What if history wasn’t just a series of dates, but a map of the human soul?

In this epic, cinematic journey through time and space, we trace the arc of exploration, ambition, and identity—spanning from Leif Erikson and the Vikings to JFK, the Space Race, the Avro Arrow, and Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. We hop from Étienne Brûlé to the Cold War to today, and all the way back to the traces and roots of our modern and ongoing reckoning with Canada’s evolving story.

We are living at an unbelievable point in human history. This “bridge” episode connects past and present through the powerful currents of continuity and change, progress and peril.

As we sail the whitecaps of time toward the life of Samuel de Champlain in the next episode, we confront the earliest (known) colonial encounters, the scars and sparks of contact, and evolving forces within Dr. Marshal McLuhan's 'global village'.

These historical and human forces directly shape us and our communities.

Important figures like Dr. Gabor Maté are also examined to better understand implications of our modern obsession with perfection and (un)originality, and how the anxieties of Western culture have disconnected us from a deeper, more rooted way of being. We explore how reunification of the bodymind through wonder, story, and personal connection can offer us a path forward.

Whether through Adam Shoalts-inspired wilderness trails, or Soviet rocket launches, this episode asks: What does it mean to belong to a land, a legacy, and a people still in formation?

This discussion is north of ordinary.

🧭 Topics Covered

Canadian History, early European exploration, Adam Shoalts, colonial contact with indigenous peoples, Chief Donnacona, indigenous ways of seeing and knowing, mapping and cartography, humanity, the human spirit, technology through time, critical perspectives, Cartier, Cabot, Brûlé, Champlain, JFK, Reagan, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Canada, USSR, Russia, United States, politics, Indigenous stories, ways of knowing, space race, Gabor Maté, mental health, resilience, perfectionism, colonial contact

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