Helix aspersa: Heart Consciousness Church which owns Harbin is celebrating its 40th anniversary (1975-2015) this month, Happy Valentine's Day Harbin!, HARBIN 40th ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION - "Heart Consciousness Church: 1975-2015 - 40 Years of Living the Future", Harbin's history grows ~ and as an unaffiliated church, but, although you can meet the ministers ..., Curious how such celebrations will find their ways into a virtual Harbin, My 400 page Harbin ethnographic manuscript comes into conversation with Boellstorff's book, a virtual Harbin - from your own bathtubs - in interactive movie-realism and in 3D, in digital goggles?

Traveled up to Harbin yesterday to soak, and meditate {a kind of relaxation response harmonizing effect, or inner releasing action, for me} in the pools, and as I checked in at the Harbin gate, I found the following flyer. Heart Consciousness Church which owns Harbin is celebrating its 40th anniversary (1975-2015) this month ~

Harbin's history grows ~ and as an unaffiliated church (but which is pretty hippy-influenced), but, although you can meet the ministers in celebration events at Harbin this month (see the schedule), this isn't a celebration of Harbin's other church, New Age Church of Being (N.A.C.O.B.), which ordains the ministers ... 

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Happy Valentine's Day Harbin!


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HARBIN 40th ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION -
"Heart Consciousness Church: 1975-2015 - 40 Years of Living the Future"
http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf

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I like such Harbin events that get back into its 1960's and '70's influences at this hot springs' retreat center...

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I'm curious how such celebrations will find their ways into a virtual Harbin - with interactive movie-realism and 3D, in digital goggles for example (I attended, for example, Tom Boellstorff's book signing party for his "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) in the virtual world of Second Life ) - and as a part of a realistic virtual earth world ~ and from our own bathtubs.


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For example, in what creative ways will people explore Watsu - water shiatsu - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - from their own bathtubs? 

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My 400 page Harbin ethnographic manuscript comes into conversation with Boellstorff's book, but involves, for the second book, the building of a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site ... so there's good precedent above for all of this ... 

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http://eol.org/pages/449907/overview

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