PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF LONG LIFE, HEALTH, ABUNDANCE AND AFRAKAN VICTORY TO ALL MY BELOVED AFRAKAN PEOPLE.
AS A HUMBLE OMOL'AWO WHO HAPPENS TO BE A GRANDFATHER AND NOW AN ELDER-IN-TRAINING, i ALSO WANT TO OFFER A FEW COMMENTS ON THE ODU OF THE YEAR FROM OYOTUNJI, NORTH AMARAKAS OLDEST AUTHENTIC AFRAKAN VILLAGE. THIS INSTITUTION WAS CREATED AS A TRIBUTE TO OUR ANCESTORS AND WS LIVICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF TEH CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF OUR ANCESTORS AS THE FOUNDATION OF RECLAIMING OUR AFRAKAN MINDS AND ELEVATING OUR AFRAKAN COMMUNITIES IN THE DIASPORA. THE ODU OF THIS YEAR SUGGESTS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF COLLECTIVE DYSFUNCTION THAT THREATENS TO SELF-DESTRUCT OUR GREAT MOVEMENT BEFORE IT REACHES ITS CONCLUSION.
THE ODU IS OFUN'YEKU; IT COMES IN AYEO, THE NEGATIVITY IS GREATER THAN POSITIVITY. IT WARNS OF LOSS AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES RESULTING FROM SELFISH ME-FIRST ATTITUDES AND THEREFORE FAILURE TO GIVE OF SELF, SELFLESSLY AND GENEROUSLY AND WITH DEVOTION AND TOTAL COMMITMENT TO COMPLETING THE PROJECT THAT IS NOW 40 YEARS OLD. AT 40 ONE GETS READY FOR THE CYCLE OF TESTING (42-49) WHERE THE FOUNDATION AND STRUCTURE BUILT UPON TO THAT TIME IS SEVERELY TESTED TO SEE IF IT IS SOUND. ANY WEAKNESS IN THE STRUCTURE AND FOUNDATION WILL RESULT IN ITS BEING SHATTERED, BROKEN APART, SHAKEN DOWN TO THE GROUND WITH THE OUTCOME OF HAVING TO REBUILD IT - IF ONE SURVIVES THE LIGHTNING BOLT. SO THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL.
SO: LOOKING AT THE FUTURE AND MY GROWING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ESPECIALLY SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL PROTECTION, SAFEGUARDING, RESCUE AND REDEMPTION OF MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, AND I MUST NOW INCLUDE ALL CHILDREN OF OYOTUNJI AND ALL AFRAKAN CHILDREN IN THIS CATEGORY - MY LIMITED STUDY OF OFUN-OYEKI AS A HUMBLE OMOL'AWO SHOWS THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS IN RESISTANCE TO THE LESSONS OF DEVOTION TO SEEING OUR TASK THROUGH TO THE END. IF IBI = AFTERBIRTH, IT INDICATES SOMETHING WE ARE HOLDING ON TO, REFUSING TO LET GO - STATES OF CONSCOUSNESS, HBITS OF THOUGHT, SPEECH, ACTION; BELIEFS, IDEAS, KWK.
WE ARE RESISTING THE LESSON OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE THAT KEEPS OUR CHARACTER CLEAN - OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS RIGHTEOUS AND ON THE HIGH ROAD.
WE ARE RESISTING THE LESSON OF AVOIDING "EVIL", OF KEEPING OURSELVES, OUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS FROM BEING CONTAMINATED WITH THE FILTH OF WRONG IDEAS, BELIEFS, THOUGHTS AND DEEDS AND TEH VIRUS OF WESTERN CULTURE.
WE ARE RESISTING THE LESSON OF PURIFYING OURSELVES AND KEEPING OURSELVES PURE FROM THE NEGATIVITY AND POLLUTION OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF YURUGU'S HELL ON EARTH CALLED western non-civilization.
SURELY WE FACE A SELF-CREATED THREAT OF THE IMMORTALS, THE ANCIENT ONES, THE STRICT ONES WHO GUARD TRADITION THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE SWORN OATHS TO RESTORE AND PRESERVE REFUSE TO ANSWER OUR PRAYERS AND INSTEAD ALLOW NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES WE HAVE INVOKED BY NEGATIVE THOUGHT AND PRACTICE TO MANIFEST CAUSE THEY WITHDRAW THEIR PROTECTION.
WE SURELY FACE POSSIBILITY OF LOSS AND PREMATURE "DEATH" OF OUR ENTERPRISE DUE TO OUR COLLECTIVE DYSFUNCTION - ONE ROOTED IN OUR OWN INVOKING OF SELF-SABOTAGE AND DESTRUCTIVE PHENOMENA BY THE PRAYERS WE HAVE BEEN SENDING UP VIA OUR COLLECTIVE SELF-LIMITING, SELFISH, SELF-CENTERED, DESTRUCTIVE AND NEGATIVE THOUGHTS, BELIEFS AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS. YET MIRACLES AND ANSWERS TO OUR POSITIVE PRAYERS FROM THE IMMORTALS AWAIT US SHOULD WE HONOR OUR COMMITMENTS TO THEM AND TO OUR HIGHEST COLLECTIVE DESTINY AS "IPORI OYOTUNJI" THAT DWELLS IN IKOLE ORUN AS OUR 6TH DIMENSIONAL FUTURE NOW. WE HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF INVOKING SEEMINGLY MIRACULOUS SOLUTIONS TO OUR DIFFICULTIES THROUGH THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE PRAYER AND THEREBY TAKE OUR MISSION TO ITS GLORIOUS COMPLETION.
IN RESPONSE TO THE MESSAGE OF THIS ODU, AS A RECENT GRANDFATHER AND STUDENT OF ORUNMILA I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE HUMBLE REQUEST THAT THE EGBE IFA OF OYOTUNJI, AND ALL EGBE IFA NATIONWIDE BEGIN TO INSTITUTE COLLECTIVE PRAYER EVERY 16 DAYS FOR ALL AWO AND OMOL'AWO TO JOIN HEARTS, HEADS AND HANDS TO INVOKE PEACE, PROTECTION, PURIFICATION, RESTORATION OF HEALTH, ABUNDANCE AND VICTORY OVER OUR INTERNAL SELF-CREATED ENEMIES.
HOW DO WE CONTINUALLY DE-CONTAMINATE AND RE-EDUCATE OUR YOUNG MEN IN PARTICULAR WHERE THEY RECEIVE A REGULAR LIVET OF INFORMATION ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND ON HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND SOURCES OF SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL POLLUTION AND HOW TO PURIFY SELF FROM SAME. SEEMS WE NEED SOMETHING TO OCCUPY OUR YOUTH INSTEAD OF CELL PHONES, MYSOGYNISTIC (ANTI-WOMAN - JUST LIKE yurugu we so much like to revile; CAUSE CALLING OUR AFRAKAN WOMEN BITCHES AND HOES IS THE SAME AS CALLING OUR SISTERS, DAUGHTERS AND MOTHERS BITCHES AND HOES, AND WE ARE IN FACT INTERNALIZING AND PLAYING BACK THE DEMONIC BEHAVIOR OF OUR OPPRESSORS TO OURSELVES AND THE WORLD) AND ANTI-BLACK RAP MUSIC (NOT PRO-BLACK NATION BUILDING AND MAINTAINING, CULTURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY REVOLUTIONARY RAP MUSIC, FOR THE REAL RAP = REVOLUTIONARY AFRAKAN PEOPLE'S MUCIC), INTERNET WITH ACCESS TO PORNOGRAPHY, ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, AND INFILTRATION OF ANTI AFRAKAN IMAGES, BELIEFS, THOUGHTS ETC INTO OUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT.
HOW DO WE SELF PROCLAIMED AND PROFESSING NATIONALISTS PURIFY AND RECLAIM OUR MINDS AND BODIES AND THOSE OF OUR CHILDREN? EVEN WE THE PROFESSED REVOLUTIONARIES RE LOSING OUR OFFSPRING TO WHITE CULTURAL DOMINATION (AND I SPEAK TO MYSELF AND FOR MYSELF BEFORE I SPEAK TO ANYONE ELSE). HOW DO AS CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARIES - BY DEFINITION PEOPLE SEEKING AN ENTIRE NEW MODEL OF LIFE AND EXPERIENCE FOR AFRAKAN PEOPLE DE-CONTAMINATE OUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS? HOW DE WE RE-INSTITUTE PROTOCOLS OF RESPECT AND INSTITUTIONAL DISCIPLINE IN OUR TIME THAT ARE BEING WATERED DOWN AND COMPROMISED WHEN WE BEGIN TO LIVE AND FUNCTION IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS OF OUR ENEMIES? GRANTED EBO ARE PRESCRIBED AND DONE BUT IN MY HUMBLE VIEW, WITHOUT A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS, NO ONE'S ORI IS GONNA ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE EBO AND THUS ALL THE SACRIFICES IN THE WORLD WILL NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNTIL / UNLESS THE ORI OF WE THE PEOPLE IS WILLING TO PUT ITSELF IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR DESTINY AND WITH THE NATURAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ORDER AS INSTITUTED BY THE IMMORTALS. DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU?