By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part Three: Building the Temple — Wo’se Sacramento and the Institutional Legacy of Consciousness Work Introduction: The Ancestor Does Not Retire In the Kemetic understanding of death that Minister Alkebulan taught throughout…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part Two: Know Thyself — The Intellectual and Spiritual Architecture of Alkebulan’s Teaching Introduction: From Philosophy to Practice Ideas do not heal in the abstract. They heal when they are translated into…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews ‹ Previous: Part One: A Consciousness Forged in Oakland — The Biographical Formation of Minister Imhotep Alkebulan Introduction: The Architecture of a Liberating Consciousness A healer cannot work with tools they have not mastered.…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Introduction: When the Wound Becomes a Calling Frantz Fanon opened Black Skin, White Masks with a recognition that has never lost its force: the colonized subject inherits a world not of their making, a…
A Four-Part Intellectual Ancestors Series By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of wound that colonialism inflicts upon African people — a wound that is not merely physical or economic, but ontological. It is an erasure…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews We arrive now at the fourth and most forward-looking movement of this series — the place where I must bring Dr. Edwin Nichols’ philosophical legacy into direct conversation with the frameworks I have been…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual betrayal that happens when powerful ideas are left in the academy, circulating only among scholars who already agree with them, never touching the institutions that most need…
An Op-Ed in Response to “Black Wellness Edit: Why Black People Are Questioning Mental Health Credentials Online” By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology, Metaphysical Minister of Mental Liberation The conversation that erupted across Black Twitter…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews If Part One establishes who Dr. Edwin J. Nichols is and the institutional terrain through which his thought developed, Part Two must do the harder, more generative work of examining what he actually built.…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual formation that happens when a Black man of extraordinary capacity is forced to navigate institutions that were not built with his humanity in mind — and comes…
