IN the Depths WE Know.

I am therefore we are.

Embracing one's self becomes an art after the arduous task of arising from the lowest esteem childhood should not have given an individual. The country we live in boasts of its potential to take life with its many weapons and tactics of war with no simplification. There is war, and rumors of more war behind the stamina a warmonger has in a competition with lust a whoremonger has crawling within his or her body. The lack of beauty in a desire is the loss of soul given up, not for adoption, but abandoned by basic misunderstanding of what is basic to life: how to love, and why we love.

God may have made us, but we choose to believe in whatever myth comforts our angst the further we stray from the fundamental elements of truth, and Creation, as was made by what is beyond who we can possibly associate as God. It is our belief in God that stifles us. It is discovering the balance within the Goddess that comes with the Goddess that releases us from the pendulum of trading places with the knowledge of Ma'at's feather, not to judge, but receive the touch of what whispers to us constantly, "I am Life! I am Life! Mother without Father is imbalance leaving a craving for that balance and a return to what works for the I AM."

It is in us all.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 12, 2017

Lemuel, my first born son, kissing Mommy in her last months before her death.

wisdom within simple ones.

the I AM presence of this woman by Johnathan Irving for Enigma Fotos.

"There be four things which are little upon the Earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider takes hold with her hands, and is kings' palaces." ~ Proverbs 30:24-28

 

a Talk to Men

Juliana Daniell 

Juliana Daniell takes in, she says, Eckhart Tolle's words. "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it!" To this she added, "This is so true yet SO hard to implement!🙆🏻🙃 let's learn how to see the positivity in every situation and see how it can impact not only our lives but those around us as well!! Double tap if you're with me!" - October 09, 2016 

One

Never underestimate the power of a woman! It is frequently done by men on the prowl, and deeply embedded in the notions of dominance and supremacy of might over the so-called 'weaker vessel'. Make yourself to not underestimate the undeveloped potential. If you see it participate in its growth. Learn how to see it, and where you fit in to enhance it. It is the responsibility of Eldership and parenting, not dogs on the prowl to develop what a man of knowledge can develop within women.

Two

Redemption, possibilities, promise and power. Four in one is the math of a science, an ideology that needs to see the sacred. It is outside the cruelty of lust with no need for restraint, or artistry that sacred life is developed. It is outside of domestic abuse, rape, and disbanded from the ceremonies men need to become men, and women need to become strong, and sacred in their position and roles.

Three

White women are looking for release from capture. Black women are looking for release from being captured by the ideals set by white women. White women's haughtiness is their terror reflected in what they envy about the African woman, who themselves bound by the torturous nature of white men cannot find consolation in his religion that instructs obedience with his pants down, his heart cold, his eyes evil and distant from the truth of any concept from Creation!

In this dance how is freedom defined and what is freedom, and from what does a woman need to be freed from?

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Dec. 17, 2016





Black men love their black african GODDESS...IN&OUT!

Ready to go, or just ready for her soul to be 'seen'?

The line of questions we learn to ask in school: who, when, what, why, where and how, have to be taught into our spirits and intellectual practice while we are very young. They are like prophecy.

There are indicators of trouble, and vexation to come inside of certain women men will chose to ignore because they wanna get inside her. You have to plow through the strong currents, and the indescribable throb in the loins to find your ears. It is hard, but if you save your seed, you save your life because some women are just bad to have inside your spirit. And then there are the illusions, the faulty ones that judge making assignments of who a woman is because of where she lives, how she carries herself and what she talks about defensively. A man can carry a whole series of misconceptions into the dark believing he has shed light upon something murky when in fact he has covered the light of a soul who has hidden herself to protect herself from men who are predators. Who is fooling who? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Dec. 17, 2016 

Tamara Dobson, actress and fashion model famous during the creative period of Black cinema in the 1970's.

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Tamara Dobson, actress and fashion model. She is best remember for her title roles in the Blaxploitation films, Cleopatra Jones and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. She also appeared in Fuzz, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Chained Heat, Jason of Star Command, & Amazons. At 6' 2", she became a fashion model for Vogue Magazine. She was a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). R.I.P.

Actress and singer Sheila Guyse is remembered for her work in theater, her fabulous voice and her roles in Race films.

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Negro maid, nurse, cook and ex-slave from Texas. circa 1900.

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First Negro model featured in mainstream American ad. The Bulova campaign.

Helen Williams.

Taraji P. Henson, as Katherine Johnson, Janelle Monáe, as Mary Jackson, & Octavia Spencer, as Dorothy Vaughan as their characters in Fox 2000’s 'Hidden Figures' about the mathematicians behind NASA's first successful space missions.

Vulnerability worn by a woman like Sarah Forde with sugar daddies. How different, or is it different on a woman vulnerable to the dirty men she is leery of? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Women inmates at a Women's Only Maximum Security Prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil held an annual beauty pageant there in November of 2015.

the Mysterious of Self

Yara has a gentle beauty to be held. 3

Tiara Kristine Harris - Self Erotic

Self Erotic
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 "I finally ran across words that describe what I have felt, but I couldn't really explain about my sexual energy and actual sex. It baffles people that I Am so Sexual yet sex isn't /hasn't ever been that big of a deal to me. I don't typically get "horny" and I am only aroused or open to sex when there is a purposeful connection or experience necessary for me. For some reason I haven't had physical sexual intercourse in almost three years; yet I Am always in my Sexual Energy..." - Tiara Kristine Harris, transformative healer April 20, 2015

Tiara Kristine Harris naked and unadorned.

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 "The Shaman is self-erotic, in love with her own Body and with the Body of Earth. She heats herself burning off the dross centering herself in her own luminosity. She radiates well-being and self-confidence. Her leadership emerges out of a passion for life and is sustained by balance." - Tiara Kristine Harris April 20, 2015 

Miss Beretta by John Austin in a man's shirt !!!!



portrait of a Southern woman on her porch.

 

Creativity as Creator



Alice in Wonderland working.

Dreams of people's lives come from the Dream of Life. How we see them to live them comes from our dreams. Our dreamtime can be a dismissal of what impedes the flow of creativity and connection to the precious. Jealousy infuses the mind with unreason suspending higher thought lowering the expectations of good outcome. In this state of mind nothing grows and every suspicion is the child of fear. This is a dark mystery. Like all mystery light went first from the black of not knowing. Knowing and understanding how to emote within darkness the dream of new birth can come into light. These reciprocal relationships are weavers who dreamt of us.

 

Gregory E. Woods

Oct. 1, 2015

 

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an introspective by danial gowans a powerful feeling comes from the ancient symbol of women on the young woman's arm and something about the isolation of the subject holding secret knowledge timidly, or gingerly holds meanings on the peripheral of the popular culture. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.2.15  

 

Peace Within You



"simple contemplation spurs complacency and stimulates the soul of one's spirit."
- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
9.10.15

 

DEVOTION honors ...

woman by Fausto Hernandez Photography !!!!

Devotion is stirred and inspired by emotions. When it arises to the surface adoration can well up alongside its dimensions and be mistaken for love, or in some instances, or flashes of inspiration translate itself into love for a person deserving devotion. These interlocking relationships occur quickly giving credence to the notion God could have and did create the world in seven days!

Creativity is a quick process of developing ideas sparked by moments of insight. Inside of the event the speed of creative activity from its starting point of inspiration to the urgency to create is a flash of color, or sound. The celebrated Muse is all parts of these elements and she comes in the guise of the jester, the painter, the songstress, the Sage, the composer, the poet, the statesman, and even the warrior!

Philosophical debates are unnecessary in these processes. Leave that to critics on the outskirts of the Alchemists making art, the strategists studying stratagems of war, or designers developing new fashions, or those who translate colors into sound with surprising ease through their guitars, or flutes. Art is a mistress or a starlet forever faithful to the ideas that flush greens, or yellows, pinks into the foliage, and bring water to the roots of trees in the forests full of life forces that create the sounds in the hunter's world he must be creative within to survive.

The mystical thing about art is its versatility; its ability to be needed in every field, every endeavor mankind needs to survive upon the Earth, our Mother with other people in community. Art is within expressing a need to get out of our Being to participate in the Art of Living. Art is Beauty, and it is trail and conflict. What is beautiful and what challenges us is the art of discovering the depths of what is needed to become one's self, and later a spiritual being grounded in the ancient truths. This is art in relationship to living one's life upon and within the Earth, our Mother!

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 9, 2016






patriotic Black woman 2

Art That Inspires Me 

YOU NEED KNOW HOW IT WORKS

Goddess form in the nude 

Creativity is the quality you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach... How you look at things.. Technique, expertise and knowledge are just tools, the key is to abandon oneself to the energy that fuels the birth of all things. This energy has no form or structure, yet all forms and structures come out of it. It makes no difference what form your creativity takes, it can be painting, singing, planting, cooking or dancing..... The important thing is to be open to what wants to be expressed through you. Remember we don't possess our creations, they do not belong to us. True creativity arises from a union with the divine, with the mystical and the unknowable. Then it is both a joy for the creator and a blessing to others. Love whatever you do. Be meditative while you are doing it.. You are vibrant, you are alive, express your unique ability and talents today. It is possible to create something wonderful out of nothing. - Esnella Wi 11.01.13

MOre To The EYE

an exquisite beauty from a dream of Life. 

"We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human." ~ Neruda

a snap shot of Cosetta Chantal
June 6 , 2014

TRUE LOVE

Lacey Duvall holding hands.

Jada Fire's classic beauty from behind 

True love is not rare. It exists in belief, and lives in truths, and clarity of mind. Love is invisible to the wounded souls, the gossips, manipulators and unappreciated by cynics, and fouled by the powers of dominance. Love isn't rare. It holds hope, keeps the world circulating, propels change, bursts between two lovers in bed into inexplicable meanings, and changes the scope of desperation by its mere touch, or the suggestion of its arrival to a dismal life.

Love is not rare. Love is like the Tao. Love is like Aleph. Love is like the spirit of Budo. God is Love. Love is Ifa. The Goddess is Divinity and her love is divine. Love cannot be contained, but if you want to contain it it will be contained. Such is the nature of all mysteries. True love can be held captive by bitterness, unbelief or disappointments, but no, true love is not rare. Love is because I AM. - Gregory E. Woods 1.10.14

Lovers kiss. 

lovers deep in each other.

The Presence

viviana soldano

viviana soldano 
Sept. 22, 2013

Develop a memory and a respect for the mystery within. It is the universe. You are I AM presence in life, and with a unique story, as important as what we think, ascribe to, and perceive and say about stars above. Knowing this you can shift prophecies, thus altering creation. This aligns you with elemental and substantial powers previously discerned as blasphemous to discuss, seek and develop. It is better to know these things this side of the grave. Why wait to be told on the other side? Imagine the regret and disappointment in yourself realizing you laid yourself captive to the tenets of Belief that shunned and condemned freedom of spirit! 

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10.7.13

FOCUS BEYOND

Running horse

art by  Kristen  - Running Horse  

The Veil Over Humanity

The cycle of birth, old and death reveals much as to the nature of our un-enlightened mind. We are under the veil of inherent slavery to mesmerisms of the media, violence and various subconscious addictions. The 3 attributes of the inner flame must be developed by prayer, decree and meditation. The attributes of wisdom, love and power are the qualities I speak of.

The veil of mesmerism includes being caught by the news and media which sends us perverted images of the inner flame. One good decree for overcoming this is:

In the name of the I AM Presence transmute (3X) all perversions of the news and media which attempt to fascinate and captivate the minds of the torch bearers.

Recently, I had the opportunity to hear a minister from the Congo speak about the veil that is covering humanity. I was very surprised in that it sounded superstitious to me. It wasn't until I had a meditation in which I saw this veil as a covering. Something like a dark cloud.

This is why it is so important that lightbearers and torchbearers use the tools that they have to armor ourselves and our loved ones. Increasingly as we near the time when the consciousness of humanity is moved toward taking it's rightful place as Sons and Daughters of the most High we will be attacked by news and media. We will also be attacked by sounds, rhythms and distorted images which are perversions of the light.

This is not work that I had planned to write about. Sela. The Ascended Masters are sending us light and I AM a humble Torchbearer. 

by Warren 'Atiba' Taylor 1.18.10

elegant Black woman kneeling in the shade 

The Great I AM

Photography by Omer H. Paracha

This art was inspired by cover of Kanye West's new album, "Yeesus"

This is a powerful Medicine Wheel teaching, and it is an extreme assertion to the mind of many a fundamentalist of Islamic and Christian leanings, and would lead them to harsh judgement, and condemnation of the artist and his conceptual pull towards 'divinity from within'. One person may be a Seeker who discovered with delight the indwelling power of Creation and the Creator exists not as an intellectual abstraction, or a distant authority but as a living entity within and throughout the essence of Life. These people immediately grasp the sanctity of Knowing, and their presence upon the Earth, our Mother transforms darker properties of coarse elements such as judgement into forms of light. That is how enlightenment works.

I guess it is save to say, "Beauty and Art are in the eye of the beholder, as well as the Sacred is within the body of Belief."

The deep probes into the psyche have traditionally been the way of the Shaman, the Healer who took care of the People in smaller social structures (sedentary tribes, towns, nomadic tribes). But, the time of the one-on-one tutelage to pass down spiritual and sacred knowledge to an apprentice has been forced to become an old model. The population has exceeded any projected number. Only the dreams of Seers, long dead saw these vast numbers of people upon the planet. Moses saw it, but few solutions to the complexity of living were revealed, and the art and responsibility of taking care of the soul, and the collective of souls (community) was left to the design of each era's spiritual people. This form of survival challenged the emotions and the tactics, and responsibilities of traditional healers, and Shaman forcing a creativity upon the lot of them to 'see' into the futures of their times.

My Grandfather-Teacher, Ojuku, was slow and meticulous. Our one-on-ones held us tight together for decades. I felt the shifts in my being within the context of our very private and intimate settings. The secrecy was a style of learning. It was linked to the dangers he faced first accepting and then learning his craft alone for many years. I asked him once to write a book.

He said, "No. You will write my book."

Interesting aside: Old Man was right. I would write his story in my living and service. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.29.13

from collection of Hans Bayer
August 28, 2013

To See Yourself in Others



I am the future

Everything about her says, 'I am the future!" The lingering question, "How do I facilitate a successful future for our children" is the next quest of the Elders. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (4.14.15)

 

O, My God!

The battle of good and evil continues... 

Good: Everywhere I AM, Good is with me. 

Evil: Everywhere I AM, Evil is with me, so when you meet me, who wins? 

Good: Good always conquers evil. Evil: Evil always conquers

Good, hence there are no Good people left. 

Good: I AM Good. I AM here. I even see the Good in you. You are not evil. 

 Evil: You are not good. I'll show you...I exist and when I am finished, there will be nothing left of you. 

Good: I'll show you and we shall see that we are both a part of me, able to live in unity.

Myrties Eve Torres Davis

5.4.14

DARK I AM

dark skin affirmation 

SHE SAID 'I AM'

The Old Crones Corner
March 14, 2013

"as we age we change, as does our perceptions."

I AM OLDER

actress Halley Mills at 65 yrs. of age

The manifestation of the I AM presence reflects, or it hides. It is like the truth. It is the truth. Its existence is not dependent upon our belief or disbelief. It simply is. How it is perceived is dependent on who is understanding, or misunderstand I AM. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of the Sacred Medicine Wheels 5.7.13

Pregnant divine form of a mother lying naked in the sun

Reflect into the Future I AM

Toni Braxton in a splendid moment in time !!!!

How do we as elders extend our hands to the upcoming events to be shaped by our grandchildren and their children's children is fundamental to who we are right now! There are a variety of ways and techniques to do this work, and it all begins with one question: "What is your spiritual responsibility?" 

If you don't understand the two questions it is because your life-force is linked to a commitment to die, mediocrity and an origin in the narrowness of selfishness. I am not interested in trying to dissuade anyone from that path. I have no interest in the process. What I am interested in is training, legacy and the generations to come and the presence and influence of our ancestors. It is a worldview old as time on Earth, our Mother from a tradition deep into the ground we walk upon and exalted by the forces of Life in the air surrounding us the way water embraces land. 

"What is your spiritual responsibility?" - Gregory E. Woods, 11.2.14 

innocence of Nadine Sage !!!!

IN Light

Star child 

"From the moment of conception your life on earth has begun. You have made a choice to come here, to further progress on your soul’s journey, of becoming more aligned with God’s Truth and the Divine Love that envelops everything and everyone.  Take a good close look at all the aspects of your life up until now, and notice the patterns that you may have repeated along the way. Every day, there is an opportunity to start afresh, to see through the eyes of a new born babe, who is experiencing with a curious wish to learn and who lights up from within, at every new discovery. As you take each step, so shall I be there! Every choice you make, each thought you have, all the feelings that flow, so am I there with you through it all. You have never truly known of the Fullness of my Presence until this very moment and this is how it had to be, so that you could move more deeply through the experiences of life’s journey, tumbling and falling, flowing and forging new pathways, new endeavors, into more wholeness." - by Jean Lluc Bozzolli