Standing, balanced, on a seesaw, we can see beyond. It is like playing a musical duet with another, there is a moment of perfect time and pitch when, playing the same note or melody, you can’t hear the other’s notes – or perhaps it is your own that you don’tContinue Reading

Qualia is always a clue of that which is beyond our landscape: it suggests a new pathway into other niches and the bounty of ecosystems. Qualia always carries the potential for expanding local consciousness.

Like a tree breathing in CO2 and out O2, Tonglen teaches us to breathe in misfortune and breathe out goodness.  But, you object, the tree evolved to breathe in CO2 – CO2 is good for the tree. To which I respond: when plants were first evolving all they had wasContinue Reading

There is always another consciousness in a qualiadelic relationship. For every bee there is a flower, and both a giving and a taking. And flowers love all bees and bees love all flowers, just as we ought to love all trees or all blades of grass.  Consciousness begins as qualiaContinue Reading

Hold your focus on qualia. A birds feet for example. How did they evolve? Who knows — but how wonderful just to wonder. How Qualiadelic just to pause right there. No need for any answer but to feel the Little Dopamine sensation and the surety that many Qualiadelic relationships occurredContinue Reading