Fern Forest: Just a box with warm water in it, Hole in the ground in the 1960s, Harbin's 1st book of history

It's just a box with warm water in it ... the Harbin warm pool ...


Actually, Harbin has many boxes with water in them - the warm water just streams up from under the earth - but what happens around them in conjunction with the 'culture' which has emerged there since the 1960s is way cool, in my experience.


The waters there are remarkable in bringing people into the present.


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As I overheard someone say today, you can pretty much get away with anything at Harbin.

Harbin has always been a pretty permissive place, at least since the 1960s.


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In the Blue Room Cafe today at Harbin, I heard an interesting story about the 1960s, before anyone who is now at Harbin, lived here.

This was when a lot of folks were coming up from the Haight Ashbury and San Francisco, to visit Harbin during a pretty open time there at the height of the 60s. {Folks and freaks were publishing very cool handsheets and newsprint then; I'll have to find these around - in the San Francisco Public Library, at San Francisco State and in the Bancroft Libraries at UC Berkeley, for example}.

Don Mattrick (sp?) had heard that the cops were coming up to bust some people for having LSD at Harbin. So he hid in a hole in the ground for 3 days, with the acid, and the cops eventually went away, finding nothing. Satsang Toke was one of the folks who helped with this ... seems like it might have been an interesting time at Harbin in the 1960s.


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The Harbin history by Ellen Klages called, "Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Waters" (1991, 1993) mentions how in the summer of 1968, the Frontiers of Science started something at Harbin ...


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My Harbin ethnography will engage different aspects of Harbin history ...






(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/fern-forest-just-box-with-warm-water-in.html - February 10, 2010)

Mountain Rainbow: Creating 7000-ish language (all) forests & sustainable cities, Omelette-making with raga playing, Languages both 'real' & human-made

Creating 7000-ish language (all) forests & sustainable cities of World University & School wikis together ... open free teaching & learning in all ways worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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Omelette-making, soon, with raga playing - ravi shankar - with loving bliss elicitation awareness in bodymind .... happens a little :)



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Languages - both 'real' and human-made at WUaS at worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - toward a universal translator - loving bliss neurophysiology as one of these?

What's the language of loving bliss?

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/mountain-rainbow-creating-7000-ish.html - February 9, 2010)

Canyon Flowers: Matching Monies for Contributions to World University and School, Please Contribute

World University & School's Board of Directors / Clerks has offered matching funds for CONTRIBUTORS to World University & School - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation.


Please contribute to World University & School for these matching contributions.

Mail your check to

World University & School
POB 442
Canyon, CA 94516


Thank you!







(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/canyon-flowers-matching-monies-for.html - February 8, 2010)

Figs: Harbin's wholeness - its Gestalt - which is a kind of experiential perfection - the waters & the valley, the climate, the clothing optionalness

Changes in perspective are emblematic of, and a part of counterculture.


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At Harbin I hear Spanish spoken sometimes, besides English.


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I sometimes find hints of Nicholson's "Somethings got to give" film at Harbin.


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Wisdom in individuals in the place and freedom at Harbin.


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At Harbin there are at least 14 films a week.


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A social pattern I've noticed at Harbin:

There's a kind of hazing at Harbin upon 1st arriving as a guest, which I've noticed over the years. While not exacting hazing, a Harbin resident, for example, might even do something unthoughtful or slightly antagonistic, and then a beneficial serendipity often develops at Harbin following this initial slight negativity. Harbin's cattiness?



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It's a warm weekend day beginning of fig leaves coming out.


Harbin has a wholeness - its Gestalt - which is a kind of experiential perfection - the waters and the valley, the climate, the clothing optionalness.













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/figs-harbins-wholeness-its-gestalt.html - February 8, 2010)

Lotus Buds: What would 'meeting for blissing' look like?, 2 hour form?, Raga as metaphor

What would 'meeting for blissing' {or, especially, 'meeting for loving bliss' neurophysiology} look like?

What might be its 2 hour form - like chamber music performance as analory, or raga performance (ragas are improvised)?

Face-joy improv?

What 'practices?'


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If raga is the form as a metaphor, what are the skills of loving bliss 'musicianship,' akin to sitar playing, tabla playing ... so we might begin to give forms to improvisation with highly trained musicians vis-a-vis loving bliss?


Learning how to play ragas is originally an oral tradition, although I suspect that some musicians now learn these instruments using sheet music with notation.



What would the parallel music, and oral tradition, for loving bliss improvisation be?

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/lotus-buds-what-would-meeting-for.html - February 8, 2010)

Citrus: Welcome to 'Information Technology & Society' on Harvard's Virtual Island in Second Life

This is the notecard I just shared with everyone in my Second Life group: "Soc & Info Tech ~ Aphilo on Berkman."

You, who read this, are welcome to this open, free, first course at World University and School. We meet in the free, virtual world of Second Life. Here's information about how to get there.




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Welcome to 'Information Technology & Society' on Harvard's Virtual Island in Second Life (slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25)!

This is a course about the Information Technology revolution. Here's the course wiki: socinfotech.pbworks.com.

Please join the "Soc & Info Tech ~ Aphilo on Berkman" Second Life group.

Here's a key resource: webnographers.org.


This is also the first college course (non-credit) at World University & School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University.

And please join the WUaS Google Group and Facebook Group for information: groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School and facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141.

All of the above information can also be found on my web site: scottmacleod.com.

I'm looking forward to conversing with you about the Information Technology revolution.

With friendly greetings,
Scott (Aphilo Aarde in Second Life)

scottmacleod.com/papers.htm








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/citrus-welcome-to-information.html - February 7, 2010)

Neurons: How to course love through the world (via the media) and our brains?

How to course love through the world (via the media) and our brains?


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I'd like to explore this with World University and School. What would you suggest? Edit this page: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University.




























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/neurons-how-to-course-love-through.html - February 6, 2010)

How do things settle down for people emotionally when people abide in one place? How to enliven and complement this?

How do things settle down for people emotionally - when people abide (John Money 1988:114) in one place - and what patterns emerge? ... How to create fluidness in ways of interacting, after settledness develops?






















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-do-things-settle-down-for-people.html - February 5, 2010)

Stream flowers: How to make anthropological field work come 'alive'?, Like a wanderer, Relationship between 'neurophysiology' and 'virtual'

How to make anthropological field work at Harbin.org come 'alive,' - in a virtual world? How to cultivate the relaxationresponse.org/steps in a virtual Harbin, from home, or wherever? In a bathtub?

And to make an academic process of representing and interpreting interactively, as a form of knowledge production, is a fascinating possibility with a virtual Harbin.


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Harbin.org field work in the pools is fascinating when studying the relaxationresponse.org/steps anthropologically especially in the context of Heart Consciousness Church. The warm pools deepen the experience of releasing, and Harbin itself, as milieu, transforms releasing, culturally.


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Before I passed by the Harbin gate on my way there {a little like a wanderer on the road}, I was eliciting the relaxation response along a beautiful stream vis-a-vis nature.

MMmmm. :) Flax seed oil - omega 3s.

To the waters of warmth at Harbin.org soon.


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What's the relationship between 'neurophysiology' and 'virtual'? Both take place richly in the bodymind, but the 'virtual' in the context of the internet and virtual worlds, is influenced by representations, more and more interactive (see Packer and Jordan's book "Multimedia" [2000]).










(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-make-anthropological-field-work.html - February 4, 2010)

Arctostaphylos manzanita: Harbin pools in the morning, Face-joy improvisation, Harbin politics, Harbin has helped a lot of People

Harbin pools in the morning ...


I spent a long time in the Harbin baths today ... going in thrice, for hours ... it's so nice and easy and whole-making to be there ...


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Saw some face-joy improvisation - like musical improvisation with skillful instrumentalists - in the pools ... a new art form :)

Let's cultivate this as an art, a little like contact improv, jazz, and theater improvisation.


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New ideas emerge for me in the pools, vis-a-vis Harbin. The pools open idea-possibilities for me.


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I'd like to focus this blog to generate my ethnographic manuscript - until I've finished it. The daily focus will accomplish a lot.


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What are the politics of the pools, in a social science sense?

Harmonizing, oneness, cuddling, clothing-optionalness, silence, freedom, enjoyment, relaxation response ...


Political process at Harbin is a kind of hippie anarchism with some ideals of nonviolence. It's also tribal - family-oriented in some ways. The politics here are also informed by Watsu and HAI and new age workshops; also by the big beat, and kind of tribalism/big man. They are also the politics of a mid-size business. And they are informed by a relationship with a generally open, progressive community in the SF Bay Area, Sacramento, and up north, - so northern California politics, culturally, in a way.


The politics of the Harbin pools, and Harbin, have to do with getting in to the water 24/7, and with Harbin as an 'organization.'


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'Love' brain-chemistry interactivity emerges in the ease of the pools, where, in that ease there, new kinds of relating with what I'm experiencing and thinking seem to emerge, influenced by what I'd call love oriented neurophysiology ...


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Harbin could be seen, imaginatively, from an aerial (modernity - flight) photograph as a single sperm (modernity - the microscope), where the body of the sperm is the Harbin valley and the tail of the sperm is the four mile road to Middletown.



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Harbin has helped a lot of people who are now living there as residents - in material ways - and a lot. ... People have found a niche at Harbin - from modernity, too - over the years through finding a home there, - in ways they might not have been able to in the places they came from.

Harbin is quite permissive in very many ways, - alternative ways, especially.







(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/arctostaphylos-manzanita-harbin-pools.html - February 4, 2010)