15 Superfoods

Eat healthy, happy, foods for a happy body. I was strolling through a neighborhood in East Atlanta when I walked into a superfood café! Where will my body take me today? What plants are capable of healing the body that haven't even been discovered!? Read the article below to find out more!

15 Superfoods

The Knowing

One of the greatest travesties to occur following colonialism and the enslavement of African, or marginalized people is the invalidation of self as a source of infinite knowing, knowledge, and inspiration. The necessity of approval and the dependence upon the opinions and points of view of others, to derive value of self, arrests creativity, halts the expansion and evolution of society and results in the atrophy of optimism and courage. In some cases this leads to dependence on narcotics, opiates, and alcohol when the approval of others isn’t enough.

Charlotte says her husband Raymund was very distraught over the loss of his father. Raymund says, “When a man loves his family as much as my father did he will reach from beyond the grave to care for his descendants.” It is the insistence on directing the course of his progeny, coupled with his will and might that keeps Raymunds’ father anchored to this reality. Raymunds’ unwillingness to let his father go, keeps his father stuck here incessantly chattering in Raymunds’ ear as if he has a body.

One morning Raymund heard a statement. Not the way one usually hears a statement, by waves of sound vibrating against his ear drum. He heard a thought! “You should go to church today.” What if whenever you perceive the phrase “you should”, it’s a clue, a hint that something else wishes to communicate with you? Raymund perceives the phrase “you should” as a thought, and carries out the directive even though he would never address himself as you. “I don’t particularly like going to church”, Raymund says.

Some ministers claim to receive revelation from God or the spirit as they interpret the gospel, scriptures, or sacred text. Entity communication or communicating with the “dead” is an offense in many world religions and can be prohibited. However communications with spirits are common as many of the prophets of the world religions are no longer embodied. Who does the minister or rabbi receive his revelation from? Who listens to and answers his prayers?  What daemon or ascended master is attempting to impose its’ point of view through the power of his will and might? Are the religious leaders communicating with a plethora of god’s, one god, or gods at all. Many of the sacred text were purportedly received through direct and divine revelation.

Charlotte talks about communion with her body. I have communion with my body in such a way that when I ask my body where it would like to go today I will usually receive an image of a place or a light pull/desire to go a particular place.” “I will then meet someone or come across some information pertinent to my adventure, expansive for my living, or receive something just plain enjoyable.” So, what if the consideration of everyone else’s points of view or judgments as true, coupled with the choice to ignore our body’s senses is what expels us from the Garden of Eden day after day?

When I picked up the book Guns & Rain, a shot of energy ran from the palm of my hand, up the forearm, through my bicep and ended with a tinge of ecstasy in the center of my heart. This book was particularly expansive for me as I began playing with extrasensory abilities and sharing the information I received with others. The author claims that during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation spirit mediums and channels led guerilla warriors to victory with their uncanny ability to know what was required to enhance their armies and assist the guerillas in hitting their targets.  There are first hand examples of how communication with the unseen world enhanced the quality of the soldier’s lives and ultimately led to a partial victory, overthrowing white minority rule.

The mediums of Zimbabwe channeled chiefs, witches, and ancestors who passed by. The ex guerillas tell stories of how the mediums led them to food sources and other supplies. One ex-combatant talks of how a conversation with a medium ended the death in his camp. There were several deaths in the guerillas camp and no one knew exactly what was causing the death. The medium told them to stop bathing in a nearby river and there would be one more death of a child from bathing in the river. This is exactly what happened. The mediums were also leaders of a war fought to liberate a colonized country from its oppressors. Even the future Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was assisted to escape by an obscure mountain route to Mozambique at the advice of a spirit medium.

The new state of Zimbabwe was founded in large part by the consultation of mediums, the channels of the mhondoro or royal ancestors. The mediums of the mhondoro spirits were the advisors of the guerillas and the peasants of Dande from 1970 until 1979. Guns & Rain focuses on the relationship between guerrillas and the mediums of spirits. While many of all of Britain’s colonies achieved independence by the mid 1960’s, Rhodesia refused to give its’ citizens the right to vote and while many say the war for independence began in 1964, it appears the by 1970 the guerillas and citizens of Rhodesia were willing to receive from the mediums that had access to a vast range of knowledge.

The Guerillas of the Zimbabwe African National Union rebelled. Somehow they knew that political independence was a possibility that would create a greater future. They traveled from Mozambique to speak with a medium. “We are the children of Zimbabwe, we want to liberate Zimbabwe.” She began to give them information about the terrain of northeastern Zimbabwe. Many of the terrains were dangerous where wild animals roamed. She gave them directions and routes to take. She told them where to sleep and what foods to eat. The mediums taught the guerillas how to interpret certain signs displayed by animals so they would know when the antagonists were approaching or a change of weather coming.

When the ancestor wishes to communicate directly to his descendants it chooses a man or woman who has literally gone unconscious. When the medium has gone unconscious the ancestor takes control of the mediums body and begins to communicate with the progeny. The mutapi assist the mediums by acting as an intermediary between the visitors and the mhondoro. He receives the visitors, calls the spirit down to attach itself to the medium and the question and answer session begins. The mediums have capacities like reading past present and future lines, and extrasensory perceptions. In Zimbabwe when a chief dies he is transformed into a mhondoro and becomes the source of the fertility of the land itself. Many people visit the medium to request that the mhondoro bring the rain. Mediums objected to the new techniques of agricultural production like irrigation and the use of fertilizer. They knew much of the fertilizer was harmful to the foods and many of the agricultural practices disturbed the balance of the land. They opposed the construction of dams that would flood sacred pools.

The spirit mediums were sure of victory and following the fifteen year guerilla war with black nationalists, a peace agreement was established. The peace agreement was to institute the holding of general elections, and to make Zimbabwe Rhodesia an independent state with the parties settling disputes and differences by elections. The European Union continues to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwe due to electoral fraud and human rights abuses. What do we all know that could change everything that allows this to occur? Change may begin with the acknowledgement that we do know. What if the mediums assisted the guerillas and the peasants in to live consciously and to access their own knowing? Would the outcome be different? With more awareness would we choose greater leaders and systems that worked?

Lan,David. 1985. Guns & Rain Guerillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. Great Britain: James Currey Ltd
"Zimbabwe profile:Timeline" www.bbc.com. June 12, 2015. google. JUNE 16, 2016.

Conversing with Celestial Beings

Thank You

I am grateful to http://www.timbooktu.com, and the editor for being willing to share. I am grateful for the generosity of the writers who are willing to share their experiences and wisdom with the reader. Please read Conversing with Celestial Beings. Share it with your friends, the seekers, and those willing to ask the questions that will create a new world.





Demystifying the World of the Psychic

There have been many times in life when I had a sense something would happen and it did. Those times the occurrence didn’t take place were happenings that affected others’ world's like my brothers or someone else close to me…

Many times the awareness's came in the form of a dream, sometimes a sensation, or perhaps just instantaneous knowing. What do you know, that you are refusing to acknowledge you know, that if you acknowledged you knew it, would change your reality? At one time I became aware that I could “read” others when I was in elementary school…

I met a young boy who was starving himself. He recently checked into the hospital and was diagnosed with an eating disorder. He cared for his mother a great deal. He was unaware of the power and potency of his caring and had unconsciously formed an eating disorder. He was so aware of his mothers dissatisfaction with her body that he literally took the judgement she had of her body, out of her body, the compulsory thought patterns, the need to lose weight and developed anorexia nervosa. He began starving himself to lose weight. He was not overweight and an adolescent.

I had the awareness as an adolescent that I could share thoughts. I didn’t have the information that this was possible, no one ever said, “Honey there is this thing called “telepathy”, so I shut off the awareness that I could share thoughts, and bought every perception I had as my own. I wondered around the world with thousands of conflicting desires and moods. I learned meditation and that helped. I practiced yoga to deal with the influx of awareness my body and I assumed. One other such tool I have been playing with is, Who does this belong too? Return to sender.

I asked, Who Does This Belong Too?, then said, Return to Sender, to every thought feeling and emotion I had for three days and I became a walking talking meditation.

  

We are all infinite awareness. Sometimes people born with great awareness cut off their awareness with drugs and alcohol. It seems as though most of this reality is set up to maintain unconsciousness.  

What would you be, know, perceive and receive if you choose total awareness? What would your life be like if you could return all  the thoughts feelings and emotions that are not yours? Would your life be lighter? Would work be easier, more peaceful, fun? Would there be more space for you to show up as the infinite being you truly be?

What can you do to increase your awareness? How aware are you willing to be? 100% aware or 1000% aware? What if you were so aware that you knew the day a close friend would die? Could you change it? Some people are so aware they are willing to receive the communication of those who have passed and can read several potential futures.  This reality makes it strange and calls them psychics or they are labeled disorder because they don't know how to grapple with the huge influx of data they are receiving. 

What if psychics are people who are willing to have more awareness than everyone else and what if total awareness were accessible to all?

Use this tool during volatile times and see what shifts for you.

The Great Escape

          

Immediately following North Korea's third nuclear test in February 2013, I remember seeing images of Koreans on television. Many were fleeing North Korea to China in an attempt to escape the nightmarish living conditions. "Like other dictatorships, North Korea has an elite ruling class that enjoys some basic privileges of modern life, such as indoor plumbing, automobiles, meat, coffee and a few luxury goods. There's a middle stratum that has sufficient food and, occasionally, new clothes, but not much else." 

             

           There are many who are starving and can't afford housing or receive basic healthcare. There are also rumors of labor camps."Navi Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, called in January for an international investigation into what she said may be crimes against humanity, including torture and executions of political prisoners in North Korean camps. She said Pyongyang's network of political prison camps is believed to confine at least 200,000 people and has been the scene of rapes, torture, executions and slave labor."

           

          The images I witnessed on CNN, spoke to me of man's innate ability to demand change and to do whatever it takes to have the life he desires. I saw people being brave, risking everything to escape the dictatorship that strangled their dreams in hope of finding something better. There are many people, seekers, looking to escape the harsh dictates of realities and relationships that no longer work for them. People are beginning to demand our world change. What would it take?

            

         I wanted to know what was really happening in this part of the world. What if having more awareness leads to multiple choices?  I began searching for someone to speak with. It was not easy to find someone. After several weeks I found a wonderful man, Sanghun Kim, to shed some light on what the conflict in North Korea means to all of us. Below is a transcript of the interview. Please read and share. I am very grateful for this amazing gentleman and excited to see what he creates as his life and living.

Who are you? Where did you grow up? What was your upbringing like? What are you now? 

           My name is Sanghun Kim. I grew up in the Korean culture. Of course, I spent most of my time in Korea. My upbringing was kind of a Confucians culture. As well-known to people, Korea has very strong Confucians cultural background. For example, respect to an elder person, respecting teachers or masters, and etc. Specifically, I was born in Seoul, especially the central area of Seoul. I graduated from elementary school, middle school, high school, and entered into a college. Seoul is the capital city of Korea. Seoul is a very interesting city because nature and the urban side are made to be a perfect combination.
             Currently, I am an international student at the University of North Texas. I am studying Logistics and Supply Chain Management and studying minor for Decision Science. If you ask me about my planned future, to be honest with you I don’t know. Who knows one’s future? I never think about the long term future. My vision of life is “let’s live for now. Let’s do best at each moment!” However, I wish to be a person who contributes to the improvement, that the peace reigns in heart of men. Sounds weird, but sometimes I wish that!

Share with us briefly the history behind the conflict in Korea?

            This history is not very short because this conflict occurred since Korea was under Japanese colonization. While Korean people were against the Japanese colonization, Korean people were separated by two of the biggest axis of power the United Sates and the Soviet Union. Some people accepted the idea from the U.S. Some people accepted the idea from the Soviet Union. The historical background is from here. After Korea recovered sovereignty, these separated people could not find compromise; therefore in 1948, South Korean people established their own government and North Korea did as well. Then as people know, South Korea was supported by the U.S., and North Korea was supported by the Soviet Union. Then, in 1950, the Korean War was beginning. After a long time, in 1991, both South and North Korea joined the United Nations and have different seats for each. 

 How does one thrive in a war torn society? What is it going to take for peace and kindness to prevail there?

            Be honest with you, I am not really sure about it because I am living here in the U.S. However, I can tell that most of Koreans are not afraid of war. The meaning is not Koreans are willing to accept a warring time; Koreans became insensible about the war. Some people said the idea of South Korean’s national security is facing a serious problem. In contrast, some people believe a new Korean war is not going to happen because most of neighboring countries such as China, Japan, Russia, or the U.S. don’t want to make a new war. My honest opinion is the second one. When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, North Korea had very huge supports from the Soviet Union and China. In addition at that time, most of the strong countries had a surplus power right after the World War II. However in the 21 century, the face of war is changing into an economical war instead of using a physical power. Of course, the situation is more stressful than the normal. 

            Just look at the situation now. At the beginning of the conflict, both Koreans are very sensitive, and North Korea declared “full-scale war”. However, what is going on now? Did North Korea fire an ICBM to Japan or the U.S.? Or, did North Korean military march to the border line? If one country is going to take a crazy action, I am sure the economic situation will be worse than the great depression because the new Korean War is requiring, involving most of countries.

             The peace… I think it is hardest question in the Universe. Let’s think about it. Why every country has a military power and border line? What if every country disarms and opens their border line? If every country takes these actions, maybe then peace reigns in the heart of men. Then, at last, we can be whole. However, it is almost… no absolutely impossible because the situation is very complicated. If anyone can solve this permanent homework of humankind, that person must be a hero of the Universe.

            However, we can have a simple solution, to respect the culture. Why Korean peninsula is separated? Why India and Pakistan are separated? These are from a greedy mind.

What can the world learn from Korea?

              I think Korea is the last separated country. For now, I don’t know what the world can learn from Korea specifically. However, I can tell the modern history of Korea is very interesting. For example, South Korea was hopeless country right after the Korean War. However, who else can say South Korea isn’t a developing country now? During South Koreans’ industrialization, the generations were fighting with poverty, overcoming lacked natural resources, and military dictatorship. South Korea accomplished what take’s most European countries’ approximately 300 years of history to complete in 60 years. In contrast, North Korea’s direction is reverse. Look at the night view picture to the Earth from a satellite. North Korean territory at night is literally dark. What does that mean? North Korea does not have enough electricity for their night. From there, the world can learn many things in the future. The world can learn how Koreans solve conflict with each other, and how a country should not behave from North Korea. 

 What makes a great leader?

 I sense a good leader is a good listener. Also, a good leader is a good arbitrator. My ideal mechanism is very simple. A good leader should gather information or knowledge from people and make a smart decision. The smart decision making means a leader needs to be able to filter what is good information or what is bad information.

           

 References

Nebehay, Stephanie 3/21/13 U.N Starts Inquiry into Torture, Labor Camps in North Korea. GENEVA (Reuters) Retrieved from: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-launches-inquiry-crimes-labor-camps-north-160356741.html

Newman, Rick 4/12/13 here’s How Lousy Life is North Korea. Retrieved from:http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2013/04/12/heres-how-lousy-life-is-in-north-korea