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		<title>Silly Superstitions</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/silly-superstitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the most frightening things about the old African traditions is its association with voodoo.  The word voodoo here is not a reference to the many variations of the African based religions that developed throughout both American continents and throughout the Caribbean islands among African slaves and their descendants.  Indeed, as a practitioner of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=6922&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Backyardigans And An Opportunity To Teach Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/?p=6688</guid>
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My two year old son loves the Nick Jr. show The Backyardigans.  The show is a computer generated animation about five neighborhood kids who play in the backyards of their house.  There’s Tasha the yellow hippo, Tyrone the orange moose, Pablo the blue penguin, Austin the purple marsupial, and Uniqua the pink spotted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=6688&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oshumare</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/oshumare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/?p=6557</guid>
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Not too long ago I was driving down the highway during a particularly strong thunderstorm.  The rain stopped for a brief moment and the sun managed to find a break in the deep, dark, rolling clouds.  But on the other end of the horizon, I saw the most intense rainbows I’ve seen in my life.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=6557&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burr Oak Cemetery Grave Robbers</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/burr-oak-cemetery-grave-robbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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Emmett Till must be spinning in his grave.  At least he would be if he was still in it.  Who knows for sure with all the happenings at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, a close suburb of Chicago?  Three grave diggers and their manager are accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=5479&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance For The Ones Relatively Few Remember</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/remembrance-for-the-ones-relatively-few-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 03:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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A couple days ago I had a dream.  I was walking through a house with my family.  But across the yard there was an abandoned house.  I crossed the yard to the empty home.  When I walked inside the house and looked outside the window, the previously empty yard I walked through had a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=5075&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adherence To Tradition Not Adherence To Stagnation</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/adherence-to-tradition-is-not-adherence-to-stagnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ifa]]></category>
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&#8220;OK…I totally stumbled across this site haphazardly and I feel a little lost. What in the world are you talking about? I’m really curious about this now.
But as someone on the outside, knowing nothing about this sect of people or thoughts, I think it’s rather sad to be that caught up in anything outside of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=2931&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transformation Dreaming</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/transformation-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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I used to have dreams of death that would literally scare me awake.  In my dreams, I have died a variety of ways.  I’ve fallen to my death.  I’ve been peppered with bullets.  I have been attacked by vicious wild animals from rabid squirrels to grizzly bears that were far from being a gentle Ben.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=2896&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Proof That Ifa Is The Way</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/biblical-proof-that-ifa-is-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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Being a practitioner of an African tradition it’s inevitable to be asked for proof that that my belief system is valid.  As if anybody’s spirituality can be, or even has to be, proven.  And without doubt the people who ask for proof are Christians and that will ask for some biblical proof that my African [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=2067&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back To Traditional Ifa</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/getting-back-to-traditional-ifa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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Recently I was admonished by an Ifa devotee for suggesting a break from the so-called traditional interpretation of Ifa doctrine that requires the majority of people to give their spiritual guides or teachers full control of their spiritual development. The traditional interpretation of Ifa does not encourage everyone to learn the techniques necessary to develop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=1512&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negative Energies</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/negative-energies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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Once Again, I`m not sure what the negative energies [are] in which orisa protect us from.I would say the negative energies are life`s adversities, or maybe the Ajogun,who are spirits that create obstacles for humanity.The head of the Ajogun is Baba Esu Elegbara.I do not [believe] that the Orisa were sitting around waiting for us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=1425&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baba Esu</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/baba-esu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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In the 1987 movie “The Believers” staring Martin Sheen as police psychiatrist Cal Jamison, there is scene that is probably one of the most violent scenes of destruction I’ve ever witnessed.  Cal Jamison is a new bachelor whose wife recently passed.  He hires a Spanish speaking housekeeper to help him look after his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=942&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students Of Traditional Ifa</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/students-of-the-ifa-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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“I’ve observed in my travels how people, regardless of color, get involved in causes, become activists and leaders &#8211; and use their activism as a means to work out their inner pathology. Or better still: they use their work to escape having to deal with their pathology, their dis-ease. These unconscious people are oppressors of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=786&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 300</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/the-300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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The other day my copy of 300 finally arrived from Netflix.  The movie was a modern interpretation of the story of how three hundred men from Sparta valiantly defended their country against a far superior army from Persia.  The men did not survive their stand against the army of superior numbers.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=740&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Baba Awo</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/the-baba-awo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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Early in my development as a practitioner of Ifa I met an awo, an Ifa initiate who has passed the iyawo stage.  This particular awo had gone through the process to receive the first of three hands of Orunmila, the assistant to Olodumare himself. Traditionally, to receive the three hands of Orunmila is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=725&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying No Was Not An Option</title>
		<link>http://brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/saying-no-was-not-an-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brotherpeacemaker</dc:creator>
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I received a comment a few weeks ago in response to my post titled Baby Grace.  Baby Grade is an article centered around Riley Ann Sawyers, the little white girl who was killed by her mother and stepfather and then unceremoniously dumped into Galveston Bay.  This wasn’t the first time we’ve heard about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brotherpeacemaker.wordpress.com&blog=904646&post=690&subd=brotherpeacemaker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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