Parable of Living in the Last Days

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Parableof Living in the Last Days








Parable ofLiving in the Last Days

The person living in thelast days of the old world must listen to Black Classical Music ifshe/he wishes to maintain high spiritual consciousness. Jazz or BlackClassical Music is therapeutic for the mind traumatized by the onebillion one hundred million illusions of the monkey mind, as HisHoliness Guru Bawataught, peace be upon him.

This is the required music for NorthAmerican Africans seeking the highest level of spiritual consciousness.To not know this music, especially the classics of this music, is to beignorant on the highest level of ignorance, i.e., ignut! Irecommend the following: the music of Armstrong, Bessie,
Billie,Sarah, Nina, Duke, Bassie, Ella, Monk, Dolphy, Sun Ra,Trane,Bird, Dizzie,Miles, just to name a few.
This is your cultural heritage, it isthus a must, a requirement for you to claim you are a North AmericanAfrican.

Don't tell me you have a degree in black studies yetcannot identify Take the A Train, Solitude, St. James Infirmary,What A Wonderful World.

Yoursacred music is important as well,the spirituals, for much of the secular music derives from the sacred,especially the singers and performers themselves.

Mush of thesecular music derives from the sacred. I love black sacred music eventhough I find the mythology under girding it totally insane.

Although,if we can understand pie in the sky after you die as symbolizing thespirituallyl dead and resurrection, then I can relate, but not asphysical death.

Yet, I/we are victims of our culture, whether wewant or not, thus Black sacred music grabs our soul and takes us to theupper room of our father's house, and there we dwell with the ancestors,listening to their sorrow songs, or how they got ovah, theessential myth/ritual of North American Africans, whether in music orliterature or culture or reality, this is our central theme, our leit motif.

Theessential narrative is how we survived the worse treatment ever putupon human beings in the history of human beings on the planet earth. NoJew can cry or claim more blues than the so-called Negro/North AmericanAfrican--no Native American, no Latino, Asian, European, gay/lesbian.

Wearrived in the MississippiDelta with the music of the blues, yet itwas not blues, it was the ancient sounds of our Mother tongue, talestold for a thousand years before our arrival in the Wilderness of NorthAmerica. One need only listen to Ali Farka of Mali!

Evenoursacred sounds, our spirituals and gospels can be traced to the Pyramids,to the Nile Valley culture, existing throughout the four thousandsmiles of the Nile Valley, from Congo to Delta. Such is the source of ourmusic, our literature, our philosophy, our linguistics, our culturalessence.

Today they tell us and teach us it is all in the DNA, itnever went away, was never lost in time or second or minute, hour, andis yet there in our stride, our gait, our manner of being in theuniverse, the memory beyond memory, the seed of a seed of a seed of thefirst seed.

In spite of whip and ship, torture and labor fromcan't see to can't see, we yet see, we feel, we love, we are in joy andsadness--the essence of life, no matter in the Motherland or Other land,yeah, down here on the ground, trying to transcend the one billionsillusions of the monkey mind.

So let there be Black classicalmusic in your life, the music to heal your mind of trauma and unresolvedgrief. You are four women. You are Take the A Train. You are In MySolitude.
You are Alabama. You are A Love Supreme. You are RoundMidnight. You are JustFriends.
You Boiled My First Cabbage. You areSt. James Infirmary. You are Mississippi Goddamn.
Strange Fruit. Fineand Mello.Guess Who I Saw Today. Dat Dare. This Here. Space is the Place.So What. Blue in Green.

Suchis the music that shall get youthrough the daily round. This is your prayer music, let there be musicand wine on your prayer rug. Let the angels gather around you to comfortyour joy and your sadness, your elation and your madness.

Do notbe confused by the demeanor of your angels, for they shall speak loudlyand without a doubt, even in their resistance to doing the will ofGod, yet they can do nothing except the will of God, for they are Hisservants.
--MarvinX
7/6/10
www.parablesandfablesofmarvinx.blogspot.com
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