Paga 4 Portland Observer January 22. 1981
OBSERVATIONS
From the Sidelines
By Kathryn Hall Bogle
Intense curiosity and immense
capacity fo r study and learning
mark the path and light the way for
Shiva Ford, a young research
scientist whose study has led him to
explore some of the amazing poten
tials of the human brain.
The individual can regulate what
the body is doing. Ford feels. He
had delved into the positive research
o f bio-feedback and the wondrous
demonstrations o f body functions
amplified and turned by instruments
into tone sounds. Hand temperature
or muscle tension can be monitored
and measured to tell what they are
doing, Ford says.
Ford's curiosity, whetted by
literature and discussion, led him to
give more than a passing thought to
the theory long sounded that people
have a far greater capacity to
regulate their own progress than is
generally recognized and acted upon
by them. That our minds react with
our bodies, Ford believes, is demon
strated repeatedly as many diseases
are now thought to be stress-related;
tension can cause cold fingers and
hands, an accelerated heartbeat, etc.
Styling himself as a conduit, Ford
has been involved in brain research
as a s ta ff member o f the research
laboratory o f the Oregon Museum
o f Science and Industry. He has
worked with young people o f local
high schools opening their minds to
the field o f research bolstering the
premise that we are not working up
to optim al achievement in health
and/or education.
A four year course at Western
State C hiropractic College gave
Ford his C hiropractic degree in
1980. He has spent some o f his time
in w orking in the research
laboratories of the National Bureau
of Standards in Boulder, Colorado,
one o f the three laboratories in this
country doing research on the
magnetic fields o f the brain.
Born and educated in New York
C ity, Ford came from a fam ily
based in V irg in ia , a Black fam ily
tracing its origins through a
m atriarchal search back to early
1700. Recently, in August of 1980, a
fam ily reunion drew about 600
members to Surry County in
Virignia.
An ongoing project o f Ford is to
write a saga o f the history o f this
family with the encouragement of
his school-teacher mother.
SHIVA FORD
Ford says, only half-smiling, that
neys.
he was born “ more than once.” He
K ojo Baako eventually returned
interprets that to mean that he was
to the United States o f America, to
born once as an in fa n t and again
New York City, to earn his living.
much, much later when he matured
His father is a Computer Scientist
as in integrated man with a wholistic
with IBM and Kojo Baako entered
outlook “ blending the body, mind
this field also. For the next six years
and sp irit in to one very m u lti-
he "worked as a Computer Scientist
demensional being.”
employed by IBM and sharpened his
How did that come about?
skills at Rutgers U niversity in the
F o rd ’ s description o f this
Masters program on the campus.
m aturing
comes
much
as
To relax m ind and body Ford
kaleidescopic color bits fall into pat
studied the art o f m editation and
tern. Complex, but with an orderly
yoga becoming a devoted student o f
complexity.
the renowned sp iritu a l teacher,
First there was his graduation
Swami Satchidananda. A fter seven
from Wesleyan University in 1971
years w ith Swami, he accepted a
with a bachelor degree in A frican
new name, “ Siva.”
history and a minor in mathematics.
In M arch o f 1976, relates Siva
He traced extensively in West Africa
Ford, “ 1 received an inspiration to
after graduation and allowed him
become one o f the few Black
self to feel intensively as he walked
chiropractors in the country. I put
in the footsteps o f A frica n men
down the machines (the computers)
brought, bound in chains, to stoop
to study the body. But, I found that
and crawl to slave ships riding at an
the body is a machine and that the
chor at African shores.
two machines had somehow become
Ford re-examined the A frica n
integrated. I found machines can be
philosophical view o f life noting
used to help study the body in a
that it mates well w ith that Asian
number o f ways.
peoples, and he felt a sweeping
“ I am not engaged in brain
surge o f kinship w ith these
research in relationship to personal
unknown forbears. He went
and social tra n sfo rm a tio n . My
through an actual cermonial adop
com puter background helps w ith
tion in Kumasi in Ghana and
the sophistication o f the research set
became K ojo Baako (a male child
up. Computers can measure the ac
born on Monday).
curate and appropriate degree o f
He plans to write a book someday
pressure on the exact place and the
on some o f the exciting experiences
degree o f the angle o f radiation of
he lived during his A frica n jo u r-
nerves telegraphing stress or pain.
Human rights action, education
(Continued from page 1 col 6)
Organizations and groups are
meeting to devise a plan o f action.
Many have assisted the develop
ment o f the G overnor’ s racial
harassment bill.
Laguardia hopes to improve the
Com m ission’ s a b ility to speak to
groups on human and legal rights
issues. “ This is something we
haven't had the staff or the expertise
on the Commission to do to the ex
tent that we should. Under the
mandate to provide education, 1
hope to either add someone to our
s ta ff or to id e n tify other persons
who can do more of this.
Recently
the
C ity /C o u n ty
Commission on the Handicapped
was placed under the M H R C ad
m inistration and a representative
placed on the Commission. “ This
ties the protection o f the rights o f
the handicapped directly to MHRC
- whether it’ s building barriers, em
ployment rights, or what.
” 1 would like to make the same
type of link to women's groups - to
make protection o f women’ s rights
and advocacy for women a func
tion o f the Commission. Although
we have kept aware o f women's
issues, we have not had direct in-
volvement in wom en’ s problems
and concerns.
“ I f problems are experienced
because people are poor - then we
should become involved. This has
probably not been done in the past.
We need to fin d out what w ill
happen to welfare clients under the
new state budget. If what they say is
true - people w ill not have enough
money to survive. The Commission
will have to decide whether there is a
violation of human rights.
Laguardia would like to hold a
major conference on human rights,
one that would look at the issues,
share in fo rm a tio n . “ We need to
look at human rights, whether they
are being denied, and why. Maybe
we should look at laizze-faire
capitalism and its effect on the
world economy. Maybe we should
even invite a speaker from the Kian
to explain their point o f view - i t ’ s
something we are going to have to
deal with. Maybe we should try to
understand what they are saying so
we w ill know how to fight them.”
Tuesday night the Commission
held its first meeting outside C ity
Hall, meeting at Beaumont School
at the request o f a teacher. " I think
we w ill try to hold meetings in dif-
NAACP appeals case
(Continued from page 1 col 6)
sity o f California at Davis Medical
School, is now researching and
practicing in the area o f childhood
cancer problems at the City o f Hope
Hospital in Pasadena, California.
Dr. Charles Lee, who received the
McLean Award from the National
Medical Association in 1974 as the
top Black graduating medical school
student in 1974, is now a heart
surgeon at the University o f Kansas
Medical Center Hospital.
Dr. Charles Floyd is a resident
psychiatrist at the Long Beach,
a lifo rn ia
Veterans
Ad
m in istra tio n . and a practicing
physician at the Martin Luther King
Hospital in Los Angeles.
Dr. Noland Jones is a leading
esearcher and practicing physician
n female cancer problems at Tufts
U niversity H ospital in Boston,
Mass.
Other lawyers assisting with the
defense o f the case include Patricia
Goins o f the National Conference
o f Black lawyers, Howard Univer
sity Law Professor Herbert O. Reid,
U niversity o f Pennsylvania Law
Professor Ralph Smith, and Elmer
Jackson, a Kansas C ity local coun
sel for the NAACP.
ferent points o f the City, at night, to
involve the p u b lic .” C u rre n tly
meetings are held the third Tuesday
of each month at noon.
“ Another issue we need to take a
look at is police abuse o f Blacks. We
know there is a problem and the
Black United Front shouldn’t be the
only group interested. Now a com
mittee has been appointed to look at
the Internal A ffa irs process. Since
the Police Bureau is a C ity agency
that is probably something we
should be doing. But an outside
committee has been appointed by
Commissioner Jordan and we were
not asked to p a rticip a te . We w ill
watch the committee carefully and
w ill look at its report. We m ight
want to respond to their report or to
do some investigating on our own -
but this is an issue I feel we should
be involved w ith.”
A nother police issue is the gun
policy. “ I don’ t know i f the P ort
land police have a gun policy or
what it is. But I ’ d like to see how it
compares to those o f some other
cities and those proposed by the FBI
and other agencies.”
The MHRC has been involved in
the development o f the Governor’ s
racial harassment bill. "W e strongly
favor this b ill. I haven’ t seen the
final b ill and don't know what the
language is - but we support the
concept. The police and the public
need to know that racial harassment
is serious - it is a serious threat to the
person.
“ Racial harassment has been
treated by the police and by many
others as not being very serious.
You can compare it to rape. Many
people believed rape was not
serious, or that the victim was at
fault - in some way instigated the
crime. Police treated rape the same
way - mistreated the victims or be
littled the damaging affects o f rape.
“ Racial harassment is like rape.
The police have to learn that it is
serious and have to learn how to
»-•at the victim ."
It's all very e x c itin g ," states Siva
Ford. “ In the physical and the
spiritual, there is a meeting ground
in the whole field o f science.”
Ford is now building a substantial
c irc u it as a consultant visitin g
around the nation. He returned to
Portland this week after 10 days in
W isconsin, A rizo n a , Southern
California and the Bay area.
Ford w ill continue as a brain-
mind research consultant at OMSI
where an outreach program has
been started to involve m in o rity
high school students in a six-week
summertime course in brain-m ind
study.
"1 would be g lad,” states Ford,
“ to ta lk to high school students
about the importance o f math and
science to them, for the ‘ how to’ can
be a turning point in teaching.”
In February, Ford is booked to
teach “ The B ra in -M in d Connec
tio n ” in a three-day session at
M a rylh u rst College. Persons in
terested should contact the college
for further in fo rm a tio n regarding
the course. There w ill be a fee
charged.
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