Qualiens is my pen name. If we were all more qualiadelic we could be a new species: Homo qualiens. Not that I consider myself to be so evolved; I'm just happy to have received so many qualiadelic ideas. I think we will be seeing some really qualiadelic people come along. Soon.
My real name is Tony Brussat. I have an app called "BeQualiadelic"
I’m not suggesting that qualia is better or more important than matter. They both depend upon each other. I’m just saying that, for our own good, and for the good of the planet, we need to switch our focus from matter to qualia. We are very materialistic and we needContinue Reading
Melanqualia is a feeling of aloneness as that does not arise from sadness but positivity. It is an emotion often fueled by creativity or idealism. It comes with an aspiration toward the higher levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: to self-actualize, cognitively, aesthetically, transcendentally. Melanqualia causes us to separate fromContinue Reading
The big lie is that the animal kingdom exists in a perpetual state of fear. Animals are highly alert, not fearful. We humans project our own state of fear upon animals because we live in an addictive and traumatic landscape. We believe our motivation is “reward-based,” and that animals, unlikeContinue Reading
Ecosystems are really not such a new concept. Montaigne, in the 1500s, writes how “students of natural law hold that the birth, nourishment, and growth of each thing is the alteration and corruption of another.” And to add authority to his point, he quotes the Roman philosopher, Lucretius: Whenever anythingContinue Reading
So here is a short essay published in Aeon by a lady who appreciates the Little Dopamine, Qualiadelic experiences in her life (my lingo, not hers). https://aeon.co/essays/flat-places-are-the-ground-that-my-mind-is-built-upon She attributes her insight to traumatic events, but that should dissuade any of us – the addictive, Big Dopamine, human landscape leaves aContinue Reading