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"
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
If we think of Little Dopamine, it’s kind of like all the little tiny creatures on the planet. I’m not talking about meek mice and anxious sparrows so much as the bacteria and microbes in the soil. Real tiny. We ignore them at our own peril – they play suchContinue Reading
One might suppose, that since virtually all creatures have their consciousness imposed upon them from outside, that they are inferior to man, who is the only creature to develop a highly qualiadelic, inner landscape. Homo sapiens, after all, has a mind, ideas, language, and morality. But that is not atContinue Reading