By Al Jeffery / 05.07.2017 How to Return to Wholeness One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. ― C.G. Jung I picked a card from my pack of Pema Chödrön’s ‘Compassion Cards’. It said, “Regard all dharmas[…]
Roosevelt shortly after leaving office, October 1910 / American Press Association, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli / 03.21.2017 Psychologist Providentia 1912 was a very unusual election year. Although William Howard Taft was running for reelection, the Republican party had been badly split between the conservative faction backing Taft and the reform faction that had[…]
Gypsies in the Market, by Hans Burgkmair the Elder, c.1510 / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm By Dr. Shulamith Shahar Professor Emeritus of History Tel Aviv University Introduction Western Europe was made up of diverse tribes and ethnic groups, which settled there at different times.[1] Historians generally concur that nationalist ideology came into being in Europe only in[…]
Detail from greek vase showing women preparing wool. Diosphos Painter. / British Museum, London By Dr. Ann Bergren Professor Emeritus of Classics University of California, Los Angeles The Speech of the Muses[1] The Nine Muses, by Lodewijk Toeput, c.1585 / Artnet via Sotheby’s, Wikimedia Commons At the start of the Theogony, Hesiod describes his poetic[…]
Photo: OTA Photos/Flickr CyberPsychology / 01.17.2017 Most of us have sedentary lifestyles. We work for a fixed time — mostly seated — and get very little physical exercise. Is it harming us? Yes! A study has found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells[…]
Reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius / Jorgen Hartogs, Vimeo By Katleiah Ramos / 09.30.2013 Introduction Romans lived like they were gods because they built like they were gods – colossal, majestic and structurally remarkable. Many things come to mind when thinking of ancient and imperial Romans. Romans were farmers, conquerors, city planners, and[…]
Provinces and districts of Ottoman Syria (1696). Palmyra/Tadmor is not marked; my red dot indicates its approximate location. By Judith Weingarten / 11.27.2016 Archaeologist Part I In the summer of 1678, sixteen intrepid Englishmen with 24 muleteers and servants departed from Aleppo to make the first attempt by Westerners to reach the fabled city of[…]