Alula brighamia insignis critically endangered plant kauai hawaii green leaves hawaiian budding flower bloom stem moss: Ongoingly curious about culture, what generates it, as well as influences it through time, Music in the Grateful Dead, Meeting among Quakers, and the clothing-optional, warm pool at Harbin, all seem to generatively inform their cultures

ongoingly curious about culture, what generates it, as well as influences it through time ...


was talking with a friend, and a little bit of an old Deadhead yesterday at lunch at Quaker Meeting in San Francisco

and wondering out loud to what degree the Grateful Dead's music was influenced by pscyhedelics while they were playing, what kinds of dosages, and how these possible influences are expressed in the music I hear as recordings these days. Are such tones psychedelically informed memes? And how would one ethnographically analyze this beyond textually, or musically in terms of note duration, or measure, or otherwise accurately and sophisticatedly and even generatively characterize, or understand, this (scientifically, too, that is)?

(Where is this information on the web, perhaps in interviews - what Youtube videos, etc?, And how would one do online ethnography about this - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ethnography ?)

Grateful Dead ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead ... they played together from 1965-1995 and their musical memes (replicating cultural units, particularly vis-a-vis entheogens) ... generated a far-reaching amount of bliss neurophysiology ... 

Deadheads seem less 'around' than Friends even these days, even in the SF Bay Area, - on my radar that is ...

As we talked further, I wondered what was a similar generative influence, culturally, in the society of Friends, and besides George Fox and Margaret Fell, from the 1650s forward, but perhaps especially, Quaker Meeting and Meeting for Business, which have been central to Quaker practice for 350 years ... and inform Friendly culture (due to troopbonding, vis-a-vis John Money, language, as well as especially due to a de facto relaxation response, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response - in my interpretation).


And at Harbin I'd suggest the clothing-optional, warm pool where its warm waters create a wonderful effect (including a remarkably easing relaxation response) informing Harbin's milieu (and counterculture).


Ah, culture ... which for me is partly milieu ... and generative memes through time ...

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