“The Deep Meaning of ‘Worship’”
Our word worship:
the ship means the state of,
and the wor the worth.
So, basically, the worship is to invest the other with the state of being worthy.
“Are Wrong Notes Ever Wrong?”
What if there are no wrong notes in music? Often, on investigation, I find that (unconsciously) the musician wanted to play the allegedly wrong note because he felt in his mind that it would sound better that way.
Video: Singing and Surgery
Dr. Diamond discusses using the power of music, innate in us all, to help transcend traumatic experiences such as surgery. Based on these insights, Dr. Diamond has written a remarkable book of the same title, to
“The Healer and the God Within”
The Photographer as Healer must first have found God in himself to then find God in the subject.
Video: Drumming with High Life Energy
Tips and approaches for drumming with high Life Energy. From the "Music for Healing" series of informal talks. See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.
“Filling the Blank Space with Chi”
An unpainted space that represents the sky is not blank, is not empty.
Video: Beethoven’s Meridian of Communication
Each composer has his own acupuncture meridian of communication. In Beethoven's case, it is the kidney meridian, the meridian of sexual indecision. An example of Dr. Diamond's totally original research into the field of music and
“No-Mind Before”
There is a Japanese saying about calligraphy and painting: Izen hitsugo, “Mind before, brush after.”
Video: Seeing Bach as Argument
Dr. Diamond recounts how he helped a professional pianist overcome his antipathy to the music of Bach. A beautiful example of how music and life interconnect. From the "Music for Healing" series of informal talks. See
“The Harmony of All the Billions”
“A hundred billion stars in our galaxy, hundreds of billions of galaxies beyond our own.”
–Richard Panek, The 4% Universe
And there’s the other 96% of which we know nothing – the so-called dark matter and dark energy.