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Obi: Seminole Maroon is a fictionalized account of the daring escape of a 15 year old enslaved young man and his friends from a cotton plantation in South Carolina who find refuge among the Seminoles of Florida. The story follows Obi's meeting with the mysterious Quashee, his transformation from slave to freedom seeker and his escape to Florida. Through the "learnings" provided by Quashee, Obi develops the traits essential for his becoming a M...

Just Left of the Setting Sun is a collection of non-fiction essays by a young Chamoru scholar-activist from the island of Guam. These essays reflect the present-day reality of the indigenous people of the island of Guam. This book is framed in the context of an island that exists amidst the many conflicts and contradictions of being "freed from colonialism" by another colonial power in 1898 and "liberated from wartime aggression" by a country ...

Pathway To Change, A Guide to Personal Transformation provides a "path" or blueprint to free the reader from the societal limitations, personal myths, and erroneous beliefs that prevent the full experience and expression of one's personal power.Pathway to Change -· Addresses the four crucial issues that contribute to one's being "stuck" in patterns that are non-productive and self-destructive, a sense of victimization, a sense of powerlessness...

Throughout the book, Parables of Milk and Might, the central theme presented is the inter-relationship between power and wealth and its influence on the political, economic, social and military development in the world. With power, wealth can be amassed and with wealth, power can be wielded. The transatlantic slave trade and colonialism which robbed Africa of her human and natural resources and brought wealth to the participating countries are...

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One of the reasons why English can be such a hard language to learn is because of its many oddities: its many exception to rules and its varied phonetic pronunciations. This book gives the reader tools to make sense these "Oddities of the English Language" and become fluent speakers of the language in doing so. Subjects covered are: Special Difficulties, Misleading Blends, Idioms, Hints on Pronunciation, False Cognates, Compounds, Shortening...

The fate of Micronesia is the fate of Sustainable Humanity. Micronesia is last domino in the quest to globalize the Earth into a singular monoculture. It is the region least ¿affected¿ by the increasingly global culture of conspicuous consumption and individualistic materialism. Micronesia is at a crossroads, as is the human race. If the last region on earth in which, among the majority of the population, communal living based on interconnecte...

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Hurao's Children Speak Spoken Word Poetry by the New Generation of Voices from Guam.

This work is intended for all those that wish to connect to spiritual divine energies, and forces. This is for those wishing to forge a relationship with ancestor, spirit guides, angels, divinities, and deities through devout spiritual devotion. It all begins with the erection of a spiritual alter, or shrine in your home. Dedicating one hour a week to solemn devoted prayer, this will soon become ritual, the ritual turns into a connection, and ...

This book was created to provide a fully-illustrated (photographs) reference essential to those who desire a compendium of plants, herbs, and trees utilized in the practice of Ifá-Orisha. This book was created to provide a useful guide for one's reference library. The book is useful for researchers and students of Ifá, Orisha'Ifa, Santería, Afa, Vodou, Candomble, Palo, Kumina, Obeah, Quimbanda, Trinidad Orisha, Spiritual Baptist, Umbanda, Abak...

In her analysis the author applies the theory of "deterritorialization" as proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who study the use of the dominant language by a minority for the creation of a style alien to that of the standard. The creation of this style offers another possibility of expression for that particular group. Through the application of this theory she illustrates how the Ana Lydia Vega, Blas Jiménez, and Nancy Morejón sig...

Attaining one's humanity, as understood by the ancients, involved the cultivation of all three brains that a person possesses: the head brain - analysis/hindsight, the heart brain - intuition/truth, and the stomach brain - practicality/equilibrium, and if female, additionally, the womb brain - physical creation/metaphysical creation. Human-ness is an attainment, not a birthright. Mythology is a collection of carefully crafted stories that co...

Obtaining an oracle for divination from the coconut/cowrie/coin toss:This simple system is a summarized extract of accumulated knowledge from when I first began to toss obi (coconuts) at 16. Granted, it has been expanded with insights from the cowrie (dilogun) and Ifa systems of divination. It has been written for those who after having dedicated much time to spiritual enlightenment, now have a need to verify their communication through a simp...