The Adepoju System of Initiation into African, Asian and Western Philosophies and Spiritualities : Unprecedented Imaginative and Intellectual Force in Engaging With these Living Systems of Thought

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

The Adepoju System of Initiation into African, Asian and Western Philosophies and Spiritualities is a series of methods developed by myself  for engaging with  a number of African, Asian and Western philosophies  and spiritualities in a manner that demonstrates their inspirational power as never before.

These methods operate at the intersection of the visual and verbal arts, philosophy and spirituality.

Senses, intellect and imagination converge as you journey from the constellation of birds on a pole evoking the cosmos as a tree in Yoruba origin opa osanyin symbolism, a tree on which are perched sixteen birds, the mysterious mothers, cosmic entities you call upon as you enter into the knowledge jungle of Ifa, where texts are alive, numbers and words aglow with intelligence, powers you call upon as you move into the forest where dwells the naked and majestic female, Onile of Ogboni, under whose guidance you explore the mysteries of the forest, transforming your knowledge into the compelling symbols of Nsibidi, guided by Victor Ekpuk in the remaking of those ancient rhythms in the image of your own creativity, issuing from this remaking of your world into further constructing your symbol universe in terms of Adinkra, guided by Owusu Ankomah, thus journeying from Yoruba, to Cross River, to Akan and Gyaman thought, eventually entering into the great waters of Olokun, her igha-ede symbols of Great Benin  your guide as you integrate the various universes within which you journey, even as you walk with the Anthill of Totality, the embodiment of the community of all, the leopard of the jungle, Okuapolopolo, Omonoba N' Edo of Great Benin, in the great walk from the outskirts of cosmos to it's core, from Benin outskirts to it's centre, from Uselu to the Oba's palace, the progression that is the coronation walk undertaken by every Oba in order to ascend the throne, an initiatory progression akin to the mapping of the cosmos through the patterns formed by the coats of cattle in the journey across various domains of space and time in Fulani inititation as you seek for guidance the ragged, ancient one who is yet a beam of light from the hearth  of Gueno, the ultimate, your journeying culminating in the navigation of the matrix of totality, in which each vertex is a cosmic entity and an aspect of self, the magnificent Sri Yantra of Tripura, she who is the most beautiful embodiment of the cosmos, her navel akin in it's beauty to the translucent blue of the sky, the hair of her head snaking into this space as the waters of the blue Yamuna, beauties from ancient India, yet ever new, a journey consummated in wonder at the two things that fill the mind with ever new and ever renewed admiration and awe, the more steadily and the more often they are reflected upon, the starry🌟 heavens above you and the moral law within you, as put by Immanuel Kant, the German thinker who roamed across space and time into infinity from within his native Konigsberg.