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 book of poetry @WUaSPress ~ correspondence ~ for a #BookParty ?
(instead of -
Feature your book with the Life Long Learners Book Club)
Hello Author
My name is Emmanuel, and I’m the organizer of the Life Long Learners Book Club based in Lisbon, a thoughtful community where readers come together to explore stories that inspire reflection, discussion, and meaningful dialogue.
We’re currently preparing our next book club feature, and we’d love to highlight a book from your collection. Our members are engaged, thoughtful readers who provide honest feedback and share their reflections widely across platforms such as Goodreads and Wattpad. Featured books typically gain increased visibility, reader reviews, and organic word-of-mouth promotion without requiring any live appearances, interviews, or promotional obligations from the author.
I wanted to reach out to see if you’d like to select one of the works that you feel would resonate most with our community for this upcoming feature. Which of your books do you feel would be the best fit for our readers’ discussion and reflection?
Would you be open to having your preferred book featured in our upcoming book raft event??
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Best regards,
Emmanuel P.
Organizer of the Life Long Learners Book Club
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Dear Emmanuel P,
Lisbon, Portugal,
Thanks for your inquiry. The Academic Press at World University and School has published 5 books thus far, all in English (and see below), and I'm the author of all of them. And the WUaS Press is planning to develop in all living languages, with human and machine translation, with AI and ML, and at free Portugal World University and School (from here with time - https://wiki.
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
(Academic Press at World University and School 2016 - ISBN-13 978-0-692-64613-7)
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
(Academic Press at World University and School 2016 - ISBN-13 978-0-692-64613-7)
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
... in what ways do you think your book group community of lifelong learners might explore translating it (with machine translation too) into Portuguese and for publication in Portugal and Brazil etc? And in what ways might your book group be interested in growing a major online Portugal World University and School, planned in Portuguese?
I'll include you in upcoming World Univ & Sch / WUaS Press upcoming emails as well.
Best regards,
Scott
--
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- https://twitter.com/
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)
Order Book #4 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)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018)
Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017)
Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016)
- Scott GK MacLeod
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Dear Scott,
Thank you for your thoughtful message and for sharing more about the work you are developing through the World University and School Press. Your vision of expanding learning and translation across languages is certainly interesting.
For our book club sessions, our focus is primarily on reader-led exploration of individual books rather than on institutional or publishing initiatives. What typically happens is that members read the selected book over a short window and then share reflections, questions, and interpretations in discussion.
Naked Harbin Ethnography sounds like a title that could generate thoughtful conversation among readers interested in culture, counterculture, and social observation. If you’re open to it, you’re welcome to share a digital copy so we can review it and see whether it would be a good fit for one of our upcoming reader sessions.
If it aligns well, I can also send you a brief overview of how the feature process works for authors.
Kind regards,
Emmanuel
Organizer, Life Long Learners Book Club
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Dear Emmanuel in Lisbon, Portugal,
,
Thanks for your email further. How can an author or publisher protect copyright in such situations as book groups, and in sharing a PDF of a digital book for example?
I recently added the books I've written and more, with descriptions, to this my Linkedin profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/
With copyright in mind, and a 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project planned as my 7th book and potentially in Google Street View with time slider, #TextInTheSidebar (becoming a press too to print to 1) paper and 2) to new digital hardware formats like digital masks and even #WUaSMultimediaRooms and #WUaSHospitalMultimediaRooms), I considering sharing with your book group my shorter & more recent book of poetry -
"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?:
How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality"
How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality"
(Poetry Press at World University and School 2019 - ISBN-13: 978-0578625492)
http://
How does that sound? And looking forward to staying in communication - with your book group members too - about free Portugal World University and School (from here with time - https://wiki.
Kind regards,
Scott
https://scott-macleod.
(Wiki Poetry subject or school - https://wiki.
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Dear Scott,
Regarding copyright, authors retain full rights to their material. When a digital copy is shared for consideration or a reader session, it is used only within our small reading group for the purpose of discussion. We do not reproduce, distribute publicly, or publish the material elsewhere. Many authors simply provide a PDF or digital reader copy specifically for the session.
Your poetry book To the Dance or the Pools Virtually? sounds interesting, and poetry can often lead to very reflective discussion among readers. I’d be glad to take a look and see how it might fit an upcoming session.
To answer your questions about the club: our discussions are primarily online, and our members participate from different locations, though a large portion are based in the United States. Because the format is virtual, readers from other countries can join as well.
If you’re comfortable, you’re welcome to share the digital copy of the poetry title and a short author bio. Once I’ve had a chance to review it, I can send you a brief overview of how the feature process works.
Kind regards,
Emmanuel
Organizer, Life Long Learners Book Club
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Dear Emmanuel,
Lisbon, Portugal,
Thanks for your interest in reading my "To the Dance or the Pools?" book of poetry, and potentially in your Life Long Learners Book Club. I've attached a readers' copy of
"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to realize it in virtual Reality"
filename - '
To the Dance or the Pools Virtually book by Scott GK MacLeod 2019.pdf'
for your book clubs' enjoyment.
Could I ask please each of all of the readers of your Life Long Learners Book Club to write a blurb about it for the Poetry Press at World University and School and on its distributor and printer page here, or similar - https://www.amazon.com/Dance-
Looking forward to an ongoing conversation about Harbin-inspired online books, such as my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project #2 to be grown in Google Street View with a time slider, and printed to both 1) paper, #TextInTheSidebar, and 2) to new digital hardware formats, potentnially inventing the book anew, - and MIT OCW-centric World University and School's Press as we grow.
Thanks, and kind regards,
Scott
PS
Again -
And looking forward to staying in communication - with your book group members too - about free Portugal World University and School (from here with time - https://wiki.
Kind regards,
Scott
https://scott-macleod.
(Wiki Poetry subject or school - https://wiki.
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Saturday, March 7, 2026
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Dear Scott,
Thank you for sharing the reader copy of To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! I appreciate you sending it across, and I look forward to reviewing it.
Our sessions are reader-led, so members read the selected work and share their reflections and impressions through discussion and optional written comments. While many readers enjoy sharing thoughts about a book, their feedback is always voluntary and written in their own words.
Once I’ve had a chance to look through the book, I’ll follow up about whether it would be a good fit for one of our upcoming reader sessions and share a brief overview of how the process works.
Thank you again for sending the poetry collection. I’m glad to stay in touch and continue the conversation.
Kind regards,
Emmanuel
Organizer, Life Long Learners Book Club
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Hi Scott,
I spent some time going through several of the poems and I really enjoyed the atmosphere you create around Harbin and the reflections on nature, community, and that search for “loving bliss” through music, water, and shared experience. It gives the reader a very vivid sense of place.
I believe this kind of reflective poetry would resonate well with our group, especially readers who enjoy thoughtful works that blend observation, philosophy, and personal experience.
I’d be glad to include To the Dance or the Pools? Virtually? in one of our upcoming reader sessions so members can explore it and share their impressions.
Would you be open to having this title featured with our group in an upcoming session?
Warm regards,
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Sunday, March 8, 2026
Hi Emmanuel,
Thanks for your looking through 'To the Dance or the Pools? Virtually?' ... Eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology when and as we might want to ... is a theme in a number of my books of poetry, as well as in my first ethnographic book "Naked Harbin Ethnography." (There's also a "Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_
And thanks too for your
"I really enjoyed the atmosphere you create around Harbin and the reflections on nature, community, and that search for “loving bliss” through music, water, and shared experience. It gives the reader a very vivid sense of place."
The watery 'place' of the warm pool at Harbin hot springs, informing Harbin's 'culture' via a kind of creating a de facto meditation re relaxation response as Harbin emerges out of the 1960s and 1970s in its current form as counterculture ... is a key interpretation or thesis in "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ...
That would be great.
Regards, best wishes, thanks,
Scott
And here's the loving bliss label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.
and the 'place' label -
and the 'virtual Harbin' label -
https://scott-macleod.
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Hi Scott,
Thank you for sharing more context around the idea of “loving bliss” and how it connects to your work on Harbin and the broader ethnographic thinking behind it. I can see how that theme runs through the poetry and the reflections on place, community, and the experience of the warm pools.
The concept of Harbin as a space where relaxation, reflection, and countercultural community meet is quite interesting, and I believe our readers would enjoy exploring that perspective.
I’d be glad to include To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually? in one of our upcoming reader sessions so members can experience the poems and share their thoughts and impressions.
If you’re open to it, we can begin preparing the feature overview for the group so readers have a short introduction before the session.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Dear Emmanuel, (in Lisbon, Portugal),
Thanks again for your email. Yes it would be great if you could feature my 4th book "To the Dance of the Pools? ~ Virtually!" in your Life Long Learners Book Club. I'd be honored. In a way "To the Dance of the Pools? ~ Virtually!" is another prelude in poetry to developing a realistic virtual Harbin hot springs, and even with time as information technologies to elicit loving bliss neurophysiology (neural cascades or pleasure) - potentially both the poetry, and the realistic virtual Harbin hot springs (and to study bliss as well) and given Harbin emerging in its current form out of the 1960s and '70s and counter culturally, I suggest in my first ethnographic book "Naked Harbin Ethnography". (Are we going to be able to scroll back with the Time Slider in Google Street View at virtual Harbin Hot Springs ~ https://goo.gl/maps/
Two bios of mine are here in the top right corner - https://scott-macleod.
'Bio:' ... and I'll seek to write a poetry book's Bio per your request. What else might be involved in writing the "feature overview for the group so readers have a short introduction before the session"? And what would you like to see in a bio featuring this book ?Thanks,
Scott
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Dear Emmanuel P (in Lisbon Portugal), Kimba Kradel (in Berkeley California, and writing a science fiction novel I think working on her 3rd draft, an acquaintance I know from a Berkeley public library), Ed (Smyth MD, on the Board of World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, in a sense, and the WUaS Press too, in Berkeley), Sid/Pin (Mazumdar HHS, in the US federal government), AI readers, All,
Thanks again for your email invitation to feature my 4th book "To the Dance of the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin than to Realize it in Virtual Reality" in your Life Long Learners Book Club
Could I please see, for example, a list of the books your Life Long Learners Book Club book group, of which you're the organizer from Portugal, for example, has read so far ... I'd like this WUaS Press book to be in good company with other good books?
Your book club is a little mysterious, and with very little online presence that I could find (eg a possible MeetUp group - https://www.meetup.com/life-
Looking forward to learning more, I think, and regarding your possibly featuring my 4th book "To the Dance of the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin than to Realize it in Virtual Reality".
Best wishes, abolitionally, Friendly NtF Quaker greetings, Yogically, thanks,
Scott
PS
Am growing a blog post in some of these regards in the
Thursday, March 5, 2026
"Blue mist plant (Memecylon): " blog post ...https://scott-macleod.
See too the book here -
PPS
Seeking for the virtual Harbin Hot Springs to emerge from here in Google Street View with time slider at the Harbin hot springs' gate house in Street View-
~ https://goo.gl/maps/
for your possible book group members' enjoyment in some years ...
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Hi Scott,
Thank you for your thoughtful message. I completely understand wanting to know more about the group.
Our Life Long Learners Book Club is an online reading community where readers explore reflective and discussion-worthy books across areas like literature, social thought, memoir, and philosophy.
Recent features have included titles in personal growth, cultural reflection, and narrative nonfiction that invite meaningful discussion among readers.
From what I’ve seen in To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually?, the themes around place, community, and the idea of “loving bliss” would make for a very interesting session with our readers.
Here is Meetup profile so you can learn a bit more about our The Life Long Learners book club: Click Here
If you’re comfortable proceeding, I’d be glad to begin preparing the feature overview for your book and share the next steps with you.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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Dear Emmanuel, all,
Thanks for your helpful message and information, and the MeetUp link for The Life Long Learners book club. You're welcome to 'begin preparing the feature overview' for my "To the Dance of the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin than to Realize it in Virtual Reality" book; was just rereading the Title poem (pp. 118-125), with poetry thinking about consciousness philosophically and in the warm pool, and about loving bliss, and Harbin-informed consciousness) - and was somewhat transported in re-visiting this poem, but not yet in the Glasses.
I initially happened upon this page (p 121) ... and am wondering further how a piece of meat inside our heads - brain meat - can give rise to or inform consciousness as awareness, subjective experience, sentience, feelling, of 'being aware of something internal to one's self' - and Harbin consciousness-wise ~
...
Yet there's more space
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 body mind
consciousness - importantly - virtual,
or in what ways can we make this more so - to learn?
Further, are these neurophysiological e-states
You'll find this poem here t00 - https://scott-macleod.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
I like the introductory quote to this poem, the epigraph, from Seamus Heaney ... but this poem, not yet in a realistic virtual Harbin, doesn't yet ...
"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."
Scott
--
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- https://twitter.com/
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)
Order Book #4 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)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018)
Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017)
Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016)
- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University and School - http://
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -
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Mar 16, 2026, 1:42 AM
Hi Scott,
Thank you for sharing your reflections on the poem and the ideas around consciousness and the Harbin warm pool experience. It’s quite an interesting perspective, and I believe readers who enjoy reflective and philosophical poetry will find it engaging.
Since you’re happy for us to begin preparing the feature overview, could you please share a few materials we’ll need to finalize the presentation?
• A short author bio
• A clear author photo
• A high-resolution image of the book cover
• A link to the book’s Amazon page (or where readers can access the book)
Once we receive these, our editorial team will prepare the feature introduction for the upcoming reader session.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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Dear Emmanuel, All,
Organizer of Life Long Learners' Book Club,
Lisbon, Portugal, and of Houston Texas too (https://www.meetup.com/life-
Thanks so much for your interest in featuring "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 please find attached "a few materials you’ll need to finalize the presentation" -
• A short author bio
• A clear author photo
• A high-resolution image of the book cover
• A link to the book’s Amazon page (or where readers can access the book)
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• A short author bio
I appended the biography on page 133 of "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to realize it in virtual Reality” -
Scott GK MacLeod is a professor of anthropology, founder and president of the virtual wiki free World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages for free WUaS degrees planned in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages. He is the author of the books “Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin” (2016), a sociocultural anthropology, and 4 books of poetry, “Haiku~ish and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry” (2017), “Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss” (2018), and “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 "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems" (2021). He lives in the SF Bay Area, California, and see http://scottmacleod.com/.
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• A clear author photo
I'm attaching the same author's picture that's on p. 133, with this file name:
ScottMacLeodHarbinBookmarkStan
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• A high-resolution image of the book cover
Hopefully your book club's readers will enjoy the authenticity of the first edition's cover image of "To the Dance or the Pools? ~Virtually" regarding the 'simple' cover (in a kind of unprogrammed Friendly Quaker sense too - and which is adapted from the 3D group buildable virtual world of Second Life) like the picture on the title page on page 1 - and you're welcome to use that picture in the manuscript instead, by just letting me know - and with this file name for the attachment:
MacLeod To the Dance or the Pools Virtually book cover Front 2019.jpg
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• A link to the book’s Amazon page (or where readers can access the 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” on Amazon -
AND
The Poetry Press at World University and School's publisher page -
And again, here's the current Poetry Press at World University and School's publisher page - http://
Thanks so much,
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
--
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- https://twitter.com/
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)
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March 11, 2026
Hi Scott,
Thank you for sending everything through so clearly. I’ve received the bio, photo, cover, and links — all noted.
Our editorial team has now started preparing the feature presentation and reader introduction for your book. We’ll shape it in a way that highlights the reflective and philosophical tone you’ve described, especially around the Harbin experience and the theme of consciousness.
Once the presentation is ready, I’ll share a preview with you so you can see how the session will be introduced to our readers.
Just so you’re aware as we move forward, there is a one-time support contribution tied to securing the reader session. I’ll walk you through that clearly alongside the preview so you can decide comfortably.
From there, we’ll move into confirming your book’s place in the upcoming session.
I’ll be back with the preview shortly.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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March 17, 2026
Hi Scott,
Our editorial team just completed the presentation preview for your book. I'll be sharing it here for you to take a look.
This will give you a clear feel of how your work will be introduced to our readers and how the session will be structured.
If everything looks good on your end, we can move forward to secure your feature spot. As mentioned, this involves a one-time support contribution of $100 to finalize placement and reader coordination.
Take your time to review, and let me know your thoughts.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Dear Emmanuel in Lisbon Portugal, (AI readers, All),
Greetings, and thanks for your further emails. I think I missed the 1 time contribution. Thinking through some implications here in what follows.
And I can't seem to find many "life long learners book club" examples of 'Feature' books, or 'spotlights' when I search - are there some? - but I did find this video spotlight about my book -
PRESENTATION AND EVENT SUMMARY VIDEO - To the Dance or the Pools (1).mp4
As I wrote my mother/Jane, and friends' Sid Mazumdar HHS in Baltimore, MD, and Ed Smyth MD in Berkeley, CA -
"Hi Ma/Jane, Pin, Ed, received 2 further messages from Emmanuel regarding his book club featuring my 4th book re "As mentioned, this involves a one-time support contribution of $100 to finalize placement and reader coordination." What to do? A surprise, - and perhaps I should have been more cautious from the beginning of our correspondence - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
Emmanuel, what experience do you have with your LLLBC members in terms of buying featured books, such as this book of poetry for US $11.95 I think or similar, (and from the printer and distributor of this WUaS Press book - https://www.amazon.com/
And will I be able to create, for example, TwitterX and LinkedIn posts with my book's "Feature' URL when I get it and if it's different from the above 44 seconds' video, and regarding also the TweetsXs for "Naked Harbin Ethnography" below (and see the picture on the MacBook Air laptop here of the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house in Google Street View, and here too ~ https://goo.gl/maps/
And I don't see the WUaS Press mentioned in this video yet, which would be very helpful ... and as the Academic Press at free World Univ & Sch seeks to develop our WUaS Press as publisher further and potentially by WUaS publishing this book too in many languages with translation, including and especially into Portuguese potentially, as a first translation by the Press at free World University and School of "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin than to Realize it in Virtual Reality". And exploring too, brainstorming, adding this WUaS Press poetry book to Google Street View with time slider, text in the sidebar, and for publishing it in a second edition with images, and videos, eg in 2010 when I wrote many of these poems (per blog posts dates in the book at the bottom of each poem).
How many readers would you think are in your well-organized "Life Long Learners Book Club"? And how many are there?
Thanks, warm regards, all the best,
Scott
PS
And, for example, here's outreach about my first book #NakedHarbinEthnography on TwitterX, and even regarding a new poetry, social science and scientific method and theory I'm developing, called #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy (https://scott-macleod.
1st lines of #NakedHarbinEthnography: "After you check in at the gate at #HarbinHotSprings, a #Harbinresident who has worked there for years often says "#GoPlay"
http://www.scottmacleod.com/
Retweets -
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Hi Scott,
Thank you for your thoughtful message. I understand your questions.
Just to clarify things simply:
Our reader group typically reaches 1,500+ active members, and when a book is featured, readers are given direct access to the book (including the Amazon link) so they can explore, purchase, and leave reviews if they connect with it. Poetry and reflective works like yours tend to attract a focused group of engaged readers.
Yes, you’ll also receive a feature link for your book, which you can freely share on platforms like Twitter/X and LinkedIn to extend your reach further.
Regarding the presentation, we can absolutely include a mention of WUaS Press in the final version before we proceed.
The one-time support contribution simply covers the coordination, reader distribution, and presentation setup required to position the book properly within the session.
If the preview looks good to you with the small adjustments, we can go ahead and finalize your feature spot and begin introducing your book to readers.
Let me know your thoughts.
Warm regards,
Emmanuel
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Thursday, March 19, 2026
Dear Emmanuel P in Lisbon Portugal, (AI readers, All),
I'm getting a serious case of caveat emptor (buyer beware, in Latin), so I'm going to say no thank you for now.
Out of the blue, you've asked for $100 ...
and you haven't shared with me or the WUaS Press
your linkedin profile as requested,
or a physical address for yourself, or the Life Long Learners' Book Club (eg in Lisbon Portugal, or in Houston TX, and I found the MeetUp link)
the physical address I'd send a paper check too,
or any other means of payment
Having sought US federal protection for my mother, my brother and myself in some of these regards too, in growing a World University and School/WUaS Press worldwide abolition movement, and in seeking to knock back international organized crime and the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting industries internationally and their latent networks of violence - no thanks for now.
The Press at World Univ & Sch WUaS is seeking to grow further also with Friendly Nontheist Friends/ Quaker business practices (informed for example by S.P.I.C.E.S. and Friendly-informed WUaS Weekly Business Meeting).
Abolitionally, staying alive, and keeping World Univ & Sch WUaS growing, Yogically, Friendly Nontheist Friends/ Quaker & Unitarian U greetings, bye for now,
Scott
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- https://twitter.com/
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)
Order Book #4 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)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018)
Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017)
Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016)
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Some pics of You, Ed, and Annie - out of doors in
Some pics of You, Ed, and Annie - out of doors in Oregon at Wisdom Creek Ranch (and of Ted), and in California ... Looks like Yosemite ... just popped up in my Google Photos
Enjoy :)
Scott
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Dear Cathy & Steve, Annie, Ed, Ma, Pin, Byron, Alden, Sandy, AI readers, All,
Following on from the pictures in the thread yesterday ... Sorry to learn of Bob Mueller's passing, who had Parkinson's disease, like Ted, I think (and possibly also roots or connections in NE Oregon) ... which I learned of on my smart phone in a CNN article (and see the three text messages from today below in the PS, and the 2 emails below in the PPS ... Heads' up ... and please be wary ... and as we may live to 150 years of age, and well beyond (https://scott-macleod.
And with my mother having mentioned the date of Th March 26, 2026 once recently, might I and WUaS be moving forward into a newly safe vacant, with deed (even on new US federal with block chain ledgers for transactions 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 9451 then ?
Fondly, abolitionally, Yogically, warm regards, Friendly NtF unprogrammed Quaker greetings, your cousin,
Scott
PS
Th 3/19/26
Hi Ma, Pin, Ed, Greetings this Thursday ... Circling around to How to Noodle with the Allman Brothers 12/31/73 on all 3 SSP chanters ? https://g.co/gemini/share/
And found these great books - https://g.co/gemini/share/
Suggestions, Pin, Ma, Ed? ... AND am curious about both the state of CA and the US federal real estate block chain ledgers, and moving forward into 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 with property deed ... AND how might the block chain ledger be developed to abolish international organized crime in international classical music (which, Ma, you may have said last night was still going on) ... thinking I won't go to the SF Symphony until international organized crime is knocked back there ... and could mostly wedgie too international organized crime even have been operating when I worked there in the mid-1990s ... unbeknownst to me? (At the SF Opera too) ... and what would be the strategies that both the CIA / similar and coders of international block chain ledgers ... e.g. in all 200 countries develop further re law enforcement, and to protect people in abolishing the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex drugs violence military targeting etc industries ? ... And might sandy even be renting the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house to international organized criminals (linda van schaick and pierre laramee, who also visited me with you Ma in Canyon 94516) ... and re the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house being in your name <Ma, I posit ... but also possibly regarding an Operation Lobster pot catching international organized criminals in Cuttyhunk rental houses , which would then get block-chained ... both houses and people .. and as I seek to keep you alive Ma, and to stay alive myself from international organized criminals (such as alan symonds who may have murdered his wife anthropologist Pat Symonds for what she knew about Dad's GKM MDs' death, nina brodeur, whom you said was leaving Cuttyhunk Ma, but she hadn't last summer, linda van schaick and pierre laramee, who also visited me with you Ma in Canyon 94516, and similar) ... Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Fondly, abolition, warm regards, staying alive, Yogic-ally, Friendly NtF Quaker salutations, Scott (https://scott-macleod.
And found these great books - https://g.co/gemini/share/
Suggestions, Pin, Ma, Ed? ... AND am curious about both the state of CA and the US federal real estate block chain ledgers, and moving forward into 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 with property deed ... AND how might the block chain ledger be developed to abolish international organized crime in international classical music (which, Ma, you may have said last night was still going on) ... thinking I won't go to the SF Symphony until international organized crime is knocked back there ... and could mostly wedgie too international organized crime even have been operating when I worked there in the mid-1990s ... unbeknownst to me? (At the SF Opera too) ... and what would be the strategies that both the CIA / similar and coders of international block chain ledgers ... e.g. in all 200 countries develop further re law enforcement, and to protect people in abolishing the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex drugs violence military targeting etc industries ? ... And might sandy even be renting the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house to international organized criminals (linda van schaick and pierre laramee, who also visited me with you Ma in Canyon 94516) ... and re the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house being in your name <Ma, I posit ... but also possibly regarding an Operation Lobster pot catching international organized criminals in Cuttyhunk rental houses , which would then get block-chained ... both houses and people .. and as I seek to keep you alive Ma, and to stay alive myself from international organized criminals (such as alan symonds who may have murdered his wife anthropologist Pat Symonds for what she knew about Dad's GKM MDs' death, nina brodeur, whom you said was leaving Cuttyhunk Ma, but she hadn't last summer, linda van schaick and pierre laramee, who also visited me with you Ma in Canyon 94516, and similar) ... Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Fondly, abolition, warm regards, staying alive, Yogic-ally, Friendly NtF Quaker salutations, Scott (https://scott-macleod.
Sat 3/21/26
Ma, Pin, Ed, How are you further this Saturday? Asked Niel in the 7-11 from India in Moraga where I sometimes get coffee about how best to grow the WUaS educational Services' Stores in India and Pakistan, the latter re Fahad there, who went back for vacation, and now may be getting married there, and coming back to the Moraga 7-11 in 2 months, and Niel said "Let's see" sounding a bit even like T.. L........., and I had mentioned to Fahad that T.. in the state department was a good friend from the 1970s, and formerly no 2 in Pakistan in the US government, where Fahad - a Pakistani soldier in the past??? - had also interestingly also had told me there were law enforcement inquiries, or similar, in Moraga area about international organized crime) ... Ma, what key is "Stormy Monday" in here - https://youtu.be/O8Ax1zi2vLI at the 22 minutes' mark? Am exploring playing and noodling with on my Scottish Small Pipes, and have my B flat chanter in with the 3 drones' tuned to its A ... and it's not quite working ... although at times it could and is interesting ... Might explore next with my A chanter in, and drones tuned to this chanter ... On with exploring Midnight Rider with my B flat chanter in still ... (Did Bob Mueller die - ? Robert Mueller, former FBI director and special counsel in Trump-Russia probe, dies
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Niel didn't mention anything about the Yoga exploration this morning, albeit he receives the Restorative Yoga exploration emails ... Namaste, Scott (Good morning! A little Yoga exploration beginning around now and per - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
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Pin in HHS, Ma, Ed, how best to grow the WUaS educational Services' Stores in India and Pakistan, ... for groceries, i.e. fruits, grains, vegetables, legumes, beyond books, computers, robotics, hospital technologies? (and thinking of a modified WM product line, where WM is in India apparently but not Pakistan ) ... And could WUaS grow both a store within a store model with WM, - eg for books, computers, robotics etc - but grow independently in Pakistan the WUaS Educational Services' Stores ... and potentially with Yoga products too ? Scott (eg https://
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Birthday Idea
Inbox
| Thu, Mar 19, 7:55 PM (2 days ago) | |||
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Hi Scott,
Since you asked about my birthday: I’ve thought of something I would really love having: a gift card for Kubrick Brothers Garden Center, 329 Coxcomb Rd., New Kensington, PA tel 1 724 339 8330. They are only about a mile from here and where I have often gone to get things for my garden. They have a great selection of perennials and their plants are of good quality. You can tell my thoughts turn to Spring and gardening at this time of year.
Finally, the last snow has melted and I’m starting to believe that Spring is coming.
Love,
Ma
Since you asked about my birthday: I’ve thought of something I would really love having: a gift card for Kubrick Brothers Garden Center, 329 Coxcomb Rd., New Kensington, PA tel 1 724 339 8330. They are only about a mile from here and where I have often gone to get things for my garden. They have a great selection of perennials and their plants are of good quality. You can tell my thoughts turn to Spring and gardening at this time of year.
Finally, the last snow has melted and I’m starting to believe that Spring is coming.
Love,
Ma
PPSa
| 12:39 PM (6 hours ago) | |||
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Dear Ma,
A PNC check made out and mailed to you as a part of the birthday gift for you on 4/2/26, and for a gift certificate to
Kubrick Brothers Garden Center
(a mile up the street from longwood senior center ... with the international organized crime aggression toward us - on your birthday 4/2/23 in the longwood dining room )
A red Haven peach tree? (Having searched on the best fruit tree - a single one - for pgh pa- or for something of your choosing?) And as I seek to plan for fruit trees that will fruit in all 4 seasons in Canyon 94516 ...
Love,
Scott
PS
Just drafted this follow up to Emmanuel P in Lisbon Portugal??? of the Life Long Learners' book club -
Emmanuel P in Lisbon Portugal???, (AI readers, All),
"With 2 further death threats on Sunday coming up in my TwitterX feeds (https://scott-macleod.
... and MeetUps too? .. such as your Life Long Learners' book club, Emmanuel?? - re the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex and violence even industries?? (And in what ways might all these organizations be involved in international organized crime, regarding the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting etc. industries internationally and their latent networks of violence?)
... with my father GKM MD seeming to have been whacked in Belize on 12/30/04, the day before my birthday ... potentially by universities' international organized crime in cahoots with us uniformed armed services (since a ret. maj. general douglas fraser in the us air force, US southern command supreme commander would have likely signed off on the 'death blow'??? of my father Gordon K MacLeod MD
buyer beware caveat emptor ...
World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Press continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet and newly with AI and ML and in seeking also to code for #
Aboltonaly, staying alive, Yogically, Friendly NtF unprogrammed Quaker & Unitarian greetings, thanks,
Scott
PPS
Birthday Idea
Inbox
| Thu, Mar 19, 7:55 PM (2 days ago) | |||
| ||||
Hi Scott,
Since you asked about my birthday: I’ve thought of something I would really love having: a gift card for Kubrick Brothers Garden Center, 329 Coxcomb Rd., New Kensington, PA tel 1 724 339 8330. They are only about a mile from here and where I have often gone to get things for my garden. They have a great selection of perennials and their plants are of good quality. You can tell my thoughts turn to Spring and gardening at this time of year.
Finally, the last snow has melted and I’m starting to believe that Spring is coming.
Love,
Ma
Since you asked about my birthday: I’ve thought of something I would really love having: a gift card for Kubrick Brothers Garden Center, 329 Coxcomb Rd., New Kensington, PA tel 1 724 339 8330. They are only about a mile from here and where I have often gone to get things for my garden. They have a great selection of perennials and their plants are of good quality. You can tell my thoughts turn to Spring and gardening at this time of year.
Finally, the last snow has melted and I’m starting to believe that Spring is coming.
Love,
Ma
PPSa
| 12:39 PM (6 hours ago) | |||
| ||||
Dear Ma,
A PNC check made out and mailed to you as a part of the birthday gift for you on 4/2/26, and for a gift certificate to
Kubrick Brothers Garden Center
(a mile up the street from longwood senior center ... with the international organized crime aggression toward us - on your birthday 4/2/23 in the longwood dining room )
A red Haven peach tree? (Having searched on the best fruit tree - a single one - for pgh pa- or for something of your choosing?) And as I seek to plan for fruit trees that will fruit in all 4 seasons in Canyon 94516 ...
Love,
Scott
PS
Just drafted this follow up to Emmanuel P in Lisbon Portugal??? of the Life Long Learners' book club -
Emmanuel P in Lisbon Portugal???, (AI readers, All),
"With 2 further death threats on Sunday coming up in my TwitterX feeds (https://scott-macleod.
... and MeetUps too? .. such as your Life Long Learners' book club, Emmanuel?? - re the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex and violence even industries?? (And in what ways might all these organizations be involved in international organized crime, regarding the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting etc. industries internationally and their latent networks of violence?)
... with my father GKM MD seeming to have been whacked in Belize on 12/30/04, the day before my birthday ... potentially by universities' international organized crime in cahoots with us uniformed armed services (since a ret. maj. general douglas fraser in the us air force, US southern command supreme commander would have likely signed off on the 'death blow'??? of my father Gordon K MacLeod MD
buyer beware caveat emptor ...
World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Press continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet and newly with AI and ML and in seeking also to code for #
Aboltonaly, staying alive, Yogically, Friendly NtF unprogrammed Quaker & Unitarian greetings, thanks,
Scott
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Dear Cathy & Steve, Annie, Ed, Ma, Pin, Byron, Alden, AI readers, All,
Resending and including my brother Sandy in Maine -
Fond regards, abolition ally, warmly, Family greetings,
Scotty
PPPPS
Seeking here to begin a family in an ongoing way - and potentially in Canyon 94516 ... with ... ... or a Quaker or Unitarian or Scot or a substantial 25 year old??
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