When I was nineteen years old I bought myself a copy of the Tao Te Ching. I carried it with me in my backpack, hitch-hiking around the country. I read in it but little. Over the years, moving here and there — Washington DC, Austin, DC, Flagstaff, DC, Boulder, Dallas,Continue Reading

The Tao Te Ching
 is full of kings
 who left realms vast behind,
Like atoms who
 with tiny qualms
 from molecules unbind.

 — Qualiens

Welcome to Planet Qualia. It is my goal to get people to focus on qualia instead of matter. Everything our senses pick up is qualia — color, sound, texture, etc. — and it sends us chasing after matter. We evolved that way. A finch sees red and it leads himContinue Reading