So there’s nothing wrong with our ability to use logic, to reason, to pick up lots of facts and induce truths from them, manufacture hypotheses or deduce things from those. That’s all great. It’s really good. But that is merely the control part of any conscious ritual.  Even a scientistContinue Reading

When is hilarity sublime? I grew up in a family that always laughed at farts. You know, it was just a thing. And stuff like that might come up at the dinner table or anywhere. Of course, none of my brother’s wives or mine really appreciate that humor. But itContinue Reading

Things in decay hold their form, their qualia, while their matter decays. A stump or a fallen tree, for instance, maintains its qualiadelic patterns while the wood itself succumbs to organisms and weather. Qualia holds on as long as it can, as does the matter. In every case, as matterContinue Reading