Compare the passion of teenagers to the love between husband and wife. The one swiftly passes like a burnt-out match, while the other endures through a long series of life events. Teenage love is Big Dopamine love. Neurotransmitter flooding. Over time, love becomes a Little Dopamine phenom. Conscious ritualing withContinue Reading

We don’t have to play by the rules of matter. We don’t have to carry a big stick to make the world do our bidding. By focusing on qualia, the good things, the gifts, will come to us. The gifts have always been plenty, All of our gifts come fromContinue Reading

Why can’t we see the forest for the trees? Because we can’t see the qualia for the matter. We are materially focused. Evolution has made us that way — we notice qualia, but it sends us chasing after matter. But we do have the capacity NOT to chase matter, andContinue Reading