Sunday, April 26, 2009

Valley of Flowers: Mother Tongue, Nontheist Friends, Loving Bliss Musical Scores

Tongue mother ~ reverse, ~ or stick out your tongue at your mother, with affection ... :)

Mother tongue ...

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Bliss, ~ from middle English origins

Ecstasy, ~ from old French and ancient Greek origins ...

Love, ~ from old English

O, English, how you continue to spread around the world ... curious entity, this language ...


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How to elicit loving bliss {think ecstasy (MDMA), naturally}, when and as we want it ... besides continuing to focus on bliss, and writing about it?


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I started exploring the relaxation response this morning while standing ... lots of possible opportunities with restorative yoga poses, and in all yoga poses, to cultivate the relaxation response ...


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How to articulate further how a nontheist Quaker relaxation response, or nontheist friends' relaxation response, or, for that matter, how a nontheist friends' loving bliss response, would work? ...

How to examine and elicit this in terms of human bodyminds, as biological systems {think MDMA + ... }


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But MDMA has also a sensual side to it, in addition to its affective euphoric side ...

I continue to wonder whether Bonobo narratives {very little violence, and a lot of sexuality} might be part of human experience which culture somehow limited, but which are cultivatable, culturally ...

And in the context of nontheist friends?


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Biology, and Bonobo chimp narratives over common chimp narratives (some violence, and war), vis-à-vis homo sapien narratives ... given a kind of narrative relativism over evolutionary history ... seem like sensible ways of making sense of the world.


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What's the {musical} score for loving bliss? With friends? Listen to music which makes you blissful, as your friend on the telephone is listening to music where they are, which makes him or her blissful ... and converse with each other, with the intention of eliciting bliss, explicitly, in relation to the music you're hearing? Yes ... score ... especially vis-a-vis Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument


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Relaxation response ... MMMmmmmm ...