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Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali: Crossing Over from Dis-Ease to Ease in Matters of Health, Race, Family, and Culture

Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali: Crossing Over from Dis-Ease to Ease in Matters of Health, Race, Family, and Culture

by Beverly Oliver
Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali: Crossing Over from Dis-Ease to Ease in Matters of Health, Race, Family, and Culture
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Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali: Crossing Over from Dis-Ease to Ease in Matters of Health, Race, Family, and Culture

Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali: Crossing Over from Dis-Ease to Ease in Matters of Health, Race, Family, and Culture

by Beverly Oliver

Overview

Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali, a nonfiction book, while part memoir and instructive, is steeped in the observations of alkaline herbal medicine specialist Dr. Sebi, legally named Alfredo D. Bowman. Dembali, a phrase Dr. Sebi coined to address why people reject the good in matters of health, race, family, and culture, is the lens he used to observe these challenges. Dembali is the same lens he viewed solutions, which are embedded in the insightful and thought-provoking narrative of Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali. Within the pages he addresses race and culture, anthropology and human progression, children and the black family, and issues he addressed for more than 35 years, health, nutrition, and alkaline food and herbs. He introduced dembali and her themes to author Beverly Oliver in Honduras, Central America, surrounded by the rainforest of La Ceiba. In a style reminiscent of a fireside chat, the pair discussed not only his success healing his clients of AIDS, diabetes, and sickle cell anemia, but also the fact that as many have rejected his offerings as have accepted him. So how does he posthumously bring naysayers into an awareness of sustainable health and alkaline nutrition, good family tidings, and respectful race and cultural relations? Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali, in seven chapters, offers an answer.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940164728328
Publisher: Beverly Oliver
Publication date: 11/06/2020
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 283 KB

About the Author

Beverly Oliver, a writer and creative artist in Los Angeles, began her career as a public affairs producer at Howard University radio station WHUR-FM, 96.3, the location of her first interview with pathologist and herbal medicine specialist Dr. Sebi. Since that time she has visited Usha Village in Honduras, Central America three times to speak with Dr. Sebi about natural healing. She is currently writing a nonfiction book she and Dr. Sebi started before his death in 2016. The tentative release date of Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali is Winter 2020.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Chapter One

From the Rainforest to the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Section 1-Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Alfredo, the River, and the Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

On Our Way to La Ceiba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Alfredo's Birth Bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

A Street Corner in La Ceiba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Black Women Encourage His Healing Journey . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Los Angeles and the Letter to Elijah Muhammad . . . . . . . . . .36

Section 2-His Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Natural Healing on Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Healing's Duality: Rejection and Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Chapter Two

On Matters of Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Code of Ethics and Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Race and Resonance Matter-Resonance More . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Three

On Matters of Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Anthropology and Human Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

Hippocrates Validated African Herbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

A Culture of Bare Feet and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Chapter Four

On Matters of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

The Nuances of Black Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Humble, Frank, with a Tinge of Vulgarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Chapter Five

On Matters of Food and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Cassava's Hidden Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Alkaline Food-A Nourisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Chapter Six

Cosmic Arrangement of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Chapter Seven

Usha Village 2008-Dr. Sebi, His Guests,

and Dembali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

In the Land of Krishna and Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Origins of Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Back to Ease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

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