An Advertorial by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology | ShockMetaphysics.com Let us begin with what most people are afraid to say out loud. The war between Black men and Black women is not a cultural…
A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com The Question That Changes Everything There is a logic embedded in the entire architecture of Dr. Joy DeGruy’s scholarly project that only becomes fully visible when…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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?…
A Black Trauma Podcast Conversation with Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews When Jelani Clay—known in the spiritual hip hop world as JClay—opens his mouth to rap, something remarkable happens. His lyrics carry what one psychologist calls “the precision of a…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews The human brain operates through two fundamentally different processing systems that govern our responses to the world—and when trauma enters the equation, the delicate balance between these systems becomes catastrophically disrupted. Understanding this neurological…
