Part of the reason we rose to “the top of the food chain” was that we didn’t simply react to the ecosystem’s gifts, but we held them in our mind. Thus, in addition to leading us to our material needs, qualia, in the form of both big gifts (like theContinue Reading
Every conscious ritual is an opportunity to experience the Way of inner consciousness. Every conscious ritual gives us a chance to look in-between the landmarks and pathways that we use habitually, to discover what they have been preventing us from experiencing. In this journey, we are neither returning to nature,Continue Reading
Our brains are landscape intelligent. We are interested in the landmarks and pathways with which we have evolved. But, although our landmarks and pathways are qualiadelic, they hold our interest for only a moment before we go chasing after matter. This is perfectly understandable, the result of millions of yearsContinue Reading
Venturing out into landscapes greater than our own means being on the lookout for new qualia. The qualia we are looking for always comes to us when we are looking for it – even the deeper, inner qualia of things. It is a gift from the something more, from theContinue Reading
Like stars moving apart from one another in the universe, the extension of consciousness creates more emptiness, more void, more space into which the harmony of the ecosystem may flow. The ecosystem expresses itself through us, through our expanded inner landscapes, informing the matters we care about, helping them endure,Continue Reading