Connecting is real, and can be really wonderful ... and I connect in particular ways ... ah the Harbin warm pool (and an amazing ethnographic field site ... books in process :), friends and the Grateful Dead's connecting, ludic music :) (Oneness, perhaps ... harmonizing effect, yes ... neural cascades of pleasure together, mmm, yes ... )
... and with learning at MIT OCW-centric World University and School for Creative Commons' licensed, online, university degrees? ... Flow experiences in online learning / problem solving / thinking as 'flow' experiences (e.g. absorbed mind, per the psychology of optimal experience per Csikszentmihalyi) ...
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