About this site

Hey, I’m JDaniel Richer and I host and create all of this.

Neurodivergent, transracially adopted, spiritually rooted, and cosmically unbothered by anyone else’s idea of normal.

I was adopted into a white family, so my relationship to Blackness, belonging, and becoming has always been layered, complex, and nonlinear. I’ve got what the DSM calls ADHD, but I call it Hypercuriosity. I’m also queer in every imaginable way.

I write because I’m rooted in freedom. I’m devoted to joy. I’m committed to truth. And I’m not afraid to shake up broken systems in service of life.

Dharma Plus Dissent is a sacred sandbox...a portal, a practice space, and a ritual offering. It’s where I align with my Ori (my divine inner compass, in Yoruba cosmology) and offer what I’m here to offer:

Liberation. Systems disruption. Spiritual clarity. Cultural memory. Soul survival.

This is where I live out my evolutionary purpose as someone who carries both the Gatekeeper (autistic) and Hypercurious (ADHD) archetypes.

My neurodivergence isn’t a disorder, it’s an ancestral technology.

It’s how my body and mind insist on remembering what this world wants us to forget.

I’m here to help build new ways of being.

I’m not here to make the old ways more tolerable. I don’t serve collapse, I serve emergence.

The traits that make people say I’m “too much” or “intense” are exactly the traits that help me do the work:

Truth-telling and moral clarity
Deep pattern recognition and systems thinking
Archival memory, horizon scanning
Spiritual attunement and existential intelligence
Energetic sensitivity and disruption of groupthink
Creative trance through hyper-focus
Fast, intuitive context switching in crisis
Non-conformity as sacred refusal
Being a mirror for oppression’s cost on the body
Living as a social pollinator and energy carrier

These aren’t personality quirks. They’re how my soul functions in the world.

My Ori is liberation—full stop. In every sense of the word.

And that liberation cannot happen inside the Monoverse.

The Monoverse is the story we’ve been handed.

A world where only one way of thinking, knowing, and being is seen as real or valid.

It’s the logic behind white supremacy, colonization, capitalism, rigid religion, and scientific fundamentalism.

It says: “There’s only one reality. Fit into it or be erased.”

But the world was never one thing.
The cosmos is not singular.
Reality is not one-size-fits-all.

That’s why I live and write from within the Pluriverse.

The Pluriverse is a term drawn from Indigenous and decolonial thinkers, especially Latin American philosopher Arturo Escobar.

It’s the idea that a world of many worlds is not only possible, but already here.

The Pluriverse honors multiple truths, multiple ontologies, multiple ways of being human.

It is the opposite of flattening.

It resists empire by refusing the idea that anyone, especially systems of power, gets to define reality for everyone else.

In the Pluriverse, your complexity isn’t a problem. It’s your passport.

Here, I write from the intersections of Blackness, queerness, transracial adoption, neurodivergence, spiritual practice, collapse awareness, working-class survival, sexuality, philosophy, decolonization, trauma, and ancestral memory.

This isn’t a place for hot takes.

It’s a space for deep truth.

For asking the questions that burn.

For building frameworks and spiritual tools that help people stay human, especially when the world is trying to make us forget how.

I write about:

Systems like colonization, capitalism, techno-feudalism, white supremacy, and necropolitics....not just as structures out there, but as forces that live in our nervous systems and choices.
Doublespeak, Wetiko, Yurugu, and the moral sickness of this empire.
Collapse....not as the end, but as an opening.
Embodiment, ritual, Ubuntu, ancestral reverence, emotional survival, moral clarity, and joyful disobedience.

If it sounds like a lot, that’s because it is.
But so is life. Especially when you’re trying to live with your eyes open.

This isn’t just critique. It’s construction.
I share frameworks like Embodied Liberation Dharma (ELD) and REEL (Regenerative Embodied Ecology of Liberation), practical systems to help people stop performing and start becoming.

And to be clear:

I’m not a guru.

I’m not an expert.

I’m just someone who’s paying attention and walking a path with others, seen and unseen, who know there has to be more than this.

I write for three reasons:

Because I love to write. I always have. It’s one of the most natural ways I express myself. I keep a journal. I track dreams I receive from ancestors. I am hyperlexic. I believe words have power, not just to describe things, but to create possibility. To illuminate. To influence. To transform.
Because writing is how I make sense of the world. Its how I know what I even think about anything as a bottom up thinker with top down discernment. Writing helps me slow down enough to know what I really think, what I really feel. It helps me recognize and not be able to ignore what I truly am moving towards and desire. I often don’t even understand my own perspective on something until I’ve written through it. The page helps me see myself.
Because want to connect. I want to find the “others.” The people like me, navigating these deep questions, about life, spirit, power, and possibility, without easy answers. I write in the hope that kindred spirits will find me, and that we can walk this road together. We don’t need a mass audience. We need resonance. We need alignment. We need each other.

I only write when my muse demands it, and when my capacity allows. That’s not always easy with a full-time job and the daily work of staying whole. But my muses are unrelenting. My primary muses are anger and love. Rage at what harms us, and devotion to what’s still worth saving. That call usually rises at least 50 times a week, so you could say I have a bit of a backlog.

And everything I write here is a gift-economy offering.

This isn’t hustle. This isn’t content creation.
This is spiritual practice.

This is how I share my gifts with the world in alignment with my Ori.
This is my expression of New Happy values.

What I want to live is a life that’s:
Spiritually grounded.
Culturally rooted.
Morally intelligent.
Emotionally full.
Holistically healthy.
Decolonized, joyful, brave, and true.

A life with clarity, coherence, and community.
A life where I don’t have to betray myself to belong.

You’ll find that vision reflected here...in essays, meditations, tools, rituals, frameworks, and provocations. All in service of building something worth surviving for.

We are not here to reform dying systems.
We are here to midwife something else.
A pluriversal future. A livable now.

If this writing feeds your soul, consider supporting it. Becoming a paid subscriber helps keep this work alive, rooted in community, not algorithms.

And if you feel that tug in your spirit, the part of you that recognizes this as truth—stay. Reflect. Share. Build with me.

Let’s not just survive what’s falling apart.
Let’s remember how to live in what’s coming next.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
And we are not alone.