4/14/24 pg 10 of 97 pgs
hello all, finished mi memoir and happy with it
getting mi last feedback opinions and now
working on The Hoodoo Way
want to get it off mi plate cause
im eager to dig into mi novel
so this is the intro beat setting it up
going thru a crises, all mi students black, which
shows you where my head is, i still think of it as
the indigenous black spiritual system, still think
of myself as the tribal medicine worker
and all mi students, ie the next generation
serious about keep hoodoo exclusively black
whereas i have been trying to universalize the tradition
i would the hoodoo way be one
of the world's Great Ways
this text / the hoodoo way is trying to turn
the whole world onto hoodoo but i am
susceptible to keeping it black
what im thinking now is that you dont
actually have to be a hoodoo to live
the hoodoo way
this book will explore what it means
to live the Hoodoo Way
an African American Way
schedule is 10 pages
a day for ten days
two days off, so i wiill be done by
end of month, at which point i will
do novel, novel been bouncing round
in mi head, gon do it from scratch
this time - see what shows up
so, everyday of the big push i will put
up an excerpt from that days work
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INVOCATION: let this work be a healing
in the beginning god created humanity
when humanity got too proud god created death
when death got too proud god created art
I am Flowers of the Delta Clan Flowers and the Line of O. Killens. This Text was
originally a 365 day Hoodoo Almanac structure designed to give guidance in your
Daily Grind. A year of transformation that represent a lifetime. But I was not happy
with the Product. It was Shallow and your boy don't do Shallow. Decided I would let
this be the one where I let it all hang out. I rarely say what I really feel for fear folk
will find it delusional. But I guess anytime you let your freak flag fly you delusional.
Since it does not appear to be commercially viable and I am running out of life might as
well do what I want to do. Speculate. So. Here we go. Meditations on the Hoodoo Way.
An interrogation of the Hoodoo Way designed to walk you thru a Transformative
Year that also reflect a Life as Pilgrimage. An attempt to refine your Daily Grind
in the Hoodoo Way. To define just what the Hoodoo Way is.
Folk hear hoodoo they generally thinking folkmagic hoodoo. Saverytime
hoodoo. 100 years out of date hoodoo. Spells, spirits, and black cat bones
hoodoo. Folk magic hoodoo back from when we was a folk peoples.
The Hoodoo Way is the indigenous African American spiritual tradition.
One of a family of Afrospiritual traditions in the Americas. Vodou, Lucumi,
Candomble, Obeah, et al. Mostly they religious traditions, fusions of
Catholicism and various African systems, Yoruba, Fon, Congo, Akan et al,
whereas hoodoo has traditionally been a folkmagic system. But the cutting
edge has long since moved into high magic. 21st Century stylee.
Been a question in hoodoology on if hoodoo should remain tribal or go
universal, mi students, ie the next generation, vote tribal whereas I been
trying to universalize, thinking now maybe I can do both, work w/both hands
Working Premise: you don’t have to actually be a hoodoo to live the Hoodoo Way.
I would also like in this work to explore the concept of being a Contemporary Tribal
Healer. Mganga Maua. It is itself a Healing. Accordingly, this Text will also
serve as a meditation on Wisdom. It embarrass me how much I want
to be Wise. There are other aspirations. I want to be Spiritual. Illuminated.
A Healer. I want to be Sanctified. Artiste. But more than anything it appears,
I want to be Wise.
Accordingly, this aspires to be a Wisdom Text.
A Meditation on Wisdom.
A Griotic Guide to Empowerment. Designed to ground my teachings and enable
an iteration of hoodoo the whole world can sing. A global work of Tribal Healing by the
High Hoodoo of Memphis. So, let us begin. Let us stumble thru. The Hoodoo Way.
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