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Blue Diamond Healing: Exploring Transpersonal and Transdimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy

Author(s) : Phil Mollon

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Adrian Dickinson on 20/03/2024 20:59:49

(5 out of 5)

Phil Mollon starts the Preface by writing ‘This is an exceedingly odd book!’. It is certainly an unusual book, and a remarkable one, for its combination of a visionary outlook, drawing on esoteric learning, with a development of his earlier method (PEP, described in his 2008 book, Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy) leading to a higher dimensional healing practice. This volume is also a practical guide to working in the Blue Diamond Field, outlining throughout the book some thirty-five different ways of using it.

Within the field of Energy Psychology I would see this book as a part of, and a notable contribution towards, its seemingly natural evolution from working with somatic stimulation alone (on acupressure points and chakra energy centres) as with TFT, through EFT with the incorporation of words of intention, to methods such as Ask and Receive and Logosynthesis that just use words with intention to have a healing effect, to this method that involves a specific visualisation of subtle energy that is at a higher gauge, to use Tiller’s terminology, combined with really focused intention (although paradoxically involving a surrender of intention to ‘the highest good’).

The focus is the Blue Diamond, that Mollon finds located at the ‘high heart’ chakra point; by visualising this Blue Diamond both therapist and client can have access to a higher state in which blocks to development, reversals of energy and intrusions of alien or hostile energy can be removed. He suggests that the Blue Diamond comes into its own when other methods of energy psychotherapy come to an impasse, and from my own experience of working within the Blue Diamond Field that does seem to be true, with a quite transformational effect for clients.

Within the book as a practical guide, I found the sections on the spinning fields, or Merkaba fields, and on the Parallel Self, to be the most useful and interesting. Correcting the Merkaba fields, ensuring that their contra-rotating spin is working well, seems to really stabilise clients, and the presence of the Parallel Self, which Mollon envisages as co-existing with the Present Self in the dimension closest to ours, is, in my experience, felt and visualised by clients in a loving and reassuring way.

Mollon has also included a chapter towards the end of the book entitled ‘A review of Energy Psychology’ which is a remarkably succinct summary of the history of energy psychology with a clear exposition of how his method of PEP works, with its roots in the free-association of Psychoanalysis, (together with a clear diagram on the meridian tapping points in Appendix B), and then a guide to incorporating Blue Diamond work within energy psychotherapy practice.

I would strongly recommend this book to any energy psychology practitioner interested in developing their work, and to any general reader interested in new developments in healing practice

Coral Westaway on 17/03/2024 19:27:41

(5 out of 5)

Phil Mollon continues to expand the boundaries of what is possible within Psychotherapy. This books comprehensively introduces us to the Blue Diamond, an incredibly powerful resource for deep and profound healing work.

Whilst the book explores areas of great depth and breadth, it also offers the clinician a very accessible way of working. I have found blue diamond work incredibly powerful for myself and for many clients I support. Phil Mollon's generosity is clear, sharing this as something for all, for the greater good, rather than something to be trademarked or made exclusive. This work excites me so much; as we step into higher awareness, the work of deep healing is becoming quicker, easier and infused with a lightness and joy that energises.

Emma Rowlands on 03/11/2023 09:57:11

(2 out of 5)

How wonderful for a publisher to see the value of a book so unreservedly centred on spirituality! How wonderful of Karnac to publish a book so overtly concerned with the transpersonal and transcendent! However, why this particular publication? I do have concerns. As a practitioner incorporating techniques from energy psychology into a psychotherapeutic frame, I am left excited by Blue Diamond’s potential; and also left troubled by other aspects of Mollon’s ideas…

Inspired by ideas outlined in this book, I freely admit I find guided visualisations evoking a blue diamond offer a welcome intervention, and my clients report benefits as a result. The request / command to “desynchronize” the energy fields (p.14, 17, 85-86, my emphasis) is particularly powerful. Indeed, it can be said that Mollon’s unique and important contribution to the field of energy psychology is: a) the Blue Diamond field: visualising a Blue Diamond and using it as a guided visualisation / spiritual practice; and b) desynchronizing the energy fields: asking for the ultimate removal and dissolution of the issue. (For practitioners familiar with the wider genre of energy psychology, the desynchronization of the energy fields is akin to Sandi Radomski’s “unhook and clear”, and Willem Lammers’ “I remove all non-me energy”). So far, so good.

However, within the publication, two ideas cause particular concern. First, Mollon’s claim that: “lies cannot exist in the Blue Diamond Field” (p. 40, my emphasis) is problematic. Instead, I would suggest, an awareness of deception is vital, in both psychotherapeutic work and spiritual practice. I consider the claim “lies cannot exist” constitutes in and of itself a deception against the very nature of deception. I worry that this has implications for therapy: by appealing to the infallibility of the Blue Diamond model, clients may end in a metaphysical muddle, exacerbating existing problems, or even creating new ones. For me, this kind of claim leads us away from the path of beauty, truth, and sacred healing. I wonder if Mollon profanes his own sacred inspiration by claiming it incapable of error.

Secondly, the “parallel self” rings alarm bells. Mollon’s parallel self - a being not found in wider psychotherapeutic or spiritual literature - is a sort of alter ego in a parallel dimension. Surprisingly, this being, Mollon claims, can sometimes present “in the form of an actual person in the physical realm” (p.77, my emphasis). By saying the parallel self is sometimes a human person, Mollon contradicts his own hypothesis, one explicitly based on other dimensional realms, i.e. things not seen or experienced in ordinary reality. The incarnational nature (flesh-and-blood human person) of the parallel self alarms me. Is discovering - and even potentially meeting - such a person in real life necessary? Or desirable?! Is it healing or harmful? Furthermore, what are the implications for clinical practice? On account of it being presented as an essential part of the work, will this new dogma - however diffidently and well-meaning the manner in which it is done - be forced on clients against their will?

On the one hand, I see the publication’s powerful potential for healing; on the other, I consider that the application of certain ideas stands at odds with practitioners’ ethical frameworks to do no harm. I would be very concerned if a client told me their teacher / friend / partner / was their parallel self incarnate; I would be even more concerned about practitioners introducing this idea to their clients in therapy. Having explored and wrestled with the Blue Diamond model, I now believe any favourable results for myself and my clients are despite, rather than because of, Mollon’s more extreme ideas.