Reverend Djalòki, also known as Jean Luc Benjamin
Dessables, a co-founder of Wisdom Circle Ministries is an engineer, an ordained
and licensed Interfaith minister assigned to the ministerial staff of the
Interfaith Temple of the New Seminary in New York City (www.newseminary.org), a
Vodou Priest (Oungan Asogwe), and a seeker of universal wisdom, ancient,
current and future. His practice includes Paradigm Expansion Coaching
(combining elements of Life Coaching, Interfaith Spiritual Counseling, Shamanic/Vodou
teachings and Interactive Guided Imagery), intercultural consulting, and international lectures
and workshops on the connections between religions (Eastern and Western),
Shamanism (including 21st Century Vodou) and advanced science (of consciousness
and of matter).
Djalòki is a co-founder of the “N a Sonje” Foundation
(http://nasonje.blogspot.com), which aims at healing the historical wounds
between the peoples of Africa, Europe and the Americas. A former associate of
DOA/BN for 8 years (www.haititravels.org, transformational cultural tourism in
Ayiti*), he is also an Interactive Imagery Guide.
His intention is to help create a sustainable
multicultural global society showing reverence for the diversity of life and
valuing inclusive excellence among people and institutions. He believes that
the time has come for the global expansion of human consciousness, prophesied
by many ancient people, that may mark a major leap of evolution for humanity.
Since 2004, Djalòki has been speaking at several
educational institutions in the US, including Saint Mary’s College of the
University of Notre Dame, Keystone College, University of Southern Maine,
Earlham College, Naropa University, Temple University, Indiana University in
South Bend, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Metro Community College and the
Love's Jazz and Art Center in Omaha, NE, The New Seminary Center for Interfaith
Studies, and other community and spiritual centers. His speaking engagements
also took him to Europe. He has been published in the Black Arts Quarterly of
Stanford University.
Djalòki is a citizen of the world and of Ayiti (Kreyòl
name of Haiti); he lives in Port-au-Prince, Ayiti. He speaks French, Ayitian
Kreyòl, English and Spanish.
Read some of Rev. Djalòki’s texts on
http://djaloki.wordpress.com
