We give thanks for your journey Qwamii. And the thirst continues, it continues in me as well. As much as I read about it, as many stories people tell and as much as I meditate and experiment with my own subconscious, I am still thirsty to learn more.
There's a book titled "Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman" by Malidoma Patrice Some, you will find most of the information in the book useful to you.
Different things trigger different events in us. Reading about African magic triggers events in me, and in my life. Hearing about divine Black African people who manipulate the weather for example, like they are still doing in Africa - triggers something in me. This may not be case for all of us.
Find out what triggers your subconscious, and seek to understand those things. We may have different triggers, but the result is the same. We desire to understand more about the "real world" and our place in it.
Fire doesn't die, water doesn't die, air doesn't die, earth doesn't die...we are composed of all of these elements. Why are we dying? It's all in the mind. And the sooner we realize that, the better. The more we study energy the more we find it relating right back to all the basic things we know and feel inside of us.
When I was about 10 years old living in Harlem I stole a blues tape from my Barber's shop. My barber was about 60 years old. All the other barber were about the same age. I knew they spent a great deal of time debating about music. I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. So I took a tape while no one was looking. It happened to be a Muddy Waters recording. I played it for like 3 weeks straight. Because I had the strange idea that listening to what these older Men listened to, it would somehow make me wiser and intelligent like them.
I listened to Muddy's voice until I could humm the vibration of every note. There's something very supernatural about the African voice laced with music. The deep base of the rhythm resonating from his electric guitar, it transformed everything. Frequencies coming from African people usually have that affect on young minds.
It wasn't reading that made me look deeper into the spiritual and astral planes, it was music. Even as a child I understood what spiritual possession was. Because I could listen to a voice, and feel possessed by the presence and soul of that person. This is African. This is how we are.
Even now, most of our people are legally possessed. Under spells and in trances. The rotation of dark energy, the rotation of dark vinyl- a single record can seduce a mind. They called our Blues and Rock N Roll- The Devil's music....because Whites completely lost their minds when they heard it. They striped us of our drums when White babies started dying inside the womb, miscarriages, still births, Whites going crazy.
Who created the peace loving, weed smoking White hippie? Black music.
And yet we still scratch the back of our heads, looking at each other....wondering how we can beat the system. How can we tap into our abilities? Who is more conscious of what information?
We brag about the all powerful Whitey too often, not realizing that Whitey has no power- but the powers we project into them. What color is your monitor when you switch it off? Black. So who is projecting what? Is it not darkness that creates light? Light is only as powerful as the frequency range of the dark energy that generates it.
If we haven't figured it out yet, then we probably don't deserve to know.