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
Question: when do my party-throwing friends in the mountains sound like the brightest of NASA’s space engineers? When they say, “the only thing we can’t control is the weather.” The weather reflects the most abstract of qualia, for it is filled with non-euclidean and non-newtonian forces, waiting to be tapped.Continue 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.
When an idea attracts us we move toward it. That movement isritual. Imagine the early idea that some tribesmen came up with, that they could influence the weather with a gesture. A silly idea, perhaps, but it seemed to work, so they did it again, and over the generations the ritualContinue Reading
We notice qualia. It attracts us and we move toward it. We ritual with it. It gets us into qualiadelic relationships. Qualiadelic relationships are like symbiotic relationships, except that, in the former, both parties are still discovering how to work together. Just as rituals become routines, qualiadelic relationships become symbioticContinue Reading