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Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod yogamacflower@gmail.com

Feb 27, 2025, 7:12 PM (2 days ago)
to Scott, Pin, Ed, Alden, Angela, Andrew, Robin, victor, Barbara, George, Lynn, Scott, Linda, Jane, Joan, John, John, Donna, Peter, Shawn, Erica, Dick, Lauren, angeladaphnefarmer, Ann, Elliott, Joichi, Tom


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,  

Greetings! Thanks for your Yoga discourse and the Yoga discussion ... Appreciating your and the Yoga Center of Chico's ethics (re Yoga philosophy too) .. 

My wifi signal kept cutting off ... so I left toward the end. Some ideas I typed in the Zoom text chat, in text, and or sent or didn't send in text chat: 

Conscience … re right and wrong (and re consciousness which you were talking about just before) .... As a northeast f/Friend Quaker, here's some thinking about conscientious objection (eg such as Quaker - conscientious objection) https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/conscientious%20objection ... Appreciating your ethics and focus on 8 limb yoga (and re http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html)


"Tom … thanks … how to elicit bliss as ananda ‘from the inside’ - here and now?
Thanks … I appreciate what Tom emailed me just before this discussion - 

'Scott, this is not a discussion about bliss in general. We are discussing what BKS Iyengar says about it in "light on life". It is a book exploration. Thanks for your interest. Namaste, Tom
Sent from my iPhone'

Inspired by Angela and Victor’s Inspiring Yoga and re these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html … I’ll ask this question - Tom … thanks … how to elicit bliss as ananda ‘from the inside’ - here and now? - but realized Tom that you’re talking about a specific interpretation of Yoga. Thanks!"


(To Yoga Center of Chico ... is that you  Lauren, or ?): 
I won’t be joining in March … Thanks a lot! Namaste, and Yogically, Scott


To Everyone. 
Thanks, Tom, nice to Yoga-see you after 30 years too. Here’s a view on practicing bliss too “Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument” -
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm
And re Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (also inspired by Angela and Victor’s Yoga who come into conversation with Iyengar Yoga by creating a new approach to Yoga ‘from the inside’)… Namaste, Friendly regards, Happy Yoga, Scott

Namaste, nontheist f/Friendly (Quaker) regards, Happy Yoga, Scott






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 Evalaleah 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 ~

with pic of partner child pose - supported backbend 


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First textual or stone carving or similar evidence for yoga sutras compilations of Patanjali where? 8 limb yoga ?

The earliest textual evidence for the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which outlines the eight limbs of yoga, comes from a compilation of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) in India, likely between 500 BCE and 400 CE. 
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Textual Evidence: The Yoga Sutras themselves are the primary source, a collection of 195 Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga. 
Patanjali's Role: The sage Patanjali is credited with compiling and organizing knowledge about yoga from older traditions, including Samkhya, Buddhism, and older Yoga traditions. 
Eight Limbs of Yoga (Ashtanga Yoga): The eight limbs are:
Yama (moral discipline): Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (celibacy), Aparigraha (non-attachment) 
Niyama (observances): Saucha (purity), Santosha (contentment), Tapas (discipline), Swadhyaya (self-study), Ishvara-Pranidhana (surrender to the divine) 
Asana (physical postures): 
Pranayama (breath control): 
Pratyahara (sense withdrawal): 
Dharana (concentration): 
Dhyana (meditation): 
Samadhi (enlightenment or bliss): 
Timeline: The Yoga Sutras were compiled sometime between 500 BCE and 400 CE. 
Location: The compilation took place in India. 


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he earliest textual evidence for the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which outlines the eight limbs of yoga, comes from a compilation of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) in India, likely between 500 BCE and 400 CE. 
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
  • Textual Evidence: The Yoga Sutras themselves are the primary source, a collection of 195 Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga. 
  • Patanjali's Role: The sage Patanjali is credited with compiling and organizing knowledge about yoga from older traditions, including Samkhya, Buddhism, and older Yoga traditions. 
  • Eight Limbs of Yoga (Ashtanga Yoga): The eight limbs are:
    • Yama (moral discipline): Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (celibacy), Aparigraha (non-attachment) 
    • Niyama (observances): Saucha (purity), Santosha (contentment), Tapas (discipline), Swadhyaya (self-study), Ishvara-Pranidhana (surrender to the divine) 
    • Asana (physical postures): 
    • Pranayama (breath control): 
    • Pratyahara (sense withdrawal): 
    • Dharana (concentration): 
    • Dhyana (meditation): 
    • Samadhi (enlightenment or bliss): 
  • Timeline: The Yoga Sutras were compiled sometime between 500 BCE and 400 CE. 
  • Location: The compilation took place in India. 

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What did Herbert Benson MD in "The Relaxation Response" book from 1975 show scientifically about meditation ?



What did Herbert Benson MD in "The Relaxation Response" book from 1975 show about meditation, what was he explaining about meditation scientifically; did it show lower oxygen levels in the blood than otherwise and did he come up with the words relaxation response?


Herbert Benson, MD, was a pioneer in mind-body medicine, and his work significantly advanced the scientific understanding of meditation. Here's a breakdown of his key contributions:
 * The Relaxation Response:
   * Dr. Benson is most famous for defining the "relaxation response," which is the physiological opposite of the "fight-or-flight" response.
   * His 1975 book, "The Relaxation Response," popularized this concept and explained how meditation and other similar practices could elicit this response.
   * Essentially, he demonstrated that through specific techniques, individuals could counteract the harmful effects of stress.
 * Scientific Explanation of Meditation:
   * Benson's research provided scientific evidence for the physiological changes that occur during meditation.
   * He showed that meditation could lead to:
     * Decreased heart rate.
     * Lowered blood pressure.
     * Slower respiration.
     * Changes in brain wave patterns.
   * While there are many complex changes that occur during the relaxation response, generally speaking, his work showed that the body goes into a state of lower arousal. This includes a decrease in oxygen consumption.
 * Key Contributions:
   * He bridged the gap between medicine and spirituality, demonstrating the scientific basis for practices like meditation.
   * His work emphasized the importance of self-care and stress management in overall health.
   * And yes, he coined the phrase "relaxation response".
In essence, Dr. Benson's work provided a scientific foundation for understanding the benefits of meditation and other relaxation techniques, making them more accessible to a wider audience.





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How best to iteratively code a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + for "REAL difficulties & RISKS" ! 


How best to code this early in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + in iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing 
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (: #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMaps #GCellView #GMoleculeView) @zhangf @davidsunkong @geochurch for 
#AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity?













Retweeting - 

Protocol
Published: 24 February 2025
Circular Vectors as an efficient, fully synthetic, cell-free approach for preparing small circular DNA as a plasmid substitute for guide RNA expression in CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing
Roman Teo Oliynyk & George M. Church 

  • Protocol
  • Published: 24 February 2025

Circular Vectors as an efficient, fully synthetic, cell-free approach for preparing small circular DNA as a plasmid substitute for guide RNA expression in CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing








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How best to iteratively code this early in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + in iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing 
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (eg in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMaps #GCellView #GMoleculeView) @zhangf @davidsunkong @HankGreelyLSJU @geochurch for 
#AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevityGenetics?




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How best to iteratively code in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + for "REAL difficulties & RISKS" in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing @HankGreelyLSJU @geochurch for "all the advantages w/o the disadvantages of being stuck w heritable changes” @stardazed0 #PeterNorvig ?










Retweeting -

Read this piece by @antonioregalado:  technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/109… It correctly directs attention to editing in living people & to rare variants that protect against some diseases. But there are REAL difficulties & risks, both known & not. 





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How best to iteratively code a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + for "REAL difficulties & RISKS" ?


How best to code this early in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + in iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing 
https://www.toolify. ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (: #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMaps #GCellView #GMoleculeView) @zhangf @davidsunkong @geochurch for 
#AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity?

https://x. com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1895526885045780764

https://x. com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1895528178564874340

https://x. com/TheOpenBand/status/1895527998474109239

https://x. com/WUaSPress/status/1895527541211115898

https://x. com/HarbinBook/status/1895527626275737718

https://x. com/scottmacleod/status/1895527396440474101

https://x. com/sgkmacleod/status/1895527784627454377



Retweeting - 


Protocol
Published: 24 February 2025
Circular Vectors as an efficient, fully synthetic, cell-free approach for preparing small circular DNA as a plasmid substitute for guide RNA expression in CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing
Roman Teo Oliynyk & George M. Church 

https://x. com/geochurch/status/1895168997269688465



Again expanded -
How best to iteratively code this early in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + in iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing 
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (eg in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMaps #GCellView #GMoleculeView) @zhangf @davidsunkong @HankGreelyLSJU @geochurch for 
#AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevityGenetics?


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How best to iteratively code in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR + for "REAL difficulties & RISKS" in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGeneEditing @HankGreelyLSJU @geochurch for "all the advantages w/o the disadvantages of being stuck w heritable changes” @stardazed0 #PeterNorvig ?







Retweeting -

Read this piece by @antonioregalado:  technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/109… It correctly directs attention to editing in living people & to rare variants that protect against some diseases. But there are REAL difficulties & risks, both known & not. 

https://x. com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1827429891736007146



(https://x. com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1895526885045780764 & https://www.linkedin. com/posts/scottgkmacleod_george-church-geochurch-on-x-activity-7301295605073551360-PeQf )







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