“The ‘Magical Event’ of My Mother’s Passing”
In my meditation this morning, this was given to me:
It was Magical
to be with my mother
as she passed over.
Magical:
the Awareness
of the Supernatural Power
that ever bound us
– and ever will.
“A Definition of Healing”
To heal is to help the sufferer establish links between the physical world that he knows and the Spirit World he has yet to Know.
Video: How Can a Doctor Laugh?
Medicine is seemingly no laughing matter. Yet John Diamond, M.D., reveals a world beneath the superficial where the doctor can find true Joy, and so encourage his patients to do the same. See more videos by
“Come to My Bower of Healing”
I have been watching David Attenborough’s TV program on the bowerbird. The male constructs a bower in which he carefully places very special objects to attract the female. To us, they seem so ordinary: leaves, bits of flowers, fungi, a piece of shell. And many others.
All so precisely placed within the structure of the bower. Should a rival alter the display, on his return he immediately notices and corrects. It must be just-so: his own expression unique, individual expression of what, if it were us, we would call love.
“Nature, Ever Abundant”
No matter how many pictures I take, the tree’s love is never diminished. Nature is ever-abundant.
Lilt: “God Is My Soul”
Dr. Diamond has composed a large number of special therapeutic songs which he calls lilts. Like his original artwork and photography, his lilts are created with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the
“An Artist’s Manifesto”
Dr. Diamond's short manifesto on art as egoless devotion, by those who feel so impelled by the Spirit: Altruistic, Soul-enriching, Bhakti-yoga, a union.
“All Healing”
All Healing is silent Music.
Video: The Fundamentalism of Medicine
Dr. Diamond discusses the transformation of medicine into a more mechanical modality, with a corresponding loss in empathy, holistic thinking - and aesthetic sense! See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.
“The Musician’s Invocation”
I've never been happy with the etymology of music, from MEN, to think – hence mental, mania, and of course to muse.
But music, to me, seems to be the very opposite of musing, thinking.