If you do not understand racism (white supremacy) and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you. - Neely Fuller

We need something to clarify everything for us, because we get confused...but if we use the concept of Asili, we will understand that whatever it is they are doing, whatever terms they use, however they come at you, you need to be thinking about what? How is this going to facilitate their power and help them to dominate me? -Marimba Ani

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Certain Desires | Poem & Prose
Unity Consciousness #146

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Certain Desires

by Ancestors through Usiku


Desires come and desires go
Especially those
Not satisfied
The way we first suppose
Desires go and desires come
Until completion...


All humans have the natural, innate, inborn, genetic, automatic, relentless spiritual desire to seek the meaning of life and existence.

This desire is interrelated, and perhaps unbeknownst to us, with the simultaneous desire to escape feeling lost, adrift, aimlessly wandering, painfully wondering, empty, depressed, incomplete, unfulfilled, dissatisfied, disconnected, lonely, isolated, separated, unwanted, all alone, uncared for, full but hungry, fearful, over satiated/under illuminated, busy going nowhere, stressed for success, like something's missing, something else... There are as many ways to describe this as there are conceptions, births and upbringings.

What is certain indeed is their inextricability from 64 Basic Needs That Are Spiritual.