Wondrous communitas, - which is loving sociality and which rocks - and whenever?


Grateful Dead concerts that were great are a reference experience, for those who enjoy the Dead.

http://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

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

How?


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Communitas:

"Communitas is an intense community spirit, the feeling of great ... solidarity, and togetherness."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitas


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How to create this at World University and School?

Many Earlham College students, in my experience, for example, have come closest to expressing what I mean here in an academic context, when we've talked.

How and why does communitas work in academia?

It probably has partly to do with the qualities of flow experiences - an absorbed mind and challenge at the right level, including creative ones.


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I think Stanford University students have similarly opened far-reachingly to kinds of communitas, academically, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.


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I'm heading to Dance Church in Santa Cruz today; there's something about alternative culture which opens the way to communitas :) ...


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Grateful Dead - Fire On The Mountain 12-31-78

http://youtu.be/rNxsL9G9r6g









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