The Seed

“The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!”
 

-Don Miguel Ruiz 

#FertileIntelligence 

 

 

 

 

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-Dominique

Rocket: A Poem By Dominique

To know me, to know me
I can tell you, I don't make it easy
To be honest, I'm still learning myself
There are parts of me that I turned off, hidden for years now
If I didn't, I don't think I could function as a "normal" person in this society

I was born an Artist, something that I hide
Here to "starve" that's what they say, Give your heart and soul for little to no pay
I've got book smarts too....

but no matter what I do my he[art] always goes back to Art

Tragedy

There are moments when I'm immersed in my craft and I've never felt so alive
I MEAN, MY GOD I'VE NEVER FELT SO A-L-I-V-E!
Never have I felt so close to God than through ancient movements
I almost feel like I can fly
Every time it is spiritual...

So, maybe if you want to get to know me, you should start by dancing with me
Experience how my eyes light up with Hope
How my hips sway with the same enthusiasm as my Ancestors did when they heard the drums
And feel my heartbeat jump from excitement with the possibility that maybe---
I can fly.

NEW MUSIC ALERT: SOLO brings that 70's vibe back with 'Nothing'

SOLO has just dropped a new song that is sure to get your head nodding and fingers snapping!
With a laid back 70's vibe and pure raw soulful vocals, this song is surely one to put on your playlist!



Check it out below and if you dig it, Share it!

Chaka Khan turned 60 years young on March 23rd and to celebrate her b-day and 40 years in the music business she is doing "100 Days Of Chaka" where she will post pics and videos on her website ( www.chakakhan.com ) 

Last Tuesday, Chaka celebrated her b-day in NY and SOLO (the group) [ www.solothegroup.com ] were asked to sing "Happy Birthday!" to the Legend. What an honor!

Check out pics and video below:

Thank you @RolandMartin for posting the video!

[pics via zimbio]

Quotes for the New Year!

"Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the forces of passions, and to enable the imagination to enlarge the object, and make it the most desirable." ~Mary Wollstonecraft

"If we listened to intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." ~Annie Dillard 

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it brusied or misunderstood." ~Audre Lorde

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." ~Pablo Picasso

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." ~Denis Waitley

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen." ~Frances Hodgson Burnetr



"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~Roald Dahl



"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ~Sameul Beckett

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...only then will you learn the game". ~Winston Churchill



"The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are." ~Esther Hicks

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~Albert Einstein

Video Of The Day...

Bernard Wright
'Who Do You Love?'

YAS! This is one of my favorite songs and the video is SO CUTE! I love the part when they're rolling around...lol

Bonus Video:

Bernard Wright performing 'Endangered Species' in the  Wayne Shorter Band.

Aha! I see what they did there....

Earlier I was jammin' out to Sananda Maitreya  formerly known as the artist Terence Trent D'Arby on spotify and his song called 'To Know Someone Deeply is To Know Someone Softly' came on. As soon as I heard it I instantly recognize the beat. 

*sings* "Summer raiiiiinnn"- the song sounded just like Carl Thomas song "Summer Rain" or rather Thomas sounded like Terence Trent D'Arby.

So, I did some research and found out Carl Thomas & TTD both sampled the GENIUS that is Stevie Wonder 'Summer Soft' and Carl Thomas used TTD's version/beat.


SO, the music geek in me was overly excited about this and thought I would share. lol



Here are all three songs below:

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Favorite Youtuber

Infinite Waters (Diving Deep)

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kemetprince1

A Beautiful Poem.......

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars....."

Elza Soares Appreciation

Elza Soares is a famous Brazilian samba singer.

"Time After Time..."

Ahhhhhh....such a magical song.

Cyndi Lauper: 

Here's a couple of renditions of the song"Time After Time" -

Lil Mo: First time hearing this one, she sounds great.

Miles Davis: 

For all you 90's babies:

Eva Cassidy: I really felt the emotion in this one. Got a little teary-eyed, too. Beautiful.

Javier Colon: 

Rob Thomas:

Cassandra Wilson: Wooooh-chile. She smoothed it out on this one.

Which one is your favorite?

Warrior Women, Part I

The Amazons Of Dahomey

Rani Laskhmibai, Queen Of Jhansi

Maria Quiteria

Queen Nzinga

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JAMS

LATOIYA WILLIAMS

Yaaaaaaaaaas! THE JAM. Love her voice.
"Fallen Star"

FLY GYPSY


I was really feeling this song when it first came out, cool duo.
"You"

TAYLOR DAYNE

"Tell It To My Heart"

Tell it to my heart, 
I can feel my body rock, Every time you call my name! *groovin'*

"Love Will Lead You Back"

NOVEL

Remember his song "Peach"? He has been out for a while. Here's two of my fave songs from him.  

"Her"

"Makes You Happy"

So beautiful you are, I will never take for granted

Much more than a star, See ya' like a planet

This is MY JAM.

GROOVE THEORY

"Come Home"

Love the vibe of this track. 

Books

KARMIC ASTROLOGY
By Dorothee Koechlin de Bizemont





Couldn't find an overview for this book, I do know it's in French and came out in 1983. One of the main reasons I wanted to read it is because I found one VERY short excerpt from the book that talks about the Jupiter retrograde in the 8th house past life connection. I can't seem to find the entire book in English  :(




BLACK GENESIS: 

The Prehistoric Origins Of Ancient Egypt

By Robert Bauval & Dr. Thomas Brophy

While watching the Ancient Aliens marathon, there was a commentator on there named Robert Bauvul and at the bottom of the screen listed a book he had wrote called Black Genesis.


Dr. Thomas Brophy


Robert Bauval

 The name of his book definitely sparked my interest, So I went to google the book and....

Here's the overview:

 Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt

• Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story

• Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the “Star People” by renowned anthropologists, archaeologists, genetic scientists, and cultural historians as well as the authors’ archaeoastronomy and hieroglyphics research

• Deciphers the history behind the mysterious Nabta Playa ceremonial area and its stone calendar circle and megaliths

Relegated to the realm of archaeological heresy, despite a wealth of hard scientific evidence, the theory that an advanced civilization of black Africans settled in the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt existed has been dismissed and even condemned by conventional Egyptologists, archaeologists, and the Egyptian government. Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy present the anthropological, climatological, archaeological, geological, and genetic research supporting this hugely debated theory of the black African origin of Egyptian civilization.

Building upon extensive studies from the past four decades and their own archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic research, the authors show how the early black culture known as the Cattle People not only domesticated cattle but also had a sophisticated grasp of astronomy; created plentiful rock art at Gilf Kebir and Gebel Uwainat; had trade routes to the Mediterranean coast, central Africa, and the Sinai; held spiritual and occult ceremonies; and constructed a stone calendar circle and megaliths at the ceremonial site of Nabta Playa reminiscent of Stonehenge, yet much older. Revealing these “Star People” as the true founders of ancient Egyptian civilization, this book completely rewrites the history of world civilization, placing black Africa back in its rightful place at the center of mankind’s origins.

               

Awesome Youtube Videos

STEVIE WONDER
Creepin' (LIVE)

AhhhhhHHHHH! I love this song. #REPEAT #JAMMIN'

DAVID RUFFIN

'Questions'

A CLASSIC PATTI & LUTHER PERFORMANCE!!! A MUST SEE!

**throws my shoe @ 3:26** WOO-CHILE! lol Goin' IN.

Quotes

***Hello Total Full Moon Eclipse(In my natal moon Gemini)...  :)***

More quotes coming to you in 5...4...3...2...

"For even as love crowns you so shall love crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth."


"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring  of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
-Khalil Gibran


"Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran


"We choose are joys and sorrows long before we experience them"
-Khalil Gibran


"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering"
-Khalil Gibran

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-C.G Jung


"Emotion always has it roots in the unconscious and manifest itself in the body"
-Irene Claremont De Castillejo


"There is deep wisdom within our own very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it."
-Elizabeth A Behnke


"It's not who you are that's holding you back, it's who you think you're not"


"Physical bravery is an animal instinct, moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
-Wendell Phillips


"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile."


"Happiness is a warm tummy"

TV

Unsung (Documentary) - 

George Clinton

Happy New Moon Solar Eclipse! Ooh, and let's not forget the lovely Mercury Retrograde yesterday *inserts sarcasm*
My phone was trippin' all day and I knew something was up...So I checked to see what was going on with the planets and sure enough, Mercury Retrograde! YAY....um....err...no...Ugh.

ANYWHO...What better way to celebrate the New Moon Solar Eclipse with the "funkadelic- all aboard- the Mothership" pioneer that is George Clinton. His UNSUNG episode is one of my favorites. He even talks about a close encounter that him and Bootsy Collins had with an extraterrestial. Check it:

Quotes

"There is a thought that we create our own suffering because we continue to cling to material possessions, behaviors, beliefs and ideas that we need to release in order to move to our higher-self." Dr. Standley

“The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”  Marianne Williamson

“I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have.”  Dan Brown

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”  Deepak Chopra

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”  Rabindranath Tagore


“You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” Rabindranath Tagore


“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." Rabindranath  Tagore


“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.”  Gandhi

"Age considers; Youth ventures" Rabindranath Tagore

 “However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”  Buddha 

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.” Zig Ziglar