Smallspotted dart (Trachinotus baillonii): The "HOW?", quite explicitly, to generate bliss (what I'm calling neural cascades of pleasure) with music is a fascinating question, "Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)" Planned in Many Languages at wUaS, Clues to eliciting the neurophysiology of Loving Bliss from a Swiss friend ~ "How do you feel? Lecture by Bud Craig" - https://vimeo.com/8170544 - and the first chapter to his related book from Princeton University Press, "How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self," Merry, merry and Happy, happy! :)

Hi P and L, 

It was fun music-making and playing last night at the Berkeley Scottish Country Dance holiday party, and to play "Blue Bonnets" as a kind of solo ... I'm attaching the Scots' Guards' version of "All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border" WITHOUT the 2 sharps written in (for playing in the key of D for practical purposes on Scottish small pipes' A chanter, although the scale is in A mixolydian :).

You're attracting a healthy cadre of committed musicians P - a tribute to your musicality, openness and welcoming! And thank you too, L, for your musicality!

(With some friends I'm meeting today, and one of whom I'm beginning to explore playing/singing Scots' tunes (and other musics as well) on the small pipes, I wrote: "I'm interested in this exploration in playing Scots' gems of tunes, as well as taking them in interesting directions ... that especially move me, and potentially others ... and to bliss ? ... (How ?)").

The "HOW?", quite explicitly, to generate bliss (what I'm calling neural cascades of pleasure) with music is a fascinating question ... note duration is my first focus, but so is what the musician is thinking as they're playing, and is my next focus. Ravi Shankar's "Sitar" album with the concentric rings on the cover (which I saw on the Pandora.com Nikhil Bannerjee channel this morning) - but I couldn't just now find this album on the internet - moved me this way, and this 1977 Grateful Dead concert in Boston -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BcuHWa9As - around the 1 hour mark, moved me twice recently, such that I checked on the minute marker both times ... what's going on in these instances when music seems to cause or generate bliss neurophysiology? And when multiple people experience the same thing with the same music, and repeatedly, what's going on with the music?  :) (And how might one inquire about such occurrences for many people online, in a class, for instance?)

Scott

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Clues to eliciting the neurophysiology of Loving Bliss from a Swiss friend ~  

https://vimeo.com/8170544 ~  

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) 

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Very nice to get your message and thanks for this:

"How do you feel? Lecture by Bud Craig" - https://vimeo.com/8170544.

Here's the first chapter to his related book, "How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self" by A. D. (Bud) Craig, if interested - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10405.html.

Merry, merry and Happy, happy! :)
Scott

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