The Importance of Allowing Darkness

Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional ways of knowledge. ShadeTree serves as an intentional community of mentors, elders, teachers, artists, healers, and advocates for the healthy development of children and youth. Orland’s work in healing and human development is framed by an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology, and Indigenous cosmologies, primarily those of South and West Africa.

Find more about the Three Black Men: A Journey Into the Magical Otherwise series with Orland Bishop, Resmaa Menakem, and Bayo Akomolafe.

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Topics:

00:00 – Introduction

03:17 – Part 1, Are We a Part of the Same Reality?

05:12 – ”I Give You My Word”

10:00 – Know Thyself

13:00 – Shared Inner Freedom & Trust

16:13 – Shared States of Consciousness

23:40 – Part 2, What Gives Form to Consciousness

30:44 – Light of Consciousness

37:35 – Collective and Racialized Trauma Questions from the Group

46:10 – Where Does History Go?