Like stars moving apart from one another in the universe, the extension of consciousness creates more emptiness, more void, more space into which the harmony of the ecosystem may flow. The ecosystem expresses itself through us, through our expanded inner landscapes, informing the matters we care about, helping them endure,Continue Reading

Our wishes must contain an element of virtue, or something higher or universal, be in harmony (resonate) with the ecosystem before they will unfold into reality. The ego must relinquish the central, controlling position in the landscape before true happiness can be attained. That is why it is necessary toContinue Reading

When I was nineteen years old I bought myself a copy of the Tao Te Ching. I carried it with me in my backpack, hitch-hiking around the country. I read in it but little. Over the years, moving here and there — Washington DC, Austin, DC, Flagstaff, DC, Boulder, Dallas,Continue Reading

The Tao Te Ching
 is full of kings
 who left realms vast behind,
Like atoms who
 with tiny qualms
 from molecules unbind.

 — Qualiens

Welcome to Planet Qualia. It is my goal to get people to focus on qualia instead of matter. Everything our senses pick up is qualia — color, sound, texture, etc. — and it sends us chasing after matter. We evolved that way. A finch sees red and it leads himContinue Reading