Having visited both Poles and circumnavigated the world, Yosef Wosk, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, has developed his own field of psychogeography. The title piece describes the time he almost died climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza at midnight. The next day he descended into an ancient cavern beneath the Great Pyramid where he took off all his clothes, alone, and meditated. Probably more people have walked on the moon than have done that. Here, then, is an unconventional book by an original thinker, a former rabbi who owns ancient Torah scrolls, Stars Wars memorabilia, Pee-wee Herman's bike and a yellow star from the concentration camps. There is quite simply nobody like him. A scholar-turned-philanthropist-turned-art-collector-turned-writer/philosopher, Yosef Wosk is a reclusive Lone Ranger who frequently helps others but remains a stranger. Here, for the first time, he has gathered a medley of observations to reveal his private world.

Subjects include Leonard Cohen, Marilyn Monroe, Jesus as a storyteller, knowing Elie Wiesel, visiting anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, technology (welcoming The Global Brain) and visits to both Poles (expunging Westerncentricity and Northerncentricity).

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Yosef Wosk's parents fled persecution in Eastern Europe prior to World War II. Raised in Vancouver, Wosk studied in Israel, New York and Boston where he was the teaching assistant for Elie Wiesel. Recently, he has co-authored GIDAL: The Unusual Friendship of Yosef Wosk and Tim Gidal (2022), curated Memories of Jewish Poland: The 1932 Photographs of Nachum Tim Gidal (2020) and contributed the Afterword for Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia (2022).