Dr. John A. KingIndigenous Australian. 100% Human. Neo-Noir Novelist. Poet. Speaker. Performance coach. More than a Survivor. Terrible Golfer, Awkward Dancer🕺

You can perform in pain… but you can’t sustain it.

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, Dr. John A. King shares a lesson he learned from Indigenous Australian culture about the necessity of silence for spiritual connection. He describes sitting around a fire in the Australian outback, noting that constant "white noise" drowns out the ability to hear God. He connects this to the deep, multi‑generational trauma caused by 250 years of colonization, emphasizing that such trauma cannot be processed amid noise. King argues that true healing requires becoming comfortable with oneself, learning self‑love, and stepping away from the incessant external chatter to listen inwardly and to the divine.

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We're constantly throwing that white noise at our soul and you can't hear God in white noise. You've gotta get aside. And this is one of those wonderful lessons I learned from my people, because when you're in the outback of Australia, there's nothing. You sit around a fire and you sit with the ground and, you know, we've got 250 years of, of, um, you know, colonization that's happened and our people have been traumatized for 7 or 8 generations. And so it's multiple layers. Of trauma, and you can't deal with that in noise. You've gotta be comfortable with yourself to learn to love yourself and live with yourself.