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Have any of you seen the book Rastafari and its Shamanist Origins? It makes me very angry!!!!!!!   I say keep on being angry! 1         Below is an excerpt from the website I RUDDER.COM attacking my book. I think the person launching the attack, either is intellectually challenged or he is deliberately trying to mislead people. I never stated anywhere in my book that Rastafari is a Voodoo culture. While many want to deny this Rastafari has pronounced Hindu Shavite elements within it. Historically there is a proven link between Rastafari and Shavism in Jamaica. The Hindu professor Ajai Mansingh now deceased a professor at the Mona Campus in Jamaica wrote extensively on this subject, and is qouted in the following excerpt. One scientist, who came here in 1973 from India via Canada, fell in love with beautiful Jamaica and has never wanted to leave. He has had his most moving discoveries and life experiences in Jamaica. Professor ...

Hanuman the Hindu monkey demon/god deep in “Yoga,” meditation. According to Hinduism these demon spirits are what every Hindu strives to emulate. Today Yoga is an accepted form of “exercise”; Yoga is now as mainstream as calypso music in the Caribbean , many articles are written in the dailies on Sint Maarten pertaining to Yoga as a health fad. I will like to expound on Yoga from the perspective that it was given recently in one of the daily newspapers here on Sint Maarten, one must bear in mind that this information was offered in a secular newspaper, and the techniques were referred to in contemporary terms. The various types of Yoga are as follows please note that the word Yoga is a Hindi word, and is practiced in tandem with meditation as a means of gaining contact with the god or deity. In traditional Hindu religion, Yoga was a way to Nirvana or escape from the cycle of reincarnation. Today however many claim to practice this most vital aspect of Hinduism, as ...

This drawing is of Shiva one of the three main god’s in Hinduism. Shiva is the spirit associated with Yoga in Hindu literature he is in fact its originator “the supreme Yogi.” The snake (Cobra) around his neck is a sacred creature in Hindu literature. I find it interesting to note that in Kundalini Yoga the “Supreme Cosmic Energy” is portrayed as a coiled snake. © Copyrights RMND 2004-2009    The Chakral path begins at the base of the spine where the Kundalini “ supreme cosmic presence lies ” traditionally (Kundalini is portrayed as a coiled serpent i.e. a serpent “spirit.” Once Kundalini is “awakened” i.e. summoned or called forth by aid of mantras or chants, the Kundalini travels through the Chakral path, from the base of the spine upwards to the crown of the head the successful completion of which enables “god” consciousness or awareness, according to Hindu precepts and modern- understanding of Yoga usually though, the terms are changed Kundal...