Posted on 05/25/2015 8:23:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In her sexy, stormy, spiritual memoir, Honey in the River, Marsha Scarbrough explores the contemporary relevance of ancient African wisdom teachings, wrapped around a love affair with a married African shaman. The mythology and metaphysics of Ifa, the indigenous religion of the Yoruba people of West Africa, is woven throughout her fast-paced tale that combines spiritual text with descriptions of her experiences in rhythm, dance and deep trance. As she blends archetypal drama and epic soap opera, Marsha reveals and befriends her personal shadow.
I interviewed Marsha about her book and what it was like become so deeply involved with a shaman:
Q: Is this book about voodoo?
MS: "Voodoo" is a mispronunciation of the name of a West African religion that Americans encountered in Haiti. "Voodoo" became a pejorative misnomer for what I experience as a sophisticated system of spirituality. This book is about Ifa, the indigenous religion of the Yoruba people of what is now Nigeria. It is not black magic. In fact, it is not magic at all. Ifa practitioners are clear that what they do is a focused spiritual practice that creates healing by balancing light and dark energies. In the book, I do encounter darkness when someone puts a curse on me, and Ifa practice brings me back into balance. In my experience, this practice is primarily joyful and life-affirming.
Q: Why did you, a middle-aged white American woman, get interested in an obscure, indigenous African religion?
MS: I am a seeker. I studied Buddhism. I trained in martial arts. I practiced dance therapy....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
“...when you expel the priest, you do not inaugurate the age of reason — you get the witch doctor.”
Paul Johnson
“Bored middle-aged women are suckers for that “Dark Energy”
That Ol’ Black Magic
She looks like Ellen Berstn, in one of those Ladies With Hats movies.
In 2006, Marsha moved from her native Los Angeles to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 2010, Marsha has spent her summers teaching English to speakers of other languages at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. For more about Marsha, visit her website www.marshascarbrough.com
Santa Fe used to such a lovely place. Alas . . ..
Oldplayer
African savage immigrating to White Christian nation and being pressured to join the "melting pot" called America = cultural genocide = EVIL
Could have been written by barry’s trampy mother.
more like:
Ewwww, gross! And she writes about hooking up with a married man? So lovely.
Industrial grade Moonbat!
I spent much time in Jamaica in the 80s
Anywhere from chubby to morbidly obese pinkish white women would travel on junkets to Montego Bay to Ocho Rios to Runaway Bay etc in pursuit of sex that was unattainable at home or socially verboten but black men in Jamaica had no issue with their port lines
You would see fat white middle aged women hand in hand with their dreadlocks temporary lover as she plied him with trinkets he desired considering her relative wealth to him
Jamaican men considered it duty to love long and hard but religiously eschewed oral sex and viewed it only as a recipient
Most of these women were from Canada and a few yankee women
It’s all irrelevant now
It’s an easy alternative of many fat white women now anywhere in North America
They don’t have to go to Jamaica or West Africa
The elites who control themedia seem to have a mantra of “Anything but normal Christianity”.
They deliberately conflate the cultural importance of Christianity, which influenced the creation of modern Western society, with some guy named Mbutu who is frying on shrooms and who possesses a bone through his nose.
Seems like she carrying coals to Newcastle, or something very similar.
Worship of the State is a _result_ of their religion of Humanism. It’s not the starting point.
I saw a movie on this topic several years ago.
It was gross!
I’d rather die of malaria and eat dirt cookies than service those old, spider web-encrusted, Depends-wearing old bags of wrinkles.
Oh yes, yes!!! Western Civilization really needs to learn from cultures that have average IQ levels around 67.
There IS an alternative. It's called Islam.
You got that right!
Voodoo is a religion? I thought it had to do with economics.
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