“Don’t let the books go away!” – that’s what my bookshelf says to me. I can hear all the voices in the books on my shelf speaking to me. They were very interested in Planet Qualia, when I first started writing it, and every one of them had something toContinue Reading
As a rainbow is highly qualiadelic — it has no real, material existence — so, too, are our thoughts and emotions illusory. Ideally, we can look right into our anger and it will dissipate into nothing. The same is true with other emotions, as well as most of our thoughts.Continue Reading
When Homo sapiens began to notice qualia in the mind, in addition to the qualia that our senses sense in the outer landscape, we begin to have ideas. Qualia, throughout evolution, has arrived through our senses, as signs in the environment. We notice signs, and react to them, generally without thought.Continue Reading
Joseph Campbell, the philosopher of the power of myth, suggested that our ancestors were connected to the landscape around them in a way that we, today, can barely understand. It ran deeper than the mystical participation in which landmarks somewhat magically revealed the proper pathways to follow, It was moreContinue Reading
