Question: when do my party-throwing friends in the mountains sound like the brightest of NASA’s space engineers? When they say, “the only thing we can’t control is the weather.” The weather reflects the most abstract of qualia, for it is filled with non-euclidean and non-newtonian forces, waiting to be tapped.Continue Reading

Happy Easter, when the April Sun rises in the East and all of nature is reborn. May ecosystems continue to send their blessings to us.

When an idea attracts us we move toward it. That movement isritual. Imagine the early idea that some tribesmen came up with, that they could influence the weather with a gesture. A silly idea, perhaps, but it seemed to work, so they did it again, and over the generations the ritualContinue Reading

We notice qualia. It attracts us and we move toward it. We ritual with it. It gets us into qualiadelic relationships. Qualiadelic relationships are like symbiotic relationships, except that, in the former, both parties are still discovering how to work together. Just as rituals become routines, qualiadelic relationships become symbioticContinue Reading

Sense Begin by using the senses and the heart to notice qualia and to perceive the landscape. While the senses grasp the surface qualia of things — the color, the shape, the smell, etc. — the heart seems to intuit the inner qualia of things — how qualia informs them.Continue Reading