Thursday, February 27, 2025

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera): Next steps for #MITOCW-centric wiki #GrowWithGoogleWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSCorp in all ~200 countries & for ~7.9 billion people on planet & re partnering email with #StanfordMinePi #PiCryptocurrency ie https://minepi.com/sgkmac #UBIwuas? See: https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/02/schoenoplectus-acutus-tule-m-22425-open.html & . . . * * * Juliet Johnson, Stanford Research Webinar Th Fb 27, 2025, and Central Banks' Museums * * * Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group, 4th Thursdays out of Yoga in Chico CA * "What are words for bliss in Yoga, Hinduism and Sanskrit ? Ananda and also Sukha AI overview The Sanskrit word for bliss is ānanda (आनन्द). It is a key word in yoga and Hinduism that can also mean happiness, joy, and delight"

 



Next steps for #MITOCW-centric wiki #GrowWithGoogleWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSCorp in all ~200 countries & for ~7.9 billion people on planet & re partnering email with #StanfordMinePi #PiCryptocurrency ie https://minepi.com/sgkmac #UBIwuas? See:



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Juliet Johnson, Stanford Research Webinar Th Fb 27, 2025, and Central Banks' Museums 

Dear Juliet, (and Peter Norvig, Google AI Director), 

Greetings. Thanks for your edifying Stanford talk which I watched today, and appreciate Larry Diamond's question about cryptocurrency.

MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS Corporation partnering email with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency - eg https://minepi.com/sgkmac - to 'show you the money,' not yet in a central bank museum that I know of. How could MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS, planning to develop major online MIT OCW-centric #GrowWithGoogleWUaS Universities in all ~200 countries ((https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)) and in their main and official languages, and wiki schools for speakers of all 7164 known living languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages), and then to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - each a Wikidata PIN # . And WUaS has a partnering email with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency. WUaS seeks then to distribute Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency to most people on the planet and to therefore end poverty with UBI experiments of similar, and to create a main single cryptocurrency in each of all ~200 countries. How best could MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS Corp best communicate with central banks in all 200 countries about this and potentially through their central bank museums, as well as possibly through their heads of state/ central bank too, given your argument from museums? 

More about Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency and the WUaS Corp in a Agenda items A & B - 







Notes - 





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The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) bridges the worlds of scholarship and practice to understand and foster the conditions for effective representative governance, promote balanced and sustainable economic growth, and establish the rule of law.

Juliet Johnson argues that central banks attempt to build public trust in money and monetary governance through the strategic use of what she calls a stability narrative, asserting that they can maintain the value of money, maintain the security of money, represent the nation, and have grown increasingly professional and sophisticated over time. This talk explores the stability narrative by studying its expression in central bank museums. Museums tell stories; they distill, teach, and privilege the beliefs of their creators. As such, museums represent an excellent vehicle for understanding the ways in which central banks describe and promote their ability to govern money. Johnson's research is based on interviews and site visits at over 35 central bank museums and an original database that gathers and systematizes publicly available information on central bank museums worldwide.
Thursday, February 27 · 12:00 - 1:30 pm PT

Virtual to the public.
Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to the William J. Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. In-person registration is not required.
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Juliet Johnson‘s research focuses on the politics of money and identity. She is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and former President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is the author of the award-winning Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Cornell 2016) and A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Cornell 2000), co-editor of Developments in Russian Politics 10 (Bloomsbury 2024) and Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Routledge 2005), and author of numerous scholarly and policy-oriented articles. She has been Lead Editor of the Review of International Political Economy, Network Director of the Jean Monnet network Between the EU and Russia (BEAR), Advisory Council member at the Kennan Institute, Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She received McGill University’s President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching, the Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Faculty of Arts Award for Distinction in Research. She earned her PhD in Politics from Princeton University and her AB in International Relations from Stanford University.




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Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group, 4th Thursdays out of Yoga in Chico CA

Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod yogamacflower@gmail.com

4:44 PM (19 minutes ago)
to yogitom, Scott, Pin, Ed, Alden, Angela, Andrew, Robin, victor, Barbara, George, Lynn, Scott, Linda, Jane, Joan, John, John, Donna, Peter, Shawn, Erica, Dick, LBSCarly, angeladaphnefarmer, Ann, Elliott, Joichi


Dear Yogi Tom, All, 


Greetings ... appreciating this Yoga discussion opportunity ... and about bliss (incredibly) ... 

I found the Zoom URL here - https://www.yogacenterofchico.com/event-calendar/2024/9/28/yoga-philosophy-discussion-group and it looks like it begins at 5:30 pm Pacific Time ... so in about 1 hour. 

See you soon, Namaste, Happy Yoga, 
Scott





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Dear Yogi Tom, Siddhartha / Pin (best friend from high school in Pennsylvania, and having been born in India, living there for the first year of his life), All,  


Namaste. I just glanced through the pdfs you sent me, and don't see the words 'ananda' or 'sukha' ... having just searched on bliss and found this AI overview - 


What are words for bliss in Yoga, Hinduism and Sanskrit ?

Ananda and also Sukha 

AI overview

The Sanskrit word for bliss is ānanda (आनन्द). It is a key word in yoga and Hinduism that can also mean happiness, joy, and delight.

Explanation

Ānanda is a vital attribute of Brahman, the supreme being in Indian philosophy. It symbolizes the state of self-realization and spiritual fulfillment. In the Hindu Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad gita, ānanda represents eternal bliss that comes after the cycle of rebirth ends.

In yogic philosophy, ānanda is one of the three essential aspects of existence, along with sat (truth) and chit (consciousness). Together, these qualities describe the nature of the universal consciousness or true self.

In deeper yoga practices, ānanda is related to samadhi, the yogic state of unitary consciousness. Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the samadhi that transcends all mental activities, is the highest ānanda.

Sukha (सुख) is another Sanskrit word that means happiness, pleasure, ease, joy, or bliss.


Might we be able to talk about Ananda as bliss (and loving bliss as well) and Yoga this evening possibly please? 

Thank you, Namaste, Happy Yoga explorations, 
Scott 




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Dear Yogi Tom, Siddhartha / Pin (best friend from high school in Pennsylvania, and having been born in India, living there for the first year of his life), All,  

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Yogi Tom, Siddhartha / Pin (best friend from high school in Pennsylvania, and having been born in India, living there for the first year of his life), All,  

Namaste. I just glanced through the pdfs you sent me, and don't see the words 'ananda' or 'sukha' ... having just searched on bliss and found this AI overview - 


What are words for bliss in Yoga, Hinduism and Sanskrit ?

Ananda and also Sukha 

AI overview

The Sanskrit word for bliss is ānanda (आनन्द). It is a key word in yoga and Hinduism that can also mean happiness, joy, and delight.

Explanation

Ānanda is a vital attribute of Brahman, the supreme being in Indian philosophy. It symbolizes the state of self-realization and spiritual fulfillment. In the Hindu Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad gita, ānanda represents eternal bliss that comes after the cycle of rebirth ends.

In yogic philosophy, ānanda is one of the three essential aspects of existence, along with sat (truth) and chit (consciousness). Together, these qualities describe the nature of the universal consciousness or true self.

In deeper yoga practices, ānanda is related to samadhi, the yogic state of unitary consciousness. Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the samadhi that transcends all mental activities, is the highest ānanda.

Sukha (सुख) is another Sanskrit word that means happiness, pleasure, ease, joy, or bliss.


Might we be able to talk about Ananda as bliss (and loving bliss as well) and Yoga this evening possibly please? 

Thank you, Namaste, Happy Yoga explorations, 
Scott 


On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Yogi Tom, All, 

Greetings ... appreciating this Yoga discussion opportunity ... and about bliss (incredibly) ... 

I found the Zoom URL here - https://www.yogacenterofchico.com/event-calendar/2024/9/28/yoga-philosophy-discussion-group and it looks like it begins at 5:30 pm Pacific Time ... so in about 1 hour. 

See you soon, Namaste, Happy Yoga, 
Scott






On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Tom, All, 

Greetings from near Harbin Hot Springs (aka Heart Consciousness Church) after some good soaking meditation earlier in the day, as well as sitting meditation on a Harbin pool area deck (and with Yoga Mudrasana, closing or sealing pose in half lotus, not in body-temperature warm water). Am deeply appreciative of how the Harbin warm pool kind of meditates you, i.e. the people who are soaking in it, and also changes one's consciousness, and even in doing so kind of gives one a natural high, and sometimes bliss bubbles up :) (And Harbin is coming together after the Valley Fire of 9/12/15 that razed it ... and could be pretty nice by next year)

Looking forward further to our Yoga conversation about bliss this Thursday ... 

Yogically,  
Scott 

Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

with pic of partner child pose - supported backbend 



PS
Gemini AI conversational generative AI just blew me away, in response to some Yoga questions about Eight Limb Yoga (Patanjali's Yoga sutras) and Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations, and see -











PPS
(I recently unsubscribed Janet MacLeod from this email thread at her request ... and please let me know if any of you would like to unsubscribe as well ... "(to Yogini Janet MacLeod in SF - with my mother having the same name as you ... and you being from the Isle of Skye in Scotland) ... and I having lived and studied for 2 full years in Edinburgh, Scotland")




On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom (Tom Hess at yogitom@comcast.net or Lauren Carly at LBSCarly@gmail.com), Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group out of Chico, CA, All, 

Received some well-formed and well-conceived text attachments from the Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group out of Chico, CA  and in my yogamacflower@gmail.com email address being added to the Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group email list, ... and was interested to see that the 2/27/25 Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group was about bliss (an experience, 'neural cascades of pleasure'? which Yoga philosophy has a rich vocabulary for, but which language could be significantly expanded and developed in English, for example, and "From the Inside" which words are in the titles of many of Yogi artist (above) Victor Van Kooten's Yoga books). I replied to Tom and Lauren in some of these regards - 

Dear Lauren and Tom, 

Thanks so much for your email and the well-formed, well-conceived Yoga text attachments! Will glance at them further, and here are some directions I head in regarding bliss and even eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology thinking-wise (and Yoga-thinking-wise especially) - 







Just heading into Harbin Hot Springs (my actual-virtual anthropological field site, & re my first large book "Naked Harbin Ethnography")  in Lake County  ... where I hope to study bliss, and re soaking in the Harbin warm pool, in new ways (and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article about World University and School #WorldUniversityINSchool - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ... and search on the words 'bliss' and 'Harbin' for example).

Might this email thread possibly become in little ways part of this Th 2/27/25 Yoga (out of Chico) conversation about bliss ?

Scott 



PS
Have added my first email to you here in my daily blog - 

Thursday, February 6, 2025
Mohican State Park, OH: Is #HarbinHotSprings a #HippyChurch?

Scott



On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Tom (Tom Hess at yogitom@comcast.net or Lauren Carly at LBSCarly@gmail.com), Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group, 250 Vallombrosa, Suite 150 Chico, CA, All, 

Thanks so much for this Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group out of Chico opportunity (and via Zoom too), which I found here - https://www.yogacenterofchico.com/event-calendar/2024/9/28/yoga-philosophy-discussion-group.Greetings from San Francisco, and the SF East Bay where I've taught Yoga in Canyon 94516, having lived there for some 13 years, before seeking asylum on the eastern seaboard as a whistleblower about potential criminality there, and in the sf quaker meeting +). And thanks again, Tom, decades ago, after I completed the 2 year Yoga certificate course at IYI Sf for helping me get an opportunity to teach Yoga in the Yoga Studio (where Evlaleah Howard was the proprietor) on Divisadero in the mid 1990s around 1993. And thanks too so much for helping me get a beautifully hand-crafted Plow-Pose restorative Yoga asana bench around this time (and did you make this yourself?). I continue to do Yoga asana and meditation daily first thing upon rising and in very salutary ways. 

I'm writing to inquire if it would be possible to join this  Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group out of Chico opportunity in Zoom, and letting friends, and contacts know about this as well (some of whom learned directly from Iyengar for decades). A bit in conversation with Angela and Victor's Yoga, as well as Patanjali's Sutras, out of Iyengar Yoga too, I've written this Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html . Am also interested Yoga-wise in emerging Yoga-genetic therapies for aging reversal and extreme longevity, and also "#YogaGenetics? For performance - higher faster stronger athletics - & #ETHICS? What? How?" ...  

"For #Olympics? #YogaGenetics? For performance - higher faster stronger athletics - & #ETHICS? What? How? If & when #vaccines for #YogaAthletes w #WUaSLongevity & #WUaSAgingReversal genetic drugs develop & give us younger -at age 150 years' old?, -more supple bodies, how #YogaEthics work?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1502719646016827392?t=FW1zXnAYyMBvCG190wG69A&s=19 "
 
and wonder how such possible Yoga asana genetic drug therapies emerging might work with even Chair Yoga for 105 year olds (with their declining 'gene function' and see - Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's 60 Minutes' 66 seconds video -

"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (2019)

Am also at MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School WUaS, with its Yoga wiki subject or school, in English so far only (and see below), growing a worldwide abolition movement to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries internationally, and their latent networks of violence ... and in Yoga circles especially  ... and re protecting people, women, kids, others ... and wonder how the California is doing with regard to protecting particularly youth in Yoga cricels, and possibly regarding even - 

Teen Yoga with Lauren at Chico Yoga 

Might it be possible to add my yogamacflower@gmail email address please to this Zoom Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group from Chico?

Happy Yoga, best wishes, Friendly regards, abolitionally, Namaste, 
Scott





Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group

  • Thursday, February 27, 20255:30 PM 
    Thursday, December 25, 20257:30 PM
  • Yoga Center of Chico250 Vallombrosa, Suite 150 Chico, CA 95926 (map)

4th Thursday, monthly, 5:30 – 7 pm

To be added to the email list and for more information contact: Tom Hess at yogitom@comcast.net or Lauren Carly at LBSCarly@gmail.com









PPS
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (2019)
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

"Aging reversal is something that's been proven about eight different ways in animals," geneticist George Church says. So when will humans get to turn back the clock? Church tells 60 Minutes it's not that far away. See the full report, Sunday'

60 Minutes
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
 




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Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

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Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

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Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

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Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
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Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

with pic of partner child pose - supported backbend 





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