Planet Qualia

What’s the matter? This simple question, which we all use all the time, reveals not only our focus on matter but also the connection between matter and all our problems.  If only we would ask “how’s the qualia,” instead we would be so much farther along towards fixing ourselves, ourContinue Reading

Why is a nonhuman sound image such as whale song so appealing?  Whales, I think, do not manipulate and control their environment like we do, but they consciously express themselves within it. Like both artists and scientists, they are describing the phenomena brought to their brains through their senses.  It’sContinue Reading

Ritualing is where we truly intersect with the environments in which we live. That is, it is through our ritualing that we create our qualiascapes. When we say ritual is the source of signs and symbols for self and community, that includes the landscapes, and even the ecosystems in whichContinue Reading