The Almighty Ohm

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Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail Us In this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth. Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images , and Nietzsche’s insight that we ourselves are the creators of meaning, we explore why modern life feels so...

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 Ed...

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. Dr...

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 #SelfD...

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...

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 wh...

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. --- Keywords: Canadian identity, national mythology, Ship of Theseus, collective trauma, I-Thou relationship, garrison mentality, cultural transformation, national soul #CanadianIdentity #NationalMyth #Philosophy #Ca...

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...

I discussed doubt Faith education authenticity all the good stuff

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...

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 you...

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 suffic...

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.

Welcome. Today, I’m fired up—I’ve been reading about the Druids, those Celtic sages of old, and it’s got me thinking: what if everything we know about Christianity’s roots is missing a massive piece? We’re always hearing about the Greeks—Plato, Augustine, the logos—but what about the Irish? What if they didn’t just tweak Christianity, but gave it its real heartbeat? And stick with me here—what if...

A recording from the archive. Enjoy. Al.

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...

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’ fa...

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

Join us for a profound and thought-provoking podcast episode where the legendary philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, drawing from his seminal work Twilight of the Idols, engages in a deep conversation with Almighty Ohm, a modern-day storyteller and healer. Centered around Nietzsche’s “Critique of Modernity” from Essay 39, this dialogue explores the malaise of 2025—its loss of purpose, meaning, and co...

Everyone’s arguing over politics, education, technology, and ideology — but what if the real crisis is deeper than all of that? In this episode, we explore how modern society is losing its capacity for thinking itself. From McGilchrist’s divided brain theory to McLuhan’s media prophecy and Allan Paivio’s forgotten dual coding model, this episode uncovers how we lost the ability to hold attention,...

In a world that praises logic, speed, and efficiency, something ancient is quietly slipping away: awe. This talk/essay explores how secularism, once a noble shield against dogma, has hardened into a faith of its own—one that worships control and quantification while exiling reverence, ritual, and soul. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung, Martin Buber, and Iain McGilchrist, we trace how modern cult...

What if the way we learn isn't just through words and pictures—but through movement, emotion, rhythm, and story? In this essay, I introduce Plural Coding Theory, a model that expands on Paivio’s Dual Coding and brings in insights from psychology, education, philosophy, trauma studies, and neurodiversity. Drawing from thinkers like Temple Grandin, Bessel van der Kolk, Antonio Damasio, and Vygotsky,...

Prayer is not a performance. Meditation is not an escape. Both are acts of alignment. Across Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist traditions, prayer and meditation were once daily acts of remembering, aligning, and living truthfully—not private rituals or self-help tools. This essay explores how we've lost that meaning—and how to find it again.