Every habit has, and every ritual has, a beginning, middle, and end. So too, do both behaviors have a trigger, then a reaction, a response, and then a reward. The reaction is to dopamine (triggered by something in either our outer or inner landscape). The reward is returning to theContinue 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