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The Hopi live near the
, but are a totally unrelated people. The name Hopi comes from
Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
meaning "The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones". They have lived in the southwest for thousands of years.
Hopi Man (circa 1905)
Although the Hopi were -- and still are -- a peaceful people, they were fierce fighters when invaders tried to steal from them. Theft attempts happened regularly, since the Hopi were hardworking, frugal, and resourceful, and they consequently amassed great wealth which attracted envy and thieves.
Hopi Woman (circa 1905)
The Hopi history has been likened to the hub of a wheel with many spokes. The spokes represent the influx of peoples from many different cultures and linguistic stocks. The Hopi are descended from the Hisatsinom (pronounced "ee-SAH-tse-nom") or Shoshonean peoples, and appear to be the only branch of the lineage which adopted a Pueblo culture. The Hopi language is of the Uto-Aztecan family, closely related to the Aztecs of Mexico and the Northern Paiute. They have lived in the Four Corners area for at least 1,000 years.
Hopi Girl With Squash Blossom Hair (circa 1905)
(hair style signifies an unmarried woman)
While the Hopi reservation is quite small today, being situated inside the Navajo reservation near the Four Corners region, archaeology shows they once inhabited a very large area in the American southwest. Ruins of Hopi villages have been discovered as far west as Flagstaff, Arizona, as far east as the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico, as far south as the Verde Valley in the Tonto Basin and Gila River, and as far north as the Colorado River.
Villages organized by clans
Each Hopi village consisted of numerous clans, many of which still exist today.
Walpi Pueblo (circa 1918)
There are seven principal Hopi towns, known as pueblos, today. These pueblos are situated on three impressively sized mesas which are criss-crossed by streams which flow only during the brief rains.
Mishongnovi Pueblo (circa 1900)
The most important of the pueblos is the west-most one called
. This pueblo as constructed approximately A.D. 1150 and is among the oldest continuously occupied towns in the United States. (The Acoma pueblo may be as old.) There were, of course, Hopi in the area long before A.D. 1150, but their pueblos survive only as ruins.
Woman Drawing Water from Cistern at Orabi Pueblo (circa 1880-1900)
Pottery and Textiles
Textiles and Ceramics
The Hopi have always been renowned for their artistic skills, including textiles, ceramics, and woven baskets.
Hopi Basket Weaver (circa 1910)
Hopi pottery is among the finest ever produced in the southwest, and uses distinctive designs.
Hopi Woman Making Pottery (circa 1910)
Hopi woven and embroidered textiles -- including blankets, belts, kilts, and sashes -- were made from native cotton dyed using natural sources. The cochineal dye -- a brilliant red -- is made from aphid-like insects that feed on prickly pear cactus. This dye, also called "carmine" was used for Britain's infamous "Redcoat" soldiers' uniforms. Today, huge commercial plantations of prickly pears supply the pigment for use in industrial and medical purposes.
The Hopi were hunters and agriculturalists. The mountains and canyons to the west and north provided a variety of game animals, including antelope, deer, and elk.
Hunting typically used bows and arrows, but the Hopi also herded animals into corrals or into areas in which pits had been dug. The coralling technique involved constructing a fenced in area with an opening on one side and then driving the animals into it. They also hunted rabbits with throwing sticks, and either drowned prairie dogs and rodents in their burrows or drove them out so they could be killed. Birds were caught using nets.
In addition to hunting wild game, the Hopi raised domesticated turkeys. Given the number of turkey remains discovered, they must have been a food staple.
Cultivated plants included maize (a type of corn), beans, chili peppers, onions, pumpkins, and sunflowers. At least a third of the crops were always dried and stored in case of a crop failure in the subsequent year.
Much of the Hopi religion system is designed to instill a sense of responsibility in the young, and they employ numerous religious rituals intended to teach them right from wrong. Unlike many simple societies, the Hopi were monogamists and believed in being faithful. It was considered dishonorable to be unfaithful to one's spouse, just as it was dishonorable to lie or steal.
Hopi religion is complicated, having a rich mythology and many rituals. They are polytheists, having many supernatural beings. The head of each clan was a priest who had a number of initiated helpers. These priests brought the rains, ensured a good harvest, and healed the sick.
Unlike other southwestern groups, the Hopi had no medicine man class. Like many religions with a priest class, the only way to communicate with the supernatural beings was through the priests. Power was given to the clan, and not to the individual. But to ensure that the clan retained its power, the individual priests had to follow rituals without error, and had to lead an honorable life kept free of violations of taboos.
The Hopi ceremonial year is based on planting, and notes the time for the sowing of seeds, growth, and harvest.
Corn was of critical importance to the Hopi, just as it was for the other southwest peoples. In an area where food was often scarce, corn provided a relatively stable food supply with important nutritional value. Corn is pounded into flour and made into tortillas as well into
. This is basically cornbread spread into a very thin layer, almost paper thin, that is then baked in an oven. The resulting crispy bread is called
. (Kellog's Corn Flakes is, basically, a Hopi invention.)
Woman Making Piki (circa 1906)
The Hopi believe that they received corn from the vegetation deity. The spirits of rain and fertility are believed to carry corn which they sprinkle before them as they walk through the skies so as to form a road.
Hopi Farmer Howing Corn (circa 1910)
Corn has great importance in everyday life and in ceremonial life. A perfect ear of corn was the emblem of a ceremonial leader. (The Zuni have similar beliefs.) The base of the ear would be wrapped in feathers and jewels, and it would be placed on an alter at ceremonies or placed across a medicine bowl. Sacred cornmeal would be sprinkled over sacred objects and ceremony participants to purify them. Corn sprinkled across a road prevents an enemy from crossing. A corn ear provides protection after a birth or a death.
There are several kinds of wild tobacco in the southwest, and small amounts were cultivated for ceremonial use. The tobacco leaves were dried and smoked either in a cane tube, much like a cigarette, or using a "cloud blower", which is a short, funnel-shaped clay pipe. A man from the Tobacco clan would ceremonially fil the pipe which would then be lit by a man from the Fire clan.
Wild tobacco is nothing remotely like what is smoked in cigarettes today. It is many times stronger, with a variety of alkalyoid compounds that have been bred out of modern tobacco. The effect of wild tobacco is substantial, resulting in hallucinations and marketed physiological effects. The Hopi did not smoke tobacco for recreational purposes, and it was general used only in important ceremonies.
is a special building used for ceremonial purposes. Each clan would have its own kiva. The kiva is descended from an ancient Anasazi pithouse dwelling, and was dug into the earth. Entry was made by a ladder on the roof, just as the ancient Pueblo dwellings were entered.
Snake Priests Entering Kiva (circa 1890 - 1910)
The floor was of hard-packed earth and had a small fire burning. This fire was the only source of light for ceremonies. Near the fire was a symbolic hole called the
. This represented the hole by which the first humans emerged from the underworld into the
Grand Canyon
. The sipapu was normally covered with a small stone. This stone was loudly stamped on during ceremonies, so that the dead might hear the ceremony. During the year end initiation for young men the sipapu was left uncovered.
Interior of Snake Kiva at Walpi Pueblo (circa 1899)
The Hopi make sand paintings, as do the Navajos. The Navajo likely adopted the creation of sand paintings after they sought refuge from the Spaniards among the Hopi, and lived among them between 1680 and 1696 during the great
pueblo revolt
Sand Painting in Sacred Kiva (circa 1890-1900)
When not being used for special ceremonial purposes, the kiva served as a clubhouse for men. Women were forbidden to enter the kiva except to clean, bring food, or, on certain special occasions, view a ceremony.
The walls of the kiva were coated with plaster and painted with murals having religious significance.
The Hopi ritually obliterated their kiva paintings with new plaster from time to time and then repainted them. One famous kiva, the Kuaua kiva, had eight-seven layers of plaster, twenty-five of which had elaborate murals painted on them.
There are about 350
, which are personifications of supernatural beings, as well as important animals and ancestors.
There are eleven bird kachinas for the chicken, duck, eagle, hummingbird, kit, mockingbird, owl, red-tailed hawk, roadrunner, snipe, and turkey. The turkey kachina uses turkey feathers to form a fan-shaped crest representing the spread tail of the male turkey.
The kachina dancers are men wearing masks, each of which represents a particular kachina, and paint, and feathered costumes. Everyone in a village aside from the children knew that the kachina dancers were actually men from the village, but they were still believed to have supernatural powers. Much of the value of Kachina dancers was in instructing the young.
The kachina masks are clearly non-human, since the kachina are themselves non-human. The shape, color, and appearance of the mask are important, and each kachina has a unique mask. Color is often used in the form of painted dots signifying corn or rain. Dolls are made to represent the kachinas and to help children learn the difference between them.
Kachina Dolls for Sale (circa 1900-1930)
In February kachina dancers go through the village distributing small bean plants to the young children along with a present. Boys receive a bow and girls receive a kachina doll. Because it is still winter, the bean plants were raised in secret in the kivas, being kept warm and watered until it was time to distribute them.
Death Kachina
The Hopi Death Kachina is "Maasaw" also written as "Masauwu" or "Masau". He responsible for the Earth's surface, fire, and the underworld. Death was an important part of hunting and war, and hunters, warriors, and shaman called upon him for assistance. Hunters sought food, and called upon Maasaw to guide the spirit of the animal into the underworld where it could enter the cycle of rebirth. Warriors sought the death of his enemy or power for battle. Shaman sought to heal the sick, since Maasaw had power over death.
The California natives had a similar concept. One of their sheep shaman
represents the cycle of death and rebirth.
Representations of Masau are placed closed to ground level, under rock overhangs, or actually inside of fractures in the rock surface. This is done so that the association with rock and earth contributes to the rock art's meaning.
Maasaw has a fleshless head with bulging forehead, round, hollow eyes, a triangular nose, and gnashing teeth. Sometimes he is depicted with a square, skull-like, head. The Mimbres used a similar
as early as A.D. 950.
Hand Kachina
The Hopi Hand Kachina had a large red and white hand painted on the figure's mask. This kachina is similar to the Pueblo Peoples' Elder War Deity.
Mountain Sheep Kachina
The Hopi kachina
, or Mountain Sheep Kachina shares many of the same elements as does the Anasazi
and the the Navajo
Humpbacked Ye'i
and the
Fringe Mouth Ye'i of the Night Way
Religious Aspects of Nature
The Anasazi considered the
to be a potent symbol of power. The Hopi, and their cousins the Zuni, have a similar belief, and regard the centipede as a symbol of the transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead. They also consider the centipede symbols to be taboo. This discomfort or fear is likely of relatively recent origin, both because of the number of centipede images in the area and because some of the images have been obliterated or altered in modern times.
Snake Dance
The Hopi believe that the snake Dance ensures adequate spring water for themselves and rainwater for their crops. Snakes are seen as emisaries to the underworld, and it is believed they will deliver the message for the Hopi.
Snake Priest (circa 1900)
Snake Dancer (circa 1900)
Rain Images
Rain cloud images are a common motif among the Hopi, and they were often used as signatures by clans and individuals. The rain cloud image to the left is from an anthropomorphic
Cloud Kachina
, or
O'mau kachina
, where the rain clouds form a hat. The jagged lines represent lightning. These Kachinas are similar to the rain deity
, and are assisted by Rain Spirits similar to the Tlaloques.
The rain cloud image to the right is from a petroglyph of a
Cloud Kachina
, or
O'mau kachina
Rock Art
Willow Springs and Grand Canyon
Near the junction of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado is Willow Springs which deposits salt on the surface. The sandstone boulders at these springs are covered with row upon row of symbols, some of which are repeated. The reason for this comes about because the Hopi consider the Grand Canyon to be a sacred and dangerous place -- the Hopi believe their ancestors emerged from the canyon long ago through an opening called
and that their spirits return to the canyon after death. Unlike today, it was not a place casually visited.
The Hopi who journeyed to Willow Springs to collect salt -- a valued condiment -- were constantly aware of the nearby canyon and recorded their personal or clan symbols on the sandstone boulders to serve as a record of their bravery, much as how mountaineers sign a log book placed at the top of many mountains for this purpose.
Land Disputes With Navajo
Land Disputes With Navajo
The Hopi must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Navajo
to the United States government after
Kit Carson's campaign
. The Hopi called the Navajo
, which means "head-bangers" or "beaters", and had no use at all for them, considering them to be the worst sort of thieves, rapists, murderers, and liars: all traits deeply despised by the
After surrendering, the Navajo were
at Fort Sumner where they could no longer prey on the Hopi or other peoples in the southwest. This situation was temporary, however, and a
with the United States was signed in 1868 setting the stage for the return of the Navajo. Hopi history relates two versions of the Navajo's return.
Role in Return of the Navajo
One version of Hopi history relates how during the
of the Navajo at Fort Sumner the Navajo sent shaman emisaries to the Hopi pueblo of Walpi plead with the Hopi for help in obtaining freedom.
The Hopi relate how they told the Navajo that the Hopi considered the
-- the Hopi name for the Navajo -- to be the worst sort of thieves, rapists, murderers, and liars. The Hopi continued to list their objections, saying that they knew that if the Navajo returned they would immediately resume raping Hopi women, killing Hopis, invading Hopi lands, and stealing Hopi corn and peaches. Yet the Navajo shaman pledged that all abuse of the Hopi would cease upon the return of the Navajo.
Turning over of Tiponi
The discussion continued over four days and four nights. The Navajo shaman repeatedly argued that they would, for as long as the Navajo existed, respect Hopi lands, property, and religion. Finally, as proof of their sincerity the shaman then gave the Hopi two sacred bundles, each containing a Navajo
wrapped in bucksin.
One fetish represented the animals the Navajo relied on for food and the other represented the Navajo people's life. The Navajo believed that damage or destruction of either
would mean their death. The Hopi say they aceded to the Navajo's request and interceded with the United States because of the power the Navajo gave the Hopi by surrendering the two fetishes.
The problem with this version of events is that United States Congress released the Navajo under the condition that they be confined to a small area instead of continuing to prey upon the whites, Mexicans, and Hopi who lived in the area. There is no record that the Hopi were ever contacted by the Congress, nor does it seem likely that their opinions would have mattered very much to the politicians who were deciding the Navajo's future.
The second version of events is more plausable. The boundaries of the newly created Navajo reservation had not been specified and the Hopi were naturally concerned given the predacious behavior of the
. This version of the meeting relates that the shaman who arrived to negotiate with the Hopi -- since the Navjo were few in number, impoverised, and weak for the first time -- were pressed to surrender the two sacred Navajo fetishes, known as
, as proof of their sincerity and as a way to ensure that the Navajo would never violate their oaths. (All the Hopi would need do is threaten to damage or destroy either
, and the Navajo would behave.)
The Navajo shaman were naturally reluctant to surrender their most sacred fetishes. After the same four day period, the Navajo agreed to a contest of sorts. If the Hopi could guess the contents of the sacred bundles -- which were wrapped in buckskin -- and the sex of each figure, the Navajo would surrender them to the care of the Hopi. The Hopi leaders lit their ceremonial pipes and smoked while they thought long and hard.
From their knowledge of the Navajo, the Hopi knew that the bundles contained two
, one male and one female. The Hopi had similar fetishes, called
and in Hopi tradition the male was always on the right, facing away from the sun, and the female was always on the left. Now, the Hopi knew that the Navajo shamen were aware of this placement. The real question was how the Navajo had placed the figures.
The Hopi place great emphasis on
, particularly with respect to
religious ritual
, so they thought the Navajo might have switched the order of the sacred bundles in order to throw them off. The Navajo were, after all, a devious people. But, at the same time, they might have placed the bundles in the traditional positions in order to fool the Hopi who, expecting the switch, would guess the non-traditional order. After much
and thought, since the future of the Hopi depended on the right decision, the Hopi leader stated that the right contained the female and the left contained the male.
The Navajo were devastated by the correct guess. But they honored the agreement and turned over the
, saying that if they ever breached their promise to the Hopi to never steal or trespass that the Hopi need only show the bundles to the Navajo to obtain compliance.
The two
were kept by the Snake Clan at the Walpi peublo for almost a century. They were then split up. One passed to the village crier named
(of the Beaver Clan). The other went to the a man named Taylor (of the Reed clan) who served as
or guardian. As of the early 1960's, Taylor still retained one of the
Land Encroachment by the Navajo
Despite turning over the
, the Navajo failed to honor their promises. The heart of the issue was that after the Navjo signed the
with the United States neither the precise dimensions of the Navajo reservation nor those of the Hopi reservation were formally spelled out.
It did not take long for the Navajo to resume their old ways and begin
on Hopi lands. Having created the situation which allowed the Navajo to abuse the Hopi, the United States abandoned responsiblity for the problem and refused to stop the predations of the Navajo.
The first "Indian Agent" sent by the United States Government to the Hopi was J. H. Fleming. On December 4, 1882 -- notably less than fourteen years after the return of the Navajo -- he wrote to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington, D.C. to complain about the Navajo encroachment on Hopi lands, and his inability to govern the region:
"I may add that the Moquis [Hopi] are constantly annoyed by the encroachments of the Navajos, who frequently take possession of their springs, & even drive their flocks over the growing crops of the Moquis [Hopi]. I have been able to
the evils only be appealing to the Navajo through their chiefs, maintaining the rights of the Moquis [Hopi]."
Establishment of Hopi Reservation
Fleming continued, that a reservation was needed in order to protect the Hopi from the Navajo:
"With a Reservation I can protect them in their rights -- have hopes of advancing them into civilization. Being by nature a quiet & peaceful tribe, they have been too easily imposed upon & have suffered many losses.
These boundaries are the most simple that can be given to comply with the directions of your tleegram & I believe that such Reservation will meet the requirements of this people, without infringing upon the rights of others, at the same time protecting the rights of the Moquis [Hopi]."
The reality is a trifle more complex, as Fleming was frustrated that he lacked the absolute authority to rule the area as he wanted. He threateded to quit if he didn't get his reservation, so his superiors created one based upon his dimensions.
A Hopi reservation of 3,863 square miles was established by President Chester A. Arthur's Executive Order of 1882. Unfortunately for the Hopi, this reservation was a fraction of the Hopi historical lands lived on long before the
invaded the southwest. Not only was far smaller than the amount of land the Hopi asserted claim to, but it was completely surrounded by the vast Navajo reservation. This allowed the Navajo to steadily whittle down the land by encroachment as the peaceful and relatively poor Hopi had no recourse.
Federal Lawsuit
By the 1960s the problem had become so severe that the Hopi went to court of force the return of their lands. As a result of that lawsuit some of the disputed land was designated "joint use". That turned out to mean that the Navajo could lease the land for mining and the Hopi had no choice but to sign the lease. (If they did not, the Navajo would receive all the royalties.) The whole issue remains an enormous problem, and litigation continues to this day.
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SHE looks too fat and ugly in that, or she's a skinny b***h. There's no doubt about it - women hate other women ... but why?
The notion of the sisterhood does exist, but in every stage of life - single, married, DINK, defacto, mum or ("yummy mummy"), separated, divorced - women are harsher critics of their own gender compared to men.
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Dr Goldstein said fewer women will "pat their female colleagues on the back" because they are insecure about themselves.
"Very few people will pat you on the back and say 'well done'. There's a million and one women out there hoping you fail," she said.
"It highlights their own insecurities, they find a reason to hate other women and they end up projecting their own insecurities."
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"Say to yourself I'm really happy because I've got great legs, I've got great curves, I've got a job, we shouldn't need to compare.
"Happy people who are self-confident hate less on other people," she said.
Seem familiar? While fictional, this scene from the movie Bride Wars shows just how destructive successful women can be to each other later in life.
Another type of woman hated by fellow females is the one who flaunts her sexuality to get what she wants - because it makes life harder for those who don't.
Dr Goldstein said it's not uncommon for people to try to solve problems through sex by simply "turning the brain off and flaunting it".
And she took a pop at certain TV shows, saying programmes like The Bachelor and Please Marry My Boy can be damaging - as they show "desperate" but "gorgeous and sexy women" who become stereotyped.
Consequently, they are only measured by their looks - and that becomes a problem for other women, according to Dr Goldstein.
"This stereotyping is frustrating for women, who want to be recognised for their brains. A lot of women are fighting and working hard to get where they are … and are not just sleeping with someone."
Dr Goldstein said that while sex sells, those that use sex to get what they want must also realise the consequences for their reputation.
This scene from Mean Girls shows just how cruel even young women can be about other women with a bad reputation.
At what age should your child be walking, talking, using an iPad? When should a mother return to work? How long should you let your baby cry for, before you pick them up?
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Cambridge, MA. It is Lent once more, and as I've often done in the past, I will take up a theme that I will return to every now and then between now and Easter. Since I am once again teaching my course on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – the classic synthesis of yoga theory and practice as understood some 1800 or more years ago – I thought I would return to the Sutras, on which I've blogged before. (See at the end of this piece links to some of my earlier blogs on yoga and the Sutras. This is surely the way you can tell that I am professor — who but the professor would remember his own immortal blogs years after posting them?)
This time I will focus on what the Yoga Sutras ask us to do, and for this, I focus on the Second Book (Pada), which begins this way: "Austerity, appropriate study, and dedication to the master comprise the yoga of action, / which is for the purpose of cultivating absorption and for the purpose of diminishing the afflictions. / Ignorance, ego-centeredness, desire, aversion, and longing for continuity are the five afflictions. (II.1-3) (Lest these blogs become too long, I modify/simplify my own translations in places. You are advised to check other translations too.)
Before I go any further, full disclosure: I am not a particularly adept practitioner of yoga, nor have I ever taught yoga. I teach the Yoga Sutras as a brilliant intellectual system, and the Sutras themselves are not a manual of how-to-do-yoga. Any practitioner who knows the Sutras will agree, I think: Patanjali clarifies what yoga is for and about, and synthesizes much older wisdom, but for the practice, even in ancient times one might go to other texts.
But Patanjali, in his Sutras, gives much wisdom on what counts as yogic practice, what the practice is for, and how the whole of a yogic practice fits together. My suggestion is that this will help us who are Christian and thinking not simply about what we do to observe Lent, but also why we do what we do. Even observing Church and community practices, such as fast on Ash Wednesday or some acts of piety or self-denial in Lent merit some thinking: ok, I am doing this — why?
The first three sutras (small verses) of YS II, as cited above, get us off to a clear start. The yoga of action involves austerity, study of one's appropriate and assigned texts, and turning to the master (the lord). Vyasa and other early commentators do not give here a list of ascetical practices, but do point out that 'austerity' (tapas) is a matter of intensifying inner 'heat,' and this is different from doing more and more exotic and painful things to one's body and mind. Indeed, they stress that they must, as it were, follow a middle path, hard enough to make a difference but not so hard as to upset the delicate balance of the body and mind. Study, Vyasa says, might be a simple practice of reciting sacred texts assigned for this purpose, perhaps a mantra, or the reading of texts that lead to lasting freedom. Turning to the master — most often taken to mean a turning to God, one's chosen deity — is mentioned here, and in Book I, as a salutary practice that can change one's life. It does not mean that Patanjali's yoga is theistic, much less Christian; but it does mean that he recognizes this "turning to" the lord as beneficial.
Why do this? It is here that Patanjali starts to get more technical, and we begin to exercise our minds in thinking about whether yoga works for a Christian in Lent. The second sutra gives two reasons: "the purpose of cultivating absorption and for the purpose of diminishing the afflictions." Absorption — samadhi — is in the first book of the Sutras conceived of as an ultimate, utterly simple state of consciousness, in which all the fluctuations of the mind and brain come to a halt, so that there is no more observing and knowing the world around us, no more errors and fancies about that world, and not even any more of those images that float in our minds in sleep, or even in memory. (See the beginning of Book One of the Sutras). This is indeed a high state, the clear and luminous mind, at rest. In Book One he says that for this state, one might practice repeatedly, and/or become detached, and/or turn to the master (lord).
Clearing the mind for this state of simple absorption requires that we turn to the other side of this, the "diminishing of the afflictions." This is not about inventing a life without pain, but lessening, to the point of disappearance, those distractions and upsets of mind that make it turbulent, complicated, and unable to rest quietly in itself.
What those afflictions are is given in the third sutra: "Ignorance, ego-centeredness, desire, aversion, and longing for continuity are the five afflictions." These might serve as the material for an examination of conscience early in Lent, even if we tend to give them a moral tone: Ignorance: what are we ignorant of, that causes suffering for ourselves and others? Ego-centeredness: how destructive is my ego, insistence on seeing the world in light of myself? Desire: what do I crave, insatiably, so as to distort my view of reality? Aversion: what do I run away from, as I divide the world into the parts I can accept and like, and the parts I will not tolerate? Confronting both desire and aversion: such are the basis of indifference, that great Ignatian virtue. The last in the list requires us to look to the commentaries, since longing for continuity, which Patanjali notes in a subsequent sutra to be an affliction even of the spiritually advanced, turns out to be a deep-down and very stubborn desire to keep on living, no matter what: a fear of dying, a fear of letting go. The yogic and Lenten virtue, dying that one might live, is very hard actually to do, even for the saints.
We can see that there is much here to think about. There is common ground, things we too might be doing in Lent and for not dissimilar reasons. But just as no wholesale rejection is of any particular aspect of this yoga of action as we have thus far seen it, neither need we insist that all of this is "the same as what Christians do in Lent." Turning to God is not just an option, one of several; nevertheless is also something we do. Metaphorically, we can speak of a deep, quiet clearing of the mind, an utter calmness in God's presence, and all the purifying supports that go with that. As the Psalm says: "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46) Or think of Jesus: we need not imagine that his mind was very busy and his mouth very talkative during those weeks in the desert: a mind entirely empty of everything but God.
Or, if absorption and this serenity is not our goal in Lent, how would characterize what we are up to, when we pray or study or fast in this season? Why vex the body, do less of this and more of that?
I welcome particularly the feedback of those who know the Sutras and the practice of yoga well. More on the next sutras, in a week or so.
For the archivist in you: some of my previous blogs on yoga: On "Jesuit Yoga" (2008), blogs one, two, three, and four; on heated, Bickram yoga and Lent (2011); on the papal exorcist and yoga (2011).
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One of my colleagues was curious about any reflections you might have on the third book of the Yoga Sutras and whether or not the pursuit of siddhis can be an appropriate Lenten discipline. It might sound like an impertinent question on the face of it, but I don't think it was intended to be - at the very least, I can think of non-impertinent motivations for asking.
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Well, basically my question is when an (attacking) creature attacks a (defending) creature, will only the defending creature receive damage from the attacking creature or will the attacking creature also receive damage from the defending creature ?
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With the Cardinals stagnant, inconsistent offense, the Cardinals starting rotation has proved the strength of the team over the first third of the season. After Jaime Garcia's excellent start Sunday, he lowered his ERA to 3.72 with a 3.73 FIP in 38 2/3 innings this season. If Garcia had enough innings to qualify for the ERA title (he's roughly 30 innings short), that would place him solidly in the middle of the pack among starters in the majors. For the Cardinals, however, his ERA places him last in the rotation with his FIP ahead of Shelby Miller. Adam Wainwright, Michael Wacha, and Lance Lynn have paced the Cardinals this season with all three in the top 25 in the National League in both FIP and ERA (Shelby Miller is 26th in ERA), but when a rotation starts this well it is reasonable to wonder how long the good times will last...
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Terry Kemple has been mostly a full time general practitioner for over 30 years in Bristol. Although he retired as senior partner from his practice at Horfield Health Centre at the end of 2015 he will continue to have roles including doing supernumerary clinical sessions, teaching, research and appraisals in his former practice and the NHS.
He has enjoyed a fulfilling career in general practice that started in 1980 with paper notes and the five and a half partners covering their patients on a rota overnight and at weekends including GP community beds and intrapartum care. Since then he and his practice has always been at the forefront of quality, innovation, teaching, and research in general practice.
The main points in his election manifesto were:
Dr Kemple will also use his presidency to promote the new Green Impact for Health awards. This scheme helps general practices improve their environmental, ethical and economic sustainability, as well as their efficiency, team morale and wellbeing.
Dr Maureen Baker CBE, DM, FRCGP joined NHS Connecting for Health in 2007 and is now Clinical Director for Patient Safety.
She has previously held appointments with the National Patient Safety Agency, NHS Direct and the University of Nottingham. Dr Baker was Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) from 1999-2009.
Her work in patient safety includes establishing a formal clinical safety management system for NHS CfH, the development of safety standards for Health IT for the NHS in England and the development of e-learning modules on patient safety for doctors in training.
She was elected as Chair of Council, RCGP, and started in November 2013.
The Chair's duties include representing RCGP in the media. To request an interview, contact the RCGP press team.
Professor Kamila Hawthorne took up the post of Vice Chair (Professional Development) in November 2015.
A practising GP in Cardiff, she has a long history with the College and has represented South East Wales Faculty on RCGP Council since 2007. She is a previous Chair of the College's Assessment and Curriculum Development Committee, and a current MRCGP examiner.
Professor Hawthorne has been teaching undergraduate medical students since 1991. She held a senior teaching position at the University of Cardiff from 2002 until earlier this year when she took up the post of Associate Dean for Medicine/ Director of Medical Education in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. Her role includes preparing a bid for a new Medical School.
Her research interests include the experiences of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) communities in accessing health care and health education in the UK, particularly for patients with Type 2 Diabetes, and she has been a Trustee Board member for Diabetes UK.
As Honorary Secretary, Professor Mathers has responsibility for governance of the RCGP and leads on all College consultations, also hosting the College's leadership and workforce portfolios.
Professor Nigel Mathers Professor and Head of the Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care at Sheffield University, Nigel Mathers qualified as MB ChB in 1979. The run-down, single person inner-city Sheffield practice he took over in 1989 has now grown to a four-partner teaching practice providing clinical placements for medical, nursing and counselling students as well as two GP Registrars.
He led the development of RCGP's Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC) and was appointed to the NHS Evidence Advisory Board in 2008.
He has been an expert witness to the House of Lords, and a member of the Advisory Group on Welfare Reform for the DWP. He has also been Chair of the Trent RDSU, Trent Focus and the Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium on behalf of the NHS.
He has published many papers in academic journals acted as Editor in Chief for the European Textbook of Family Medicine (2006). His current research interests are shared decision making, care planning in long term conditions and the unmet health needs of immigrant women.
As Honorary Treasurer, Dr Stokes-Lampard has responsibility for all matters related to the College Finances. She was Treasurer of the Midland Faculty for 7 years and has served on a host of College committees over the past decade, having been the Trainee rep from 2001-2003.
She is a part time GP partner at the Cloisters Medical Practice in Lichfield, Staffordshire, where she commenced in 2002, having trained in inner city Birmingham. She is a mentor for doctors in difficulty in the Midlands and her clinical interests include Women's health and end of life care.
She is also a Senior Lecturer at the School of Health and Population Sciences in the University of Birmingham, her research interests span gynaecological cancer screening, all aspects of women's health, epidemiology and data linkage studies. She was Clinical Director of the accredited Primary Care Trials Unit until July 2012 and she now runs the MSc in Primary Care and is supervisor for Academic GP Trainees as well as being on the CLRN Board and Executive and on the Executive of SAPC.
Dr Steve Mowle is a practising GP in South London and immediate past Chair of RCGP London.
He has held various College roles over the past 12 years, including Vice-Chair of Council under Dr Clare Gerada's leadership from 2010-2013, during which his responsibilities included organisation of the RCGP annual national conference.
He led on the formation and development of the RCGP's Junior International Committee and played a key role in establishing its First5 tier of College membership to support new and recently qualified GPs. He also holds a senior role at Health Education South London and is a trustee at Citizens UK. Dr Mowle will serve a one-year term of office to 18 November 2016.
Dr Colin Hunter is a GP at the Skene Medical Group in Aberdeenshire and the first-ever Chair of the RCGP Trustee Board, established in 2012.
A GP for 28 years and GP trainer, he was Chairman of the College in Scotland from 1996 to 2000, during which time he implemented a significant quality improvement programme for general practice.
In 2003, he was appointed Honorary Treasurer of the RCGP, a position he held until 2012.
As well as being responsible for the overall financial strategy and annual budget process for the RCGP, he led the historic accommodation review that included the sale of the College's former home in Knightsbridge and culminated in the move to its new landmark headquarters at 30 Euston Square in central London in October 2012.
He also chairs the Quality and Outcomes Framework Independent Advisory Committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), a role he has held since 2009.
He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list in 2000 for his contribution to the development of primary care in Scotland.
Neil joined the RCGP as Chief Executive in January 2011. He has significant experience of developing organisations in the charity sector and is currently leading an organisational and governance review at RCGP to ensure that general practice flourishes during this period of change.
Prior to his appointment at RCGP he was Chief Executive of the Alzheimer's Society, where he led an impressive modernisation, developing new services, raising the public profile of the organisation, and increasing its revenue from £27m to £60m. He had notable success in lobbying government and chaired the advisory group that led to the National Dementia Strategy for England.
Fiona was appointed as the Executive Director of Professional Development and Standards in August 2016, bringing over 16 years of experience within medical/dental education.
She first joined the College in 2005 to set up the certification department (after the closure of the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice, where she had been the Head of Certification). In 2007, she became Head of Postgraduate Training and held this post until 2013, when she was appointed Director of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) England, the professional membership body for general dental practitioners, at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Fiona is responsible for College work relating to postgraduate training, assessment and quality.
Jeremy joined the RCGP in September 2012 and has a demonstrable track record of commercial delivery in the Hotel, Leisure, Business Dining and Visitor Attractions sectors in both the UK and the USA.
He was previously the CEO of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions, where he lead numerous industry wide political campaigns along with supporting the memberships 2012 Olympic Tourism strategy. This followed 12 years with English Heritage, where he was instrumental in the successful transition from a state funded organisation to a standalone charity.
His role within the College is a dual one, as both the Managing Director of the Charity's trading arms – RCGP Enterprises Ltd and RCGP Conferences Ltd, and the Executive Director of the Charity's membership and development functions International and Fundraising.
He is accountable for leading the generation of substantial new income streams as part of the College's commercial strategy, while ensuring that the professional role and ethos of the Charity are promoted and members' needs anticipated and met.
Paul began his career as a journalist, working at the Times, Sunday Telegraph and BBC national network news.
Having left journalism, he co-led the successful Right to Roam campaign, as Head of Communications and Marketing with the Ramblers Association.
While Head of Campaigns and Communications at the National Housing Federation, Paul led the successful campaign to end the pre-payment meter tariff charged to low income households for their gas and electricity by the 'Big Six' energy companies.
As Director of Communications at the Charities Aid Foundation, Paul ran the award-winning campaign that successfully persuaded the Chancellor to drop his proposed 'charity tax' on large donations, that would have cost the charity sector £500m per year.
In other roles, Paul has worked as Director of Communications at the Victoria Climbie and Zahid Mubarek public inquiries. He was also Head of Communications at the Home Office, and, while Director of Communications at the AUT, he co-led a successful national campaign to protect the pay and conditions of university lecturers.
Dr Vaughan-Dick (PhD) has worked at a senior level in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Valerie joined the RCGP as the Executive Director, Planning and Resources in September 2014 and her directorate covers Finance, Human Resources, IT, Facilities and Estates, Procurement and the Programmes Office.
Valerie started her career with the National Audit Office where she qualified as an accountant. She worked on value for money and financial audits of the Departments of Health & Social Security, Overseas Services, Local Government and Housing. Valerie has been an Executive Finance and Resources Director in central and local government, working on financial and strategic management issues. She has been a Chair of a NHS Trust and is presently the Chair of a Housing Association.
In 2008, she was awarded the HM Treasury Government Finance Profession 'Personality of the Year' award for excellence in financial management.
Dr Mack was born in Essex and moved to the Highlands aged 15. He qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and undertook the Highland Vocational Training Scheme. He has been a partner at Dingwall Medical Group since 1993.
After becoming a partner he began tutoring undergraduate medical students starting a long term interest in education. He was an Associate Advisor with SCPDME with responsibility for CPD, set up the East Highland PLT scheme and a GP mentoring scheme. He was a trainer and taught on the Scottish Prospective Trainers course from 2001-2011.
In 2001 he was asked to assist in writing a Depression Guideline for NHS. He continues to act as a GP advisor for Mental Health to NHS Highland. Dr Mack has always actively represented GP issues on committees, he was RCGP Scotland Deputy Chair (Policy) from 2013-2014, and is Chair of RCGP North of Scotland Faculty and Chairs the NHS Highland Area Medical Committee.
In 2011 he became interested in celebrating the centenary of the Dewar Report, a ground breaking document that led directly to the creation of the NHS some 30 years later. This work, with colleagues, has inspired a new direction and collaboration in developing remote and rural healthcare. Dr Mack was made a fellow of RCGP in 2009 and was awarded the RCGP Scotland Alasdair Donald Award for General Practice in 2012. He because Chair of RCGP Scotland on 15 November 2014.
Dr Rebecca Payne has been a GP since 2007. She has worked in a variety of practices including MOD St Athan, practices in the Welsh Valleys, Cardiff and North Wales. She has a special interest in community paediatrics, working as a staff grade for several years alongside a General Practice role. Rebecca also has an interest in urgent primary care, and was Medical Advisor to North Wales GPOOH before taking up her current role as a Primary Care Clinical Director leading on unscheduled primary care for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. You can follow her on twitter at @oohgpwales
Dr John O'Kelly is a partner with Aberfoyle Medical Practice, Derry, and has been a principal in General Practice for the past 18 years. He is the current Chair of the RCGPNI Quality Committee, a member of the RCGPNI Executive Committee and has represented Northern Ireland Council at the College's UK Council.
He has a background in respiratory health, having chaired the Western Area Respiratory Group and been a member of the Northern Ireland Regional Respiratory Forum.
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The 6.2 magnitude earthquake that hit central Italy on August 24 reduced the medieval towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto to ruins, and has claimed the lives of at least 290 people. With over 3,000 people displaced by the quake's damage, Italy's prime minister Matteo Renzi called on... View full entry »
The head of an influential charity in Italy has said that it is not feasible to rebuild all of the Medieval villages reduced to rubble by yesterday's earthquake, as it would be too costly and the region has been depopulating anyway.
Instead, the strategic plan for the mountainous area northeast of Rome should be "rethought completely", said Paolo Beccegato, vice director of the Catholic charity Caritas, which has workers assisting in the devastated zone. — Global Construction Review
The 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the mountainous area northeast of Rome yesterday morning, affecting 241 towns and killing at least 250 people.In related news:Death toll climbs to 350 after powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits EcuadorA 6.4 magnitude earthquake has just struck JapanTaiwan... View full entry »
Aravena polished off his beer when a stranger sidled up to the table. It happens all the time now. Drivers in passing cars stop him in the street. Shop clerks, politicians, long-lost acquaintances and schoolteachers ask for selfies with him. They all say the same thing. "Thank you," the stranger said to Aravena, who smiled and posed arm in arm with the man for a picture. Thank you — as if the Pritzker prize...had been awarded on behalf of everybody in Chile. — nytimes.com
Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times, profiles Alejandro Aravena's projects in his native Chile, on the cusp of this year's Venice Biennale opening (which Aravena is also directing). The profile largely focuses on Aravena's social practice, and its attempts at... View full entry »
In a major reversal, Gov. Jerry Brown is seeking state funds for a fledgling earthquake early warning system for California, which would allow for a limited rollout of alerts by 2018...Though the governor's proposed funding is a big step for the system, it does not come with ongoing funds to operate it. An earthquake early warning system for California alone will cost about $23 million to build and $12 million annually to operate[.] — Los Angeles Times
More on Archinect:Checking in on Nepal, one year laterDeath toll climbs to 350 after powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits EcuadorIn Los Angeles, landlords and tenants will share seismic retrofit costsShigeru Ban builds earthquake-proof homes in Nepal: "I'm encouraging people to copy my ideas. No... View full entry »
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban is once more jumping into disaster-relief efforts. The cardboard-wielding starchitect traveled to Ecuador earlier this week [...] to provide architectural training and brainpower in the wake of the deadly earthquake April 16 earthquake, which has killed more than 650 people and displaced another 26,000 from their homes. — curbed.com
The Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador Provincial de Pichincha issued this statement on its website (Google-translated from the original Spanish text):"The Association of Architects of Ecuador, Pichincha Chapter (CAE-P) and the Pan American Architecture Biennial of Quito, officially announced the... View full entry »
The death toll rose to 350 on Monday from a devastating earthquake that hit Ecuador at the weekend, as rescuers hunted for survivors, victims clamored for aid and looting broke out in the Andean nation's shattered coastal region.
More than 2,000 people were injured in Saturday night's 7.8 magnitude quake, which ripped apart buildings and roads and knocked out power along the Pacific coastline. — Reuters
Related stories in the Archinect news:A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has just struck JapanTaiwan earthquake: tin cans found as fillers may have caused high-rise to collapseShigeru Ban builds earthquake-proof homes in Nepal: "I'm encouraging people to copy my ideas. No copyrights." View full entry »
A powerful earthquake has struck southern Japan, causing casualties and collapsed buildings.
According to Japan's Meteorological Agency, the quake hit at 9.26 pm and was centered seven miles east from the town of Mashiki in the Kumamoto prefecture.
Initial reports placed the quake at a magnitude 6.4, but this was later downgraded to 6.2 by the US Geological Survey.
A number of "strong" aftershocks have also been reported. — the Independent
According to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, at least 40 people are seeking medical treatment, one woman is in critical condition, and others may be trapped beneath rubble.Some images from social media are already showing the destruction: View full entry »
Three Taiwanese construction company executives have been detained on charges of professional negligence resulting in death following the collapse of an apartment building that killed dozens.
The district prosecutor's office in the city of Tainan said [...] that Lin Ming-hui and architects Chang Kui-an and Cheng Chin-kui were suspected of having overseen shoddy construction of the 17-story Weiguan Golden Dragon building, which crashed onto its side following an earthquake Saturday. — america.aljazeera.com
Previously in the Archinect news: Taiwan earthquake: tin cans found as fillers may have caused high-rise to collapse View full entry »
Taiwan's Government has ordered an investigation into the collapse of a high-rise building in an earthquake after it emerged tin cans had been used in its construction.
Rescue workers found the cans as they searched for survivors two days after the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 37 people. — independent.co.uk
However, an engineer speaking to Taiwanese TV news channel CNA explained how using cans in construction was not necessarily illegal: "For such purposes in construction, it was not illegal prior to September 1999, but since then styrofoam and formwork boards have been used instead."Related... View full entry »
Renters and apartment owners must equally share the financial burden of earthquake retrofitting, the Los Angeles City Council agreed Wednesday, capping a more than year-long debate that allows the city to begin implementing the most sweeping mandatory seismic laws in the nation. [...]
Owners can pass half the retrofit costs to tenants through rent increases over a 10-year period, with a maximum increase of $38 per month. — latimes.com
Related stories in the Archinect news:Should tenants pay for earthquake retrofitting costs?Deep Retrofits Next Market for Struggling ArchitectsNapa Quake a 'Reality Check' View full entry »
After twin earthquakes in April and May claimed 9,000 lives and left vast swathes of Nepal in ruins, survivors worried if they reused the brick rubble, they would end up with the same vulnerable, seismically unsound structures.
[...] Shigeru Ban - who helped bring global attention to humanitarian architecture and continues to influence fellow architects and disaster-relief workers - devised a solution. [...]
"I'm encouraging people to copy my ideas. No copyrights," Ban said. — reuters.com
"While Ban said he enjoys working on grand projects commissioned by privileged people, he also wants to help people who have lost their homes, and is encouraged that many architects have followed in his footsteps."Previously in the Archinect news:Shigeru Ban: Beauty as a basic human needShigeru... View full entry »
Wednesday night's 8.3-magnitude earthquake had left 11 dead and a 175 houses damaged. While the toll wasn't negligible, the quake — the world's strongest this year — might have leveled less-prepared countries.
"Our structural engineering is world class," Santos, a 62-year-old engineer at the firm Ingenería Estructuras Consultoría, said by phone. "And it's made in Chile." — miamiherald.com
Related on Archinect:Deadly 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Nepal destroys architectural landmarksAre India's cities prepared to withstand an earthquake like in Nepal?First Japanese skyscraper gets retrofitted with rooftop vibration control system View full entry »
"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast."
In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people. When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America. — newyorker.com
This relatively low-tech method is among a battery of tests that materials scientists are using to determine why several anchor rods securing the newest portion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the region's busiest, failed their earthquake inspections. The first alarms sounded in 2013, when seismic tests found 32 faulty rods. They'd been sitting in a large pool of water, corroding. — wired.com
Previously:Bolts along Bay Bridge bike path failAfter $6.4 Billion, San Francisco Bridge Remains a MessTime-Lapse of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction View full entry »
while the idea of a fully plumbed potty zooming up and down the sides of a Tokyo skyscraper may seem like Japanese technical ingenuity taken a step too far, in reality this idea is born of reasonable and sensible practical concerns. [...]
it remains likely that people will end up trapped in elevators if a large earthquake comes. [...]
Japan's elevator industry is among the most advanced in the world ... Its toilet industry also leads the world in technical advancements. — washingtonpost.com
The below video (available in Japanese and English versions) shows off a version of a elevator-specific toilet:More elevator news:Installation of UltraRope elevators begins at Kingdom TowerIn case of fire, use elevatorsUp and Down, Side to Side; ThyssenKrupp's cable-free MULTI elevator to begin... View full entry »
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