I believe communication is the intragal tool for the development of humanity and our future culture.

Unfortunately so much is riding on it that we are not handling it well on a massive level. 

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A book list for interest. And yes.. I wrote this mess of notes.

The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil
 The history, current, and future of the technology, physics, & time placements for where technology and the development of Artificial Intelligence is taking us... making new sciences and cultures.

Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything
Dan Falk
 the history of physics through philosophy, and goes into the more major theories… still an interesting read.

Jesting Pilate, The Doors of Perception
Huxley
 is a fantastic Travel journal he wrote in 1926 while in India, Asia, and his return to New York, and  of course Doors is Huxley's recorded ideas after doing a series of drugs to reach a state, hopefully, of enlightenment to gain insight into the universe.

Separate Reality, Teachings of Don Juan, Journey To Ixtlan 
Carlos Castaneda  
 "A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan
    & nbsp;   &n bsp;   &nb sp;   A young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian''s world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge."

Celestine Prophecy, Tenth Insight, Secret of Shambala, God and the Evolving Universe
James Redfield
 Fiction Based teachings for the direction humanity must take to develop our full potential and resolve the Human Drama Cycles that create repetitive patterns.  Peaceful Warrior, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, The Journey of Socrates by Dan Milman, more fiction based teachings for clean perceptive living and steps on the path.

The Alchemist. Veronika Decides to Die 
Paul Cohelo
 a fantastic brief novel about attaining ones dreams by setting goals and also a story about Veronika that decides to end her life and makes realizations in the process.

Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You :
Jose Stevens & Lena S Stevens
 Good Tools and modern day solutions for Communication ; event resolution, goal setting, the dissolving of negative thought in exchange for positive statements; clearing out ones home and mind to make room for the universe to replenish.

I have many more books I certain reccomend, but these are some very good places to start.

[ .through.the.park. ]

its not right, brother
that in morning
we pass in parting
me in my long grey coat
thats hugging at the wind
and at evening end
we greet in park's late light
you on your bench
stained red t-shirt
dirty as your denim
bottle down, now unclenched love
right arm gone
and last hand mangled

© Bryan McLean July 2006 

Rock Screen Road

The Rock Screen stands alone piercing floating clouds.
For a long time the stone paths have lacked human traces.
I take my wine and lie drunk under the screen,
watching over a thousand peaks the bright autumn moon.

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Thoughts While Silently Reciting Mei Yaochen's Poems on Horseback

When the mood comes my brush has tons of strength.
When I'm wine-sober the human world's ten thousand things are empty.
Su Shi and Mei Yaochen, the two masters, are dead now.
Alone in Chu Mountains is one drunk old man.

Ouyang Xiu
(1007-72)

Ouyang Xiu (繁體) is considered to be a prime example of the Chinese ideal of the multifaceted scholar official, equivalent to the Western ideal of the Renaissance man.  The author of many works during the Song Dynasty, he also has of a set of commentaries on poetics titled Mr. One six's Talks on Poetics. (Mr. One six was a pen name of his that referred to his desire to be always in the presence of his wine, chess set, library, zither, and archaeological collection; thus, the five things he enjoyed plus himself---one old man among them---made six "ones.") 

His plain style and use of colloquial expressions made his poetry accessible to larger audiences and helped preserve its freshness for audiences today. Even just before his death, he wrote a poem about how "Just before the frost comes, the flowers / facing the high pavilion seem so bright." Late in life he gave himself the title "The Old Drunkard."

A man with many talents, he is not easily summed up in a brief headnote. 

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[ .our.vanities. ]

drenched in night
sky falling
trees drooping lower
where we are not dying
we simply cannot see
the wind thats rending
our edges round
and the humming in the dark
reminds our memories
of the soaked late hour
this really is

© Bryan McLean June 21 2006

VANCOUVER, BURNABY, NEW WESTMINSTER; BC

AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 25

[ .late.nite.leaking. ]

its late nite
still leaking
and no words
are coming out
thoughts all gone
like breath and wind
and I cannot stop shaking

four am
making it harder
just can't rest
when so many others
need holding up
to keep us all in place
for just one more moment
outside your hands
that know no bounds

© Bryan McLean July 29 2006,
the alchemal quandary,
book II of the syndrome papers