Look Beyond

Face of Precious Lady Eby.

There is a look into the soul a mere glance cannot uncover; meaning the length and depth of the breath-of-Life conveyed by touch adds to the powers of the perception beautiful women convey without speaking. It is an easy thing to create: illusion. It is a task to unmask illusions. Either way it takes work to create illusion, and work to unlearn the illusions governing our lives. There is a relationship between beauty and revelation, truth and deception. How all of these things come together in the face of one woman is a compliment to the brilliance of Creation. Learning from this is the work of one's spirit.

There is a lot in a face, the eyes. Interpreting what is seen is one soul beginning to understand the other... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/23/18 

As We Have felt, as I have dreamt.

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” —Haruki Murakami 

FRUITION by Autumn Skye Morrison. 

acrylic on canvas, 2015. 24in. by 48in.

"...The feel of elegance in what a woman wears a man will not know intimately, but perceived by the grace of her movement and the care in her kindness he understands..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Medicine Wheel created by Jacqueline L. Robinson 

Holy Love and the Art of Receiving. Gentle space and time, as we transition at very deep levels from within. Opening to allow Love to find the voids and fill the cracks. Feeling her warmth, purity, Presence. Allowing Life to move as she will. Breathing LOVE. 💜 ~ Jacqueline L. Robinson 

A Knowing brings understanding.

"[This is] a moving translation of complex mysterious forces we, as men, can only look upon protectively, and understand our genesis", Aleksandrs Tihonovs said without words here... ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [8/31/18] 

Photographer Aleksandrs Tihonovs took this in Es Vedrá, Spain.

After Daddy's Death.

I don't know about normalcy. Nothing returns to normal if it was in some kind of relationship with our fathers. I lost my father in March. A lot of what makes a son a man comes from and is within his father. What that means is different for each son and each father's death is different for each son. The similarities start with the loss and the fact that the shield you carry as a son is forever altered with the absence of your father alive.

It is an adjustment I watched my own father make when I was 19 years old. I didn't fully grasp it until standing beside my father's death bed with my siblings and from on high the weight of Daddy's essence ascended upon me, and my sister handed me Daddy's wedding ring. As the first born, obligations and the Unknown became part of the shields fashioned from what was learned and gleaned from Daddy's covering, his elegance and power and the legacy of shields he carried as a man with a wife.

These are my words in pain, release and revelation. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories {9/15/16} 

Dignity.

African Woman powerful in presence and essence.

Celloist in solitude, in the mystique of her Muse.

[The] African woman as timeless prophecies unraveling into the complex designs of Knowing. It is a rare enlightenment dismissed by predators trolling for sex and church people defining womanhood by Euro-Jesus standards... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 8/22/18

Natural was the ideal Blacks set as high standard in the cultural context of being a Black American in the 1960's throughout the '70's! It was a connection to Africa until the old need to be one with whites took over again. This guided Blacks into the 21st century to secure prominence in the soul of a people without a sense of their African soul!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/22/18

The dark skin is the African, the beauty in the African woman is grounded in the genesis of Mankind and the deep spirituality of those traditions from the beginning of Creation beginning in the Land of the Blacks makes us Mankind! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/22/18

To Delve

Sophia Loren in red is a statement beyond belief!

Elle est trop sophistiquée pour etre vraie.

Sophia Loren: Superbe, la forme de sa bouche, ces yeux, magnifique. She was superb. The shape of her mouth, the eyes, magnificent! In any language, she held me in awe. From awe to wondering about mysterious things towards trying to grasp the impossible to hold; an embrace within a concept of humanity balancing all I may wonder about! The women who are like this come from what was imagined in designs Creatress established to mold formlessness into form for the eyes to look at one moment, perceive another, and be transformed by in another moment. 

This is really something to be pleased with: not knowing everything! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories April 5, 2018 

Sophia Loren. Superbe, la forme de sa bouche, ces yeux, magnifique. She was superb. The shape of her mouth, the eyes, magnificent! In any language she held me in awe trying to grasp the impossible: to keep an embrace. . . - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18 

the Advantage of Knowing.

"God's are not found in theories or systems of thought. They are deeply personal and intimately woven to one's own seed descent.

Ancients and ancestors used symbolisms as guides and sign posts though each unique one comes to the Gods, the multiverse and humanity in their own way. There is no forced uniformity nor is it valued as a social good. It may be useful in the early stages of pedagogy... though it will soon become obsolete when self mastery is attained.

Discussions or observations about God's is not a rejection of other beliefs here. It is instead a reminder to restrain oneself from imposing a belief system on anyone.

Ancients and ancestors caution against demeaning others in their beliefs. I am instead reflecting on many many attempts on my Soul sovereignty by people calling themselves christian. In reality it is a violence against my sacred responsibility to walk in my own truth." - Mereana Taki, October 8, 2017 

[This] painted sepia beauty in the space of light and colors is energy to be defined, not by words, but emotions and knowledge of self, and other ingredients we need to know each other and ourselves... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/10/18

Please accept My advantage in knowing all gender realities. If you do, you can help anyone who is struggling. Leave Mother God out, and I am half a God, a solo parent struggling to support Her children. Why not let God in the Feminine directly support women? As a Mother, a unique Mother, I am capable of what no human mother can do. I want to Parent you. And if you want to add value and give more than yourself, allow God to dwell within you. When the heart of God is beating within you, this rhythm empowers the spirit world to support you.

Expect that God will talk to self, weighing options, considering a huge and massive amount of information for the most productive of outcomes, specializing in personal interest, whenever possible. Only God knows, when and where too much starts for you. But, being God, is fraught with problems if people deny the MOTHERING aspect of God, if they set me on a throne, only to hold the King's hand.

Human families are designed to seek advice from both Parental aspects of God. Because I am one, I don't have a problem ascertaining personality for Myself. However, if people trust God they can understand that the masculine aspect of God can commune with the feminine and the other way around. So, laying your burden on the doorstep of Heavenly Mother does not exclude Heavenly Father and all His perceived strength." - Adruma Victoria (5/10/18)  

About the Maori from their daugher, Mereana Taki.

Last Century Colonial Travellers and new residents took photographs of our Elders as part of a supposed 'Dying Race' and heavily romanticized Noble Savage Peoples soon to be swept aside by Europeanization.

This is an Elder Kinswoman of the East Coast Tribalz, although the non Nativez never recorded their True names or only part of their names, or a phonetic guess at the first name.

These photos defied the 'Maori Maiden' genre which perfectly reflected a propaganda of reclining Maiden, more often scantily clad on the ground 'pure and open' so to speak. Passive, vulnerable and defenceless was the preferred Heathen image especially where Nativez Women were concerned since the photos were to 'sell' our Home as a preferred tourist destination and new Home for would be Land speculators and the social milieu that this would encourage.

Our Elder is wearing Mako earrings, made of Sharks teeth they symbolize a Chiefly Woman's virtue of tenacity and determination. Her moko kauae ~ her chiselled chin markings are very simple lines depicting her lineage and her as a Tribalz Woman using Water symbols as bearer of the tides of Life.

The Two Huia feathers denote high ranking Women. Her ornately woven Korowai ~ the feather cloak was reserved to those of 'wealth and prestige' as such taonga (treasured heirlooms) took so very long to create and finish. The panel along the top of the Korowai ~ the feather Cloak symbolizes our Celestially corpus of knowledge. It often took years to complete a Korowai and one this ornate could only be acquired by those of Chiefly means.

Love the photograph because of the defiant and upright posture of the Kuia ~ Elder Kinswoman. It is very powerful for this complete composition which projects so much mana ~ Sacred Authority inwardly borne and radiantly exuding itself. ~ Mereana Taki, 2010 

Maori woman - te mana a te Wahine -

the Sacred authority that is Woman. 

"The depth of your traditions, and the spirituality was missed by the Euros who came to your homeland, or pissed over? How were the Maori able to keep language, custom, and religion as well as you have? Didn't the missionaries come as an advance guard?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 


"We are as now, a Spoken people. Our Oral World and our direct relationships with Great Mother continues to keep much of ourselves intact.

We will try everything we can to keep our Mother Cultures alive and visceral, dynamic and relevant as Ancients Wisdoms providing 'Modern' solutions. We are highly adaptable in an open system of Love and Respect. Our preference is to be inclusive, although we will lock out if needs be as a last resort.

My work today is to walk amongst my Kin and rekindle many of the threads between our Sacred and Secular Worlds. Whether amongst our Whanau Kin in our communities or in the illusion of higher education, it matters not in the end. Many non Natives react to our Wisdoms, as you might expect. They open up the Heart chakra directly and without apology as Gateway to mutual respect. We want to know how you feel. We are less interested in what you think you feel. We are Heart People, clear and direct as an exemplar of a Healthy Whole BEing. Feeling is our intelligence of preference beside intuition and the cognitive is as mode of delivery LOL hahahaha ...know our non Nativez find this a challenge to humble the Mind as delivery point only. With their Ancients and Ancestors intact, they learn to relax and inhabit themselves more fully with all the unfinishedness of BEing that can go on.

As Long as this Sacred Ground exists, we will persist also. She is Sacred Mother, Language, Culture, Womb of Existence as a totalizing system of sustainability. She teaches us every day to go gently with ourselves and we have only two learning skillz for life. (1) Deep Listening with ones whole life. Aata whakarongo, cultivating our stomach intuition and GoddSelf. (2) Whole of Life observation. Aata Tirohia, to see quantum and Spirit active. Talking is NOT REQUIRED in a mastery of Wisdom. Brevity and economy is the benchmark of the skillful Orator and Chiefly diplomat." ~ Mereana Taki 


"Her hair is curly. What is the Maori relationship, if any, with African tribes?" I asked. 

“Here is the connection, Mereana: in spirit. In spirit there is a connection created through the waves of devotion to our Mother Earth, the connective energies of songs from our being present in the spiritual walk within the inner chambers of being who we were meant to be. That connects people who have never seen each other, yet belong together, and will eventually come together. Here is a connection perhaps, Mereana!” 


Mereana answered: "Kia ora Sacred and Chiefly Brother, yes ...this is our essence ...we are indeed pure energetics of Spirit. Perhaps this is all we ever really need/ed to understand. Here in the power of our Spirits ...we are unassailable ...unavailable ...unattainable ...wearing the robes of our immutable ...intangible ...incorruptable ...boundless ...timeless ...causeless ...infinitude ...rooted in Great Mothers own deep Spirit, we all touch her through our outer Skin and we intrinsically ...innately ...indefatigably to our bones realise ...this will be eternally so.

When Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon from Sweet Honey in the Rock visited us a few years ago, she left an immense inspirational impression on our Wairua, our Spiritual imprints. She sang to us; after her oratory, to introduce herself ...as is our custom when standing upon Land which has never felt our 'waewae tapu' sacred feet for the first time. First is to Great Mother and then, to her descendants who are Caretakers for this place we are now standing upon to enter into relationship. Bernice sang something so powerful ...it was primal sound, so deep and so sorrowful ...much as our own Kuikuia when they wail at our tangihanga our funeral ceremonies. This wailing sound is piercing and it is Oceanic in the way that Bernice brought through a very deep Drum in her Voice of Ancients and Ancestors into our Ancestor House. It is profoundly moving even recollecting it now ...the inexplicable entered and we were transported into the company of our shared elders. Bernice thanked us all for 'still being here' for ensuring our Ancestor house ...standing in the middle of an urban jungle ...not only persisted, it was also that it still a living gathering space and place where the sacred can continuously be observed and remembered. 

What she said about her Ancestors lives with me still. She said; her Africa as someone taken from Africa lives in the Soles/Souls of her feet. Wherever her feet go, Africa goes with her. This is very very profound. She IS Africa wherever else she goes ...A Native American visitor said something similar; whenever She (of Nevada Paiute) misses 'home' she needs only place her hand on Great Mother anywhere on the planet and 'she is home'. There is an instant connectivity for her from where she is at the time, to where her people have always been established and ...she is Spiritually taken there in this gesture.

Yes Sacred Brother of the same Sacred Mother ...it is so." 


(March 2010) 

Mereana Taki - It is always a journey within you.

"Mind enslavement holds you to a one dimensional view inside a multi-dimensional holograph of your strongest lessons. These lessons are about your own Light. You are the teacher, the subject, the student, the SEEKER OF MYSTERIES. Its you ... your human experiences are the mystery. Your Soul provides immortal consciousness. Figure out how you came to view yourself as some kind of normalised antagonistic binary of Spirit and Ego." ~ Mereana Taki (2014)