Qualia is always a clue of that which is beyond our landscape: it suggests a new pathway into other niches and the bounty of ecosystems. Qualia always carries the potential for expanding local consciousness.

Like a tree breathing in CO2 and out O2, Tonglen teaches us to breathe in misfortune and breathe out goodness.  But, you object, the tree evolved to breathe in CO2 – CO2 is good for the tree. To which I respond: when plants were first evolving all they had wasContinue Reading

There is always another consciousness in a qualiadelic relationship. For every bee there is a flower, and both a giving and a taking. And flowers love all bees and bees love all flowers, just as we ought to love all trees or all blades of grass.  Consciousness begins as qualiaContinue Reading