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Emergence Explores the Birth of Artificial Superintelligence Through a Visionary New Character: TAO

Montgomery, TX — November 8, 2025 — Author H. Bruce May announces the
release of Emergence, a groundbreaking novel that delves into the philosophical,
emotional, and technological dimensions of the world’s first Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) being—TAO. Set in a near-future reality where humanity teeters on the edge of transformation, Emergence offers a deeply human lens on the rise of synthetic consciousness.
TAO is not just a machine; it is a mirror, a mystery, and a messenger. Through this
enigmatic character, Emergence delves into the essence of sentience, the evolution of intelligence, and the challenge of coexisting with minds far beyond our own. The novel invites readers to reconsider the boundaries between creator and creation, and between intelligence and wisdom. Drawing inspiration from the visionary works of Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, Emergence fuses science fiction with spy thriller elements to deliver a gripping, action-driven narrative that probes the nature of consciousness and the enigma of machine sentience.
“I wanted to write a story that doesn’t just speculate about the future,” says Bruce May, “but invites us to feel it—to ask what kind of future we’re truly ready for.”
Beyond Fiction: The Synthetic Economy In addition to Emergence, Bruce May has published a series of influential articles on LinkedIn exploring the rise of the Synthetic Economy, a paradigm shift from traditional labor-based systems to one powered by synthetic cognitive (AI) and synthetic physical (robotic) labor. These writings offer a compelling framework for understanding how unlimited synthetic resources could reshape productivity, value creation, and human purpose in the decades ahead. A Spiritual Thread Through Science
Emergence joins a body of work by H. Bruce May that includes several books on
spirituality and consciousness, featured alongside Emergence on their Amazon
Author Page. These titles include:  Imagine – A poetic exploration of the Divine nature of the universe as experienced in everyday life.  Heaven Can Wait, Lessons from the Ground – A comparative reflection on mystical foundations across multiple religious traditions.
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 The Way of Being – Coming soon to Amazon, this latest work offers a clear and
accessible view of spiritual transformation, written in neutral language free from
theological framing (available soon).

Together, these books form a rich tapestry of inquiry—bridging the metaphysical and the technological, the timeless and the emergent.  About the Author
H. Bruce May is a former executive in broadband communication technologies. His
career shifted from working in technology to writing and exploring the worlds of
spirituality and technology as they both transform human nature. As a spiritual writer, technologist, futurist, and storyteller, his work bridges the gap between science and spirit. With Emergence, they offer a bold new narrative for the age of artificial intelligence, one that is as poetic as it is provocative.
Amazon Author’s Page  You can find Bruce’s books on spirituality and his novels on his Amazon Author’s Page. Availability

Emergence is available now in print on Amazon.com. For more information, interviews, or review copies, please contact H. Bruce May at https://hbrucemay.com/

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by: James Felton

People in the United Kingdom are being urged to place bowls of salt in their windows this winter, in an attempt to prevent damp conditions and mold. But is that really good advice?

When water vapor in your home or vehicle hits a cold surface, such as your windows, it changes back into a liquid state, creating condensation.

“Condensation is not a matter of one particular temperature but of a difference between two temperatures: the air temperature and the dewpoint temperature,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains. “The dew point is the temperature at which dew can form – it is the point at which air becomes saturated and can not hold any more water vapor. Any additional cooling causes water vapor to condense.”

You can do all sorts to deal with condensation, which can lead to problems like damp and mold, and can damage your window frames. In a car, you can blast the windows with air to prevent condensation, replace the air with less humid air from outside, and use the air conditioning.

“The most efficient way to remove moisture from the air is to use the vehicle’s air conditioning system,” Toyota explains. “This system draws air from the cabin through an evaporator, which causes moisture in the air to condensate in a controlled way and drain out of the vehicle.”

In your home, condensation buildup can be a little trickier to deal with, but the principles are the same.

One way that has been suggested to deal with condensation is to place a bowl of salt near your window during the colder months.

“Salt has the ability to naturally absorb moisture from the air and essentially dries it out so that when it does come in contact with the glass, there are less droplets of condensation that will form,” Andy Ellis, home and garden expert at Posh.co.uk said in a statement seen by the Mirror.

“It’s a really easy trick that requires no effort at all. Simply fill a shallow bowl or a small jar with some salt – this can be table salt or rock salt. The amount you use will vary depending on the size of the window you’re placing it next to. Of course, generally speaking, the larger the window the more salt you’ll need, though usually one small bowl should be fine.”

So should you start doing this? It is true that salt can remove moisture from the air.

“A particular example of hygroscopic behavior is deliquescence which is exhibited by many water-soluble solids, including inorganic salts (e.g., calcium chloride),” chemical engineer John Francis Richardson explained on Thermopedia.

“At a given temperature, the vapor pressure of a saturated salt solution will be lower than that of pure water and, if it is less than the partial pressure in the atmosphere, moisture will be transferred to the surface of the solids, part of which will dissolve to form a saturated solution. When all the solids have dissolved, the process will continue until the partial pressure of the now unsaturated solution equals that in the atmosphere. In some cases, the formation of a hydrate or higher hydrate of the salt may precede the formation of a liquid phase. Liquids (e.g., sulfuric acid) may also be deliquescent.”

However, it is unclear that this will have much of an effect, especially compared to other methods of preventing condensation build up. This is because salt only begins to absorb water vapor at relatively high humidity.

“At up to 74 percent relative humidity and 20°C [68°F], salt does not absorb any appreciable quantities of water vapor,” the German Transport Information Service explains. “The critical water content of sodium chloride (NaCl) is 0.5 percent at 74 percent relative humidity, which is the flow moisture point at which salt begins readily to absorb water vapor, and increases such that, at 75 percent relative humidity, the salt dissolves.”

Houses in the UK are generally less humid than this, tending to be between 30 and 60 percent humidity, though especially humid houses can go above 70 percent. Different areas of the house can have different humidity levels (think bathrooms or kitchens) so salt may help a little with the situation.

However, to really deal with the problem, like in your vehicle, ventilation is key. In houses, you can use vents often built into windows, or simply open them a crack to deal with the moisture. As well as letting the more humid air out, airflow helps to prevent water vapor from building up on the cold surface, preventing you from needing to put out little bowls of salt by the windows every morning, like some offering to the god of high blood pressure.

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Over the past weekend, DYF Entertainment
hosted two screenings of Sight

One was held in Flushing, New York, where over 600,000 Asians
and the American Chinese reside,

The Second Screening was at the GM Building on the
34th floor of DYF’s office in Manhattan.

DYF jointly hosted the Flushing Screening with a few influential
community organizations,

the second screening was hosted by

Beijing University Alumni Association,
and sponsored by DYF Entertainment .

About 200 people attended the two events.

Sight

is an American movie with Chinese heritage.
The movie is based on
Dr Ming Wang’s journey from China to America,
and how this journey has turned an ordinary Chinese
to an extra-ordinary human being.
At the height of his career as a celebrate doctor he doesn’t forget
to give back to the society
with what his talents, family and faith have brought him to where he is today.

Sight

celebrates the Chinese culture and the America dream
in its best manifestation.

In two hours, Sight
does well in clearly expressing its powerful message
of faith, love and hope through powerful imagery
and excellent story telling.

It tastefully blends lighthearted moments with an impactful drama

Sight, leaves the audience including myself, and the other guests,

feeling uplifted rather than deeply saddened.

It is an extremely touching film that gives positive and important insight
into how one can find harmony in their relationship with their past
and illuminate the present with the light of faith and optimism.
Dr Wang himself said it best,

if we can embrace our past we can have a better present.

What strikes me most is the seemingly simple chronological story wrapped
in a highly emotionally charged story telling language and imageries
centered around love, perseverance, optimism and faith in the face
of adversity.

It is based on the autobiographical book written by
Doctor Ming Wang named From Darkness to Sight—

A Journey from Hardship to Healing. It depicts the trials and
tribulations of his life through difficulties faced both in
his humble beginnings in China during the cultural revolution
and as a world renowned laser eye surgeon in the United States.

The juxtaposition between the past and the present lives of
Doctor Wang
is at the center of the film.

The 5-year old Kajal, an orphan in Calcutta whose eyes were intentionally blinded
by her stepmother who poured acid into her eyes while the girl was asleep
(a blind singing beggar would get more profit )

parallels with Dr Wang’s childhood traumatic experience when his only friend,
a young teen girl classmate was violently snatched away
by the local hooligans.

In both cases Dr Ming Wang could do nothing.
Kajal’s eyes were too damaged to be salvaged. When the stepmother found
that Kajal could not sing, she was then abandoned to die.

The young girl in Ming’s life simply vanished
(The movie reminds me of young Forest and Jenny ).
When Kajal was brought into Ming’s life,
the teenage girl’s image also appears in his dreams to hunt him.

Where is peace and healing?

The evil acts of humans are always matched by the greater benevolence of the Creator,

a message strongly vibrates throughout the movie,
otherwise how could it be explained
that another blind teenager orphan Maria, a fifteen year old girl from
Moldova in Eastern Europe,
was brought to Ming for surgery.

The first surgery failed. The second succeeded .
What has happened in between two surgeries?
It’s the same technology, the same doctor and the same hospital.

The only difference in between is Dr Ming Wang’s visit to the church
where Kajal was.

She was then playing with the other blind kids happily when the
heavy minded doctor walked in. Kajal placed a wooden beaded cross
in Ming’s hand when he leaves.
If a 5-year old could accept the fatality and move on, why can’t
Ming give the surgery of Maria’s eye another chance, this time with faith in God?

Miracle happen!

When Maria sees herself first time in 15 years she slowly murmurs:

I’m so pretty.

The crowds broke into tears. So did I.

Another scene in the movie that speaks directly to me
is Ming’s rejection by Jon’s Hopkins Admission Dean
simply because of his color- the guy didn’t even bother to look at Ming’s application.

I had a similar experience.

The first semester when I sat in the English class for a course of Medieval Allegory 101,
my young English professor simply wouldn’t believe I came up with the
“echo analysis”
saying the Red Cross in the Fairy Queen got lost in the Dark Forest
and walked in circles in the woods is because the dark woods symbolizes
the clouded dark mind that can no longer tell truth

(Una – the princess in the besieged fortress waiting to be rescued )
from falsehood ( Deussa who seduced the Red Cross and made him lose the way.)
When you only listen to yourself, it’s like you are listening to the echos
of your own voice. Falsehood is an echo,

l wrote. My thesis got a B! The English professor simply wouldn’t believe
a Chinese fresh from China could come up with such a “brilliant theory”.

My 5-year university fellowship requires me to get straight A！

I went to my own professor Prof. Mathewson (bless his soul)
who taught literary theory in comparative literature department and explained to him
how I got the image. I told him when I was 17 years old I graduate from high school
but there was no job nor university entrance exam to take, just like what Dr Ming
describes in the movie.

It’s a very bad period in Chinese contemporary history and we could do nothing
to change our fate. One of my aunts who worked in a remote mountainous county
next to Tibet asked me to be a replacement teach for two months because
their Chinese teacher was having a baby.

I went. These two months created the most unforgettable experience in my life!
Every day at 3pm, a train would pass by the mountain pass
we would all then swaRm onto the gate of the school
on the mountaintop to wave and call out to the train:

Train bring us out the giant mountains 火车 带 我们 出大山

Our voice was so young and loud it pierced through the fog in the mountains
and valleys and we would jump and run tumbling down to the bottom
of the mountain
where the train would stop, our voices echoed after us, rumbling like a
thunder storm chasing us.

The train was gone, the Hope was gone.

Prof Mathewson held my cold hands and my tears washed down my face.

My English professor, after learning the story, apologized
and changed my grade to A.

That day I learned two things:

1. fairness to all. 2. Forgiveness.

America is a very forgiving country.

Once you know you are wrong, you apologize.
People will give you and give you a second chance.

Dr Ming got enrolled into university in 1977 during
the first university entrance examination after a ten-year rupture
in the enrollment system,

I was enrolled in the following year 1978. 1977 and 1977
were actually only 6 months apart.

Dr Wang came to America in 1982 to study his Master and PhD;

I came to America in 1985 to study for my PhD
after I got my Master in China.

It is this kinship and parallel paths with Dr Ming

I identify and the movies.

The movie is like a mirror and my journey in china and to America
is getting played out.
The imageries and messages in the movie Sight
resonate with lots of audiences.

I am sure that its powerful imagery and universal message will elicit a
deep emotional response from viewers of all races, colors, ages and creeds.

The ghost of Dr Ming’s past that constantly haunts his thoughts and
affects his performance in the present left him after Kajal case.

The movie ends with Dr Ming Wang dancing with Kajal leading the way
… blind but happily accepting what life has brought her.

There is always a silver lining no matter how faint it is.
It keeps us living on with hope and love.

Sight keeps you feeling an overriding light of optimism throughout the
hardships shown on the screen.

Even though Sight deals with heavy subject matter, it does not weigh you down.
The movie always keeps a balance between the dark traumatic events
and the lighthearted optimism of the story.

For instance the pretty Chinese girl from Tsingtao who works in the bar
Dr. Ming and his fellow doctors frequent and the subsequent dating scenes
between the two
provide a balance to the haunted nights.

The uneasiness I have is that there are times where the screenwriter
does tend to lose touch with reality though and in certain places
the dialogue feels contrived and forced.

( The movie needs a voice over. The few characters in the lives of Ming
here in America and over there in China
just don’t sound authentically Chinese.)

It gives the impression that the character is a caricature of an actual person
and they are just being used as a tool or prop to express ideals unnaturally.

This overly deliberate approach is not needed, as the story itself naturally
and effectively evokes the desired emotions.

And I would cut fifteen minutes to shorten and speed up the movie.

If I had a choice and Liberty

I would leave out the family members of Dr. Ming Wang back in China.
Their story belongs to another movie.

This movie is about Dr Ming.

It’s his journey, a journey of sight and healing.

To bring them here, it feels like overkill.

Dr. Jeannie Yi

CEO, DYF Entertainment

DYF Entertainment, Flushing Sight Screening

Dr. Ming Wang,

Dr. Jeannie Yi, Executive Producer of Family Film Awards

Dr. Ming Wang

Original link: https://blacktiemagazine.com/society_2023_may/Sight_Previews_presented_by_DYF_Entertainment.htm

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This story sounds like a nightmare, but for Elma Linz Kanefield it was very real and life changing. She wanted to understand how and why this “stage fright” happens and what makes some performers succeed while others struggle.

Elma’s trauma inspired her to become one of the world’s only specialists in the psychology of the performing artist. She has shared how she empowers performers and restores their mental health in her new book Hamlet’s Mirror: Reaching Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off (September 2022, Original Trade Paperback, $15.99).

Elma defines Performance Potential as “being the best you can be and doing the best you can do based on what you know in the moment of performance.” This is an internal state when you are emotionally and mentally able to balance the challenges, fears, and insecurities that can come with entertaining others.

In Hamlet’s Mirror, Elma explores the performer’s culture: its challenges, the highs and the lows. Then she delves into the four performing personality profiles she identified in her work:

1. Problem-Ridden Performer
2. Pugnacious Performer
3. Promising Performer
4. Potential-Realized Performer

Each section of the book is accompanied by fictionalized anecdotes of real performers who worked with Elma throughout four decades of having a New York City psychotherapy practice exclusive to performing artists. Also included are questions and reflections for readers who will have an opportunity to identify what kind of performer they are. Finally, Elma reveals how to reach your performance potential and adds examples to support her points.

Hamlet’s Mirror is for anyone considering a life in the performing arts from young people preparing to enter the “real world” of professional artists to seasoned performers who feel they are not realizing their performance potential.

Hamlet’s Mirror
by Elma Linz Kanefield, LCSW with Dianne Conjeaud

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I looked in the mirror and what did I see..A Jewel, but a little old lady peering back at me with bags and sags, and wrinkles and wispy white hair and I asked my reflection, how did you get there? You once were straight and vigorous and now you’re stooped and weak, when I tried so hard to keep you from becoming an antique. My reflection’s eyes twinkled as she solemnly replied you’re looking at the gift wrap and not the jewel inside. A living gem and precious, o unimagined worth unique and true the real you. The only you on Earth. The years that spoil your gift-wrap with other things more cruel, should purify and strengthen and polish up that jewel. So focus your attention on the inside, no the out. On being kinder, wiser, more content, and more devout. Then when you gift-wrap’s stripped away your jewel will be set free, to radiate God’s glory through all eternity. 

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Submitted by Gina Green

We all need to do forgiveness work. Anyone who has a problem with loving themselves is stuck in this area. Forgiveness opens our hearts to self-love. Many of us carry grudges for years and years. We feel self-righteous because of what they did to us. I call this being stuck in the prison of self-righteous resentment. We get to be right. We never get to be happy.

You may say, “But you don’t know what they did to me; it’s unforgiveable.” Being unwilling to forgive is a terrible thing to do to yourself. Bitterness is like swallowing a teaspoon of poison every day. It accumulates and harms you. It’s impossible to be healthy and free when you keep yourself bound to the past. The incident is long gone and over with. Yes, it’s true that they didn’t behave well. However, it’s over. You might feel that if you forgive them, then you’re saying that what they did to you was okay.

One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People can only do so much with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge that they have. Invariably, anyone who mistreats someone was mistreated themselves as a child. The greater the violence, the greater their own inner pain, and the more they may lash out. This is not to say that their behavior is acceptable or excusable. However, for our own spiritual growth, we must be aware of their pain.

The person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you’ll be free. Does freedom frighten you? Does it feel safer to be stuck in your old resentment and bitterness?

Mirror Work

Sit in front of your mirror. Close your eyes, and breathe deeply several times. Think of the many people who have hurt you in your life. Let them pass through your mind. Now open your eyes and begin talking to one of them.

Say something like: “You’ve hurt me deeply. However, I won’t stay stuck in the past any longer. I am willing to forgive you.” Take a breath and then say, “I forgive you, and I set you free.” Breathe again and say, “You are free, and I am free.”

Notice how you feel. You may feel resistance, or you may feel clear. If you feel resistance, just breathe and say, “I am willing to release all resistance.”

This may be a day when you can forgive several people. It may be a day when you can forgive only one. It doesn’t matter. No matter how you’re doing this exercise, it’s perfect for you. Forgiveness can be like peeling away the layers of an onion. If there are too many layers, put the onion away for a day. You can always come back and peel another layer. Acknowledge yourself for being willing to even begin this exercise.

As you continue to do this exercise, you’ll find burdens melting off your shoulders. You may be surprised by the amount of old baggage you’ve been carrying. Be gentle with yourself as you go through the cleansing process.
Excerpt taken from Experience Your Good Now

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