Miseducation of the Black Sheep

Two books. One voice. A legacy long buried, now reborn.
In this hauntingly poetic and fiercely personal double-volume collection, Javier Rhoden delivers a body of work that is both a spiritual reckoning and a reclamation of voice. The Miseducation of the Black Sheep unravels the lived experience of being othered, silenced, misnamed - told through the lens of a prophet-in-hiding who remembers what the world taught him to forget. It is a gospel of survival. A manifesto for the unseen.
Paired with The One Who Was Sent But Not Seen, this collection transcends personal pain and transforms it into prophecy. Here, Rhoden steps into his birthright - not as victim or savior, but as witness to a generation asleep at the wheel. With striking metaphors, soul-etching truth, and timeless questions once whispered in his youth and now echoed by the collective, this work is a mirror for the forgotten and a torch for those ready to remember.
Whether read as a poetic archive, a spiritual companion, or a coded transmission - this book is not merely to be read.
It is to be felt.
It is to be remembered.
For the black sheep. For the ones who never fit. For the ones who came bearing light but were cast in shadow - your voice was never lost. It was simply waiting.

This was the introduction to my spirituality and learning how to do things for myself. The extension of help I gift to others could only come from the capacity in how I've helped myself. It was then, I understood that as a human, experiences were needed for growth and this growth can only sprout from branching out of my comfort zone. At the end of it all, I wanted to build something more meaningful by planting seeds from the darkness of life, to watch it grow and spread among different people, thus generating light. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will die one day and in no way, would I want there to be any regret for making the same decisions the masses believed to be the right ones, meanwhile neglecting my gift as the last choice. After all, the goal in this life, my life, is to express this consciousness healthily.