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Creating Ese Ifa Using Classical Models : Infinity and Time : Esu and the Journey from Orun to Aiye

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Eshu on Osanyin Bird  by Godfrey Williams-Okorodus The river has crossed the path, the path has crossed the river. Which is the elder? consulted Ifa on behalf of Esu When he was about to come to the earth from orun, the place of origins. “Be careful  of any place where roads meet. Give to the elders of the night, one leaf divided in two down the middle, a  kolanut broken in two down the centre. Break your sleep in two down the middle, by waking up in the middle of the night to offer these sacrifices. As you offer them, repeat and reflect on the following: ‘It is wavering between possibilities that is  the undoing of the indecisive. It is hasty decisions that is the undoing of the impulsive. May I know when to decide. May I know when to watch and think. May my vision be whole as the two parts of a leaf are whole. May I see the various sides of anything, as the kolanut is made of two equal sides, as the night broken in two is incomplete.’ “  So Esu was told by the disciple  of Ifa.  Esu
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Boko Haram : Brief Outline of Developments in Attitudes to the Group in Relation to the Group's Verbal and Logistical Propaganda

  Written in response to those who claim Boko Haram is a conspiracy by the government of the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. This conspiracy theory is not new. It also conveniently ignores how Boko Haram attacks rose in number and deadliness while the group became more openly political after Jonathan came to power, and after Atiku Abubakar's openly declared  threat to the new government on account of his disappointment that a Northerner was not made PDP Presidential flag bearer as many had expected,  that "Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable". The writer also ignores the fact that for a long time, Boko Haram were presented as freedom fighters, equivalent to the Niger Delta militants protesting environmental degradation. Muhammadu Buhari, Bamanga Tukur,if I remember well, among others, made these specific claims. Even Rauf Aregbesola, Osun state governor, once stated that Boko Haram is fighting for true federalism.  I won
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The Iyami Tarot 3 : The Hermit

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  This card evokes power in repose suggested by the blood red of Iyami Aje Pupa's cloak as she sits in meditation amidst the cold calm of a winter landscape. The patterns of her cloak are the patterns formed by our internal organs under the pulsation of life giving blood. The darkness within the cloak is the depths of our being, within which dwell great power conserved, nurtured and released through stillness. The winter landscape is both the state of withdrawal and the circumstances that inspire such withdrawal. Meditate on this card to identify with Iyami in yourself as the core of your biological existence and its role in shaping your inner life. Aje Pupa as hermit waits at those intersections of possibility where inward withdrawal is vital in the face of the challenges of the external world or as part of the drive for centring the self within the flow of life. Image above  Aje Pupa in Meditation Within the Depths of Winter blood running hot within calcifying cold amidst all, li
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