PART THREE – The Debate in the House: Engaging Critical Perspectives on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Naming the Wound, Claiming the Cure: Dr. Joy DeGruy and the Science of Black Multigenerational Trauma

A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com  Why Debate Matters Within Liberation Scholarship In the tradition of serious Africana scholarship, intellectual debate is not a sign of weakness or crisis. It is a…

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Hegel Lied and the World Believed Him: How European Philosophy Engineered the Erasure of African History — and What That Lie Did to Black Minds

Hegel Lied and the World Believed Him: How European Philosophy Engineered the Erasure of African History — and What That Lie Did to Black Minds By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology

By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology “It is characteristic of the blacks that their consciousness has not yet arrived at the intuition of any objectivity. He is a being in the rough. Africa has no…

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PART TWO – The Architecture of the Wound: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Its Three Manifestations, and the Epigenetic Transmission of Historical Trauma

Naming the Wound, Claiming the Cure: Dr. Joy DeGruy and the Science of Black Multigenerational Trauma

A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com  Before the Diagnosis: Understanding What Slavery Actually Did Any serious engagement with Dr. Joy DeGruy’s theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome must begin where DeGruy herself…

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The Berlin Conference of 1884–85: The Room Where Africa Was Stolen, Black Consciousness Was Shattered, and Intergenerational Trauma Was Born

The Berlin Conference of 1884–85: The Room Where Africa Was Stolen, Black Consciousness Was Shattered, and Intergenerational Trauma Was Born

By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology Metaphysical Minister of Mental Liberation | SHOCKmethod.com  Grand Rising Family! There is a particular kind of wound that does not bleed on the surface — it bleeds through generations,…

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PART ONE – From Crenshaw to the Academy: Dr. Joy DeGruy’s Life, Formation, and the Making of a Transformative Scholar

Naming the Wound, Claiming the Cure: Dr. Joy DeGruy and the Science of Black Multigenerational Trauma

A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com  The Formation of a Scholar Who Would Change Everything Every major intellectual contribution in human history has a biography behind it—a set of lived experiences, encounters,…

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Naming the Wound, Claiming the Cure: Dr. Joy DeGruy and the Science of Black Multigenerational Trauma

Naming the Wound, Claiming the Cure: Dr. Joy DeGruy and the Science of Black Multigenerational Trauma

A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com  There is a particular kind of liberation that arrives not in the streets but in the mind—the moment when something you have always felt but could…

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4-Part Series – DR. YOSEF A. A. BEN-JOCHANNAN: RECLAIMING THE ANCESTRAL RECORD

DR. YOSEF A. A. BEN-JOCHANNAN: RECLAIMING THE ANCESTRAL RECORD

SERIES INTRODUCTION Before There Was Google, There Was Dr. Ben: Why His Work Still Demands Our Attention By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com | SHOCKmethod.com There is a certain kind of knowledge that the dominant culture fears more…

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Before Greece, There Was Kemet: Why Kemetic Logic Holds the Keys to Ethical AI and Algorithmic Justice

Before Greece, There Was Kemet: Why Kemetic Logic Holds the Keys to Ethical AI and Algorithmic Justice

By: Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Grand Rising Family! Silicon Valley wants you to believe that artificial intelligence is new, unprecedented, revolutionary. They want you to think that algorithms represent the cutting edge of human thinking, that machine learning is taking…

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Beyond the Maafa: A Phenomenological Reconstruction of Post-Colonial Identity and the Reclamation of Pre-Trauma Consciousness

Beyond the Maafa: A Phenomenological Reconstruction of Post-Colonial Identity and the Reclamation of Pre-Trauma Consciousness

By: Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Family. There’s a question that haunts the African diaspora, whispered in therapy sessions and shouted in rage, pondered in midnight silence and debated in academic halls: Who would we be if they had never come?…

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