Category: Cultural Reflections
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My Soulful Love for Music, and why I’m Against Music Elitism
My first introduction to Classical Music came from developing interests through the annals of Black Music, and not in distinct contrast (or opposition) to it. This perspective is very different from the perspective of, for example a White music elitist. I am generally opposed to unrealistic elitist-racialist opinions about music genres fixated in this seeming…
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From Jerusalem to Philadelphia!
Stephen Miller’s recent speech, American Conservative tradition and Trumpism. I say that Republicanism is not about the supremacy of Conservatism or Liberalism, though it is the root of the American order. I also claim that Theosophy, eclecticism, Freemasonry and the history of occultists and esoteric Philosophy is a missing key to understanding these roots, which…
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What should be the role of Black people in this time of political despair?
Just because the world puts empathy for Black people at the bottom of the rung, does not mean we ought to expect the world to put empathy for us at the middle-point or highest rung. No doubt, empathy everywhere by everyone is needed. Just because empathy for Black people is at the bottom of the…
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Racism, Freemasonry and fighting degeneration of American Politics
A situation I have absolutely no patience for is the condition esotericists everywhere find themselves in. What has been the main obstacle to simple propagation of Theosophy, without any elaborate spiritual explanation? This is gossip, instigation, inner conflict, mass paranoia (an intrinsic feature to American politics), pre-established religious conditioning, hoaxes and the flaws of human…
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Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity
I just returned abroad from my journey to the island of Hydra (Gr: Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra) and Athens in Greece back home to the state of Illinois and came back very happily engaged to my beautiful partner. It has been over two years since I went on a trip through a tour agency to Italy…
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The myths of men and the leaders he chooses
Men are not in any general sense, a (nor a more) rational being. And the great mass of men derive pleasure in following other men and in following in general. Men, historically do not choose their destiny well and that of others. He chooses very often leaders that dull and numb him, and kill out…
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Black Family Issues, Beguiling Conservatism, and Homophobia
Opinion: Solutions through Homophobia? While we could agree the landscape of dating and marriage is difficult for Black men to contend with, and that having fathers in the household and stable families are vital, you must then get into behavior, duties and roles. Alot of Black men are part of their “household,” but what do…
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A Queer Icon and the Power and Eloquence of Effeminacy
POWER AND THE ELOQUENCE OF EFFEMINACY Jin Yong’s wuxia novel The Smiling and Proud Wanderer antagonist was given the name, Dongfang Bubai, meaning Invincible East, Asia the East, or Asia the Invincible. In the novel and film, Bubai heads the “Sun-Moon Holy Sect” (Rì Yuè Shén Jiào), an unorthodox martial arts sect. Bubai wanted to…
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The Psychology of “Gay Agenda” Conspiracy among Black People
I am not familiar with Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in this video, but he has an incredible resume and credentials. I am wary of other Black scholars, or ideologues, that propagate homophobic conspiratorial notions and outlooks like the “Gay Agenda,” because I have to hear similar nonsense from…
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Sarat Chandra Das the Bengali Spy, Sengchen Tulku and the Maha-Chohan Connection
Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868-1922) pioneered the introductions of Tibetan Buddhism to Europe and America and was one of the earliest translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts into the English language. One of these Tibetan Buddhist texts was the “Book of the Dead” with Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz. Kazi Dawa Samdup said of Helena P. Blavatsky’s writings, that…
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Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case
STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH HELENA BLAVATSKY AFFECTS ADEPT CONNECTIONS TO THEOS. SOC. During a period that The Secret Doctrine was being written, Olcott’s relationship with H.P.B. had become more strained, and it is said K.H. materialized a letter on Olcott’s table saying of H.P.B., that the Adepts have no favorites. K.H. adds, despite H.P.B.’s personality and…
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Olcott meets His Master in Lahore: K. Paul Johnson versus Olcott’s Testimony
OLCOTT MEETS K.H. IN LAHORE IN THE FLESH: CASEBOOK OF ENCOUNTERS CONTINUES In his Old Diary Leaves (Vol. III), Col. Olcott also gave an account of his meeting with K.H. November 19th 1883 on the outskirts of Lahore, India: “I was sleeping in my tent, the night of the 19th, when I rushed back towards…
The American Minervan 