“Our heritage is to lead long, healthy, happy, fully productive and creative lives. This we can do when our Life Energy is optimized. Our ultimate goal is to develop our true potential, aspiring to fully evolve. Some of the avenues through which this can be achieved include reducing stress, raising Life Energy, activating the thymus, and releasing creativity. “

In this podcast, Dr. John Diamond discusses with Merryn Jose his research and much more. Dr. John Diamond is a pioneering figure in alternative and holistic medicine. Dr. Diamond’s remarkable body of work embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over forty-five years of research and clinical practice. Dr. Diamond is past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. He is the author of over twenty books, including including Facets of a Diamond and The Diamond Color Meditation.

Filmaker David Lynch has had the pleasure of meeting many students who are “diving within” and experiencing Consciousness-Based education. These students are all unique individuals, very much themselves. They are amazing, self-sufficient, wide-awake, energetic, blissful, creative, powerfully intelligent and peaceful human beings. Meeting these students, for him, was the proof that Consciousness-Based education is a profoundly good thing for our schools and for our world.

Catching the Big Fish, is one giant analogy for the underlining theme of the entire reading. The book begins, “Ideas are like fish”. The point here is that if you wade in shallow water your whole life you will catch shallow water fish that serve virtually no purpose. It is only after diving (Meditation) into deeper water, (the Unified Field) that you will begin catching larger fish (Ideas).

In the last several years, there has been a renewal of interest in The Golden Solar Disc. Tradition holds the Disc was brought to Peru thousands of years ago by the Sages at the destruction of the island known as Lemuria. It was through the medium of the Disc that the spiritual hierarchy of the Lemurians was able to access and activate the higher knowledge of our universe. In recent years, an additional belief has come into knowing; suggesting the Disc also opens the heart center, in alignment with the universal energy of unconditional love.

Who are our parents, but people just like us? In so many ways their life path is our life path. They are in our lives as role models and to show us the way. If we stop to think about it, we start to see how many of the same soul issues and life lessons they share with us. However, our problem rests with the very subtle terms of our expectation that they are Gods or at least God-like. We fail to see then as human and journeying a path, just as we are. Our expectation for them is to be stronger and better than us, when in fact they may be at best just a few steps ahead. Our parents are just another example of how to do it and are mirrors for our soul and karma, no different than we.

I have had countless experiences over the years of first-hand communion with a number of spiritual Masters. Although I may have held a deep desire in my heart to have such an experience, it was never anything I was consciously working on creating. In truth I am a very skeptical person and each time I have had an experience, my nature has required me to work hard on integrating the event and not discarding it as never happening.

Centers & Shops within the west coast United States, embodying Eastern philosophies, in addition to stillness of the mind. Shops include Self-Realization Fellowship, Vedanta Society of Southern California, Zen Center of Los Angeles, Zen Center of Orange County, TriYoga Malibu Center, Khandakapala Buddhist Center, Bodhi Tree and many more!

A Mindful Way is based on the Five Mindfulness Trainings, specific practices established by the Buddha to help people live more peacefully. They include compassion and non-violence, defeating oppression, conscious sexuality, mindful speech and listening, and mindful consumption. These trainings are the essence of the book, the basis of living a life mindfully.