Sphere: World University & School in same sphere of web thought as Wikipedia

How to invite World University & School into the same sphere of web thought - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - as Wikipedia, worldwide?






















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-invite-world-university-school.html - January 11, 2010)

Evening settles on this town of Fairfax

Evening settles on this town of Fairfax,
where alternative culture has resilience.


To connecting via contact imnprov soon :)

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/evening-settles-on-this-town-of-fairfax.html - January 11, 2010)

Gorilla: Nontheist Friends / Atheist Quakers at World Univ & Sch, FREE Harvard Ph.D., Come Visit In-World

Hi, Nontheist Friends,

There's an opportunity for any of us to teach (and learn) about Nontheist Friends, or anything, here at World University & School (of which I'm a key creator, as you can be, as well).

I'm emailing you what I just sent to the two WUaS groups, (facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141&ref=ts and groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School) - with an invitation to join these groups, as well.

I'm particularly interested in reaching out and developing a student body and community for World University & School. While degree- and credit- granting are happening gradually, World University & School is linking free degrees, including this Harvard Ph.D. in Education - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Degree_Programs (which students would have applied to about a week ago).

I'd love to learn of atheist Quaker ideas from you for developing a student body, as well as beginning to talk to the Quaker world about the open, free, wiki World University & School, where we can teach and learn.

As you'll see below, I'm holding office hours in Second Life on Harvard's Island on Saturdays from 11a-1p Pacific Time. And I can help you get a free SL avatar, if you like. Second Life is a fascinating, interactive, virtual world of islands, which we can all build and communicate in. As I've mentioned before, there's even an unprogrammed Silent Meeting there which meets on Saturdays at 10 am Pacific Time, for those interested - scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm.

With friendly greetings,
Scott

scottmacleod.com





Hi Universitians,

NEW: World University & School Office Hours worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University on Saturdays from 11a-1p Pacific Time in Second life on Harvard's Island - slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25 with Aphilo Aarde (Scott Macleod's avatar) Come visit, say hi - teach & learn.

Teaching and learning resources at World University & School continue to grow.

Did anyone here apply for the FREE Harvard Ph.D. degree linked here at World University & School - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Degree_Programs? WUaS would love to hear from you, if you did.

Please add more FREE degrees and credit opportunities that you know of.

As you know, there's a lot of great, FREE Educational Software at WUaS. Enjoy, and please add more.

WUaS is an open, free, wiki University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - potentially in all languages, nation-states, subjects, and languages.

To an open and free wiki for Teaching and Learning,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/gorilla-nontheist-friends-atheist.html - January 9, 2010)

Greek Anemone Coronaria: NEW - Office Hours on Saturdays from 11a-1p PT - Come Chat, WUaS Jobs, New Subjects at World University & School

World University & School's Office Hours



NEW: World University & School Office Hours worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University on Saturdays from 11:10a-1p, Pacific Time, in Second life on Harvard's Island - slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25 with Aphilo Aarde, which is my (Scott Macleod's) avatar.

Come visit, say hi - teach & learn.


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worlduniversity.wikia.com will create a lot of jobs (I hope) - People can already teach & learn from each other freely here. Invitation to add ideas


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Added worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love 'section' with Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist blog to start


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Added new counseling 'subject' to World Univ & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling with Re-evaluation Counseling resource


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Added new beginning section on 'Grief' to World Univ & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grief - Invitation to add links & become a Universitian


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All cool subjects at World Uni & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects:

Computer Music

Economics

Loving Bliss

Ancient Greece

Music {the 'Music' School :)}















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/greek-anemone-coronaria-new-office.html - January 9, 2010)

The coyote is singing to the soft, gray, hazy sunrise

The coyote is singing to the soft, gray, hazy sunrise
over the eastern mountain ranges
- and a cow replies?

Morning sounds, not yet raga

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

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/coyote-is-singing-to-soft-gray-hazy.html - January 7, 2010)

Turkish Canyon: A Movie about Eliciting Loving Bliss like Chamber Music?

How would a movie about eliciting loving bliss like playing beautiful chamber music with friends go?


In one scenario:

Good friends respond to an announcement like this:

scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/beautiful-weather-loving-bliss.html.



People arrive at a beautiful home. All play musical instruments {classical music}, and have them with them. These friends like each other and trust one another a lot. They also communicate well together in words, as well as musically. In the playing together they talk about eliciting the experience of loving bliss together in conjunction with making music together. Their words help to focus their enjoyment in playing. They mention MDMA as a reference experience.


They're also experienced with contact improvisation dance jams, and at ease in their bodyminds. The society/culture they live in is richly supportive of exploration.


All are in their late 20s or early 30s, mature and artistically exploratory.



They begin by playing a Dvorak quartet beautifully.


Knowing each other, and having done contact improv together before, they next begin to explore jamming together, freely and openly.




(After numerous times doing this together, they ... , and then together with, they ... )



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Here are the two Turkish guitar players playing the same instrument together:





This kind of mutual four-hand guitar playing exploration, as model, spreads widely through society. Images {e.g. like Hindu images of Krishna and Ganesh?, or Ataturk who secularized Turkey} of these Turkish guitar players, and similar access to places of mutual bliss, {where the woman seems to be achieving a kind of bliss, naturally} increase, and are seen everywhere, helping to give form to a widespread exploration of mutual loving bliss exploration around the world. :)



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Let's explore this creatively :)













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/movie-about-eliciting-loving-bliss-like.html - January 5, 2010)

Under Stars

Under splendid stars,
the smells of oaks
and northern
California tilth,
coming over
the hill from
Napa Valley
to Middletown,
suffuse all air with
earthy fragrance,
welcoming me
back to Harbin land, ~
into the waters soon.

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

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/under-stars.html - January 5, 2010)

Rainbow Clouds: A Quaker, Grameen, AFSC, OLPC, Rainbow, Online Bank for Poorest Countries?

I'd like to explore developing a

Quaker (nontheist Friend - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friend),

Grameen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_Bank),

American Friends Service Committee (afsc.org),

OLPC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child),

Rainbow (www.welcomehere.org/gathering_of_the_tribes/annual),



Online Bank (like Vanguard Mutual Funds) for the Poorest countries & people



as part of worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


Fair {e.g. integrity and fiduciary responsibility}, online, easy to use, .01 minimum balance or less, accessible through an internet capable cell phone device, especially for One Laptop per Child countries, and with a focus on service.


If it's on the same web page as free, open teaching and learning, it will bring banking (see Kristof's NYT's article which suggests this is very important: "Sparking a Savings Revolution" December 31, 2009 - nytimes.com/2009/12/31/opinion/31kristof.html) and learning opportunities to many.



















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/rainbow-clouds-quaker-grameen-afsc-olpc.html - January 4, 2010)

Walking Elephant: Concerning the subject: "God as Metaphor," Alpha Males in Primates, Other Ways of Thinking

To Nontheist Friends {atheist Quakers} {from a recent posting on the nontheist Friends' Google Group},

Concerning the subject: "God as Metaphor":


I'm curious about developments nontheist friends might make on Ganesh, Krishna, the Tao and related implications for the 'natural,' philosophically, and including sexuality, vis-a-vis the curious idea of God/Goddess, perhaps minimizing this idea nontheistically, especially in this new year.

With a fascination with evolution by natural selection and symbolic processes, I'm also a little stymied by the return of the three letter word (God, or what it signifies/connotes, for some) so frequently to Homo sapiens' mouths, at least in a portion of the world (viz. Huston Smith's 'The Religions of Man'). I wonder if this tendency emerges somehow in ancestral environments in relation to some kind of abstracted alpha male experience/thinking as human primates, - in common chimps, and the two species of gorillas, but not, in my reading of the primatological literature, in the two species of orangutans (which, I understand, are solitary in the wild), or in Bonobo chimps, which are peaceful (and with which Bonobo I think it would be fascinating for nontheist friends to engage in conversation for learning, using language, - let's ask Sue Savage-Rumbaugh to translate: youtube.com/watch?v=a8nDJaH-fVE). I'm inclined to engage the three letter word (God) a lot less than even nontheist friends are doing in this email thread, and to engage in diversity and tolerance of nontheistically friendly ways of thinking about the fabric of life, including the relaxation response, poetry, music, and evolutionarily informed ways of thinking about meaning of life, peace, nonviolence, community and the experience of connectedness, and even making a living.

Ganesh, that happy elephant guy in India and Hinduism, Krishna, that flute-playing incarnation of the divine, the Tao which is about nonaction, and is ineffable and inexpressible, {but which you know when flow is happening} and evolution, with 8-100 million species and a lot of genetic reproduction over 3.5 billion years are fascinating to me, and about which nontheist friends might also share interesting ideas, vis-a-vis metaphor.

With friendly greetings,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/walking-elephant-concerning-subject-god.html - January 3, 2010)

Begonia: doing a little relaxationresponse.org/steps, Inverted, restorative yoga poses w Angela & Victo in mind, Bodymind's neurophysiology changes

doing a little relaxationresponse.org/steps, and then inverted, restorative yoga poses with scottmacleod.com/AVGreetings.htm in mind - my bodymind's neurophysiology changes ...


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Taoism is about nonaction ... and a lot gets done ... MMmmm ... :)

{e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University}
















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/begonia-doing-liitle.html - January 2, 2010)