Books I'm reading right now: Jay Z's Decoded and The Dancing Wu Li Masters

These are some books I'm reading right now (among a few others). I know I'm late getting this, So, I finally picked up "Jay Z's teaching to White America about Hip Hop culture" lol at least that's how I see this book after only reading 20 pages into it. It's called Decoded and it's got a front cover that has hundreds of conspiracy theorists clamoring about it being the depiction of Baphomet on the cover via Andy Warhol's famous Rorschach painting. The inkblot was cleared by the Warhol Estate in only one day. “I was very happy about that,” said Jay, who has a Rorschach hanging over his fireplace.



Below is an excerpt from Jay Z on the project.

Jay Z: “When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The first was to make the case that hip-hop lyrics—not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC—are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history. And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to.”

He's clearly become the evangelist of Hip Hop Culture, intellectualizing (in a way that KRS ONE couldn't do) to an audience of thousands who were informed by way of stereotypes only, so this should prove to be an effective platform for Jay Z as he transitions more and more into Shawn Carter the business mogul (because he can't rap forever).

Get to know who Gary Zukav is...


I'm reading Gary Zukav's "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" which is his take on how physics can help us understand the soul better. I was put on to his authorship by a good friend and colleague named Nadia Bey Jenkins who is a Yogi and a holistic source of information for me. I'm also aware myself that humanity is really transforming from a physical way of perception through sensual systems into synthetic systems of perception and comprehension, and as we transform in consciousness we will function at a higher altitude of vibration and creative thought. I'll let you guys know about the book some more after I read it.

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Movie Review: Eat, Pray, Love (starring Julia Roberts)

I had the chance to watch a movie which I thought was a 'chick flick' at first (not that there's anything wrong with that lol) but upon giving it a chance, I learned that the movie (in theatres now) called Eat, Pray, Love, was really about spirtual transformation. A movie that takes you through one woman's search for her humanity across Italy, India and Indonesia.



Julia Roberts who plays the part of Elizabeth Gilbert; whose marriage and prosperous lifestyle crashed and burned in a grueling divorce, followed by a passionate love affair with a guy named David that ended also in heartbreak. She snaps up the opportunity to fly to Bali to write a story about Yoga vacations. While she's there she meets 'Ketut' a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man who told her that she worried too much and was desperately in need of something different in her life. Gilbert decided to spend a year abroad — four months each in Italy, India, and Bali. This odyssey was funded by her publisher who was looking forward to seeing what she would write about in this very unusual spiritual pilgrimage.

Italy: Gilbert chose Italy because of the happiness she felt studying Italian. In Rome, she meets Luca Spaghetti, who becomes a friend and introduces her to the pleasures of doing nothing, although she does suffer some Puritan guilt over enjoying the delights of the flesh. Ten days into the trip, Gilbert allows loneliness and depression to bring her down; she plunges into sadness over the end of her affair with David. But her old travel talent for making friends with anybody comes in handy during six weeks of traveling to different Italian cities. She gains 23 pounds, but doesn't allow that to faze her; after all, pleasure must be savored wherever it's found.



India: She then goes to an ashram in a remote rural village in India. There are never more than a few hundred people in residence because the guru is away. Gilbert spends her days in meditation and contemplation. Her work assignment is to scrub the temple floors. Already familiar with the yogic path, Gilbert knows that discontentment, according to Hinduism, is due to our belief that "our limited little egos constitute our entire whole nature." The closer she draws to God, the more she realizes that one of her major obstacles is the inability to let go. Needless to say she goes through a rough time in India before her answers give her inner peace.

Bali: She then goes to the tiny island of Bali for the final leg of her spiritual odyssey. She wants to find some balance between worldly pleasure (Italy) and spiritual devotion (India) — quite a tricky feat and especially hard for Americans who usually swing between extremes. "The Balinese are global masters of balance," she writes, "the people for whom the maintenance of perfect equilibrium is an art, a science and a religion." She reconnects with Ketut, the medicine man she met two years earlier, and they develop a fine relationship. Gilbert also meets a medicine woman who proves to be a very important person in her own emotional education. It was this part in the movie that captured me most intently. The Medicine woman and her daughter were very good healers and herbalists, but they were working out of very poor conditions. Near the end of the movie Gilbert helps fund-raise some money in an effort to secure them a better home, from the very moment the medicine woman realizes that she's been blessed she utters "Now I can help even more people". I swear I wanted to friggen cry...lmao...yes it was beautiful to me.



Don't be a punk...go watch the movie...lol

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The Solar Plexus is one of the main power chakras

The Solar Plexus is one of the main power chakras of the individual. Various cords of energy enter and exit from this area for distribution to the various parts of the body. Look what happens when someone knows how to punch you straight in that spot lol. Bear in mind that this is where the "emotional center" is, right in the back of the stomach (where one says they feel butterflies), where the celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery, and renal arteries branch from the abdominal aorta.

The destructive side of this science:




The positive side of this science:




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Amare Stoudemire went to Israel last week to discover his Jewish roots on his mothers side.

Via: huffingtonpost.com

My friend who was also there...confirms this!


NBA star Amar'e Stoudemire went to Israel last week to discover his Jewish roots on his mothers side. Stoudemire recently discussed his trip and the goals of his visit to Israel in an interview on Israeli television. When asked whether he is Jewish, Stoudemire said "through history, we all are." He even speaks a little Hebrew.

The 6-foot-10 forward signed a five-year, $100 million (U.S.) contract with the Knicks three weeks ago. He will now be playing in the city with the largest Jewish population in the United States.



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Spirituality: Medical Doctor Discovers Supernatural Powers

The Words of Power for Healing Introduction



Consciousness is the power that underlies every action and event in the world. The acts of breathing, chewing your food, driving your car, and even removing illness from your life, all begin in your consciousness.

When you combine the power of proactive behavior with the conviction of absolute certainty in the success of your actions, you will very quickly gain knowledge and capabilities that have been denied to generation of people who live in fear and chaos.

Some people believe this, just as Jesus had said: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”







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A Mystic explains 2012: The Coming of the "Kalki Maitreya Avatar" and the Four Horsemen

Via: hamsa-yoga.org



There is a scare about the year 2012, many intellectuals postulate various theories about what might happen. Below is a video illustrating the many possibilities predicted by these theorists.



Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath was born in Gwalior, which is in (northern) India on May 10, 1944, and is descended from the ancient family of Ikshavaku Rama. Though he belonged to a royal family, with all the comforts of palace life, he was born a Siddha: (A siddha सिद्ध in Sanskrit means "one who is accomplished" and refers to perfected masters who, according to Hindu belief, have transcended the ahamkara "the ego"). He had experienced spontaneous enlightened states from the age of 3. Because of these spiritual realizations from a very young age, he cast away his royal ties after completing his educational responsibilities and fulfilled his calling as a Yogi. In the video below he candidly speaks about what he feels is a 2012 hysteria and speaks on the coming of a spiritual figure called the "Kalki Maitreya Avatar".

BadBoy Rappers Loon and Ma$e: "Some people are paying for the disease when the CURE is free"

The Islamic Conversion of Rapper Loon




The Christian Conversion of Rapper Ma$e

Things that make you go hmmm?

Philosophical Moment...

The content in the video below may not be intuitively and immediatly obvious to some viewers, but it's shit that I like to think about...because life for me isn't always about swagger, style and finesse...outside of this world's material consumption lay a universe filled with mystery, and we are usually just vaguely aware. Some of us don't think to ponder on the larger scientific questions unless hail the size of a grapefruit hits your car in the dead heat of Hot summer...lol

Watch...and perhaps be intrigued...