Dagara Spiritual Elder Malidoma Patrice Some will be appearing May 9th-10th in Baltimore.

May 9th will be a 6 hour workshop with Baba Malidoma Patrice Some, author of 'Of Water and Of Spirit' and 'The Healing Wisdom of Africa'. The cost will be $50.

May 10th is going to be a lecture- I don't have any more details than that.

If you are interested, please inbox me.

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good lookin' on the info.

i just emailed you

is going? Castro and I. Who else will be there from the Balt/DCPlayer community?

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with my baby girl

i just need to call and make sure it's ok for me to sit in

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African Ancestors Living Theater

presents

African Shaman and Healer

Malidoma Patrice Some

Malidoma will teach insights from his latest book "Healing Wisdom of Africa"

INTRODUCTION TO DAGARA RITUAL AND MAGIC

May 9th, 2003 6pm

Cost $50

Space is limited, reservations required 410.566.4600

Location: Ancestors Village

208 S. Pulaski Street, Baltimore, MD

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i got a wedding to go to that day, but i'd love to check it out

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He is supposed to be speaking on the 10th (Saturday) but I don't have that info yet.

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they only get married once- and it hasta be THAT day?! maybe I can find some way to squeeze it into the day?

if not, TALK to the guy. take him to that great new restaurant. fill up his stomach well. fill his head up with good conversation. give him a warm place to sleep. have your kids coo, pur, smile & giggle a lot around him- be very charming-

and then get his ass back to b-more!

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He has been here before.

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G\L you got your wish...everything was changed to Saturday. Please pre-register...if you want to attend and the cost seems to high, still call and explain your situation...

African Ancestors Living Theater
presents

African Shaman and Healer

Malidoma Patrice Some

Malidoma will teach insights from his latest book "Healing Wisdom of Africa"


Lecture: DAGARA RITUAL AND MAGIC

Saturday, May 10th, 10am (Registration at 9am)- $12


Workshop: INTRODUCTION TO DAGARA RITUAL AND MAGIC

May 10th, 2003 6pm

Cost $50

Space is limited, reservations required 410.566.4600

Location: Ancestors Village

208 S. Pulaski Street, Baltimore, MD

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i need to peep his new book, Of Water and the Sprit was a most profound read for me.

Of Water and Spirit. I'll read that after I finish Healing Wisdom of Africa.

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rizin..

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up.

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yesterday about how much you might like this book that i'm reading now:

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060959037/qid=1051801905/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/103-0779519-4809404?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>

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about?

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it's fiction.

she's a great writer.

have you ever read anything else of hers? the poisonwood bible was her best work. the bean trees is very typical of her pre-poisonwood style.

she grew up in the south and has an amazing understanding of the nature around her. the poisonwood bible takes place in the congo. this book takes place around an isolated farming valley, and it traces the lives of threee women.

one woman is the forest ranger who lives on the mountain overlooking the town. kinda like a jane goodall type. one woman is an organic farmer below who has a big rivalry with an old man who lives next door. and another is a palestinian woman who moved onto a farm with her husband and was recently widowed and trying to figure herself out.

it weaves their lives through a great understanding of nature & interworks their sexuality through the nature around them as well.

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was on Oprah's Book Club. I always wondered what that book was about. Oprah had some really good books in that club. It's a shame that she stopped it.

>>have you ever read anything else of hers? the poisonwood
>bible was her best work. the bean trees is very typical of
>her pre-poisonwood style.
>
>she grew up in the south and has an amazing understanding of
>the nature around her. the poisonwood bible takes place in
>the congo. this book takes place around an isolated farming
>valley, and it traces the lives of threee women.
>
>one woman is the forest ranger who lives on the mountain
>overlooking the town. kinda like a jane goodall type. one
>woman is an organic farmer below who has a big rivalry with
>an old man who lives next door. and another is a palestinian
>woman who moved onto a farm with her husband and was
>recently widowed and trying to figure herself out.
>
>it weaves their lives through a great understanding of
>nature & interworks their sexuality through the nature
>around them as well.

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was

without any doubt or hesitation

the most masterful novel i have read in my lifetime

absolutely *incredible*

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Kingsolver is a great writer.

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how do you know Taharqa? What items are you bringing this weekend? The workshop attendance is expected to be between 50-60 people...

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Tiharqa has been a close friend for the last couple of years- our sons play together...

What am I bringing? I participated in a ritual that Tiharqa performed earlier this year, so I have some items from that ritual that I will bring again, but the rest of the items I will gather Friday night. The only other thing I know I will bring is my Berimbau.

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i'm honestly really agonizing over this

i've got a really full weekend ahead of me, and i don't know how i'll keep up as it is

i may not make it

*especially* if the rehearsal dinner for the wedding goes late tomorrow night

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Just come out to the lecture. 10am.

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that's the only part that i can make

but i'm right near the end of my first trimester and truly pooped. the idea of another quick morning sick start with no nap possible during the day and a marathon wedding on both sides is really shaking me up.

it would be different if my husband wasn't working all day and i could expect some kind of a break.

it really depends on how things shake out tomorrow night and saturday morning. definitely if we are up and about by 8:30 on saturday we'll come up for it.

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pulaski street, anyway?

always good to know just in case

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Take 95 north- get off at MLK/395 Exit downtown. Take MLK to you get to route 40. Make a left onto Rt 40. Take until you see Pulaski street, which should be the last exit before Rt. 40 becomes a street again. Make a left onto Pulaski street (you will be heading south.) You will pass Bon Secours Hospital. Keep going and you will see space on your left (it is an old factory converted to lofts and workspaces).

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i just printed mapquest and chatted with a very pleasent voiced man

the dinner is scheduled to last till 8:30 in va & my husband is eager to help me be able to go

so all signs are pointing toward probably

if for some reason our act is really together, we may swing by the 33rd st mkt beforehand, but i'm not making any promises

so, i'll probably see ya tomorrow!

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see you then.

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I'm sitting here debating if I want to go see Soul Live tonight @ 930. If it let out around 1a.m. or so, I would only get 5-6 hours before the lecture tomorrow, which would not be good.

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Amani na baraka everyone!

Thanks for your interest in attending the workshop with Malidoma
Some'. There are some things you need to bring for the evening
workshop, "Introduction to Dagara Ritual and Cosmology". These
items you bring need to correspond to the spiritual elements
that are part of the Dagara cosmology. Below is a list, things
may not exactly be in elemental order. We will put things in
their proper places at the workshop.

The Elements are Fire, Water, Mineral, Nature and Earth.

Anything you correlate to the above elements:
Candles of all different colors
Nature items, tree branches, flowers, plants
Animal furs or skins (harvested in the sacred way)
Animal bones, skulls, teeth, antlers, birds
Rocks, stones, gemstones, crystals
Fabric of blue, red, white, green or yellow dominant colors
Pictures of Ancestors, wood incl charred wood.
Ash from burnt wood or
Any other sacred ceremony where ash is created
spirits
pots. bowls, calabash
Any item that you consider sacred

If you have any
questions please feel free to call me. 410-728-3593.

Love & Guidance

Taharqa Kiambu

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A cushion to sit on the floor, for those who prefer to sit on
the floor while doing certain spiritual work.

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If you are going- even to the lecture, please call and register!!!!

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up.

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I'm still going though my notes, but Malidoma really laid out some powerful info today...

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>I'm still going though my notes, but Malidoma really laid
>out some powerful info today...



man, i had to go to philly on family business..

what did he discuss? was it a large turnout?

w. the raspberry Afrikan outfit on, and gold embroidery? I was wondering if you were there or not, but I wasn't sure. I think I saw GL whiz in and out, IF she has short hair, and glasses.

The lecture was like a college class. I can tell that he was a professor. Some of the words he used are not even listed in my dictionary. What does crepuscular mean?

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with a beard in the back and gold tee shirt on. I did see G/L chasing her kid....

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what planet y'all's kids come from where they can sit and be quiet like that!

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you should have just let her play with the other kids- that's what we usually do. My son was at home this go round.

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and there were some people complaining

it was too bad

cuz i didn't catch enough of some

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the children run & play

by the time the service hits 3,4, 5 hours the kids are into all kinds of trouble

gettin into relics

touching priests

yelling, screaming

but this didn't seem like that kind of place to me.

the other kids were sitting quietly in laps! what planet did they come from?!

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because most of the time those same kids (and mine) are tearing up everything in site.

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cuz i was poooooooooooooped when i got home!

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what he was saying about birth year and personality

i've really noticed the water orientedness of my daughter and i since that day

and then the one in the belly is a nature oriented baby- and i can see that because of my strange obsession with trees and crickets lately

my husband's a two. anyone catch what that was? i think he was the earth- grounded & making people comfortable

anyway, that was the part that i really caught the most of in his lecture, and i was dissappointed at the time cuz i don't really tend to go for that kinda thing- seems like there's a sign for everything- but it's been dogging me since he said it

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Those people are keepers of Gateway to the Ancestors.

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can you tell me more?

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ananse and i were talking on the healing wisdom post about some's orientation toward westerners

i think he's used to addressing more university type crowds- ya shetsago, you mentioned his vocab-

i think that's why he had such a strong reaction to this crowd

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there was a really great conversation about applying the wisdom he dropped about the time that i left

anyone wanna fill me in?

it stunk to miss that, but my girl hit the point where all she could do was lie on the ground and yell about being tired and hungry (i had a pile of fruit next to the diaper bag that i forgot- relegated to feeding her veggie chips! what a tragedy!)

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I was sitting in the front, to his left. He kept asking me what he said in Of Water and Spirit, and Healing Wisdom of Africa, because I had copies of them sitting on the chair next to me, and the questions I posed to him were directly out of those books.

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i remember you completely then-

when he couldn't remember what he'd written-

he has a great sense of humor/humility, eh?

did i write that? oh, that's good!

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one thing i noticed about some is that there are a few different levels he communicates on

the first chapter of the healing wisdom of africa really blew me away, and on some level i felt like i needed him to return to that level and complete what he started in my head

the lecture seemed to me to be on the level of the rest of the book

when i left, the elder at the door asked me "did you get what you came for?" i've been really turning over that question in my head

at the time i thought i hadn't because i was busy chasing the little one around

but things that he said have been really coming to me over the week and changing my mind about what i saw and heard

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someone asked a question about the fire ritual

he had said that the ritual should not be appropriated by westerners

on saturday, he let up and said it's good for some westerners

do y'all think he should have let up on that front?

i didn't because what i understand about his discussion of ritual is that you need to find things in your own life and context that achieve the goals of the ritual

i don't see how adopting another cultures ritual could ever be helpful, but i think it could be mistakenly used as a tool for unity in the diaspora

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him recanting his views on fire ritual at all. In fact, that was the point at which he asked me what he wrote in healing wisdom. I told him, and then he said to the lady who asked the question, "Well, there you have it then. You see, I can't even remember what I wrote in my own book!" The audience started laughing, but the lady shot me a dirty look as if to say, "I was asking HIM, not YOU!"


Can you tell that I'm a mineral person?....

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think of it like i was on a cellphone that lost and regained its connection periodically....

(a great big 30 lb cellphone)

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4 & 9. Mineral people are 4 & 9. There was a guy in my group who was born in 1949, so he is like, mineral two times over. Mineral people keep and preserve the history. They are the griots, and the historians. They help people remember their history, and divine purpose in Life.

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i think you have the most archive requests racked up of anybody around here

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send you another one in a few seconds...

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is being planned for next Sunday, May 25th, @ the Afrikan Ancestors Living Theater. Castro, do you have the details on this?

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THE AFRICAN ANCESTORS LIVING THEATER

Invites you to attend
Introduction to DagaraWisdom, Ritual & Cosmology
Part II

This workshop is a continuation of the workshop that took place with Malidoma Some’ on May 10, 2003. During this session we will examine ritual and its implications in community. We discuss rituals as they pertain to the elements, and then enter into ritual space, conducting a ritual of at least one of the five elements in the tradition of the Dagara.



All are invited to come even if you missed part I.

There is no cost to attend, donations are appreciated.



WHEN



Sunday May 25, 2003


WHERE



Ancestor Village

208 S. Pulaski Street, Baltimore, MD 21223

please confirm your attendance by calling 410-566-4600



We will begin at 3 PM. Please bring food and drink for after the ritual.

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I will speak with Tiharqa this week and find out.

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Dr. Some' will be conducting week-end workshops in New York this summer, starting next month. They last about 4 days, and cost $1650. If you need further info inbox me.

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wow!

who's his target audience?

where is he advertising?

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Wise in Council Productions
13 Coonradt RD
Cropseyville, NY 12052

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50 dollars? Yeah riiiiiiight.

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up. So it can stay w/ the Healing wisdom post.

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Taharqa Kiambu, the coordinator of the Malidoma Some' lecture and ritual from 2-3 weeks ago, is under Dr. Some's tutelage, to become a shaman. He is trying to meet with Dr. Some' in Oregon, for a two-week training. He is looking for assistance to make this trip, in terms of donated frequent flyer miles, or monetary donations. Taharqa's goal is to use his training to bring aspects of indigenous spirituality to Baltimore. If you enjoyed the information that was disseminated during the lecture and workshop @ the Ancestors Living Theatre, please offer any assistance that you can, to continue this work. Taharqa may be reached @:

taharqa@ureach.com
410-566-4600
1-866-926-2378

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Spoke to Tiharqa, and he is trying to arrange a workshop similar to the one in NYC (without the same price tag). Inbox me if you are interested.

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what was the "same" price.





>Spoke to Tiharqa, and he is trying to arrange a workshop
>similar to the one in NYC (without the same price tag).
>Inbox me if you are interested.