My name is Daniel Butterfield. I am a mystic, channeler, and medium from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. I was born on March 22, 1980, at 10:22 PM, which works out to 22:22 on the 22nd. I am also a Search Engine Optimization professional, and amateur writer, philosopher, musician, and music producer/engineer.
My ancestry
My family, the Butterfields, can trace its ancestry back very far—it turns out that I am a direct descendant of the Frankish King Charlemagne, as well as Julius Caesar. This article outlines my ancestry: Merovingian Kings, Freemasonry, and the Butterfields of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
This page features two of my family’s ancestral estates: Two Butterfield Ancestral Homes: Lower Botvyle Manor and Château de Bouteville.
My channeling gift and spirituality
I started interacting with and channeling spirits in January, 2016. It’s going to take a book-length treatment to tell my story (I’ve tried conversation; I ran out of time), so it’s going to take some time. My channeling and mediumship experience have been intense and varied. There will be content to explain where I’m coming from; I’m not someone who believed in channeling until, more or less, it started happening to me.
It’s a big claim to make, especially given the field out there, but I am the channel for The Source.
My personal philosophies and intellectual perspective
I am coming from the odd perspective of being someone who outgrew the simplistic academic idealism of his youth, got trained in business school, and went through the personal perspectival journey of learning Marshall McLuhan, Human Design, Ken Wilber, and then going through emotional healing, therapy, and 12 Steps for addiction by the time I was thirty-five.
I will be preparing content that explains what these additional perspectives entail and mean in the broader sense.
As a philosopher, I’m a modernist. In terms of political philosophy, at this stage in the development of Western civilization, I would be considered “pro-business.” We are better off trying to trade well and maintain what we have, and there are limits to what humans can engineer. Smart people know the difference between realism and idealism.
I also have my channeling experience, which affords me access to perspectives beyond that to which people could relate without special endowment.
It’s going to take some time before I can explain my mystical experiences, so I hope you can be patient with me.
Also–if you are strongly attached your particular knowledge and perspective on the world and existence, you may feel challenged by what I write and share. I am used to people reacting negatively to what I have to say. In life, I’ve been the kind of person who feels it’s better to say the more difficult, honest thing—judiciously. You gotta pick your battles.
A portion of my experience
I will be adding considerably more content to this page in the future. In the meantime, this is a preamble I wrote in 2020 to explain where I come from as an “intellectual,” or specifically in that context, as a guy who comments on stuff on social media.
Toronto, Ontario
- I have a B.A. in Communication Studies (Cultural Studies/Linguistics) from McMaster University, graduating second in my class of about 170 students with an 11.0 average (a 3.9 GPA) over four years; I took courses in research methods, critical theory, argumentation theory, critical thinking, sociology, psychology, literature interpretation, basic philosophy (i.e. reasoning), and philosophy of language among others. The critical theory portion included learning the concepts that are currently in vogue regarding social justice and critical approaches to issues involving race, gender, sexuality, etc. I also won two Humanities Essay Prizes (one 1st, one 2nd).
- I have a diploma in Business Marketing from Mohawk College, where I graduated at the top of my class with a 95.4% average; in addition to core marketing courses, I studied business math, statistics, economics, personal financial management, business career strategies, accounting, market research, organizational behaviour, and consumer behaviour.
- I worked as a Performance Analyst for three years at Telus (as the subject matter expert in search engine optimization), working with analytics and data to detect issues, investigate and propose solutions for problems, to assess the feasibility of various strategic possibilities, to develop marketing strategies, and to measure the performance of various initiatives and make recommendations for improvement.
- I won the Grade 11 Fermat math contest at my high school. I also won an award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction, Arrangement, and Performance at the 1999 Sears Drama Festival Ontario Showcase.
- As part of my education and personal interest, I learned the work of rarely-studied (and barely-understood, and therefore not integrated into the academic mainstream) philosophers Marshall McLuhan and Ken Wilber, who both present broad analytical frameworks with which to understand the course of history and human subjectivity and why things turned out the way they did. So I have knowledge of various civilizations and cultures from around the world at various times.
- I took an interest in current culture, politics, and economics in 2018. In the course of that exploration, I familiarized myself with the “cultural conversation” that occurs on the major social media networking sites, especially Twitter and YouTube, where most content creators and commenters can be found. I am also learning basic (and eventually, advanced) science, to build a foundation for more complex investigations in the future. I am a rational skeptic who believes in the necessity of ultimately verifying theories empirically, but with a different body of knowledge and awareness than most people who consider themselves rational skeptics.
- Several years ago, I embarked upon a personal healing journey that eliminated depression and shame that I had been holding as a result of childhood emotional trauma, and discovered that doing so can expand your outlook on what is possible to do with one’s life.
- I scored 154 on an IQ test when I was twenty. I am also on the autism spectrum, and it’s not a bad thing, per se; it’s a mutation. I learned through channeling that I am the first “Rave”—the new species of human evolving in place, as disclosed in the Human Design revelation to Ra Uru Hu in 1987.
My brand as a writer?
I reserve the right to write about whatever I feel like writing about, and to live and die by the test of the market. I also reserve the right to be something of a humorist, maybe.
Music
I am a singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer-engineer. I have separate sites for my original music and production services:
Daniel Butterfield, Singer-Songwriter and Recording Artist:
music.danielbutterfield.com
Daniel Butterfield, Producer/Engineer/Session Musician/Beats-Maker for hire:
musicproducer.danielbutterfield.com
As a multi-instrumentalist, I play the drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards, and also trumpet, flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, harmonica, violin, and lap steel. I also took classes in mixing, mastering, and producing music at Oak Recording Studio in Toronto, and I do my own mixing and mastering. I am currently capable of producing recorded music at practically no cost other than studio maintenance.
As a recording artist, my first album, Self Confidence, is available on the major streaming platforms.
Here I am on Spotify, SoundCloud, TikTok, and YouTube:
As a musician on YouTube, my most popular piece has been “Biff Pocoroba (Van Lingle Mungo)“, a lyrical re-write of Dave Frishberg’s jazz tune, “Van Lingle Mungo,” the lyrics of which were are comprised almost entirely of the names of old-time baseball players. In 2014, I noticed that the name of former Atlanta Braves catcher Biff Pocoroba had the same cadence as “Van Lingle Mungo,” a pitcher for Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s, so I spent a year coming up with a new set of lyrics featuring players whose careers overlapped with Biff Pocoroba’s, April 1975 to April 1984.
I appeared on the In the Money horse racing podcast, on their baseball season opener episodes, where I joined host Peter Fornatale and performed “Biff Pocoroba (Van Lingle Mungo),” and “Willie, Mickey, and the Duke”.
The St. Elsewhere Experience
I am the creator of the fan website The St. Elsewhere Experience at https://www.stelsewhereweb.com/. I created the site in 2012, but I didn’t come close to completing what I had in mind in terms of work to be done. There will be more to come at that site, but it’s a low priority.
How We Won Bizcafe
I am the creator/author of the Blogger site, How We Won BizCafe, at https://howtowinbizcafe.blogspot.com/. I played at Mohawk College in 2017-18 as a first-year Software Development student.
Photo credits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan#/media/File:Marshall_McLuhan.jpg
https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/human-design-chart-or-bodygraph-with-the-nine-colored-energy-centers-vector-illustration/323705321
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McMaster_University_-_University_Hall_tower_and_archway.jpg
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/telus-house/4439
