Sunshine: Techniques for eliciting loving bliss, decades into a duet w a friend, Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane, 1960s Music as Metaphor

Techniques for eliciting loving bliss, naturally, and after decades into a 'duet' with another? What might such techniques be, I asked myself in silent meeting today, while eliciting the relaxation response? How might they be as easy as heading into the Harbin warm pool and cuddling with your friend, decades into your relationship?


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And then I walked across the San Francisco Civic Center / Opera Plaza area, from the meeting I was attending, to a cafe next to a bookstore, to begin listening to the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane, with joy, freedom, and 'flow' in mind. Check this out:


Somebody To Love / White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM

The announcers themselves are a trip. And, anthropologically, where did the culture - here in San Francisco and the Bay Area - which generated this, go?


Here's the Grateful Dead playing in Oregon in 1972. They're making music together, and improvisationally, too. They're listening and jamming. Is Jerry high? He looks like he could be as high as a kite.

Grateful Dead Dark Star 08 27 72 1 4) (Sunshine Daydream)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy8d0h-QYbQ

There's rapport, there's bliss and there's communitas of the concert goers - and this is a benefit for the Springfield Creamery near Eugene, too (so, business is just part of the fabric). And there are at least 4 (ten-minute) sections to this jam. Blow it up on your screen. The video sequences are a trip ~ early multimedia. And think what this art could also be - amazingly beautiful scenes that took you into all kinds of extraordinary mind spaces; our brains are 3-D generators in so many ways).

And the Dead played together for around 3 decades, - an ongoing kind of bliss. How to do this together with a friend, and as family comes along?


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So, I think learning from this psychedelic music of the 1960s, learning from listening, trusting, as well as from the kinds of open, improvisational 'structure' aspects (silent meeting and meeting for business) of the Society of Friends, can be bases for eliciting bliss. But beyond the Friendly Folk Dancers' "Infinite Joy" web site {http://www.infinitejoy.com/ffd/}, I don't know of many historical examples in Friendly literature of Friends exploring bliss, as part of a kind of corporate process. {I see silent meetings as a kind of group relaxation response}.


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So, make music with a friend like the Grateful Dead made music over decades? Yea, and jam with these possibilities ...

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/sunshine-techniques-for-eliciting.html - February 28, 2010)