Singing and dancing as sociocultural practices in late capitalism.
And what's next on the west coast of the US over, say, 140 years, or 400 years?
* Non-harming as widespread sociocultural practices in developing friendly nontheistic Bohemianism {democratic and prosperous}.
How would this work? - Here are some ideas from my other blog post today, but dated October 12, 2008 ~ Zephyr: Bohemianism, Bonobo, Neurophysiology.
Last night in the Harbin Temple, the marimba band, Kuzanga from Santa Cruz (drawing on Zimbabwean marimba music), played so nicely, with players rotating among marimbas. This marimba music was elevating. While dancing, I was exploring 'bliss' in my bodymind - it was so easy with this music. I added 'lines' of my own music - mental, musical code - as well as lines of poetry and music I recalled, to complement the marimba musical patterns I was hearing . . . which became complex, especially in conjunction with dancing. The patterns that each marimba player makes are a little like computer generated patterns, which then come together is lovely ways.
Chestnuts.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Rushes: Wind, the Pools, Watsu
Rushes
Whoosh, wind ~ warm pool
people receive this flow
~ Rushes ~
with Watsu, dancing
Naked, at ease, in the water
Together, MMmmmm, yes
A kiss, and then just being.
*
...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/10/rushes-wind-pools-watsu.html - October 18, 2008)
Friday, October 17, 2008
Garden: Pools, Brains, Neurophysiology?
A garden of flourishing brains.
{For nourishment, try flax seed oil (omega-3 fatty acids, 1000 mg, 3-4 times a day, if desired, to start, ~ and singing and reading?:)}
A warm pool of minds blossoming like water lotuses, and especially philosophically and musically ~ with touch, clothing-optionalness, and self-defined optimalness.
And as bodyminds, too? Affectionately and intimately. Yes.
How would this work neurophysiologically? What are the chemistry and the brain processes, knowledgeably characterized and naturally elicited?
I occasionally see people who look like they're flourishing. I think this reflects their brainbody states. It's those brain states, I'm interested in. Might someone teach these brain states?
Who's researching, or thinking about this, building on Csikszentmihalyi {"Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience"}, R. Davidson {Lab for Affective Neuroscience}, and M. Seligman's {"Authentic Happiness"} research?
Harbin Hot Springs makes possible a unique milieu for this and loving bliss to occur in unfamiliar, yet wondrous, ways.
The Harbin pools today re-oriented significantly effects of the city, - of modernity.
MMmmm :)
{For nourishment, try flax seed oil (omega-3 fatty acids, 1000 mg, 3-4 times a day, if desired, to start, ~ and singing and reading?:)}
A warm pool of minds blossoming like water lotuses, and especially philosophically and musically ~ with touch, clothing-optionalness, and self-defined optimalness.
And as bodyminds, too? Affectionately and intimately. Yes.
How would this work neurophysiologically? What are the chemistry and the brain processes, knowledgeably characterized and naturally elicited?
I occasionally see people who look like they're flourishing. I think this reflects their brainbody states. It's those brain states, I'm interested in. Might someone teach these brain states?
Who's researching, or thinking about this, building on Csikszentmihalyi {"Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience"}, R. Davidson {Lab for Affective Neuroscience}, and M. Seligman's {"Authentic Happiness"} research?
Harbin Hot Springs makes possible a unique milieu for this and loving bliss to occur in unfamiliar, yet wondrous, ways.
The Harbin pools today re-oriented significantly effects of the city, - of modernity.
MMmmm :)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Bee Pollen: Words, "New Words," Loving Bliss
Here are
"Things You Can Do with Words"?
British philosopher J.L. Austin?
Mike Marshall and Humberto de Holanda playing virtuosic Latin duets on their recording "New Words / Novas Palavras" ":))
Is this what virtuosic words can do?
Loving bliss, ~ naturally and neurophysiologically.
"Things You Can Do with Words"?
British philosopher J.L. Austin?
Mike Marshall and Humberto de Holanda playing virtuosic Latin duets on their recording "New Words / Novas Palavras" ":))
Is this what virtuosic words can do?
Loving bliss, ~ naturally and neurophysiologically.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Petals: Theorizing anthropology vis-a-vis cyberspace
To speculate about theorizing anthropology vis-a-vis cyberspace, I'd first like to suggest that human bodyminds are like computers (input - output devices) ...
"Humans are experiential, feeling, thinking, remembering, imagining, sentient, networking, idiosyncratic, embodied, procreating computers {conscious, cultural, distributed input-think/feel-output bodymind systems that can have babies and can self-program (“add/remove programs?”;) / learn / plan and that also have been 'selected for' / “encoded” in ancestral environments via Darwinian natural selection, and by family and community (acculturation)}. (Posted on July 31 on this blog)"
- and then explore the idea that human communication is like networking computers, sharing software - language{s)}, but ...
concepts of determinism - pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, foredoomance - adhibition (engagement), inhibition, explication (John Money 1988) - and where sexuality is central ...
and where cultural communication is shared software
"Humans are experiential, feeling, thinking, remembering, imagining, sentient, networking, idiosyncratic, embodied, procreating computers {conscious, cultural, distributed input-think/feel-output bodymind systems that can have babies and can self-program (“add/remove programs?”;) / learn / plan and that also have been 'selected for' / “encoded” in ancestral environments via Darwinian natural selection, and by family and community (acculturation)}. (Posted on July 31 on this blog)"
- and then explore the idea that human communication is like networking computers, sharing software - language{s)}, but ...
concepts of determinism - pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, foredoomance - adhibition (engagement), inhibition, explication (John Money 1988) - and where sexuality is central ...
and where cultural communication is shared software
Loving Bliss
How, creatively, to explore new, loving bliss-oriented sociality in a city, freely and easily, in relation to academia, and while remembering the neediest?
.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Life: Waterdance, Friends, World University
Ecstasy in doing Waterdance or Watsu {water shiatsu} ~ easily? Yes.
Great friendships emerge from these sessions.
There's so much to pull one away from the release of warm pools in the modern world.
Beautiful, social, clothing-optional, warm pools everywhere? Yes.
And an university and school where anyone might post or take a course, using an open, video-capable, programmable, iPhone-like device? That's a big Wiki, and a lot of wireless bandwidth around the world. And only bigger computers, like MacBooks, offer easy access to making videos.
Free to students? Yes.
In all languages? Yes.
A combination of Wikipedia and MIT Open Course Ware? Yes.
At all 'levels,' and in all subject areas, and very open and open-to-innovation, too? Yes.
With Watsu and waterdance courses? Yes, potentially in a virtual world-cum-bath tub, but they're better in real life. :)
Great friendships emerge from these sessions.
There's so much to pull one away from the release of warm pools in the modern world.
Beautiful, social, clothing-optional, warm pools everywhere? Yes.
And an university and school where anyone might post or take a course, using an open, video-capable, programmable, iPhone-like device? That's a big Wiki, and a lot of wireless bandwidth around the world. And only bigger computers, like MacBooks, offer easy access to making videos.
Free to students? Yes.
In all languages? Yes.
A combination of Wikipedia and MIT Open Course Ware? Yes.
At all 'levels,' and in all subject areas, and very open and open-to-innovation, too? Yes.
With Watsu and waterdance courses? Yes, potentially in a virtual world-cum-bath tub, but they're better in real life. :)
Monday, October 13, 2008
Lagoon: Traveling, Friends, Beauty
Traveling, Friends, Beauty
The quiet of
the lagoon and
the open land
just northwest of
San Francisco and the
Golden Gate Bridge
sings soothingly.
No warm pools
at this beautiful
youth hostel here yet,
so, friends and focus. :)
*
...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/10/lagoon-traveling-friends-beauty.html - Monday, October 13, 2008)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Zephyr: Bohemianism, Bonobo, Neurophysiology
In the hippie imaginary, I wonder how one might develop a kind of Bohemianism trajectory or gentle, warm, 'wind stream' - possibly neurophysiologically {a new kind of writing of history}, as well - from Bonobo chimpanzees (millions of years of current behavior - 'biology' and 'culture,' due to evolution by natural selection) ~ Bohemianism (the term emerging in France in the 1800s) ~ counterculture and hippies (with some roots from 1968-1972) ~ Harbin Hot Springs ~ West Coast of the US (esp. in other US cities) ~ to a far-reaching culture {examples: Paris, at times, counterculture, many European cities, at times, Hawaii, 'South Seas' islands & India:}.
I also wonder how nonviolence or nonharming {ahimsa} might weave itself into the fabric of such a society {the Network Society}, with some of southern India as a comparison, where I found it sometimes difficult, out of curiousity, to find a non-veg restaurant, for example, and where nonviolence seems somehow to me interwoven into the fabric of life, more so than most other places I've visited.
Quakers, also, have created a long-lived, nonviolent sub-culture (350 years), where very little violence has taken place within the Society of Friends, or perpetrated by Friends, {due in part to the language of Friends, I think}.
And then how might people cultivate far-reaching practices of loving bliss {scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm}, as normal and wide-spread brain/bodymind explorations?
Perhaps World University and virtual worlds will make possible the exploration of this.
Back to the Harbin pools, after yoga . . . :)
I also wonder how nonviolence or nonharming {ahimsa} might weave itself into the fabric of such a society {the Network Society}, with some of southern India as a comparison, where I found it sometimes difficult, out of curiousity, to find a non-veg restaurant, for example, and where nonviolence seems somehow to me interwoven into the fabric of life, more so than most other places I've visited.
Quakers, also, have created a long-lived, nonviolent sub-culture (350 years), where very little violence has taken place within the Society of Friends, or perpetrated by Friends, {due in part to the language of Friends, I think}.
And then how might people cultivate far-reaching practices of loving bliss {scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm}, as normal and wide-spread brain/bodymind explorations?
Perhaps World University and virtual worlds will make possible the exploration of this.
Back to the Harbin pools, after yoga . . . :)
Heart: Heart Consciousness, Good Energy, Going into the Pools
The energy around the pool area at Harbin is great. Thanks, Harbin pools. I experience an easing, a kind of 'coming home,' a sense of relaxed welcome, and a breath of fresh air. It's like an externalized relaxation response in this particular milieu of the Harbin pool area. It's a curious, salutary phenomenon, like a lot of other things in life just slipped away, or aren't there, as you enter the pool area.
(Why is this? How can 'energy' be great? Is this the stuff of 'spirituality' or Heart Consciousness Church, the church that operates Harbin? What role does the Harbin pool person, for the day, play? Harbin is about oneness, so this is a non-question, anyway).
While this is, of course, my subjective view, I think many people share this experience, and might or might not use different language to characterize it. If one posits the idea that cultural 'phenomena' are partly constructed, how is this ease upon entering the Harbin pool area shaped? To get to the pool area, you either walk up a fairly steep hill from near the Stonefront Lodge and the Gazebo and Fountain, or along the Village Path, which is around a 1/3 mile long. So a little movement gives rise in part to this good energy, I think. And people either know or anticipate positively going into the welcoming and receptive pools and area, and this contributes to the process and neurophysiology. Perhaps it's the spatiality there. And perhaps all of us Harbin residents who know the pool area contribute to shaping this 'energy' in the way we think about it.
While there's good 'energy' in and around Stonefront Lodge, too, as well as in the rest of Harbin and its Valley, somehow the pool area energy is great. Perhaps it's that people come there to soak, or sit naked on the Sun deck, or go up to Fern Kitchen, which is above the Harbin Dressing Room in the pool area. Perhaps it's the lessening of possible 'conflicts,' as almost no business transactions take place there. Or perhaps it's the smart water, and the cleanliness, the beautiful milieu of pool area buildings and trees, with views of the lovely ridge across the Valley, that occur when one 'comes home.'
How might I measure this energy neurophysiologically? R. Davidson's research at the Lab for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison? Herbert Benson MD's research?
Sometimes Harbin reminds me of the Czech film "Closely Watched Trains," which takes place at a very rural Czech railway station, and is about the wry, close scrutiny of the one train a day. ;) Naked people go into the Harbin pools with such regularity. {But technologies at Harbin are simple}.
And sometimes Harbin reminds me of the film "The King of Hearts," where a Scot goes into a deserted French town during WWI, after it's been evacuated, and finds the town's asylum door left open, and its now-free inhabitants exploring what they want too, delightfully. {Harbin is low tech - there's no bunker in the center of Harbin}.
Going into the pools changes things beneficially for me - neurophysiologically. It did so again this morning and yesterday. I think it does so for many people. Now, away from Harbin, with no easy warm pool nearby, I wonder how to find such a pool in Berkeley. Why not create easy-to-access, clothing-optional, beautiful, warm pools everywhere, and creatively shape easing, cultural practices for using them? They are delightful and transformative, and something that's central to the Harbin experience.
(Why is this? How can 'energy' be great? Is this the stuff of 'spirituality' or Heart Consciousness Church, the church that operates Harbin? What role does the Harbin pool person, for the day, play? Harbin is about oneness, so this is a non-question, anyway).
While this is, of course, my subjective view, I think many people share this experience, and might or might not use different language to characterize it. If one posits the idea that cultural 'phenomena' are partly constructed, how is this ease upon entering the Harbin pool area shaped? To get to the pool area, you either walk up a fairly steep hill from near the Stonefront Lodge and the Gazebo and Fountain, or along the Village Path, which is around a 1/3 mile long. So a little movement gives rise in part to this good energy, I think. And people either know or anticipate positively going into the welcoming and receptive pools and area, and this contributes to the process and neurophysiology. Perhaps it's the spatiality there. And perhaps all of us Harbin residents who know the pool area contribute to shaping this 'energy' in the way we think about it.
While there's good 'energy' in and around Stonefront Lodge, too, as well as in the rest of Harbin and its Valley, somehow the pool area energy is great. Perhaps it's that people come there to soak, or sit naked on the Sun deck, or go up to Fern Kitchen, which is above the Harbin Dressing Room in the pool area. Perhaps it's the lessening of possible 'conflicts,' as almost no business transactions take place there. Or perhaps it's the smart water, and the cleanliness, the beautiful milieu of pool area buildings and trees, with views of the lovely ridge across the Valley, that occur when one 'comes home.'
How might I measure this energy neurophysiologically? R. Davidson's research at the Lab for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison? Herbert Benson MD's research?
Sometimes Harbin reminds me of the Czech film "Closely Watched Trains," which takes place at a very rural Czech railway station, and is about the wry, close scrutiny of the one train a day. ;) Naked people go into the Harbin pools with such regularity. {But technologies at Harbin are simple}.
And sometimes Harbin reminds me of the film "The King of Hearts," where a Scot goes into a deserted French town during WWI, after it's been evacuated, and finds the town's asylum door left open, and its now-free inhabitants exploring what they want too, delightfully. {Harbin is low tech - there's no bunker in the center of Harbin}.
Going into the pools changes things beneficially for me - neurophysiologically. It did so again this morning and yesterday. I think it does so for many people. Now, away from Harbin, with no easy warm pool nearby, I wonder how to find such a pool in Berkeley. Why not create easy-to-access, clothing-optional, beautiful, warm pools everywhere, and creatively shape easing, cultural practices for using them? They are delightful and transformative, and something that's central to the Harbin experience.
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