Hello all
okay, theoretically you have instituted meditational practice
and have chosen your hoodoo name that represents the
mythological you, the next step is programming that
Hoodoo identity
let me say this before we go on, I was just watching Russian
soldiers shooting protestors in Ukraine
the biggest thing about hoodoo identity far as im concerned
is that you understand yourselves as tribal medicine folk
responsible for the well being of your tribe
and that tribe will consist of whoever you want it to
consist of, you are members of many tribes
family, friends, neighborhoood, race, humanity, etc
what I call concentric circles of care
I am by nature and training responsible for the
welfare of blkackfolk, hoodoos traditional role
but in the globalized 21st century you got to
reach beyond tribal into universal
I call what i do custodial hoodoo,
custody for the welfare of your
chosen community
I have had to open my sense of responsibility
to be that of all humanity, this I think is the
role of hoodoo in the globalized 21st century
I was reading where darfuris still getting killed
and just all over the world - humanitys inhumanity
and as 21st century hoodoos in my line
I expect you to be about making a better
world, however you choose to do that
I hope to train you as change agents
so that is a part of your evolving
hoodoo identity, accepting responsibility
for the welfare of all god creature great
and small, from animals to humans to
galactic entities like the one we live on
(insects I got an awkward rela with, if its outdoors
I will count it in the circle - if its in the house or on
one of my plants you gotta go, I will spend hours
rescuing spiders, but ants and mealybugs im ruthless)
you see what im saying, custody of all creation
as much as humanly possible
okay, the immediate concern, working the
mantra of identity
okay, step one, you meditating, you got a hoodoo name
ima have to just take your word you maintaining practice
I got 7 folk, here, which is my limit
this is high time and focus investment
I cant be trying to monitor all of you
okay, lets talk about mantras, which some folk call prayers
trying to affect your spiritual attitude toward something
soulwork
with prayers somebody generally asking the great mojo / divinity / god
for help of some sort - or trying to move into greater alignment
oneness w/ divinity
there is an art to mantra work, where you put your
self in meditative state then repeat over and over
a mantra designed to shape your soul in some way
in this case to convince you that you are really a magician
that you can really do magic, - cause the slightest doubt and you cannot,
I assume you have some spiritual inclination / sensitivity
that put you on this path but the diffr between being
spiritually attuned and being a practitioner is that
we can open those doors on command
most folk they are subject to the whims of spirit
spirit controls them instead of them control spirit
so 1st step of magical attainment is you have to study
the texts and believe that magic is real by developing
viable theories of magic thru the scientific method
speculation – experiment, speculation - experiment
a hoodoo practioioner is primarily a scholar and if you aint into
scholarship you will have a problem walking in my path
excerpt from de geas: a passage when one of my students asked in class,
‘how are you, you know, teaching in a prestigious univ if you are a hoodooman
. . . told them the true magician strives to stay on the cutting edge of knowledge about the nature of the world, above and below, taking it a step further, experimenting with the further reaches of the potentially divine human mind, a conjunctive state of mind, will and way that enables the aspiring magician to utilize timeproven magical and ideological technology to shape the destiny of humanity, to shape the fabric of reality, to conjure, if you will, master of time, space & being - what I call turning the key in the hoodoo lock -
so you got to study the texts and all schools of magic that
you can access until you intellectually understand magic
I am reading a book now called the myth of the magus by
butler and its all the high magicians of history
every culture ever been has included high magicians wrapped
in the mystery that is part of their power, aint talking about folk
or stage magic, talking about high maggic
also going thru the hyatt work and doing a
one vol abridgement / interpretation
because reading that text is essential but its so
much text I don’t believe you will read it
okay let me focus, I can talk forever about this stuff
but point of today is mantraing yourself
into a magical state of mind
basically put youself in a trance
then develop a mantra that convinces yourself
that you are in truth a high magician
biggest rule of mantrawork:
it should be declarative, I AM
it should be tight and right
the mantra that I used when I was programming is
I am rickydoc rootdoctor, my
magic is powerful, my will is law
I repeated that over and over while in a meditative trance
with the same solemnity I would give a prayer
and when I felt myself resisting it I would gently
push that resentment to the side and let that
mantra sink deeper and deeper until I truly believed
that I was rickydoc rootdoctor (my magical name)
that my magic was powerful, my will indeed law
YOU CANNOT DOUBT IT, NOT IN THE SLKIGHTEST
YOU MUST TRULY BELIEVE YOU A CAPABLE OF MAGIC
AND NOT BASED ON FAITH BUT SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION
AND MANTRIC PROGRAMMING THRU MEDITAION
so 4 components of hoodoo identity formation this phase
one: the meditational practice and the hoodoo name
two: magical scholarship and magical experimentation
three: convincing yourself that magic is truly possible
four: actual custodial practice, formal and informal, helping folk
five: creating cultural products that work the tribal soul thru its culture
(and allow you to get Paid independent of the pain of clients)
one last point and I gotta go
you are all at different stages of hoodoo identity and practice
some of you already identify hoodoo and got some practice
some of you starting from scratch
you also got diff levels of commitment to learning the trade
or got life commitments that influ your path and level of investment
some of you only here cause I asked you but you aint got the hunger yet
that will drive you to put in the effort necessary to manifest
I accept that for some of you this aint gon work
if it just works for two or three that’s cool too
so im kinda working with diff folks with diff trajectories
and I don’t have time to monitor your practice
I tell you, you have to meditate if you want to walk
the path, ima assume most of you don’t
I tell you scholarship, I tell you read hyatt, read mama day
read mumbo jumbo, read Texaco – I assume most of you want
but if I ask you to do it its critical, this thing evolves in stages
got to crawl before you can walk - much less dance
soo ima give you instructions for best practice for this stage
if you don’t engage maybe it will still take later in life when you are ready
and if you not feeling it at all
I wont take it personal if you bail cause then we not wasting each others time
I will try to arrange zooms for this week:
look yall ima a 70 odd year old elder who have
always been forgetful even before I was an elder
who has always been a hermit in his own world
all these students and zooms I forget what was scheduled
don’t get mad at me, remind me the day before and the
day off,, if I don’t get back to you w/a confirmation assume
ive drifted off somewhere or deep in the woodshed
(which is where ive been last couple of weeks
just sent new novel draft to agent yesterday
so I can catch up w/my obligations like this one
before I fall off the earth again w/next big project)
remind me, the day before, the day of
yall be safe now
rdoc
Comments