111: Arjuna O'Neal On Life After Death and the Power of Sharing Necessities (Replay)

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Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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In this episode of The Light Watkins Show, we are going back to one of our favorite conversations from the past, in which the amazing and inspiring Arjuna O'Neal came on to talk about his incredible journey, and unlikely road to healing and helping others. Arjuna talks about his early years in Detroit and West Virginia, his family's confusing connection to the Hare Krishna temple, the abuse he was subjected to while growing up, and how all of these traumas, coupled with his father's crim...

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0:00.0	I remember graduating getting ready to go into high school and I had a 3.8 GPA and I'm like
0:08.6	Yo, Pops, I just want a car. You help me get a car.
0:13.7	And I'll never forget this day.
0:14.8	He looked at the report card.
0:15.9	He ripped it in half, ripped it a few times.
0:19.8	Just laughing through it.
0:21.0	He's like, man.
0:26.0	No. He said, this is how you get what you want. And I never forget he came in with a half a brick or half a kilo or whatever you guys want to call it of cocaine and handed me my first pistol and he said
0:37.6	well if you want the car and you go out and you earn it. And I remember from that day, I never forget I was like, wow, who does that? Who says that to the, to the 16 year old son? But then there was a part of me that was excited because I'm like for the first time I was like
0:57.3	shit I get an opportunity now to actually build this relationship your first time listening you
1:26.0	Hello there and welcome back to the light Watkins show. This is your first time listening you are in for a treat because this week we are going to go back and revisit one of my personal top five most impactful conversations that I have had since I started this podcast back in 2020. And that is my episode with a gentleman, a luminary by the name of Arjuna O'Neil.
1:32.1	Now when you hear that name Arjuna,'Neil. Now when you hear that name Arjuna some of you all are
1:34.9	probably familiar with the Bhagavagita from India and you may remember that
1:40.4	Arjuna is the name of the main character in the story of this epic battle between families.
1:48.0	And my guest today was also involved in an epic battle with a family member who happened to be his father and his father was one of the biggest drug dealers in Detroit when Arjuna was growing up.
2:02.0	And then when Arjuna came of age, he began working in the family business as a drug dealer, sometimes
2:08.0	with his father, and at other times at odds with his father. So let's just say there was a lot of tension at the
2:14.7	family gatherings and there may have been a bounty or two place on Arjana's head
2:19.2	by his own father at certain points during his life as a drug dealer.
2:23.7	Anyway, everything came to a head one night when Arjano was shot, not by his father, but by another
2:29.0	person.
2:30.1	He found himself lying on the floor bleeding out and he had this revelation.
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