung to her
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.
“The Basic Teaching of Paracelsus and Blake”
For Paracelsus, the imagination was “the central function of man and the source of all his activities.” Blake, heavily influenced by Paracelsus, went one step beyond, capitalizing imagination which could be of anything. Blake referred to Imagination as variously “the Divine-Humanity,” “The Divine Vision,” “the Divine Arts of Imagination.”
“I want to commune”
I want to commune not primarily with the mystics
Video: Three Types of Yoga
Dr. John Diamond discusses three types of yoga that he considers integral to his work: karma yoga (selfless action), bhakti yoga (devout love), and hatha yoga (raising the life energy) - and the deep principles that
“The Imagination and the Unconscious”
S. Foster Damon writes that for Paracelsus the imagination was “the central function of man and the source of all his activities.”
“What sculptor?”
What sculptor so Admires the wood?