Scott MacLeod,
MIT Open Mic poems,
Th., April 29, 2021
Thanks to @mitlibraries for this #MITOpenMic: Glad to have just read a few poems from 5 books, in a new poetry press @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch.
'Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021' https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htm ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~
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Many of my poems have an Actual–Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ focus. Harbin is a hot springs’ retreat center in northern California (beginning in its current form around 1972), and is my actual-virtual ethnographic field site for a long term unfolding ethnographic project which I’m developing. Many of my poems were written at or on the road to Harbin, and some of my poems also focus on traveling as well as the Rainbow Gathering itself, (a hippy gathering, which began in 1973 in Boulder Colorado, and is still happening). A kind of hippy voice comes out in my poetry – and hence my tie dye coronavirus mask. Some poems touch on an exploration of consciousness, and even ways in which we might visit and realize Harbin virtually – in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and from our home bath tubs too, for a meditative aspect paralleling soaking in the Harbin warm pool. My poetry also explores eliciting the neurophysiology of loving bliss.
I'm going to read a few poems from my 5 books in a new poetry and academic press at World Univ & Sch.
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~
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I read the first 3 poems here, in the 5 minutes we had, having prepared about 8 of them ...
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book ~
Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually?:
Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems
(2021)
(Watsu is water shiatsu, a form of therapeutic healing dance, originating in the Harbin warm pool; d’eau is French for water).
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poem ~
Light, Float, Sit
Light
lights
Harbin
harmony
in one, waters warm,
immense, immersion, milieu d’eau.
Float
flies
in warm
watery
ease-me-in present,
a gift of flight in fluid d’eau,
where freedom finds releasing in among hug nude friends.
Sit,
roots
around,
touch all cells,
water pool food
intimate naked yes exchange,
of mind body suit seamlessly freeing we who connect under stars, skies, Harbin-wise.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/swimming-iguana-email-to-cynefin-and.html
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book ~
To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality
(2019)
MacLeod To the Dance or the Pools Virtually book cover Front 2019
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poem ~
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.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/under-stars.html
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poem ~
Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale / 78
I came upon a feast of lights
spread speckle 'cross hill and vale,
and reveled
in their evening softnesses.
And from Harbin's redwood,
sleeping deck, below,
I saw Gazebo's
octagonal lights,
on Mainside, -
a tasty, illuminated pie, -
ready to spin-off
in a wee-wee :)
psychedelic-whirligig,
through starry cosmos,
but, instead,
centers this
Harbin-light,
beauty gaze,
in winter,
at night,
from here.
I walked in on that dark,
empty, village path, at night.
No one was around ...
It would have been easy
to stumble upon
some jutting rock,
but I didn't,
and so came to this
way-place
of glimmering,
night-light beauty, -
this redwood deck,
which, so full in the day
with resting,
naked bodyminds,
in solace-ease
from stresses of modernities,
gives forth these
welcoming visions
of la lumière.
Heading now
into the pool area,
I bring this light
show with, and in,
my bodymind,
to venture deeper
into mysteries
of aliveness, -
naked, warm and free -
in Harbin's watery warmth.
Where are you now,
my love,
with whom this all to share,
and rock out in with,
all together?
And, oh, what beautiful orchards
of ripe, fruit, human living! ...
Pools now,
in warm-oneness-ease ...
Heading on in now ....
What delight this night,
in this very warm pool!
Why this particular,
bodymind joy,
this eve?
Nothing special ... don't know ...
Was it because I talked,
and connected,
with a smart, receptive friend,
in words, about loving bliss,
on the phone coming up?
We thought out loud about
this bliss-love:
Ecstasy is MDMA,
methylene di oxy meth amphetamine, -
theoretically,
a love-everything-in-the-world-intensely,
for 5-8 hours,
biochemical, bodymind,
reference experience
for 75% of we ingesters, -
for affective euphoria, -
and one,
of so, so many,
replicable qualities of bliss,
for we who are biological beings, -
symbolizing, human primates,
shaped by evolution
by natural selection.
And we talked further about
Scottish Country Dancing,
which we've done together,
quite long ago,
with bliss,
via its ebullient
series of tones,
its music, movement,
and sociable interactiveness.
It's a related, also replicable -
like technology, - example.
Was it, too, the Ginseng tea,
earlier today, of which
I hadn't drunk in a while?
Still, the weather of my bodymind
hasn't yet found its
cello bow strokes
of loving bliss agency,
of this music-making,
here and now,
when desired.
And as I write,
and while in concert hall,
of this Harbin warm pool, -
my bodymind, yes,
is conducive to such bliss,
yet, I haven't caused
these joys.
What can cause bodymind,
loving bliss, whenever, but,
especially, here now?
I do, though,
like this weather,
here tonight,
in winter,
at Harbin.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefly-i-came-upon-feast-of-lights.html
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Poems I had gathered together for this, but didn't read
poem ~
Amboseli: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it virtually
How different it is
to soak at Harbin,
than to realize it
virtually,
or in bodymind,
by reading,
thinking,
or viewing
multimedia,
interactively.
Writing in Maine,
over a Christmas visit, -
with long walks on beaches,
and family friends,
and red brick Portland,
and the Wadsworth-Longfellow house,
which invited me
in,
to Longfellow's poetry,
'Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea ... '
virtually, -
I hearken
to Harbin's waters,
and warmth,
and wholeness
of being there,
from afar, ...
but, while traveling,
I'm not present,
in that place,
in those
warm
waters,
in that milieu.
As I return
west coast-wise,
I draw closer,
but Harbin's
presence,
and oneness,
are in that
fluid,
geothermal
emergence
from the earth,
in that valley,
remote from the metropole, ~
and yet still far.
A virtual Harbin
is emerging, -
like Harbin's waters, -
to generate warmth,
in multimedia,
from your bathtub,
from home,
developing with the internet, ...
but emerging organically,
as process,
in writing an
actual / virtual Harbin ethnography.
Waters of wholeness, ...
an inner immersion,
in bodymind fluids,
with relaxation response, -
and at times deeply -
is happening, all the time,
yet unparalleled,
and still awaiting,
the concert
of the Harbin pool.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/amboseli-how-different-it-is-to-soak-at.html?m=0
Saturday, December 31, 2011
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poem (and book, so this is the title poem of book) ~
To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality
Drive them back to the wine-dark taste of home,
The smell of damsons simmering in a pot,
Jam ladled thick and steaming down the sunlight.
- Seamus Heaney
To the dance, then the pools,
first at actual Harbin, over years,
dancing free, dancing be,
dancing bee, buzzing, its own honey ~
this movement-freedom grows
with warmth and energy
in concert with the music.
Connecting with dancing begins,
connecting with dancing beings,
singing inside with freedom in rhythm,
I delight in this liberation, ~
but depends on the music too ~
Blues, Grateful Dead, jamming, Rock & Roll,
make it happen for me, actually.
Heat comes, the music closes at evening's end,
and people head to the pools,
to cool down,
to complement the body-movement jam,
with serene soaking under starlight
- and the warm waters - ease.
These Harbin warm pool waters,
this elixir of encompassing body suits ~
one's whole being received by
this geo-thermally warmed liquid, ~
we like.
Virtually?
Dancing at home - wearing the Glasses -
I'm there, and so are you,
in the Harbin Conference Center,
and people be jamming,
this be-music is hop-happening,
virtually.
I start to move here at home,
Glasses revealing new openings
through which to glide,
and around my body goes,
dancing at home, dancing my home.
How Different it is to dance at home in virtual Harbin, ~
and cool - a realization.
... "Question:
whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
(https://poets.org/poem/hamlet-act-iii-scene-i-be-or-not-be)
Or, to head to Harbin actually or virtually,
different it is,
to seek and find freedom,
by traveling from the SF bay,
the way, the Napa Valley
wine way to Harbin,
or to find one's way
there, Virtually there,
'as if' and by multimedia,
with gorgeous visuals
on a screen, currently
what a scream!
Yet beyond this traveling difference -
a big difference - this venturing out
in bodymind, locomotively, to move through,
to see, to interact with, the world,
The Soaking in warm pool
actually, in waters there,
while being in Harbin all around,
communicating silently, communing that is,
with fellow naked soakers, is wondrous.
The Soaking in one's bathtub,
virtually, from home, Glasses on,
digital screens behind the glass,
newfangled things,
while surround-seeing in Harbin ~
Brainwave headset too to come
for communication,
Tan Le's* or
Brainfingers* (only works when able to relax) or
EEG* brainwave 'dreadlocks' ~
still wondrous
yet you don't hang out actually ~
by mingling silently in warm pool ~
or visiting quietly naked
Sunning on the Sun Deck.
Immersive both, in different ways,
the warm waters help
meditation deepen ~
release inwardly deeply ~
a relaxation response in both,
and all is one in the here and now,
consciousness changes.
Yet there's more space too
in the actual Harbin's warm pool
than in this bathtub.
How best to understand consciousness,
and this consciousness,
this Harbin consciousness,
this Harbin Heart Consciousness
of HCC - Heart Consciousness Church?
Subjective-Objective accounts,
1st person-3rd person scientific narratives ~
in the warm waters, with the Glasses,
re visually observing,
and beginning to examine neural processing ~
as sentience,
awareness,
perception and
feeling
in the brain the mind, the BodyMind?
So is this, the Body-Mind problem,
moot in the warm pool,
and consciousness all one?
Yet, poetry-wise, we be studying
how brains give rise to mind,
re neural processing,
with brainwave headsets ~
thinking about it.
So then, can minds be bodies, and
is sentience brain-meat or bodyminds?
Virtually!
And how is bodymind
consciousness - importantly - virtual,
or in what ways can we make this more so - to learn?
Further, are these neurophysiological e-states
in these hypothetical virtual brains,
conscious - digitally?
And how far does sentience extend
down the phylogenetic tree?
Won't study this here now at Harbin,
yet Tononi's integrated information theory - IIT - holds promise
- 'that consciousness is identical to a certain kind of information' -
and measurable as Phi, the symbol for integrated information.
How could we code this in virtual brains,
yours and mine,
film-to-3D app at the street level, cell and atomic levels,
where the 'digital' corresponds 1-1
to the brain cells and neurons and processing,
and the 'virtual' - as if with multimedia,
to the mind, - somehow conscious.
Thus we might distinguish between the
Actual-Virtual, and the Physical-Digital.
And how could brainwave headset devices best turn their
information gathering inwardly
in these regards - and from the Harbin warm pool?
Phi! ~ actual, physical, that is ~
how can we simulate this?
To virtual Phi?
And further to digital Phi?
Qualia, infinite qualities,
('the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions,
arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena' too),
perceived by many,
in myriad ways, in many bodyminds?
At actual Harbin in the warm pool,
with brain wave headsets monitoring the brain,
might one be able to study these anew?
At home with Glasses,
and brainwave headsets,
people could talk more readily,
adding a language element
to the 'subjective,'
their 1st person accounts, - and
in studying the brain technologically,
actually-virtually & physically-digitally,
where the 'as-if' virtual experience
created by multimedia and
perceived in the brain could be
digitally developed
in virtual brains ~
in a realistic virtual earth for STEM
and brain science,
and of species, and individuals,
like you and me,
soaking, soaking, soaking
in the warm pool at Harbin,
in the bath tub at home
in real virtual Harbin,
... and yet conscious:
"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!
How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs,
than to realize it in virtual reality"!
And loving bliss neurophysiology,
uniquely Harbin warm pool generated
as it bubbles up, While soaking,
how to model thee ~
and to learn from, like a musical score?
So how to measure this with headsets,
distinguishing even between,
objectively,
the relaxation response,
the relaxation response
in the Harbin warm pool,
and brain chemistry
of neural cascades of pleasure,
and then also, Subjectively, I say,
in words?
And with machine learning, further,
on the objective, 3rd person
scientific accounts' side,
could we add cameras to cells,
wee antennae, or cameras, to atoms,
articulate DNA with awareness,
(and have George Church,* Ed Boyden* and
Karl Deisseroth* already done this?),
as well as send opto-genetic signals
in from the headsets,
by further examining consciousness,
via the virtual and the real thinking,
thanks to David Chalmers*
while
in the warm pool,
or In the bath tub ~
at Harbin soaking?
And subjectively, when we're blissing,
after releasing into meditation,
after eliciting the relaxation response ~
self reported, ~
use language to talk about this?
I know it consciously when I'm blissing
in the Harbin warm pool,
when bliss is simply bubbling up.
So can we measure such,
like your conscious bliss for sure,
and bring this together with what we say about this ~
with our awareness, consciousness that is,
in an account of infinite qualities, as information?
Long way to go to measure
integrated information Phi in the brain,
to code it in virtual brains,
to hypothesize this further,
and then objectively and 3rd person-wise
observe this scientifically (& consciously)
in the brain,
but maybe nakedness,
Actually, and
Virtually,
and examining desire,
further, too, will open ways ...
So first the dance, then the pools
this time, and,
How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality.
Understanding consciousness
and realizing bliss further,
connectedness,
in complement with scientific sentience,
thanks to Harbin.
To the Dance or the Pools? ~
Virtually!
How different it is to soak at
Harbin Hot Springs,
than to realize it in virtual reality.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html
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book ~
Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
(2018)
MacLeod Winding Road Rainbow book cover Front 2018
(where Rainbow here refers much to the Rainbow Gathering, that hippy gathering which began in 1973 in Boulder Colorado)
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poem ~
In The Night I Traveled North To Harbin
In the night,
I traveled north
to Harbin,
to Harbin.
Crescent moon,
starry night,
I traveled along
a new way,
from Canyon,
to Harbin.
Redwood tunnels,
now misty night,
the road opens,
from Canyon,
to Harbin.
Come now,
in-world,
and explore
the place
which is Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
It's freeing here ~
such beauty, too ~
in the waters,
at Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
Take off your clothes,
and enter the water
in the warm pool, ~
feel the warmth
in the heart pool,
at Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
Be with these folks ~
these hippies,
these brothers
and sisters,
these children
of hippies,
these flower~loving beings ~
who cuddle,
naked,
and snuggle,
in the water,
at Harbin, ~
be, at Harbin.
Into the hot pool,
now slow,
so slow ~
for, from
the whale's mouth
flow waters hot
at Harbin,
from Harbin.
The woman's bust,
that sculpture
above the whale's
water spout,
sprouting forth
beautiful,
fresh flowers
from her head,
inspires, ~
earth's fires,
~ the water
is hot!
Too hot, too hot, ~
to the cold pool,
to plunge,
amidst forest
and flowers
all around,
in the water, ~
to tingle,
oh, mingle.
MMmmm ...
Now back to
the warm pool,
to your love,
to cuddle,
with your love,
and snuggle,
at Harbin,
yes, Harbin.
What emerges
from our
bodyminds
is bliss ~
oh, bliss ~
bringing us
close, together,
oh, gather
together.
Welcome, bliss,
as you come,
when you come, ~
that neurophysiology ~
this lovely
neurophysiology,
in our bodies,
oh, our bodies.
To the tent now,
to our tent,
to live love,
to touch ease, ~
to make love,
together, ~
to our tent, now,
at Harbin,
be, at Harbin.
To our tent, love, ~
To love ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-night-i-drove-north-to-harbin.html
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book ~
Haiku~ish: And Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry
(2017)
MacLeod Haikuish Other Loving Hippy Harbin poetry book cover Front 1st ed 2017
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poem ~
Whale: Harbin Poem Haiku-ish
A Harbin poem
Light in the whale room
Hot water! – cool – go deep inside
Up to the cold pool.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/08/whale-harbin-poem-haiku-ish.html
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book ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin
(2016)
MacLeod Naked Harbin Ethnography book cover Front 2016
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poem (and the beginning of chapter 9, too) ~
(from the poem "Bodymind electricity sings to me, o thee, who are pair)
Chapter 9
HARBIN AS A VIRTUAL, ACTUAL WORLD
Harbin virtuality in the pools and the erotic - This Harbin, alternative culture in virtual Harbin – Simulation – Fiction and design – Many Harbin residents in-world – Toward an anthropology of actual and virtual Harbin in the Information Age.
In the warm pool,
This vision vessel,
Nudity frees,
And they cuddle~puddle,
Dance Watsu Contact Improv,
Breasts, bottoms,
Bodymind shapes,
Skin and curves,
Beautiful people,
One man and three women
With nice bosoms,
Happy, naturally, nature-ally,
Erotically, and serene,
Otter-like, -
Haven't seen this in a while, -
Play,
And I sit,
Relaxation-'sponse-wise, ~
And, aware, find a kind of
Unfolding freeing oneness.
O, warm waters,
And beauties of Harbin.
The mind, the bodymind, as 3-D
Holographic, imaging machine, ...
How to turn it on, welcome it, electricity-alive,
With a cello bow stroke,
With loving bliss,
In all these myriad qualities? …
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/04/bodymind-electricity-sings-to-me-o-thee.html
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- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
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