Talk:Hakomi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article was nominated for deletion in the past. The result of the discussion was keep.

	Complementary and Alternative Medicine Portal This article is within the scope of the WikiProject on Alternative Medicine. Please visit the project page for more details, or ask questions on talk.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-class on the quality scale.

[edit] The Word Hakomi

I removed this from the page:

'Hakomi' is a Hopi word meaning "Who are you? - You are, who you are!" or "How do you relate?" <ref name="HakomiInstAbout">{{cite web | url=http://www.hakomiinstitute.com/About/intro.html| title=About Hakomi | work=Hakomi Institute website | accessdate=2007-05-13}}</ref> There is also a longer version of the Hopi word: 'Where do I stand in relation to these many realms.' In one of the Chinese languages, Hakomi means: Reverent Universal Laughter.

pending verification from a reliable source on Hopi (and Chinese). Ron Kurtz may claim it means this in Hopi, but I see no reason to believe him. --Alivemajor 20:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Isn't that going overboard with caution into the realm of paranoia? Why would he make this up and publish it widely? To look like a complete and utter fool when the first person bothered to check with a source on the Hopi language? Or do you have any specific reason for believing that Kurtz is basically a fraud that you haven't yet shared with the rest of us? __meco 08:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

People misinterpret or make up stuff like this, or repeat stuff other people have misinterpretted/made up without checking, all the time — not just the founders of alternative forms of psychotherapy. Plenty of people still think, for example, that the Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow, or that the Chinese use the same word for 'crisis' as they do for 'opportunity'. Personally I would dismiss any claim that a three-syllable word in any language had the literal English translation of "How do you stand in relation to these many realms?" out of hand, but a lot of people apparently assume that an arcane language like Hopi actually has words like this. (Assuming it exists, perhaps a more accurate translation is "What nationality are you?") --Alivemajor 09:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External jodgement missing

The artcile badly lacks inline refs and footnotes from independent, reliable sources. So far the article is still a fair game for AfD, since it is based solely on the author's Mukadderat 22:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)