WEDNESDAY
ADDENDUM, my 1st afrospiritual demojaband, each larger bead is a 9th bead, been working for
me, been using it to put myself in various trance states as i see fit - my hoodoo prayerbeads
been experimenting with various mantras, various prayer/worry bead types
been experimenting with buddhist, islamic, tibetan types, came up with this
idea to make my own afrospiritual type using african brass beads, we will see if they
are too heavy for my purposes, if it will be something you can wear comfortably
want to make it a part of my cosmology, also been experimenting w/different
variants of hoodoo and mojo, been trying demojo demoja mojo moja, hoodooway
dahoodooway, seeing how different variants roll of the tongue or speak to the soul
hoodoo way for isntance does not roll of the tongue but it speaks to the mind
ive tried a mojo moja mojo moja variant that seems effective rhythm, ima keep
playing with this because in terms of keeping me focused its been wonderful
and i desperately needed fouus, i want chants for different things, like when
you in need of equanimity after taking a hammer, when you are trying to discipline
yourself to do what need to be done (on schedule) for moments when you need
more compassion or illumination, the more structured i make it the more real it becomes
the other matter on my mind, im still buried in research but im tired of research and i want
a draft, i will continue research but ima go ahead and do a draft this semester, a if i die
tomorrow draft, the hoodoo book of flowers 1.0, not quite what it will be 3.0 but i
want to get something out there and by making a draft i will start narrowing down
what holes i still have and can focus my research more efficiently, then hopefull
i can do a real draft over the summer and get back to my novel which i am missing
desperately, the other matter i guess is scalia's death, i should not be tickled over
any death but i have to say that scalias is somewhat timely, before obama was
replacing liberals with liberals, this one can flip the court for generations, there is
no way the repubs are going to allow that, but them saying it so bluntly played against
them so they are going to go thru the process but the endgame will be the same, no fucking way
they will bet on winning the election which makes this election all the nore important, citizens
united, voting rights and other rightwing moves, this is our chance for real change, we got to win
the presidency and take back the senate, both doable if i can get our warring democrats to focus
as alexander chee said on facebook, its all hands on deck, if they stall him obama still wins,
a year of 4/4 will irk them, if 4/4 the lower court rulings stand, and we won most of them, the
court has been changed no matter what, its been crippling us since they gave bush the presidency
then after taking back the senate president hillary (or bernie) nominate justice obama my cup
would surely run over, that would be just too much irony for my beatup heart to endure
i would love to be on the wall of the strategy meetings in the whitehouse, will he choose
to run a progressive that will fire the base or a moderate that will split the repubs
obama such a player i wouldnt put it past him to outplay them and get a pick in anyway
these is momentus times, but im focused on even more impo matters, getting my work done . .
all my love
demoja
SATURDAY 2/13
okay I been trying to come up with a divinic affirmation like amen, ashe, allah akbar, etc, on
the black hand side, I been using ibayo, a riff on ibaye, but concern is that its yoruba, not
african american and I have no intention of giving care of our souls to the yoruba or anybody
else, christian, islamic, african, buddhist, nobody, that aint been working, whole point of this
effort is to forge an african american way that will use the best of them all but be afroam
my position is the only way ima change the condition of blackfolk & get us out of this
historical trickbag we in is to shape our generations into the people of power i would
them be - work the tribal soul like babajohn taught me, got to work them soul deep
so I was playing with riffs on hoodoo today, had a tax lien hurt my credit rating and was
very bummed out and thought this is not worth being bummed out over, for somebody
trying to write a holybook this is a minor matter,
all this attendant spiritual study has moved me to a point of greater spiritual equanimity, so i tried
using hoodooway as an equanimity mantra and it was working then I thought put da in front,
dahoodooway, but damn that's a lot of syllables, then tried demoja, which I once tried to define
as holywar but now my own spiritual evolution defines elsewhere
I have been playing with defining mojo as an afroam tao - the primal force, the primal way,
lifeforce, lifepower, et al - and coming up with tao poetics to affirm it - based on core afroam
culture/spiritwork - I can only hope it takes
so demoja will be my divinic affirmation, dahoodooway a mantra, I have been using it today
when I need to be disciplined or make the right decision or provide defense against temptation,
and at one point was using it as a meditation and I could feel the power tingling in my bones -
ima start using it in my performances, a primary programming
instrument, building armies and seeding dragons teeth
this will work for me and if I embed it in my Works properly hopefully the culture will pick up on it,
me telling you all this and enduring the embarrassment of exposing myself ike this is an unfortunate
part of that cultural programming process
your works are like the seeds of future realities, ideological orchestrations like internet postings
are preparation of the ground (wanna play prophet the culture has to acknowledge your authority
to do so, the prophetic dispensation) mythworkers greatest myth always their own
ive tried to embed works into the culture so many times and the only ones that have taken far as i
can see are literary hoodoo and the longgame, they been used by certain cutting edge cultural
orchestrators so I need to just be patient and play my game best I can, let the generations decide
i in fact came up with demoja as a riff on de mojo blues, title of my first novel, and it was supposed to
name holywar - that was when i was in a different state of mind, now i want it to be divinic affirmation
premise here is that if i write a true holybook then a lot of its concepts to be culturally imprinted
will be whatever i want them to be, as long as they culturally, spiritually & destinically resonant i
got a chance they will stick
dahoodooway, ima spend the year imprinting that in myself, programming, it experimenting
with using it, giving it mojo/power in self and in the world/work - generating taoic poetry for it
was using it today, whenever I needed to focus on the high road, be the high hoodoo of discipline,
equanimity and power i aspire to be, doing good when I can, being an illuminated individual
being true force in the world
a high hoodoo, the high hoodoo
which for me is a point of highest honor and responsibility
at one point used it as a prayer mantra (thinking beads)
in order to program it properly i have to follow thru on its calls, if i call on it as a matter of
focus or discipline i have to follow thru or it will lose power, this whole little divinic affirmation
initiative will just die on the vine, do it and i gain mojo, dont and i lose it, everytime, everytime
i dont follow thru im crippling my power, losing mojo, every call is a crossroads moment (another
term i been playing with, the crossroads)
feels right - dahoodooway - rolls off the tongue real good (oneword, emphasis on those
two Ds, let it slide out like a prayer, a benediction, a blessing upon yourself and others)
and it will speak to the souls of blackfolk/anybody so inclined, okay, let me get back to work, it's the
hoodoo way (to get your work done, to do the right thing, the power thing, a spiritual alchemy thing)
its da hoodoo way
dahoodooway
demoja (which i will use for amen/ashe and the like, divinic affirmation (another
functional term i need to play with, this project been a rabbit hole, i just keep falling)
demoja
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