World University & School as a Rainbow Gathering of 'All Ways Free' ideas & software?
Great, free software:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
The Rainbow Gathering is fascinating and beautiful ...
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Washoe Jeffery Pine: World University & School as a Rainbow Gathering of 'All Ways Free' Ideas & Software?
Friday, July 3, 2009
Canyon Lands: No Internet Access at the Rainbow Gathering, Beautiful National Parks, Welcome Home
Don't think I'll have internet access at the Rainbow Gathering ~
thundercloudstudio.com/Travel/ramblin_west_2008/four_corners_too/images/canyonlands_clouds.jpg
~
Om circle tomorrow at noon ...
~
Vision council on Tuesday at 1 at close of Gathering ...
~
*
The 38th Annual Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes is at
Parque Venado in the Santa Fe National Forest.
24 miles from of Cuba, New Mexico.
The site is beautiful, altitude is 8,500 - 9,000 feet.
Nice gentle terrain with long meadows and great forest.
Be prepared for cold nights (low 40's to 50 degrees)
Warm days in the mid 80's and sunny.
1/2 hour afternoon thunderstorms most days, which are downpours,
bring good rain gear.
Directions:
From Cuba, New Mexico take State Road 126 East for 13 + miles to
FS Road 103 on left, go 2 miles to FS Road 69 on left then drive
9 miles to where FS Road 69 meets FS Road 70
Welcome Home!!
This is what you need to know as you drive to the site from Cuba, NM.
There are two junctions/ intersections . Where 69 turns into ? 103 .
and where you turn from 103 to 126.
Although you will be driving straight . The road that you were, on
bears right. The LEOs want to see some left turn signal action , OR
ELSE!
Directions from Albuquerque: Take I-25 north to U.S. Highway 550. Go north on U.S. Highway 550 approximately 65 miles to State Highway 126 (Cuba, NM). From Cuba, NM take State Road 126 East for 13 + miles to FS Road 103 on left, go 2 miles to FS Road 69 on left then drive 9 miles to where FS Road 69 meets FS Road 70. Welcome Home!!*. A link to the map to Parque Venado.
welcomehere.org/gathering_of_the_tribes/annual/
welcomehome.org/
~
thundercloudstudio.com/Travel/ramblin_west_2008/four_corners_too/images/canyonlands_clouds.jpg
~
Om circle tomorrow at noon ...
~
Vision council on Tuesday at 1 at close of Gathering ...
~
*
The 38th Annual Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes is at
Parque Venado in the Santa Fe National Forest.
24 miles from of Cuba, New Mexico.
The site is beautiful, altitude is 8,500 - 9,000 feet.
Nice gentle terrain with long meadows and great forest.
Be prepared for cold nights (low 40's to 50 degrees)
Warm days in the mid 80's and sunny.
1/2 hour afternoon thunderstorms most days, which are downpours,
bring good rain gear.
Directions:
From Cuba, New Mexico take State Road 126 East for 13 + miles to
FS Road 103 on left, go 2 miles to FS Road 69 on left then drive
9 miles to where FS Road 69 meets FS Road 70
Welcome Home!!
This is what you need to know as you drive to the site from Cuba, NM.
There are two junctions/ intersections . Where 69 turns into ? 103 .
and where you turn from 103 to 126.
Although you will be driving straight . The road that you were, on
bears right. The LEOs want to see some left turn signal action , OR
ELSE!
Directions from Albuquerque: Take I-25 north to U.S. Highway 550. Go north on U.S. Highway 550 approximately 65 miles to State Highway 126 (Cuba, NM). From Cuba, NM take State Road 126 East for 13 + miles to FS Road 103 on left, go 2 miles to FS Road 69 on left then drive 9 miles to where FS Road 69 meets FS Road 70. Welcome Home!!*. A link to the map to Parque Venado.
welcomehere.org/gathering_of_the_tribes/annual/
welcomehome.org/
~
Navajo Land: Leonard, Navajo Today, World University for Native People
When I woke up this morning around 7 am, camping on the side of a quiet road near a major highway, near Lupton, Arizona, someone walked by my vehicle, and asked if I could give him a ride. He wanted to go to Gallup, New Mexico, about 20 miles away. He said he was hitching to work, which began at 10. "I don't steal, or anything," he said. He might have been between 35 and 60 years old.
I said I didn't have much space, but I cleared a spot for him, and we rode together. His name was Leonard.
As we rode, he said he was a full-blooded Navajo. I asked how things are for Navajo people today. He said not bad. I asked him what Navajo people are doing these days. He mentioned traditional crafts like weaving and silversmithing, and construction. The mother of his kids works in a hotel, he said. I asked him about a vision for the Navajo people, and cultural processes like vision quests. He didn't say a lot about a contemporary (positive) vision for Navajo, and he said vision quests occurred. He was a little quiet in general, and Native-white ways of relating were a little in the air from the beginning of our interaction.
He asked me where I was heading. And I told him the canyon lands in northwestern New Mexico, and then mentioned "Cuba, NM." He asked what I was going to do there, and I eventually told him I was going to the Rainbow Gathering. He said "What's that?" I wondered how to characterize it to someone who hadn't heard of it, but might be sympathetic. I said it was kind of a gathering of hippies, - a little like a pow wow, maybe. After a while, he said "like Woodstock?" I said yea. And we laughed out loud together.
We talked a little about the Navajo. He said there are around 265,000 - 300,000 Navajo. Navajo have a president these days. It's Joe Shirley now - opvp.org. The Navajo presidency is modeled after the U.S. presidency. Presidents hold office for 4 years, and are elected. The four corners area (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) is a center of the Navajo world, and there are some Navajo in Mexico, but I got a sense that he was answering a kind of white (sociological) view. I was interested in his views, but wasn't sure how to elicit them.
He said where I camped was on reservation-land. Having arrived where I camped after dark, the views of Arizona around my camping spot were beautiful, I saw, as we started to drive.
He asked if I had gone to the "Gathering of the Nations," a native gathering which happened last year near Lupton, AZ. He said native peoples had come from as far as Canada. I said I hadn't gone but that I did go to a Sundance last year in northern California, in the Sierra Valley, and there were First Nations people there from Canada, too.
He asked me what I do, and I said I'm a college teacher, with an interest in the information technology and their social effects, that I'm writing a anthropological book about a place in northern California - Harbin Hot Springs - and that I'm developing World University & School {http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University}, which is like Wikipedia, where we can all teach and learn.
He asked if anthropologists study the Anasazi, and I said archaeologists do this. Anthropologists study the current social fabric of life. (I was a little hesitant to say anthropologists study groups of people, and historically have studied native peoples). He said Navajo ancestors were supposed to have come from Alaska. And I said this happened all pretty recently, in a sense, and that North America - Turtle Island - wasn't inhabited by people before 16,000-20,000 years ago.
I asked him if the Navajo were pretty integrated into the modern world these days, and he said "yea." I asked him if he thought this was good, and he replied affirmatively. He told me about a radio station in the Navajo language - 660 on the AM dial. I turned this station on, and we listened to the Navajo language. I asked him if he spoke Navajo. I wasn't sure what he said, but he told me the radio announcers were talking about the weather. I let him out in Gallup, and he said "Do you have any change I can have?" I said I don't have any change, but I thought later to have asked him whether he had any change I can have. The Navajo radio station was still on, and I heard an advertisement from an Apache lawyer for legal services. The station next played country music, and the Navajo announcer mentioend the English title of the song, speaking otherwise in Navajo.
*
Leonard mentioned Arizona State University pretty positively in passing, and it made me think that World University & School would potentially help a lot of native people, too.
,
{Getting in touch with Keith Basso, an anthropologist who wrote the fascinating anthropological book "Wisdom Sits in Places" is sensible vis-a-vis WUaS}.
**
I'm writing this blog entry from Rick's Cybercafe in Gallup, New Mexico.
Two partners started it 3 months ago, and they look as if they have Native American background. I hear someone nearby talking excitedly about current Firewire and USB (universal serial bus) technologies, and that his daughter is going to school in the fall.
... life today in Navajo land
~ to the Rainbow Gathering ...
I said I didn't have much space, but I cleared a spot for him, and we rode together. His name was Leonard.
As we rode, he said he was a full-blooded Navajo. I asked how things are for Navajo people today. He said not bad. I asked him what Navajo people are doing these days. He mentioned traditional crafts like weaving and silversmithing, and construction. The mother of his kids works in a hotel, he said. I asked him about a vision for the Navajo people, and cultural processes like vision quests. He didn't say a lot about a contemporary (positive) vision for Navajo, and he said vision quests occurred. He was a little quiet in general, and Native-white ways of relating were a little in the air from the beginning of our interaction.
He asked me where I was heading. And I told him the canyon lands in northwestern New Mexico, and then mentioned "Cuba, NM." He asked what I was going to do there, and I eventually told him I was going to the Rainbow Gathering. He said "What's that?" I wondered how to characterize it to someone who hadn't heard of it, but might be sympathetic. I said it was kind of a gathering of hippies, - a little like a pow wow, maybe. After a while, he said "like Woodstock?" I said yea. And we laughed out loud together.
We talked a little about the Navajo. He said there are around 265,000 - 300,000 Navajo. Navajo have a president these days. It's Joe Shirley now - opvp.org. The Navajo presidency is modeled after the U.S. presidency. Presidents hold office for 4 years, and are elected. The four corners area (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) is a center of the Navajo world, and there are some Navajo in Mexico, but I got a sense that he was answering a kind of white (sociological) view. I was interested in his views, but wasn't sure how to elicit them.
He said where I camped was on reservation-land. Having arrived where I camped after dark, the views of Arizona around my camping spot were beautiful, I saw, as we started to drive.
He asked if I had gone to the "Gathering of the Nations," a native gathering which happened last year near Lupton, AZ. He said native peoples had come from as far as Canada. I said I hadn't gone but that I did go to a Sundance last year in northern California, in the Sierra Valley, and there were First Nations people there from Canada, too.
He asked me what I do, and I said I'm a college teacher, with an interest in the information technology and their social effects, that I'm writing a anthropological book about a place in northern California - Harbin Hot Springs - and that I'm developing World University & School {http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University}, which is like Wikipedia, where we can all teach and learn.
He asked if anthropologists study the Anasazi, and I said archaeologists do this. Anthropologists study the current social fabric of life. (I was a little hesitant to say anthropologists study groups of people, and historically have studied native peoples). He said Navajo ancestors were supposed to have come from Alaska. And I said this happened all pretty recently, in a sense, and that North America - Turtle Island - wasn't inhabited by people before 16,000-20,000 years ago.
I asked him if the Navajo were pretty integrated into the modern world these days, and he said "yea." I asked him if he thought this was good, and he replied affirmatively. He told me about a radio station in the Navajo language - 660 on the AM dial. I turned this station on, and we listened to the Navajo language. I asked him if he spoke Navajo. I wasn't sure what he said, but he told me the radio announcers were talking about the weather. I let him out in Gallup, and he said "Do you have any change I can have?" I said I don't have any change, but I thought later to have asked him whether he had any change I can have. The Navajo radio station was still on, and I heard an advertisement from an Apache lawyer for legal services. The station next played country music, and the Navajo announcer mentioend the English title of the song, speaking otherwise in Navajo.
*
Leonard mentioned Arizona State University pretty positively in passing, and it made me think that World University & School would potentially help a lot of native people, too.
,
{Getting in touch with Keith Basso, an anthropologist who wrote the fascinating anthropological book "Wisdom Sits in Places" is sensible vis-a-vis WUaS}.
**
I'm writing this blog entry from Rick's Cybercafe in Gallup, New Mexico.
Two partners started it 3 months ago, and they look as if they have Native American background. I hear someone nearby talking excitedly about current Firewire and USB (universal serial bus) technologies, and that his daughter is going to school in the fall.
... life today in Navajo land
~ to the Rainbow Gathering ...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Haiku-ish ~ !The Windmills near Tehachapi, California
The windmills near Tehacapi, California
along the ridge lines! ~
I almost stopped to hear them sing.
~
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/07/haiku-ish-windmills-near-tehachapi.html
.
along the ridge lines! ~
I almost stopped to hear them sing.
~
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/07/haiku-ish-windmills-near-tehachapi.html
.
The Windmills near Tehachapi, California
The windmills near
Tehachapi, California,
along the ridge lines,
beckon and wave.
They are turning a lot.
On my way to the
Rainbow Gathering,
I almost stopped
to hear them sing,
but they were too silent.
There are so many,
and are so beautiful,
on these dry, brown,
California hills.
And all are
generating energy ~
what an abundance.
People are thinking.
~
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/07/windmills-near-tehachapi-california.html
Tehachapi, California,
along the ridge lines,
beckon and wave.
They are turning a lot.
On my way to the
Rainbow Gathering,
I almost stopped
to hear them sing,
but they were too silent.
There are so many,
and are so beautiful,
on these dry, brown,
California hills.
And all are
generating energy ~
what an abundance.
People are thinking.
~
scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/07/windmills-near-tehachapi-california.html
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Caucasus: Catalogue of Life, Information Resource Abundance, World University's Great iTune's Us
In addition to the Encyclopedia of Life {eol.org}, I just found another amazing information resource - "The Catalogue of Life" - catalogueoflife.org.
MMMmmmm.
*
The internet makes so many incredible resources, like Wikipedia, possible, and free.
There is indeed an abundance of great, free, open information on the web.
**
World University & School ~ worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ~ extends these possibilities that the internet opens.
Here are a number of great iTunes U Universities at World University & School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses, many of which I added recently:
Columbia University's iTunes U - itunes.columbia.edu
LMU Munich - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München iTunes U - deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/lmu.de
MIT's iTunes U - web.mit.edu/itunesu
Oxford University's iTunes U - itunes.ox.ac.uk
Stanford University's iTunes U - itunes.stanford.edu
UC Berkeley's iTunes U - itunes.berkeley.edu
University of Chicago's iTunes U - itunes.uchicago.edu
University of Michigan's iTunes U - itunesu.umich.edu
University of Pennsylvania's iTunes U - upenn.edu/itunes
Yale University's iTunes U - itunes.yale.edu
I invite you to add great content when you find it to World University & School {worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects} ~ by clicking on 'edit this page' there. Or teach something in Second Life or to your web camera, and link it to WUaS.
***
Such a welcome and wonderful information abundance ...
****
The Caucasus mountains (click on title above for photo), and spiders there, have among the most complex ecosystems.
MMMmmmm.
*
The internet makes so many incredible resources, like Wikipedia, possible, and free.
There is indeed an abundance of great, free, open information on the web.
**
World University & School ~ worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ~ extends these possibilities that the internet opens.
Here are a number of great iTunes U Universities at World University & School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses, many of which I added recently:
Columbia University's iTunes U - itunes.columbia.edu
LMU Munich - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München iTunes U - deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/lmu.de
MIT's iTunes U - web.mit.edu/itunesu
Oxford University's iTunes U - itunes.ox.ac.uk
Stanford University's iTunes U - itunes.stanford.edu
UC Berkeley's iTunes U - itunes.berkeley.edu
University of Chicago's iTunes U - itunes.uchicago.edu
University of Michigan's iTunes U - itunesu.umich.edu
University of Pennsylvania's iTunes U - upenn.edu/itunes
Yale University's iTunes U - itunes.yale.edu
I invite you to add great content when you find it to World University & School {worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects} ~ by clicking on 'edit this page' there. Or teach something in Second Life or to your web camera, and link it to WUaS.
***
Such a welcome and wonderful information abundance ...
****
The Caucasus mountains (click on title above for photo), and spiders there, have among the most complex ecosystems.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Coralroot: Rainbow Gathering's Beginnings, Communitas
Two tribes, one from northern California and one from the Pacific Northwest {Oregon and Washington}, gathered in Colorado in 1972, and that's how the Rainbow Gathering began in part.
Last year's Rainbow Gathering met in the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming at around 9000 feet elevation. {Rainbow Gathering 2008 photos ~ picasaweb.google.com/helianth/RainbowFamilyGatheringOfLivingLight2008WyomingScottMacLeod#}. This year's Gathering meets in the Santa Fe National Forest near Cuba, New Mexico. {Click on the 'Rainbow Gathering' label on this page to read about it}.
*
This is about the 38th year for the gathering. It meets in a different place every year.
Last year I found an unique Rainbow (hippie) kind of communitas, or togetherness, remarkable. I'm curious to see explore communitas this year there.
**
Hexalectris spicata var. arizonica (S.Watson) Catling & V.S.Engel
parasiticplants.siu.edu/Mycotrophs/images/Orchids/HexalectrisSpicata5.jpg
eol.org/pages/1293821
or
eol.org/pages/1113293
or?
Spiked crested coralroot
Last year's Rainbow Gathering met in the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming at around 9000 feet elevation. {Rainbow Gathering 2008 photos ~ picasaweb.google.com/helianth/RainbowFamilyGatheringOfLivingLight2008WyomingScottMacLeod#}. This year's Gathering meets in the Santa Fe National Forest near Cuba, New Mexico. {Click on the 'Rainbow Gathering' label on this page to read about it}.
*
This is about the 38th year for the gathering. It meets in a different place every year.
Last year I found an unique Rainbow (hippie) kind of communitas, or togetherness, remarkable. I'm curious to see explore communitas this year there.
**
Hexalectris spicata var. arizonica (S.Watson) Catling & V.S.Engel
parasiticplants.siu.edu/Mycotrophs/images/Orchids/HexalectrisSpicata5.jpg
eol.org/pages/1293821
or
eol.org/pages/1113293
or?
Spiked crested coralroot
Monday, June 29, 2009
Swiss Wilderness: Monte Verita in the 1920s, Seeking Alternative Visions of Life, Ecstasy {MDMA}
Countercultural, utopian visions have a pretty long history.
Monte Verita (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verita) in Ticino in Switzerland in the 1920s is perhaps one expression of this.
In a broad way, I see
Herman Hesse's "Journey to the East" and "Siddartha" ...
Bertolt Brecht's plays and writings, especially vis-a-vis the proletariat ...
Albert Hoffman's chemistry ...
as expressions of this.
But I'm not sure whether Anton Koellisch's synthesis of MDMA (ecstasy or X - methylene dioxy meth amphetamine) at Merck around 1912 was part of the broad culture which informed Monte Verita or not. {How might we think of the above writings, as well as MDMA, as information technologies?}
These alternative and countercultural envisionings seek new ways of life.
I see Harbin Hot Springs as another expression of this.
"Individualistic vegetarianism," and nudity were key aspects of Monte Verità, I learned yesterday, speaking with a {French speaking} Swiss friend.
How these expressions of alternative life play out through time are fascinating. Monte Verita is now a center.
*
To the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico ...
Welcome Home ...
All Ways Free ...
**
And 'progress' occurs ...
Let's see about eliciting loving bliss, naturally, when and as we want ...
Monte Verita (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verita) in Ticino in Switzerland in the 1920s is perhaps one expression of this.
In a broad way, I see
Herman Hesse's "Journey to the East" and "Siddartha" ...
Bertolt Brecht's plays and writings, especially vis-a-vis the proletariat ...
Albert Hoffman's chemistry ...
as expressions of this.
But I'm not sure whether Anton Koellisch's synthesis of MDMA (ecstasy or X - methylene dioxy meth amphetamine) at Merck around 1912 was part of the broad culture which informed Monte Verita or not. {How might we think of the above writings, as well as MDMA, as information technologies?}
These alternative and countercultural envisionings seek new ways of life.
I see Harbin Hot Springs as another expression of this.
"Individualistic vegetarianism," and nudity were key aspects of Monte Verità, I learned yesterday, speaking with a {French speaking} Swiss friend.
How these expressions of alternative life play out through time are fascinating. Monte Verita is now a center.
*
To the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico ...
Welcome Home ...
All Ways Free ...
**
And 'progress' occurs ...
Let's see about eliciting loving bliss, naturally, when and as we want ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Trees in the Mist: J.S. Bach, Fugue-like States, Loving Bliss as Fugues
J.S. Bach ... and fugues ...
fugue-like states ... when and as you want them ... are wonderful and a great idea ...
By playing them on the piano? Why not? As duets?
And to get to a variety of fugue-like states?
Telemann ...
Vivaldi ...
Ravi Shankar ...
Great ragas ...
Bagpiping ...
Grateful Dead ...
which can also be flow states - {flow: the psychology of optimal experiences}
Ah, and loving bliss as fugue-like states ...
fugue-like states ... when and as you want them ... are wonderful and a great idea ...
By playing them on the piano? Why not? As duets?
And to get to a variety of fugue-like states?
Telemann ...
Vivaldi ...
Ravi Shankar ...
Great ragas ...
Bagpiping ...
Grateful Dead ...
which can also be flow states - {flow: the psychology of optimal experiences}
Ah, and loving bliss as fugue-like states ...
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Three Fingered Jack: Gray Water System & Orchards Are Wonderful
The day is hot on the ridge in Canyon, California ~
and folks here are putting in a gray water system (water from the sink and shower, but not the toilet, for watering the yard),
ultimately to water fruit trees (dwarf trees with delicious fruit, I hope} on the slope below our homes ...
doing this makes so much sense ...
and orchards are wonderful!
:)
and folks here are putting in a gray water system (water from the sink and shower, but not the toilet, for watering the yard),
ultimately to water fruit trees (dwarf trees with delicious fruit, I hope} on the slope below our homes ...
doing this makes so much sense ...
and orchards are wonderful!
:)
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