This message came to me in April. I was concerned about its authenticity so I delayed in publishing it.

Message from David Icke to Project Avalon forwarded to me & I’m merely sharing with all. I suggest that the banking details below are verified before posting on your Yahoo Blog.

@nnie46664 ~ Durban ~ SA

Hi everyone,

I read this message on Bill’ Project Avalon regarding a friend of David Icke and his family that are in a very difficult situation at the moment, and our help is needed.

This is a life and death situation, please read below.

From projectavalon.net:

“3 April 2010

I’m still working on the appearance, feel and planned content of the new website, and have a lot of work piling up to post. Please be patient! There’s quite a lot coming soon.

Of immediate concern is this personal message about Credo Mutwa, the South African Zulu Shaman who’s a close friend of David Icke, which I received from David yesterday. It reads:

Bill … I just talked with Credo Mutwa and he and his family, including children they have taken in who have lost both parents to Aids, do not have enough money even to eat.

‘We are starving, Mr David’, he just told me. I talked with him yesterday, but today I realised even more just how they are struggling.

He is being attacked from many angles that are too complicated to detail here, but they want rid of him for sure.

He was given a monthly income for life by a trust in America, but it suddenly stopped in December and since then he has, at the age of 84, been trying a scrape a living for his family selling paintings to tourists. I knew none of this until the last 24 hours.

I am wiring him £1,000 first thing in the morning (quite a sum in SA) so they can start buying food, but I need to find a way that they can pay their bills ongoing.

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Maybe a Credo appeal. I have to do something urgently, that’s for sure.

best wishes,

David

Please help this exceptional man. His bank details are:

• Name – C. M. Mutwa
• International Account Number – 014652048
• Bank – Standard Bank, Lyttleton, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Receiving Bank SWIFTBIC – SBZAZAJJ

Thank you all in advance for your generosity – every small amount will help him.”

Original message by David Icke, relayed by Bill Ryan.

I hope to co-ordinate with Bill to find new ways to help out in this effort.

Please help these friends in need in any way you can think of, spread the message and donate to the cause if you can.

In unity,

Tommy

“I believe that if ignorance can be banished from this world, if people can communicate with each other fully, frankly, and in depth, then all wars will cease because the cause of war is fear and hatred, and hatred is the ugly daughter of the evil witch of ignorance” – Zulu Shaman Dr Credo Mutwa

Little is known of the true history of Africa, and for Linda Smith who spent much of her formative years in Mufulira (formerly Northern Rhodesia which is now known as Zambia) it has been imperative that she tells the tale.

That she has a gift for writing is beyond question for with the word pictures she creates one is taken on a journey of adventure, excitement and abject fear as refugees flee from the atrocities of the Congo War and more.

Supplementing her tale with pictures and footnotes she shows how life changed in Africa – where politics became the name of the game and not necessarily for the betterment of its peoples.

The book can actually be divided into two distinct sections with the former charting her childhood and the way in which the outlook of the people around her changed. It tells of the forced removal of the Ba Tonka tribe so that the Kariba dam could be constructed; the break-up of the Federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland; and in a delightful way the hopes of youngsters (immaterial of colour) who saw the potential of adventure in lush forests, fording streams and absorbing all that Africa had to offer including its magnificent sunrises and sunsets,

The ‘second’ section shows how far she had drifted from her original dreams and away from the person that she really was (but now is). It’s an awakening and the reason for the title ‘Returning to Myself’. And this is applicable to everyone (male and female).

She also looks at how religion and politics (two subjects which are supposedly taboo in conversation) affect our everyday lives and how often we tend to brush away conflicts rather than face them head on.

“There’s more to life than just having a job,” she states. “We need not exhaust ourselves chasing money, but should rather take the time to develop our consciousness and our love for self, our love for others, the Earth and all her inhabitants.

“In this new day and age, the way to an enriched life and to attain true wealth, and enjoy prosperity is to work honestly and with integrity.” And this brings me back to the opening quote by Sangoma Dr Credo Mutwa – who inspired Linda to tell her tale. If we take the time to understand each other and take ‘I’ out of the equation the world (to quote Michael Jackson) ‘will be a better place for you and me and the entire human race’.

I hope that when you read ‘Returning to Myself’ you are impacted by Linda’s words as much as I was and in the latter section come to realise whether you are on the right path to making YOUR world a better place.

‘Returning to Myself’, published by Fish Eagle Books, is available from Exclusive Books ISBN 978-0-620-43242-9

We all have the divine masculine ( I/Mind) and the Divine Feminine ( AM/Heart) in us all. To get thru the struggles that lie before us…we must all act like grandmothers. We are all one. Love one another, Unconditionally.

‘Zoo City’ by Lauren Beukes is muti for the human condition
Jun 3, 2010 11:39 PM | By Matthew Du Plessis

Matthew Du Plessis: When the stars are aligned, and the fates and furies sufficiently distracted, I sometimes find that I have the space and the time to enjoy a good book.

And I’m pleased to report that Zoo City, the novel I devoured this week past, is so mightily good that you have to go read it right away. No, not just-now, NOW!

Considering you are still reading, I assume you have despatched a minion of some kind to buy, borrow, or possibly steal you a copy.

To pass the time while we wait, I’ll fill you in on some of the finer details.

The new novel from Lauren Beukes, novelist, doer of TV shows, darling of South Africa’s twitter-literati, is a thing of magic, wit and wonder.

Pegged squarely in and around the whole of the greater Johannesburg metropolitan area, it’s a thriller of supernatural proportions, a whodunnit to make Raymond Chandler squirm, and a meditation on the social and economic divisions that characterise everyday urban life in South Africa that almost certainly won’t make you roll your eyes on account of having heard it all before.

Because you’ve never heard it like this before.

The world is as it is, except in the past decade a very strange thing has happened. Whosoever commits a great sin or crime is rewarded not only with whatever punishments society sees fit to bestow upon them, but also a material burden they must bear – a spirit companion of sorts. A fetch. A familiar.

Staking out metaphysical terrain somewhere between Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, these Animals appear out of nowhere. A murderer might find himself bonded to a Bear; a thief with a Scorpion; a crack whore with a Sparrow; an Afghan warlord with a Penguin.

Should the Animal die, so too does their person. Horrifically. Inevitably. They are a curse and a burden; but they bring gifts, too.

Zinzi December’s gift, which arrived with the Sloth she is now bound to, lets her find things that people have lost. It’s an ability that helps pay such bills as she has, living as an outcast in an inner-city squat. But it’s also a gift that draws her into a tangly net of intriguing webs, where distinguishing the spider from the fly is . tricky.

But her streetwise sass and hard-won smarts – not to mention Sloth, her beastly burden – might well see Zinzi through the murders, mysteries and madness that lie ahead of her.

Zoo City is a story of mysteries unfolding, and it is a story well told. But it’s the world around the story, and the words that guide us through, that make it something more than simply marvellous.

With her subtle, intimate descriptions of the roads we walk in this crazy city; with characters so deeply twisty you could lose a giant squid in their nebulous hidey holes, and with turns of phrase that are as likely to conjure up Rudyard Kipling, Brenda Fassie or Credo Mutwa as they are to invoke Japanese anime, Doctor Who or the crack in Johnny Cash’s voice as he sings of his greatest loss, this canny authoress has brought real magic to everyday life in Jozi, in what I’m afraid I really am going to end off by describing as an act of unadulterated literature.

source: The Times Live

A political spat about gay rights in Zimbabwe is symptomatic of the homophobia prevalent in many African communities

by Blessing-Miles Tendi

Zimbabwe’s Sunday Mail newspaper, which is controlled by Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party, ran an article last week headlined “Gay rights furore”. It claimed that “Zimbabwe’s major political parties are on a collision course over the inclusion of gay rights in the new constitution” because Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is campaigning for the recognition of gay rights, while Zanu PF is against the idea for cultural reasons.

In turn Tsvangirai’s MDC has denounced what it regards as “attempts by Zanu PF to distort the MDC constitution principles through media reports that the party is lobbying for gay rights in the new constitution:

“Nowhere in our principles document is there any reference to gays and lesbians. For the record, it is well-known that homosexuality is practised in Zanu PF where senior officials from that party have been jailed while others are under police probe on allegations of sodomy. It is in Zanu PF where homosexuality is a religion.”

Zanu PF and the MDC’s use of the gay rights debate for political mileage and in order to deflect attention from other subjects are superficial explanations for these homophobic political developments. They are symptomatic of a broad disinclination for open and factual discussion about gay rights in many African states and black communities around the world. Myths about African culture, the strength of religion and black masculinity are the main reasons.

The standard explanation offered by Africans opposed to gay rights is that homosexuality is alien to their culture and was introduced to Africa by European colonialists. A good deal of African-American homophobia relies on the same justification. But late 19th-century records on Africa and African oral history show that homosexual practices existed in pre-colonial Africa. One case in point are the Azande people in the north-east of modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it was acceptable for kings, princes and soldiers to take young male lovers.

This story is republish from Destiny Connect, written by CARA BOUWER. It’s clear from this interview Credo Mutwa is a big influence on her life. Maybe I should arrange a meeting?

HER MEDIUM Thami Ngubeni has made a habit out of colonising any form of media she tries her hand at. Over the years she’s read news on Metro FM, produced for TV alongside the likes of the legendary Disney organisation, been a judge for the International Emmy Awards, gone on retreat with Deepak Chopra, graced local screens in top soapies like SABC1’s Generations, written, produced, edited… the list is endless. She can count local magazine legend Jane Raphaely as one of her mentors and boasts a little black book with names and numbers from both sides of the Atlantic.

10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THAMI NGUBENI
We find out what makes our cover star Thami Ngubeni tick
BY CARA BOUWER

1. Her favourite movies: “The Matrix, Pretty Woman, Ghost and La Vie en Rose.”
2. The music she loves: “Kurt Engelbrecht’s Please Release Me, Etta James’ At Last, Edith Piaf’s If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Hymne a L’Amour) and a whole lot of her other songs as well. I love Celine Dion, some of Miriam Makeba’s stuff, Lira, Michael Jackson and Brenda Fassie. Thandiso Mazwai has some lovely songs too. I also love a lot of the music of Sipho Sithole. Gospel music is my rock – I won’t single out any artists, but the local talent is amazing, especially when they choose to sing our traditional hymns in vernacular. You can feel the presence of the divine right there and then!”
3. Her favourite holiday destination: “I’ve got a few, depending on how I feel. I like New York, because I love Broadway. But I think the best holiday place for me is at home. When I’m on holiday, I don’t really want to travel: I just want to be with the people I love and chill with them. Doing nothing is blissful. Just a state of nothingness – it’s beautiful!”
4. Her best investment: “I’ve never been a spender. My first car was a Toyota Corolla and I drove it to death. I’ve invested in property and it’s appreciated handsomely over the years.”
5. Her favourite perfumes: “It depends on the season. I love Gucci by Gucci. But I also like Clinique’s Happy – it’s a light, summery fragrance. And Clarins’ Eau Dynamisante, which is a classic, like Aromantics. Agent Provocateur is quite nice as well.”
6. Her favourite restaurant: “It’s not necessarily my favourite, but it stands out for me: there’s a little café in Cape Town called Zorina’s in Loop Street, where they serve the best mutton curry. I cook when I’m in a relationship – when I’m in love!”
7. The people she’d love to meet: “I’d like to sit with the Dalai Lama and Sir Richard Branson, and spend more time with Madiba. I wish I could have met Mother Teresa. I’d also love to meet Michelle Obama and Credo Mutwa [the Zulu shaman]. But I don’t want to talk to these people: I just want to be a fly on the wall and watch them doing what they always do. I also want to be part of their thought processes. I don’t want them to interpret what they do or why, I just don’t want a barrier. And I want to be with all the individuals who’ve been a catalyst for change through the generations, from Martin Luther King to Steve Biko.”

read the rest of this interview on Destiny Connect wesbite…

Initiation schools are against the religion of the Dutch Reformed Church and, according to this religion, it would be sinful behaviour and “in breach of the commandments of the Almighty God” to consent to such practices. These are some of the reasons stated by Bapsfontein farmer Jacob Visagie, for refusing permission to a family living on his farm to host an initiation school on his property.

The Ndala family, who have been living on the farm for some time, intend taking Visagie to the Randfontein Land Claims Court on Monday regarding his refusal to allow them to host the traditional ceremony on the farm. The family stated in court documents that the school was due to commence on May 20 and run until August 27. They said the four boys living on the farm were due to partake this year in the Ndebele tradition.

Although the initial ceremony will begin on another farm where the chief resides and where about 3 000 people were expected, the plan was that the Ndala family and the four boys would return to Visagie’s farm afterwards, where the ceremony could be completed within the close family circle. The Ndala family said this was for various reasons, including the need to ensure that the proceedings were conducted under safe and hygienic conditions. But farmer Visagie expressed his reservations about the safety and hygiene aspects of the ceremony, as well as the religious aspects of it. He refused permission to the family on the grounds that it was against his religion.

“We are Christians and members of the Dutch Reformed Church. The paying of homage to spirits of the dead is strongly against our religion, as is the marking of the body of a person for spiritual purposes.”

Visagie’s father-in-law, Johannes Jansen Van Vuuren, a dominie of his Church in Heilbron-South, said in a filed statement: “For Christians to allow an African school of initiation on their farm would be very difficult and would put a burden on their consciences, because the Bible explicitly forbids the practices which are done at such schools.”

In referring to some of these practices, namely the “worshipping of ancestor spirits and the practices of sangomas”, he quoted extensively from various Bible verses. In conclusion to his statement, he said: “In African initiation schools, the young people are taught to worship the spirits of their dead ancestors, and also how to make contact with them and make use of the services of sangomas. These youngsters are encouraged to follow a course to become a sangoma. The ancestor spirits are also utilised to make them strong for their lives to come.”

He said in light of this, Christians should not allow such practices on their property. Meanwhile, Visagie has voiced several other concerns regarding the school, such as potential risks to the health of the young boys concerned.

“We cannot consent to activities which may lead to deadly infections… or to activities which may lead to initiates losing their reproductive organs and the spreading of diseases like HIV and Aids.”

Visagie said no indication was given that the four young men in question would be protected against mutilation, and added that he could not allow uncontrolled circumcisions on his farm. He said his only personal experience in the past with an initiation school was not a pleasant one – some of his workers had been attacked by participants, which in turn had disrupted his farming activities.

As part of his objection, Visagie included the terms of reference by the SA Human Rights Commission’s public hearings into initiation schools, where problems featuring during this ceremony were discussed.

Visagie said that while he respected the traditional rights of the Ndala family, he denied that those rights included that he had to host the school on his farm.

source: Sunday Independent

* This article was originally published on page 1 of The Pretoria News on May 14, 2009

Guardians of the Past — Harbingers of the future

by Julie Gillentine

Anthropological orthodoxy insists that civilization began in Sumeria six thousand years ago, and the modern metropolis is the pinnacle of culture and evolution on the planet. But, circa World War II, humanity shattered the rails of our technological playpen, sporting new atomic bombs. And, it is said, Space-faring ETs took notice, and silver saucers suddenly filled the skies. The UFO era was born; Roswell was a defining moment.

An alternate view is emerging, however. According to indigenous peoples from the Americas to South Africa, they have guarded the hidden history of humanity all along, quietly maintaining contact with visiting and resident stellar relatives. Mobilized, now, by what they believe is the fulfilment of long-prophesied warnings, the elders of these indigenous people around the world have begun, they say, to break vows of silence and share their ancient secret stellar wisdom.

African Epiphany

Thanks to the work of Robert Temple, in his book entitled The Sirius Mystery, the startling knowledge of Sirius and its dwarf companion by Africa’s Dogon tribe is widely known. The Dogon possess knowledge, such as the star system’s orbital periods and the companion star’s invisibility, which cannot be confirmed by naked eye observation, and which modern Astronomers have learned only relatively recently.

In South Africa, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a renowned Zulu elder and author of Song of the Stars: The Lore of a Zulu Shaman, claims that, in terms of knowledge of African shamans, this is but the tip of the astronomical iceberg. Credo Mutwa has chosen a path of ‘openness’, coming forward to share secret star lore of indigenous Black Africans. “I pray that this effort will unite thinking people around the world and diminish the severity of our prophecies,” Credo explained recently. A master storyteller, he has travelled to more than twenty countries sharing his vision and wisdom despite the great personal loss which his openness has cost him. Credo’s son was brutally murdered, apparently, by those who want him silenced.

Indigenous cosmology of stellar relationships is complex, he explains, often dwelling at the heart of sacred ceremony. Rich oral traditions, including protocol for contact and how to distinguish friendly off-earth visitors from those who are potentially harmful, have been handed down from one sangoma, (shaman) to the next for thousands of years. Star lore is an essential component of sangoma training.

According to Credo Mutwa, “In every language in Africa, the meaning of star is Bringer of knowledge? or Bringer of enlightenment.” Elder Credo Mutwa has travelled the continent of Africa, sculpting haunting images of visitors from the stars, which were described to him by other African shamans. “These beings have been coming and going to Africa for forty thousand years,” he says. Some bear striking resemblance to beings reported by modern experience’s of the UFO phenomenon.

Cradled in South Africa’s Kruger National Park lies a private game reserve called Timbavati. This emerald jewel of the African bush is almost mythical in reputation. White lions are born in here, it is said. “A long story is told about a chieftainess called Numbi,” Elder Credo recounts. “Many generations ago, she and her people saw a burning white light like a star fall out of the sky right where Timbavati is today.

The story is that it was not a star; it was a shining ball of metal, brighter than the Sun. When this ball came down to the ground, Queen Numbi, who was a sick old woman at that time, went towards the light and was swallowed by the light. In that light, very faintly seen, were strange beings with very large heads. These beings received Numbi into the light, and for some hours she was inside. When she emerged and walked toward her people; she had become much younger than when she had gone into the light.

“After that star fell, stayed on the ground for some days, and then rose back into the sky, strange things started happening there. Cattle with two heads were born repeatedly. Lions, leopards and even impalas with snow white fur and green eyes were born, until to this very day. This story is one of the most amazing in Africa. Even to this day, white animals are still being born in Timbavati. Some years ago, a snow white elephant with beautiful blue eyes and long tusks used to roam the area, until white adventurers shot it.

“When a tribe of invaders appeared at Timbavati many years after Numbi’s experience,” Credo said, “they brought sacred stones which had been taken from Zimbabwe, and planted these stones there in honour of that place. Timbavati, which is Zulu for ‘the falling down of a star’? is one of the holiest places in South Africa . But now its story is lost and has been overshadowed by a lot of nonsense.”

The standing stones of Timbavati, brought from Zimbabwe to honour Numbi’s visitors, are reminiscent of megalithic sites around the world and give mute testimony to the antiquity of the place. Most of the stones now lie on the ground, overgrown by the grasses of the African bush, but the outline of a large circle is suggested. This writer stood on the spot at March Equinox sunrise–the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere–and the alignment of certain stones which remain erect pointed to the eastern horizon.

The standing stones have a resonant quality when struck with a smaller stone, similar to the deep, bell like resonance of certain Egyptian monoliths. Adjacent to Timbavati is an enigmatic place known as Manyeleti, which means, “Gateway to the Stars.” A community of thirty shamans lives there because they believe Manyeleti binds heaven and Earth.

In his book, Credo Mutwa relates a prophetic vision of four great leaders emerging around the world: red, black, white and yellow. The colours are the same as the Lakota Medicine Wheel, mentioned below, and four races of humanity. “These leaders will work to unite the planet,” Elder Credo says. “One of these, a female leader, will arise in America. She will be called the Red Savior, because of the fiery color of her hair.” Native Americans, such as the Lakota Sioux, have an expression, “Mitakuye Oyasin,” which means “All our relations.” Four-leggeds, winged ones, crawling ones, plant and stone nations are greeted as relatives. The Lakota Medicine Wheel is composed of red, black, white and yellow, representing four races of humanity. Within Native American cosmogony, it is natural to include and respect the Star Nations among extended family members.

Standing Elk, Dakota Elder and Sun Dance chief, recently presented an open letter to the Elders of Turtle Island. “My heart told me to speak of the secret knowledge of Native Americans concerning the Star Nations, since the time of our prophecies is at hand.” Believing the knowledge belongs to the world, Standing Elk has created Star Knowledge Gatherings, a forum to share this information. Sharing such secrets is controversial and unpopular with some native peoples. Standing Elk, like his African counterpart, has received numerous threats.

At Standing Elk’s gatherings, Native Elders share the conference podium with prestigious researchers in the UFO field. “Alien” contactees speak openly of their experiences. Indigenous Elders perform ceremony and give candid testimony of their knowledge and relationship to the Star Nations.

read the rest of the lengthy article on Cite Libre Canadian magazine website…

Some of you may be familiar with the well known book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. And others may have read the books of Carlos Castaneda and his relationship with Don Juan, the Yaqui shaman.

Anyway I found this interview by the 2nd son of Don Miguel Ruiz Sr. very relevant. This last week I was in hospital after I took an overdose of anti depressant pills. I was in intensive care for several days and my mother’s love, compassion, prayer and belief carried me through this dark time. And I have made a commitment to myself to work much harder on my spiritual life, and learn to apply the simple basics we have all learned from the great shaman’s and teachers who pass by this world.

Ramon, webmaster

The Toltec Teachings interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr

At the age of 14, Don Miguel Jr. apprenticed to his father Don Miguel Sr. and his grandmother, Madre Sarita.

From that early age, he was called upon to translate Madre Sarita’s prayers, lectures and workshops from Spanish into English. In this way, through constant repetition and review, he learned the content of her teachings in both languages.

Don Miguel Jr.’s apprenticeship lasted 10 years and through interpreting for Madre Sarita, Don Miguel Jr. came to understand the power of faith. He saw first-hand how she manifested her intent to heal people, both physically and spiritually. When he reached his mid-20’s, his father intensified his training. At the apex of this power journey Don Miguel said to his eldest son, “Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.”

For the past six years, Don Miguel Jr. has applied the lessons learned from his father and grandmother to define and enjoy his own personal freedom while achieving peace with all of creation.

Today, Don Miguel Jr. is married and has two young children. And so, as a Nagual (shaman) he begins once again to pass along the wisdom and the tools of his family’s traditions in helping others to achieve their own personal freedom and optimal physical and spiritual health.

Learn more about Don Miguel’s family and their work on their website.

Zulu shaman, or sanusi, Credo Mutwa, has written a poem to express his thoughts on what he sees as the true nature of Barack Obama and the agenda for Africa and the world that he represents. This poem was sent to me by email and I published it to great criticism.  Today, Wednesday, 25 February 2009, I spoke to him personally on the telephone. He corrected one word, originally written as “deceive” and now changed to “receive.” According to him Barack means blessed one. And he also stated this poem is incomplete. I maintain that it is valid to have published this poem on this blog to raise a discussion. Accordging to Credo Mutwa in his visions people are plotting to kill Obama. These rumours are not unfounded because they have been reported widely in other sources.

Here is the poem…

An actor walks upon the floodlit stage of lifewearing a mask of an angel beneath a demon’s gown.

Pretence smiles upon the crowded hall of life holding out hope as bright as it is false.

Son of a woman in whose veins flows the blood of ancient Ireland and dark Africa’s plains.

You are Obama, nick-named the standing king You are Barack, oh, son born to receive

The suffering hoards of Africa look up to you, See a black saviour where nought but a Judas strides.

An entrapper of nations, bringer of dismal war Behind the robes and the nylon wings of hope

Oh, may those who look upon you, see you as you are. May those who hope in you behold you as you be

A prince deceitful to bring down Africa’s shrines

A siren who leads Africa’s ships onto rocks of obliteration.

Your rule my lord will not be one of peace

Your reign my king will not be one of smiles

Even as we speak in caves both dark and dank Enraged fanatics plot your dark demise

They will put around your head a bloodwet martyr’s crown.

Oh black Kennedy following the one before May God forgive thee and thy fiery spouse

As you walk in silence from the stage of life Barack Obama, blessed son, Oh standing king.

Vusamazulu Mutwa

Black Lion is… Agu Bu Oji in Igbo, Simba nyeusi in Swahili, the name of a hospital in Addis Adaba the capital of Ethiopia.

source: The BN Village