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A slightly edited version of my post from last Thanksgiving. Indeed, the possibilities were endless, and I do have a sense that I'm heading in the right direction...just not quite there yet. I'll be sharing tonight with a small part of my husband's family. On Saturday, I'll be with my two cousins (my mom's oldest sister's boys) and their families, happily indulging in all the 'traditional' Thanksgiving foods. And I'm very appreciative of the fact that you're sharing this with me. Thank you.
So what does this have to do with my Thankful Thursday Thanksgiving? Well, this is only the third time in my life, entire life, that I am not with my family on Thanksgiving. It has always been the ONE holiday we spent together. It's not by choice, this separation. My parents moved out in May and are now very happily settled in Prescott, Arizona. And while being without them in and of itself could elicit a lot of emotion, the fact that this is my new 'normal' has me feeling very sad. My first reaction was to retreat; I really didn't want to bring my uncertain emotional state to someone else's celebration. So, I'm going to be alone for my first holiday. Ever.
At the same time, it's my choice to be alone, and I'm thankful to have the time to reflect on what this holiday means. It got me to thinking about all the people out there who spend not just this holiday, but many holidays, alone. Some do so by choice, but I think many don't. The reality is that there are lots of options out there, events and places to go, to fill the day.
I like the fact that I'll have a year to figure out what my new holiday tradition will be. Because it can be anything. I can spend the day with those who aren't as fortunate as me, by serving at any number of local shelters and food pantries. I could invite friends who are in similar circumstances and cook up a storm. I could buy a ticket and spend the holiday doing genealogical research in Europe!! The possibilities are truly endless.
So, today I'm thankful for the lovely house I live in, the job I have, and for the continued good health of my family, friends and me. I'm thankful for four wonderful feline friends who may make me crazy, but bring me endless joy. I'm thankful that I have been given an incredible circle of people whose hearts continue to astound me; from friends I've had since grammar school, to high school, to my new neighborhood, to Social Media. You are a blessing to me.
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Currently in GSIM it seems you can only build 'flat' Category Sets and Code Lists - the only time a hierarchy is introduced is through the inclusion of Level in a Classification Item for Classification Schemes.
Some thoughts for discussion:
- Should it be possible to create a Hierarchical Code List (ie, a code list with a hierarchy that is not a classification scheme), or a Category Set (a hierarchical set of Categories that have not been enumerated by Codes)?
- Are the current definitions of Category Set and Code List broad enough to allow for the possibility of a hierarchical set?
- Should Category Set and Code List also include a relationship with Level? (Allowing for the building of hierarchical set)
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Hi All,
Ok, in terms of the original questions I posed above, I've since looked closer at GSIM and figured out the answers... so never mind!
But rather than delete the original discussion point (aside from the fact I can't figure out how to...) I thought I'd leave it up there and instead change the focus to a need to review the diagrams in the GSIM Specification document.
The only way in which I could determine the answers to the questions above, was through the use of only one diagram out of all of the concept related ones. In fact, the majority of other diagrams (see below for a rough list) around concepts and classifications are almost misleading, in that they don't contain any of the information that I was after. Figure 39 (p178) is the only figure in the whole of the specification document that shows that levels are used between Nodes and Node Sets (thereby allowing for hierarchical codelists and category sets). All other diagrams either don't show level at all (ie the category/code to category set/code list diagrams), or only show it in the context of the Classification Item and Classification Scheme.
Figure 15 (p 23) - Overview of Classification (level in context of classification scheme)
Figure 16 (p 24) - Concept Systems (code list and category set, no level)
Figure 35 (p 173) - Classification Class Diagram (level in context of classification scheme)
Figure 36 (p 174) - Category-Code Class Diagram (code list and category set, no level)
Figure 39 (p178) - Node-Relationship Class Diagram (shows level in context of nodes and node sets.)
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Hello everyone,
JWG taught that evolution occurs through the emotional body, which I'm assuming is related to consciousness (Neptune), the soul (Pluto), and the ego (Moon). However, I'm having a hard time explaining this concept to others that are caught up in spiritual bypass and somehow think that the dualistic nature of emotions can be transcended when tapping into the intelligence of source - in particular, the natural or primordial state referred to in Dzogchen Buddhism. I see before my eyes psychological and emotional splitting, people able to really tap into the primordial reality, but it seems like they are just getting "high" since the experience is not integrated emotionally. And of course, it only lasts temporarily.
I'm trying to understand exactly what it is about the nature of emotions that when released and healed, lead to evolution. Memories are connected to the moon, and the unconscious emotional patterns, to Pluto, and we need to uncover and experience these memories/emotions in order to evolve. My question is what actually happens in this process? Is the energy being transmuted? Does recovering the memory/gaining understanding release desires? How would you explain all this to someone who believed that tapping into the primordial state was simply enough to heal and awaken, since this state is beyond cause and effect, and therefore karma?
Which leads me to another question. Does spiritual bypassing occur more in a particular evolutionary state or is it prevalent through individuated and spiritual? My observations of people that call themselves non-dual seekers is that they seem very stuck in their heads. So the mental part seems to be individuated, and the constant need for security in an external teaching also implies that the ego has not yet shifted to finding security in the soul/itself.
Thanks so much for you help!
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Jan 20, 2013, 05:05 PM »
Wow - just want to thank you for such a clear question and articulation Heidi. I gained a lot from just reading that.
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Jan 20, 2013, 06:21 PM »
Hi Heidi,
Like Ari, I learned alot just reading your question! I had never heard of "spiritual bypassing" before and Googled it. I found a link with a Q&A that discusses much of what you are talking about (not the astrology part). I thought I'd post it for others who are interested in learning what "spiritual bypassing" means:
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Jan 21, 2013, 08:11 AM »
Hi Heidi and all,
As I understand it, EA teaches that processing life experiences through the emotional body is evolutionary precisely because it enables the Soul to fully EXPERIENCE whatever experiences are the natural consequence of its desires and choices. If the Soul does not fully EXPERIENCE that which its choices have generated, then it will not truly know in a deep way the consequences of those desires and choices, and will not be able to integrate and learn from these experiences, and thus to make new choices and evolve. In some sense spiritual bypass is a kind of delaying tactic – the Soul resisting coming to terms with the natural consequences of its own desires and choices (though at the ego level this can simply look like a person avoiding painful emotions using Jesus or altered states or "ascension" or whatever). In this way the Soul keeps itself in a kind of evolutionary limbo in that it cannot truly exhaust separating desires since it is ever delayed from truly feeling what those desires have resulted in, and therefore must repeat them (in a sense willfully failing to learn from history). You can see how this can correlate with skipped steps in some Souls – interesting that this issue and the 'creating skipped steps' threads are up at the same time on the mb.
Spiritual bypass to me also relates to the control orientation most of us carry and to the lack of trust in natural law that has been learned on this planet. Evolution is a natural process of the universe – we can trust it to happen and we do not have to "make" it happen, so much as let it happen. As Jeffrey taught, the Water Trinity shows involution in that Spirit/Neptune differentiates to Soul/Scorpio differentiates to Ego/Cancer; and also shows that evolution occurs naturally in the natural direction of the zodiac of the shift in conscious identification from Ego/Cancer to Soul/Scorpio to Spirit/Pisces. I find in my work that when people are able to experience their experience through the emotional body (Cancer/Moon), such a full experience naturally eventually leads them (over a period of minutes or lifetimes) to a desire to understand and transform the deeper unconscious patterns and/or Soul history (both Scorpio/Pluto) that has led to the given emotional experience. I don't need to try to push this inquiry in any way, it is the natural result of deeply experienced emotion, it is just what happens when we get out of the way and feel. And then I have also found that when people start to work at this deeper level, then also very naturally begin (again, whether in this lifetime or later) to experience their own encounters with Source (Pisces/Neptune), however this may manifest as appropriate to their perceptual capacities. The water naturally returns to the sea. So to me it is not so much about energy releasing or other particular things as much as it is about having a natural experience that leads to new understanding and choices (and thus new experiences) that eventually exhaust separating desires and leave only the desire to return to Source.
If we stay with the Water Trinity, then spiritual bypassing can be seen as an attempt to "bypass" the emotions (Cancer) and critically the step of self-confrontation and transformation (Scorpio) – after all that is really hard. But of course natural law doesn't work that way and what I would say is actually happening is that the Soul is actually going in the involutionary (clockwise) direction on the wheel, trying to escape to a regressive experience of preconsciousness rather like the womb (Pisces), so as not to feel the pain of emotion (Cancer). In therapy this is sometimes called the "flight into health". To me it exemplifies the issue of trines in that as Jeffrey taught they can make it "easy" to be conscious and cooperative with evolution but they can also make it "easy" to resist it.
I also read in what you wrote a question of whether the kind of mental/head-based quality that typifies the specific bypass you mentioned (of preferring to dwell in primordial states) means that such individuals may be in the individuated states vs. spiritual states. I would say that what you described could be occurring in a spiritual or an individuated Soul. The difference would have to be discerned by understanding the nature of the Soul's motivation for its practice in the first place. I have seen some practitioners of these paths and techniques who are (mostly) seeking to reinforce their own sense of themselves and their specialness and ability to "achieve" and use spiritual practice as the vehicle for this (individuated); and I have seen some who are (mostly) truly seeking to unite themselves with Source (spiritual). And at both of these levels, I have seen Souls periodically fall into the trap of using these paths to dissociate from their emotions, or even live an entire lifetime in that kind of resistance.
I also hear you considering how to help Souls in this dynamic. As mentioned we are in the territory of Pisces/Neptune, and as EA teaches this archetype is about Source and spiritual realization, but at the same time also the process by which we "deify" all sorts of people and things and states of consciousness as if they themselves are Source or are spiritual realization, and then we experience eventual disillusionment when this turns out not to be true. In this context for me it has rarely worked to point out to people they that are in spiritual bypass; those rose-coloured glasses are pretty sticky and if you get Virgo/Mercury discerning and analytical they get even more Pisces/Neptune cloudy and ascending. Unless they are somehow really ready to hear it and to experience it as real, it is just a mental thing to say it, like telling an active addict that he or she has an addiction.
What I do find helpful is what I find is most helpful in many situations: to assist the person in fully experiencing whatever they are experiencing, to feel what it is like to be where they are. In this case of bypass, to feel what it is like to view or use access to this primordial state as the "answer". What does that feel like, what is the impact of that in life? After all, the desire to prematurely transcend and resist the evolutionary process is itself also a desire that the Soul has created and wants to experience. Assisting the Soul to fully experience the full experience that is a consequence of that desire (whether it is the 'high' states, the frequent interpersonal isolation that results, the tendency to judge the 'unenlightened', the pressure to maintain one's 'enlightenment', whatever the full experience is), and eventually it will naturally include the experience of disillusionment, and the felt sense of disillusionment – feeling it, not just being told it by someone else – the disappointment, the grief, the anger – is what naturally leads the Soul to truly release the desire for bypass and move on to whatever is next for it. Just realizing it cognitively or because someone points it out typically means that although today's bypass strategy may be dropped, the desire will still exist in the Soul to do it and it will find another way to bypass (kind of like switching addictions from one substance/behavior to another when the deeper desires driving the addiction have not been addressed and released, only deferred).
God bless,
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Jan 21, 2013, 09:48 AM »
Hi Heidi, Jason, Ari, and Cat ........
First, Jason, so nice to find you back here on the mb. Second, all that you have said/ shared about this is exactly right. We need to remember/ understand that the Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio trinity, The Source, the Soul, and the ego it manifests, all emanate from the Water archetype. Water is of course pure emotion.
The non-dual state that those that Heidi is referring too, the desire for, is itself am emotional delusion that is impossible to achieve, or arrive at, relative to consciousness in the Soul in a human form. A Soul relative to certain 'spiritual' methodologies can indeed arrive at some sort of 'transcendental' state but that state always, cause and affect, snaps back to a 'normal' state of consciousness. Even in these naturally transcendental states or 'cosmic consciousness' the very essence of such a consciousness or state is EMOTIONAL: the emotion or feeling within that state of consciousness as it 'perceives' the various realities of those states. That perception leads to an emotional state as it 'reacts' to the nature of the perception itself.
What Jason has shared by way of the need of all of ours Souls to directly feel the nature of our emotions as they relate to any possible experience created by the Soul for it's own evolutionary needs is the bottom line truth. For those who are able to create within themselves the various degrees of cosmic consciousness all of them will report being in a temporary state of ecstasy. Ecstasy of course is an experience of pure emotion.
When Souls align themselves with various religious and/or spiritual teachings that teach it is important, necessary even, to control or repress the emotions in order for 'x' spiritual state to be realized these Souls are reacting to the nature of their own emotional lives. In essence, they are running from those emotional lives for their own reasons but all reasons that lead to this running lead to repressing the very nature of the emotions themselves. In so doing they are repressing that which is NATURAL AND NECESSARY FOR THE SOUL TO EXPERIENCE for it's own evolutionary reasons. If we accept that God/ess is the origin of all things then wherein lies the origin of emotions ? And for what reasons ? Jason has correctly answered this.
So for Souls who do orientate to these teachings that require repression, to 'transcend' them which means repressing them, the very act of repression then magnifies and distorts those natural emotions within the consciousness of those that do so. When anything that is natural is repressed for whatever reasons ANGER IS THE DIRECT RESULT: a natural inner anger. When this occurs all to often the Soul then feels itself to be a victim of life, a victim even to their own emotions which continue to live on, to exist, despite the repression. When this natural anger is then linked to the created consciousness of feeling to be a victim first to itself, then to others, this becomes the causative basis of lashing out at anyone the Souls feels 'victimized' by.
In a 'religious' and or 'spiritual' context this then is the cause of all the horror stories we are all to familiar with: the priest abusing boys, the 'guru' who is having intercourse with some devote, and so on.
As JWG and others have taught the liberation of the Soul does indeed take place through and because of the emotional body for the reasons that Jason had correctly pointed out. A story that I just remembered about this is the story of one of Yogananda's chief disciples, forgot her name right now, but a women who was essential for Yogananda and his work. She developed a terminal medical condition in which Yogananda interceded upon by way of asking God/ess to keep her alive because of the critical nature of her tasks helping his work. She lived ten years longer as a result. And upon her final transition, upon the moment of the very last breath, her final words were: " TO MUCH JOY" .
God Bless, Rad
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Jan 21, 2013, 06:26 PM »
Thanks for all your comments! And a special thanks to Jason and Rad for those thorough answers which have really put my inquiry to rest. I'm so glad you shared all of that Jason and am so appreciative for people on this forum that can bring forth the wisdom that I rarely find elsewhere
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Jan 21, 2013, 07:24 PM »
Hi Heidi, Rad, Ari, Jason and Cat
Some further thoughts on this. heidi: I am glad you have brought this question, and in fact I personally agree with your observations.
How would you explain all this to someone who believed that tapping into the primordial state was simply enough to heal and awaken, since this state is beyond cause and effect, and therefore karma?
I have observed that the tendency to detach from emotions is present in Dzogchen, but also in Tibetan Buddhism. To me this is relates to an Aquarian nature of these practices, and the Aquarius/Cancer inconjunct. This orientation, conditioned by patriarchal repression, translates in some people into un-integrated emotions.
It would seem to me though that this orientation is not the correct orientation, even as contemplated by these same teachings (Dzogchen, Tibetan Buddhism), but, rather, a delusion or wrong idea some practitioners have about the nature of these systems. First, the primordial state is nothing but a starting point. The first instruction is 'direct introduction to primordial state'. This state is a non-conceptual state that can be induced in some ways, such as focusing awareness in the heart chakra in combination with a syllable that is visualized and sounded in this chakra. There is an emphasis on 'feeling' here within Dzogchen. The second instruction is 'remain in this state'. This, however, is not possible for practitioners, who can only remain in the state 'without thoughts' just for a couple instants. This is how it works. It is taught that, through practice, consciousness will progressively be able to remain in such state longer and longer. This is very clear in these teachings. However, it seems some practitioners tend to forget this part of the teachings.
Second, there are within Dzogchen, as within Tibetan Buddhism, a series of practices which directly intend to work with emotions. These include practices such as 'purification of the six lokas'. Also practices in which the individuals visualize themselves and fuse with wrathful or joyful deities, in order for an alchemy to take place for the emotional state to manifest its inherent enlightened aspect. Also, a practice called Chöd that was put together by a yogini called Machik Labdron born in the 11th century, and also by Milarepa. This practice is integral to Dzogchen and to some of the Tibetan Buddhist schools (Nyngma). In this practice, the practitioner offers his/her body as food for different kinds of beings. These beings are associated with the different lokas or chakras, and the emotional states therein. Within this, the practitioner invokes the 'demons' and beings from the lower realms and feeds them with the offerings that are a manifestation of the own body. This is understood as a means to work with emotions, and to integrate emotions. These demons are seen as manifestations of the own (un-integrated) emotions.
You can see the type of work that Tsultrim Allione does with this ritual. She explains this from a more psychological perspective (
Also, here's a link about Milarepa and the demons:
These types of practices are intended to work with emotions. My own experience is that these practices are not suitable to repress emotions. Rather the contrary is true: the intensity of the emotions and the awareness of emotions is increased. I don't mean all practitioners understand what the intention of all this is.
Personally I am unable to report if the intention to help process the emotions by these means is 'finally' accomplished. I can report that they do intensify the process however. It seems to me that other types of practices, in the context of other schools or systems, such as some types of yoga, have this effect too. My personal understanding about this is that spiritual work intensifies the emotions, in order to heal and integrate the emotional body. To me, this just seems to be the way it works.
Rad, could you please confirm whether the types of practices mentioned can be oriented to work with the emotional body? If not, then, what types of practices can be used to work with the emotional body, or with emotions just as they are?
God Bless, Gonzalo
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Jan 22, 2013, 08:49 AM »
Hi Gonzalo,
"Rad, could you please confirm whether the types of practices mentioned can be oriented to work with the emotional body? If not, then, what types of practices can be used to work with the emotional body, or with emotions just as they are?"
I just am not familiar with the practices that are being discussed here as, to me, these practices are not only unnecessary but in fact confuse those that try to practice them. They take what is inherently simple and complicates that. This happens because such practices are not in alignment with Natural Laws: they are essentially invented by individuals who have been conditioned by man made laws, the patriarchy, that are then trying to harness the Natural Laws in unnatural ways. Personally, I won't have anything to do with them.
To me the practices to be used are life itself. To have the knowledge of emotions is simply to experience them within a consciousness that becomes one with whatever emotion is existing relative to a cause that has ignited it in the first place. And, within this, to have a desire, conscious intention, to understand the nature of whatever emotion: it's cause, and the reasons for that cause. Within this, the inherent knowledge that then exists in whatever emotion the consciousness becomes one with. Over time of course a state of total self knowledge defined by the emotional body will take place.
I did a search on Amazon. com under the words 'emotional anatomy' just now. A book that came up that appears relevant to all this is "The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense [Paperback] by Michael A. Jawer (Author), Marc S. Micozzi (Author), Larry Dossey (Foreword).
Here is a description of this book from Amazon:
A cutting-edge examination of feelings, not thoughts, as the gateway to understanding consciousness
• Contends that emotion is the greatest influence on personality development
• Offers a new perspective on immunity, stress, and psychosomatic conditions
• Explains how emotion is key to understanding out-of-body experience, apparitions, and other anomalous perceptions
Contemporary science holds that the brain rules the body and generates all our feelings and perceptions. Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi disagree. They contend that it is our feelings that underlie our conscious selves and determine what we think and how we conduct our lives.
The less consciousness we have of our emotional being, the more physical disturbances we are likely to have--from ailments such as migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and post-traumatic stress to anomalous perceptions such as apparitions and involuntary out-of-body experiences. Using the latest scientific research on immunity, sensation, stress, cognition, and emotional expression, the authors demonstrate that the way we process our feelings provides a key to who is most likely to experience these phenomena and why. They explain that emotion is a portal into the world of extraordinary perception, and they provide the studies that validate the science behind telepathic dreams, poltergeists, and ESP. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion challenges the prevailing belief that the brain must necessarily rule the body. Far from being by-products of neurochemistry, the authors show that emotions are the key vehicle by which we can understand ourselves and our interactions with the world around us as well as our most intriguing--and perennially baffling--experiences.
For those interested here is a link to this book on Amazon:
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Hi Rad,
Thanks so much for your answer. and advice. Thanks also for referrig to this book.
What about Yogananda's kriya yoga? Is it rooted on natural laws, and helpful? It also intensifies the emotions.
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Quote from: Gonzalo on Jan 22, 2013, 10:21 AM
Hi Rad,
Thanks so much for your answer. and advice. Thanks also for referrig to this book.
What about Yogananda's kriya yoga? Is it rooted on natural laws, and helpful? It also intensifies the emotions.
God Bless, Gonzalo
Hi Gonzalo,
Yes, Kriya Yoga is very much rooted in Natural Laws that, in the end, is the natural knowledge / Law of the breath. And, because of this, the practice of it allows for all the energy within consciousness to move up from the root chakra .. through all the others ... thus all the natural emotions/ feelings that come from each one of them..each chakra .. to be consciously awakened ..self knowledge .. leading right back to where it all started for all of us: the Creator of us all. Within this the Kriya Yoga ignites the natural evolutionary energy called Kundalini. Kundalini now fused with the various emotions/ feelings manifesting from each chakra that are unique to the nature of each chakra. Thus the evolution of them leading to a final liberation of the Soul through and because of the emotional body as a whole.
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Jan 22, 2013, 04:55 PM »
Oh my.., amen to that, Jason & Rad (not to be hurtful to, or dismissive of anyone else..) - it just made my heart sing.
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HI, I wanted to post the book and name of the disciple that Rad is referencing in this post. Her name is Sri Gyanamata and the book is called "God Alone: life and letters of a Saint." This is a wonderful book which I highly recommend as it as gives great perspective about how to emotionally heal and grow wothout any "spiritual by pass." Thanks for this wonderful post!
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Hi All,
This article supports what we have discussed here about the repression of the emotional body in patriarchal 'spiritual' teachings. God Bless, Rad
February 11, 2013
Zen Groups Distressed by Accusations Against Teacher
By MARK OPPENHEIMER and IAN LOVETT
Since arriving in Los Angeles from Japan in 1962, the Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki, who is 105 years old, has taught thousands of Americans at his two Zen centers in the area and one in New Mexico. He has influenced thousands more enlightenment seekers through a chain of some 30 affiliated Zen centers from the Puget Sound to Princeton to Berlin. And he is known as a Buddhist teacher of Leonard Cohen, the poet and songwriter.
Mr. Sasaki has also, according to an investigation by an independent council of Buddhist leaders, released in January, groped and sexually harassed female students for decades, taking advantage of their loyalty to a famously charismatic roshi, or master.
The allegations against Mr. Sasaki have upset and obsessed Zen Buddhists across the country, who are part of a close-knit world in which many participants seem to know, or at least know of, the principal teachers.
Mr. Sasaki did not respond to requests for interviews made through Paul Karsten, a member of the board of Rinzai-ji, his main center in Los Angeles. Mr. Karsten said that Mr. Sasaki's senior priests are conducting their own inquiry. And he cautioned that the independent council took the accounts it heard from dozens of students at face value and did not investigate any "for veracity."
Because Mr. Sasaki has founded or sponsored so many Zen centers, and because he has the prestige of having trained in Japan, the charges that he behaved unethically — and that his supporters looked the other way — have implications for an entire way of life.
Such charges have become more frequent in Zen Buddhism. Several other teachers have been accused of misconduct recently, notably Eido Shimano, who in 2010 was asked to resign from the Zen Studies Society in Manhattan over allegations that he had sex with students. Critics and victims have pointed to a Zen culture of secrecy, patriarchy and sexism, and to the quasi-religious worship of the Zen master, who can easily abuse his status.
Disaffected students wrote letters to the board of one of Mr. Sasaki's Zen centers as early as 1991. Yet it was only last November, when Eshu Martin, a Zen priest who studied under Mr. Sasaki from 1997 to 2008, posted a letter to SweepingZen.com, a popular Web site, that the wider Zen world noticed.
Mr. Martin, now a Zen abbot in Victoria, British Columbia, accused Mr. Sasaki of a "career of misconduct," from "frequent and repeated non-consensual groping of female students" to "sexually coercive after-hours 'tea' meetings, to affairs," as well as interfering in his students' marriages. Soon thereafter, the independent "witnessing council" of noted Zen teachers began interviewing 25 current or former students of Mr. Sasaki.
Some former students are now speaking out, including seven interviewed for this article, and their stories provide insight into the culture of Rinzai-ji and the other places where Mr. Sasaki taught. Women say they were encouraged to believe that being touched by Mr. Sasaki was part of their Zen training.
The Zen group, or sangha, can become one's close family, and that aspect of Zen may account for why women and men have been reluctant to speak out for so long.
Many women whom Mr. Sasaki touched were resident monks at his centers. One woman who confronted Mr. Sasaki in the 1980s found herself an outcast afterward. The woman, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, said that afterward "hardly anyone in the sangha, whom I had grown up with for 20 years, would have anything to do with us."
In the council's report on Jan. 11, the three members wrote of "Sasaki asking women to show him their breasts, as part of 'answering' a koan" — a Zen riddle — "or to demonstrate 'non-attachment.' "
When the report was posted to SweepingZen, Mr. Sasaki's senior priests wrote in a post that their group "has struggled with our teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi's sexual misconduct for a significant portion of his career in the United States" — their first such admission.
Among those who spoke to the council and for this article was Nikki Stubbs, who now lives in Vancouver, and who studied and worked at Mount Baldy, Mr. Sasaki's Zen center 50 miles east of Los Angeles, from 2003 to 2006. During that time, she said, Mr. Sasaki would fondle her breasts during sanzen, or private meeting; he also asked her to massage his penis. She would wonder, she said, "Was this teaching?"
One monk, whom Ms. Stubbs said she told about the touching, was unsympathetic. "He believed in Roshi's style, that sexualizing was teaching for particular women," Ms. Stubbs said. The monk's theory, common in Mr. Sasaki's circle, was that such physicality could check a woman's overly strong ego.
A former student of Mr. Sasaki's now living in the San Francisco area, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her privacy, said that at Mount Baldy in the late 1990s, "the monks confronted Roshi and said, 'This behavior is unacceptable and has to stop.' " However, she said, "nothing changed." After a time, Mr. Sasaki used Zen teaching to justify touching her, too.
"He would say something like, 'True love is giving yourself to everything,' " she explained. At Mount Baldy, the isolation could hamper one's judgment. "It can sound trite, but you're in this extreme state of consciousness," she said — living at a monastery in the mountains, sitting in silence for many hours a day — "where boundaries fall away."
Joe Marinello is a Zen teacher in Seattle who served on the board of the Zen Studies Society in New York. He has been openly critical of Mr. Shimano, the former abbot who was asked to resign from the society. Asked about teachers who say that sexual touch is an appropriate teaching technique, he was dismissive.
"In my opinion," Mr. Marinello said in an e-mail, "it's just their cultural and personal distortion to justify their predations."
But in Zen Buddhism, students often overlook their teachers' failings, participants say. Some Buddhists define their philosophy in contrast to Western religion: Buddhism, they believe, does not have Christian-style preoccupations about things like sex. And Zen exalts the relationship between a student and a teacher, who can come to seem irreplaceable.
"Outside the sexual things that happened," the woman now in San Francisco said, "my relationship with him was one of the most important I have had with anyone."
Several women said that Zen can foster an atmosphere of overt sexism. Jessica Kramer, a doula in Los Angeles, was Mr. Sasaki's personal attendant in 2002. She said that he would reach into her robe and that she always resisted his advances. Surrounded almost entirely by men, she said she got very little sympathy. "I'd talk about it with people who'd say, 'Why not just let him touch your breasts if he wants to touch your breasts?' "
Susanna Stewart began studying with Mr. Sasaki about 40 years ago. Within six months, she said, Mr. Sasaki began to touch her during sanzen. This sexualizing of their relationship "led to years of confusion and pain," Ms. Stewart said, "eventually resulting in my becoming unable to practice Zen." And when she married one of his priests, Mr. Sasaki tried to break them up, she said, even encouraging her husband to have an affair.
In 1992, Ms. Stewart's husband disaffiliated himself and his North Carolina Zen Center from Mr. Sasaki. Years later, his wife said, he received hate mail from members of his old Zen group.
The witnessing council, which wrote the report, has no official authority. Its members belong to the American Zen Teachers Association but collected stories on their own initiative, although with a statement of support from 45 other teachers and priests. One of its authors, Grace Schireson, said that Zen Buddhists in the United States have misinterpreted a Japanese philosophy.
"Because of their long history with Zen practice, people in Japan have some skepticism about priests," Ms. Schireson said. But in the United States many proponents have a "devotion to the guru or the teacher in a way that could repress our common sense and emotional intelligence."
Last Thursday morning, at Rinzai-ji on Cimarron Street in Los Angeles, Bob Mammoser, a resident monk, said that Mr. Sasaki's "health is quite frail" and that he has "basically withdrawn from any active teaching." Mr. Mammoser said there is talk of a meeting at the center to discuss what, if any, action to take.
Mr. Mammoser said he first became aware of allegations against Mr. Sasaki in the 1980s. "There have been efforts in the past to address this with him," Mr. Mammoser said. "Basically, they haven't been able to go anywhere."
He added: "What's important and is overlooked is that, besides this aspect, Roshi was a commanding and inspiring figure using Buddhist practice to help thousands find more peace, clarity and happiness in their own lives. It seems to be the kind of thing that, you get the person as a whole, good and bad, just like you marry somebody and you get their strengths and wonderful qualities as well as their weaknesses."
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Hi all.. Just want to add a short thought that trails on all that was said here. Since deep emotional processing is the heart of the work I do... what I have found is that we simply cannot easily move through our own emotional (and other) defenses. Spiritual systems that are 'transcendent' in nature often collude with the already dissociative defense in place. Yes it is quite easy for already dissociated, fragmented psyches (ie..all of us) to access "other/ higher worlds" since so many of our parts already reside there!! The difficult part is unlocking the trauma that caused the fragmentation in the first place and then real soul retrieval can happen. Re-living ...ie descending into the original.. terror, wound, fear, horror, pain.. (fill in the blank) opens up not only the complex formed around such an event, but the defenses that were crystallized also. These defenses involved ALL levels of the being, etheric/physical body, emotional body, mental body and spiritual body... ALL these bodies need to become congruent in order for full integration to happen and each one can hold their own separate defense... one body is not superior to another... despite what Patriarchal bias tells us ;-) Personally I trust the veracity and truth of emotion before I trust the machinations of head....my personal bias :-)
Sharing quote from RD Laing....
"When our personal worlds are rediscovered and allowed to reconstitute themselves, we first discover a shambles. Bodies half-dead; genitals dissociated from heart; heart severed from head; heads dissociated from genitals… Without inner unity, with just enough sense of continuity to clutch at identity :the current idolatry. Torn, body, mind and spirit, by inner contradictions, pulled in different directions, Man cut off from his own mind, cut off equally from his own body – a half-crazed creature in a mad world."
I perceive that we compensate for all these contradictions, dissociations.. largely with our mental prowess, using it to repress the tru reality that lies underneath. This is why, collectively we are so mentally defended..because under those defenses ...lies a much different, initially terrifying inner world, where our compensated identity is threatened to come apart..but when one has the courage to go there... the reward is integration and coherence.
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Hi All-
I too have gleaned a great deal from reading Heidi's initial question and from all the responses thereafter. From reading this post and my own personal experience with bypassing and witnessing it in others, more questions and hope for further discussion arise.
In my observations between the dance of integration vs. bypass or splitting, this requires, one; the desire and surrender to the process, and two; physical resources, time, honorable teachers and support to truly achieve embodiment.
My question (not exactly clear what it is yet) has to do with souls who have traumatic experiences and find mechanisms to survive (which usually turn into some sort of bypass in the long run if the trauma isn't healed) such as drug addiction, wherein they experience out of body spiritual encounters with Spirit, have visions of past lives (from drug induced states such as opium, acid or during trauma) and so on, which open up the higher chakras. Once these higher bodies are awakened, souls spend a great deal of time there-where they have found "safety."
Then when the soul begins the process of accessing the emotions stored in the lower chakras, and works to clear the emotional body, and the heart opens to bridge all the chakras and the kundalini begins to move freely...and yet the bypass conditioning and crisis mode is still very ingrained in the soul, even after a great deal of effort has been made towards integration, and bypass still remains, thus more surrender and honest appraisal required to evolve.
I had an experience this past week, with physical ailment I have had most of my life...and decided to go to hospital for testing. I reached out to practitioner/friend afterwards and he suggested I was bypassing my emotional body, stuck in the story, rather than allowing emotions to "pass through into kundalini to be transformed." This response made me question whether kundalini process can also be bypassing or not, relative to current life circumstances, i.e., resources, time...
If a soul has had transcendent experiences, has cosmological knowledge, and is still facing, honestly facing bypassing patterns, like an addiction, and is dealing with some intense health issues, I feel the kundalini solution may not be the first solution to embrace. I almost felt his response was a bypass in itself, because the full picture was not being considered. Over the years, especially when I have been in an aligned space, I have been a strong proponent of "energy comes before matter," and yet I see how having surgery, or the like, may be the best decision in releasing long-standing soul pattern, as well as taking care of one's health integratively, yes?
I guess my words are more of an expression than a question and has to do with souls who have strong water trinity energies with abilities to see through the veil into other worlds and communicate with the other side (Pisces), and also embrace the emotional body (Cancer) and the soul transformation (Scorpio), and yet have a strong inclination of bypass due to strong soul patterns of trauma, and thus dance between embodiment and splitting. Within the Pluto in Virgo generation, I'm sure crisis with one's health is a common catalyst to embrace soul work.
Over the years I have met many healers, some who completely resist emotions, saying they are a waste of time, while others (usually therapists) who encourage the emotional body to express and then align. In those who resist the emotions, isn't it possible that is what they are meant to do so in this life (lots of Cancer planets and SN in Cancer)?
Quote from: jasonholley on Jan 21, 2013, 08:11 AM
If we stay with the Water Trinity, then spiritual bypassing can be seen as an attempt to "bypass" the emotions (Cancer) and critically the step of self-confrontation and transformation (Scorpio) – after all that is really hard. But of course natural law doesn't work that way and what I would say is actually happening is that the Soul is actually going in the involutionary (clockwise) direction on the wheel, trying to escape to a regressive experience of preconsciousness rather like the womb (Pisces), so as not to feel the pain of emotion (Cancer). In therapy this is sometimes called the "flight into health". To me it exemplifies the issue of trines in that as Jeffrey taught they can make it "easy" to be conscious and cooperative with evolution but they can also make it "easy" to resist it.
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USA TODAY Sports NFL reporter Tom Pelissero goes deep in breaking down Week 1 and looking ahead.
SAN FRANCISCO — Colin Kaepernick says Clay Matthews' words didn't bother him, and neither did the late lick the Green Bay Packers' star pass rusher laid to back it up.
All Kaepernick did was turn in one of the best performances of his young career Sunday, passing for 412 yards and three touchdowns in the San Francisco 49ers' 34-28 triumph.
STUDS & DUDS: Best and worst of Week 1
"If intimidation is your game plan," Kaepernick said afterwards, "I hope you have a better one."
The third-year quarterback was two steps out of bounds when Matthews jumped onto his back and slammed Kaepernick to the ground in the second quarter, setting off a scene wild enough that officials inadvertently gave the 49ers an extra down while sorting it out.
Kaepernick took advantage as he did most of the day, throwing a 10-yard touchdown on the next snap to Anquan Boldin, who also caught the pass on fourth-and-2 late that all but iced the decision.
"He could have tried to stick it in to Anquan on the break," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "But he kept the play alive, just cool as could be, and then made a perfect strike. I think that pretty much summed up his whole day."
MISSED IT: Ref admits botched call led to 49ers TD
Kaepernick outdueled former MVP Aaron Rodgers and withstood the jawing from Matthews that started with talk during the week about testing the bounds of the rules on hitting read-option quarterbacks.
"We talked to each other a lot today," Kaepernick said.
In the end, the 49ers' game plan wasn't heavy on zone reads, and Kaepernick showed he can't be pigeonholed as a quarterback while completing 27 of 39 passes against the Packers' banged-up secondary.
Kaepernick ran only seven times for 22 yards, including a 15-yard scramble on third-and-9 late in the third quarter. Two plays later, Matthews snuffed out a quarterback keeper and yelled in Kaepernick's face as he got up.
HUH? Outside the numbers with Week 1 oddities
That drive ended in a field goal, and the Packers took their only lead at 28-24 with 8:26 to go. Kaepernick came right back, running for 5 yards and then hitting Boldin for a 43-yard gain to set up the deciding touchdown.
"Really special performance by him," Harbaugh said. "Some laser-like throws, downfield pinpoint accuracy. Managing the chaos of the game.
"He never blinked, never flinched at any time. Just kept executing. Just consistently really good."
The Tennessee Titans shut down the Steelers in Pittsburgh. The New York Jets rallied to beat Tampa Bay thanks to a boneheaded late hit by Buccaneers linebacker Lavonte David.
Yet the most surprising development in Sunday's early games was the Buffalo Bills almost beating the New England Patriots, who kicked a field goal with 5 seconds to go to win 23-21.
In one goal-line sequence, quarterback Tom Brady barked at receiver Danny Amendola for lining up in the wrong spot, two receivers collided in pattern and Brady missed Kendrell Thompkins in the back of the end zone, then took a 10-yard sack to scuttle the drive.
THE Q: Key takeaways from all Sunday's action
With so many new parts — and with Wes Welker in Denver and Aaron Hernandez in jail — and the Patriots' best weapon, tight end Rob Gronkowski, not ready to return from back surgery, some growing pains are unavoidable. But this was not the dominating showing usually expected from a Bill Belichick team that has extra time to prepare.
Brady did complete all seven of his passes on the final drive, moving the Patriots 49 yards in 12 plays to set up Stephen Gostkowski's 35-yard winner. The Bills, with their new coach and rookie quarterback, probably caught New England at the right time. They just didn't close the deal.
Newly voted a team captain, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh called a players-only meeting last week to preach about avoiding dumb penalties. He provided a reminder early in Sunday's 34-24 win over the Minnesota Vikings he's still the guy most likely to commit them.
A hefty fine and maybe even another suspension are in order after Suh dived into Vikings center John Sullivan's left knee — the one that required microfracture surgery in January —several yards behind the play, drawing a flag that wiped out DeAndre Levy's touchdown off an interception return.
Suh, 26, has been fined several times for on-field conduct and was suspended two games in November 2011 for stomping on Green Bay Packers lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. That makes him a repeat offender, and Sunday's incident was inexcusable.
The Lions have to make a long-term decision on Suh in the next 18 months, with his rookie contract set to void after the 2014 season. There's no doubt about his talent. But if your team captain is trying to take out a guy's knee, is it any wonder discipline continues to be Detroit's weakness?
Do you think Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh is regretting the decision to trade Boldin to his brother for a sixth-round draft pick?
Boldin can barely run anymore at age 32, but his knack for getting open showed in one of the best performances of his career Sunday: 13 catches for 208 yards and a touchdown.
"We did give up a draft choice for him and paying him a lot of money," Jim Harbaugh said of Boldin, who is making $6 million in the last year of his contract.
"But definitely think he's worth every penny. I think he's worth evvvvvery penny."
In his 11th season, Boldin is trying to fill a huge void while top receiver Michael Crabtree recovers from an Achilles' injury. At least for one day, he was all quarterback Kaepernick needed.
— Giants RB David Wilson's starting job might be in jeopardy after he lost two fumbles in Sunday's 36-31 loss, but give the Cowboys defense credit. Dallas needed every one of those six takeaways to finally beat their rivals at AT&T Stadium.
Giants coach Tom Coughlin seemed prepared to give Wilson another chance. "He's got to play," Coughlin said. He later added: "We need him" and "He can do better." Giants had RBs Beanie Wells and Jonathan Dwyer in for visits last week. Will they sign one of them?
— New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton and former defensvie coordinator Gregg Williams, now an assistant with the Titans, returned from their bounty suspensions in style. Payton's offense racked up 419 yards and new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan's defense made a key stand in a 23-17 win over the Atlanta Falcons. Tennessee held the Steelers offense scoreless until late in a 16-9 upset.
As if the offensive ineptitude wasn't bad enough for the Steelers, they lost two key players — center Maurkice Pouncey (torn knee ligaments) and linebacker Larry Foote (ruptured biceps) — for the season.
— Colts quarterback Andrew Luck looks poised to take a big step forward. He completed 18 of 23 passes for 178 yards, two touchdowns and — most important — no interceptions in Sunday's 21-17 win over the Oakland Raiders. The biggest question is his offensive line.
— A Seattle Seahawks offense that scuffled in a 12-7 victory over the Carolina Panthers sure could use wide receiver Percy Harvin — and there is a chance he returns as soon as Week 7 at Arizona. He's progressing in his rehabilitation from hip surgery more quickly than expected.
The Seahawks might start thinking about taking some carries away from Marshawn Lynch, who averaged 2.5 yards on his 17 carries Sunday. Robert Turbin, who ran three times for 17 yards, and rookie Christine Michael both can bring some juice.
— It's tough to explain why Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard isn't getting more opportunities, too. Veteran BenJarvus Green-Ellis' 14 carries in Sunday's 24-21 loss to the Bears generated only 25 yards. Bernard ran four times for 22 yards.
— Is there any more dangerous combination than Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and wide receiver Brandon Marshall? Cutler, who's playing for a new contract, threw Marshall's way 10 times Sunday and completed eight of them for 104 yards and a touchdown.
— The St. Louis Rams got a lot out of their new offensive weapons in a 27-24 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Free-agent prize Jared Cook caught seven passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns, and top draft pick Tavon Austin caught six for 41 yards.
3 — Safeties in the first quarter of Sunday's early games. Titans kick return Darius Reynaud posted the first when he fielded the opening kickoff at the 1-yard line, stepped back and kneeled down in the end zone. The Steelers didn't score again until there was 1:23 to go.
0 — Points scored by the Jaguars offense in a 28-2 loss to the Chiefs. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert was 16-of-35 passing for 121 yards with two interceptions before getting the hook.
2 — Unsportsmanlike conduct penalties on Panthers running back Armond Smith, who got a tongue-lashing from wide receiver Steve Smith after being flagged in the fourth quarter for not returning immediately to the field as a gunner.
7 — Teams that have cut Browns wide receiver Tori Gurley, who was promoted from the practice squad Saturday, made his NFL debut and had a 15-yard catch in a 23-10 loss to the Dolphins. Gurley previously spent time with the Packers, Vikings, Raiders, Bucs, Chargers and Ravens.
175 — Dollars quarterback Tim Tebow, waived Aug. 31, counts against the Patriots' salary cap this season.
* Philadelphia at Washington, 6:55 p.m. ET, ESPN
* Houston at San Diego, 10:20 p.m. ET, ESPN
Will officials let anyone breathe on Robert Griffin III after seeing Clay Matthews' flying takedown of Colin Kaepernick on Sunday?
The answer comes in the early portion of tonight's doubleheader, with RG3 making his return from knee reconstruction as the Washington Redskins visit Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles.
In the late game, J.J. Watt and the Houston Texans visit the San Diego Chargers, who have such low expectations locally they needed an extension to sell tickets and avoid a blackout for the season opener.


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1 stick light string cheese
3 tbsp. canned crushed tomatoes
2 dashes cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp. chili powder
1/4 cup frozen ground-beef-style soy crumbles (like the kind by Boca or MorningStar Farms)
1/8 tsp. onion powder
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. cumin
1 high-fiber pita
2 tbsp. shredded reduced-fat Mexican-blend cheese
1 tbsp. fat-free sour cream
1 tsp. lime juice
2 tbsp. diced tomato
2 tsp. diced red onion
1 tbsp. chopped cilantro
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray.
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In a small bowl, mix crushed tomatoes with cayenne pepper and 1/8 tsp. chili powder.
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Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix sour cream with lime juice and remaining 1/8 tsp. cumin.
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2012-13 Season (Sophomore): Played mostly at No. 5 singles…Went 5-3 in the fall and 11-8 in the spring… Biggest win came against Arkansas at No. 4… Opened the spring season with an eight-match winning streak…Went 10-5 at Nos. 1 and 2 doubles with Madeleine Hamilton in the spring… Won with Hamilton at No. 2 against Georgia Tech in the NCAA Tournament... Compiled a 9-3 doubles record in the fall season… Advanced to the finals of the Cissie Leary Invitational playing with Hanna Yu… Reached the finals of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center College Invitational with Madeleine Hamilton… Reached the semifinals of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center College Invitational.
2011-12 Season (Freshman): Won the Special Contribution Award, which is voted on by the players and "Awarded to a special person who has contributed much more than tennis and whose presence was vital to the spirit of the women's tennis team"… With Annie Sullivan, peaked at No. 58 in doubles rankings … With Vicky Brook '12, was ranked as highly as No. 78 in doubles and made First Team All-Ivy … In singles, went 11-8 … Played at No. 6 singles … Ended season on 5-1 run, but did not play singles after March … In doubles, compiled a 14-9 record … Played at No. 1 with Brook, going 6-3 … Went 6-3 when playing with Sullivan … With Brook, topped teams that finished the season ranked No. 40 and No. 45 … Advanced to the finals of the fourth draw at the USTA Invitational … Lost in the semifinals at Northeast Regionals in doubles.
Before Yale: Peaked as tennisrecruiting.net's No. 15 recruit in 2011 … No. 35 USTA national ranking … Winner of G18 National Open in doubles … Winner of G16 National Open in singles … National High School All-American in 2011 … AP Scholar with distinction … Mu Alpha Society (Math Honors) … National Honors Society … Took official visits to Rice and Yale, and an unofficial visit to Harvard.


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Cool, Moist Conditions Earlier This Season Increase SDS Potential
Scout for the disease now and plan for next year
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 15, 2013 - For nearly 40 years, sudden death syndrome (SDS) has ranked second only to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) in damage to soybean crops. DuPont Pioneer research shows that, in extreme conditions, this root-rotting disease can cause yield losses as high as 80 percent.
"SDS varies in severity from area to area, and from field to field, but as a result of the cool, moist soil conditions earlier this season there may be a higher incidence of SDS in soybeans this year," says Jeff Thompson, DuPont Pioneer senior research manager.
Disease severity depends on environmental conditions, time of infection and other stresses on the soybean crop. This year may result in a higher incidence of SDS in soybeans as a result of cool, moist soil conditions early in the growing season. Though SDS infects soybean plants just after germination and emergence, symptoms usually do not appear until midsummer.
The development of symptoms is often linked with weather patterns of cool wet conditions early on followed by warm temperatures and high rainfall during flowering or pod-fill.
"Symptoms begin as small pale-green spots during flowering, just before pod-fill," Thompson says. "And the most visible symptoms will occur as necrotic lesions during pod-fill, when plants are focused on water uptake and sending nutrients to the developing seed."
Usually observed 10 to 14 days after heavy rains, root symptoms include rotted roots with deteriorated taproots and lateral roots. The root cortex will show light-gray to brown discoloration, and if soil moisture is high, sometimes bluish fungal colonies are present. These symptoms signal reduced water and nutrient uptake by the plant.
Leaf symptoms of SDS first appear as yellow spots, usually in a mosaic pattern on the upper leaves. The yellow spots coalesce to form chlorotic blotches between the leaf veins and the affected leaves will twist and curl before falling from the plant prematurely.
As soybean plants lose leaf area and their roots deteriorate due to SDS, their yield-making components are damaged. Flower and pod abortion are common, which results in few pods and seeds. Seeds may also be smaller and late-forming pods may not fill or mature. Pioneer experts recommend several management options to combat these effects year after year.
Management practices for SDS include selecting tolerant varieties, planting disease-prone fields last, improving field drainage, reducing compaction, maintaining proper fertility on fields, evaluating tillage systems, and reducing other stresses on the crop.
"Growers should also scout their fields for SCN because there is a tendency for products susceptible to SCN to display more severe SDS symptoms," Thompson states.
Not only does SCN increase stress on soybean plants, it also creates wounds through which the SDS pathogen can enter the roots. If you discover SCN in your fields, consider planting a high SCN- and SDS-tolerant soybean variety in the future.
Another SDS detection tool you can rely on is the new Pioneer® Field360™ Notes app. The app will help you track SDS field history and assist with scouting. It streamlines and organizes field-by-field agronomic information for communication among DuPont Pioneer agronomists, sales professionals and growers, and is compatible with all tablets and mobile devices.
For more information on SDS scouting tips or management options contact your local DuPont Pioneer agronomist or Pioneer sales professional or visit pioneer.com.
DuPont Pioneer is the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, providing high-quality seeds to farmers in more than 90 countries. Pioneer provides agronomic support and services to help increase farmer productivity and profitability and strives to develop sustainable agricultural systems for people everywhere. Science with Service Delivering Success®.
DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs and thought leaders, we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation, please visit dupont.com.
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Faculty Handbook
Biomedical science faces increasingly hostile and outspoken campaigning aimed at the abolition of animal experimentation. Statements of support for the responsible use of animals in research have been made to the AAAS, the AMA, the BAAS, and the 41st World Medical Assembly and many other medical and scientific organizations. Whereas this attack on biomedical science not only threatens the progress of medicine but also challenges the principles of scientific inquiry, we make the following declaration.
Experiments on animals have made an important contribution to advances in medicine and surgery which have brought major improvements in the health of human beings and animals.
While alternatives to the use of animals are actively sought and eagerly adopted as soon as they are provide to be reliable, continued research involving animals is essential for the conquest of many unsolved medical problems such as cancer, AIDS, other infectious diseases, and genetic, developmental, neurological and psychiatric conditions.
The use of animals continues to be essential in basic research that furthers the understanding of biological processes and which provides the essential foundation for improvements in medical and veterinary knowledge, education and practice.
It is unethical to expose human beings to products and processes which have not been adequately tested for safety. Such testing in some cases requires the use of animals.
The scientific and medical community has a duty to explain the aims and methods of its research and to disseminate information about the benefits derived from animal experimentation.
All legislation and regulations governing the use of animals in scientific procedures must be strictly adhered to. Those involved must respect animal life, using animals only when essential and as humanely as possible.
Freedom of opinion and discussion on this subject must be safeguarded, but violent attacks on property, hostile campaigns against individual scientists and associated personnel and the use of distorted, inaccurate or misleading evidence should be publicly condemned.
Form: Institutional Review Board Protocol Termination Report
Senate Approval: Apr. 17, 1991 (R-91-4-7)
Admin. Approval: May 15, 1991
*Source: Sigma XI, The Scientific Research Society, Nov. 7, 1990.


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speed traps on sidewalks?
A link from Ed's blog pointed us to a list of speed traps in Ann Arbor.
The interesting point, from a carfree perspective, is that some of the traps include police vehicles parked on the sidewalk and in bus loading zones.
Huron Parkway Ravine. They sit on the sidewalk along the concrete tieback walls.
Fuller near Mitchell Field. They do it Cali style and sit in the bus loading zone.
While cycling on the multi-use path on the north side of Fuller, our path has occasionally been blocked by a police car sitting in the driveway of the community pool.
Has anyone else run into a situation like this? Is it necessary for police to block NMT facilities in order to enforce speed limits?


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Vince Young and the Green Bay Packers are a match.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Monday that Young signed a one-year contract with the Packers following a successful workout with the team. ESPN's Ed Werder was the first to report the imminent signing. The team announced Young's signing Tuesday morning.
Rapoport reported that Young planned to attend the Packers' quarterback meeting Monday night.
|Take a look at the best photos of Vince Young through the years.
The signal-caller makes his NFL return after a one-year hiatus. He was cut by the Buffalo Bills last summer after he somehow managed to lose the backup quarterback job to Tyler Thigpen. Young has had additional stops with the Philadelphia Eagles and Tennessee Titans.
Young's arrival can help the Packers in both the short and long term. Green Bay opens the season with games against the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins, two teams with mobile quarterbacks who Young can emulate in practice.
Young also can serve as a more dependable backup to Rodgers. Graham Harrell and B.J. Coleman have done little to inspire confidence in the early stages of camp.
This is the opportunity Young has been waiting for, and the reason he chose not to sign with a Canadian Football League team this summer. Now we'll see if the 2006 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year can take advantage of it.The Around The League Podcast is now available on iTunes! Click here to listen and subscribe.


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It was Sabbath in Wigan. Therefore, not a whole lot in the way of mention of traveling or exotic places. However, we did go to church and visit a few people. A quick couple of thoughts.
Church was great. Funny how even though I lived here for a couple of years, I still really struggle with some of the accents. In Sacrament alone, I totally could not understand the second speaker.
The pure Wigan accent is simply unable to be replicated by me. I don't think I could even try.
We went to visit a couple of people. Jim and Julie Monks, Dawn Rhodes, Ceri and Lorraine Jenkins, Charlotte Ainscough, Alan and Rose Aspey, Brian and Sylvia Burtonwood, and Rene Simpkin. We had a very good visit with the Monks, Jenkins, and Aspeys. Dawn Rhodes was unable to be found in the location we were given. We were either given the wrong address or she has moved. She was the only convert in the mission I felt like I really oversaw the entire thing from finding to baptism and even some of the new investigator discussions. Alas, she is not active and it seems nobody really knows where she is. Except for Brother Monks and she either moved or he gave me the wrong address in Aspull. I was very disappointed.
Sadly, I found out Rene' Simpkin passed away around Christmas of 2003. That would explain the stopping of letters. I am disappointed nobody ever notified me. I will have to find her birth and death information so I have it for my records. I really came to love the lady and she the church, but she just couldn't give up her wine. The Burtonwoods remembered her. She was a fine lady.
In visiting with Alan Aspey, he let me know an Aspey from Wigan is definitely related to him. I will have to let my Aunt Lolane know that her Margaret Aspey who came from Wigan is very likely related to him. Interestingly, Alan also commented about his Aspeys living in Upholland and Ormskirk. We told him about Amanda's Ashton relations in Upholland and he knew the name as having some in his own line. However, he knows of no relations who joined the Mormon church and moved to America. This would be a first for him if we could show a link.
I found out from President Monks that Gheorghe Simion, my second to last companion from Romania, now lives in Liverpool. We will have to try and find some contact information for him so we can meet up while we are near Liverpool.
Charlotte Ainscough still has the little stuffed animal I gave her when we baptized her. I found out she named him Ross. How sweet is that? The Jenkins and Charlotte were very excited to see us. They gave us their passes for the British Trust sites in England. We will have to mail them back when we leave the country, but it includes a parking pass. Meaning we can save well over 200 pounds with the passes for much of our travel throughout the UK in our remaining time.
It was a sweet day in Wigan. It made me feel good so many people remembered me. If not my name, at least my face. They all adored Amanda and commented on how beautiful she was. Some even recognized her from our wedding announcements.


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PRoNTo aims to facilitate the interaction between machine learning and neuroimaging communities. On one hand, the machine learning community can contribute to the toolbox with novel machine learning models. On the other hand, the toolbox provides a variety of tools for the neuroscience and clinical neuroscience communities, enabling them to ask new questions that cannot be easily investigated using existing software and analysis tools.
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Learning Index >> Calligraphy: an education in letter form
Ultimately Johnston came to develop his own special teaching hand which he called a foundational hand. He felt it was the vehicle through which he could teach the foundations of calligraphy. He made a number of teaching sheets which illustrated the lessons he wished to convey, several are held in the CSC collection.
This teaching hand still forms the basis for much calligraphy teaching today; it conveys the lessons Johnston felt were crucial - consistent weight, pen angle and form - and because in this case the underlying form being aimed at is circular it gives a particularly strong mental image of a shape to aim at. A circle is an unambiguous form, it either is a circle or it is not. If you begin your lettering studies using an oval as the basic form this gives a much less precise shape to aim for, the shape of a circle thus has an educational value.
Johnston's application of his analysis of calligraphic form can be seen in the successive teaching sheets he made for his classes and in the sheets made by his pupils. Very similar analysis can be seen in any calligraphy book published in the USA or UK today.


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This is probably the most gorgeous CG animated movie and along with Avatar the most visually stunning 3D movie to date. The colors are beautiful, the motion capture generally convincing, the mix of cartoon styling with photorealism just right, and Spielberg's characteristically great camerawork is even better without a physical set holding it down.
Unfortunately the dialog is merely serviceable (especially for Tintin, whose every line is a comic book speech bubble suggesting what will transpire next), the gags are rarely funny, the constant, seemingly random action scenes become tiresome and the story is mostly void of both intrigue and emotion.
The greatest asset of the movie - the lack of physical restraints - is also at times a weakness, when the film occasionally goes to an almost Looney Tunes extreme of physics-defying action that just doesn't mesh with the pseudo-realistic art and animation.
For those fine with a meaningless animated action romp or willing to appreciate a film purely on an aesthetic level it's probably still worth watching. If that is the case, then by all means take the opportunity to watch it in the cinema and in 3D.


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This morning on Today, dermatologist Susan Taylor said that she is "very concerned" about the UV light used during gel manicures. Her recommendation? White cotton gloves. "Clip the tips off," Dr. Taylor explained, "and then put them on before you put your hands under the light." How about no? Not going to happen. Where are we even getting white cotton gloves? Disneyland? A magic shop?
Dr. Taylor also recommended bringing sunscreen to your manicure and having your manicurist moisturize your hands with it. Sensing this shit was getting ridiculous, Savannah Guthrie questioned: "Would you do sunscreen or gloves?" Dr. Taylor replied: "I would actually do both." Savannah's "Really? Okay" teetered pretty close to being a Seth and Amy "REALLY!?!" This lady must loooove period movies, with all the parasols and gloves and gauntlets.
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Avid kiteboarder Mourad "Moni" Samaan has been missing with his two year old daughter Madeline Layla Samaan-Fay since August 7. Family, friends, Madeline Layla's mother, and law enforcement are extremely concerned for their safety. They were last seen in Sacramento, but could be in the Bay Area or anywhere at this point. Moni may be driving a dark green Toyota 4Runner, license 3XRM111. Please see photos and info at: http://www.amberalert.com/alerts/fa5182 ... 48ff88e6c/ PLEASE share this information as widely as you can in the kiteboarding community. Anyone who thinks they have seen them should call the FBI at 916-481-9110 or 911. Thank you.
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Unfortunately i think this has ended in tragedy
Not sure what happened though
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I am deeply saddened to report that Samaan and Madeline were found dead last night. Thank you to anyone who read my request and watched for them.
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Each year Armenians worldwide commemorate the murder of 1.5 million of their ancestors by what was then the Ottoman Empire in the time around World War I. Each year, the United States government – fearing the backlash of Turkish rulers – fails to officially recognize this atrocity as a genocide.
Sadly, this marks the 98th year of this reticence, an enduring mark of shame upon our national government. My colleague, City Editor Mark Kellam reported that Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who represents an area that includes Burbank, Glendale and parts of Pasadena, gave a speech this morning in Armenian
In that speech, the congressman said, in part: "I speak to you in the language of those who were lost. Their voices drift across the decades – begging us to remember."
We at the Glendale News-Press – and Times Community News as a whole – remember this solemn day, and again call upon the federal government to do the right thing.
-- Dan Evans, Times Community News
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The list is annotated in the following manner:
Things I've already done or found: bold face type
Things I'd like to do or find: italicized red type
Things I haven't done or found and don't care to:
Which of these apply?
1. Own an Android or Windows tablet or an iPad [I want a TouchPad; then eventually an iPad3]
2. Use a tablet or iPad for genealogy related purposes
3. Use a Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader for genealogy related purposes
4. Have used Skype or Google Video Chat to for genealogy purposes
5. Have used a camera to capture images in a library/archives/ancestor's home
6. Use a genealogy software program on your computer to manage your family tree
7. Use multiple genealogy software programs because they each have different functionalities.
8. Have a Twitter account [but I don't use it]
10. Have a genealogy blog
12. Have lectured/presented to a genealogy group on a technology topic
14. Have a Facebook Account
15. Have connected with genealogists via Facebook
16. Maintain a genealogy related Facebook Page
17. Maintain a blog or website for a genealogy society
18. Have submitted text corrections online to Ancestry, Trove or a similar site
19. Have added content to a Person Page on Fold3 (formerly Footnote)
20. Have registered a domain name
21. Post regularly to Google+
22. Have participated in a genealogy-related Google+ hangout
23. Have a blog listed on Geneabloggers
24. Have a blog listed on Cyndi's List
25. Have transcribed/indexed records for FamilySearch or a similar project
26. Have converted a family audiotape to digital
27. Have converted a family videotape to digital
29. Own a Flip-Pal or hand-held scanner [I brought a flatbed scanner on my roadtrip]
30. Can code a webpage in .html
31. Can code a webpage in .html using Notepad (or any other text-only software)
32. Can write scripts for your webpage in at least one programming language
33. Can write scripts for your webpage in multiple programming languages
34. Own a smartphone
35. Have a personal subscription to one or more paid genealogy databases
36. Have a local library card that offers you home access to online databases, and you use that access.
38. Have contributed to a genealogy blog carnival
40. Use an Internet Browser that didn't come installed on your computer
41. Have participated in a genealogy webinar
42. Have taken a DNA test for genealogy purposes
43. Have a personal genealogy website
44. Have found mention of an ancestor in an online newspaper archive
47. Have scanned your hardcopy genealogy files
48. Use an RSS Reader to follow genealogy news and blogs
49. Have uploaded a gedcom file to a site like Geni, MyHeritage or Ancestry
51. Use a computer/tablet/smartphone to take genealogy lecture notes
53. Have developed a genealogy software program, app or widget
54. Have listened to a genealogy podcast online
55. Have downloaded genealogy podcasts for later listening
56. Backup your files to a portable hard drive
57. Have a copy of your genealogy files stored offsite
58. Know about RootsTech [I was at the inaugural RootsTech!]
59. Have listened to a BlogTalk radio session about genealogy
60. Use Dropbox, SugarSync or other service to save documents in the cloud
61. Schedule regular email backups [Google does it for me]
62. Have contributed to the FamilySearch Wiki
63. Have scanned and tagged your genealogy photographs
64. Have published a genealogy book in an online/digital format [someday]
65. Brought a USB device to a microfilm repository so you could download instead of print. [my first choice, if possible]
67. Created a map on Google Maps plotting ancestral homes or businesses.
68. Recorded the GPS coordinates for a tombstone, or ancestral home
69. Edited the Wikipedia entry for an ancestor, or their kin
70. Created an entry at FindAGrave for a person
71. Created an entry at FindAGrave for a cemetery
72. Uploaded the MediaWiki software (or TikiWiki, or PhpWiki) to your family website.
73. Have downloaded a video (for genealogical purposes) from YouTube or other streaming video site using KeepVid.com, or in some other fashion
74. Have transferred a video from a DVR to your computer for genealogical purposes
75. Have participated in a ScanFest
78. Have used Photoshop (or other editing software) to 'clean up' an old family photo
80. Printed out a satellite photo from Google Maps of a cemetery, and marked where a tombstone was located on it.
To sum up, yes, I am a nerd.