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The Almighty Ohm — 526 episodes
The Crisis of Reflection 😔🪞 Diagnosis of Our Lot.
The Death of Myth & The Crisis of Identity: Why Modern Images Leave Us Hungry
The Educated Imagination and the Boy Who Read Nietzsche in North Bay
A New Grammar Of Images.
Becoming More: How a Human-AI Dialogue Revealed the Deepest Truths About Creativity and Connection
The Deep Attention Crisis. And How Listening Can Save Us
Chosen for What? Reclaiming Chesed and Human Dignity in Hasidic Thought
Hineni: The Gospel of Uncertainty How Embodied Presence Prepares Us for Collapse
The Ship and the Snow: Rebuilding the Canadian Soul
The Perfect Storm: How AI Misinformation Nearly Ended Me and What I Learned.
Doubt, Peterson, and the New Digital Agora.
Generational Grammar: The Hidden Language of Connection
Reintegrating the Self in a Fragmented World
Utility vs. Value: Why What Matters Can’t Be Measured
Lost in Translation: The Crisis of 2025
The Hidden Celtic Soul of Christianity
Camus and Creativity.
Faith, Trust, and the Hijacking of Language: Why Meaning Matters in a Post-Trauma World
The Hidden Philosopher Behind Steve Jobs' Stanford Speech | Nietzsche & the Eternal Return
The Rare Air Manifesto
Nietzsche Interviews Almighty Ohm: A Conversation on Modernity
We Don’t Think Anymore: Why the Real Crisis Is Cognitive, Not Political
The Brain’s Forgotten Hemisphere: Healing in a Fragmented Culture
The Future of Learning Is Plural, Not Binary
More Than Words: How True Prayer and Meditation Shape How We Live
The Atypical Mind: How Visual Thinkers, Split Brains, and Trauma Survivors Teach Us to Learn Differe
Faith Without Commitment Is Not Śraddhā
Tech Isn’t the Problem—Engagement Is: Why Audiobooks Are the Future of Literacy
The Endurer’s Manifesto: Practice in the Middle of Chaos
Beyond Names, Beyond Labels: Walking the Mystic Path to God
The Inflamed Mind & Long COVID: The Science They Don’t Want to Talk About
Jordan Peterson Is Wrong: We Don’t Need Another School—We Need to Relearn How to Think
The RCS Messaging Bug That Broke My Phone: A Hidden Threat to User Security and Trust
Boomers vs. Gen Z: The ‘60s Reborn, But Our Grammar’s Lost
PSIRS: The Hidden Link Between Trauma and Chronic Illness (And How We Heal)
The Switch They Didn’t Tell Me About: Why Healing Requires Rebellion
What Is the Self That Cannot Be Named?
The Human First Protocol: A New Way to Learn That Puts People First
From Skin to Soul: Reclaiming the Self in a Fragmented World
The Real Reason Tech and Schools Are Failing Us. A Metamodern Solution.
Go Set a Watchman: The Warning We Refused to Hear
Before the Break: A Living Philosophy for Healing, Wholeness, and the Human Self
Shades of Healing: From HS to Hard Truths – Thinking Past the Wallow
"Breaking the Barrier: How Biofilm Disruption May Be the Hidden Key to Healing Chronic Inflammation"
When the Sacred Becomes a Prop: The Cost of Faith Without Devotion
Discernment in the Age of Noise: A Metamodern Manifesto
The West Wash of History.
No Room for Hate: Love as the Fulfillment of the Law
From Ultra Learning to Ultra Thinking: Reclaiming Depth in an Age of Shallow Education
Carney’s “Never Canada” Flop Sparks Canada’s Conservative Renaissance.
Healing from Within: A Personal Protocol for Inflammation and Recovery
My Polymodal Learning Protocol: The Dyslexic Superpower for Exponential Knowledge Absorption
They Gave Me a Computer Before They Taught Me How to Think
Modern Philology: Dwelling with Words, Wrestling with Meaning
The Manifest Path: Renewing Tantra Through Trauma Wisdom and Devotion
Re-enchantment After Simulation: A Metamodern Resurrection.
There Is No God in the Machine: A Manifesto for Digital Reflection
Tempered by Faith: A Spoken Word Invocation for Canada.
Line by Line, Heart by Heart: Rediscovering the Cure in Our Anthem.
We Discover Our Humanity. Will You Look Inside?
Sparks and Fire: Defying the Machine with Rebellion and Trust.
Mind Maps & Missteps: Why We’re Failing at Wholeness (And How to Fix It)
Dharma Sattva: Healing the Self to Heal the World
The Sevenfold Path of Healing: A Therapy of Love, Loss, and Liberation Description:
The First Love: Reclaiming the Forgotten Commandment
A Way Back to Yourself. Nietzsche’s Depth, Frankl’s Hope, Buddhist Steadiness.
Light for the Rest of Us: How I Hacked Blue and Red Therapy to Heal, Not Hustle
The Dyslexic Revolution: How Audiobooks Can Save Education
The Sumo Path: Archetypes of Initiation and Transcendence in the Ōzeki and Yokozuna
Between Nietzche and Jung: Finding the Middle Path in the Meaning Crisis
Shadows in the Sink: Trauma, Ego, and the Real Climb
The Flower That Silenced Reincarnation: A Buddhist Take on Letting Go
The Defiant Few: Rebels We Bury, Paths We Lose
The Hidden Epidemic: How Trauma and Inflammation Are Secretly Destroying Our Health
From Uranium Mines to Unbreakable: A Decade of Hell and the Stack That Saved Me.
The Crisis of Profilicity: Fragmentation, Resentment, and the Path to Presence.
The Hidden Celtic Soul of Christianity
My Polymodal Learning Protocol: The Dyslexic Superpower for Exponential Knowledge Absorption
Shades of Healing: From HS to Hard Truths – Thinking Past the Wallow
The Forgotten Meaning of Job and Jesus: Transformation Over Tradition
From Illiterate to Insight: The Dyslexic Edge That Outsmarts PhDs
Tempered in the Basho: A Nietzschean-Vajrayana Take on Neurodivergence and Infinite Mind
The Polyglot Paradox: The Limits of True Fluency.
The Externalized Self: Have We Lost Ourselves?
The Doubt Dividend – Why Certainty is a Lie
The Quiet Revival: Solitude and the New Spiritual Renaissance
The Sacred Dance of Authenticity: Humanity's Role in Creation
Coffee, Cigar, and Cannabis.
Faith Beyond Belief: Finding Meaning in Uncertainty
Wholeness Revisited: The Journey to Integration
Come and See: The Path of Direct Experience Across Wisdom Traditions.
Beyond Deconstruction: Reclaiming Ethics in a Postmodern World.
The Poppy as a Show of Pride and Patriotism .
Reconstructing a Living Faith.
Ritual Sacrament in the 21st Century..
Purgatorio, the Aridity of the Soul, Metempsychosis.
Mythos versus Identity
Can We Grok the Plot?
Faith Beyond Religion.
Do We Have an Infinite Well of Cognition and Concentration?
Doubt, Staying Motivated in the Face of Uncertainty.
What's in It for Me
Ersatz Self. How to Let Your True Self Shine.
Embracing the Journey of Self Discovery.
Beyond Belief? How We Secretly Cling to Mysticism in the Age of Reason.
Why is it so hard to learn another language, does it relate to reading ?
Critical Thinking: The Questions that Shape Our Future
Herd Beasts: The Collapse of Meaning in a World Without Masters
Peterson and Ramaswamy on God.
Atypical Minds: Why We All Learn Differently
Jung's Dances with Nietzsche. Active Imagination and the I Ching
Nietzsche, Metamodernism, and Blake's Urizen.
Nietzsche: Beyond the Abyss.
Beyond the Norm. Rethinking Healing, Meaning, and Society.
Self Help influencers need the most help...
Is Life too Easy for us to Survive?
Everything is Lost in Translation?
Our bounds are not without, they are within.
We need more thinkers, not more teachers or therapists.
A New Vision of Spirituality, of Meaning?
Synchronicity, acting without regret, and NDEs
Meaning Malaise part deux...
Meaning is hidden not missing.
A Perennial Spirit...
Right Place, Right Time. Basho, Place.
The Meta is the Meaning
Is Ignorance the Cause of our Situation, our Suffering?
The Scene by the Seine: Blasphemy?
Artificial Intelligence and the Exploration of the Self.
Nietzsche's Of War and Warriors. Starts at 20 mins.
Nietzsche's Zarathustra in translation.
Why We Learn? To be whole/complete?
What is your passion, your path, your purpose?
How to lose friends
How a Fire Exposed our Flaws.
Artificial Intelligence and Education.
James Joyce and Nietzsche on life.
Would you be whole?
Venting about healing today
Dunning-Kruger, Neil Degrass Tyson, Weinstein and Howard.
AI like ChatGpt or KhanMigo, et al, are BullSheet!
What will denature our humanity?
Religioso and Religio is what is missing.
We need to learn to be still.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul.
A New Science of Awe.
Meaning is not lost, just hidden.
Can we become our own healer and guide?
Who are We, Who am I?
What is with all the religious conversions?
Is pride a problem, or the lack of something to be proud of?
A Secular Life, or?
A poet warrior on truth and history.
Archetypes and context.
Am I righteous or a heretic?
Thoughts are missing?
Monday morning faith
Doesn't have have to be true, but cannot be a lie...
Meaning and value in life.
Change habits, heal trauma, actualize your true self...
Have you danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?
Everything informs our journey. Healing and identity.
Living in a Matrix, the hyperreal made manifest...
The freedom found in Jungian philosophy.
Random thoughts on Religion-less Christianity.
Literacy and fluency. Both not one.
Reading is listening
Thomas Merton on Contemplation.
What is the difference between imagination and the unconscious.
A love that transcends all understanding.
Meaning is missing, thus the modern malaise.
Infinite human dignity
What is identity to Northrop Frye, and Nietzsche.
Reconstruction not deconstruction
Orthodoxy versus progressive.
Song sustained our narratives until now?
Authors reveal more of themselves than their ideas.
Technology can only replace us if we stop being human.
Three minutes to Freedom.
What many get wrong about Carl Jung's philosophy.
I am all that can be surveyed.
God, Socrates, and Meaning are done?
Truth or Narrative?
'Identity' are the stories other people tell, that you believe.
Learning to learn
Greek Buddhism. Open minds and ears see history change.
Faith vs works. Bible and Vivekananda agree.
How suffering leads to knowledge and growth of self. Trust sustains.
Our side bias...
Philosopher fails and walking on water, or walk on your own?
What is to blame for our suffering? For evil?
Meaning Manifest
Higher consciousness: Jordan Peterson vs Stephan Fry
Happiness is no place for humanity.
The way out is thru.
Your passion, your path, your purpose? Version 3
Does not need be true, when it is not a lie...
Mystical experience is not what we think...
What is truth and lie?
Set dressing. Actors and a phantasy.
How to set a watchman?
The gift of watching with love.
How to stop worrying and start living.
What is in a name...
Knowledge and the delusion that is self...
The Pope and Nietzsche
The power of wonder and the pain of trauma.
The Ws of self.
Believe nothing of what you hear, and half of what you read.
Archetypes and healing.
Dale Carnegie, Henry Ford, relationship selling, and sophistry
Schrodinger's cat, the tetralemma, and the catuskoti.
Trust and hope is what we need, and have?
Learning from another's failures...
Anxiety transforms into trauma if left unchecked.
Have you 'got' prime?
Buddhism with a Soul
Faith and Doubt...
The fusion of the commercial man and the religious man.
Where do we go from here?
The Emperors have no cause...
How To Save The West.
Slow Creep Towards... Evil, Ignorance, and Totalitarianism.
Know thyself to be happy and create, hope, and find meaning.
Left vs right. Natural equilibrium?
Intellectually lazy or disingenuous?
The educated imagination.
Dawkins' delusion.
How audiobooks can transform our education, for adults and children of all skill levels...
Double consciousness, disenfranchisement, discursiveness
When all doubt you, including your self.
Where belief fails. Atheism and Theism are wrong?
101st Bloom's day Insights. James Joyce's Ulysses.
Hamlet's soliloquy is stoacism and Buddhism and existential angst...
Ritual alone?
How do we change?
The Eternal Return.
The self in prose.
Notes on a tantric course.
Canada, Bizarre.
Nietzschean, Socratic, meaning of value.
Problems with cognitive based therapy
The physics of being...
Notes from Walks.
Is our Lost Faith Found in Suffering?
Nature of self and reality revealed...
Ubermench, in Nietzsche's mind.
Nietzsche and Zarathustra.
Conrad's heart of darkness.
Proper Gander, or Propaganda?
Why do we endeavour to be better?
Lucretius on completeness...
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
More automaths, less automatons.
Why destroy yourself?
Synchronicity or schizophrenesis/phronesis, Shatzen...
Finnegans Wake. Irish unity, synchronicity, and impermanence.
Language is culture, is identity, it is meaning and value.
Joyce, Nietzsche, Campbell. Myth and meaning.
A course on mindfulness, that was neither.
Peace for our time.
How I have learned.
Perspectives
It's not about the sex, it is about the psyche.
Some loose ideas about placebo.
Irrational beings
Want rather than Wonder.
How does my work transform our understanding, globally?
We need to want what we have.
Amalasattva. Synergy of teachings.
Notes from a class.
MetaModernism and it's true roots.
The solution to our modern Malaise is old news...
The physical place of crucifixion.
The true meaning of Ma 間 and Mu 無. Zen and non-duality.
Identity and meaning. So often confused.
Doubt in practice and faith...
Even professors fail at philosophy.
Sharing Jung's Answer to Job.
Depression, darkness and disconnection.
Trading convenience for sufficiency.
How we can carry our burden.
Community self-inquiry.
The tragedy of trauma.
Truth and meaning, value and passion
Lessons from "Clinical applications of PAP". Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
Karl Friston and Jordan Peterson interview. My notes and thoughts.
Disposable heroes.
Conviction is not a religion, it's worse than a lie!
Disconnection is the reason for suffering.
From shock to awe documentary review.
The future of psychedelic assisted therapy.
Where science and spirituality meet, and psychedelics.
My somatic experiencing practice. Adding the missing piece.
Meditation, emotional regulation, mindful awareness are the same thing.
Jordan Peterson on God and meaning.
The epitome of learning. The Autodidact. Self taught.
The Myth of Normal. Review of chp.31
Psychedelics, consciousness, and creativity.
Psychedelic Philosophy. From experience.
Jung and Nietzsche agree. We, the Evaluator. Valuation is Creation.
How Carl Jung used the I Ching to access his true self.
The philosophy of Jung, Nietzsche, and the I Ching.
Jordan Peterson and Dr Ian McGilchrist. Podcast episode 278 breakdown.
Lessons from the I Ching and ancient Greece.
What everyone gets wrong about Nietzsche.
My super power is doubt.
Neurodiversity. Jordan Peterson, George Orwell, and Temple Grandin.
Jung, neuro-divergence, trust in Healing and Faith.
The Happy fiction, the eternal return.
Is trauma the barrier to learning and emotional intelligence?
A lesson for all, and yet so few will embrace.
Neural diversity. Comprehension vs communication
Notes on a 10k walk. Healing as affect.
The Solutions to the human condition.
From vilified to vindicated.
Beef noodle soup and the catuskoti.
Psychological systemic inflammatory response syndrome. ™️
Nature of consciousness and self?
I am a strange storehouse
Gestalt Malaise. The cause and cure to what ails us all.
A lesson in intention.
What is anxiety?
Maybe so, maybe not, we'll see.
If we embraced the absurd?
Eternal return, Camus' embrace the absurd.
To turn your back on your commitment.
The majority is always wrong.
Blame, shame. Truth and trust. Trust or truth?
Metamodernism
Translation errors that obfuscate the teachings.
Induction or inference.
Authenticity and openness.
Buddhist practice and teaching in one mantra.
Cancel culture, Leo Penn and Nietzsche
What is a breakfast food?
To learn you must listen when you read.
Koans in space.
The human crisis. Camus. Profit for our time.
Zhi Yi, Nishitani, Emerson, and Nietzsche on being.
Translation failure in Buddhism
Willful barriers to insight.
Synchronicity is the opposite of trauma.
The digital age devolves into an acoustic paradigm.
A world where the Message is programming, and the Medium is the Master. Mcluhan and the meaning crisis.
Nature of self/being and trauma are linked?
Psychedelic: mind revealing. The practice of meditation is Dhyana: mind training.
Are you a creator? Boozhoo, Bonjour, Namaskar, Shalom, Salaam, Ni Hao, Ohaiyo...
Is existence destiny or chance?
Thoughts on recent discussions regarding self and truth. Psychedelic. Samma Ditthi. Debwewin. Sati Sampajanna.
Why do we use desire to explain drive and ambition.
Twisted ankle as a lesson in equanimity.
Friston, Free energy, Freud and Jung, and Yogacara.
PureLand pun. When faith becomes belief.
A history of violence, flowing from a history of trauma.
The real meaning of Zazen. 坐禪
Faith, hope and love, above all else is love.
The Nature of Self. Sva is the self. Svastika is 'one's path to liberation'.
Vibhava Tanha. Craving, attachment, thirst. For existence, experience.
Discomfort as our natural state: we either grow or atrophy.
What Nietzche, John B. Calhoun, and David Goggins have to teach us all.
Jung's commentary on the Tao and the Secret of the Golden Flower.
Sample Yi Jing reading.
Reading the forward to the I Ching by Carl Jung.
A lecture upon the Shadow
Reading Jung's intro to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Introduction to Jung's introduction to the Tibetan book of the dead.
How method acting highlights the Buddhist practice of not-self.
The Vagal tone and inflammation.
Faith and doubt.
A middle way in all things.
Freedom of speech and censorship in the name of progress.
My I Ching reading. Wu Wang changing to Tong Ren.
Blavastsky on Plato and meditation
Middle way. Gnosis; metamorfono, metatrepo, metashimatizo.
Chapter 50. Lankavatara. Knowing. Tetralemma.
Unifying method and wisdom. Chapter 10. Stages of meditation.
Actualizing special insight. Kamalashila stages of meditation.
The practice of calm abiding. I read from kamalashila's stages of meditation.
I read chapter 7. Stages of meditation by Kamalashila.
An attempt to define karma for all traditions.
What is the Amalavijnana. Why is it transformative?
Chapter 6. Wisdom.
Ch5 of the stages of meditation. Suffering. By kamalashila.
Stages of the path part 2. Kamalashila.
Cryptocoins are a pyramid scheme today. Cryptocurrency is an idea that could change the world, for the better.
The stages of meditation. Kamalashila.
The sudden vs gradual enlightenment argument.
Principle stages of the path. Je Tsongkhapa.
10,000 styles of meditation. One teaching.
I discuss more historic perspectives.
Rambling about whitewashed history and entertainment.
The psychedelic and the meditative experience.
The will to be selfless
What is the nature of the practice?
Sartre, Camus, and existence.
The Dalai Lama and the MP5.
What is Lam rim. And insights, or warnings.
What is kasina practice?
I think therefore I am. Thought is action, action is thought.
What is your favorite translation of dukkha?
The real final words of the Buddha'. And what they teach.
Translations of the first three fetters.
Cause and effect with GameStop and wallstreetbets.
Carl Jung and the Self.
TWIM. tranquil, wisdom, insight, meditation.
Patents, problems, and pedantitry.
The book of changes. Hexigrams. Guidance. Deviation?
Where are the answers, the guidance?
The final stages of the path. Iddhi. Siddhi.
The princess of Kashi.
Let anything be your teacher.
Anicca. Impermanence.
Why do many teachers speak so slowly?
The nature of self. Alayavijnanna.
Daniel Ingram, guru or delusional?
The mind illuminated?
Chöd. The Tibetan tantric doctrune of non-ego
The truth behind the Wim Hof method.
Brahman-nature in what is missing in Buddhism.
I discuss metaphor, alayavijanna, and mahatherayana.
What is essential?
Social media spiritual growth.
Change for Canadians. Change for good, for all.
Fetters and what makes a qualified teacher.
Mcmindfulness.
The self.
Self and nature. Ignorance in study.
Dhanaprapti. The meaning of the message.
My religion is equanimity. Upekkha. Upeksha.
Cults. I start with kadampa and shambala.
Equanimity/upekkha and jhana/dhyana - mind training.
Kasina practice, the visuddhimagga
I discuss anatta, translations, the marks of existence...
Absolute of the external world, and existence
Lost faith in Buddhism, labels, 'teachers'.
Iddhi. Supernatural power in Buddhism. TL;DR: it is not magic.
Understanding as important as intention.
Juggling as practice.
Right View. Samma Ditthi.
Koan practice. Lost meanings. Two examples.
Why do we support cults, bad practitioners, and choose to be led rather than to act.
Buddha's first encounter. Upaka the Ajivaka.
I discuss the Buddhist tetralemma. Catuskoti.
Do we need to believe in the supernatural aspects of Buddhism?
Gautama hesitant to teach, enlightened but unsure.
What is in a name - part 1
Logic and ritual. Updates. Help?
Tuvataka sutta. The Buddha before Buddhism.
The unexamined life, and updates.
Dalai Lama on the 37 practices of a Bodhisattva.
Bodhisattva vow, Bodhicitta and self actualization.
Joe Rogan Spotify premiere. What is really wrong with society? Very strong language!
Bodhicitta and self actualization.
Words are found wanting.
HuaTou. Short koan practice. Gongfu. Answers nothing. Awakening everything.
Walking meditation in Buddhist tradition. Cankrama/camkama.
Alexandra David-Neel, Allan Watts, secret Tibetan teachings.
Obstacles to experiencing Zen.
Sufficiency in mindfulness.
Sama-dhi...? The roots of words we use. Confused?
Taking responsibility. Finding solutions. *Strong subjects!
Dependant origination and the Lankavatara.
The marks of existence.
The self and liberation through action.
Tummo. The doctrine of psychic heat. Joe Rogan experience.
The meaning and the message lost in the words.
Unlimiting mind. The practice.
The power of now. E.Tolle. Space and time.
The power of awareness, now.
What is in the next episode?
Disgusted with Dharma.
Mantra of The Heart Sutra.
Not self.
If by Rudyard Kipling.
An open heart. Living a life filled with compassion. HH Dalai Lama.
I read the Prajna Paramita Sutra.
Chapter 7 of the Bhagavad Gita. The wisdom from realization.
Discussions on what is next for the podcast.
Chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita. The power of faith.
Chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter on meditation.
The Atman, awareness, and reflection.
Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita. The supreme self.
Introduction to awareness. Tibetan book of the dead.
Final thoughts on the yoga Sutra of Pantanjali and Buddhism.
Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman, and the Goggins effect.
Chapter four of the Yoga Sutra of Pantanjali.
Chapter three of the Yoga Sutra of Pantanjali.
Chapter two of Pantanjali's yoga Sutra.
The first chapter of the Yoga Sutra of Pantanjali.
Introduction to the Yoga Sutra of Pantanjali.
Chuang Tzu. Classical Chinese literature. Master Chuang.
The frog and the scorpion from a Buddhist perspective.
Body language and dyslexia
Verses of the intermediate states.
Day one of the Bardo Thodol. The Tibetan book of the dead.
The Influence of Written language and translation in Buddhism, Taoism, and Vedic philosophy.
Karma is action.
Tibetan scriptures found in a Beijing Taoist temple roof.
I Ching scholarship.
The secret of the golden flower Book review.
The power of the human mind.
Placebo in healing and human nature.
Compassion leading innovation. Appropriating compassion?
Canadian federal election 2019. No choices, some potential. ** Orig published 2019.
The imagined nature or subject/object duality
Yogacara and the three states?
I talk about Zhi Yi's advice for meditation.
Buddha's first teaching.
Rules, practices and observances.
The inherent morality of man.
The pleasure of no-pleasure.
Forgiveness.
Can emptiness be imparted.
Mindfulness and multitasking.
Qi. Chi. Ki. What is it?
What is missing in western meditation practice?
Amour fati. The love of faith, or strife?
The nature of faith.
Kindness, compassion, and equanimity. Dana, Sila, ahimsa, Karuna.
The medium shapes the message.
Talking about the root of meditation/mindfulness/Samadhi
Explaining Buddhist thought to a western audience.
Learning from what is missing in my Buddhist practice, and what might be missing elsewhere.
Why I drink my tea 'Gung Fu style'
Quantum mechanics proves Buddhist theories