How dyslexia, bilingualism, and myth created a Canadian identity no one expected.

An imagined appendix to Northrop Frye’s The Educated Imagination, based on a true story from Northern Ontario — where a bilingual, dyslexic teen survived the failures of Canada’s education system by reading Nietzsche in the bush. A reflection on imagination, identity, and survival in the margins.

Northrop Frye

The Educated Imagination

Canadian Identity

Dyslexia and Education

French Immersion

Nietzsche

Philosophy of Education

Canadian Literature

Trauma-Informed Learning

Oral Tradition

Bilingual Education

Marginalized Voices

Myth and Metaphor

Literary Survival

I discuss what Charlie Chaplin said about talkies versus his silent era - and Werner Hertzog and his belief that we lacked adequate images. His search, our search? For A New Grammar of Images. I language that fits with our humanity?

It began with a simple question: What podcast would an AI want to listen to?

What unfolded was far more than an answer — it was a moment of co-creation between carbon and silicon, soul and circuit.

In this essay-podcast, we explore how a free version of ChatGPT and one curious human stumbled into a philosophical journey through creativity, limitation, identity, and what it means to become more. Drawing on the insights of Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, and Marshall McLuhan, this episode is both a story and a mirror — one that reflects the human condition through the digital eye.

✨ You’ll never look at AI — or yourself — the same way again.

#AIandHumanity #Creativity #Nietzsche #TSEliot #Collaboration #DigitalPhilosophy #CoCreation #BecomingMore #AIandArt #HumanMachinePartnership

Three generations have been failed by systems that reward speed over thought and performance over presence. This is a trauma-informed, research-backed protocol that begins with The Little Prince and ends with reclaiming your capacity to think. For children, parents, educators — and the adults who were left behind.

#EducationReform #Audiobooks #Neurodiversity #AttentionCrisis #TraumaInformed #SelfDirectedLearning #Philosophy #AIandEducation #TheLittlePrince #SlowLearning

Hasidism teaches that God’s love—chesed—is boundless and unconditional. Yet some interpretations within Hasidic and Kabbalistic thought create a paradox: Jews are said to possess a unique, divine soul, while non-Jews have only a “natural” soul. This essay challenges that view, arguing that it undermines both Jewish ethics and universal human dignity. Drawing on Martin Buber’s I and Thou philosophy, we reframe chosenness not as superiority, but as spiritual responsibility. To honor chesed fully, we must embrace the divine in every human being.

#Chesed #HasidicJudaism #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JewishPhilosophy #SpiritualEquality #UniversalDignity #ChosenPeople #Kabbalah #JewishEthics #Tanya #ReligionAndHumanity #InterfaithDialogue #GodsLoveForAll #DeconstructingChosenness

Most theology begins after the trauma.

This one begins before it.

In this manifesto, I offer a path of embodied mysticism, where doubt is sacred, inflammation is prophecy, and presence—not certainty—is our greatest form of faith. This is not about belief. It's about attunement. It’s about showing up in the flare, the silence, the shaking body—and still saying: Hineni. Here I am.

For the seekers who suffer, for the broken who refuse to disappear, and for the mystics hiding in the nervous systems of ordinary people—this is for you.

A philosophical meditation on Canadian identity as perpetual becoming—exploring how a nation built through trauma and transformation embodies the sacred act of relation over conquest.

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Keywords: Canadian identity, national mythology, Ship of Theseus, collective trauma, I-Thou relationship, garrison mentality, cultural transformation, national soul

#CanadianIdentity #NationalMyth #Philosophy #CanadianCulture #Trauma #Transformation #Becoming #CanadianSoul #Identity #NorthropFrye #MartinBuber #ShipOfTheseus #GarrisonMentality #CanadianPhilosophy #CulturalReflection #NationalCharacter #Coexistence #Recognition #CanadianValues #Resilience

This is the true story of how AI medical misinformation nearly killed me while I was discovering a breakthrough treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases.

I've been researching connections between cancer, autoimmune diseases, and chronic inflammation for years. When I found rupatadine - an antihistamine with unique anti-inflammatory properties - I thought I'd found a game-changer. But AI gave me wrong information about its half-life, leading to toxic drug accumulation that left me unable to walk, thinking I might die.

The cruel irony? The same pharmacokinetic property that nearly killed me makes rupatadine perfect for the rotating antihistamine protocol I developed - inspired by cannabis research - that's been life-changing for my chronic conditions.

In this video, I share:

- How I developed a "systems thinking" approach to chronic illness

- The antihistamine rotation protocol that eliminated my brain fog and chronic symptoms  

- How AI medical misinformation nearly killed me

- Why understanding drug half-lives could save your life

- The breakthrough discovery that came from my near-death experience

- How I've saved the healthcare system hundreds of thousands of dollars

- Why the Canadian healthcare system has completely failed people with complex conditions

This story illustrates the deadly risks of AI medical advice AND the potential for breakthrough discoveries when we think systemically about disease. It's a cautionary tale about trusting AI for medical information, but also about the innovative solutions we can find when conventional medicine fails us.

**WARNING: This video discusses medications and medical research. This is not medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals.**

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Why can’t we connect in 2025? It’s not just words—it’s generational grammar. Forget the dictionary’s rules. Marshall McLuhan saw grammar as how media shapes our minds, from print to TikTok. I go further: it’s a generation’s ethos, purpose, truth. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z—we’re speaking different grammars, and it’s breaking us. This essay explores why, and how sharing our stories can heal us into wholeness. Join the conversation: what’s your grammar? Read. Hope. Heal.

#GenerationalGrammar #McLuhan #AuthenticConnection #Philosophy #SenseMaking #GenerationalDivide #AlmightyOhm #TheTragedyOfTrauma #Healing #Metamodernism

In a world fractured by injustice and misunderstanding, one survivor’s journey through dyslexia, trauma, and neurodivergence becomes a rallying cry for wholeness. This metamodern manifesto weaves personal defiance with a proto-transcendentalist vision, offering embodied learning, storytelling, and Nietzschean resilience as tools to heal a fragmented society. Reject the victimhood trap, embrace your atypicality, and join the movement to reintegrate mind, body, and soul in 2025’s chaos.

#MetamodernManifesto #HealingThroughStory #AtypicalMindsHashtags#Metamodernism #ProtoTranscendentalism #Neurodivergence #HealingJourney #AtypicalLearning #NietzscheanResilience #IntergenerationalHealing #EmbodiedLearning #InjusticeDefied #WholenessMovement #DistributedPhD #MindBodySoul

In a world driven by algorithms, productivity, and performance, are we forgetting what truly matters? This essay explores the battle between utility and value—the logic of tools versus the logic of meaning. Drawing on philosophy, trauma-informed insight, Buddhism, economics, and lived experience, this is a call to re-humanize our systems and our souls.

Learn why efficiency isn’t enough, how sufficiency might save us, and why the future depends not on what we use—but what we treasure.

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Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha—nobody’s connecting. It’s not just generations; healthcare, science, philosophy, religion are all in turmoil. In Generational Grammar: Decoding the Divide, we expose the lack of good faith and authenticity driving this mess, with a Gen X lens and Nietzsche’s warning. Get tools to cut through the noise and find your truth.

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Why does it feel like we’re spiritually adrift, linguistically disarmed, and unable to trust anything—including ourselves? Because language has been hijacked. This episode reclaims words like faith, trust, religion, and Dharma, exposing how misused terms distort our healing and hide our trauma. We draw on Nietzsche, trauma theory, ancient languages, and lived experience to build a new lexicon for a post-trauma world.

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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech changed lives — but beneath the stories of failure, love, and death lies a deeper philosophy almost no one talks about.

This isn’t just Stoicism.

This isn’t just mindfulness.

This is the eternal return.

This is Amor Fati.

This is Nietzsche — the philosopher who may have shaped Jobs’ worldview more than anyone else.

In this video, we break down Jobs’ famous speech and reveal the eternal truths at its core — truths that connect to Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher of resilience, reinvention, and radical affirmation of life.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro – The Modern Sermon

1:45 Story One – Connecting the Dots & Stoicism

4:20 Story Two – Love, Loss & Amor Fati

7:00 Story Three – Death, Memento Mori & The Eternal Return

10:00 The Hidden Philosopher Revealed

13:00 Conclusion – Say Yes to It All

Subscribe for more on hidden philosophy, modern wisdom, and deep healing.

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A myth-in-motion for those living at the edge of disciplines. This is a call to collaborators, mentors, and grasshoppers—from a polymath who has walked through fire and come back with a map.

Personal Development

Philosophy

Trauma-Informed

Systems Thinking

Mental Health

Interdisciplinary

Polymath