Ecosystems do not stop at civilization’s doorstep. Ecosystems inform everything that is good about mankind. Ecosystems do not judge us even though we have lost our way. Ecosystems will keep on giving gifts to us right to our dying breath, and beyond. Ecosystems are like music. Music never stops giving,Continue Reading
How we determine the landmarks and pathways of our inner landscape — of our own mind — necessitates a re-understanding of what it means to chase ideals. Thinking for ourselves is an ideal. Self-determination is an ideal. Individualism is an ideal. The re-understanding we must have is that, unlike idealsContinue Reading
Our sense for Little Dopamine has been overwhelmed by the need for Big Dopamine. But Little Dopamine is still there, we just have to consciously ritual with it. Notice anything good with our senses, and then take a breath, or say “thank you,” or exercise some slight symbolic movement —Continue Reading
The day is filled with moments, and every moment a ritual. We need only become conscious of its beginning, its middle and its end to work a minor miracle. We sleepwalk most of our daily routines, but if someone gives us a piece of chocolate, we wake up and notice.Continue Reading
Question: when do my party-throwing friends in the mountains sound like the brightest of NASA’s space engineers? When they say, “the only thing we can’t control is the weather.” The weather reflects the most abstract of qualia, for it is filled with non-euclidean and non-newtonian forces, waiting to be tapped.Continue Reading