Booted Racket-tail: Missing the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool while traveling ... and its deep meditations and onenesses ... deep in the hills of Lake County, California ... Meditation in the warm pool is far-reachingly deep and releasing there, as well as enjoyable ... with its parallels with sitting in Quaker Meeting ... In what ways will we be able to travel to Harbin in virtual worlds, in a virtual Harbin in multimedia, and explore soaking into meditation there, with qualities of oneness, in our own bath tubs with time?

Missing the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool while traveling ...

and its deep meditations and onenesses ...

deep in the hills of Lake County, northern California ...

Meditation in the clothing optional, warm pool is far-reachingly deep and releasing there, as well as enjoyable ...


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... with its parallels with sitting in Quaker Meeting ...



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Asking far from Harbin, in what ways will we be able to travel to Harbin in virtual worlds, in a virtual Harbin in multimedia, and explore soaking into meditation, and qualities of oneness, in our own bath tubs with time?

hot pool 

warm pool 

heart pool

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Indian Roller: Traveling now ... Manuel Castells "Globalisation and identity: A comparative perspective" ... tuning into identity questions vis-a-vic culture ... in India, Added Castells' article to the following WUaS, wiki (editable), subject, pages ... Agency, Anthropology, Globalization, Labor Economics, Sociology, Social Science, Appreciating how Castells makes such concepts as identity relevant to readers and social scientists, almost on a feeling basis, as well as intellectually

Manuel Castells'

"Globalisation and identity: A comparative perspective"

"Globalisation and the strengthening of various cultural identities (religious, national, ethnic, geographic, and gender, among others) have occurred over the last fifteen years. In my view, this is no coincidence but rather the product of a systemic relationship between the two phenomena."

http://www.llull.cat/rec_transfer/webt1/transfer01_foc01.pdf

Transfer (magazine?), 2006/


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Added Castells' article to the following WUaS, wiki (editable), subject, pages ...

Agency
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Agency

Anthropology
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology

Globalization
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Globalization

Labor Economics
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Labor_Economics

Sociology
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sociology

Social Science
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science


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Appreciating how Castells makes such concepts as identity relevant to readers and social scientists, almost on a feeling basis, as well as intellectually.

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Crimson Sunbird: Traveling to India and Classical Indian Music online

Hi P and G,


Nice to talk with you in India last night, P. And thanks for this learning opportunity in terms of visiting you as family friends, either soon or by postponing my trip on December 26th, 2013, - and thinking also in terms of my upcoming trip to India business-wise vis-a-vis WUaS. (My India tourist visa is for 6 months, so traveling to India in July / August as you have also suggested would involve another cost in getting a new visa).

I appreciate how you, P (as Financial and Arts' adviser to WUaS since November 2011), continue to talk about the importance of WUaS asking 'Gurudakshana' (donations to the teacher) vis-a-vis WUaS - as a MUST (in the context of India, culturally, I take it, perhaps as part of the social understanding around learning musical instruments, etc., there), - and vis-a-vis Classical Indian Music lessons - see ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Classical_Indian_Music#World_University_and_School_Links - as well as the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. Apart from the Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees which would be free and involve taking 32 courses online for a free, WUaS, undergraduate degree, for example, I've long considered, and wondered about, for live, online, music lessons in the WUaS Music School (in all languages and potentially all instruments, each a wiki, subject page, to begin), about asking for a kind of tuition, and here, with this trip, learning culturally-economically from India possibly (but perhaps differently from WUaS country to country - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - and language to language - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages). I could imagine that being able to tell people in India, friends of yours, for example, and others, on this WUaS networking trip that WUaS is going to ask a kind of 'Gurudakshana' for online, Skype/G+ Hangout, music lessons, etc., for example, could be important, even for eventual Indian (WUaS fundraising) contributors, because this would be a familiar, age-old, musical pattern, and would thus be something they understood, could agree with, and could then possibly donate toward WUaS for, in a fundraising way. And both also could become more actively part of WUaS's business planning process, and set up processes of generating WUaS income. Ah, language and cultural diversity around music learning.

As a post-script, I'm including a 'Thank You' note to B, a friend of WUaS who donated $100 via WUaS's Paypal account 3 days ago below, about one way this might work.

And you, G, work, in part, on strategic planning about high speed internet access (vis-a-vis real, real time music making eventually) at Cisco in the south bay of the San Francisco Bay Area!

And I appreciate, G, how in your email yesterday you implied that there are fundraising opportunities vis-a-vis WUaS in India.

So it sounds like you, P, could manage my coming to visit in a kind of extended family way on December 28th, but perhaps it would be better to postpone, so I'm inquiring, about the costs of postponing/canceling, as well as the costs of a one-way flight to Kolkata to visit the Ms on January 1st, 2014, and I'll call you, G, soon about this, and possibly you, P, as well.

With best wishes,
Scott


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Dear B,

Thank you so, so much for your $100 donation to World University and School's

PayPal account - https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=ittaYxkMsdcHGlpo9UzmbFNyumxeMbzWpeb_VA0AcKrSUq-j8JaQ1Yyc1y8&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63 -  two days ago

(accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html)!

WUaS welcomes, appreciates and greatly needs such resources!

Looking forward to talking soon.

Happy holidays, and warm greetings to your family!

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Siberian Crane: Far reaching, Yale conversation "Online Education Open Forum,"Many good ideas and clarifications emerge in this conversation, moderated by Professor of Music, Craig Wright, very much engaging an aspect of the Conference Method - key Yale faculty discuss Yale OYC and Yale OER - critiques of current open educational platforms such as Coursera - student and instructor analyses about what online teaching and learning approaches work, and how it works - on Yale University's decision making itself, and paying for Yale OYC and other Yale OER - on open-ended and non-binding legal relationships for Yale - on cost of Coursera - on online teaching resources for medicine, Yale brainstorming

Far-reaching, Yale conversation (December 2, 2013):

Online Education Open Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98dmMy0gbY


Many good ideas and clarifications emerge in this conversation, moderated by Yale Professor of Music, Craig Wright, very much engaging an aspect of the Conference Method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning):

- key Yale faculty discuss Yale OYC and OER

- critiques of current open educational platforms such as Coursera

- student and instructor analyses about what online teaching and learning approaches work, and how it works

- - Econ and Computer Science

- - Math

- on Yale University's decision making itself, and paying for Yale OYC and other Yale OER

- on open-ended and non-binding legal relationships for Yale

- on cost of Coursera (at the 132 minute mark), and ...

- - Coursera will verify that the student at that computer is indeed that person
- - Coursera will send out a statement that the student completed the work requested by the instructor

- on online teaching resources for medicine

- good Yale brainstorming about online learning, but not necessarily around questions of enjoyment (vis-a-vis 'flow' experiences) or flourishing in learning.

- online degrees (at 142 minutes)

- why Yale is sharing these resources (at 145 minutes)


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added to -

Education, wiki subject at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Education


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See, too, Professor Wai Chai Dimock ...

Open Source Platform: An Alternative to MOOCs with Wai Chee Dimock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4568twU6Kg

which I added to ...


Courses -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Open Access Resources -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources

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Star tortoise: Quaker Meeting in SF on Thursday with candle lighting, India - transformed once again for life by the sometimes mind-blowing cultural variety - linguistically and musically, too - but especially religiously, as well as artistically ... mother India, Yale University Youtube channel - "Revisiting Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Conversation with Partha Chatterjee," Bangladesh World University and School in Bengali language eventually

Hi Donald,

It's a Quaker Meeting on Thursday at San Francisco Friends' School at 5, and I understand there's also candle lighting, of one kind or another (I overheard), safety-wise ... to be seen. I'll let you know about El Techno later, as well. M and R are lovely and philosophical, with a little bit of Stanford, Santa Cruz and Holland thrown in. :) Perhaps we can all share a meal there or elsewhere at some time in the future. 'L'Orient' ... oui.

I'm heading out Saturday for points' east, arriving in India - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India#World_University_and_School_Links - on 12/28 at 1am, returning to the SFBA on Sunday, January 19th ... transformed once again for life by the sometimes mind-blowing and ever tolerant (things can get a little hot under the collar there - but "The Emergency (India)" in the mid-1970s was their darkest hour - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) - in recent times) cultural variety - linguistically and musically, too - but especially religiously, as well as artistically ... mother India. Know of any Quakers or Meetings in Chennai (Madras) or Kolkata (Calcutta)?

This popped into my email box from the Yale University Youtube channel -

"Revisiting Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Conversation with Partha Chatterjee"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZn9IqPJZg -

recently, which you might be interested in. I heard Partha Chatterjee, a professor at Columbia and a Bengali (whom you may well know), speak at Stanford within the past 9 months, and he touches on many anthropological themes with his focus on the Nation State here. I've added this to the Bangladesh, wiki, subject page at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bangladesh#World_University_and_School_Links - which is the beginning of an online, C.C., accrediting, MIT OCW-centric, Bangladesh World University and School in Bengali eventually - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bengali_/_Bangla. Listen particularly to the fascinating and very clear introduction of the Chatterjee interview, if you have 10 minutes ... :)

Any travel plans in the next few weeks for you?

Merry, merry here in the berry, and happy, happy, too, :)
Scott

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Tanagers: Meme, as cultural replicating unit, 'Ideas' are another word for memes ... How is the idea of 'meme' considered or engaged in the fields of psychiatry and psychology? Memes in psychiatry are a very helpful idea explaining a lot, Is it considered at all in psychiatry, for example, in the new or old DSM, or in its mostly European parallel? ... Wendell Berry's talk at Yale University, How to cultivate replicating non-harming, or care, memes, especially given we human primates' common chimpanzee tendencies, in my interpretation, relative to Bonobo chimpanzees, for example? Further helpful definition of 'meme'

Meme, as cultural replicating unit ...
(Dawkins coined the word in 1976 in his book "The Selfish Gene" as a correlate of genes, using the examples, I think, of a novel or a pretty summer dress, and more particularly of the rabies' virus, which jumps from bodymind to bodymind, due to the parasitical nature of this rabies' form of life).


How is it considered or engaged in the fields of

psychiatry and psychology?


Memes in psychiatry are a very helpful idea explaining a lot.

'Ideas' are another word for memes.


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Is it considered at all in psychiatry, for example, in the new or old DSM, or in its mostly European parallel ...?

Diagnosing Psychiatric Disorders: The Synchronization of DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cme/diagnosing-psychiatric-disorders-synchronization-dsm-5-and-icd-10-cm

"DSM-5 Overview: The Future Manual"
http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

"International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)"
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm


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I was asking these questions of a friend at San Francisco Friends' Meeting this past Sunday, before heading into Quaker Meeting ... My friend replied that memes are 'ideas.'

Meme, as a concept, explains a lot, and emerges only due to Darwin and evolutionary biological thinking to explain cultural phenomena, acting in somewhat parallel ways to genes, which replicate themselves fundamentally ... with 3-100 million species on earth going back 3.5 billion years.

Religion, (like Quakerism, for example), is very memetic. But memes, for example, aren't always helpful or good (sometimes they can be harmful or even deadly, for example), and it can take a Copernicus, and conflict, to change religious memes.

Youtube is a very far reaching 'meme-machine,' in my interpretation.

On the other hand, new memes emerge with time, which can be very therapeutic, such as watsu - water shiatsu - done in warm pools (and which originated at Harbin Hot Springs).

There's an arbitrary aspect to memes.


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Here are some wiki subjects about this, where we can add related ideas:

Psychiatry -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychiatry

Psychology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology

Evolutionary Biology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology

Social Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science

Science -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science


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Wendell Berry's talk at Yale is on, in many ways, non-harming or care, vis-a-vis sustainable farming and industrialism ...

Yale 2013 Chubb Lecture with Wendell Berry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c3GdB461s

I'm posting this video here because I'd like to share these ideas or memes by Wendell Berry.


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How to cultivate replicating non-harming or care memes, especially given we human primates' common chimpanzee tendencies, in my interpretation, relative to Bonobo chimpanzees, for example? In listening closely and in reading between the lines to Wendell Berry's talk with his interviewers,  I wonder if they are examining some aspects or concerns about this, as well.


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I found a helpful definition of 'meme' today in the Apple 2.x dictionary ...

meme |mēm|
noun Biology
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.

ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated,’ on the pattern of gene.

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

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Orange-throated Sunangel: WUaS's information technology big picture, Here's the opt-in / opt-out WUaS Google Groups' emailing list - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School - at - World-University-and-School@googlegroups.com - where you'd be able to control more fully the flow of WUaS sporadic emails, and also BE ABLE TO POST TO EVERYONE (on this WUaS Google Groups' list, for future reference)

WUaS's information technology big picture, and about WUaS's email lists with other planned software (and Juan is also planning to suggest some other possible software):

Planned opt-in/opt-out mailing list (besides this current one - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School) to work with Wikidata / MediaWiki / SemanticWiki, Quickbooks' Multi-store, MIT OCW (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/) and possibly Google + ... with secure registrar for academic transcripts.

(Wikidata / MediaWiki / SemanticWiki, Quickbooks' Multi-store, MIT OCW Translated Courses (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) and Google + with Google Translate (and in voice in Android smart phones, for example) will all be important to WUAS for their multiple languages and inter-lingual coding).

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Hi, sporadic Universitians,

Here's the opt-in / opt-out WUaS Google Groups' emailing list -

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/World-University-and-School -

at - World-University-and-School@googlegroups.com -

where you'd be able to control more fully the flow of WUaS sporadic emails, and also BE ABLE TO POST TO EVERYONE (on this WUaS Google Groups' list, for future reference).

WUaS BOARD members, especially, and active Universitians ... please join WUaS Google Groups' this list, so you can post.

Others, please let me know if you join this WUaS Google Groups' list, AND would like NOT to receive these sporadic Universitian emails. You can request, for example, daily or weekly digests on this Google Groups' WUaS list, lessening the stream of sporadic, Universitian emails.

Best wishes,
Scott 

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Thraupis episcopus: Friends connecting with the inner light, in my interpretation, vis-a-vis hardening that goes on in cities, in SF

Hi Donald,

very nice to see you today ...

curious about a kind of hardening, distancing and disconnecting ...

in contrast, perhaps, to a 'tenderizing' written about in Quaker literature often related to Friends connecting with the 'inner light' (metaphorically, in all its many hues and moving qualities, yet fascinatingly significantly), in my interpretation,

that goes on in cities, in San Francisco and which I've also experience in a few Friends' Meetings,

... but where you are connectable as a friend ...

relating possibly to intermingling 'cultures' and visions (e.g. Gay, down and out, individuals simply coping) ... all perhaps simply an expression of urbanism ...


Kids' playing energy can be the opposite of this ...


I also find what I explore calling 'de facto relaxation response meditation' (Quaker Meeting) salutary in Quaker community in its urban-ness ...

but oh for tenderizing and generating connecting Grateful Dead-wise, Harbin pool-wise or Dalai Lama-wise, and Friendly poetry-wise, even ... as examples :)

Just some Friendly witnessing on First Day (different from anthropological participant observation :) ...

not quite 'I doth protest' ...

but an ongoing search for generating salutary community and especially communitas :)

... and I think I'll pop an omega 3 flaxseed oil capsule :)

Scott

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To recap, I find conversation, and Friendly-wise, with you, especially, salutarily connecting, perhaps in contrast to the hardening, distancing and disconnecting I sometimes experience at SFFM, in somehow cultural and place-based ways, curiously, as I think about it, - but Meeting can be sometimes tenderizing - due to, I think, and what I would call, again, perhaps NtF-wise, the salutary 'de facto relaxation response meditation' of Quaker Meeting.

But I keep wanting to generate cultures of connecting (and Harbin's warm pool is a far-reaching example, as are the GD, - and Friendly-wise, as well), and friendship, Quaker-wise, can be especially salutary this way.

Looking forward to further f/Friendly communications :) And thanks for your email.

Best,
Scott

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