Pink flowering currant: Old mountain ridge California-style

Old mountain ridge
California-style,
Pink flowering currant
not in bloom,
in Huckleberry Botanic
Regional Preserve,
east of Berkeley,
I hike on
a hallowed tunnel-green
trail way,
nicely level,
in the amazing light
of afternoon.





~ your non-theistic friend, Scott
(Non-theist Friend / atheist Quaker too:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum

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Sunflowers: Painting the Nude, Next book - of poetry - coming ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... :) ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ... "To Harbin on this day - in cool, winter-is-coming, autumn, nice-like-summers- in-San-Francisco, California weather ...," If I were to improvisationally put together a captivating & riveting & FLOURISHING contemporary lecture series in cultural anthropology on info tech & algorithms, from Youtubes, I'd begin with Nick Seaver's Databite No. 33, Mandalas & flower mandalas in nature, Making headway with my next poetry book tentatively titled - "To Harbin on this Day ~ Poetry of Loving Bliss"

Maybe the western art meme, and the long, historical trajectory of painting the nude will catch on - this gives new meaning to it - how else will artists innovate on this theme?

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Next book - of poetry - coming ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... :)
... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ...



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To Harbin on this day -
in cool, winter-is-coming,
autumn, nice-like-summers-
in-San-Francisco,
California weather.

Now Harbin is so beautifully quiet ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-longer-twilight-to-harbin-on-this.html
Next book - of poetry - coming
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry :)
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ @WUaSPress ~

To Harbin on this day -
in cool, winter-is-coming,
autumn, nice-like-summers-
in-San-Francisco,
California weather.

Now Harbin is so beautifully quiet ~https://t.co/6rx1kTU76N
Next book - of poetry - cominghttps://t.co/fURbc4Otvk :)https://t.co/lXdSBzZisL ~ @WUaSPress  ~

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) September 12, 2018

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1039905683183828992

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1039909800484597760



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If I were to improvisationally put together a captivating & riveting & FLOURISHING contemporary lecture series in cultural anthropology on info tech & algorithms, from Youtubes, I'd begin with Nick Seaver's Databite No. 33 https://youtu.be/rO7Lw88VATo  > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology … ~ @WorldUnivAndSch ~

If I were to improvisationally put together a captivating & riveting contemporary lecture series in cultural anthropology on info tech & algorithms, from Youtubes, I'd begin with Nick Seaver's Databite No. 33 https://t.co/azZMvfvX6y > https://t.co/JNqeAO4Ogn ~ @WorldUnivAndSch ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 12, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1039895781585473537

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1039895239127789568

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1039895631718830080


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Mandalas & flower mandalas in nature

Human Mandala – Feel the bliss  #humandalas at #transformationalfestival #serenitygathering #california #highvibration #positiveenergy #ohana #grateful #Acroyoga #activation #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #heady ... #connection https://t.co/VtTmUVs2H7 #activation #connection #light

— HuMandalas (@humandalas) September 12, 2018

https://twitter.com/humandalas/status/1039745633379332096


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https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/PYkGZEFVagi


Sunflowers: Painting the Nude, Next book - of poetry - coming ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... :) ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ... "To Harbin on this day - in cool, winter-is-coming, autumn, nice-like-summers- in-San-Francisco, California weather ...," If I were to improvisationally put together a captivating & riveting & FLOURISHING contemporary lecture series in cultural anthropology on info tech & algorithms, from Youtubes, I'd begin with Nick Seaver's Databite No. 33, Mandalas & flower mandalas in nature

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sunflowers-painting-nude-next-book-of.html

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Making headway with my next poetry book -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sunflowers-painting-nude-next-book-of.html
- tentatively titled - "To Harbin on this Day ~ Poetry of Loving Bliss"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus_annuus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliantheae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_(mathematics)

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Zebu: "Yale announces free online access to museum, library collections," Will add to World Univ & Sch's main Library Resources & Museums

"Yale announces free online access to museum, library collections" -

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/05/11/yale_announces_free_online_access_to_museum_library_collections/ -

will add

http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

to World Univ & Sch's main Library Resources -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources -

and Museum pages -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums -


Incredible :))



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I wonder to what degree libraries and museums around the world, en masse, can digitize their collections, for access by all, -especially before the next recent Bagdhad tragedy of looted libraries and museums - to be linked here http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museum AND http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources , in ALL languages !

Individual universities, like MIT with open course ware, and now Yale, benefit themselves.


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Perhaps Yale, as well as Google Books, will become the HOW TO models for digitizing significant collections & languages.

Friend: maybe now i can read some of my great, great, great grandfathers letters online... hehehe

I'm curious how long it will take, and what the sequence of digitizing will be ... I suspect Google Books will be one model ... amazing resources ahead :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books



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Such rich & varied 'Flow' learning opportunities in idea & knowledge spheres:

Yale Digital Commons:

http://tinyurl.com/4x2x2f3

... an amazing Resource ...

Thank you, Yale! :)


What other FREE learning gems, like this one, will flower soon?












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/zebu-yale-announces-free-online-access.html - May 13, 2011)

Evening Primrose: Blooming your Mind with Loving Bliss Chemistry?

Can you bloom your mind with loving bliss chemistry, like evening primroses bloom with great regularity because of their biology?

How might we do this?

Envisioning may help ... {and MDMA is a reference experience}.

{Familiarity with eliciting the relaxation response ~ relaxationresponse.org/steps ~ helps, in my experience, too}.


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Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss like Practicing a Musical Instrument

- scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm

- MMmmm ...

Rose: Loving Bliss & Harbin Hot Springs

Loving Bliss

harbin hot springs' pools elicit bliss

via the relaxation response

friendly eyes and naked bodies soften

dream time affects the brain

sing with that lyric in your mind


rise, rise, explore and delve

loving bliss comes, ~ let it grow

and flourish like a flower, in your mind

ring out, sing out, fly with those mind-chemicals

and see what transpires


under-examined ~

where does bliss come from? what can elicit it? when will you live it?

and all the time? can you evoke it as you will?

what is it? what stimulates it? what is the soup?

place, people, milieu, ideas

a lily, a friend abloom,

a blush, a rose in the water

we snuggle and embrace in the water,

so softly,

so lovely

and people cuddle in the water

and do watsu and water dance

under the fig tree


the ridge,

the dragon's ridge -

look now, ~

in the golden light

so old, so present -

let it grow in your mind as you soften

into that bliss of ease and the moment


but love - that is rarer,

and for it to rock out,

to sing,

to rise to bloom -

something is needed -

or is it random?


loving bliss -

like a rose in bloom in your mind -

is an old experience,

which I find cultivatable

let's and now ~

but soften first,

and if you allow an opening ...

it can and does emerge

now ~ into the warm waters,

into the harbin pools

or create your own


http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/07/loving-bliss-harbin-hot-springs.html - July 16, 2008)

Ferns & Horsetails: Plant Evolution at the Rainbow Gathering

Botany one day ~

Walking up the beautiful, flower-filled way through the birch forest toward main Meadow on July 3, I came upon a plant walk, led by 7 Song {Northeast School of Botanical Medicine} and Frank {Plants and Healers}, two knowledgeable botanists who have come to the Rainbow Gathering a lot, I think.


To a large group, they talked about and brought alive the natural flora around us.


They told us about:

willow - salix

spring beauty

lodgepole pine - pinus contorta

shooting star - dodecatheon

veronica scrofulacia - speedwell

the rose family

juniper - a gymnosperm

clover - in the pea family - trifolium


7 Song had to go to another plant talk, so Frank continued to tell us about plants. He recommended "Botany in a Day" by Thomas J. Eppel, which had a table that listed the evolutionary calendar I was asking him for information about. For example, this table showed that angiosperms emerged around 180-140 million years ago, and horsetails and ferns' (the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta) emerged beginning about 360 million years ago, in the early Carboniferous, and their emergence spanned around 300 millions years.



It was fascinating to learn about plant evolution and plants in this wilderness at the 2008 Rainbow Gathering, focusing all of our minds, and helping to see the natural world in much detail.


Omega-3 fatty acids

7 Song and Frank also mentioned some plants that had Omega-3 fatty acids in them that are found at 9000 feet in forests like these.

I'm curious, but didn't ask, why omega-3s seem to have a harmonizing effect on the bodymind. Dr. Andy Weil's web site's search field {http://www.drweil.com/} provides information about this, but I haven't seen a lot of clinical studies about this specific effect. Omega-3 fatty acids, (200-1000 mg, 3-4 times a day from flax seed oil) also are beneficial for heart disease, bone density, and many other things, for which there is evidence.