Let Us Make Sanctuary

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, was born in Nigeria and steeped in Yoruba teachings as well as Western academia. Trained in clinical psychology, he refers to himself as a “renegade academic” and is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, and soul-stirring views on our current global crisis and the opportunities we now have for social change. In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Akomolafe about how sanctuary is where slowing down and healing happens. They discuss: how the function of slowing down in urgent times is not about simply resting so that we can continue forward in the same direction, but about how to engage in deep inquiry about where we are going; pouring drink to earth—an African spiritual technology that expresses our indebtedness to our ancestors and all that makes life possible; standing at the crossroads—how the ground underneath us is going through a seismic shift that is allowing the unsaid to now be spoken and intelligible; the invitation of the slave ship as a place of spiritual contemplation and as a site of renewing our connections with grief, loss, trauma, and tragedy; grieving as a form of activism; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:40.5	You're listening to Insights at the Edge, today is a rebroadcast from SoundsTrue's Walking
0:45.8	Together series.
0:48.2	Walking Together is a collection of freely available teachings on standing in solidarity
0:54.9	with black indigenous people of color, to help heal collective trauma, provide resources
1:01.6	for personal growth, and unravel the grip of racism on our culture.
1:07.2	You can learn more by visiting resources.soundsTrue.com, backslash walking dash together.
1:17.2	It's a long one here, one more time, resources.soundsTrue.com, backslash walking dash together.
1:27.6	And now a special session from Walking Together with bio-Akama Lafe.
1:34.1	In this session, we have a super special guest, a new friend of mine, someone whom I find
1:43.2	tremendously heart-opening, and I would say kind of mind-shattering, someone who in my
1:50.7	experiences opened my mind to new ways of looking at things.
1:55.8	His name is bio-Akama Lafe, and he's from Nigeria, living now in India with his wife and
2:04.9	two children, and he's going to be talking about letting us make sanctuary.
2:13.0	Just a little bit more about bio, he's a speaker, teacher, author, and public intellectual.
2:24.1	He refers to himself as a renegade academic.
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