WHEN WE AWAKEN: Be Firm To Affirm.

"Some things are just average, other things are spellbinding!"

Adventure has its mystery wrapped in what evolves within the soul engrossed in adventures. The few who do have adventures explore. It is the exploration that designs the journey. In the U.S. women can find reasons not to explore. Those who do follow their impulses create engaging forces that have to travel. In the end of each story are people who resent adventurous spirits.

"Do not let their voices divide your impulse," said the old to the young. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18

TERROR

In American mythology nudity, speed, sound, movement suggest the dangers of American life can be controlled on a motorcycle. It is all in the dream of white American manhood... 

The actor, James Dean, amongst other young white men, famous for their fashionable aloofness, their rebellious attitudes, set the tone of disenchantment with the 'Establishment' (as expressed in the 1960's). Motorbikes were symbols of rebellion since the 1950's, and into the 1970's as the myth of white disenchantment became more and more violent until organization skills turned motorcycle gangs into business aligned with the mythology, and value system of colonization, conquest and terror their ancestors invested in and employed. 

The recycling of ideologies is composed to continue to stir violence in white American blood. Donald Trump is deeply intuned to its byproducts, its presence and his duty to white Americans, and their sense of global dominance.  

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18  

"Women in the 1970's were from the previous decade where the gift they gave their daughters originated from. Unappreciative today, white women are repeating themselves in their fights for baffling reasons. 1970's white women like this had a freer tone in their voices. The all woman aspect in their carriage promised to further explore what that meant. Historical fears blocked a lot of that . Today, fearful of white men white women hesitate." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

"Women who kill have crossed a line in the choices their gender has to make with their powers of birth." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/23/18

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"London Hart's delicate beauty's strengths translate from intangible elements supporting her essential to become a woman with depth, one hopes..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

See Within.

Mystique of angst, or separatism, or being alone with one's thoughts is its own introduction to growing, to maturing. The advent of cell phones and gadgets capable of pulling consciousness into vacuous spheres has widened the gulf between conscious awakening and deliberate retreat into unawareness. In youth, this trend is a dangerous form of suicide and/or retreat into insanity in the cultural context of American society. - Gregory E Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/25/18 

The cats purr...

TOUCH.

Fatherhood is the theme here. This shot reminds me of the way 

Black fathers prior to the 1980's tried to invest in their sons. 

photo by Russell Frederick. (2015)

II. 

The mystique.

Mommy and many other women I studied growing up held their mystique quietly. Their silence around their mystique bound this particular knowledge in an unseen perception felt by touch. Touch is unseen translating one essence to another. Ignorance makes it an elusive serpentine energy, embracing the essential within what balances a son is first insinuated by their mother's touch.

Touch.

There is that word again. Touch begins renewal, awakening and feeling. 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

10/30/18 

the Okey Doke gets the weak mind.

Old Wisdom.

Dark and forbidden by John Santerineross

Self Betrayal by Gerbie Pabilonia 

posed by Sahara Isidro Perez.

The chambers of thought from within climb over and above doubt in one's self only by choice. It is always a choice. Choice makes its way into a path we follow, or create. It is magic the way this works for the good, but the tragedies otherwise coming from bad choices unleash our shadows into the awareness of others. Shadows and light. They are calling us to ourselves. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/12/18

shadow of a woman.

Beginning

"One day, maybe, the Women's Movement will grow up to this level of Being that begins from their natural center point. Perhaps, but those white women step on their feet, step all over themselves, not knowing they are lying to themselves in their actions, policies and non-approaches to reconciliation. They are so steeped in being part of the ruling class they cannot see the sisterhood they excuse themselves from by action, belief and understanding of their place above all others in a white world, as their ancestors established...

For those 'other' women, of the darker hue, they need to let lose the feeling that there is a sisterhood. There are Sisterhoods from a deep spiritual nature, but the Women's Movement is a political movement wrestling without the spiritual components of sisterhoods common to our lexicon from our ancient times! ..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/21/17

"Feminine Awakening with Natalie Brooks is a path that bridges feminine spiritual awakening with in-depth personal and soul healing." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Said that.

Laughing from the deep places within increases life forces like no medication

can contribute to Life. Laughter is life flow. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

"The source of a true smile is an awakened heart."

~ Thich Nhat Hahn

Jan Rodgers just looks like she has dared and confronted Life.

See Her Anew

"This puts me into the mind, or the sense of a drawing of a sophistication in a Black woman's heightened awareness. Know who the artist is?" ~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/3/18 

Masters

During our journey through life, we will have an Ascended Master or Masters working with us. As our soul evolves, these will often change, as they are there to assist us through certain initiations in the inner planes, and also to assist with higher teaching, guiding and most importantly, as mentor. There are Male and Female Ascended Masters, and therefore then they are what one calls in the inner planes the Christed Ones. This means that they have attained the highest Christed Consciousness.
Most of us work with a specific Cosmic Master Ray, which we anchor in and there are 12 of these currently on planet earth. 

Each Ascended Master also works with an assigned Cosmic Master Ray, and the Macho Chohans, are the Group Leaders of the Ascended Masters, and thus hold the Chohan Title of the Higher Mastership in that particular Ray. 

Sometimes we may work with more than one ray, depending on our soul, and will have different master working with us. 

You normally have ONE OVERLIGHTING Ascended Master who will stay with you during the course of your Incarnation, and serves as Mentor and Guide. Some, like me, have more than one, and therefore then these will always be present during initiations in the inner planes, or anointing ceremonies. 

Ascended Masters are our older Brothers and Sisters, highly Evolved Souls, and there are many of them. The Ones currently working with us, all have had incarnations on planet earth, and mastered all the lessons in this toughest soul school. 

However at this time many other Ascended Masters and Beings, are here who are coming in from other galaxies and star system to assist with the massive shifts in consciousness. 

Of course, then there are the Cosmic Logoi, Melchizedeck, Lenduce, and Melchior, who hold the Galactic and Universal Logos status, and thus work on galactic and cosmic scale. 

(Judith Kusel)
http://www.judithkusel.com

Other America. 4

the Deep Contradiction(s).

"Flag stance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all..." 

Klan's contradiction in innocence.

German soldiers captured by Americans during second world war. 5,000 Germans settled in the U.S. after their release.

Amish boy farming by Teko Alejo. 2017. 

Outbreak: Roaming through the paradigms.

Youth is supposed to belong and come from innocence and the exploration of what it is to emerge from it with questions and answers. Taken away youth is violated. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/17/17 

Jade Nile's innocence is her advantage for one, and disadvantage to what stakes a woman in her values. "Is that so?" one would ask of her, a woman whose punany is her meal ticket, and cost paid for fame. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/17/17 

Reacting to the visual of two Black men, Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown, hung from a telephone pole, by a mob of 500 white men, women and children, October 8, 1902, in Newbern, Tennessee; who refused the assessment of a Criminal Court Judge Maiden pleading for them to wait for a trail the next day! They couldn't. They didn't. These were white people acting out the conditioning from their homelands. 

Reading the reactions of Black American women is painful, but laced with truthful insights, and the nuances of clarity the general population practices not looking their way. One woman, Sandra Mitchell said: 

"Black Lives Matter. This goes to show the horrific moments our black people had to go through in those days. Nowadays, we have mental lynchings which is similar to physical lynchings! Graphic picture; but, needed for us to see what they've endured. But, God!. . ."

For those who care, the pain of women speaking from the pain in their birth places hurts the ears, and stabs into the heart of being African in America! It took me two days to find and unearth my words to say: 

"... Sandra, the depth of your pain is a recollection you didn't have to live, but you feel. For that it is good because it keeps the spirits of our ancestors as a cry echoing in daily life. Whites try to minimize the strength and the power of what is your angst, but the echoes persist as white men kill without regard for the 'why' of their way, of their spiritual make up. What force keeps them at bay?

So far, there isn't one. Not even Jesus has that power! Maybe, if women were connected to their wombs, and developed themselves to use those powers from on high, and from depth within, changes will occur from deep within? Maybe, but that requires awakening and the cultural dictates people sleep, waiting for a Messiah!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/8/17 

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.

Desire in Fashion. Impeccability en Vogue.

Tara Lynn posing for Vanity Fair Italy

Hat upon a mature woman's head is different from the escapism much younger women entrap themselves within out of not knowing. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.8.16

Military service changes and shifts sexual energies in men and women. It is dangerous for women like Amy, who see advantages in sexual prowess. It is dangerous for men who take advantage of women like Amy. This round of effort to be nasty with each other, and maintain a sense of decorum is a round about way women and men dance with each other denying on one hand that the genders can be civil when in fact war and aggression stir sexual energies. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Jan. 22, 2017)

Hats have their way of creating and adding to a woman's mystique the way clothes are the mystique of a woman's body. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1.2.17

Need to Know

Exploring one's being is in essence essential to discovering what lies within the soul's shadows created by the light that followed us from before our births through the birth canal to our lives on Earth, our Mother."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.9.16 

photo: Lady Riri 

INDICATION of Purpose.

Candy Flossin

Candy Flossin's indication of purpose is in the question she poised. "Which one U hittin' first, The Blunt, Brandy or Candy?" To which a young cat, Eric DemetriGiovanni Sims, quickly responded saying, "Roll the blunt, lick the candy, wrap the blunt, sip the brandy, light the blunt, lick the candy, then candy all night."  

A point in life comes and it will come when the end game is enveloped in questions centering around worth and purpose. At the end of not fully understanding the power of the punany is a story of an empty hole in the soul, a broken something or other rattling around the chambers of the heart, and a gnawing sense that you may never regain what was once mysterious, sacred and formidable a force in Nature born from your own nature!

There is a cost to not knowing who you are and what are the powers invested within you from the Creator, who is a She over the powers of the Womb. Then again consciousness may never arrive inebriated or high. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Sept. 13, 2016

Sacred Prostitution:
The Whore and the Holy One,
a paper by Elizabeth Cunningham
prepared for The New Seminary

I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me,
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves
And do not banish me from your sight…

For I am the first and the last
I am the honored one and the scorned one,
I am the whore and the holy one…

I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name…

Excerpts from "The Thunder, Perfect Mind",THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY.

Jada Fire is one of the most tragic of whores.

Sacred Whore ? Is there a transition from a common whore to a sacred one? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Gaps in the Thoughts

simplicity of a black on white ensemble.

There is a gap between youth and old age that isn't a distance but a journey. There is an illusion old people like to fall into: youth can be extended. There are fears inherent to youth of old age and dying, and amongst the old is the dread of dead for lives under lived. For those schooled in their spirit to be wise elders death is a release they prepare others to feel as a good legacy. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories April 28, 2017

90 year old woman. Sho' nuff fine!

Unaware thinking they are hip.

Nothing stylish, hip or reminiscent of the splendor of the resilience of African women in the mindless habit of staring at their phone. It speaks not of strength. The perception of awareness is not present in the unawareness of being absorbed by narrow focus. This era is a gift for predators, and killers and other nefarious people left out of the deluge of prosperity, and separated from the illusion of self-importance.

There is no power in the posture of being unaware. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/28/17

Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks

Eartha Kitt a long time ago purred, "It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."

Yeah, she said that but she was a mysterious woman who kept her past and her origin story behind a mist of sorts. She exuded an intangible that made relationships with her a dream that may never come. Eartha Kitt, and Angie Dickinson and similar complexes. Men wanted them, but could not fathom the configurations the women presented to them. That mystery kept them desirable into their old age. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

I am Beautiful 365

Touch.

3rd eye a kitten has.

Maitrieya Sandess. Standing in beauty. [May 2017]

It doesn't interest me what you
do for a living. I want to know
what you ache for, and if you
dare to dream of meeting your
heart's longing....
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire with me
and not shrink back.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself, and if you truly like
the company you keep in the
empty moments - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Maitrieya Sandess. Chakras on her shirt.

"Consciousness flows only through; each and every action or feeling stems from either a blocked or open chakra. What do yours look like? I have some I am currently working on...everything you are flows from and through them. Be your own life source." ~ Maitrieya Sandess [May 20, 2017]

Come Listen, Come Know ...

asana by the pool.

Yesterday ·

The sleep the soul needs to meditate requires an intention to bend or flow with the tides of water we all care within ourselves. It is a mystery to know how important it is to know one's self. It is an inspiration to share one's spirit if it is enlightened.

"What are our gifts if not for others?" said the old man to the child.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Aug. 18, 2016  

Anne Rose touching her toes.