Poetry from the Universal Mind

I became intrigued by the universal mind or universal consciousness while reading "Finnegans Wake," which doesn't refer to a funeral but rather says the Finnegans are waking up. I wondered, what the heck is Joyce doing? I had been noticing the startling personal relevancies and realized that they were there for everyone. He was expressing the consciousness that connects all humanity, showing that separations by race, age, gender, social class and other things are artificial, that people are...