“Don’t let the books go away!” – that’s what my bookshelf says to me. I can hear all the voices in the books on my shelf speaking to me. They were very interested in Planet Qualia, when I first started writing it, and every one of them had something toContinue Reading
I am always struck by how often advertisements use wonderful, qualiadelic ideas to sell their products. One commercial that readily comes to mind is probably called “pay it forward.” Basically, one person helps another, then that person helps another, and so on throughout the morning. It is just a seriesContinue Reading
Landscapes are competitive, violent places. Ecosystems are made up of many landscapes together, making something greater than its parts. As part of an ecosystem, landscapes endure cooperatively and balanced, like the molecules in a snowflake, held together by a hexagon. An ecosystem is qualia in its fullest, innermost sense, holdingContinue Reading
The sparrow is doing what it loves to do, because its Interest and Participation levels are matched in the middle (Interest level 5/10, Participation level 5/10); it is in sync with its landscape. When we are doing what we love, when our faith in the qualia we notice is atContinue Reading
We are like sparrows eating crumbs on the sidewalk – free to come and go, but, nonetheless, still slaves to our landscapes, chained to our landmarks, and our pathways. Yet all is (generally) provided for – the qualia we notice guides us to the matter we need. Survival depends onContinue Reading