A Narrative Suite on Spiritual Warfare
By Luticia Santipriya
The Ipuwer Chronicles
A Narrative Suite on Spiritual Warfare
By Luticia Santipriya
This book contains a bonus feature, The Panther Onionskin Papyrus: A
Reflective Offering (a sketch of five stories pertaining to key figures of The
Black Panther Party taken from a larger memoir of the author).
The Chronicles are a useful tool for progressive
educators, (high school through graduate
school), economists, historians, social and religious
theorists, psychologists, activists and the
concerned.
Handy for discussions on: peace studies, the fallacy
of political paranoia as an authentic delusional
disorder, suicide due to long term unemployment,
mental health consequences of the populace associated
with the collapse of the American infrastructure and
its toll in spiritual terms, gutting of the
constitution and privatization, the economy and the
stagnation of personal dreams, race and the economy,
the cynicism of doublespeak, dumbing down and
mediocrity, the abandonment of the middle class, the
fallacy of formal education in providing an entree to
U.S. culture and viable employment, and reminiscences
on the legacy of The Black Panther Party.
The Ipuwer Chronicles are named after the Egyptian
sage Ipuwer (pronounced Epu-ware or Epu-or) and is a
metaphor answer to his Admonitions in which he
describes a probable earthquake devastation of Egypt
and the ensuing severe reversals of fortune. Our
present text is an author biographical narrative and
observational snapshot pertaining to the winter of
1999 through early 2005 capturing the psychological,
spiritual and economic devastation of the Bush regime
over the populace and intensifying with the Iraqi war.
Scores of people felt that they were not listened to,
their wishes for peace disrespected and that their
general will was run roughshod over. That they were,
in effect, left behind and disinherited by the society
that they had invested in so heavily. As such, The
Chronicles are a snapshot of the times in which we all
live and comes fully annotated making it useful for
classroom and public discussion.
Dr. Luticia Santipriya is a medical research
psychologist, theoretician, and clinician having
received training in direct patient care at Boston
City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center). She has
taught epidemiology and bio-ethics, and has been
hailed a master teacher of clinical, abnormal,
forensic and industrial psychology by students and
peers alike; and is distinguished as a Clinical Fellow
of Harvard Medical School and jointly, a Teaching
Fellow of Boston University School of Medicine. A teaching
discussion module is included.
Visit the Guys/Girls Raised in the South
Online Reading Club for an interview with the author.
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