Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Pittas: Re: Aging Reversal & Meditation (again here ...) * * * Stanford Bookstore 5 yrs ago ~ beautiful ~ re #WUaSBookstore ... Rainbow Gathering 2008 * * * Meditation, bagpiping & meditation, Desiderata, Psychiatry * * Is bagpiping a relaxation response meditation practicing opportunity for Stuart Liddell, de facto, where he kind of 'locks in' to meditative inner stillness oneness in his physical attuning with his drones, as the music he plays on his chanter, listening and feeling-wise, comes out beautifully and naturally? :))


Re: Aging Reversal & 

Meditation (again here ...)

Dear Ma, Sandy

All,

Brainstorming-wise, I'm not suggesting in this blog post, from this thread - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/amur-leopard.html?m=0 - that wearing a FitBit watch in the future could be a gene adding information technology into our bodyminds that could lead to reversing aging (and also for diagnosis). And I'm also not suggesting that an endangered Amur leopard could wear such a watch and become as young as the leopard cub or kitten in the main pic behind title, - which would be wild indeed - but I am wondering whether, via such a device, we'd be able to DIY wiki-edit our own genomes in something like Wikitree single family tree database software ... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ... Into what we wanted ... & even for all 7.8 billion people (re equality too!:) Would you want to be 30 yo again at 220 body age - and healthier than now?:)

What do you think?

Scott


PS
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis): Some possible news on the gene adding front (per George Church) too, and per potential aging reversal genetic drug therapies esp - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT "Scientists harness human protein to deliver molecular medicines to cells: ..." * 19:19 minutes - why aging reversal relative to longevity - don't want to live with sickness * * This new FitBit 5 'fitness monitor watch' seems to be behavior measurement oriented on the wrist - George Church's video popped up at the end of this 30 seconds' Youtube film, and it makes me wonder how such a measuring device could be coded even for aging reversal behaviors - ie exercise or Yoga asana or pranayama (breathing) even - perhaps in conjunction with an emerging aging reversal genetic drug vaccine * * * What could 'SpO2 (blood oxygen)' levels refer to in this new FitBit5 video, and even whether this has a history with what Herbert Benson MD was measuring when seeking to study meditation scientifically in around 1970, '71, '72 as the lowered oxygen levels in the body associated with the relaxation RESPONSE, aka his finding for meditation -


PPS 
I'm a Harvard prof of genetics' GEORGE CHURCH appreciator, and think related research may have been jumpstarted dramatically over the past 17 months of coronavirus pandemic ... 

PPPS 
I'm also wondering new tools for such research will emerge in a single realistic virtual earth (for genetics and IT interoperability) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1383620317059244037?s=19 :)





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bagpiping & meditation
Thursday, Aug 26, 2021

Hi Ed, Ma,

Nice to be in touch recently! Just gave a Scottish small pipes' lesson ... It's good musical work ... I wanna bring more meditation into it (which Stuart and I have also talked about a bit a number of times) ... Eg Stuart Liddell's inner stillness and remarkable drones when he plays ... Entering into a kind of 'oneness with piping's playing space ... Much to teach and learn (drawing on Yoga too :) in these regards :)

...

How are you doing? How are your projects going? 

Warmly, Scott 



* 
Is extraordinary piper Stuart Liddell a meditator's piper, or a piper's meditator? He's so very still inside when he plays ... 

You'll find Stuart Liddell's teaching of The Cameronian Rant - with SINGING - here (but I haven't added the time markers to this post yet)
W. June 2, 2021 lesson video with Stuart & blog post
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html?m=0

Cheers, and see you soon, Taylor!,
Scott



3 lessons, all beginning with Hibiscus, for your information if interested - 

Hibiscus syriacus: Stuart Liddell piping lesson ~ August 18, 2021 ~ and learning, and re Piobaireachd :) * Exploring further crunluath fosgailte and crunluath breabach fingering movements (from lesson 36 from the Yellow Tutor for Piobaireachd by the College of Piping, Vol. 4)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html


Hibiscus rosa-sinensis: Second bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W June 2, 2021
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html?m=0



Th. May 13, 2021 lesson video & blog post
Hibiscus trionum (modesty): First bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, Th May 13 2021 ~ Scottish small pipes with singing * Any pipers here who might be interested in Stuart's Topical (group) Lessons beginning toward the end of the month (which I hope to participate in with private lessons as well)? Know of any pipers who might be interested? Stuart is the best ! :) * Regarding riffing with Yo-yo Ma's and Wynton Marsalis's 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument':) ~ "Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument" ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (And, now for something completely different, - and how to explore with bagpiping, and Stuart's extraordinary piping in particular - "Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument" ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ?) * * * Stuart Liddell Piping :) ... Topical (group) Lessons? ~ Inspiring too * Found the 4 beautiful Piobaireachd you mentioned, as either most lyrical or melodic among Piobaireachd pieces, - and enjoyed listening to them * * * * Tuesday, June 1, 20201 Transcription of most of my 'Scott MacLeod's first bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, Thursday May 13, 2021' ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/hibiscus-trionum-modesty-first-lesson.html




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Is bagpiping a relaxation response meditation  practicing opportunity for Stuart Liddell, de facto, where he kind of 'locks in' to meditative inner stillness oneness in his physical attuning with his drones, as the music he plays on his chanter, listening and feeling-wise, comes out beautifully and naturally? :))




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Desiderata poem re Psychiatry 

Read from a psychology academic discipline perspective - (which was George's in some ways) - and even from a psychiatric perspective ... ? What is psychiatry's goal? 

"... the relief of mental suffering associated with disorder and improvement of mental well-being."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/psychiatry.htm



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Hi Ma, 

Really Nice to talk to you! Glad to hear of your garden party tour tomorrow afternoon - and your near daily walk with Jean! 

I pipe too nearly every evening - about 9:50pm ... Enjoyably but seeking to develop further charting of goals on playing per - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - so may begin earlier to play.

I've begun a journal for this even in GDocs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_cjum5LP-4mn89bAMhIPcf6RMQgE91bUkfmdNIvnFY/edit?usp=sharing (which you won't be able to view, unless you request permission) ... and here's the gist of it - 

Scott’s Piping Journal 


Charting goals 



August 2021



F Aug 27 2021


Memorize Corienessan’s Salute Piobaireachd

Played it through once with Andrew Bonar’s playing reading the sheet music, 

Then closed my eyes some of the time to play it through a second time

Working on note duration 



Memorize Cameronian Rant 

Played it thru once watch part reading the music

Then twice each part with eyes’ shut

improved





Regarding the Desiderata further - 
Am thinking about 
READING or INTERPRETING it from a PSYCHOLOGY academic discipline perspective - (which was George's field in some ways) - and even from a psychiatric perspective ... What is psychiatry's goal? 

"... the relief of mental suffering associated with disorder and improvement of mental well-being."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/psychiatry.htm

I think the Desiderata addresses this to some degree ... Is it psychology academically then? Maybe not ... philosophy? ... Maybe not ... writing and thinking and almost poetry - perhaps ... 

I recall George talking about the idea of someone suffering saying philosophically and clinically 'she or he is suffering' ... And as a conscious problem solver ... George thought in interesting ways to help people not suffer. Did George suffer mentally ? Perhaps I'd hypothesize - since he went into psychiatry, for example. 

So the Desiderata may be psychology, and which poem I learned from George ... just some further thoughts :)

Love, Scott



-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Stanford Bookstore 5 yrs ago ~ beautiful ~ re #WUaSBookstore @WorldUnivAndSch http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html & Academic Press @WUaSPress planned in #Wikidata's 300 languages & in all 7139 known living languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
 w #MachineTranslation & #WUaSuniversalTranslator ~


https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1431687454138912770?s=20



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From 8/21/21 open #BayAreaStammtisch, a conversation w Fritz abt Chiemsee in Bavaria, swimming, #HarbinHotSprings, academia/university, #WUaSRevolutionizingPublishing @WUaSPress, w #TextInTheSidebar in #StreetView, printing to books, paper & in #wuASvr ~https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVGQfrDRMU_NOIB7-qHuLk4SgFKnQNAc/view ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1431715314195066882?s=20






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Saturday, August 28, 2021


Dear Ma, Sandy

All,


Brainstorming-wise, I'm not suggesting in this blog post, from this thread - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/amur-leopard.html?m=0 - that wearing a FitBit watch in the future could be a gene adding information technology into our bodyminds that could lead to reversing aging (and also for diagnosis). And I'm also not suggesting that an endangered Amur leopard could wear such a watch and become as young as the leopard cub or kitten in the main pic behind title, - which would be wild indeed - but I am wondering whether, via such a device, we'd be able to DIY wiki-edit our own genomes in something like Wikitree single family tree database software ... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ... Into what we wanted ... & even for all 7.8 billion people (re equality too!:) Would you want to be 30 yo again at 220 body age - and healthier than now?:)

What do you think?

Scott


PS
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis): Some possible news on the gene adding front (per George Church) too, and per potential aging reversal genetic drug therapies esp - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT "Scientists harness human protein to deliver molecular medicines to cells: ..." * 19:19 minutes - why aging reversal relative to longevity - don't want to live with sickness * * This new FitBit 5 'fitness monitor watch' seems to be behavior measurement oriented on the wrist - George Church's video popped up at the end of this 30 seconds' Youtube film, and it makes me wonder how such a measuring device could be coded even for aging reversal behaviors - ie exercise or Yoga asana or pranayama (breathing) even - perhaps in conjunction with an emerging aging reversal genetic drug vaccine * * * What could 'SpO2 (blood oxygen)' levels refer to in this new FitBit5 video, and even whether this has a history with what Herbert Benson MD was measuring when seeking to study meditation scientifically in around 1970, '71, '72 as the lowered oxygen levels in the body associated with the relaxation RESPONSE, aka his finding for meditation -


PPS 
I'm a Harvard prof of genetics' GEORGE CHURCH appreciator, and think related research may have been jumpstarted dramatically over the past 17 months of coronavirus pandemic ... 


PPPS 

I'm also wondering new tools for such research will emerge in a single realistic virtual earth (for genetics and IT interoperability) - 










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


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