Most animals’ consciousness is hard wired into their brains — the landmarks and pathways they notice and follow in their outer landscapes are simply mirrored in their neuro landscapes — in other words, most animals’ landmarks are signs. Animals see a sign and they react to it. People do too,Continue Reading
All rituals, religious, celebratory, or personal, have symbols, actions, and meanings that gather to them over time. Costumes, songs, chants, dances, and all sorts of qualiadelic paraphernalia cling to them, seemingly making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. But at the beginning, ritual doesn’t have all thatContinue Reading
A mind is to a brain what ecosystems are to the planet. This similarity, which we share with ecosystems, is what gives us our higher power. Once we become aware of ecosystems, rather than landscapes, we have a funny feeling: we are not at the center of things any more.Continue Reading