I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to. . . vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.