Title: Poetic Terrorist

Gender: Male

Age: Ageless

Location: Edmonton, AB

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Follow me on my blog, under my electronic music alias: The Poetic Terrorist
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I am a poet. I believe that words can touch and paint and that the language of the universe is poetry. However, no word will ever hold the truth. It can only represent it.

I am an artist. I believe that nothing is black and white, nor is everything shades of grey. There is black, and white, and grey… millions of colours in the visible spectrum… and qualities of things which our eyes are yet not evolved enough to see.

I am a teacher. I do not believe that people are stupid, and I don’t believe it’s stupid if you think they are. The stupidity and insanity of this world can be very convincing. However, I have chosen an axiom as my operating principle: people are not stupid, people are not evil and everyone has a profound place in my life and on the dimension of the sacred.

I am a student. I believe that the universe is infinitely and incomprehensibly more intelligent than myself, but that that is not a good reason to try to simplify it or give up trying to understand it. I believe our ability to grasp complexity, subtlety and nuance is infinite if we have the courage to admit that it might be. I bow to the unknown and wander in the darkness. I feel better knowing I am lost.

I am a visionary. I believe that no one way of thinking, that no one system of belief is useful without others to compliment it. The greatest human skill is to not need to believe in anything at all. To see from any angle. Every system of rules crumbles around the edges – therefor overlap systems. You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision.

I am a lover. I am truly heartbroken and therefor forever free of heartbreak. My mind may be sharp and guarded, but my heart is hot and passionate from the tenderness that makes me strong.

I am a servant. I believe there is one unalterable, inalienable, ever expanding, ever evolving truth and I do not believe in giving it a name. It will never be grasped by the mind. Never be explained. It is the one most obvious and yet most secret of things. And I pledge loyalty and servitude to this truth alone: love is my only master and peace my only oath.

I am a warrior. The true warrior is at once healer and a warrior, because to heal is a powerful weapon. Each movement, every utterance is a weapon against the manifestation of wickedness. This is grace. By healing, he is attacking. By curing, she is combating. By fixing, he is not allowing his true enemies to form. By waging peace, health, love and life, her machinations stalwart, vigilant, ceaseless… she guards against evils unimagined.

There is a saying: Know thy Self. There is also a saying: Know thy Enemy. Trust that there is only a very subtle difference and then find this very subtle difference in everything your mind happens upon, until its questions are tamed and you know what to do.

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My Mission
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Ever since I was introduced to the work of Marshall McLuhan in 1999, I have been in love with the power of media in expanding our minds. I know that it has massive potential for facilitating education and awareness. Meeting the branding, identity and marketing requirements to compete with the noise of the information age is challenging but vitally important to such causes.

I enjoy taking profound concepts and conveying them to others in a passionate and engaging way. I find myself the type of person who can talk to anyone and whether speaking privately or publicly, writing or making art, I have long been interested in raising the consciousness of those around me to enrich their lives and the worlds they live in.

My preference is to collaborate in areas that raise awareness about social responsibility and meet the challenges to the healthy future of our planet.

My goal is to become a leader and trend-setter by combining my active, conceptual mind and my solid foundations in speaking and writing with an international-level excellence in design.

I want to add power to the messages of people genuinely invested in a healthy future, and attract attention to the people and organizations invested in the ultimate vision of a sustainable planetary civilization.

I recognize that these are lofty goals, but I believe it is essential that members of my generation strive to achieve them, for the benefit of humanity.

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Favorite Quotes
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“It's very important to understand the meaning of communication, which is to create together, to understand together, to work together.” – J. Krishnamurti, in 'Inward Revolution'

“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.” – Marshall McLuhan

“Artists cannot be trained. One does not become an artist by acquiring certain skills or techniques, though one can use any number of skills and techniques in artistic activity. The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for a surprise. Such a person cannot go to school to be an artist, but can only go to school as an artist.” – James P. Carse, in 'Finite and Infinite Games'

“The New Autonomy will either infiltrate the media and subvert ‘it’ from within — or else never be “seen” at all. The TAZ exists not only beyond Control but also beyond definition, beyond gazing and naming as acts of enslaving, beyond the understanding of the State, beyond the State’s ability to SEE.” – Hakim Bey, 'The Temporary Autonomous Zone'

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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