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My Personal Journey, Reflectionsby the Inceptor/Founder of the IIGS, 9PL, & Central Philosophy
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"I entered (April 4, 1955) this troubled world a year after the US Supreme Court ruled on Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) which ushered in the modern Civil Rights Movement and efforts at school desegregation leading to the ending of Jim Crow in the USA. It was an era marked by the height of the Cold War (USA vs USSR). So as a young person (age of seven), I witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) which almost led to a thermonuclear World War III. The subsequent year (1963) at eight years old I was equally stunned by the assassinations' of President JFK, Malcolm X (1965), followed by James Meredith (1966). Thus, by the time I was eleven years old I was quite keenly aware of the complex nature of this world. I viewed what Black people (African people, the Indigenous people (First Nation), or other people of color) had been enduring in America and far too long throughout this world was tragic, upsetting, and disparaging.
On my 13th birthday (April 4, 1968) I was mortified and shattered with the horrific assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the balcony of a Memphis, TN hotel. Moreover, this tragic event was followed just two months later with the assassination of RFK as he was positioned to claim the Democrat Party nomination for the upcoming US Presidential election. The above mentioned enigmatic events along with others influenced and shaped my thinking about the world immensely. Those events would lead me into a life-long commitment to advance social change, and ultimately, to seek social transformational processes. Some of these focuses ultimately led to the complex transformative justice and technologies that has characterized my thinking in the new millennium (21st Century). Transformative Justice as a preface for seeking a radical/revolutionary paradigm shift in global consciousness has moved my life quest beyond any notions of restorative justice alone with those being rooted in reformism.
The sojourn of my life led me to study, work, and explore the culture/religion/spiritual life of several distant lands ranging from Egypt, India, South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cuba, St. Croix, Antigua, to Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan throughout the final decades of the 20th Century. Those pilgrimages offered me profound encouraging insights into meditation practices which supported the sharing of the 9PL (Ikologiks: Nine Principles of Life) and concepts like Central Philosophy, or Transformation Technology (Applied/Spiritual). I have equally cascaded through those deep esoteric experiences of faith, inner-growth and transformative values throughout the span of over five decades. Sometimes via my associations with Christianity (from birth), to the religions/traditions of Buddhism, Judaism/Kabbalah, Mdu Ntr, Taoism, Hinduism/Jainism/Sikhism, Shamanism, Yoruba/Akhan, onto my final resting place with Al Islam as a principal guidepost I still embrace. Nevertheless, I still consider myself to see beyond any doctrines, rituals, and ideologies, or dogmas ascribed to any of the above mentioned.
Professionally and academically though I equally have embraced a secular, reasoned, rational and humanistic approach throughout my life. Those exoteric associations were established in Humanistic Psychology, Scientific Socialism, Transformative Capitalism, Environmental Justice/Conservation. My personal academic studies focused on International Studies (Korea University, Graduate School); Human Development & Africana Studies (Cornell University). I was trained in principles of Restorative Justice (Suffolk University); REIKI (Authentic); Yoga Therapy (Indian Institute of Yoga) as well. My scholastic endeavors have enabled me to serve others beyond caste, creed, class, race, or gender identity on a micro, meso, and macro level. Thus, my essential core teachings, philosophical orientation, and values were combined or merged for a lifetime of public service rooted principally in the examples of numerous philosophical schools, religious, traditions, and spiritual paths.
On my 13th birthday (April 4, 1968) I was mortified and shattered with the horrific assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the balcony of a Memphis, TN hotel. Moreover, this tragic event was followed just two months later with the assassination of RFK as he was positioned to claim the Democrat Party nomination for the upcoming US Presidential election. The above mentioned enigmatic events along with others influenced and shaped my thinking about the world immensely. Those events would lead me into a life-long commitment to advance social change, and ultimately, to seek social transformational processes. Some of these focuses ultimately led to the complex transformative justice and technologies that has characterized my thinking in the new millennium (21st Century). Transformative Justice as a preface for seeking a radical/revolutionary paradigm shift in global consciousness has moved my life quest beyond any notions of restorative justice alone with those being rooted in reformism.
The sojourn of my life led me to study, work, and explore the culture/religion/spiritual life of several distant lands ranging from Egypt, India, South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cuba, St. Croix, Antigua, to Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan throughout the final decades of the 20th Century. Those pilgrimages offered me profound encouraging insights into meditation practices which supported the sharing of the 9PL (Ikologiks: Nine Principles of Life) and concepts like Central Philosophy, or Transformation Technology (Applied/Spiritual). I have equally cascaded through those deep esoteric experiences of faith, inner-growth and transformative values throughout the span of over five decades. Sometimes via my associations with Christianity (from birth), to the religions/traditions of Buddhism, Judaism/Kabbalah, Mdu Ntr, Taoism, Hinduism/Jainism/Sikhism, Shamanism, Yoruba/Akhan, onto my final resting place with Al Islam as a principal guidepost I still embrace. Nevertheless, I still consider myself to see beyond any doctrines, rituals, and ideologies, or dogmas ascribed to any of the above mentioned.
Professionally and academically though I equally have embraced a secular, reasoned, rational and humanistic approach throughout my life. Those exoteric associations were established in Humanistic Psychology, Scientific Socialism, Transformative Capitalism, Environmental Justice/Conservation. My personal academic studies focused on International Studies (Korea University, Graduate School); Human Development & Africana Studies (Cornell University). I was trained in principles of Restorative Justice (Suffolk University); REIKI (Authentic); Yoga Therapy (Indian Institute of Yoga) as well. My scholastic endeavors have enabled me to serve others beyond caste, creed, class, race, or gender identity on a micro, meso, and macro level. Thus, my essential core teachings, philosophical orientation, and values were combined or merged for a lifetime of public service rooted principally in the examples of numerous philosophical schools, religious, traditions, and spiritual paths.
More About the Life of the Inceptor (R. M. Davis, aka A.M. Omar)
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"All the colors of the rainbow, can never exceed all the expressions of the heart, |
"Steps of change, or human transformation, begin in the heart" (sallallahu alayhi wa salaam) 
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Key Words, Describing the Life, Times & Work of
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Roger M. Davis (aka Adisa Maina Omar) is credited with formulating the wide spectrum of rather eclectic and innovative concepts, methodologies, and theories concerning our human transformation potential that have developed under the auspices of the former Ikologiks Institute for Global Studies (IIGS - 1989-2021) over the past forty years of his life.
Credentials
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