Ajo Inú: The Inner Journey Beyond the Quest ©2004 - 2024

This book is a continuation of the work of Ìwákiri. It takes the reader into the inner recesses of how to apply these ancient spiritual practices handed down to is from our ancestors. Special about this book is that is smoothly combines the Afrikan Vodùn and Yorùbá Iṣẹṣẹ traditions. It is in this book that one goes towards a more esoteric overstanding of Vodùn proper.

From the book: 

"Culture and the Power Factor
Realizing quite rightly that an ethnic group or nation is
ultimately judged not by might alone, but also by its culture,
the Afrikan thinking of herself domestically as an American,
has set out to be all things but Afrikan. Identifying culturally
and spiritually with the descendants of her Ancestors’
oppressors they set out to try to absorb Western forms of
ethos. What happens more often than not is that this
assimilating seeking Afrikan becomes absorbed instead of
doing the absorbing. What she has not understood is that culture cannot be put on from the outside. A certain artificial grace may be experienced by such means, but only at the cost of strangling the creative impulses of her being. This is too big a price to pay, and the ethnic group that pays it will never be a truly influential and respected people.

Cultural norms that are not naturally experienced from within cannot be personal realities in the truest sense. What I

mean here by within is a cultural ethos that is descended

through bloodlines and reenacted at all levels of the

descendants’ lives. The clothing of oneself in the cultural suit

of another is a process of your unconscious being invaded by

a reality not native to your own inner process. Thus, the hopping around of the Afrikan to all of these traditions not native to his own inner process, a process descended from his own Ancestors, is truly an act of a subtle insanity. Now I know that many of you may object to such language, but what other truth is there to it. Whenever you do not accept self then there is a problem. Call it insanity, instability, a complex, as yndrome, or what have you there is still a great problem.

Education is a part of culture, and culture is a toll for making sufferance natural and cooperative. The extent that your culture can be successful depends on its authenticity and its ability to adapt. Culture deals with a common Ancestry, a common heritage; a common destiny."