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Entertainer or True Musician?” Audio Lecture: The Five Steps to Liberation “Zazen for Two” “Alexander Pope and Determinism” “Helping the Child from His Earliest Years” “Hope and the Sufferer” Audio Lecture: The Ultimate Unnecessity of Art “Anticipating the Supersensual Experience” “Real Actors” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Start of Shaktism” “The Role of Meditation in My Day” Audio Lecture: Composers and Intimacy “Our Task in Life: to Transmute Kali” “Why I Paint” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Why I Love Japan” “It’s His Neurology” Audio Lecture: Holism – Analysis at the Expense of Synthesis “Holding the Twig ‘Just-So'” “The Photographer as Peace Proclaimer” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Every Thing Is Buddha-Nature” “Our Task: To Explore Our Selves” Audio Lecture: Listening to Music and Oneness “The Karmic Plan – and Our Role in It” “A New Approach to Singing” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Ambivalence of Goddesses” “No Wrong Notes in All of Life” Audio Lecture: The Love Without an Opposite “Adominable: Towards Humanity” “Aspirational Play” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “What Are You Photographing?” “So Many Styles of Poetry” Audio Lecture: Reaching Out From Our Core “Mencius and My Mother’s Love” “From Inspiration to Desperation” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Poetry and the Escape from Reality” “Aspiration, Inspiration, and the Spirit” Video: Distant Healing “Today in Riga” “The Sufferer’s Default Setting” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Balance Between Reading and Meditation” “The One Phrase to Cover All My Teaching” Video: A Tribute to Ainslie Meares “A Request Answered” “All As Intended” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Goal of All My Creativity” “The Last Poem of Su Tung-p’o” Video: Life As a Meditation “Crystals are Made to Resonate” “Pollock, Painting, and Guidance” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Primal Art” “Just One Buddha” Video: The 3 Layers of Consciousness “The Only Deep Truth to Paint” “Healing vs. Drugs” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Helping the Children of Mothers with Schizophrenia” “All, All, All One” Video: A Healing Church “Would That We Were All Philomators!” “Both Our Soul and Our Birthing Trauma Part of Our Karma” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Lascaux and the Message of the Divine” “Leaving a Little for the Viewer” Video: The Didgeridoo & Brain Patterns “Sitting with Keats” “Portrait Photography and Intimacy” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “My Work: To Reveal the Ordinary as Instances” “The Enlightened Musician” Video: The Meditation Before I Paint “Photographing the Apparently Disordered” “With Every Photograph I Should Feel Love” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Goddess in the Home” “True Musicians Go Beyond the Notes’ Video: Another Way of Looking at Art “A Life of Cantillation” “We Never Hear the True Music of the Composer” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Thoughts Inspired by John Donne” “My Intention When Photographing” Video: Art and Spontaneity “The Japanese Mother and the Law of Harmonious Flow” “To Be Healed” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “There Are No Words for the Feeling of Love” “The Rock Has Come” “Stagefright and the Mother’s Song” “(Most of the time) I Love People” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “All Fates Bespoken” “Meditating on a Train” “Re-Versing John Donne” “I Heeded Your Call” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Meditating to a Boab Tree” “The Only Prayer” Video: Healing and the Metaverbal “Birthing Trauma and the Amygdala” “Photograph Light” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “With Every Breath We Are Ablaze” “Enlightenment” Video: How Matrophilial Is It? “Fascination and the Soul” “The Role of the Artist” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Singing the Undulations” “Aspire to the Spirit World” “My Paintings Have No Story” “To Live on the Pulse” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “A Meditation on Chi” “The Aura and the Soul” “The Soul, the Spirit, and the Karmic Plan” “The Emanation from the Soul” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Only Knowledge Worth Knowing” “Tapping Directly into the Soul of the Artist” “The Deep Meaning Is Beyond Words” “Linking in with the Spirit World” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Speech, Song – and Lilt” “The Acupuncture Emotional System and the Spirit World” “Dada Art – Mama Art” “The Closing of My Daily Meditation” “This Rock” Audio Lecture: Tariki and Jiriki – Other Power or Self Power? “The Essence of Dante” “Acting as a Host to the Composer” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Does the Botticelli Make Me Feel More Matrophilial?” “Healing Invokes the Deep Unconscious” Video: Words – Signifiers of Reality “Music: Flowing Like Honey” “The Role of the Healer” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “A Tribute to John Kerridge” “A Treater, Not a Healer” Video: Found Objects “True Stillness: The Amygdala at Peace” “Curing the Desire for the Disease” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Euripidean Challenge” “The Soul-Seeking Physician” Video: Medicine and the Study of Human Nature “Without Misprocessing, God Is Obvious Everywhere” “My Evolving Guidance” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Jubilation: The Mother’s True Lullaby” “The Matrotrophic Photographer” Audio Lecture: The Essence of Holistic Healing “Disease Starts in the Mind – and Beyond It” “Advice to a Musician” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Mencius: His Philosophy Inspired by His Mother?” “Everyone an Instance of God” Video: The Fast Way to the Soul “The Relationship, Not the Name” “Your Aura Your Universe, Your Chakras Your Galaxies” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Yin and Yang of Relationships” “Seeing the Other as Spirit” Audio Lecture: Three Thoughts About Mother Love “The Summation of Your Parents’ Souls” “Feeling Determines Function” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Meditation – or Contemplation?” “I love It When the Brush is Flying!” Video: The Critical Importance of Helping Mothers “I Always Knew You” “Is the Musician Benevolent?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Is the Ego Also Brahman?” “Creativity and the Revelation of Spirit” Video: We Live in Imagined Fears “A Tribute to Hephzibah Menuhin” “Aspiration and Other Power” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Belief in an Infinite Beyond” “There is Only The Power” Audio Lecture: Creativity and the Lap of Comfort “Mum’s Ring – Our Enso” “Painting the Feeling” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “My Hara My Mother’s Womb” “Our Karma: To Ignore Homer” “The Only Certain Happiness” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Every Breath a Tide” “The Role of the Artist” Video: The Tao, Yin & Yang, and Wen “The Spherenso of Existence” “My Best Teaching” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Gift of a Doll” “Can You See the Artist’s Soul?” “The Will of the Hand” Video: Transcending Psychiatry “The Spirit of the Rocks” “The Funnel, Never the Fuel” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “I Will Always Treasure Her Smile” “In Praise of Tolstoy” Video: “The Endum” “Soul-Pointing Not Bone-Pointing” “Belief in the Spirit World is Innate” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Medical Diagnosis as Bone-Pointing” Video: Japan – A Philosophy Beyond Words “A Name for My Artwork” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Thanks, I Needed That!” “Was Omar Khayyam born in a cabbage patch?” Video: Lung 1 – The Most Basic Acupuncture Point “Suzie, My Lovely Rose” “The surgeon tells me” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “No Not-Brahman” “To every doctor” “Music the Primal Art” “What was so wrong with the wood?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “At the Supermarket” “Start with Nature without Man” Video: Mood vs. Emotion – Part 2 “Music as Magic” “FEEL her love” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Etymology of ‘Soul'” “Our basic identity” Video: Mood vs. Emotion “In Gratitude to George Goodheart” “Is carving a rock desecration?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Healing: Advising or Imposing” “‘God’ is Easier” Video: Everyone Basically Wants to Heal “An Invocation” “When my mother lay dying” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Basic Teaching of Paracelsus and Blake” “I want to commune” Video: Three Types of Yoga “The Imagination and the Unconscious” “What sculptor?” “The True Nature of a Crystal” “Is there anywhere a recording?” Video: Yoga – Union with the Mother “The Beloved Zygote” “This country is defending itself” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Anlage of All Fear” “What Could Be More Extra-Ordinary?” Video: A Teacher of Meditation “Renouncing the Medical Model” “With So Many Spirit Guides” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “SEK is SAK: All is Sacred” “I Keep Saying” Video: Matrophilia – Love of the Mother “Tendaifying the Twig” “Why Am I Doing This?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Reawakening Jen in Our Civilization” “Every Disease” Video: Memories of My Mother “All Healing Is Spiritual” “Music to Remind Us” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Every Photo an Affirmation of Her” “Does the Stone Feel?” “I Am a Psyche-atrist” “Seeking the Buddhahood of the Subject” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “As In Meditation, So In Life” “Be As the Mother Lullabying” Video: The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living “Still Songbirds Sixty Years On” “The Perfect Gift” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Purpose of Art” Video: Photography – Finding the Soul “The Performer, His Audience, and the Maternal Instinct” “Their Muses to Actuate Ours” Lilt: “My Song Is Love Unknown” “Hearing the Composer’s Soul, Not the Music” “All of Your Actions the Result of Guidance” Video: Photography – Put Your Eyes in Your Thymus “The Mother as ‘the First Vision of Light'” “Writing is So Much Easier When I am Free” Lilt: “I Remember, I Remember” “The Endeavor of Psyche-atry” “The Belief in Non-Guidance is Guidance” Video: Leaving the Thymus Intact “What To Call What I Photograph” “The Wind that Blows Through Me” Lilt: “Invictus” “Mummy, I Hardly Knew You” “The Three Levels to a Work of Art” Video: The Thymus and the Heart Chakra “Zen (and Not)” “Danced by the Spirit” Lilt: “In Him No Darkness At All” “Fusing with the Subject” “All Guidance Is For All” “Empathy, Sympathy, and a Broken Relationship” Lilt: “I Love All Beauteous Things” “The ‘Magical Event’ of My Mother’s Passing” “A Definition of Healing” Video: How Can a Doctor Laugh? “Come to My Bower of Healing” “Nature, Ever Abundant” Lilt: “God Is My Soul” “An Artist’s Manifesto” “All Healing” Video: The Fundamentalism of Medicine “The Musician’s Invocation” “The True Musician” “The Deep Meaning of ‘Worship’” “Are Wrong Notes Ever Wrong?” Video: Singing and Surgery “Your Heart: Friend or Enemy?” “The Healer and the God Within” Video: Drumming with High Life Energy “The Unconscious Determines Everything” “Filling the Blank Space with Chi” Video: Beethoven’s Meridian of Communication “All Mothers Want Only to Love” “No-Mind Before” Video: Seeing Bach as Argument “The Harmony of All the Billions” “The Less the Artist Does, the Better” Video: The Hand-in-Hand Music Program “The Power of a Black Dot” “The Notes That Must Be Obeyed” Video: Painting – The Power of the Dot “Little Boy Lost – and Found” “Before Image, Only Movement” Video: What Did Beethoven Really Want to Write? “Robert Fulford recommended ‘Blueprint for Immortality’ by Harold Burr” “Always the Feeling of the Movement” Video: Marrying the Player to the Instrument, Part 2 “Poetry and Deep Creativity” “Painting and the Depiction of Form” Video: Marrying the Player to the Instrument, Part 1 “Grateful Thoughts on Tolstoy’s ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You'” “Empty Space Diamond?” Video: Conductors – Hands vs. Batons “Dying as Mahler – or Lao Tzu” “The Painting’s Title and the Patient’s Diagnosis” Video: High Notes – and Orgasm Success “Juan Mascaro’s Love of Mankind” “Revealing the Tathata” Video: Movement and the 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