Freedom

<p><em>In the beginning two spirits roamed every soul. One was Love. The other fear. Fear being restless and unsettled mutated into two other spirits: supremacy and inferiority. Both of these would inhabit every human soul and space forever. Waiting. To be fed.</em><br /><br />This is a Love story. A Love for freedom that blooms into a willingness for revolution to eradicate oppression supremacy and inferiority. In his newest book of sacred contemplation Dr. Jaiya John plunges us into the naked soul of social revolution the divine nature of freedom and the human reality of being a revolutionary. <em>Freedom</em> is an origin story a message for today’s global realities and a tale for all times. A prayer poem from the ancestors.</p><p> </p><p>Since his orphan birth in the New Mexico desert Jaiya formerly a professor of social psychology at Howard University has spent his entire life contemplating learning teaching and reaching for personal and collective freedom. This book is his offering of a lifetime for those brave humbled sacrificing souls called to give their lives for freedom work. Revolutionary labor can be lonely isolating discouraging and depleting. <em>Freedom </em>is a Love-soaked trove of affirmation appreciation reassurance and renewal.</p><p> </p><p><em>Freedom</em> is for poets and professors parents and activists leaders and students and for anyone whose inner healer rises and roars stirs and sings. Anyone who dares to help birth a new world of human dignity a world that dissolves the old structures systems ideologies and spirit that incarcerate and traumatize generation after generation.</p><p> </p><p><em>Freedom</em> is a wild flock of verses each offering its own distinct medicine: window door compass shelter quiet hope clarity courage oasis revelation assurance encouragement faith music dance prayer light laughter tears nourishment rest solidarity strategy ancestral presence generational duty reminder of Love. <em>Freedom</em> is presented in deep-breath verses that float on the page in space unbound from one another. Savor this book as both an inspirational reflective daily devotional and an academic and strategic resource. Drop in on any page for your daily bread and grace. <em>Freedom</em> is poetry proverb and prophecy as much as practice protocol. In the tradition of Jaiya’s book <em>Daughter Drink This Water</em> <em>Freedom</em> will replenish the intangible wellspring that is your soul.</p>