We often see qualia – more particularly, the relics of qualia – in the world around us. These are the leftover signs of what once held matter together. The checkerboard pattern of decaying wood in a rotting log, all that is left of the endurance of a mighty tree. AContinue Reading

When you look at a stream, it is pure. It merely does what a stream does. It has a source, somewhere, and it goes, as gravity directs, towards the sea. It creates its path. When we note how rocks and dirt, trees and animals, and most especially humans, divert aContinue Reading

We don’t need to connect with the universe, but only with ecosystems. Enlightenment is not out there somewhere, it is right here on earth.