All those eons of evolution tuned us in to the qualia on the surface of things, but the qualia in the mind (which we only began to notice, oh, maybe fifty-thousand years ago at the most), gave us something new: imagination. Imagination revealed to us how all matter forms itselfContinue Reading

For millennia after millennia, the consciousness of plants, animals, and people was determined solely by qualia on surface of things. But it is the qualia within things which makes them greater than the sum of their parts. Green leaves, acorns, bark, roots make up a tree; but tree-ness is somethingContinue Reading

Evolution and civilization have separated us from the Tao. In order to get back to the Tao we must separate from evolution and civilization, stepping out of them as if we were stepping out of a stream – a stream of time, and evolution, and history. Impossible as this mayContinue Reading