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The Self-Belief Architect

Nov 5 (edited) • ⭐️ Our Stories

🜂 The Architect’s Journey

Greetings everyone.

I’m Meshach The Mind. It’s an honour to be a part of the community.

I’m currently playing catch up as I’m just beginning the challenge.

Here’s my breakthrough story:

How I Became Meshach The Mind.

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I — The Descent: The Song Before The Silence

I’ve always lived an unconventional life — born in Wales, raised partially in a small Welsh village, moving to and living in various African countries, then middle-England, and finally London, along with finding music early on as my language of connection.

Music was everywhere but not in my bloodline. My mother loved songs but didn’t compose them; I grew up between quiet and rhythm, between tradition and television.

As a youngster, I wanted to be a footballer — until The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill found me. That album cracked something open. For the first time, I heard truth sung like scripture. I wanted to feel that kind of honesty in my own voice.

During this time I formed a music group in my teens with friends from school. We signed to Big Brovaz Entertainment, recorded in America with a Grammy-winning producer, and toured the UK. I thought I was walking into destiny — but really, I was walking into initiation.

I had already grown up listening to Bob Marley and Michael Jackson, among many others, before discovering the likes of D’Angelo, Bilal, and Erykah Badu — artists who carried light and rebellion in equal measure. They mirrored something I didn’t yet know how to name: soul as ministry.

When I left the group, I lost more than a deal; I lost my identity.

So much of who I thought I was lived in that collective. When I stepped out, I didn’t know where to begin as a solo artist. The songs stopped coming. The fire dimmed. Somewhere along the way, I was pulled into what I now call the ritual of the day job. It started innocently; a weekend job to pay my way, and what started as seeming necessity slowly became a decade-long ritual of forgetting — working to survive rather than creating to live.

I felt like I was trapped under a glass ceiling, capable of so much more, but unsure of how to break through it. The rhythm that once moved through me as music became drowned out by routine, responsibility, and repetition.

Architect’s Code: What imprisons you is what reveals your design.

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II — The Seeker’s Path: The Pilgrimage Within the Pilgrimage

Even as the music quieted, the questions grew louder. Long before I became The Mind, I became a seeker of more than just melodies; a seeker of meaning.

I walked through many worlds — religion, philosophy, and mysticism — searching for the code behind creation itself.

From Islam to Christianity, from the Quran to the Bible, from meditation halls to Pan-African temples, I explored many houses that promised truth.

Even the Earth herself became a teacher — through silence, through nature, through the medicines that reminded me we are made of the same dust as the stars.

I prayed in mosques, sang in churches, sat in silence, investigated ancient law. Every path carried truth, yet none could contain it.

Eventually, I realised I wasn’t searching for a religion — I was tracing the architecture of the divine within myself.

Every belief, every revelation, led me back to the same doorway — the mind.

That was the first time I realised: God was never outside of me; God was waiting in my design. God was not somewhere I needed to go. God was the consciousness I was learning to embody.

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III — The Crisis: The Call to Freedom

Eventually, I hit a point of deep inner conflict.

Even with spiritual revelation, I was still caught in the matrix of work.

Retail had become the comfort zone that slowly calcified into a cage.

I realised that the biggest dishonour I could commit was to continue living inside someone else’s structure — following their rules, their clocks, their definitions of success.

I knew I was born for more than employment. I wanted autonomy, freedom, and the ability to build something that would outlive me. I wanted to design life on my own terms and empower others to do the same.

That moment of realisation was my first true awakening; the recognition that I wasn’t created to play inside another man’s system. I was created to architect my own.

Architect’s Code: Honour begins where compliance ends.

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IV — The Chase: Reigniting The Fire & Answering the Call

Still, freedom required courage.

I was newly married with a newborn son, facing the practical reality that my dreams needed to coexist with my responsibilities. So I made a choice… I threw my hat over the wall and decided I would figure it out as I went.

I returned to music, the one thing that had always felt like home.

But this time, it wasn’t just about self-expression. It was about leadership — showing my family, and eventually my audience, that it’s possible to build a life that’s both creative and sovereign.

The early years were full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Yet every step forward reminded me: stability isn’t safety. Alignment is.

The shift began with a spark.

I attended a friend’s album launch — and something in me woke up. Watching him on stage, and listening to the majestic composition and sound, I felt that old rhythm rise again. I went home that night, dusted off my keyboard, opened Logic Pro, and started producing once more. For the first time in years, I felt alive.

I knew I had to leave retail. I didn’t yet have the “how,” but I had the why.

So I made an exit plan — a leap disguised as logic — and stepped out.

Within months, I was performing full-time: private events, weddings, shows. I went from hourly wages to premium bookings. The same voice that once whispered “not enough” began to sing “this is possible.”

But even then, the journey wasn’t linear. I released an instrumental album in 2015 — a project that hid my voice when I should have shared it. I was still battling self-doubt, self-sabotage, and the lingering fear of visibility. My voice — both literal and metaphoric — was healing.

That year was chaos and creation intertwined: I left church, left retail, and began living solely through music. It was turbulent and sacred all at once — a year when everything familiar fell away, and everything necessary emerged.

Architect’s Code: Build even when the ground shakes.

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V — The Conflict: Reprogramming the Mind

Music became both mirror and medicine. I realised I wasn’t fighting the industry — I was fighting my own beliefs. For years, I’d internalised the idea that creative people must struggle, that spirituality and success can’t coexist. Even after reading books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Kybalion, and Feeling is the Secret, I kept returning to the same cycles of lack. No matter how much I earned, it somehow returned to zero. I had inherited beliefs about money, work, and worth that didn’t match the life I wanted to create. To escape that loop, I had to rebuild my internal architecture — my thoughts, emotions, and self-image.

So I went to work — not in a job, but in my mind. I studied the laws of wealth, vibration, and thought. I rebuilt my self-concept. It wasn’t easy — I’d make money, then lose it; release songs, then retreat. But each cycle refined my awareness.

I learned that art is more than just expression; it’s architecture.

Every note I sang, every lyric I wrote, every chord I played, every system I built was part of my reprogramming.

I wasn’t just writing music — I was rewriting my mind.

Architect’s Code: The story you repeat becomes the structure you inhabit.

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VI — The Breakthrough: The Internal Revolution

The true liberation came when I stopped chasing freedom and began creating from it.

I understood that life was an echo — the outer world simply replayed my inner soundtrack.

When I aligned my thoughts, emotions, and frequency, opportunities began to meet me halfway.

I started recording again, this time with conviction.

I released Gatekeepers, then Feel the Fire, and My Tribe — each song a declaration of sovereignty.

The music wasn’t separate from the message anymore. It was the message.

Sound became systems. Art became prayer. I discovered new strengths: resilience, creativity, and an unshakable belief in my ability to learn and adapt. I developed hard skills — branding, marketing, design, sales — but the deeper skill was learning how to master my own mind.

Through that alignment, Meshach The Mind was born — the artist, the minister, the architect.

Everything changed when I stopped searching externally for freedom and started cultivating it internally.

I began to understand that my outer world would always mirror my inner world — that the key to unlocking prosperity, peace, and purpose was to shift my vibration and frequency.

Instead of reacting to circumstances, I began responding to vision.

I surrounded myself with mentors, communities, and systems that reflected the reality I was stepping into. Through alignment, I found acceleration. Through vibration, I found manifestation.

That was the true breakthrough — realising that I didn’t need permission, I needed alignment.

Architect’s Code: Align the frequency, and form will follow.

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VII — The After: Living as The Architect

Today, music is my ministry and designing a life of freedom is my devotion.

Through Maginai (Philosophy, Records and Publishing), and The Mind, I am building a life that harmonises creativity with consciousness.

My work is about awakening others to their own divine architecture — to remember that we are all creators, composing realities one thought at a time.

This is the dance between sound and systems, between heaven and habit.

I don’t sing and create art for fame; I do so for freedom. I don’t build solely for profit; I build for self-remembrance.

My life is no longer about escaping systems; it’s about designing new ones.

And that is what I now call The Work of the Architect.

Today, I recognise that my art, my business(es), and my message are all forms of ministry.

Music and art are a spiritual technology for transformation.

Maginai Records and Publishing, and my educational work all serve one mission: to awaken people to their power, help them remember who they are, and guide them in architecting their reality from the inside out.

This is the ongoing dance between spirit and structure — turning imagination into enterprise and purpose into prosperity.

My life is no longer about escaping systems; it’s about designing new ones.

And that’s what I now call The Work of the Architect.

Architect’s Code: Freedom is the rhythm of remembrance.

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Closing Reflection

What began as a hunger for expression became a devotion to creation.

What began as a search for freedom became a revelation.

Freedom is far more than something you find — it’s something you become.

Once you align your thoughts, emotions, and actions with the vision you hold, life itself begins to reorganise around your design.

This is the philosophy behind Maginai and the essence of Meshach The Mind; a movement, fronted by music and art, which teaches:

The Universe is Mental. You are the Architect of Your Reality.