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.

Sense Begin by using the senses and the heart to notice qualia and to perceive the landscape. While the senses grasp the surface qualia of things — the color, the shape, the smell, etc. — the heart seems to intuit the inner qualia of things — how qualia informs them.Continue Reading