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…
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…
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…
