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A qualiadelic guide to addiction and recovery for a world hooked on more. This essay reframes addiction not just as a personal struggle, but as a cultural condition — fueled by Big Dopamine. Breaking the Big Dopamine Spell invites listeners to rediscover the subtle joy of Little Dopamine, the inner qualia of experience, and the power of conscious ritual. This isn’t just about sobriety — it’s about coming back into balance with yourself, your mind, and the living world around you.

This isn’t your typical consciousness manifesto. “The Qualiadelic Dance of Consciousness” maps the wild terrain between matter and mind, showing how perception, ritual, and ecosystemic awareness fuse into a living art.

Ought: The Ethical Importance of Being Qualiadelic is a call to shift our attention from matter to qualia, from the human landscape to the ecosystems that sustain us. Drawing on Aristotle’s forgotten causes, this essay argues that the patterns of life — like the hexagon of a snowflake or the rhythm of a bird’s song — are our true guides to ethical living. Our final cause, it insists, is not endless consumption but rebalancing with ecosystems.

Rebalancing ourselves, through the simple practice of conscious ritualing, will not only free us from our addictions, but it will give us a greater purpose as well: Saving our ecosystems. While landscapes are violent and competitive, ecosystems hold all landscapes together, harmoniously, and cooperatively. With ecosystems in mind, rather than landscapes, and qualia in our sights, rather than matter, we can break the big Dopamine habit and change the human economy.