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• Category: Facets of a Diamond - Blog
  • Video: Grace
  • “Profit”
  • “All I Want to Know”
  • Video: The Didgeridoo and the Trombidoo
  • “The Recovery Room”
  • “Employing the Modalities of the Spirit – Not Medicine”
  • Video: The Inherent Nature of Man – Pelagius vs St. Augustine
  • “Living in the Moment”
  • “What a Healer Must Do”
  • Video: Van Beinum and His Timpanist
  • “The Placebo Effect”
  • “Gratitude, the Gift, and the Giver”
  • Video: Brain Misprocessing
  • “A Tribute to Dr. Louis Cholden”
  • “The Lullaby as Gratos”
  • Video: Thoughts on Punctuation
  • “The Quiet Therapist”
  • “Underneath We Are All One”
  • Video: Early Experiences in Music Healing
  • “The Wonder Drug”
  • “Sustained by Blake’s Vision”
  • Video: Finding the Mother’s Soul
  • “Performance and Truth”
  • “Finding the Deep Unconscious”
  • Video: Harry Edwards and the Spiritualization of Everyday Life
  • “My First Patient”
  • “A Different System of Aesthetic Criticism”
  • Video: Finding Beethoven
  • “Relieving Anguish through the Diamond Color Meditation”
  • “The Art of Relationship”
  • Video: The Primary Family Problem
  • “A Commentary on Psychosomatic Illness”
  • “A Momentary Revelation of the Universal Unity”
  • “The Genesis of Music”
  • Video: The Soul and the Spirit
  • “An Old Raku Bowl”
  • “A Note on the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)”
  • Video: The Healing Potential of Music
  • “My Writing is for You”
  • “A Tribute to Marjorie Spalding”
  • Video: The Original Purpose of the Arts
  • “Martin Luther King Day Post: A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”
  • “The True Cure”
  • Video: Art and the Ephemeral
  • “Overcoming Our Deepest Suffering”
  • “The Power of the Hara”
  • Video: The Two Wheels on Dry Land
  • “The Healing Potential of Art”
  • “True Music”
  • Video: Jen, Zhi, Li – The Soul and Its Manifestation in the World
  • “Dancing to Heaven’s Breath”
  • “The Best Description of Healing?”
  • Video: The Existence of a Spirit World
  • “Come Unto Me”
  • “Outward Directed Communication”
  • Video: In Tune and In Harmony
  • “The Healing Power of Music”
  • “The Chips on the Sculptor’s Floor”
  • Photography Video: The Ferryboat to the Free Land
  • “It Doesn’t Take Time to Love a Puppy”
  • “Photography: Finding the Spirit”
  • Video: The Pulse
  • “Treatment or Therapy?”
  • “The Circle of Love”
  • Video: Making Paintings for Healing
  • “Every Problem a Pebble”
  • “Spiritual Medicine”
  • Guest blog: “Music – the Great Therapy” by Kate Taylor
  • Chris Reading, M.D.: In Memoriam
  • Video: Art as Metaverbal Communication
  • Article: Music for the Soul
  • “We All Are Ramakrishnas”
  • “I Stand Back”
  • “The Ideal Healing Situation”
  • “If You Want to Find God”
  • “As the Shutter Clicks”
  • “Every Action Epiphanic”
  • “Grateful to Every Subject”
  • “I Look for God”
  • “The Inherent Ability to Heal”
  • “Every Action Signifies the Karmic Plan”
  • “Why Don’t You Paint to the Edges?”
  • “Everyone Is Born to Love”
  • “It’s Not What You Paint”
  • “When You Know That the Artist Was Inspired”
  • “The Cut Flower”
  • “On Darkroom Techniques”
  • “Music Is the Spirit Language”
  • “Every Action Is of Great Significance”
  • “The Underlying Desire, Hope, Intention”
  • “From Kensho to Satori”
  • “Everyone Is Inspired”
  • “Free Association”
  • “The Karmic Plan”
  • “The Spiritual in Photography”
  • “For the Spirit Within Each of Us”
  • “What Do I Mean By Spiritual?”
  • “Every Photo Is an Instance of God”
  • “I Sometimes Crop a Photograph”
  • “Knowing of Your Spirit Guides”
  • “There’s No Not-Guidance”
  • “The Sage Fish”
  • “Mathematics So Unwise”
  • “The Wheel of Existence”
  • “The Manifestations of Spirit”
  • “All Adds Up to One”
  • “All One”
  • “One With the Spirit Within”
  • “The Force and the Karmic Plan”
  • “Memorializing with Photography”
  • “Memorialized by Nikon”
  • “I Am the Clay”
  • “I Photograph to Memorialize”
  • “Not to Take a Photograph”
  • “The More Awareness, the More Aspiration”
  • “Aspiration”
  • “The Tree is Ever-Aware”
  • “Zuihitsu: Following the Brush”
  • “The Ultimate Diagnosis”
  • “At The Sanctuary”
  • “However You Imagine God”
  • “To Give It On to Others”
  • “I Sing to the Trees”
  • “If the Art is Altruistic”
  • “The Trees and Their Lichens”
  • “Every Moment a Miracle”
  • “Countless Stars in the Universe”
  • “A Bird in the Sky”
  • “If Only”
  • “A Clear Blue Sky”
  • “I Laugh With Life”
  • “Thousands of Therapies”
  • “Every Tree a Witness”
  • “To the Trees So Still”
  • “Conducted by the Wind”
  • “Tree Worship”
  • “Stoic Throughout the Year”
  • “If I Could Fly”
  • “My Heart”
  • “Go Beyond the Physiology”
  • “To Help People Remember the Divine”
  • “I Love Her as the Trees”
  • “Beethoven’s Love for His Mother”
  • “Georg Groddeck on Art”
  • “Georg Groddeck on Inspiration”
  • “Poor Memory”
  • “When You Have Traveled the Path”
  • “The Diamond Path of Life”
  • “Creativity Can Be the Golden Thread”
  • “A Poet Is Different”
  • “The Lyrical Flux of the Unconscious”
  • “Life is Magic”
  • “His Muse Singing Free”
  • “Cheek to Cheek”
  • “I’m a Child – Again”
  • “To Paint Musically”
  • “Differing Degrees of Inspiration”
  • “Wondering about the Spirit World”
  • “Good Morning, Mama”
  • “Beethoven’s Genius Was His Soul”
  • “The Emanation from a Painting”
  • “Singing in Grateful Return”
  • “When I Feel Most Inspired”
  • “The Painter Must Be in Harmony”
  • “My Soul Enchanted”
  • “Grateful When Graceful”
  • “Inspired by Beethoven”
  • “Never Forget”
  • “The Healer’s Aspiring”
  • “The Haven of Healing”
  • “The Ninth’s Adagio”
  • “Songs Not Mine”
  • “Beethoven and Blake”
  • “The Artist Awakens Souls”
  • “In the Poet’s Soul”
  • “Blake and Catherine in Love”
  • “Beethoven Needed A Catherine”
  • “My Otouto-san”
  • “To Cling or to Embrace”
  • “The Role of True Art”
  • “From His Deep Unconscious”
  • “The Surrealists Would Proudly Proclaim”
  • “Blake’s Creativity”
  • “Think Only of Soul”
  • “Creativity as Aspiration through Meditation”
  • “To Make the Unconscious Conscious”
  • “Did the Canvas Smile Back?”
  • “Is It Saying Thank You?”
  • “Artists Often Declare”
  • “The Painting’s Emanation”
  • “Not a Healer, But a Dealer”
  • “Empty and Full”
  • “Blake Was Constrained”
  • “Seeing Through the Eye”
  • “A Happy Abstract”
  • “I Read Blake and Feel the Spirit”
  • “Read Blake, Behold Blake”
  • “My Purpose on Earth”
  • “Why Did Blake Write?”
  • “To Paint from the Soul”
  • “Why Did I Paint That?”
  • “Jackson Pollock Dances”
  • “I Love to Fling and Drip the Paint”
  • “Altruist vs. Selfist”
  • “Being Guided to Paint”
  • “To Invoke Amida Buddha”
  • “I’m Not One for a Dress Code”
  • “Every Listener Can Become a Healer”
  • “The Problem of Digitalized Music”
  • “All Aesthetic Criticism Ceases”
  • “To Truly Believe in the Spirit”
  • “Human Nature Is Good”
  • “It Has Been Inspired”
  • “The Inspiration That Initiated It”
  • “Your Hands So Soft”
  • “A Writer Lives in Amida”
  • “A New Face in My Life”
  • “All Creativity is Guided”
  • “How Can We Not Believe in Guidance?”
  • “Blessed by Guidance”
  • “I Am Her Beloved”
  • “I Am Her Love”
  • “Many Singers Who Also Play”
  • “Love Is to Be Sung”
  • “You Are As My Mother”
  • “I Paint for You”
  • “Paint from Your Soul”
  • “His Chosen Path”
  • “Every Painting Is Alive!”
  • “Different Meditations”
  • “Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)”
  • “Most Self-Help Books”
  • “A Healer Attempting to Heal”
  • “On the Subject of the Spirit World”
  • “The Zen of Direct Pointing”
  • “These Trees So Alive”
  • “Very Sure of Her”
  • “A Chorus of Leaves”
  • “Danced by Shiva”
  • “Stoically Buddhist”
  • “Millions of Leaves”
  • “To Know Our Mother’s Soul”
  • “You Live to Heal”
  • “Born to Be Altruistic”
  • “The Ultimate Task of the Photographer”
  • “The More I Love the Subject”
  • “Manifesting the Muse”
  • “My Painting and My Photographing”
  • “Transcending the Visible”
  • “The Spirits All Around Us”
  • “Creativity Is God to God”
  • “A Heaven in Every Photo”
  • “If I Were Thought to Be a Zen Master”
  • “Communion with God”
  • “Creativity Capitalized”
  • “May I Be As a Sunbeam”
  • “If I Can See a Heaven”
  • “I Write For You”
  • “About a Sufferer who Forsook Help lest She Love”
  • “Filial and Paternal Impiety”
  • “Flying White Is the Perfect Marriage”
  • “Flying White”
  • “An Exquisitely Holy Moment in Music”
  • “Everyone’s Actions Are Always Guided”
  • “The Highest Chakra, Communion with God”
  • “To See My Mother As the Mother of Love”
  • “First Know Your Mother’s Soul”
  • “Blake’s First Vision of Light”
  • “Is the Universe Moral?”
  • “I Exist to Heal”
  • “To Overcome the Buddha’s First Noble Truth”
  • “The Twentieth Century’s Great Gift to the Arts”
  • “The Painter’s Free Expression of His Soul”
  • “Now I’m Painting as a Child Again”
  • “Expressionism in Music”
  • “Life Is Untitled”
  • “What Is Creativity?”
  • “Healing with the Eye”
  • “Our True Self Is Our Divinity”
  • “Muga-no-taiga”
  • “The Mother of Love, Amida”
  • “Deputized to Alter the Sufferer’s Karmic Plan”
  • “The Muse Enchained”
  • “Music Direct from the Muse”
  • “The Muse is the Mother of Love”
  • “Written by a Zen Master”
  • “It Is the Soul That Aspires”
  • “A Digital Nikon Needs Constant Reassurance”
  • “A Love Affair with My Film Nikon F3’s”
  • “The Paleolithic Tradition of Painting as Healing”
  • “A Clear Channel for the Spirit World”
  • “The Soul Communes with God”
  • “We All Are the Golden Buddha”
  • “Avalokiteshvara: She Is the Loving Mother”
  • “Every Man-made Object Has Two Spirits”
  • “Holding this Old Raku Bowl”
  • “I Do It for You”
  • “Matrophilia: Love of the Mother”
  • “Aspiration Is an Instinct”
  • “Inspiration Then Aspiration”
  • “For You”
  • “Mediation is Aspiration to the Highest Chakra”
  • “The Essence of Healing Is Altruism”
  • “A Healer Using Many Modalities”
  • “To Dedicate My Life to a Higher Purpose”
  • “A Writer Can Be Altruistic”
  • “Altruism Relates to the Highest Chakra”
  • “Altruism Comes from Being One”
  • “The Essence of Healing”
  • “Mothers’ Day Tomorrow”
  • “No One Enters Heaven Until…”
  • “A Dot”
  • “There Are Two Creativities”
  • “Part of My Healing Meditation”
  • “Why Brushes Love to Paint”
  • “Every Picture Can Be Seen As a Heaven”
  • “I Am an Antenna”
  • “My Black Ink Paintings”
  • “How Can a Mother Really Love As a Mother?”
  • “Wakened by Thunder”
  • “An Homage to the Dot”
  • “The Way to God Is through Our Mothers”
  • “The Star Was My Mother”
  • “Amida the Goddess of Light and Compassion”
  • “I Never Know What I Will Paint”
  • “My Painting Is Nembutsu”
  • “Film Cameras Are Strong and Robust”
  • “I Find Myself Laughing at the Painting”
  • “Whenever I Paint She Is Guiding Me”
  • “All That Matters When Photographing”
  • “It’s Not What You Photograph”
  • “Helping to Heal the Camera”
  • “My Nikon Digital Becomes a Grateful Patient”
  • “The Healer As Photographer”
  • “Through My Consulting Room Window”
  • “For a Psychiatrist to Put a Child on Ritalin”
  • “In the Middle of Meditating”
  • “A Haiku Is Triggered by a Sudden Perception”
  • “The Non-believer Daren’t Believe”
  • “This Tree My Buddha”
  • “The Paintings in the Museum”
  • “Three Chinese Gongshi”
  • “Verlaine Counseled Debussy”
  • “Issa Wrote…”
  • “With Apologies to Issa”
  • “Buddhas, Buddhas, Everywhere!”
  • “To First Find Her Soul”
  • “Scattered Flowers”
  • “To Know the Self”
  • “Gratitude Is the Soul at Work”
  • “Everything Is a Projected Image of the Mother”
  • “Coming Direct from the Muse”
  • “Anguish Is Caused by Desire”
  • “As the Buddha Taught”
  • “A Birthday Is the Mother’s”
  • “Creativity Can Be the Golden Thread”
  • “Meditation Outwardly Directed”
  • “The Guide of the Guides”
  • “My Two Favorite Trees”
  • “The Karmic Plan Always Acts for All”
  • “Whatever I Do Affects the Spirit”
  • “I Am Earth Mother”
  • “For a Work of Art to Be Healing”
  • “I Bear Within Me a Spirit”
  • “With An Apology to Buson”
  • “To Paint from the Hara”
  • “Ethical Behavior”
  • “Creativity is Being Breathed by Amida”
  • “Creativity Is…”
  • “An Act of Creativity”
  • “I Have Beheld Many Trees”
  • “We Endure for the Spirit Within”
  • “A Breath Cycle Metaphor”
  • “According to the Karmic Plan”
  • “For the Spirit Within Us”
  • “One Guidance for All Beings”
  • Beyond the Universal Law
  • “A World Without Birthing Trauma”
  • “The Karmic Game”
  • “All Spiritual Endeavors Alleviate the Brain Misprocessing”
  • “Knowing Our Buddha-Natures”
  • “Hakuin Ekaku: Meditation in the Midst”
  • “Not Wanting to Give Up Their Illness”
  • “In a Large Shin Temple”
• Category: News & Events
  • Life Energy Arts Gallery opening!
  • Life Energy Photographs in Pennsylvania Exhibit
  • THE MAKING OF AN ORTHOMOLECULAR MARTYR: New Book About Dr Chris Reading
  • Life Energy Photography at Cancer Center
  • Dr. Diamond’s Healing Photography to Benefit Alzheimer’s Association!
  • Stunning Exhibition of Dr. Diamond’s Healing Photographs and Paintings
  • New Book! Medicine and Beyond: The Diamond Reports, Vol. 1
  • New Book: Matrophilia and the Inner Temple
  • Now Streaming: The Fulford Interviews
  • New Book: Arborophilia

What Interests You?

• "Introduction to My 'Poems' ”
• Life Energy Photography
• "Positive Choices"
• "Making All Movement Dance"
• Videos: Photography for Healing Series
• "Two Dentists and Their Appliances"
• Life Energy Art
• "An Understanding of Holistic Medicine"
• "A Note on Being 'Holistic' ”
• "Homeostasis"
• "Human Stress Provoked By Digitized Recordings"
• Audio: The Fulford Interviews
• "Robert Fulford - A Spiritual Osteopath"
• To explore Dr. Diamond's books...
• Books of Therapeutic Poetry
• Books: Dr. Diamond's Philosophy of Healing
• Dr. Diamond's Books on Painting
• Dr. Diamond's Books on Meditation
• Book: The Veneration of Life
• Video: Art for Healing Series
• Dr. Diamond's books on Creativity
• Dr. Diamond's Books on the Meridians & the Emotions
• To explore Dr. Diamond's other writings (papers, poems, tributes)...
• To read some of Dr. Diamond's therapeutic poetry...
• To purchase Life Energy Photography prints
• For more on Dr. Diamond's Life Philosophy...
• To purchase Healing Art
• The Diamond Method for Music: An Introduction
• The Diamond Method for Creativity
• The Acupuncture Emotional System
• Dr. Diamond's Books on Music for Health
• "A Tribute to Edgar Miller, D.O."
• "Therapeutic Writing"
• "An Interesting New Application of an Old Procedure"
• "An Example of the Psychosomatic Relationship"
• "The Doctor-Poet"
• "The Reason for Art"
• "Photography for Healing"
• "Painting and Other Power"
• "Art as Meditation - The Stillpoint"
• Six Articles on Art and Healing
• "Whitman and the Breath of the Line"
• "The Distinction Between Writer and Author"
• "Synchronized Breathing"
• "A Simple, Quiet Meditation"
• "Chance Encounter With Applied Kinesiology?"
• "Determinism and Language"
• "Writing is Breathing"
• "The First Time I Took Vitamin E"
• "Creativity and Enthusiasm"
• Painting & Internal Singing
• "The Grace of a Child"
• "Healer - not Artist"
• "Affirmations for Meditation"
• "The Importance of the Tripod"
• "Aspiration Above Illness"
• "Creativity from the Heart"
• Healing through Art
• Embracing Life & the Purpose of Art
• My First Painting Experience
• The Frame
• Painting and Life Energy
• "The Disease Diathesis"
• "The Inner Flame"
• "The Homing Thought"
• "The Fellow Traveler"
• Videos: Music for Healing Series
• "Riding the Crest"
• "Postoperative Singing"
• "Detachment Listening to Music - or Loneliness"
• "Lucky and His Magic Broom"
• "The Body Shell Syndrome"
• "Tension and the Muscles of the Tongue"
• "Breast Feeding, Bonding and Myofunctional Therapy"
• "Playing the Violin and Tongue Position"
• "Breathing and the Respiratory Stumble"
• "How's Your Memory?"
• "Dental Appliances: Metal Across the Midline"
• "Dentists and Intimacy"
• "Two Musicians - Two Choices"
• "Dental Appliances: Problems with Acrylic"

Works of Dr. Diamond

• Welcome to Papers!
• Seminars on Life Energy & Healing
• Seminars on Health & Wellbeing
• Seminars on Music
• Miscellaneous Seminars
• Some Contributions of Behavioral Kinesiology to Art
• Collected Papers of John Diamond: Volume 2
• Collected Papers of John Diamond: Volume 1
• Behavioral Kinesiology and The Autonomic Nervous System
• Nendo Tamashii: The Soul in the Clay
• Creativity and Beyond: The Diamond Reports, Vol. 3
• The Meridians and Beyond: The Diamond Reports, Vol. 2
• Singing and Surgery: Waking Up with a Song
• Dr. George Goodheart: The Nature of A Genius
• Medicine and Beyond: The Diamond Reports, Vol. 1
• Matrophilia and the Inner Temple
• Beyond the Obvious: Photography for Healing
• Arborophilia: Writings on Trees
• Freedom From Fear: Transcending Economic Crisis
• The Pulse of Music
• Art for Healing: Guided Painting Then and Now
• My Painting Guidance: Su Shih, Wang Wei, & the Nanga
• Dr. Robert Andrew Diamond: In Memoriam
• A Tribute to Edgar Miller, D.O.
• Three Papers in Honor of George Goodheart
• Robert Fulford - A Spiritual Osteopath
• Introduction
• For My Mother On My 72nd Birthday
• Selected Poems
• From the Book: Ever More Simple and Pure
• An Attempt At Destroying My Creative Writing
• A Note on Being "Holistic"
• Metanoia
• The Therapist's Job
• The Third Side of the Triangle
• Stillpoints: An Introductory Guide to Haiku Painting
• The Diamond Color Meditation
• Your Body Doesn't Lie
• Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer
• Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions
• Holism and Beyond: The Essence of Holistic Healing
• A Book of Cantillatory Poems
• Music and Song, Mother and Love
• The Healer: Heart and Hearth
• The Healing Power of Blake
• The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit
• The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease To The Soul
• The Life Energy in Music: 3-Volume Series
• Notes on the Spiritual Basis of Therapy
• BK: Behavioral Kinesiology: How to Activate Your Thymus and Increase Your Life Energy
• Life-Energy Analysis: A Way to Cantillation
• The Remothering Experience: How to Totally Love
• Speech, Language and the Power of the Breath
• Life Energy Art
• Life Energy Photography
• Lilts

Interests

• Acupuncture & the Meridians
• Creativity
• Dance
• Dentistry
• Determinism
• Digital
• Holism & Health
• Illness
• Meditation
• Mothers & Mothering
• Music
• Nutrition
• Osteopathy
• Painting
• Photography
• Physical Procedures
• Poetry
• Relationships
• Spirit World & Guidance
• Writing

Work Types

• Books
• Life Energy Art
• Life Energy Photography
• Lilts
• Papers
• Recorded Seminars