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Arriving in New York at the age of 15 from Guyana, Orland Bishop studied medicine as a young man, enamoured of science and its mysteries.

Conscious from a young age of the different layers of awareness and the construction of the ego, his life quickly steered towards spiritual inquiry and practice.

Today, Orland is many things: as founder of Shade Tree Multicultural Foundation, he engages in peace work with Los Angeles gangs and he also works with social healing, youth initiation projects and research into esoteric and indigenous cosmologies.

Orland cautions that the modern world is one of winners and losers.

This is problematic, he says, because “Even if you win, you feel alone in the victory.” Instead, Orland suggests that our will must be mediated by our community, the self understood in its context as belonging to our collective humanity, not in competition with.

These are big, painful propositions for a society increasingly unable to make se