Bayo Akomolafe ~ Yoruba Tradition & Post-Activism for our times

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Banyen Books & Sound hosted this online talk with Bayo Akomolafe, May 2020. Bayo Akomolafe lectures and gives keynote speeches internationally, and is Chief Curator for The Emergence Network. Globally recognized for his poetic and unconventional take on global crisis and social change, Bayo was awarded the Global Excellence Award by Future Shapers. He hosts the online writing course, We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence. His book These Wilds Beyond Our Fences (forward by Charles Eisenstein) is a foray into the ordinary which the extraordinary is always trying to become.
Bayo Akomolafe: bayoakomolafe.net
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[@TiffanySoulbird]

Thank you for mentioning that European woman who came to Osun's shrine...the way you describe Yoruba culture as being changing and not static fills in a piece of the puzzle for me. Whenever i feel myself descending into resentment over white colonization, i remember that woman. I need to read about her again.

[@listminusv]

wonderful!!!

[@serenaviktor5664]

Am on a journey and good to know that my ancestral prompts to unschool my son could be the awkwardness I need to embrace. And also the intuitive knudges to engage my child as someone who knows more (an elder therefore whose prompts must be taken more seriously is emerging in my household).

[@StanleyGemmell]

Straight outta IFA for the win

[@sweetangie4575]

May Ifa mend our broken world. Ire o!

[@somatictransformatio]

ah, such wisdom... to learn to ask new questions.. thank you, Bayo

[@artistasfamily]

Thank you for sharing and doing your work.

[@seraphim1069]

"Its the sweat that makes it sweet" WORD!

[@jenniferk8077]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@freefromaddictions8876]

Keep representing bro!!!

[@darkhorse1773]

I love this so much, ~ , the ExtraOrdinary, is always trying to Be-come Ordinary. . Light itSelf, god itSelf,,the Extra-Ordinary Essence, our true Nature, is so wanting to Be expressed as the ordinary Human. the HU longing to Become physical. What is stopping this expression? what is the nature of this persistent resistance in the Human? It should be as easy as a resounding "Yes, god, Yes'.. of Free Choice. but, to melt the resistance we must utterly Surrender to Love... but,,, how DO we surrender? How DO we melt, and let Love have its Sacred , Intimate Way with us? with our bodies, with our minds, and hearts, and eyes, and hands? is it even possible? is it even possible, to Be-come so utterly thoroughly physically penetrated , permeated, drenched , saturated, occupied, Anima-ted by the ExtraOrdinary /Spirit/ Love/ god . Or, we 'know' that We already are, That. So Ham. Ham Sa. Sat Chit Ananda,,..but, whatever the 'resistance' is, is damming the River, sullying the Brilliant Clarity of Love, that LONGS to Be, Us. You, Me, We. All. what a conundrum is this Being HU and man, Light and Form. Clarity and Confusion. What a riotous and bawdy guest house is this Be-ing HU man . xoxoxox

[@adstix]

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