Friday, September 07, 2007

Ancestors: the Gateway to God- the Gateway to Power

Spiritually African-Americans are the syncopated repetition of our Ancestors. We are part of a chain, a rhythm. a riff to use the jazz musicians term, that goes all the way back to the First Ancestors, the Ones who lived with and in God. We carry these First Ancestors within us as a Rhythm- as a mode of Living and Being. We contain the same Energy they had, that they lived as a Reality. It lives within us as a seed, as potential waiting to be tapped. Most of us never tap in, never allow the seed to gerninate, grow and flower. We remain unaware, caught, seemingly powerless, never knowing we hold the key for harmoniusly living our lives within ourselves.
The secret of Ancestral veneration is the more we harmonize with our own personal Ancestral lines the more we allow our individual Spark to harmonize itself to the stronger and sublter levels of Force embodied by our Ancestors. This allows us to contact Ancestral Powers closer and closer to the Beginning, Powers that maintain a level of Consciousness far beyond our own. As we harmonize ourself with our own Harmonized Ancestors they Initiate us- they open the door and allow us entry into the modes of Seeing and Being they have accessed. Once the process of Ancestral veneration is established the African Ancestors take responsibility for spiritually directing and teaching us, their descendants.

The Original Rootworkers want us to reconnect with our ENTIRE family-
here and across the waters.
The completion of a Spiritual system for African-Americans should also be the re-introduction to and the re-constitution of an African Ancestral line.

The Original Rootworkers expected their descendents to do the same thing they did when they got to the U.S.
To look to the True Self within for Wisdom and to the Ancestors for Guidance.
To see and use the Powers imbedded in America as tools to Overcome.
And to not see the journey as finished until we find their Spiritual place back home in the Motherland.

This is in my opinion one of the reasons that the African-based spiritual system developed in the United States seems "unfinished" or "incomplete" ritual-wise when compared to some of other African-based Spiritual systems in the Western hemisphere.
The Africans who came to the U.S. did NOT consider take America as their home!
Furthermore, NEVER wanted to be here!
They ALWAYS in their heart of hearts desired to go "back home" .
The story of Ibo Landing testifies to that fact.
AND they want us to continue to look BACK to Africa as they did.
In my opinion the African-American Ancestors did not leave a "finished" ritual system for us here in the U.S. because they didnt regard the U.S. or the situation they found themselves in here as the final spiritual landing place for either themselves or their descendents.
BUT they did give us the tools to Work whatever System we find ourselves dealing with! The Spiritual system they left us here has and does Overcome in situations where many others fail.
Snake 2G says It is the responsibility of all African-Americans who strive to live in Harmony with the Original Wisdom to honor their Ancestral Spiritual bloodlines by re-constituting the Spiritual line broken by the Middle Passage.

This process may re-connect you with Spiritual family in Cuba, Haiti or Brazil.
OR it may require you to carry out the wishes of the "salt-water Blacks" and reconnect DIRECTLY with your Ancestral Bloodlines




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about me pt II:

snake2G exists because the Ancestors ordained it
breaking down some of the experiences and Powers that created the snake
eye Speak of
back in the day

learning of the Orishas
tagging along with a friend who was going to see his Madrina so I could find out who my Orisha was (hehe)
finding I didn't have a Orisha (wha???)
That I was solo Congo - and the Congos wanted me on their team
7 seven years down the road
but first: studies
met Siete Rayo
started sittin in on readings -silent observer
as well as weekly metaphysics classes uptown (an hour and a half on the A-train)
learned about the Tree of Life and the Kabbalah, the esoteric meanings of the colors and much more basic metaphysical so ingrained I don't remember where I learned it
about 2 years in the "house" splintered
time to look at Plan B
I decided I needed to learn how to meditate
tried on my own, no haps
Eye decide to go up to to the Catskills for a day to a Yoga seminar I'd somehow heard about
When I came back home all of a sudden I was seeing lights when I meditated
Decided to go back upstate 2 weeks later for more
that while I'm strollin' through ashram grounds - just loungin' really
from around the corner here comes
Baba
Eye and I contact!
technical term: shakitpat diksha
result: Kundalini awakening
external manifestation: classic kriyas
internal manifestation: Self contact
OK.. I switched from Team Congo to the Kundalini League, it's all good
Teams Vitthal, ShivaShambo, Durga, Kali and more
Tantric studies: Shiva Sutras, Spanda Karikas, Vijnana Bhairava
the works of Abhinavagupta and Jnaneshwar Maharaj and much. much, more
fast-forwarding through the years: the 7 have long since come and gone
Salvador da Bahia- Eye come to the realization the Ancestors want me back on the Home Team
Pilgrimage to India: In Tuljapur eye sea - Africa and India come together
Harlem N.Y- start researching my Gullah/Geechee family history
Brooklyn, N.Y.- eye see one of my lil brother's now grown playmates is a Tata Nganga
we link- looks like I'm back on Team Congo- meet Sarabanda
I and I connect with the Bantu ancestral energy on a "scratchin day" at my almost Tata's nzo I but stay "unscratched" myself
Time to look at Plan C
The teachers on the other side in the family lines start to step up
AND The Igbos refuse to let themselves be forgotten
My family on the other side start to provide me with mentors and info
Eye step into the Crossroads and find my way
Eye sea that the Ancestors want me to develop a spiritual discipline that allows them direct and ummediated access to the Matrix(Matrice) through the Vehicle currently called African-American culture
some call this vehicle Hoodoo
I call it Rootwork



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