They Want Your Mind: Psychology, Spiritual Warfare & the Full Armor | Moor Culture Podcast

PEACE. Welcome to Episode 68 of the Moor Culture Podcast. In this episode, Brother Tyshan Edwards Bey and Brother Shariff Bey build on Equality Build or Destroy through a powerful discussion on psychology, spiritual warfare, ego, self-defense, social media, politics, economics, and the full armor of God. The episode begins with praises and honors, then moves into the psychology of the mind. Brother Shariff discusses Freud’s id, ego, and superego, explaining how the ego can be attacked, stirred up, and manipulated by politics, social media, and negative energy. 🔥 In this episode, we discuss: 🧠 Psychology & the Ego Brother Shariff breaks down the id, ego, and superego, and explains why the ego must be disciplined instead of allowed to run wild. 🛡️ Ephesians 6 & The Full Armor of God The brothers read from Ephesians 6 and discuss putting on the full armor of God to stand against the schemes of the devil, spiritual wickedness, darkness, and evil in high places. ✨ Philippians 4:8 & Mental Discipline The episode also brings in Philippians 4:8, reminding the people to think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, and worthy of praise. 🧩 Ego Defense Mechanisms Brother Shariff discusses identification, repression, projection, displacement, sublimation, rationalization, compensation, substitution, and ritual undoing as ways people protect themselves psychologically. 📱 Social Media & Political Manipulation The brothers discuss how social media, politics, and public figures can stir up the ego, control reactions, and keep people off square. 🌿 Know Thyself & Self-Improvement The discussion returns to the importance of studying self, improving self, and recognizing the masks people wear before the public. 📈 Maslow & Self-Actualization The episode touches on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, including survival, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self-actualization, knowledge, beauty, and transcendence. 🔥 Higher Self vs Lower Self Brother Shariff connects psychology to the battle against the lower self, reminding the people to pin down the flesh and rise into a higher state. 💰 Economics & Power The brothers discuss economics, PowerNomics, human capital, the loss of knowledge from the community, and why the people must build and apply what they know. ⚖️ Justice, Community & Protection The episode also speaks on current concerns involving hangings, unmarked graves, police accountability, community defense, voting, unity, and the need to come together. This episode is a call to protect the mind. Put on the armor. Study yourself. Discipline the ego. Think on what is pure. Apply knowledge. Build power. Guard your community. And walk in love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice. 📍 Moor Culture Center 715 N. King Street Wilmington, Delaware 🌐 MoorCultureCenter.com PEACE.