Hoya: Why is MUSIC so mind-expanding (or can be), re questions of CONSCIOUSNESS (Harvard psychology/philosophy wise -what is consciousness, and how does it work? but also conceptually India-wise)?, Bach Violin Concertos, Raga, Studio Jam * * * Having a focus on eliciting loving bliss in a partnership - http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm * * * And if we live for ever due to gene editing - re amazing questions of immortality * * * Am thinking MUSIC is so mind-expanding because it generates this brain or bodymind chemistry in its listeners (which could be studied in a similar way to studying how loving bliss neurochemistry can be generated).

Thanks so so much Patti (- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1103070373224996864 -) ... and I appreciate mindfulness, clarity, and intentionality, and re thinking -

possibly not always 'content' in active body minds? ... Appreciating too positive 'transference' on parents ... am a learner ... transference is a psychoanalytic word / psychology word (and not a Yoga word so much) ... studying psychology at Harvard ... Does 'transference' relate to 'imprinting' of animal behaviorists, I wonder (and who has studied this?) (Am curious how we could explore studying 'transference' and 'imprinting' in a realistic virtual earth).

... 'duckies' imprinting-wise even (a family in barn yard scene? - https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Deuks_Dang_o%27er_My_Daddie_(The) )? (and re ethologists' Konrad Lorenz, and Nico Tinbergen and the Scottish tune of that name we played) :)

... (Am glad new Reed College friend in common Olivia Rose Maki wrote me) ... could also suggest an approach to listening to the music (but re inhaling, metaphorically) ... & even re X ... I appreciate too 'Harvard thinking,' - thinking a lot - which I see in the language / writing personal web sites online, for one ... 

Interesting blog post re consciousness emerged out of connecting as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/oreostemma-alpigenum-why-is-or-can-be.html ... &

Oreostemma alpigenum: Why is MUSIC so mind-expanding (or can be), re questions of CONSCIOUSNESS (Harvard psychology/philosophy wise -what is consciousness, and how does it work? but also conceptually India-wise)?, Bach Violin Concertos, Raga, Studio Jam https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/glacial-erratic-world-univ-sch-adding.html ~

Oreostemma alpigenum: Why is MUSIC so mind-expanding (or can be), re questions of CONSCIOUSNESS (Harvard psychology/philosophy wise -what is consciousness, and how does it work? but also conceptually India-wise)?, Bach Violin Concertos, Raga, Studio Jam https://t.co/RWt0IMyPyA ~

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You both are pretty 'content' I'd say, Barbara and Patti, ... and which is a Yoga word (a 'niyama' ) ... and which is relevant for Yoga / India thinking about consciousness too I think. ... now re the Web?

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Seeking and finding a partner in these big cities re ... Yoga and meditation are a remarkable boon!


And if we live for ever due to gene editing - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/lesser-celandine-university-on.html - re amazing questions of immortality, will be glad I had kids, I think ... :) ...

 ... I have a focus on eliciting loving bliss in a partnership - http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm - and think we could possibly into co-learning this as well ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/03/about-eliciting-loving-bliss.html ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) ...

Brìghde Chaimbeul’s Scottish small piping music and her Isle of Skye roots, - feels like it would be interesting to somehow meet (virtually perchance) on the Isle of Harris/Lewis or on St. Kilda in the outer Hebrides, if she sailed across the Norwegian sea, and I was living in Stornoway on Lewis - ( https://www.firstclasssailing.com/sail-across-the-norwegian-sea-from-norway-to-the-faroe-islands-on-a-luxury-55ft-yacht :) ... Norse? ... and there's a lot of Norse in Scotland as well!

But am circulating elsewhere - online as well - as I continue to seek a friend / girl friend / partner / wife / mom-to-be ...:)

Happy travels to Oregon music making!

Warm musical regards, Scott

Contentment here too in these Yoga Anjali Hippy Notations ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html :)

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But I'm not from any of these western isles of Ecosse, these northern Celtic-knot separate worlds surrounded from by vast ocean, am from Cuttyhunk Island, MA, south of that city of Lexington of American revolution fame, where I went first after I was born (since my parents were living there in '60 - I was actually born in Cambridge MA, the same city as Harvard!). And Leod probably has some Scandinavian origins as well.

Happy music-making! :)

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I think MUSIC is so mind-expanding (or can be), re questions of CONSCIOUSNESS (Harvard psychology/philosophy wise -what is consciousness, and how does it work? but also conceptually India-wise) because it generates this brain or bodymind chemistry in its listeners (which could be studied in a similar way to studying how loving bliss neurochemistry, above, can be generated).

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