emerging from the egg: snake's theme

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A New Day
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It's A New Day
( featuring: Primo on the wheels and Jay Dee on the MPC )

I got jokes, too

peace

I've been thinking this zone's been too much Chuck D and not enuff Flava Flav
ya gotta have both...
I have the feeling that someone might get the impression I'm on some hate-white-people-poetry-slam ish no, no, no
I have white people in my family - my Mom's Grandfather
and he watches out for me too, in his way - because he's got some things he needs to work off, I think
Of course down here on Earth the rules aren't the same and I'd be lets say - somewhat unwelcome at that family reunuion. Kinda in the same way Strom Thurmond's daughter would be.
Ima let you in on a secret of the A-A community.
Light-skins hate white people worst of all.
You're better off with a Brown Skin like me. Or a straight-up GeeChee like my Dad. My Dad's Grandfather had his own land and NEVER worked for the white man. Because of that hatred of white people never got passed on to me. I judge each one I meet as an individual. But light-skins, thats a different issue, at least in South Carolina and Brooklyn. So close, yet so far.
Shut out from a family they can never be a part of. It breeds a certain BILE.
Condelezza'a a light-skin. I wonder what she says about white people when she knows no ones listening?

mind/expansion/zone

the title's kinda post-modern, eh?
The black man is in permanent hyper-text mode. That's why so many brothers I know vibe to the to Derrida, Deluze, Guatarri, Barthes, et al. African-Anericans have been constructing 'texts" with found objects that reference Africa and African concepts ever since they got pushed off the boat. Old news to some, it's true. ( WARNING: rant ahead) But apparently whoever wrote the definition of Hoodoo on Wikpedia didnt get the memo. Besides ignoring the elephant in the room concerning WHO started and used Hoodoo until half-way through the definition, they have no clue HOW the pieces fit together or even IF they do, or should. From their definition you would get the idea the Hoodoo just a bunch of heterogeneous ingredients haphazardly thrown together that somehow, "magically" work. Or course it may be too much to ask to expect a (probably) Non-African to think in terms of African hermeneutics, but how can you say everything about it EXCEPT Black people thought it up?
( CONGRATULATIONS! you have successfully negotiated the rant) I just registered with Wikipedia. We'll see how long my changes last... I plan to do my homework and be bulletproof
OK, now that that's over...
The Inner Structure of Tai Chi by Mantak Chia has great stuff dealing with the spiral energy
I have a friend who's Chi Gung teacher thinks Mantak's giving away too many secrets...
sounds like a recommendation to me

word/life

I've been putting together a rootwork booklist. The funny thing is there are actually not many books about rootwork on my list. That's basically because the things I was interested in learning weren't in any of the books on rootwork I had access to. Hoodoo spellbooks are fairly easy to find, especially now with the hoodoo resurgence. But writings on how to think like a rootworker, rootworker philosophy, and what I call charismatic rootwork, which is what I'd say I do if somebody asks me (with the obvious expections of the Hyatt and WPA interviews, which are what 80 years now and Elder Moore's stuff, which is very hard to find ), are pretty much nonexistant. There are many books on metaphysics from an African-American perspective though. But it's my opinion that African- American metaphysics is the child of rootwork philososphy, not the father or brother (or sister). Another issue is if you read enough A-A metaphysical books they start to conflict with each other. I've been doing Yoga for a while now (25 years) so I have my own hard-won insights into how the mind and the universe works. It's been a long time since I wanted or needed 300 pages of someone's else personal theory on how the mind and universe works and/or someone's self-made system of sprirtual technology.
What I became interested in about 10 years ago is the system behind WHO I AM as an Earthly Manifestation as opposed to a Cosmic One. Who I Am on Earth is the person my parents birthed. Who were the people their parents birthed, all the way back to the First Birthing. We're not talking metaphysics now. Were talking IMPLANTING, we're talking about what's been put inside me since the beginning that can't be pulled out. We're not talking High/Low, Future/Past we're talking FRACTAL EXPANSION, design through repetition, we're talking about the same energy that was here when the First Humans were. The masters of Fractal Philosophy and the manipulation of the Energy of Fractal Expansion were born in the place we call Africa and I am a Fractal Expansion of them. Their knowledge, being the root knowledge, is the knowledge that permeates the WHOLE.

the voice of God

I've been thinking about thunder alot recently
part of that is because I've been trying to get a grip on High John the Conquerer
I've had the root in my house for a while now
but I haven't tried to work it
I just keep it on hand - as part of the advisory committee
so far I've managed to intuit quite a few things about what it is and how it works
I think of him as a soul advisor
and kind of a community activist - I think of him as alot of things
lately I've been thinking of him as the power behind Thunder
right now I'm thinking of him as the power of Harlem...
what am I talkin' 'bout?
when I was a little kid me and my brothers and sister used to call Harlem "the country"
'cause everybody spoke and everybody sounded like they just came up from down South
and you couldn't get away with anything 'cause the old ladies would tell on you
to me High John's the fuel drivin' the community

what it be

this site's about rootwork
aka hoodoo
the people in my family who talk about it calls it roots - I like that
cause that's what its about for me
the roots of who I am and who african-americans are
but I'm not stuck in the past
this is a live, constantly growing root
I'm gonna be all over the map of my mind
or maybe not
might just be some furrows
but there's definately gonna be some metaphoric leaps
I'll be dealing in dhavni - suggested sense
the Motherlands' wisdom is a constant
the triple Motherlands of BK, the Geechees islands Wadmalaw, Edisto and James
and the homeland of Guinen
the places where my ancestors lived before they got pushed onto the boat
and took the ride of no return
it's not Africa, really
even though I'll use that word because it's the one we all understand
to quote the words of Pritha Singh all those years ago
"you're always talkin' about Africa- you're not African - Africa is something the white man made up - you're Dravidian"
the Dravidians are definately gonna put their 2 cents in as well

This sites gonna be exploring about what what my ancestors gave me - and give me every day
Roots
I'm gonna use this site to think through my ideas on
African- American esoteric wisdom
philosophic and practical
and reclaiming the wisdom of the ancestors who got pushed off the boat
the ancestors who worked for free
the ancestors who used the coloreds' bathroom and witnessed lynchings
the ancestors who never worked for the white man after 1865
as well as the ones who did
the ancestors who fought 'till they got their rights
and the ancestors who've returned

peace