I started studying ritual almost 15 years ago, in graduate school. I wrote about ritual as a tool for transformation -- and I haven't stopped writing about it since. I didn't learn about "qualia" until 2003, but I sensed that qualia and ritual were intimately related. Since then I've just been playing with the whole mechanism. I also work as a nurse on a behavioral health unit which has taught me a great deal about the complexity of changing one's cognitive and perceptive habits.
My own most cherished rituals are my walks in the mountains where I live, for that is when qualia most often comes to me. If my dreams came true I would walk around the world, going for a few hours a day, stopping at friends' homes where I would write for a bit and then play music before falling asleep. That would necessitate an awful lot of friends...
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