Milkweed beetles: Hippy to the Hot Springs & India

Hippy to the Hot Springs
meets hippies in the hot springs,
- floats.

Hippy to the Hot Springs
greets hippies in the hot springs
without song. They do Watsu.

Hippy to the Hot Springs
seeks hippies in the hot springs.
She's interested - Love.

Hippy to the Hot Springs
finds hippies in the hot springs, -
cuddle puddle.

Hippy to the Hot Springs
at Harbin Hot Springs, -
plays, easing home.

Hippy to the Hot Springs
finds waters &
generates kindness.




This is a main theme for my Harbin ethnography.


In many ways, folks in India - Hindus and others - are Ur, or first, hippies, in their taking life lightly, in their colorfulness, in their belief in many Gods and Goddesses. Why not? - the more the merrier.

It's culture ...



I come to Harbin and learn.

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/hippy-to-hot-springs-and.html - October 6, 2010)

Goat Rocks Basin: COMMUNICATION, complementing Techne, as thesis, Multimedia & Virtual

Harbin ethnography:



... There's a continuity of hippies living at Harbin since at least the 1960s.


COMMUNICATION

To complement Boellstorff's argument for Techne (from the ancient Greek for 'technology' and 'technique'), as craft or art, brought from the actual world into virtual worlds, I develop here an argument for 'communication' – which is more of an argument for information, language and communication – the information aspect of 'information technology' - than for crafting or making things as what is significant about virtual worlds such as Second Life (per Boellstorff), – where information gives form to the 'virtual' via multimedia. Vis-a-vis an ethnography of actual and virtual Harbin, the history of virtual Harbin, this occurs both in terms of the symbolic richness of actual Harbin especially with respect to hippy, New Age thinking and articulations, as well in the way computer languages and codes gives form to virtual Harbin, and here the Making an Ethnographic Field Site vis-a-vis virtual Harbin (MacLeod 2009 – url), for the emergence of new countercultural and linguistic forms and processes. Furthermore, I'd like to argue that more fundamental than 'Techne' being brought in from the actual to virtual worlds (Boellstorff 2008:54), is the extension of communication and symbolizing processes due to multimedia narratives in virtual worlds. As a consequence, I'd like to offer a cursory history of communication vis-a-vis emergent multimedia virtual worlds here, beginning with Terrence Deacon's “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of the Brain and Language” (1997), proceeding through the ancient Greek world and the beginnings of Western knowledge production, via Gutenberg and the printing press, Marshall McLuhan, the academic discipline of linguistics, then Manuel Castells' “The Internet Galaxy,” (2001) and then to colorful and multiple Hindu expressions of divinity, New Age explorations of the divine at Harbin (Heart Consciousness Church), for example, and to the Harbin waters themselves. While theoretical, such an historical examination highlights the significance of symbolic communication vis-a-vis underlying cultural logics of language vis-a-vis virtual Harbin. The significance of such history will highlight, I hope, what's mind-expanding about Harbin in a variety of ways, and complement Boellstorff's emphasis on Techne in understanding virtual worlds.

Symbolization and language use both give form to kinds of virtuality, as well as are a shared process among human primates, in particular.








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/goat-rocks-basin-communication.html - October 5, 2010)

Goat Rocks: Continuity of hippies living at Harbin, Other Ethnographies about Harbin?

Harbin ethnography:


... The social and conversation aspects that Ish found so enjoyable at Harvard, and which he had in mind in envisioning a community, take place all around Harbin, but especially on the sun deck in the pool area, in my experience.

Other than Chloe Conger's Stanford undergraduate honors' thesis on Harbin, “Ideals in Action” (Conger 2001), I know of no other ethnographies of Harbin Hot Springs besides this one, which in many ways is two, or at least an actual and virtual two. Conger, ethnographically, finds two, imagined systems of Counter-Cultural-Spiritual and Capitalist Culture, the former giving way and combining with the latter. She looks “at the ways in which people at Harbin construct, polarize and integrate a communal, countercultural lifestyle and the dominant capitalist culture — not in theory, but in action and personal narratives” (Conger 20LLa). Klages' history comes closest to providing a kind of historical ethnography. In Klages' history, hippies were around at Harbin since the 1960s. After Ishvara bought the land, as the sole owner, in 1972, she writes “There were grumblings and heated rumors locally that another bunch of hippies was going to take over Harbin, and the county's health and building departments quickly made it clear that no one could move in and no repairs or new construction could be done in the Main Area until the sewage and water systems were brought up to code (Klages 1991:281).” There's a continuity of hippies living at Harbin since at least the 1960s.


COMMUNICATION

To complement Boellstorff's argument for Techne (from the ancient Greek for 'technology' and 'technique'), as craft or art, brought from the actual world into virtual worlds, I develop here an argument for 'communication' – which is more of an argument for information, language and communication – the information aspect of 'information technology' - than for crafting or making things as what is significant about virtual worlds such as Second Life (per Boellstorff), – where information gives form to the 'virtual' via multimedia. ...














(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/goat-rocks-continuity-of-hippies-living.html - October 5, 2010)

Spider Web Droplets: Inter-disciplinary & Multi-disciplinary Subjects & Disciplines moving beyond Knowledge Disciplines of the last centuries

Let's explore new knowledge-foci, beyond current disciplines, at the editable, World University & School's open SUBJECTS' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast and other great, free, open course ware, and facilitates people-to-people teaching and learning. There are a lot of resources at WUaS already. Add a subject to create a new interdisciplinary focus.






















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/beautiful-spider-webs-inter.html - October 5, 2010)

Wilderness Pools: Examination of the effects of the pools, particularly the relaxation response, An ethnography of a culture of pool meditation

Harbin ethnography:


... Ellen Klages' “Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land” is the most focused endeavor, tracing Harbin's history from the Lake Miwoks to the early 1990s, the last chapter focusing on Harbin since Ishvara bought the property in 1972, and then sold it to Heart Consciousness Church.

In this actual / virtual ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs with its focus on characterizing Harbin's culture, Klages' history hints at cultural aspects there, since the Lake Miwoks. Her last chapter on Harbin's recent history since Ishvara bought the property in 1972, while highlighting aspects of the 'tribe' that has emerged there, doesn't consider, for example, in depth Harbin's pools' culture. In my anthropological field work, turned water work, turned examination of the effects, particularly the relaxation response which the pools cause, of the Harbin pools where clothing-optionalness is normal, I develop, too, an ethnography of a culture of pool meditation and emergence of Watsu, which history “Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land” doesn't consider in detail. In conjunction with these processes, I'd like to suggest, in an historical sense, that the emergence of the Harbin Warm Pool and the pool area itself, as well as the community which has emerged at Harbin as a whole since 1972, has given form to a kind of tribe – residents, one main historical record of which can be seen in the Harbinger. Klages' history does focus on Ishvara's vision of community, citing Ishvara:

“'I had a dream of community. The most ideal living situation I'd ever had was in college (Harvard). Each [350-person] House had its own dining room, and I used to spend four or five hours there, hanging out with people and discussing things. It was a very creative, very enjoyable period for me. I wanted to have that kind of environment.'

More and more radical changes were developing in California, and in 1967 the Hartley's (Ishvara and his wife) moved to Berkeley, living a few blocks from Sproul Plaza and the anti-war protests for eight months before buying a home in nearby Kensington. Bob had read all of Fritz Perls' work on Gestalt therapy years before and, after two years of training, was accepted at the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco for continued training and study” (Klages 1991:281).

As a 'formal' history, written nearly 20 years ago, probably in conversation with Ishvara himself, it provides a founder's first-hand account, emerging from the 1960s of Harbin's vision, giving rise to the ongoing community, where Ish still lives on property. While I know of no direct Gestalt therapy practices occurring since around 1994 – Ish didn't like the unequal relationship between therapist and patient (Klages 1991:281) – the sense of realizing the whole may have found form in the pools themselves, naturally, as place, although Klages doesn't suggest this. The social and conversation aspects that Ish found so edifying at Harvard, and which he had in mind in envisioning a community, take place all around Harbin, but especially on the sun deck in the pool area, in my experience. I know of no other ethnographies of Harbin Hot Springs other than this one, which in many ways is two, or at least and actual and virtual two. Klages' history comes closest to providing a kind of historical ethnography.

In Klages' history, hippies were around at Harbin since the 1960s. ...











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/wilderness-pools-examination-of-effects.html - October 4, 2010)

Viola lanceolata: Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate park, Another hippie festival, My goodness ... Lift off ...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Golden Gate Park, San Francisco


Yo, the Golden Gate Park - hardly strictly bluegrass festival ...

another hippie festival in san francisco ...

traveling thru time



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earl scruggs is playing ... people dancing freely ... a LOT of people ... tweeting ... 'rolling in my sweet baby's arms'

scruggs & company are MOVING forward with the ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL ...

my goodness ...

lift off ...

now landed



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hardly strictly bluegrass is a free festival. Crowd control has been honed to an art for GG Park festival. Too many cordons in this one, though :)

but they do allow a lot of people to sit


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Up after Earl Scruggs et al - Doc Watson, then the Del McCoury Band, then EmmyLou Harris ... great musicians :)


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Special Contra Dance this evening in San Rafael in Marin at 7:30 ... they're fun :)


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Foggy Mountain Breakdown - a song Scruggs played in 1949 - they're moving deep into the fog now - breaking down ...banjo ... flight ... over


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'Give a kid an ipod & you make him/her happy for a while. give a kid a banjo (Scruggs) & you make him happy for 70 yrs. Drop the electronics & pick up strings' and make music & happiness with people .... Stage wisdom ?


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Doc's up - Doc Watson & friends, that is - lives in Deep Gap, NC, Little Sadie, Freight Train - 87 yrs he is ... such fine, soaring, lyrical pickin' - just a series of tones - 3 musicians - but what a series of tones :)


Deep river blues ... 'give me back my old boat, i'm gonna sail, boys, if you let it float..'

Doc's grandson comes up to play with ... 'Tea for Texas, Tea for Tennessee' .. fog is rolling in ... yodeling ... she's got eyes like diamonds ... O, sweet lips



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Del McCoury band - great vocals and picking ... connecting ...



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Then, at the end of the Del McCoury band, a bunch more bluegrass musicians come out ... all playing together ... traditional-looking (straight, clean cut, nice bluegrass suits) bluegrass musicians are all in front ...


and, all of a sudden, in the middle of the musics - long-haired, hippie-bluegrass musicians, come forward ... :)



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Another hippie-cum-bluegrass festival in the park?

Looks like it, this year ...





(I blogged about this last year, too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/kentucky-bluegrass-daja-vu-too-in.html:).







(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/viola-lanceolata-bluegrass-festival-in.html - October 3, 2010)

Sparrow: EVOLUTION as SUBJECT - Biological Anthropology, Botany, Ecology, Evol Bio, Genetics, Plant Evolution, Professor's Individual courses, 4 YOU

World University & School is oriented to (group) knowledge production, as wiki ...


and Evolution as Subject ...


There's so much work to do in the field of evolutionary biology, for example -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology



And:


Biological Anthropology:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Anthropology

Botany:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Botany

Ecology:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ecology

Evolutionary Biology:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology

Genetics:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genetics

Plant Evolution:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Plant_Evolution

Religious Studies:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Religious_Studies

(Religious Studies, at WUaS, is a subject with an evolutionary focus).





In what ways can WUAS make it easy for focused graduate students to chose & connect with any professor they like at great universities?


If you're a professor, list your free, open, online course here:

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Individual_courses



If you're a student, add your name and the courses / faculty you would like to work with here:

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University











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Abigail Washburn and The Sparrow Quartet performing "Captain"




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wCnoKdCQE








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/migrating-sparrow-biological.html - October 2, 2010)

Philautus kani: Ellen Klages' actual history of Harbin, “Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land”

Harbin ethnography:



... There are many potential, unfolding, completely open-ended, new, human experiences here.

While the most informative Harbin history – virtual (text-based here) and actual – is perhaps Ellen Klages' actual history of Harbin, “Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land,” Ishvara himself, and perhaps the long time editor of the “Harbin Hot Springs Quarterly: Heart Consciousness Church Retreats, Events and Workshops” as well as the Harbinger, a biweekly are two of the richest, Harbin sources of history. Harbin has kept, and generated, a text record of some of this history, as well, but concerning the time I'm interested in, I imagine the record of the 1970s is scanter than more recent decades. Such records make mention of some of when virtual Harbin started lists as well. In this book, I include some of the histories of virtual Harbin which I have generated, all of which I examine in some detail in the next section: HISTORIES OF HARBIN HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH.

To conclude this section on HARBIN HISTORIES, ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL, I came across this morning (September 30, 2010) a journal note in my organizer from June 14, 2000, which expresses a history of some of the beauty of Harbin, from before my time as a resident (January-June 2005), and my focused field work time in 2008 and early 2009, and which may go on for a long time to come. ...









(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/philautus-kani-ellen-klages-actual.html - October 1, 2010)

Pamukkale: Generations of Water

Generations of Water


I stand in the shower,
a naked, human primate,
with welcome, warm
water pouring
over my cupped,
open hand, up-reaching fingers,
and full, front body ...
and wonder about
all those generations
before me,
in Africa,
in the rainy season,
water pouring over
thousands of
one-after-another
parents and offspring -
naked, primate
ancestors,
before humans
speciated.


This water is
so warm & refreshing,
so welcome & regenerating.


Was that water cold at times,
in the troop I was part of,
huddling under trees,
waiting, waiting, waiting,
mating and mating,
for the next day, -
not symbolizing,
all the while
through time?


Oetzi, caught in frozen water,
some 5300 years ago,
in what is now a Swiss glacier,
arrowhead in his left shoulder,
found human, watery coldness,
at life's end.


We humans can talk,
and we can make,
for example,
Harbin Hot Springs'
warm pool,
a basin for receiving
earth-warmed waters,
in which hippies do soak
(and internally sing),
when it's warm or cold.

That beautiful
Harbin canyon,
shady & cool too,
in the heat of summer,
far from the city,
welcomes us human primates now, -
water around
your whole bodymind,
inside & out, -
easing us &
freeing us home.

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

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/pamukkale-generations-of-water.html October 1, 2010)

Ocean Water: The Poetry Commune at Berkeley

The Poetry Commune at Berkeley

The poetry commune at
U.C. Berkeley reads with joy.
A chorus of energy,
this soloist understands,
stands & delivers,
these word pods
that sail through the air
to alight, & delight,
in the ears & minds
of people.

A chorus with soloists,
she arises, and praises,
the upcoming light-bringer,
her free speech-jostling friend,
who sings of French kissing -
crème fraiche -
on the playground at 9,
of, who likes to be on top
when making love -
he likes her to be here now -
of, 3 jumping into cold,
August, Pacific, ocean water,
all-naked-wiggling-giggling,
of, who gets to sit
in the back, together,
on the way home.

These poets are open & caring,
appreciative of each others'
meter & rhyme,
not bitten with the bug
of pinched, human, critical,
competitive closedness, they -
this poetry commune
from afar
at U.C. Berkeley -
sing with love.

He bass-resonates
and becomes the
caterpillar-walrus voice,
not tripping
on sonority.
Weaving harmony,
Cecil & Lyn
take over free
Wheeler Hall
from the inside,
with poetry.
It is occupied,
We are here &
Our commands
are poetry.
Ho!

She beams, and with prose praise,
sings warm approval
for her friend's
spring, sung words,
who sings, and signs, of
making love, -
all leading to
Harryette,
with her 'fro,
who reads tanka -
radically short,
Japanese, five-line,
form poems - of
California,
far south
of here.
Charity!

Warm readings,
meme phonemes
spread minds to minds,
so that, in the middle
of the night,
thinking of her -
her words, her hair,
her soft, neck scent,
her smile, her loveliness,
our kiss -
I awake and smile,
while writing
a poem of love.


To sleep now, to bed,
back to the land
of regenerative
neurophysiology
before emailing this to Ed,
my poet friend,
in the morn.

And with her, a duet?
C'est possible?
Oui ... Must see ...

Off through the night,
away from that lovely
Maude Fife space,
to Contact Improv,
where play beings
move freely together,
in a room,
with full touch,
all-dimensionally,
to dance the Berkeley,
communal jam
of freedom, -
Free radicals singing
moving songs of freedom.
Let's get down &
be-in, &
sing love.

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(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/ocean-water-poetry-commune-at-berkeley.html - October 1, 2010)

(for Charity)