Harbin ethnography:
“Om Shanti Padma Om – How ya doing?,” someone in the virtual Harbin Domes Pool Area asks after you land near the new Solar Panels' Grid, which is also becoming virtual car ports at the same time, and walk through the Bubble portal into this fascinating, bubbles-like building (Figure 1.8). From across the valley in the Mainside Pool Area The Domes look evocative and intriguing. The actual Harbin Dome Pools aren't geothermally heated, so these solar panels will save about 7%? on emissions as well as the heating bill. Harbin's Hippy-New Age thinking, emerging with the 1960s and 70s, includes still today many echoes of practices originally from India. Your avatar friend and you say “Namaste,” and begin to chat about the virtual Watsu class taking place in the lower pool, before heading into the upper pool, with virtual bathing suits. The actual Mainside Pool Area is clothing optional, and most people at actual Harbin go into the pools nude, whereas the actual Dome Pools are a Watsu school, with guest accommodations. Watsu - water shiatsu – is a form of water movement originating at Harbin (Figure 1.9). Since many people who may come to the Watsu School aren't necessarily interested in clothing-optionalness, and because the actual Harbin Domes were built with a a Watsu school in mind, wearing clothes are the norm. Watsu itself was started probably mostly clothing-optinally in the Harbin warm pool perhaps in the mid-1970s just by starting to float people, and as a way to meet. You offer to give your new avatar friend a Watsu in the upper Harbin Dome pool.
She's accepts and …
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/natural-geothermal-om-shanti-padma-om.html - March 25, 2010)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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