Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Manzanita (Arctostaphylos): 'Harbin Hot Springs - 21 years ago in around 2005' AND 'Happy Birthday to you, Ishvara and Richard!' * * Some recent developments re Yoga Genetics ... and aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies ... with a first FDA clinical trial for ER-100 gene drug therapy in humans for eyes, here in Agenda item 2 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/mount-shasta-wilderness.html ... and see George Church's video interview titied "The End of Aging ... "

 


 'Harbin Hot Springs - 21 years ago in around 2005' 


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date: Feb 9, 2026, 2:31 PM

subject: Re: Happy Birthday to you, Ishvara and Richard!







Ishvara, All, 

Happy Birthday, Ish! 

Mountain Jam (Theme From “First There Is A Mountain”) (Live At The Fillmore East, March 12 &... (1971)
https://youtu.be/5-3L1MFBKZY 


And here below are 2 pictures of Manzanita and Azalea guest buildings at Harbin Hot Springs near Stonefront Lodge from around 2005, when I first began ethnographic field work for what would become "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... which book on 324 pages of  paper I gave to you in a Berkeley Bowl shopping bag somewhat Yoga-ceremonially naked in the warm pool in the spring of 2025 - not yet in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs ... 

which I hope will emerge from here in G Street View with time slider (with the above Peter Norvig's and Google and Alphabet's help too)- 

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~


Scott MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott GK MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


key ethnographic interpretations in it - 

hippies to the hot springs - being one main interpretation 

soaking meditating in the Harbin warm pool naked deeply informs the 'culture' as  counterculture from hippies to the hot springs in the early 1970s in NorCal of Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church's socio cultural 'fabric' ... ~ consciousness especially 

that Harbin emerged from the 1960s and '70s in its current form, with you Ish getting the property in 1972, is a great example or instantiation of a countercultural 'place'  - institutionalizing counterculture as place even, or institutionalizing 'the party' out of the 1960s and '70s somehow - as 'place' that emerges from soaking meditation in the pools ... 


In today's free World Univ & Sch Weekly Business Meeting WUaS News and Q&A 

agenda item 11 


I also explored in this building out a realistic virtual earth for a Grateful Dead show in and around the Berkeley Community Theater (part of Berkeley High School) on August 24, 1972, and building out further creating a virtual earth up to the UC Berkeley campus, a bout 5 blocks away in 1972 ... and then even traveling up to Harbin Hot Springs after this GD show virtually - in virtual NorCal - and to a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in 1972  - were you there then Ishvara? - and drawing from pictures and documents from Califonira archives to make Harbin come alive in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory ..

Harbin's Jon Strieter (above - Thanks, Jon) texted me a few months ago saying you and he were kind of celebrating the Valley Fire of 2015 for razing Harbin ... Glad navigating the Harbin currents are better for you - and as survivors of some of those 'negative vortexes' Sunheart used to characterize aspects of Harbin :) 

Is the new hotel next to the pool area up and running now? Might there be a community kitchen in the future? And what's happening with where the great Harbin conference center was in the future? 

Happy Birthday, Ishvara,
Scott






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'Happy Birthday to you, Ishvara and Richard!'


Ishvara (Harbin Hot Springs' founder), and Richard (Bock - and are you in NorCal ... or back in Germany?), All, 


Happy Birthday to you both!

Glad some of us are continuing to listen to great rock and roll like - 
Mountain Jam (Theme From “First There Is A Mountain”) (Live At The Fillmore East, March 12 &... (1971)
https://youtu.be/5-3L1MFBKZY 

Some recent developments re Yoga Genetics ... and aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies ... with a first FDA clinical trial for ER-100 gene drug therapy in humans for eyes, here in Agenda item 2 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/mount-shasta-wilderness.html ... and see George Church's video interview titied "The End of Aging ... " in agenda item 8, here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/mount-whitney.html ...

Happy birthday greets from Berzerkeley, 
Scott



PS
Here's some great classical music, but it ain't the same ...

WALKER: Lyric for Strings
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major | University Orchestra Weimar

https://youtu.be/-PyAkTW5HDU

Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B Minor / Yo-Yo Ma, cello / Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

https://youtu.be/190faUQ7xJg


WALKER: Lyric for Strings









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