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Bayo Akomolafe. Orland Bishop invites reflection on the power of our will — for wanting more over being of service. It is an ancient intelligence that has been called forward by all religions at all times of human consciousness. There were so many things. The pandemic created more work for communities that are so challenged. Because I know when you talk about mountains to climb, do you ever answer that question for yourself?

Or do you mean for the community? I had probably the biggest challenge in 20, 25 years. To return my psyche to another octave of self-development, I had to let go of so much to integrate something else. I knew it was coming but in the midst of all the other externalities it was heavy. From the world paradigm. I had to dissolve almost every framework to regain a fresh insight to things.

A cycle had finished, 28 years had finished in relationship to the body of work that I took on in If there is a higher consciousness, does that higher consciousness want anything for humanity? Or are we just here to play out whatever the drama is on the stage and orland bishop biography of donald stage left? Or not necessarily? I appreciate the question so deeply because it points to the reality of the gifts that we have received and evolution of consciousness.

Our civilisation has entered into the collective unconscious. What lies at the deepest level of material consciousness of the body? Our feeling life not only holds us in terms of our self-interest, in terms of what attracts us into activity or what we attract into our lives in relationship to people. But it also holds the ancestral world. But maybe this is a good moment to just talk about the arc of your life and why these questions are being asked of you.

My family immigrated to United States. My parents in the late s and siblings in the early s. I came in to Brooklyn, in the middle of my teen years, went to high school there. I came from Guyana, the tropics, being 70 per cent Amazon rainforest. I felt like I had nature in its abundance in my 15 years of life there. In school, I took interest in science but then my exposure to philosophy, my exposure to history, at least the deeper history of African history in relationship to coming into contact with the West, brought my awareness into a much larger reality.

Oh yes. I came to observe the consciousness in one of my teachers in school. She was observing me not paying attention to her, but she could not see what I was being attentive to. I remember making a decision that I would never betray my heart. That I had something to do with what I call integrity of will, that is not governed by who someone else wants me to be.

So I woke up the next day couple of hours earlier to connect with this internal code. I took control of my will from about five years old: I would not do something that was against an inner awareness guided by other intelligences. And I prepared a couple of hours before school every day to communicate with that and then allow teachers in the invisible realm to guide me through the rest of the day.

That is such a beautiful formation story. A lot of people think science is a black-and-white discipline. How do we develop that capacity in ourselves, to trust and belong to that deep spiritual, intuitive voice? From the realm of possibility, the archetypal world gives us ideals first. So the ideal is, Can I organise my will to be in service of something that will transform me?

Then the symbolic: I begin to see signs in the world of something that could bring my will into the world creation process. I think that my primary activity is healing. You do your work within the ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation. Can you tell us about it?

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The ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation was founded in by myself and a group of friends with the goal of helping young people. We were already involved with work like this. It was a matter of a voluntary coming-together. Later, we started the foundation because there are people that wanted to support us in this work. Each one of us had a job and a career.

Alongside of that we started this work together. It was completely integrated into our lives. It was just how I grew up and this was part of my surroundings. The community took care of itself and that meant, that you shared what you had. We developed a relationship. My earliest recollection of an impulse to take care of other people was when I was five or six years old.

I began to notice what a person really needs and I started a daily practice to spend two hours in contemplation before I went to school. I remember something from school. In Guyana the children are sent to school at a very young age. The teacher was trying to tell me something, but something was distracting me. When I gave her my attention, I noticed that she was debating with herself whether to punish me for my lack of attention.

At that moment I resolved to never go against my heart. It was as though I woke up and knew how to make sure that nothing should enter my consciousness against my wishes. I wanted this space to observe what is real within myself. There is nothing that cannot be saved through the right conversation. Orland Bishop continues with questions about his meditative practices which he started at the age of five.

I created a picture of their conflicts and their challenges. It was more a feeling from the heart, in stillness. How do I have to be, in order to participate in this particular reality?

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What do I need to know? I observed their conflicts and made a picture from that. I considered what it would it be like for me in that situation and I worked through possible decisions. Do you create a kind of inner etheric reality which you then enter into? I realized that it was possible for me to enter intuitively into quite complex events which people are wrapped up in and to show them a way forward.

When do you carry out your practice?

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Listen the entire 4-part conversation on our Soundcloud site or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentors 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.