Keralan Egrets: Would like to create FREE CULTURE at World Univ & Sch, Hippies Feel Ambivalent About Modernity, Learning from my Father

... would like to create FREE CULTURE with worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University wiki - PUBLIC, Free, Open, All languages & levels with music school MISSION. Open to YOU to Teach, Learn & Create


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DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources just increased number of open Harvard and MIT online libraries! :)


See Harvard Computer Science Professor Stuart Shieber's blog:
blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2010/02/28/harvard-business-school-approves-open-access-policy/


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A friend in FB asks:
Would love feedback on this. In the near future, when everybody knows everything about everything and everyone, what will be important?

Many interesting responses; I said:

Music? Bliss elicitation? Ideas? Ursula Le Guin's "Always Coming Home" (amazon.com/Always-Coming-Home-California-Fiction/dp/0520227352). Friends ...

1st friend:
Being, playing, loving, laughing, watching the show instead of identify with the role : )

2nd friend:
love....love is all you need.

3rd 'singing' friend:
Do-Be-Do...Do-Be-Do...gracefully...


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A FB conversation:

A friend posts:

Peter Pan ways make bonobos the most amiable of apes
(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18443-peter-pan-ways-make-bonobos-the-most-amiable-of-apes.html)

Scott:
This article seems absurd. I wonder if it's a misrepresentation of Harvard's Wobber's research. Thanks for sharing it.

Scott (again):
This seems like a better representation of their work because there's no teleology of mature = selfish: https://web.archive.org/web/20100614031203/http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/bonobos-it-s-one-all (was harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/bonobos-it-s-one-all) Rather, abundance of historical Bonobos' environment is hypothesized to lead to ongoing, sharing behavior.

Friend:
ooh thanks, this article is much better! will forward it to the fb-friend who originally shared this link - a performer/lgbt activist named Shelly Mars - http://homobonoboproject.com/about.php

Scott:
:)


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5-9 servings of fruits, grains, vegetables & beans, including tofu, per FDA, and exercise - e.g. sun salutations - facilitates WELLNESS :)


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Breaking News: "Hippies Feel Ambivalent About Modernity," Indian Psychiatrist Dr. Mrs. Shrivarajasana reports in Kerala today

:) in a Skype interview from her office overlooking the 'colonial history museum' in downtown Trivandrum, Dr. Shriva, her Swedish hippie client in plain view, said her client just can't seem to get in touch with her Shakti energy. Dr.Mrs. Shriva will recommend having a baby in a warm pool in the Keralan waterways.

A friend writes of modernity:
It's not ambivalence if you feel like it sucks 100 percent.

Scott:
Stanford Emeritus Professor Phil Zimbardo's 'Planned Hedonism?' Facebook Open Office hours ... facebook.com/video/video.php?v=614090435683&ref=mf - And the Swedish hippie went into the Keralan waterways, had a baby in the warm pool, - 3 times. She now spends half the year in Sweden (in the summer), and the other half in Kerala, India (in the summer) :)


Friend:

Drop out was part of the formula, right? I think raising consciousness involves ambivalence, because you see the Koyaanisqatsi race-race-race {http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/} -- a crowded, inebriated planet unbalancing itself from the cool spin of millenia -- self- destructiveness, anesthesia, and religious fervor aren't lasting answers, but they sure raise questions, if you sit and breathe with it.


Scott:

Formula, aka countercultural, was wild - consciousness-wise esp ... ambivalence butterflies into river rafting on the Koyannisqatsi river, too ... and population will increase to 9.2 billion from 6.7 billion in 50ish years ... reverse this with education / literacy (most unimpoverishing birthday control for impoverished women} - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - breathe ... lots of fascinating quaestions from the 6os and early 70s rippling through ... now :)

(From some post on my Facebook page)



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Dear Rose,

Greetings in the early morning from Canyon. Just thinking about my father and what I might learn about learning, independent-mindedness, and agency (choice in life) vis-a-vis love and getting along comfortably in society. In what ways can we learn far-reaching love? Is building on Quaker, UU, Harbin, and good friends' 'processes' - and learning love, and loving bliss, a sensible approach, besides just living, and making a living, pragmatically? I think so. What do you think? I'm missing my father a little, and, while he was both pro-learning and education, and fiercely independent of limitations (of learning, too) to himself, I'm wondering what I might learn from my reading of his last 10-ish years and life vis-a-vis love. Heading for a root canal today. I'm glad we live in a knowledge-oriented world where dentistry is competent, and we can think about love, and develop approaches to it, perhaps like learning musical instruments. Nice to be in Canyon, too.

Love, Scott












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/kerala-egrets-would-like-to-create-free.html - March 2, 2010)