A Qualiadelic Economy
The day is filled with moments, and every moment a ritual. We need only become conscious of its beginning, its middle and its end to work a minor miracle. We sleepwalk most of our daily routines, but if someone gives us a piece of chocolate, we wake up and notice.Continue Reading
Wallpaper
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
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