When we “dare greatly,” we fall; and when we fall, that is when we must “rise strong.” These are truths that animate two of Brene Brown’s inspirational books. She is not overtly spiritual, but she says that spirituality has a part to play in every story of overcoming failure. SheContinue Reading

Consciousness is created by the landscape, whether the landscape is within or without. That is One. As we evolve through landscapes of the senses, and then cognition, we ritual with the landscape, transforming it. New landscapes supercede the old; that is Two. Old landscapes remains in the background, like wallpaper;Continue Reading

Throughout evolution, qualia has come to animals, plants, and all beings, from the outside. Qualia has been the gift of ecosystem — the colors, sounds, smells, tastes and textures — which leads us to the matter we need for survival. We might say (and we shall) that consciousness was impressedContinue Reading

Consciousness renders the world fixed. Once fixed, evolution slowly moves the old landscapes into the background, where they always remain a force (though we may not be conscious of it – just as we are not terribly conscious of the stars from which we came, or even the mountains offContinue Reading

Sleep is to ecosystems as wakefulness is to landscapes. The former are qualiadelic while the latter are materialistic. Sleep is the Yin to wakefulness’ Yang.