Qualiens is my pen name. If we were all more qualiadelic we could be a new species: Homo qualiens. Not that I consider myself to be so evolved; I'm just happy to have received so many qualiadelic ideas. I think we will be seeing some really qualiadelic people come along. Soon.
My real name is Tony Brussat. I have an app called "BeQualiadelic"
If you focus on qualia instead of the matter of the world you are filled with wonder, with questions, and sometimes answers. Questions do not always need answering Wonder inspires uswith feelings of awe and respect. Wandering into qualia is wonderful. It is beautiful and it takes us beyond theContinue Reading
What separates us from the animals is that qualia lands in their bodies but it lands in our minds. That is, the stuff the senses may reach all the way to their brains, but it effects are instinctual – they merely react, or not. They are spellbound, while we areContinue Reading
Joseph Campbell, the beloved interpreter of mythical stories from around the world, said that rituals are re-enactments of myths. He also said, however, that technology has changed the world too much, and we need new myths. Conscious ritualing is how we create new myths. Ritual is a universal activity, a simpleContinue Reading
All of life communicates via the landmarks and pathways they have evolved to perceive, which consist of qualia they share, (presumably, most animal eyes see a tree, most prokaryotes discern temperature or light or some chemical flavor, etc. etc.), but which may have different meanings or interpretations depending on theContinue Reading
The naming of things has been central to making the human being what it is. Naming separates matter of things from the life, the motion, and the change which is their non-material essence. It turns subjects into objects, and objects into possessions (which, it turns out, own us). It takesContinue Reading