A Cyclops Unchained
Piercing Cultural Hegemony
Imagine this site as a space for meditation or daydreaming. While most daydreams are fleeting, lasting just 250 milliseconds, this one lasts much longer.
Guided Imagery is at the heart of this site. It is designed to spark images that come from the imagination’s deeper desires.
For example, the first poster I bought as a freshman was prophetic. It illustrated why attending the University of California at Berkeley mattered. The young man in the poster wore medieval attire, which did not represent me, but his gaze beyond the veil hinted at my unconscious intent to challenge European Cultural Hegemony. This idea later became conscious and central to my studies and my life.
The term Cultural Hegemony is not often used, and few people can define it. It acts like a barrier that shapes our thoughts and actions, even influencing what we eat, where we live, and whom we marry. This system limits how we live, and most people never question it. But here, things are different.
Another example of Guided Imagery breaking through hegemony happened when my wife read Byron Katie and asked me who I was without my story.
At first, I didn’t think much about it. But then, during a daydream, a truth appeared. Without the story and history of being an African American man, I saw an archetype from the Collective Unconscious—a mythical Cyclops.
The dream implied that I am an extension of the people who believe in the supremacy of the “All Seeing Eye” (the Eye of Ra), who were the master builders of the ancient world, with a Masonic tradition stretching back to the pyramid builders.
