In this episode, we delve into the multiplex realities informing the sociocultural and sociopolitical experiences of Black and Brown bodies. The focus lies on the forces and apparatuses interfering, disrupting, and generating chaos in our ecosystems, worldviews, value systems, priorities, interaction with reality, and consciousness. In the spirit of Ubuntu (e.g., “a person is a person through other people”), this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

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“…if Afrikans are to liberate themselves from European domination, empower themselves, enrich their quality of life, they must repudiate the power of Europeans to characterize their ethnicity and through it, gain power over them by characterizing their own perceptions of themselves..” - Dr. Amos N. Wilson

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of reality, touching on the contours of its influencing, persuasive, and controlling nature of our minds, emotions, consciousness, behaviors, and personality wiring. Reality depends on a people's ontological and epistemic structure. So, in other words, reality is best understood and interpreted through a culture's particular knowledge and truth-seeking systems. In the spirit of Ubuntu, this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

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In this episode, we continue the discourse on Love. Traveling through adolescence to adulthood, I open the portal to some life experiences that have partially shaped and influenced my Love journey. Eventually, my Wife and I found each other unintentionally, and while neither one of us was ready to embrace the fullness and powerful vibrations of Love, she demonstrated nothing but grace, decisiveness, and patience as I went through a matrix of confusion, disbelief, and immaturity. Towards the end of the episode, I recite a self-written poem titled “Let Love Live” that I wrote on behalf of my Love to my Wife, recited for all listening ears, and located in my independent poetry anthology “The Depths Below.” I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

Let Love Live:

An everlasting touch

meets an everlasting grip;

Who can say that lasting love

can never exist?

Be honest and love yourself, and in return

someone will love you.

The blacker the berry

the sweeter the juice,

Love is an eternal drug

And I am addicted to you.

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In this episode, we initiate a deep exploration of love. Drawing from lessons learned, divine messages, and golden insights gathered from formative childhood years - through the aches and pains of the life process - and crystallized during the co-journeying process of matrimony, helped with the reconceptualization, reimagination, and relearning of the transcendence and transformative power of love. I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

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“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplation - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God - carefully.” - Toni Morrison (Rest in Power)

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In this episode, we discuss a recent life experience with hypocrisy, deceit, and disillusionment manifested into questioning human dignity and worth. Drawing from lessons learned, divine messages, golden insights gathered from community practice - including familyhood, helped with the restoration of dignity, courage - self-knowingness. I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep and intense reflection: “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Rest in Power)

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In this episode, we briefly explore the personal pivot from military officer to liberation social worker. Drawing from lessons learned, golden insights of spiritual substance helped me realize that the human services work fulfilled in the military accurately translates into a liberation social work practice context. I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep and intense reflection: “Man's consciousness is a creative act and the kind of consciousness one has will determine the kind of world one creates” - Dr. Amos Wilson”

Dr. Amos Wilson’s book, “Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order”

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In this episode, we explore and address the distorted Western conceptions of mental health, within the context of communalism and collectivity. Drawing from insights and understandings gathered from roots in the Black church, experiential self-knowledge, self-studying of Ancient and indigenous civilizations, including the perspective of African psychology, and amplified by an African self-consciousness, I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep and intense reflection: “When the human spirit is well, whole, and healthy, the human being is characterized by confidence, competence, and a sense of full responsibility and unlimited potentiality” —Dr. Wade Nobles

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