Face reading one of your heroes? Enter our contest.
August 24th, 2011 by Rose RosetreeIt’s contest time again, with face reading as the prize. To enter, here are the steps:
Enter our Face Reading Your Hero Contest
- Name a public figure who has really inspired you.
- Describe or summarize why that person has inspired you.
- Provide a one-click photo link that would be suitable for a face reading. Which means a photograph large enough to show the person’s face clearly. The face must show fully and clearly from a straight angle, up and down, side to side. (If the face doesn’t show clearly, no face reader can do a good reading.)
- Optional: If you’re feeling really ambitious when using that hero’s website (or Wikipedia page or Google Images, etc.) do a bit of extra research on your nominee and add a second photograph for comparison.
This picture would be taken 10 or more years later than the first photograph, or after an event of major trauma. Either way, the person’s face may have changed significantly. And, of course, to a skilled physiognomist (face reader) all those changes are meaningful. Supply a one-click link to that second photo.
To this face reader, how faces change is the MOST interesting aspect of the 5,000-year-old art of reading faces for charactger. If only those ancient physiognomists had been supplied with today’s cameras, the whole field would surely have developed differently.
At least the contemporary version of physiognomy — used at this blog and named “Face Reading Secrets(R) — can include photographs. That, plus my intent to emphasize free will, shapes this choice-affirming version of physiognomy, in contrast that emphasize fate or family ties.
Nominations for our Face Reading Your Hero Contest will remain open until midnight on September 15, 2011.
The Prize
After this contest closes (September 15, 2011) I will choose 1-3 of the entries as the basis for a full face reading post. One detailed article per winner.
What will be the criteria? I’ll choose based on why that person is a hero to you, plus the quality of the one or two photographs submitted. Also taken into consideration: Do I think this person would be someone of interest to our readership. And — hey, I’ll admit it — does that person also interest me?
I want you to be able to see all the photos submitted
So many fascinating people nominated! That’s a big part of the fun when we have one of our contests here at “Deeper Perception Made Practical.” (To see what I mean, check out our ongoing contest at the Enlightenment Life List. Click on any of those links, people nominated or the 100+ winners so far.)
Today I got a brainwave. Instead of allowing comments for a contest, which is what I’ve always done before, this time there will be a bold experiment. I will cut and paste your entries and make the photos appear on the post itself. (This is one of several reasons why the photo submitted must be a one-click link, something that is not within a social networking website like Facebook or LinkedIn.)
Comments that are NOT entries will remain comments. That’s the plan. We’ll see how it all works out. 
Incidentally, to see other face reading posts, just click on “Face Reading” on the left column or type “Face Reading” into the search box on the top left.
Let’s have fun with this one! Of all the forms of energetic literacy, face reading is the easiest way to have a depth experience about a person’s who-you-be, that inner self evolving here at Earth School.
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Hi Rose,
Great contest!
I nominate Dr. Rajan Sankaran, master homeopath: http://www.homeopathyindia.org/home/images/stories/Dr.Rajan-Sankaran_Trustee-&-Teacher.jpg
He is my hero because he has revolutionized the science of homeopathy. With his sensation method, homeopaths all over the world have a superior tool for finding healing remedies for their clients.
He is also truly committed to his patients’ health, and has great compassion and humor.
Thank you!
ROSE, thanks for another great contest!
There are so many cool people…with the recent announcement of Steve Jobs stepping down, I was thinking of nominating him. For reasons different from the typical fanatical Apple customer worship, but that’s another topic…
But then over the weekend I had a great experience and decided to nominate someone I met for the first time and whom I find inspirational. I hope that this photo will work. It’s the best I could find.
http://www.ciis.edu/images/News%20and%20Events/P2%20Spring%202010/Some_Sobonfu_detail.jpg
Her name is Sobonfu Some and she is a healer, spiritual teacher and author from Burkina Faso. She’s from the Dagara tribe, an indigenous people who maintain a strong spiritual connection and for whom ritual is extremely important. Women are deeply respected in this tribe and are seen as the carriers of wisdom.
Given our conversations about naming, I thought folks might enjoy this passage from Sobonfu:
“I am from the Dagara tribe, and in my tradition it is customary for pregnant women to go through a hearing ritual. The purpose of a hearing ritual is to listen to the incoming baby; to find out who it is; why it’s coming at this time; what its purpose is; what it likes or dislikes; and what the living can do to prepare space for this person. The child’s name is then given based on that information. Four weeks after the birth the naming for a baby girl takes place, and three weeks after the birth, a baby boy is named. In the Dagara tradition, you own your name up until the age of five. After the age of five, your name owns you. Your name is an energy; your name has a life force. It creates an umbrella under which you live. That is why it is important to hear the child before they give him or her the name, because the name must match the purpose. My name, Sobonfu, means “keeper of rituals.” ”
Talk about pre-emptive name research!
And so fast forward to today, where Sobonfu travels in the U.S. and Europe, leading the grief ritual that is regularly held in her village for Westerners living in a culture that seems to have a hard time dealing with grief.
I’ve never been one to dive into the world of any particular group of indigenous people like I’ve seen many do; I learned of this grief ritual being held at a nearby retreat center and my intuition was to go for it. I’m glad I did.
It was refreshing and inspiring to hear her words of wisdom about the role of grief in life, how sorrow and joy are two sides of a coin. Grief is viewed as a sort of ‘doing the laundry’ in her culture and a grief ritual is going on nearly every day in a local village and anyone can drop in. Struck me as a very wise sort of pre-emptive STUFF removal. Paying attention to the reality of the frictions that just occur sometimes in daily life along with big losses, and feeling and expressing the emotions in the context of a ritual and in a supportive community.
She didn’t strike me at all as a guru type seeking to put ego hooks in anyone. I like how she orchestrated the ritual in a very practical, earthy, wise way. The result was that people were able to grieve in community and to always be supported.
I had my empath gifts turned OFF and had been a little concerned that I might be overwhelmed by a lot of emotion in the room, but I feel like I was fine and able to stay clearly focussed on myself. (The most important person in the room.
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Maybe other blog-buddies can relate, or maybe not, but after my mom’s death 3 years ago, it was very painful for me to realize that so many people in American culture just don’t want to talk about or deal with grief and they have these handy little timeframes they want to fit you into in terms of ‘getting over it.’ “Just move on.” That kind of thing.
I was inspired by this woman, who is candid, earthy, funny, confident, spirited, wise, and loving, bringing wisdom to an aspect of Western culture that, IMHO, could sure use it.
As I was listening to her, I was thinking about your work, ROSE. Maybe if more people grieved a bit more, there’d be less STUFF to have to remove.
Anyway, it was a great experience for me and I was inspired by Sobonfu’s grounded wisdom.
I would like to nominate Bill Hicks please.
Bill Hicks, is the late American Comedian, who is revered as the comedian’s comedian and was espcially popular in the U.K.
When I first saw Bill Hicks on youtube, I didn’t know he had died in 1994, so I was incredibly disappointed that this guys incredbile wit and cutting insights hadn’t ever been pointed towards George W. Bush or the War on Terror, or our modern trivilaties like Myspace and Facebook.
His perspective was so fresh and inspiring to me as a teenager. Although I’ve never been one to even try weed and other drugs (or pot as you americans call it) I still appreciate his jokes on the subject. I also loved some of his diatribes on the universe and the comedy he would bring to his insights letting it get slightly more palatable to his audience.
He also felt that it was silly to let the government dictate to the people, a point he used smoking to elaborate on – so I couldn’t find a front facing picture without there being a cigarette in his mouth sorry!
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/amyorourke/Bill1.jpg
THis picture also has a quote that I loved, that comes from his shows.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/amyorourke/Billwithquote.jpg
An example of his shows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0
A still from that show: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/amyorourke/billsmallpicrevelationsperformance.jpg
NB: Bill was also very crude at times, which I think was a response to the stifled fundie culture he grew up in, so if you go looking for more videos -be aware it may not be suitable for younger ears!
GRACE! A friend of mine was finally able to move forward in her life after going to a grief ritual Sonbofu coordinated. Great nomination!
I nominate Amy Goodman, investigative journalist and Host and Executive Director of Democratic Now!
I am inspired by her courage: I heard a recording of her reporting while in the midst of a mass killing in East Timour. She was crying, if I call correctly, but she continued to report what she saw.
She, herself, was badly beaten by the soldiers. I am also impressed by her principles.
She does not get her self gussied up to report the news. I saw her on TV with her face disfigured. She was suffering from Bell’s Palsey, I believe. Her position was that her appearance had nothing to do with the news.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=amy+goodman+photos&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=709&tbm=isch&prmd=ivnso&tbnid=XLqjYTKiaWqlEM:&imgrefurl=http://www.linktv.org/women&docid=XuGzwPrO2NPOPM&w=400&h=300&ei=KhtoTsXwDurliALwzuG2DQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=688&vpy=267&dur=8759&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=166&ty=213&page=2&tbnh=130&tbnw=174&start=31&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:31
Hi Rose,
Thank you to your suggestion at the Enlightenment Life List nominees, I would like to nominate Gary Zukav for this Face Reading Contest.
http://www.consciouslifeexpo.com/Archives/2011/img.assets3/1_5/362/126/052/Gary_Zukav.JPG
Gary Zukav is a spiritual teacher and author, and I first “met” him via Oprah Winfrey’s television show.
I was struck by how calm, caring and attentive he was with people in the audience, and how candid he was when talking about his own personal history, relating his journey from living with huge emphasis on external-based power to more internal-based power.
I couldn’t find an earlier comparison photo from Gary Zukav’s military days, which might have been interesting!