The three stages of a conscious ritual mirror a hero’s journey. Separating from our familiar landscapes can reconnect us with ecosystems, where the magic comes in. The magic is in the qualia that ecosystems reveal to us – but these gifts many a would-be hero fails to receive. All tooContinue Reading
Emotions represent an initial moments of recognition – of patterns of some sort. The challenge lies in that we sometimes don’t really know what the pattern is. None of us are blank slates, and the question then becomes: should we try to figure out the emotion or the pattern. Often,Continue Reading
If you google the word “QUALIA” you will get links to a bunch of articles which, after the first paragraph, turn into gobbledygook. The reason these articles are so hard to read is that qualia is hard to understand. Even the simplest definitions are confusing, such as: “qualia is aContinue Reading