Traversing Landscapes of Knowledge: Reflections on Writing My Essay Summing Up the World View and Language of Nimi Wariboko
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Traversing Landscapes of Knowledge
Reflections on Writing My Essay Summing Up the World View and Language of Philosopher Nimi Wariboko
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Majestic space evokes majestic mind exemplified by the questing figure in the painting by Nicholas Roerich, painter
extraordinaire of the conjunction between sublime landscapes and uncompromising spiritual aspiration dramatised
by Asian contemplative, hermit and monastic cultures, an orientation incidentally evoked by English poet Gerald
Manley Hopkins' awed recognition in "No worst, there is none" that the "mind has mountains; cliffs of fall/ Frightful,
sheer, no-man fathomed. Hold them cheap/ May who ne'er hung there."
The resonance of the eloquent power of outward geographies with the elevating sonorities of inward landscapes of
aspiration is Roerich's most powerfully evoked theme.
At the Foot of the Mountain of Gnosis
After a journey of intermittent work over one year and five months and focused attention for two months, which yielded various self published essays on the work of philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko, I at last submitted my essay on his world view and language to be considered for inclusion in a book organised and edited by Toyin Falola whose inspiring call for papers for the book and generous extensions of essay submission time enabled the effort in the first place. Wariboko has himself been an inspiring companion on the journey, in his encouragement and friendship.
The essay is one of the most important things I have done this year and perhaps in my whole scholarly and writing career, shaping me permanently, creating a groundwork for future work of strategic significance.
The work brought me face to face with my limitations.
It was like encountering a mountain, sensitizing one to one's minuteness while provoking the aspiration to reach its summit, intimately exploring its uncompromisingly rugged verticality, a journey transforming the journeyer.
I was plunged into a vortex resonating with the ideas of thinkers who have shaped the course of knowing in the Western hemisphere and the ancient Greek heritage, as well as of figures, across North to West Africa and Asia, constituting the dynamism of struggles to understand the universe
I became like Frodo in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, gazing into the magical mirror of Galadriel, a pool of water in which one may see the actual and possible history of the world, its past, present and possible futures, and even of oneself and one's acquaintances, but as snapshots without a link of coherence between them or of distinction between what time frames these events are coming from, simply pointers to what was, what is and what may be, "a great story in which one has somehow become involved," as Frodo's growing realization is described.
Dialogue with Figures Across Space and Time
I encountered the efforts of
the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, combining Germanic ideas of spirit and mind with the Christian idea of the Holy Spirit, a divine force enabling existence, into an account of the development of human thought and cosmic maturation;
of Karl Marx, described as adapting that conception into an exploration of the struggle to find self actualization within the world of work highlighted by the tension between expanding productivity, consumption and labour in the modernity emerging since the triumph of the Industrial Revolution, and by extension, its relationship to the transformation of weaponry enabling colonialism and the centuries running Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade central to reworking Africa, England and the US;
ideas of Kalabari masters of knowledge on the relationship between ultimate possibility and human capacity, resonating with ideations of classical West African thinkers and North African Christian philosophers on similar concerns, using different ideational frameworks and terminology,
efforts also echoed by 20th century and contemporary theologians across Europe and the US, correlative with Asian and South American thinkers,
as I struggled to understand and explain how these figures clarify the story being told in an unfolding sequence of books by Wariboko, a ceaseless productivity emergent so far in twelve carefully argued, densely ideational and richly inter-textual and trans-disciplinary books, along with essays, some of which, even when outside his more consistent scope, are strategic contributions to the disciplines they address, such as his essay on the Yoruba origin Ifa system of knowledge reviewing Jacob Olupona and Rowland Abiodun's edited Ifa Divination, Knowledge, Power and Performance.
From Metaphysics to Economics
I tried to appreciate both Wariboko's broad but focused zones of inter-textual exploration across books ranging over theology, philosophy, urban theory, economics and politics as well as other philosophical and religious contexts that frame those exploratory immediacies, my own response to Falola's summation in the invitation to contribute to the Wariboko volume, "His work must be in context
as it drives the contents; and how the contents represent philosophical
markers."
To better appreciate the style of thinking in terms of which Wariboko is working, its very helpful to contextualize it within global traditions of struggles to understand human existence and its development within its cosmic framework, since that is his central theme and perhaps the primary direction of religion and philosophy across history.
This is a supremely extensive topic but one that can be creatively addressed through the relationships between particular themes within Wariboko's works as these are subsumed by an overarching idea that may be seen as unifying that work.
One perspective on that ultimately conjunctive and more precise motif within Wariboko's exploration of humanity's implication within cosmic being and becoming, might be how to transform potentiality, what is possible, into actuality, in individual and social life, and the creative forces within and beyond the human person that may assist such creative change.
Within that central idea is the question of how to asses what one knows, since information needs to be processed for its value to be properly distilled. To better appreciate Wariboko's explorations of relationships between what is perceived and its meaning, between layers of significance in phenomena, an exploration he conducts across Kalabari, classical and contemporary African, Christian Protestant, Pentecostal and Continental thought, it is helpful to understand his grounding in the Continental tradition deriving from Immanuel Kant, who made that exploration the cornerstone of his philosophy, an orientation that reaches back to Plato and Aristotle in the Western tradition.
Also helpful is a sensitivity to Hegel's methods of abstraction and concretisation, and their conjunctions with and difference from similar strategies of cosmological interpretation in relation to specifics of existence.
This dialectic of enquiry into human cognitive capacity and its place in the sweep of cosmic time is a journey across centuries and geographies Wariboko demonstrates people's efforts to both appropriate and go beyond even when they are not working in relation to Kant, Hegel or the Western tradition, but engaging with fundamental issues and perspectives on ways of approaching knowledge that recur across space and time.
These engagements are demonstrated in Wariboko's work through the efforts of his varied interlocutors, theologians, Pentecostals,Continental philosophers and classical African thinkers, exemplified by Kalabari thought, to know both what is immediately perceptible through the senses, and what may lie beyond the senses, what can be seen or heard of events as they occur and patterns of possibility, of meaning, that go beyond immediate experience as evident within the immediate present, probing what these insights may illuminate about activity across and beyond time.
Can the human being approach or attain infinity, which the mind conceives?
I was able to examine at some length in the essay, Wariboko's metaphysics, the conception of the underlying, non-material character of the cosmos as appreciable by human beings, and his epistemology, ideas about how knowledge may be developed and assessed, as these are subsumed within ethics, conceptions about how best to live, perspectives framed by the possibilities enabled by the character of the cosmos, metaphysics, and how it may be understood, epistemology .
Within this ethical dynamic is humanity's management of resources known as economics, on which I was able to present some of the broader aspirations of Wariboko's thought, without detailing his economic strategies, even though, as a professional, academically trained economist, he has devoted at least three books and a number of essays to that subject which also runs across other books of his, a limitation I will have to correct in future reworkings of the essay, possibly for other uses beyond its immediate purpose.
From the Finite to the Infinite, the Mundane to the Sublime
The title of this reflection "Traversing Landscapes of Knowledge" reminds me of Immanuel Kant's great passage on finitude, mortality and infinity in his Critique of Practical Reason, the version quoted here translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott and sourced from Project Guternberg, opening with the following first paragraph and concluding with the next two paragraphs below:
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing
admiration and awe, the more often and the more steadily they are reflected
upon: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
...
The first view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as that of an animal creature, which must give back to the planet (a mere speck in the universe) the matter of which it was formed, after it has been provided for a short time (we know not how) with vital power.
The second, on the other hand, infinitely raises my worth as an intelligence by my personality, in which the moral law reveals to me a life independent of animality and even of the whole world of sense, at least so far as can be inferred from the destination assigned to my existence by this law, a destination not restricted to conditions and limits of this life, but reaches into the infinite."
What the natural world does for Kant, "the starry heavens above me" as he describes it in those lines, " the unservayable
magnitude of worlds beyond worlds and
systems of systems... the limitless times of their periodic
motion, its beginning and continuance" as he elaborates in other paragraphs of that passage, is what this project has done for me, opening me into what he alludes to in those lines and explicitly describes in his Critique of Judgement as the sense of the Sublime.
This sense emerges for me, in this instance, in terms of a deepening fraternity with the relatively minuscule creature on terra firma who is compelled to roam the world and the cosmos in mind and body, trying to understand why and how, where from and where to, a species dropped from seemingly nowhere onto the earth, its members exiting at a time unknown, but who yet struggle against extinction with the dissolution of the body, trying to map the convergences of space, time and the beyond within which they find themselves.
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Mountains of Power
Between Eros and Cosmos
Hindu Female Centred Aesthetics and the Cosmic Imperative
with
Pictures of Francie Maupin
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Abstract
This is a demonstration of Hindu Tantric aesthetics, approaches to beauty and art that emphasize the philosophical and spiritual significance of the sensual delights of reality.
This piece portrays unity of erotic force and cosmological aspiration through a poem celebrating the beauty of the Goddess Tripurasundari, the verbal text vivified with pictures of the amazing lushness of US model Francie Maupin.
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror”
Line by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore on the website of Francie Maupin, Miss Diva Kurves.
What follows, from “I take shelter in Tripurasundari”, the first line after the first image, till the last line, is the “Tripurasundari Ashtakam” celebrating the Goddess Tripurasundari, attributed to Shankaracharya, translated by Siddharth. Sourced online.
With opening prayer by Giri and Swami Vishvarupananda.
This version of the poem integrates modifications by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju derived from commentary by Giri and Swami Vishvarupananda.
Pictures are of contemporary US model Francie Maupin, Miss Diva Kurves, from her website, social media accounts and other websites.
“Let us offer ourselves at the feet of the Divine Mother, Mahatripurasundarii, who as Ishvara rules the world but is none other than the indwelling spirit, Atman, within us and which pervades all that exists.
The one who possesses all the marks of beauty and has all the qualities of perfection and is thus the source of Bliss. May the Divine Mother guide us in our every action and thought, and may She confer upon us the greatest gift of all, moksha, liberation, by removing the veil of illusion as to the formless source of existence, the veil which She weaves through delight in the pleasures of the physical universe. At Her feet, I offer this flowery poem.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari
the wife of the three eyed one
wandering in the forest of kadamba trees
refreshing like a multitude of clouds to the hosts of sages
who is served by the celestial damsels
who has eyes like a newly bloomed lotus
whose buttocks excel the mountains
who is dark in colour like a newly formed cloud.
who is dark in colour like a newly formed cloud.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari, the wife of the three eyed one
who lives in the forest of kadamba trees
the multitude that is the universe
holding a golden vina
adorned with a necklace of precious gems
whose face is full of delight due to nectar
who bestows mercy and glory
the Devi with radiant eyes.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari
She whose house is the forest of kadamba trees
the heart, Self, of the forest, of the mind and universe
present everywhere
centred nowhere
whose garland is radiant on Her heavy bosom
whose breasts are high and firm like mountains
who shines in the grove by the grace of Paramaguru Lord Shiva
whose cheeks are reddened due to inebriation
who is the abode of sweet song and sweet talk
by such an intensely blue woman
the all pervading blue of the sky
inspiring marvels at the wondrous beauty and variations in life
the underlying unity of all
by She we are playfully protected.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari, the wife of the three eyed one
who dwells in the midst of the forest of kadamba trees
who always stays near the golden mandala
who lives in the six lotuses
and is ever in readiness like a flash of lightning
who has imitated the color of the hibiscus
the crimson flame that is the dynamic activity of the universe
whose crest jewel is the brilliant moon.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari
Between whose two breasts there is a beautiful, adorable vina
the spinal cord and also the universe which is activated by Her
who is adorned with curly hair
who resides on the lotus
who is the foe of those of cunning intellect
whose eyes are reddened by intoxication
the nectar of the bliss of absolute knowledge flowing from the utmost heights who has enamoured even the foe of love
who is the daughter of sage Matanga
in this sweet talking Tripurasundari I take shelter.
I take shelter in Tripurasundari
She who bears the first flower of smara
lotus of ultimate unfolding and of the erotic force that powers existence
who is wearing a blue garment with blood drops
signifying the all-pervasiveness of the sky and the vitality of creation
who holds a bowl of honey
whose eyes are confused and who is staggering on account of intoxication
inebriated due to intoxication of the divine ecstasy.
Meditate on Tripurasundari Devi
whose heart is elevated by firm breasts
supporting the mountains and world
the black one with her hair disheveled
in this Tripurasundari, the wife of the three eyed one, I take shelter.
I take shelter inTripurasundari
She who is anointed with kumkum
its redness signifying creation
whose curly hair is anointed with musk
who wears a soft smile
who holds the bow shooting the arrows of pleasure
pasha, the noose of binding to blinding pleasure
ankusha, the goad of imploring to freedom from the veil of pleasure
who enamours all people
whose garment is decorated with a red flower garland
who shines with a garland of hibiscus
on this Mother I meditate at the beginning of the japa vidhi.
I worship the Mother of the entire world
who is the wife of Lord Shiva
whose hairs are done by her chamber maid
who is engaged in various talks
who is adorned with jewels by Lakshmi
whose servants are the heavenly damsels
formless cosmic energy, the supreme empresses
whose maids are the manifested energies.
In this sublime totality I rest myself.
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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Stylistic and Thematic Harmonies
Abiola Irele at the Nexus of Negritude, Orisa Cosmology and Modern Science
Conjunctions of Possibility
Abiola Irele, the keys of Legba, Voodoo incarnation of Eshu, evoking the intersection of dimensions, forms of being and modes of knowledge, and Erwin Schrodinger's elegant, esoterically beautiful wave equation describing the behaviour of sub-atomic particles.
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Abstract
This is a demonstration of Hindu Tantric aesthetics, approaches to beauty and art that emphasize the philosophical and spiritual significance of the sensual delights of reality.
This piece portrays unity of erotic force and cosmological aspiration through a poem celebrating the beauty of the Goddess Tripurasundari, the verbal text vivified with pictures of the amazing lushness of US model Francie Maupin.
A Stylistic and Thematic Mapping of the Work of Humanities Scholar Abiola Irele
I am developing a stylistic and thematic mapping of the work of the humanities scholar Abiola Irele, along with taking forward his ideas about imagination, particularly the African imagination, as a means of bridging the humanities and the sciences.
He outlines this vision in the "African Scholar" in terms of possible correlations between Yoruba origin Orisa cosmology and modern science through ideas describing the Orisha cosmology deity Eshu.
This project integrates Irele’s work in Negritude aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology with Orisa cosmology in developing this proposal of correlating Orisa cosmology and modern science through the conceptions of paradox embodied by the figure of Eshu.
The stylistic mapping of Irele’s work involves exploring his rich complex of styles of expression and their contribution to the communicative force of his ideas.
A thematic mapping consists in a study of the various subjects he explored and the ideas he developed within those explorations, across literature, music, philosophy and science, and an effort to unify those ideations in developing a vision of the cosmos.
Negritude, Orisa Cosmology and Science Conjunction
His vision of a metaphorical Orisa cosmology/scientific cosmology conjunction may be developed through correlating depictions of paradox in the figure of Eshu with ideas of paradox in the nature of physical reality in modern science.
This a goal is similar to a famous achievement, though not one mentioned by Irele, Fritjof Capra's conjunction of modern science and classical Asian philosophies and spiritualities through the figure of the Hindu deity Shiva in his book The Tao of Physics: Parallels Between Eastern Mysticism and Western Science.
Capra has developed these insights at length in terms of books and an institution consolidating and expounding his perspectives.
The growing recognition of Capra’s ideas is demonstrated by Cambridge University Press' relatively recent publication of one of his latest developments of those perspectives, The Systems View of Life, a publication by the high profile academic publisher suggesting how far Capra has traveled since Tao of Physics was first brought out by a small trade publisher.
My Scholarly Framework in Relation to this Project
Research,Writing, Publication
My contributions to far to scholarship in the relevant fields have given me reasonable foundations for this project. In terms of scholarship in Yoruba thought, I wrote the essays on central concepts in Yoruba philosophy, "Ifa/Odu", "Orisa" and "Ori" for the 2011 Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought edited by Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo, a landmark of my career enabled by Irele inviting me to write those essays and others in that encyclopedia.
I made a pioneering contribution demonstrating the ability of Ifa to illuminate discourses outside the African context in "Ifa Divination, Autobiographical Theory and the Letters and Paintings of Vincent van Gogh" ( 2009) published in the peer reviewed journal Reconfigurations.
I contributed the essay "Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria" to the 2018 special edition of the Yoruba Studies Review :Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities edited by Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola.
My discussion of Toyin Falola's theory of ritual archives based on Yoruba discourse in his essay "Ritual Archives", "Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African Ritual Archives : Disciplinary Formations in African Thought" is published in the Fall 2018 edition of the Yoruba Studies Review.
My Amazon review essay "Yoruba Aesthetics at the Confluence of Disciplines", on Rowland Abiodun's Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art is also noteworthy.
My surveys of the work of two scholars, philosopher, theologian and economist Nimi Wariboko, " Nimi Wariboko's Quest for the Infinite: Vision, Strategy and Language in the Work of a Pentecostal Philosopher" is forthcoming in a book on Wariboko while that on historian and humanities and social sciences scholar Toyin Falola, "Toyin Falola’s In Praise of Greatness and its Intercultural Resonance in the Light of Classical Yoruba Hermeneutics" is forthcoming from the Yoruba Studies Review.
In relation to science, I contributed to the Metapolis and Urban Life workshop at the 2005 Ubicomp Ubiquitous Computing conference in Tokyo, as evident from my paper, "Navigating Spaces of Consciousness : A Dialogue", in the workshop proceedings. An earlier exploration of mine on the Negritude/Orisa/science correlation occurs in my Amazon review essay of a book on the scientist Erwin Schrodinger, "Philosophy, Science and Heart of Erwin Schrodinger".
I have also contributed book chapters on African art, demonstrating my sensitivity to the convergence of imaginative and ratiocinative thought central to art and art criticism as well as to much of creativity, particularly in research.
Scholarship of the Marketplace
As a Scholar of the Marketplace, as I describe myself, I have also contributed to various disciplines using various online self publishing platforms, accessible through my central website, Compcros: Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems.
I am an Independent Scholar committed to presenting and developing both cutting edge scholarship and more general research and writing in the marketplace of interactions represented by social media, in the spirit of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates' foundational contributions to Western philosophy though philosophical activity with various interlocutors in the public places and amidst general activity of Athens, a strategy that inspired Plato's Dialogues, described by some as the greatest works of Western philosophy, their pre-eminence enduring even centuries since the time of those great thinkers.
I get a very powerful stimulus from members of the general public responding to my work, even more so when comments are made and particularly when discussions ensue. This fulfillment is reinforced by demand for that work from academics to include those publications in their more specialized scholarly productions or requesting I contribute to those productions. I also find it fulfilling when my participation in those more specialized projects is enabled by the integration and distillation of previous writing I have done on social media.
This style of work leads me me to characterize what I do as Scholarship of the Marketplace, carried out across Facebook, Yahoo and Google groups, Twitter, Instagram, Blogger, and the document archives Scribd and academia.edu as well as publishing, on Amazon, books distilled from this social media activity.
One of my most fulfilling approaches to writing is the sense of communicating with an audience at my fingertips, who will be able to access what I have composed immediately I complete and post it on the relevant platform.
That idea of " being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses" to adapt Paul's words in the Biblical book of Hebrews 11, both concentrates my thinking and fires my spirit.
It generates a combination of the sense of public speaking and the private concentration represented by my silent presence in front of my computer or phone, sharing in mental space the fraternity of seekers for the enlightenment of words and images that is the community of cyberspace, oiling my creative drive through the synergy between an imagined audience and my mental well of ideas.
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Stylistic and Thematic Harmonies
Abiola Irele at the Nexus of Negritude, Orisa Cosmology and Modern Science
Conjunctions of Possibility
Abiola Irele, the keys of Legba, Voodoo incarnation of Eshu, evoking the intersection of dimensions, forms of being and modes of knowledge, and Erwin Schrodinger's elegant, esoterically beautiful wave equation describing the behaviour of sub-atomic particles.
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Abstract
Developing a stylistic and thematic mapping of the work of the humanities scholar Abiola Irele, suggesting directions for its expansion and my background in relation to this effort.
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Information Needs and Economic
Opportunities in Non-Fiction Writing in Africa
and particularly, Nigeria
Particularly in Academic Books
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Abiola Irele's The African Scholar and Other Essays published by Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria
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What are the prospects for non-fiction publishing, particularly academic publishing, in Africa, and specifically in Nigeria, where I am at the moment?
I would like to know from present and past students and staff of African and particularly Nigerian tertiary institutions what knowledge needs they have in their disciplines which they are having difficulty meeting or are finding impossible to meet.
Student texts relate to textbooks in various courses as well as specialized works in particular courses.
Staff texts would include and go beyond that to include texts that may go beyond their department's curriculum to address other specialist areas.
Its my view that Internet access, no matter how readily accessible, is inadequate for a university education and for professional academic development.
Even if one has online access to the journal and book archives of global first class universities such as Harvard and Cambridge, would that invalidate the need for access to books outside that range?
The Nigerian book market is low in volume, the publishing industry weak, importing books is expensive, given the weak currency, and the fact that academic books are priced higher than other books even in the West, the centre of the globally dominant academic system.
What way forward?
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Hard copy books would be a good idea to reinforce the internet accessible version of a text. It could also aid those who are not preferential towards digital media. Knowing what students are missing from their curriculum is a great way to determine how to fill in any apparent holes in their education and expanding the scope of the textbooks would help add onto the tools the students need to succeed in any career they choose in the future. Every country has it own way to structure their academic system and hopefully Nigeria will find the system the works for it.
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Book 1 of Invocations from the Universal Ogboni Fraternity
Personalizing an Africana Esoteric Order
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A demonstration of practice and a brief background in the philosophy of a new school of the Yoruba origin Ogboni esoteric order I am developing.
31 pages, 3,614 words.
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Part 1: Introduction
Ogboni Stanzas
Thanks and Statement of Purpose
Why a New School of Ogboni?
What is Ogboni?
The Ogboni Triplicity
The Individual Human Self, Earth and the Human Race
Represented by the Male and Female Couple
Brief Explanations of Invocations
Part 2: Invocations
Invocation of Edan Ogboni
Invocation of Onílè
Salutation to my Mother Ogboni
Invocation of Ogboni Transformative Powers
Invocation of Edan Ogboni : The Master of Equanimity and Seeker of Balance
What is Ogboni?
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