The Seeds Were There: Firmin, Hilliard, and the Early Spiritual Roots of My Framework

Firmin wasn't just writing in defense. He was writing in alignment.

In 2005, while taking classes during my first leg of Grad School in Atlanta, I was handed a book that would, in hindsight, mark one of the earliest stirrings of a framework that would not fully reveal itself to me for nearly two decades.

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III (aka Nana Baffour Amankwatia II and, reverentially, as Baba.)—my then mentor and now elder in …