A sense for the qualiadelic gives us confidence that there is an order to the world. To paraphrase the neuroscientist and philosopher, Daniel Dennett, a sense for the qualiadelic helps us fill in the rest of the wallpaper, even though our eyes can only see only one small portion ofContinue Reading

Ritual is widely misunderstood. There are good reasons to be skeptical of it, but we must not be like the cynic: we mustn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The difference between the skeptic and the cynic is that the skeptic doubts his own intelligence, too, along with everyoneContinue Reading

Happy Easter, when the April Sun rises in the East and all of nature is reborn. May ecosystems continue to send their blessings to us.