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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

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

 — Qualiens

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The world is a beautiful place, or sublime. It is always reaching towards ideals or falling away from them, into decay. We see both the beautiful and the sublime, our ideals and their imperfection, in the blossom of a flower, a city, a work of art, or a war. InContinue Reading

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Remember The Who? Remember their rock opera, “Tommy?” The music on that record was some of the first to ever touch me deeply. I was probably about eight years old when it came out. The lyrics on that album, it turns out, are full of qualiadelic wisdom. “See me, feelContinue Reading

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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