My Vision
As I have shared on several occasions and articles here, my work is, at its core, reconciliatory. It is the healing of fractures — between the individual and the self, between the individual and the community, and between the self and the broader social and cosmic order.
Each of these layers carries immense weight in shaping consciousness, and in turn, influences the quality and texture of our contributions to coexistence. When we are fragmented within, we cannot show up whole for others. When we are alienated from our community, we become adrift in meaning. And when we are estranged from the larger societal framework, we are left grappling with belonging.
So far, this work of mine has unfolded into two clear prongs, with a third emerging gently, like a seed taking root beneath the soil.
The first is the evangelism of the principles espoused in Embracing Multidimensionality. This gospel, if I may call it that, is a call to recognize that we do not all see the world through the same lens. Each person filters reality through a composite of lived experience, cultural inheritance, social conditioning, trauma, dreams, and spirit. We are measuring reality differently. And once we can truly accept it — empathy becomes possible. Compassion becomes actionable. Dialogue becomes sacred.
The second prong is Reindigenization. This word came to me in the course of a deep and stirring conversation with a friend — one of those rare moments where language is born from shared insight. I took the word and ran with it. Reindigenization, for me, is both personal and political. It is the exploration of what it meant to be ancestrally African — and what it could mean now, in this contemporary postcolonial, neoliberal world.
In this quest, I am reconciling the rift, the deep psychic and spiritual trauma inflicted by centuries of dislocation, miseducation, and identity erasure. I am seeking to remember — literally to re-member — ourselves back into wholeness. And that is the core of Circle of Belonging: creating a sanctuary, a space and a spiritual-social container for the healing and reconciliation of consciousnesses.
The third part is still germinating, but it is there — alive. It is the metaphysical dimension of human consciousness. A clinical, spiritual, and philosophical dissection of the human spirit to understand how we can heal the body, mind, community, and society from the inside out. This is the tender frontier — where ancestral wisdom meets contemplative science, where the soul is not abstracted but examined with reverence.
I am fully aware that my work is a form of Social Re-engineering. Yes, unapologetically so. We are all being socially engineered — every day — by the media we consume, by religious institutions, by government systems, by the Western paradigms embedded in secular education. We are shaped and reshaped without consent or awareness.
To consciously re-engineer the system is no small feat. It is a long walk — a soul walk — and I accept that it may never earn me accolades. That’s not why I do it.
So why do I speak of this work? Why do I name it, share it, write about it?
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Words are conduits of life — so says the wisdom of my Igbo tongue. So I must write/speak if this vision is to go beyond and over.
And as echoed in the Christian Scriptures: “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.” (Habakkuk 2:2)
If, in my lifetime, I can articulate what I am doing — what I am and what I am becoming — and if that vision is understood, carried, and embodied by even one percentile of the human population with a burning desire to transform their own social milieu, then I can say — loudly, boldly, even from the afterlife — that I have done my part of the Lord’s work.
We’re building alternative and empowering institutions for the African in particular, and for humankind in general.
This is a visionary work that I’m thoroughly convinced in my consciousness, is greater than me alone.
I understand the power of an idea. I have seen ideas crystallize into systems, morph into institutions, and spread as culture. Take capitalism — once a theory articulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations in 1776 — today it forms the bedrock of global socioeconomics and democratic ideologies. That is the power of an idea that is written, transmitted, and replicated.
But there are always alternatives to today’s ideas and ideologies.
Existence, as I have come to understand it, is cyclical. What is current will one day be outmoded. What is discarded may be reborn. The new often emerges from the old — not in replication, but in renewal. The task, then, is not to remain tethered to tradition or novelty, but to remain open, alert, and discerning — to know when to let go, when to re-member, and when to leap.
We must not be rigid in our thinking or in our worldview. We must be curious, perceptive, and spiritually agile enough to catch the next train — towards liberation, wholeness, and belonging.
I hope my work is transparent enough for you my reader to see, adopt to your context, and run with…
