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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The Teachings of "Fudoshin" translated to mean "The Immovable Mind" is awesome

Via: Executive Budo



In Sanskrit the term ācala means "immovable"; Ācala is also the name of the eighth stage in a ten stage path process to become a 'Bodhisattva' which itself means an "enlightened-being". The picture above is of "FUDO-MYOO" and he is a highly venerated Buddhist figure in Esoteric Buddhism, because Fudō is the symbolic figure who converts anger into salvation. He carries the “kurikara” translated to mean "the devil-subduing sword" in his right hand (representing wisdom cutting through ignorance); and he holds rope in his left hand (to catch and bind up demons). He is often shown with a third eye in his forehead (the all-seeing eye); and is often seated or standing on a platform rock (because Fudō is “immovable” in his faith).

The Buddha was known to have said: "before my Awakening, when I was an unawakened bodhisatta, being subject myself to aging...illness...death...sorrow...defilement, I sought [happiness in] what was likewise subject to illness...death...sorrow...and defilement."

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When I'm not immersed in music and popular culture; the philosophy of "FUDOSHIN" also known as the "immovable mind" has been of tremendous insight to me personally as I read more and more about it.



Fudoshin, having an immovable mind, means you do not allow your emotional state to waver. It means having the mental strength to overcome fear, surprise, confusion and doubt. No matter the situation, you are able to maintain a calm state of mind. Peripheral Training promotes development of Fudoshin.

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

Our Mystic Anatomy: "The Pineal Gland"

The pineal gland, also known by some as the THIRD EYE is the magical store house of your secret power. It takes years of work for some people to be able to understand this part of the body. When the pineal gland is activated, one can traverse the imagination as if you are lucid dreaming. Psychedelics definitely activate the gland, most people cant handle this "awareness of the self" because their ego's and constructed personalities are what's taken to be real. When in reality what's real is actually unknown to most people. The Third Eye can see beyond the physical, into higher frequencies. The pineal gland is occasionally associated with the sixth chakra (also called Ajna or the third eye chakra in yoga).

Video: Ex-Rapper "Loon" on Al Jazeera

Loon was one of P.Diddy's up and coming artists on BadBoy Records who converted to Islam in 2008 and made a complete 360 degree change from entertainer to devout Muslim convert. Rapper Loon says he might wanna make the transition to "Spoken Word" instead of actual rap music in the future.

The Islamic Influence: Conversions among African Americans in the rap game

Remember Rapper Loon...