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		<title>10 Things You Did Not Know About Thami Ngubeni</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>This story is republish from Destiny Connect, written by CARA BOUWER. It&amp;#8217;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 [...]</description>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>10 THINGS YOU DIDN&#8217;T KNOW ABOUT THAMI NGUBENI<br />
</strong>We find out what makes our cover star Thami Ngubeni tick<br />
BY CARA BOUWER</p>
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<li>Her favourite movies: &#8220;The Matrix, Pretty Woman, Ghost and La Vie en Rose.&#8221;</li>
<li>The music she loves: &#8220;Kurt Engelbrecht&#8217;s Please Release Me, Etta James&#8217; At Last, Edith Piaf&#8217;s If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Hymne a L&#8217;Amour) and a whole lot of her other songs as well. I love Celine Dion, some of Miriam Makeba&#8217;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 &#8211; I won&#8217;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!&#8221;</li>
<li>Her favourite holiday destination: &#8220;I&#8217;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&#8217;m on holiday, I don&#8217;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 &#8211; it&#8217;s beautiful!&#8221;</li>
<li>Her best investment: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been a spender. My first car was a Toyota Corolla and I drove it to death. I&#8217;ve invested in property and it&#8217;s appreciated handsomely over the years.&#8221;</li>
<li>Her favourite perfumes: &#8220;It depends on the season. I love Gucci by Gucci. But I also like Clinique&#8217;s Happy &#8211; it&#8217;s a light, summery fragrance. And Clarins&#8217; Eau Dynamisante, which is a classic, like Aromantics. Agent Provocateur is quite nice as well.&#8221;</li>
<li>Her favourite restaurant: &#8220;It&#8217;s not necessarily my favourite, but it stands out for me: there&#8217;s a little café in Cape Town called Zorina&#8217;s in Loop Street, where they serve the best mutton curry. I cook when I&#8217;m in a relationship &#8211; when I&#8217;m in love!&#8221;</li>
<li>The people she&#8217;d love to meet: &#8220;I&#8217;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&#8217;d also love to meet Michelle Obama and Credo Mutwa [the Zulu shaman]. But I don&#8217;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&#8217;t want them to interpret what they do or why, I just don&#8217;t want a barrier. And I want to be with all the individuals who&#8217;ve been a catalyst for change through the generations, from Martin Luther King to Steve Biko.&#8221;</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.destinyconnect.com/articles/show_article.aspx?type=weekly&amp;article_id=ab340f67-eb25-440d-a8e6-da411f2971b3&amp;type=weekly">read the rest of this interview on Destiny Connect wesbite&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Initiation against my religion: farmer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>Initiation schools are against the religion of the Dutch Reformed Church and, according to this religion, it would be sinful behaviour and &amp;#8220;in breach of the commandments of the Almighty God&amp;#8221; to consent to such practices. These are some of the reasons stated by Bapsfontein farmer Jacob Visagie, for refusing permission to a family living [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F05%2Finitiation-against-my-religion-farmer%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F05%2Finitiation-against-my-religion-farmer%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Initiation schools are against the religion of the Dutch Reformed Church and, according to this religion, it would be sinful behaviour and &#8220;in breach of the commandments of the Almighty God&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>Visagie&#8217;s father-in-law, Johannes Jansen Van Vuuren, a dominie of his Church in Heilbron-South, said in a filed statement: &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>In referring to some of these practices, namely the &#8220;worshipping of ancestor spirits and the practices of sangomas&#8221;, he quoted extensively from various Bible verses. In conclusion to his statement, he said: &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>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 &#8211; some of his workers had been attacked by participants, which in turn had disrupted his farming activities.</p>
<p>As part of his objection, Visagie included the terms of reference by the SA Human Rights Commission&#8217;s public hearings into initiation schools, where problems featuring during this ceremony were discussed.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/?fSectionId=1087&amp;fArticleId=vn20090514060354691C795738">Sunday Independent</a></p>
<p>* This article was originally published on page 1 of The Pretoria News on May 14, 2009</p>
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		<title>Extraterrestrial contact with Earth’s indigenous peoples reveal Western societally repressed knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>Guardians of the Past &amp;#8212; 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 [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fextraterrestrial-contact-with-earths-indigenous-peoples-reveal-western-societally-repressed-knowledge%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fextraterrestrial-contact-with-earths-indigenous-peoples-reveal-western-societally-repressed-knowledge%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Guardians of the Past &#8212; Harbingers of the future</p>
<p>by Julie Gillentine</p>
<p><img src="http://www.trudeausociety.com/home/Frontpage/2009/03/27/images/Phil-Fontaine.jpg" alt="Canada's Assembly of First Nations National Grand Chief Phil Fontaine" align="right" border=0/>Anthropological orthodoxy insists that <a href="http://www.sitchin.com">civilization began in Sumeria six thousand years ago</a>, and the modern metropolis is the pinnacle of culture and evolution on the planet. But, circa <a href="http://www.worldwar-2.net">World War II</a>, 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.</p>
<p>An alternate view is emerging, however. According to indigenous peoples from the Americas to <a href="http://www.southafrica.info">South Africa</a>, 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.</p>
<p><strong>African Epiphany</strong></p>
<p>Thanks to the work of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089281750X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=absolutelyram-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=089281750X">Robert Temple, in his book entitled The Sirius Mystery</a>, the startling knowledge of Sirius and its dwarf companion by Africa&#8217;s Dogon tribe is widely known. The Dogon possess knowledge, such as the star system&#8217;s orbital periods and the companion star&#8217;s invisibility, which cannot be confirmed by naked eye observation, and which modern Astronomers have learned only relatively recently.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.trudeausociety.com/home/Frontpage/2009/03/27/images/Zulu-Woman.jpg" alt="Zulu woman from South Africa" border=0 align="left"/>In South Africa, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886449015?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=absolutelyram-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1886449015">Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a renowned Zulu elder and author of Song of the Stars: The Lore of a Zulu Shaman</a>, 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 &#8216;openness&#8217;, coming forward to share secret star lore of indigenous Black Africans. &#8220;I pray that this effort will unite thinking people around the world and diminish the severity of our prophecies,&#8221; 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&#8217;s son was brutally murdered, apparently, by those who want him silenced.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>According to Credo Mutwa, &#8220;In every language in Africa, the meaning of star is Bringer of knowledge? or Bringer of enlightenment.&#8221; 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. &#8220;These beings have been coming and going to Africa for forty thousand years,&#8221; he says. Some bear striking resemblance to beings reported by modern experience&#8217;s of the UFO phenomenon.</p>
<p>Cradled in <a href="http://www.krugerpark.co.za">South Africa&#8217;s Kruger National Park</a> lies a private game reserve called <a href="http://timbavati.krugerpark.co.za/">Timbavati</a>. This emerald jewel of the African bush is almost mythical in reputation. <a href="http://www.whitelions.org.za/">White lions</a> are born in here, it is said. &#8220;A long story is told about a chieftainess called Numbi,&#8221; Elder Credo recounts. &#8220;Many generations ago, she and her people saw a burning white light like a star fall out of the sky right where <a href="http://timbavati.krugerpark.co.za/">Timbavati is today</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;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.</p>
<p>&#8220;When a tribe of invaders appeared at Timbavati many years after Numbi&#8217;s experience,&#8221; Credo said, &#8220;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 &#8216;the falling down of a star&#8217;? is one of the holiest places in South Africa . But now its story is lost and has been overshadowed by a lot of nonsense.&#8221;</p>
<p>The standing stones of Timbavati, brought from Zimbabwe to honour Numbi&#8217;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&#8211;the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere&#8211;and the alignment of certain stones which remain erect pointed to the eastern horizon.</p>
<p>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, &#8220;Gateway to the Stars.&#8221; A community of thirty shamans lives there because they believe Manyeleti binds heaven and Earth.</p>
<p>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. &#8220;These leaders will work to unite the planet,&#8221; Elder Credo says. &#8220;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.&#8221; Native Americans, such as the Lakota Sioux, have an expression, &#8220;Mitakuye Oyasin,&#8221; which means &#8220;All our relations.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Standing Elk, Dakota Elder and Sun Dance chief, recently presented an open letter to the Elders of Turtle Island. &#8220;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.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>At Standing Elk&#8217;s gatherings, Native Elders share the conference podium with prestigious researchers in the UFO field. &#8220;Alien&#8221; contactees speak openly of their experiences. Indigenous Elders perform ceremony and give candid testimony of their knowledge and relationship to the Star Nations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trudeausociety.com/home/Frontpage/2009/03/27/02268.html">read the rest of the lengthy article on Cite Libre Canadian magazine website&#8230;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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 [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F03%2Finterview-with-with-don-miguel-ruiz-jr%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F03%2Finterview-with-with-don-miguel-ruiz-jr%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Some of you may be familiar with the well known book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1878424580?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=absolutelyram-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1878424580">The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz</a>. And others may have read the books of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520256387?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=absolutelyram-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0520256387">Carlos Castaneda and his relationship with Don Juan, the Yaqui shaman</a>.</p>
<p>Anyway I found this interview by <a href="http://www.miguelruiz.com">the 2nd son of Don Miguel Ruiz Sr.</a> 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&#8217;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&#8217;s and teachers who pass by this world.</p>
<p>Ramon, webmaster</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/dmruizjr.htm">The Toltec Teachings interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr</a></strong></p>
<p><em>At the age of 14, Don Miguel Jr. apprenticed to his father Don Miguel Sr. and his grandmother, <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080528/news_1m28sarita.html">Madre Sarita.</a></em></p>
<p><em>From that early age, he was called upon to translate <a href="http://www.sixthsunfoundation.org">Madre Sarita&#8217;s prayers, lectures and workshops</a> from Spanish into English. In this way, through constant repetition and review, he learned the content of her teachings in both languages.</em></p>
<p><em>Don Miguel Jr.&#8217;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&#8217;s, his father intensified his training. At the apex of this power journey Don Miguel said to his eldest son, &#8220;Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
<p><em>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&#8217;s traditions in helping others to achieve their own personal freedom and optimal physical and spiritual health.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Learn <a href="http://www.miguelruiz.com">more about Don Miguel&#8217;s family and their work on their website</a>.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Baba Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa on Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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 [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fbaba-vusamazulu-credo-mutwa-on-barack-obama%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fbaba-vusamazulu-credo-mutwa-on-barack-obama%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Zulu shaman, or sanusi, <a href="http://credomutwa.com/about">Credo Mutwa</a>, has written a poem to express his thoughts on what he sees as the true nature of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> 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 &#8220;<em>deceive</em>&#8221; and now changed to &#8220;receive.&#8221; 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. <a href="http://www.google.co.za/search?q=plots+to+kill+obama&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a">These rumours are not unfounded because they have been reported widely in other sources</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Here is the poem&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><em>An actor walks upon the floodlit stage of lifewearing a mask of an angel beneath a demon&#8217;s gown.</em></p>
<p><em>Pretence smiles upon the crowded hall of life holding out hope as bright as it is false.</em></p>
<p><em>Son of a woman in whose veins flows the blood of ancient Ireland and dark Africa&#8217;s plains.</em></p>
<p><em>You are Obama, nick-named the standing king You are Barack, oh, son born to <strong>receive</strong><br />
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<p><em>The suffering hoards of Africa look up to you, See a black saviour where nought but a Judas strides.</em></p>
<p><em>An entrapper of nations, bringer of dismal war Behind the robes and the nylon wings of hope</em></p>
<p><em>Oh, may those who look upon you, see you as you are. May those who hope in you behold you as you be</em></p>
<p><em>A prince deceitful to bring down Africa&#8217;s shrines</em></p>
<p><em>A siren who leads Africa&#8217;s ships onto rocks of obliteration.</em></p>
<p><em>Your rule my lord will not be one of peace</em></p>
<p><em>Your reign my king will not be one of smiles</em></p>
<p><em>Even as we speak in caves both dark and dank Enraged fanatics plot your dark demise</em></p>
<p><em>They will put around your head a bloodwet martyr&#8217;s crown.</em></p>
<p><em>Oh black Kennedy following the one before May God forgive thee and thy fiery spouse</em></p>
<p><em>As you walk in silence from the stage of life Barack Obama, blessed son, Oh standing king.</em></p>
<p><em>Vusamazulu Mutwa</em></p>
<p>Black Lion is&#8230; Agu Bu Oji in Igbo, Simba nyeusi in Swahili, the name of a hospital in Addis Adaba the capital of Ethiopia.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/poetry-spoken-word/101802-baba-vusamazulu-credo-mutwa-barack-obama.html">The BN Village</a></p>
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		<title>Boss tells trainee sangoma: drop your culture or get out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>by Alfred Moselakgomo

A student sangoma who wears a traditional cloth to work as part of his training has been forced to choose between his calling and his job by his employers. Now Letjatji Mothoa of Kameelrivier near Vaalbank, Mpumalanga, has approached the equality court alleging unfair treatment.
Mothoa told Sowetan that his bosses told him he [...]</description>
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<p>A student sangoma who wears a traditional cloth to work as part of his training has been forced to choose between his calling and his job by his employers. Now Letjatji Mothoa of Kameelrivier near Vaalbank, Mpumalanga, has approached the equality court alleging unfair treatment.</p>
<p>Mothoa told Sowetan that his bosses told him he would have to take off his traditional sangoma trainee garb or face the axe. He is a driver for Capacity, which is contracted to Tshwane municipality to collect rubbish in the city.</p>
<p>“Everybody at work knows that I am a student sangoma and doesn’t have a problem with me wearing motjeka (traditional cloth).</p>
<p>“I was surprised when our site manager, Connie Smith, called me to the office and told me that municipal officials were not comfortable with me coming to work wearing it,” he said. Mothoa said he tried in vain to convince his employers that he was abiding by the requirements of his calling to wear the cloth.</p>
<p>“They told me that I should either take it off or stay at home despite assuring them that my wearing this cloth would not in any way affect my efficiency at work,” Mothoa said. He has been working at the firm since 2007 but was forced to go for training as a sangoma in October last year after a series of “spiritual upheavals”.</p>
<p>Attempts to get comment from Smith drew a blank. Johannes Maepa, an administrator at the Pretoria equality court, confirmed yesterday that they had received a complaint from Mothoa.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=932443">Sowetan newspaper</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Calling as a sangoma made her ditch career in accounting

Meet Amanda Gcabashe, a finance wunderkind who is now one of South Africa’s rare breed of high tech sangomas. She asserts that taking this ancient African wisdom into cyberspace will shatter stereotypes about this revered but misunderstood call from the ancestors. Gcabashe launched the [...]</description>
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<p><em>Calling as a sangoma made her ditch career in accounting<br />
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<p><img src="http://www.sowetan.co.za/thumbnail.aspx?type=mm&amp;id=160928" alt="" align="right" />Meet Amanda Gcabashe, a finance wunderkind who is now one of South Africa’s rare breed of high tech sangomas. She asserts that taking this ancient African wisdom into cyberspace will shatter stereotypes about this revered but misunderstood call from the ancestors. Gcabashe launched the website last year after nearly 10 years of practising as a sangoma and an inyanga.</p>
<p>“You can buy a book if you want to find out, for instance, about astrology, but you will not find anything about traditional healers,” Gcabashe says. “There are many of us throughout the continent but we are relegated to the corners of obscurity.”</p>
<p>She says traditional healing has always been shrouded in secrecy and as a result has acquired a stigma. She hopes her website will “create interest about learning more about the healing art of Africa”.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.sowetan.co.za/thumbnail.aspx?type=mm&amp;id=160952" alt="Amanda Gcabashe finance wizard turned Sangoma" align="right" />Gcabashe says: “Whenever there are news stories about izinyanga or izangoma they are always negative.”</p>
<p>Her site offers introductory lessons to those who are not familiar with the practice. A glossary of terms is included and some of the myths that persist about izangoma and izinyanga are explored. She says people expect traditional healers to be “old men or women who live in little huts in rural areas”.</p>
<p>Some struggle to contain their incredulity when they meet the 34- year-old. She consults from her home at a country estate in a suburb on Gauteng’s West Rand while her home in Northriding is being renovated. The only thing that gives her away as a sangoma is the black, red and white ibhayi she wraps around her body, partly covering her denim skirt and a yellow Stoned Cherrie T-shirt. Her straight hair is tied in a ponytail.</p>
<p>“The website was not a way of advertising myself,” she says. “Clients hear about me through word of mouth.”</p>
<p><img src="http://www.sowetan.co.za/thumbnail.aspx?type=mm&amp;id=160953" alt="Amanda Gcabashe finance wizard turned Sangoma" align="right" />She believes consulting a sangoma is “a personal thing” and she maintains a strict code of confidentiality with her clients. Gcabashe grew up in a Christian home and felt more inclined to live a life in the ministry because “I used to pray for people”. But a series of dreams and her first visit to a sangoma convinced her otherwise.</p>
<p>“I must confess I accepted the calling out of fear. People would tell me that if I ignored the call I would get sick or die. I had no intention of dying at 24. I still wanted to own a bank,” she jests. She started the process of ukuthwasa in 1999 while serving articles with a chartered accounting firm, becoming the first in her family to heed her vocation.</p>
<p>“My mother ran away from her calling all her life,” Gcabashe says. “My grandmother was married to an Anglican priest and could not practise as a sangoma because it was considered taboo”. She says there is a common misconception that traditional healers do not believe in God.</p>
<p>“African traditional religions do not frown on prayer. It is not my place to convince dogmatic people about the credibility of our practices. Why do we have to limit God to Anglicans or Christians?” She does not regret heeding her calling and forsaking a life in the corporate sector.</p>
<p>“I can’t say whether my life has changed for the better or for worse. I have gained and experienced things I wouldn’t have had as an accountant. It is not about my career or bank account anymore. It’s about how I can help others,” Gcabashe says.</p>
<p>She does not throw bones. She counsels and dispenses medicines (imithi) she prepares. She wants to open an indigenous health clinic in Soweto that will offer an affordable and multi- dimensional approach to health care.</p>
<p>“Health is not just about aches and pains. It has an emotional and psychological aspect. Sometimes people just want to be heard and counselled, and we offer that,” she says. She believes a time will come when traditional and Western medicines will be used together to treat various ailments.</p>
<p>“No one has bothered to study our medicines. The reality is that Western doctors and traditional healers faced the same problems of death and disease.” About attitudes to healing, she says medicines are useless if patients do not change their behaviour. Referring to HIV-Aids she says: “I don’t claim to cure Aids. I may dispense medicine to lower the viral load. I also don’t encourage patients to stop taking ARVs because I believe in a multipronged approach. My medicine does not affect the efficacy of the treatment, but their vitality.”</p>
<p>Log on to her website <a href="http://www.mphutungwane.co.za">www.mphutungwane.co.za</a> and enter makhosi, her mystic world of traditional African healing.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.sowetan.co.za/Sport/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=917331">Sowetan newspaper</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>The acclaimed Sibikwa Arts Centre, now celebrating its twentieth year, is proud to present its annual student dance presentation, GRAFTING, for one performance only at the Dance Factory in Newtown on Sunday 5 October at 14h30.
GRAFTING is presented by the Sibikwa Youth Dance company with the learners and interns of the Sibikwa Arts Centre, who [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fgrafting-with-the-sibikwa-youth-dance-company%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fgrafting-with-the-sibikwa-youth-dance-company%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>The acclaimed Sibikwa Arts Centre, now celebrating its twentieth year, is proud to present its annual student dance presentation, GRAFTING, for one performance only at the Dance Factory in Newtown on Sunday 5 October at 14h30.</p>
<p>GRAFTING is presented by the Sibikwa Youth Dance company with the learners and interns of the Sibikwa Arts Centre, who each year work towards a public performance where they can showcase their talents. The 52 learners and the 10 interns hail from Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West.</p>
<p>In line with Sibikwa&#8217;s mission, four young, professional choreographers have been engaged to work with the participants of the accredited Learnership in the Performing Arts. This affords the young students the opportunity of working with up-and-coming young, professional choreographers.</p>
<p>The choreographers with whom the students will work for the 2008 Dance presentation are the award winning choreographer and teacher Portia Mashigo, Melusi Mkhwanjani, a contemporary dancer and teacher and Lucky Ntlhane Ratlhagane who worked with the learners and Bafekile Sedibe who worked with the interns.</p>
<p>The twentieth year of Sibikwa&#8217;s existence herald’s a new initiative, The Sibikwa Youth Dance Company. This company aims to build a repertoire of South African dance, to train skilled young dancers, to develop the community through dance, to facilitate Educational development through dance and to create jobs within the dance industry within the ambit of the Sibikwa Arts Centre. The dancers will be trained in South African traditional dance, South African urban dance (Pantsula, gumboot, contemporary African), hip hop and ballet. They hope to create a meeting point that will reflect South Africa in the 21st century, interpret the current reality and celebrate South Africa&#8217;s cultural diversity. Dancers will be drawn from the Saturday Arts Academy.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.artzone.co.za/Morpheus/imagelibrary2/3256.jpg" border="0" alt="Lungile Magagula" align="right" />Four of the Company members will be young professionals embarking on their dance careers and currently this includes: Lungile Maboe who started dancing professionally at Sibikwa Arts Centre in 2004 where she was trained in afro fusion by Lucky Ratlagane. During that year she toured to Norway where she conducted workshops on issues of crime and violence in South Africa. In 2005 she was recommended to be part of a performing Arts Learnership in Sibikwa&#8217;s Ezithuthukayo Dance and Drama group. She performed in Ke-mang , directed by Yana Sakelaris and Clara Vaughan, did outreach work in Primary and High Schools and later that year she obtained Best dancer of the Year award. In 2006 she did the Sibikwa internship where she focused on facilitation, Poetry, Storytelling, drama and dance. In 2007 she joined City Year as a service leader at schools for grade 4 to 7. A facilitator, co-ordinator, and a best leader of the year nominee she is now Sibikwa&#8217;s Saturday Arts Centre Afro Fusion dance teacher.</p>
<p>Lehlohonolo Dube, from Kwa-Thema in Springs,started performing with the Proud Actors, then joined Zwakala Dramatic Oracle in 2005. He joined Sibikwa Arts Centre in 2006. He completed his Learnership in Performing Arts NQF level 4 . In 2007 he completed an Internship at Sibikwa Arts Centre in facilitation and Performance. He performed in several productions: In the Beginning, an adaptation of the Credo Mutwa Story, Maru, the Butoh-based In the Wake of the Body and Sibikwa&#8217;s Uhambo-The Journey,directed by Smal Ndaba.</p>
<p>Taemane Mothobi grew up in Odendaalsrus, Kutlonong in Free State. In 1999 he started acting at Phehello High School. In 2005 he attended Sibikwa’s Saturday Arts Academy. Like Lehlohonolo Dube he went onto he complete his Learnership in Performing Arts NQF Level 4 in 2008 and his Internship in 2007. He also performed in Sibikwa&#8217;s Uhambo-The Journey, In the Beginning, an adaptation of the Credo Mutwa Story, Maru and the Butoh-based In the Wake of the Body</p>
<p>Lucky Modiselle joined Sibikwa’s Saturday Arts Academy in 2004. In 2005 he joined the Learnership programme and acquired NQF Level 4 in performing arts. In 2006 he worked with Velvet Rope as a freelance dancer and assistant Production manager till April 2008, after which he joined the Vuyani Dance Theatre.</p>
<p>The performance of GRAFTING has been made possible with the assistance of Rand Merchant Bank (RMB).</p>
<p>Tickets for the one performance of GRAFTING are available at the door and are R30. Schools wishing to attend this performance are urged to contact the Sibikwa office at 011 422 4359 or e-mail <a href="mailto:sibikwa@iafrica.com?subject=Credo Mutwa website query">sibikwa@iafrica.com</a>.</p>
<p>The Sibikwa Arts Centre is a community based organization which uses the arts for community development. The Sibikwa Community Theatre Project was formed by a group of parents in the East Rand township of Daveyton in 1988. Concerned by the low level of education, their children’s poor attendance at school, the lack of focus in their children’s lives, the increasing violence and the lack of amenities in the township, Sibikwa came into being.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sibikwa.co.za">Visit Sibikwa&#8217;s website</a> for further information.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.artzone.co.za/template_level2.asp?parentseq=5428">Artslink</a></p>
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		<title>Big Bang theory challenged: New theory on the origins of the Universe and Humankind surfaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramon Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>by Dr. John Stokes
Exopolitics representations offer a new theory on the origins of this universe, and humankind in this universe. This new theory suggests that this universe neither originated from a spontaneous &amp;#8220;Big Bang&amp;#8221;, nor from a benevolent &amp;#8220;God&amp;#8221; creator, as is imputed by various organized religions. Have you ever wondered, who we are as [...]</description>
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<p><a href="http://exopolitics.org">Exopolitics representations</a> offer a new theory on the origins of this universe, and humankind in this universe. This new theory suggests that this universe neither originated from a spontaneous &#8220;Big Bang&#8221;, nor from a benevolent &#8220;God&#8221; creator, as is imputed by various organized religions. Have you ever wondered, who we are as a human species? What is our true origins? What really accounts for a planet like Earth, so abundant with life, being apparently surrounded by planets with no signs of intelligent life?</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 211px"><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8316692185126189734"><img src="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_aliens/alex_collier.jpg" alt="Alex Collier" width="201" height="174" align="right"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Collier</p></div>
<p>This new theory originates from a composite of <a href="http://www.exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-2/vol-2-3-Collier.htm"><strong>Alex Collier&#8217;s</strong> representation</a> from his alleged contact with Ethical Extraterrestrials, that have sought to warn humanity, about Manipulative Extraterrestrials and their human operatives.</p>
<p>Exopolitics, is a discipline which suggests that humankind can further critically appreciate certain &#8220;mysteries&#8221;, by appreciating how Extraterrestrials may be affecting human reality. Exopolitics practitioners like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Salla">Dr. </a><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Salla">Michael Salla</a>,</strong> suggests that the affirmation of human sovereignty on Earth, depends on the disclosure of both Ethical and Manipulative Extraterrestrial contacts with Earth.</p>
<p><a href="http://exopolitics.org">This Exopolitics</a>-inspired theory, suggests that humans originated from an &#8220;organic universe&#8221; that exists in a parallel time-space continuum to this universe. The alleged characteristic of this parallel universe is that is abundant with intelligent life including human colonies that are over 100 Billion in total population.</p>
<p>However, <a href="http://www.exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-2/vol-2-3-Collier.htm">Alex Collier</a> alleges that <a href="http://www.trudeausociety.com/home/Frontpage/2008/07/07/02227.html">a clique of Nazi scientists in a parallel 1931, created a &#8220;rip&#8221; in the time-space continuum, that provided an entry point for Manipulative Extraterrestrials</a>. These Manipulative Extraterrestrials, then instigated an intergalactic war, against humanity, with the support of their Nazi allies. Once these time-travelling aliens entered that parallel organic universe, where humans allegedly originated from, and after Earth was captured, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2932627/Alex-Collier-Defending-Sacred-Ground">regressive aliens then according to this exposited alternative theory, went back in time to change the whole of Earth&#8217;s time continuum</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://credomutwa.com/about">African Elder </a><strong><a href="http://credomutwa.com/about">Credo Mutwa</a>,</strong> who indicates that he had been abducted by regressive aliens that had been identified by the Dr. <strong>John Lash&#8217;s</strong> research on the Gnostics, details the presence of these alien &#8220;shape-shifters&#8221;, that are aliens that can mimic human form.</p>
<p>Credo Mutwa indicates that he has corroborated the existence of such shape-shifters by hundreds of African tribes. Shape-shifters according to Mutwa, have been documented by these African tribes as seeking to infiltrate human institutions to perpetrate socio-pathetic activities associated with oppression and exploitation. These alleged alien-directed dehumanizing activities include genocide, and war in general, that can become prevalent in the world today.</p>
<p>The imputed result was that Manipulative Extraterrestrials used their sophisticated technology to capture Earth, in an artificially generated &#8220;hollographic universe&#8221;. <a class="int" href="http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:hAxLvxAehQgJ:www.bibliotecapleyades.net/andromeda/esp_andromedacom_0.htm+aLEX+cOLLIER+HOLLOGRAM&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=4&amp;gl=ca" target="_blank">LINK</a> .</p>
<p>In an &#8220;organic universe&#8221; sentient life, as well as plant and animal life in general, apparently grows like weeds. In the alleged creation of a &#8220;holographic universe&#8221; Earth has been captured in an artificially generated universe. In order words, Earth has been caught in some kind of &#8220;cosmic spider web&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Ethical Extraterrestrials, that have been able to penetrate this apparent &#8220;cosmic spider web&#8221; suggest that Manipulative Extraterrestrials have captured Earth and to &#8220;harvest&#8221; the life forms on Earth for genetic and other exploitation purposes.</p>
<p>By isolating Earth, it has been further imputed not only by Alex Collier&#8217;s representations, but also by the ancient Gnostics, that Manipulative Extraterrestrials sought to isolate humanity in a apparent &#8220;barren&#8221; universe, to make humans more susceptible to religious doctrine. &#8220;Creationist&#8221; doctrine was accordingly inspired by Manipulative Extraterrestrials that sought to convince humanity that &#8220;a God&#8221; was responsible for the &#8220;miracle of life&#8221; on this planet.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Big Bang&#8221; theory apparently became another misleading scenario created for the &#8220;non-believers&#8221;, that still sought some explanation for the origins of this universe. But the ancient Gnostics attempted to clarify that this alleged &#8220;God the Creator&#8221; was actually a contrived convention orchestrated by the same group of regressive aliens that Alex Collier alleges, brought humanity away from an organic universe, and into an enslavement context in an artificial &#8220;holographic universe&#8221;.</p>
<p>Gnostics and representations by <a href="http://www.exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-2/vol-2-3-Collier.htm">Alex Collier</a>, suggest that Manipulative Extraterrestrials, in creating a hollographic universe, seek to &#8220;play God&#8221;, and operate through elite institutions that are in league with hostile alien interests.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/08/19/02549.html">The Canadian National Newspaper</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Terence McKenna (16 November 1946 – 3 April 2000) was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and novelty theory.
This is an important concept to understand because one perspective would be that Africa&amp;#8217;s [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fterence-mckenna-culture-is-your-operating-system%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcredomutwa.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fterence-mckenna-culture-is-your-operating-system%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna">Terence McKenna (16 November 1946 – 3 April 2000)</a> was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and novelty theory.</p>
<p>This is an important concept to understand because one perspective would be that Africa&#8217;s poverty or problems is simply a operating system we have chosen to run on mass. And if we can begin to change the operating system or rather upgrade to a newer version that supports a wider array of the modern challenges we are facing like globalisation and the erosion of freedom as we move from country-specific laws to international law.</p>
<p>If you like this video clip I also highly, highly recommend <a href="http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/212-living-dialogues/episodes/2721-joseph-chilton-pearce-biology">the Living Dialogues podcast interviews with Joseph Chilton Pearce about Culture</a>.</p>
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