I found this notice from Bean Soup Times today particularly inspiring...So many doubters and haters and folks who want to see so many divisions amongst Afrikans....Here is a brother who works seamlessly with the African Union and with Afrikans here in Diaspora...Our vision has to extend beyond the rhetoric of who needs help the most and how we gotta focus only on our local communities --as if we can sustain any of our efforts without each other...anyway ck out Cedric Muhammad's travel video compilation too...

Cedric Muhammad, The Eclectic Economist

YouTube Video Collage On 'The United States of Africa'

Look. We are just keepin it real. The Wellness Revolution is in full affect. Many of us though have not been exposed to the Wholistic Perspective as envisioned by our ancestors. Real Traditional Afrikan Culture lies at the foundation of many of the "New Age" philosophies and metaphysical practices. We are clearing the dust off and putting the Traditional Culture in use for everyday living. We are grateful for the remnants of Afrikan Culture that have been kept alive thru so many other cultures. So, the Reclamation has begun! Wanna know what so-called Gen X'rs have been doing? Maybe we haven't publicly marched--but we have embraced the Spirit of Liberation and seek to live it-NOW!

Energy Science, Vibrational Science and Therapy as it applies
to Sound, Movement, and so much more will be available for your
experience at this particular event. This is only a small offering and
a beginning of a collaborative effort to expose the wider Afrikan
community to tools and techniques to increase daily life quality...Get me?
Stay tuned because the Frequency is increasing!

I gotta read this book...give me a minute to get back on it. This topic is hot on the boards--but based on the fact that many folks I know are having a problem with themselves to the point where they can't even have a decent one on one relationship! As the Buddhists have said, the sword in the hands of a coward is useless. I wonder do we really want what we say we want, do we really want to be able to control our destiny? Again, we can propagandize and develop all the media we want but if we don’t extend the battle to the food and water then our people will not be able to hear us…it’ll be more like trying to argue with a person who is inebriated…whose really behaving foolishly in that scenario? Our people cannot hear us! We have sounded the battle cry but their ears and eyes are blocked with thousands of media hits per day! Their thinking is distorted by 100 teaspoons of white sugar per day! They cannot hear us AND they cannot think for themselves!! In their right minds they wouldn’t need to hear anyone because they would be taking responsibility for themselves! Those of us who can hear beyond the hype need to put our heads and spirits to work and break the hold on ourselves and as many of our folks as possible. We need to be organizing ourselves and taking retreats to re-strengthen and keep ourselves built for this battle! We need to spend more time genuinely elevating ourselves and thereby increasing the frequency of all things around us! We can blame no one if we continue in the same vein! We know who is really doing it and really committed and really striving to elevate based on the FRUIT PRODUCED! We all have a lot more work to do! And those of us who think that we can skip to the so-called original family of polygamy, has got to be joking! First of all, most of the people doing the research and scholarship are males, coming to male conclusions! If I researched the history of family structures I guarantee you that I will find the original and best family structure was one where the woman’s vagina was not on lock with one man! But that she could share and give with the men that she needed to in order to reach enlightenment to benefit herself, family and the wider community! Men would be able to hold ejaculations and she would be able to build and generate sexual healing energy based on her spiritual, mental needs, characteristics etc. I guarantee you that I will find that there is no perfect manifestation of the perfect family structure! Family structures have always been a work in progress and based on the nature of man, they always will be. What we need to be more concerned with is healthy, and fruitful relationships that produce qualitatively better offspring and the use of sexual energy for what is was intended—regeneration, revitalization, and healing for ourselves, our community and the world! Make no mistake, there are women out here doing this vital work—I dare you to open yourselves up to more than just polygamy so you can see the woman for what she really is—the first and most profound teacher and leader of all of us—are you man enough to support her in this role? How you going to have more than one wife when you don’t even know how to control yourself—or your ejaculation? How are women going to function really in that scenario when most of us are not trained enough about the true nature of menstruation and don’t know how to control it? How can you even expect folks to be able to embrace the polyamorous lifestyle at this point when even one man and one woman generally cannot maintain fruitful and positive relations? Putting the cart before the horse makes me wonder if true intentions have been revealed and again, a sword in the hand of a coward is useless!

A group of young healers and health practitioners have gotten together to raise funds for a worthy, international youth organization called the All-Afrikan Youth Movement! (www.aaym.org) This scenario is unprecedented in so many ways! Let's begin to count them...

1. Medicinal Readings with the brother Anuk Hetep Men Ra Ab Be. Check out his blog http :/www.myspace.com/aungkhmageddon

2. Crystal Science and Therapy with Brother Ozzy. He's a straight up Crystal Master! He's going to share how you can begin to let crystals work with you...

3. Womb Wellness and How it is Crucial to Community Upliftment, a conversation with Sister Aya. Check out her website http://www.sisteraya.com/. It would take a whole blog to talk about the work the Sister is doing in the Community!

4. Try Yoga with Brother Sun Dew from Martial Athletics.
The organization is basically a one-stop shop for fighting stylees, Tai Chi, Yoga, and Wholistic Health Consultations, including Mid-Wifery...

5. Actually practice guided Meditation with the good Brother Kasabez, from the Earth Center
ck the website in my link section...

6. Belly Dance with Sister Nia, a professional dancer with 20+ years experience! On top of that she's also a Life Coach and on behalf of the AAYM will be signing up folks for complementary Life Coaching sessions!

7. Sister Carmenita, a finance wizard and banker will reveal the "Thrive" Economic Strategy which will give you simple steps to help you thrive in tough economic times...You heard it here first a Wholistic Economic Strategy...stay tuned for more on that...

8. Raw Food Demos with one of the coldest raw food chefs in Chicago--Yekiellah! If you don't know you better ask somebody who does...if not show up 8.16th and taste for yourself!

9. Whose not in need of some Sexual Healing? Know your sexual personality and simple techniques to let sexual energy work for you...

Like I said, unprecedented!

Part of the way in which we interject our personality is by living according to our basic traditions. No matter what type of Afrikan you may be, you know something about order, balance, reciprocity, truth, justice, propriety, and harmony. By birth and association we know these things. It is so much more beneficial for human kind if we practice being our Afrikan selves. In other words, if we keep it real, for real, those practices alone will get us closer to our goals of a United Afrika for Afrikans home and abroad! Of course, there are many steps involved in the unification process. We cannot skip this step if we tried. We have got to start talking and thinking unity--then we will perform unified actions...and there are still too many among us who are still telling the other version of our story. Case in point:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/04/content_11650974.htm

This is what New Afrikan ImageMakers is about! Peace to all our lecturers out on the circuit studying and making it plain for the people! However, we need some straight up hands-on. People need to feel and experience wellness in order to create a neural net to help build well lives. Frankly, some people need to feel a little hocus pocus and this is the type of setting where you are guaranteed to fell magic. Not magic in some figurative, metaphysical, in the great beyond...but we need to be in touch with the power of ourselves that can only be demonstrated by ourselves. The secret is us doing us. The magic is us.

Anytime you can get several youth together all of whom are gifted in their respected fields, there is bound to be some furniture moving. Amazing...and afer all they said about the so-called Gen X...

Ck the Obama-like candidate in Mauritania...interesting.

Really, focus on problems is not the primary drive behind this blog. However, we must continue to apprise ourselves of the situations we face as a people. To be informed, and continuous study helps lend the urgency to our work. Anyway, many of us may not be aware of the seriousness that we face. We may not see the connections between us here and us there. Even after Dr. King told us that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". We must remind ourselves of the hope, the inevitable gains and the inevitable losses that we face in our quest to be Afrikan people.

Cipher. Synergy. We, of course give thanks for having contact with the words and music of Peter Tosh. So we will be vibing on Tosh, Equal Rights and Justice and Revolution at this session...

Cipher. Synergy. Remember we gotta coordinate! Here's the beginning of New Afrikan ImageMakers contribution to the coordination, elevation and synergy of consciousness...for Chicago and beyond. So far, very well received! This film series has been sponsored in part by Brother Kam@Movies that Matter and by The House of Culture. The HOT! Summer Film Series 2009 Features documentaries about Fela, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley. Right now, it is a nice informal, conscientiously free-style event. Film. Food. Discussion. Spoken Word. Music. etc. etc. etc...We hoping to link up with Unboxed Visions with its film festival coming the end of August. Cipher...

Show me where "foreign nationals" are so harassed and degraded in any Afrikan nation because they are from China or India or anywhere for that matter! Yes, Afrikan hospitality is unsurpassed and that is great...

However, the Afrikan life has value to ourselves and to the world--none of us seem to notice that right now. This is why the "interjection" of the Afrikan personality onto the world stage is crucial. We have got to increase our value in our minds and in the way we project ourselves so that the world knows what it is dealing with--The Original People and The Original High Culture! Take a clue from our ancestors, who sent us a message "Know Thyself"...