Amen Ankh Is Growing Green

THE TIME IS NOW TO "GROW GREEN"

 Our ancestors repurposed and reused everything. You can go to many African Countries, even now and find beautiful jewelry, unique furniture, and accessories created from recycled and found items that have often been rejected and thrown away by other people.

Here in the US every city is inundated with vacant lots, which are plentiful in most urban neighborhoods. These lots can be converted to Urban Farms or community gardens, where entire neighborhoods can help plant and maintain the gardens and profit together with the farms.

We must re-connect our experiences with green initiatives. An example of how this connection is made is with recycling. This is another way is to engage our youth to go green. They can have Recycling drives, taking old clothes and re-creating, and making art with found and repurposed objects is an excellent and inspiring activity for school and neighborhood projects.

By composting, growing food and promoting other entrepreneurial initiatives can be fun and create a lifelong pursuit into the fields of Agriculture and Ecological Engineering and other GeoSciences. There are many financial endowments and scholarships available to pay for educational opportunities in green initiatives. In Missouri, Lincoln University will give a full-ride scholarship to any student who pursues a field in agriculture.

 Why should WE “Go Green?”

• We are approaching a global food shortage
• Cities are experiencing water shortages
• Oil is finite
• The demand for energy around the world is increasing
• As above so below- We are all connected to the inner-verse and universe

What can we do?

• Encourage and vote for elected officials who have a green agenda
• Grow YOUR OWN FOODS AND Support People and companies who are concerned about the environment 
• Sasteh Meter Mosley has been the Green Griot of Kansas City for more than 20 years and established EMWOT a Green Micro-Economic Development initiative. His Motto is "Stick a Seed in the Ground!" As a child, Sasteh woke up from a roster crowing in his next door neighbor's back yard. He experienced his first glimpse of Urban Agriculture, with chickens, eggs, wild game, rabbits, and fresh vegetables being sold to the neighborhood. He later cultivated food in a variety of communities, for example, establishing the "Bunk-Bed" system with Will Allen in Milwaukee.
• Mama Nuta Beqsu (Adenike AmenRa) Is a Gnome Builder. She Established Amen Par Ankh (Sacred Temple of Life) Amen Ankh Urban Farm as a Neighborhood center for life, Growing food and teaching health and Wellness, in the heart of the most blighted Kansas City urban neighborhoods. She teaches STE-A-M education through You GROWW Girls- (Gaining Resilience, Opportunity Wellness and Wealth) providing Agricultural and Outdoor activities for the youth teaching Urban Sustainable living, recycling, Arts and Crafts and Herbal Arts
• The Recipe Poetry Guild is traveling the country as a social activist and Spoken word artists who bring attention to the nuclear weapons plant toxicity and Sustainable living.
• Nadine Farris has been growing an Abundant Community garden for years
• Mamma Helen Bey has been teaching Health and Wellness for more than 5 Decades.
• Imhotep Maat Ra has been teaching health and wellness with Magnificent Foods
• Mama Charlotte O’Neal is a cultural Artist, musician, and elder who is traveling the country to share the knowledge of green sustainable living from Tanzania to the US and beyond. Her efforts to support the Tomorrow Children and brother Pete O'neal have been her passion and dedication for years.
•  DJ Cavem is a green rapper sharing the good news with his family about vegan living and Urban Farming.
• Colin Kaepernick has Personally Supported Black Lives Matter and Urban Agriculture.
• Wangari Maathai has assisted women’s groups in planting over 40 million trees.
• Shai Agassi wants to replace gas stations with electric charging stations
• Will Allan is sharing the knowledge of Aquaponics and Urban Farming.
• Ron Finley has personally supported community Gorilla Gardening 
• Van Jones helped Congress pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007 which provides $125mm to train 35,000 people/year
• UPS saved 50,000 gallons of gas by reducing left-hand turns
• Plants are now being operated via methane-powered gas
• Spellman College is the first HBCU to build a LEED Certified residence hall
• The Peace Planters and other organizations are working to shut down nuclear power plants all over the country
• NY City plans to convert its entire taxi fleet to hybrids by 2011
• Greensburg, Kansas is being rebuilt “Green”

Easy Ways For You To “Go Green” And Lower Your Carbon Footprint

• Reduce Reuse Recycle, Repurpose Plastic items. Plastics can be woven, and remelted in safe conditions to create innovative things.
• Support Local Urban Growers
• Grow food NOT lawns- In order to Free yourselves, you must Feed yourselves!
• Shop locally for locally made products
• Divest from global corporate slave mills and factories and products manufactured by prison slave labor.
• Choose more natural fabrics and dyes that can be returned to the earth.
• Reuse shopping bags instead of "Paper or Plastic."
• Prepare and eat your home or locally grown Fruits and Vegetables - fresh and raw as often as possible- sprout, blend and Juice. Try replacing a few food items every week that you regularly buy with locally grown natural alternatives.
• Designate one day each week as a NO MEAT DAY
• Walk, Ride a bike, Share, and Use public transportation over a single driver in a SUV.
• Save and reuse juice pulp in recipes or add to compost.
• Collect rain water for food Growers
• Use coffee grounds and hair as plant compost/fertilizer
• Compost your Food Scraps and return the new soil back to the land
• Prepare your family dinners and sit down to eat together -rather than Fast Food
• If you must eat on the run- store fresh and dried fruits and homemade Snacks and juices in your car.
• Consume less- Recycle More
• Choose alternative-fueled cars using solar and electric over fossil fuel-driven vehicles
• Plant a tree
• Protect your  groundwater -Don’t use pesticides and weed killers on the lawns
• Choose neither paper nor plastic – take your own washable bags when shopping
• Use natural light instead of electricity as often as possible
• Have an energy audit done on your home
• Use Solar Panels to lower your utility bills
• Don’t linger in the shower, turn water on and off
• Turn off the water while brushing your teeth
• Take low water baths - don’t fill the tub
• Replace current light bulbs throughout the house with carbon fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)
• Install a programmable thermostat for better heating/cooling efficiency
• Use natural products for house cleaning (baking soda and vinegar, borax or steam for bathroom and kitchen cleaning)
• Turn off the stove a few minutes before the food is ready – heat from skillet or pan will continue to cook food
• Use a power strip for countertop appliances – to turn all off when not in use
• Only turn on the Washer and dishwasher when it has a full load
• Turn Off water between rinsing dishes- or don’t rinse dishes until you use them -to create a barrier for insects.
• Install an attic fan
• Install a tank-less water heater
• Wash clothes (even whites) in cold water
• Replace chlorine bleach with hydrogen peroxide (1/4 cup)
• Select electronic billing and e-correspondence for all your current mail
• Consider second-hand clothing for your next purchase
• Get your children involved and concerned about green life(encourage them to do science projects and make green gifts)
• Talk to your children’s school principal about going green
• Give green gifts with reused green wrapping paper of gift sacks Reuse newspapers for gift wrapping
• Run errands clockwise and try to eliminate left hand turns as often as possible
• Take a green vacation
• Consider a hybrid car when it’s time to replace your current vehicle

If more people got involved in rediscovering their neighborhoods—invoking green initiatives in the process, killing, and Underground crime would actually decrease and there would be more home cottage and small businesses blooming to create sustainable revenue.

Amen Ankh means (sacred life)
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Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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We live in our ancient KMT Spiritual systems to serve our community in Libations, Griot Spoken Word Presentations, KMT Wedding, Naming and ReBirth, Personal consultations for Nia (Purpose), Health, Career and, Relationship, and Ascension officiant, Salutations and Blessings for new beginnings, (Home and Businesses blessings), Afrikan Storytelling. Amen Par Ankh is a Sacred Temple of Life- We are a KRST conscious Community. We Grow Food to restore balance in our relationship with the cosmos, earth, and our Natural communities by increasing awareness of Life, Health, and Environment. We are a Maafia a "Healthy Place To Live" Amen Ankh Urban Farm’s Mission is to produce, promote, and perpetuate food, resources, and comfort and to grow local healthy Indigenous Foods in environmentally, respected, earth gentle ways. Call Us-816-281-7704 Contact: amen.parankh@gmail.com or amen.ankh@live.com Phone: 816-281-7704

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ASCAC At Amen Par Ankh KCMO

Amen Par Ankh of Kansas City is convening a study Group for ASCAC (Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations) EVERY Thursday at 7:00pm with Sasteh Meter Mosley and NuTa BeqSu Mosley at 3641 Bales Ave. Kansas City, Mo. "Knowledge of Self is the fundamental key to healing ourselves from the onslaught of Global Maafa." amenchristtemple@yahoo.com - amen.parankh@gmail.com , or amen.ankh@live.com

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Sasteh Meter Mosley and Nuta Beqsu Mosley
816-509-9404 or 816-304-7240
Daily Operating Hours of Amen ParAnkh - M-F - 9am-9pm

Bring your Friends
-Receiving Daily Donations of:
*Reusable tools, Equipment, Work Gear: Boots, Hats & Gloves… 

Safety Equipment.
*Compostable leaves, Walnuts and Chestnuts, logs, *We Recycle Digital Electronics and small Appliances too (Cell Phones, Laptops and CPU Computers, Radios, Stereo Systems, Projectors, Etc.)

Biography of Nuta Beqsu Amen-Ra

QueenMa Nuta Beqsu Moses (Adenike Amen-Ra) is an Social Activist, Urban Grower, Minister, Artist, Entreprenure, and Educator who is committed to freedom, Food Justice, Environment and Ecological balance, recycling, and Green Economic Sustainability for Indigo Aboriginal people. She is a minister of Amen Par Ankh (Sacred Temple of Eternal Life) and an  Administrator of Amen Ankh Akademy, in the heart of the most desolate areas impacted by economic blight and food deserts in Kansas City, Missouri.

From left to right: Student Minister Vincent Muhammad, Minister of Agriculture: Kalifa Abdul, Carol Coe: Green Acers Urban Farm and Research Project; Sasteh Mosley: Green Griot; Nuta Adenike AmenRa Amen Ankh Enterprises; Sister Julie Muhammad

QueenMa Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra) 

She is an Urban Grower, director, and counselor of a wholistic wellness initiative: Amen Par Ankh(Sacred Temple of Life), co-partner with Amen Communications; and an Executive Director of EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost). Her diverse Educator background includes work as a college and career coordinator, an Exceptional Education Teacher, a community organizer, a Griot (storyteller.) and a graphic arts and Technical designer. She has Launched the Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh, a performance arts group for neighborhood-based organizations and entertainment venues. She is an Executive Director for recycling initiatives, Education and coordination of at-risk youth, conducting Staff development Workshops for educators on Green outdoor classrooms. She also coordinates Seasonal and special events, site visits and tours, with EMWOT, Amen Par Ankh and The Green Griot Gathering, and EMWOT property Managment.

She has served in the community as a IT Visual Communications Technician and Public Relations Manager.  She also serves as a member of the Economic committee for the Black Agenda Group, KC, and Communications, Tutoring, Green youth development with Stop The Killing Kansas City- Coalition.  She is the owner of Adenike’s Arts and IT Partner of Amen Communications. She is dedicated to identifying and alleviating the impact of racism and it's economic disparity of the food systems, Education and Economic development. She has an intense interest in contributing to the development of a local to international food Justice movement that embraces small African American farmer’s and home cottage Industries in the Americas, and the diaspora.  She views food cultivation as part of the larger movement for freedom, justice and equity. Sba AmenRa has presented at numerous local community meetings and national conferences on food and Health and is implementing community food security, composting, and permiculture practices.  She is featured in the podcast, Ask an urban Farmer, and Ankh the Way of life on Blog Talk Radio. She is an “org-ankh” grower. She was born in England and has traveled across the U.S. with her Father who served in the US Airforce. She is the Mother of two, a "Queen Ma,” of 2 grandchildren, mentor and teacher to many Youth, Scholars and Initiates, and Adults.

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) local Spiritual Center in the heart of midtown Kansas City, Missouri. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-281-7704 sign-up for courses and support: with paypal, -amen.parankh@gmail.com. Information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com/ , Look for us on FaceBook and Twitter We celebrate the Cycles of Life, Wellness and Balance in our everyday existence on earth. We assist in Wellness for Physical Fitness, Mental Health, and Spiritual Attunement - to realize the fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Whole Life Coaching, Energy work, Amen Ankh Akademy, Org-Ankh Electric food Boxes, an Herbal Tea House and Juice bar, Outdoor Experiences, classes such as Cultural Headwrapping, Natural Hair Braiding, beading and Lox twisting, ASCAC (The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization), Art Healing Mandalas, Jewelry Making, Gentle Yoga, Canning and preserving food, Health and Wellness Study Courses, Gifts, Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special events. Amen Par Ankh means sacred House of Life. We acknowledge creation. We provide a space for your own personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, as well as an active space for expressions of our original ways of life. Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansings, and Classes Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an urban agricultural enterprise with the goal of achieving environmental justice and sustainability by Healthy local food production and improving local neighborhood access to healthy Foods. We run Aquaponic Systems of farm raised fish, Herbs and microgreens. We sell Org-Ankh Electric Food Boxes! We also provide Farm-a-See tours of successful Local Farmers. We grow selected local indigenous Herbs, Fruits, Vegetable and plant life of the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash and cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage, and Kale, With Wheat Grass and other Sprouts, Herbs: Basil, Sage, Chives, Rosemary, Parsley, Peppers and Moringa nutritional drink supplements, -From our foods we produce Baked Goods, cosmetics, and liniments to provide Healing and Sovereignty: Through the inspiration of Kujichagulia (Self determination) All Original people. Dua (Th-ankh you!) ♥.

UMOJA KARAMU 2013

On behalf of the Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh and EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost) we sincerely express our thanks and appreciation for your interest and participation with Umoja Karamu (Unity Feast) event, on November 24^th 2013

We would also like to thank our sponsors; The KC National Black United Front . Asante Sana for  all who had attended. We had a wonderful time. The food service was superb.   

I think of the Umoja Karamu not only as a harvest celebration of food and family, but spiritually, it is a way to venerate our Aku (ancestors) for their legacy

Special Thanks to

KC National Black United Front

Councilwoman, Sharon Sanders Brooks, The inspiration of the name “Green Acres” and the Kansas City Urban Farm Initiative.

Special Recognition of Sponsors

Ajamu and Kinda Webster

Bill Grace Samori Toure'

Brother Kazuma Furlow, Queen Mother Furlow of the Afrikan Village/ Temple of Maat

EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost)

Amen Ankh Urban Farms


Special Thanks to All Personal Supporters:

Brandon Heru Amen-Ra (Adenike’s “QueenMa’s” Grandson “Prince”)

Maria Whittaker http://fssg.blogspot.com/2012/01/food-sovereignty.html

SiStar Siriki http://kcblr.org/history.html

D’Juan Love- http://KCBlackBusiness.com

Dre Taylor- Males To Men

The Chess Club

Amen Ankh Urban Farm

Black Urban Farmers Coalition

Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh

Ø  Adenike Amen-Ra

Ø  Sasteh Meter Mosley- http://emwot.ws

Ø  Yvonne Walker

Ø  Featuring

             o  Christina Scales

o   Imani Maat Hotep

o   Les Izmore

Please, feel free to call us for your family, business, and other Special events.

Sincerely,

Adenike AmenRa (816) 281-7704

Event Planner, Priestess Amen Par Ankh and EMWOT

If you need further Information on seasonal events, contact the Amen Par Ankh (Sacred house of life) for Libations and Cultural Ministry Services: Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansing & Classes

Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , emwotkc@yahoo.com or amenchristtemple@yahoo.com

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For more than thirty years, the Kansas City, Black United Front has sponsored the Umoja Karamu in Kansas City, Missouri. This year, the Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh will present the 5 Passages of OUR-story in a grand celebration of harvest and honor of the legacy of our Ancestors. We will infuse culture in a dinner theater atmosphere with passages of poetry and spoken word

 UMOJA KARAMU means (Unity Feast)

Our Celebration will feature African American Historical Presentations Music, Spoken Word and Poetry and an abundant Potluck Feast: (Families please bring a covered dish)

Sunday, November 24th @ 4pm-9pm...

Historic Presentations and Dinner Theater of Spoken Word and Poetry by the Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh: Sasteh Meter Mosley, Adenike Amen-Ra, Yvonne Walker, Imani Maat Hotep, Christina Scales, Les Izmore, For More Information Call us: 816-281-7704 
 

Umoja Karamu, meaning "unity feast" in Swahili, is an African American celebration begun in 1971 by Dr. Edward Sims, Jr., held on the fourth Sunday in November. Its purpose is to instill solidarity, Afrikan values, and appreciation of Afrikan heritage into Afrikan American families. Libations to honor ancestors, historical readings, music, and a potluck feast will mark this observance.
The celebration is based on five periods of African American life, each represented by a color and a symbolic food.

 

1. The color black- Pre Invasion – (Black Beans) Black families before slavery

2. The color white- Maafa – (White Rice) scattering of black families (during slavery)

3. The color red- Emancipation – (Grape Juice) Black Liberation struggle

4. The color green- Struggle for Civil Rights – (Greens) the struggle for Equal rights

5. The color gold- Looking to the Future – (Corn) hope for the future

EMWOT and Amen Par Ankh are now collecting Winter Wear and Hygiene Items for At-Risk Youth, homeless Teens and Young Adults: Blankets, Coats, Hats, Gloves, Scarves, Socks, Sweaters, Boots, Drinking Water, Work Gear and Tools - Hygiene Items like: Soap, Tooth Brushes, Hair Brushes, Mouthwash, Deodorant, washcloths, Sanitary pads, Shaving equipment, Disinfectant spray, Laundry soap, Paper products etc... You can drop off your items at the Amen Par Ankh 4030 Brooklyn Ave. KCMO 64130

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Urban Farm; is a local Urban Farm nestled around a Spiritual Center in the heart of midtown Kansas City, Missouri. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-281-7704 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/amen-urban-farm , information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com/ , Look for us on FaceBook & Twitter We celebrate the Cycles of Life, Wellness and Balance in our everyday existence on earth. We assist in Wellness for Physical Fitness, Mental Health, and Spiritual Attunment - to realize the fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Whole Life Coaching, Energy work, A Par Ankh Reading Room, Org-Ankh Electric food Boxes, an Herbal Tea House & Juice bar, Outdoor Experiences, classes such as Cultural Head wrapping, Natural Hair Braiding, beading and Lox twisting, ASCAC (The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization), Art Healing Mandalas, Jewelry Making, Gentle Yoga, Canning and preserving food, Health and Wellness Study Courses, Gifts, Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special events. Amen Par Ankh means sacred House of Life. We acknowledge creation. We provide a space for your own personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, as well as an active space for expressions of our original ways of life. Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansing, & Classes Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an urban agricultural enterprise with the goal of achieving environmental justice and sustainability by Healthy local food production and improving local neighborhood access to healthy Foods. We run Aquaponic Systems of farm-raised fish, Herbs and microgreens. We sell Org-Ankh Electric Food Boxes! We also provide Farm-a-See tours of successful Local Farmers. We grow selected local indigenous Herbs, Fruits, Vegetable and plant life of the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash and cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage, and Kale, With Wheat Grass and other Sprouts, Herbs: Basil, Sage, Chives, Rosemary, Parsley, Peppers and Moringa nutritional drink supplements, -From our foods we produce Baked Goods, cosmetics, & liniments to provide Healing and Sovereignty: Through the inspiration of Kujichagulia (Self determination) All Original people. Dua (Th-ankh you!) ♥.

EMWOT The Griot Gathering

EMWOT -East Meets West of Troost Presents: THE GRIOT GATHERING

EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR the Revolution Revelation on this Spoken Word CD!

http://sastehmosley.wix.com/griot#!griot

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 It is an eclectic blend of Grassroots, Cultural, Political Spoken Word, Folk and Hip Hop Musical artists from KCMO! A compilation of artists and their music. They sing about Grassroots, current event issues ranging from the poisoning of Nuclear Weapon plant workers and their Neighborhoods to Kansas City Missouri public Schools. Thought provoking and fun, these selections are a blend that only these Kansas City artists can bring to Hip Hop spoken word & Jam. It's the return of people’s music; -it offers a deep human connection, through STRONG sonic celebration....

The CDs opening cut is from our leader of the struggle for all employees who have worked at, Kansas City’s Nuclear Power Plant and were exposed and poisoned by the toxic environment. “The Colonel’s Brief” by Maurice Copeland this is an excerpt on patriotism. He makes a profound statement about the most overlooked and under-served people of the world.

“Honeywell” by Cherith Brook is a protest march manifesto! With the backing of a full brass & drum corps, he sings with clever sarcasm in support of the ongoing advocates, activist, and protesters like the KC Peace Planter member, Sasteh Mosley (a Nuclear Conversion Activist/Speakers Bureau Lecturer) and other poisoned Workers from Kansas City's nuclear weapons plant.

Dirty D/King Kihei is a spoken word artist who espouses the many sentiments of the disenfranchised people who dwell in Urban Kansas City with the weavings of the excerpts of “The Community Update,” “Recess,” and “Power and Lights Out.”

Artists, SAHJ Kaya and Divine Intervention, add their energy with a Reggae flavor in “Nuclear Weapons.” She rages- “RAY-GUN! what you testin for?!!!” while “Political Strings” moves with spirit and a jazzy backup.

Other contributing artists; Priest Hughes and 337 as The Recipe Poetry Guild – create a poignant brew with their clever spoken word juxtapositions against nuclear weapons with: “Self destruction,” and the downsizing of education with: “Parent Teacher Conference”… Their climax selection is my favorite, “What Happened to Hip Hop?!” This is the most Jammin Jewel of the CD for me! The Recipe told the truth about the greed, materialism that consumed and diluted the quality of the Hip Hop movement! I love the refrain “What happened to hip hop- did it die- did it fall down on the wayside?…

“Palm of Your Hand” is a powerful conclusive ending with a primal piercing purging high-pitched release and energy, leading to chants which permeate the collective consciousness of our time!

http://www.wix.com/sastehmosley/griot

Featured Artists:

Maurice Copeland- Peace Planters Coalition

Dirty D/King Kihei- EMWOT

Cherith Brook- Catholic Workers

SAHJ Kaya & Divine Intervention

Priest Hughes & 337- The Recipe Poetry Guild

El Manna - Kingpen Coalition

A griot or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) the griot is a repository of oral tradition, a West African storyteller. The griot delivers history as a poet, praise singer, and wandering musician. As such, they are sometimes also called bards. [the griot] has to know many traditional songs without error, he must also have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his knowledge of local history formidable." Although they are popularly known as 'praise singers', griots may also use their vocal expertise for gossip, satire, or political comment. Most villages also had their own griot, who told tales of births, deaths, marriages, battles, hunts, affairs, and hundreds of other things.

Griots — masters of words and music, Griots and Griottes — have been around for a millennium. the male griots and female griottes were historians, genealogists, advisers to nobility, entertainers, messengers, praise singers — the list goes on. Today, they perform on television and radio and record CDs. Many are popular singers who reinterpret traditional songs, giving new meaning to old words — As performers, griots and griottes are in great demand, not only for ceremonies and parties in West Africa, where they have traditionally appeared, but all around the world. Here in the United States, they tour universities to give insight into West African culture.

EMWOT -East Meets West of Troost Presents: THE GRIOT GATHERING

With your purchase of this CD, you will help support At-Risk Youth in education, cultural arts and positive Economic development, Sasteh Meter Mosley (a Nuclear Conversion Activist/Speakers Bureau Lecturer) and other poisoned Workers from Kansas City's nuclear weapons plant. Thank You for your generous donations to this cause!

The Griot Gathering has been devoted to nudging everyone from all persuasions in the direction of freedom and spiritual evolution. This music is “cultural-hip hop-folk-ethnic-funk.” They express a yearning for spiritual revolution -“There can’t be a revolution without Strong Men, Women and Children.”

To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one neighborhood at a time.

To promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.

EMWOT is dedicated to the sharing of experiences, stories, best practices and methods for achieving sustainability in both our personal lives and our communities.

 
Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Urban Farm; is a local Urban Farm nestled around a Spiritual Center in the heart of midtown Kansas City, Missouri. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life!Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , amen.ankh@live.com Call: 816-304-7240 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/amen-urban-farm , information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com , Look for us on FaceBook & Twitter. We celebrate the Cycles of Life, Wellness and Balance in our everyday existence on earth. We assist in Wellness for Physical Fitness, Mental Health, and Spiritual Attainment - to realize the fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Whole Life Coaching, Energy work, A Par Ankh Reading Room, Org-Ankh Electric food Boxes, an Herbal Tea House & Juice bar, Outdoor Experiences, classes such as Cultural Head-wrapping, Natural Hair Braiding, beading and Lox twisting, ASCAC (The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization), Art Healing Mandalas, Jewelry Making, Gentle Yoga, Canning and preserving food, Health and Wellness Study Courses, Gifts, Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special events. Amen Par Ankh means sacred House of Life. We acknowledge creation. We provide a space for your own personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, as well as an active space for expressions of our original ways of life.Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansings, & Classes Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an urban agricultural enterprise with the goal of achieving environmental justice and sustainability by Healthy local food production and improving local neighborhood access to healthy Foods. We run Aquaponic Systems of farm raised fish, Herbs and micro-greens. We sell Org-Ankh Electric Food Boxes! We also provide Farm-a-See tours of successful Local Farmers.We grow selected local indigenous Herbs, Fruits, Vegetable and plant life of the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash and cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage, and Kale, With Wheat Grass and other Sprouts, Herbs: Basil, Sage, Chives, Rosemary, Parsley, Peppers and Moringa nutritional drink supplements, -From our foods we produce Baked Goods, cosmetics, & liniments to provide Healing and Sovereignty: Through the inspiration of Kujichagulia (Self determination) All Original people.Dua (Th-ankh you!) ♥.

Highest Calling the Law of Gender

I found this proverb as a beautiful expression of the positive energy of the masculine & feminine principles. While it is true that both energies live within each one of us... it is an even stronger representation when the energy aligns with its incarnated gender! 

 The complete version of this proverb is as follows:

“A woman’s highest calling is to lead a man to his soul,

So as to unite him with the Source;

Her lowest calling is to seduce,

Separating man from soul

And leave him aimlessly wandering.

A man’s highest calling is to protect a woman,

So she is free to walk the earth unharmed.

His lowest calling is to ambush

Forcing his way into her life

And Leave her tied to the mundane world.”

As I always re-member, I am a soul having a human experience, this proverb speaks to me as the paradigm of Ausar and Auset.

This original Kemetic creation story tells about the first manifestations of life, siblings, humans, and principles as- Set, Ausar, Auset and Neb-Het. Jealous Set destroyed his brother, Ausar the benevolent ruler, carved his body into 14 pieces, and hid these pieces all over the planet. Ausar's body parts represent the geo-sacred spaces all over the planet. They also represent the aspects of spiritual powers of mankind that have been destributed all over the earth from KMT and can also be found in each of us and in all aboriginal cultures. Auset traveled all over the world and found all of the pieces of her husband except one. She became the first to give birth through immaculate conception. These 4 siblings represent the 4 aspects of the human spirit. She gave birth to a son and named him Heru. He grew to vanquish his father's murder and restore the benevolent kingdom of  God and mankind.

We all have the choice to be bound by the mundane world or ascend to our highest spiritual nature...  to hear the voice and rise to do the biding of the creator, or to live only in our carnal nature, to seduce, deceive, show force, and rely only on the impirical nature of our human bodies and senses. 

Many have no clue what the millennial-long social contracts have been within the scope of gender and human family relationships. Yet, there are divine principals of Yen and Yang, male and female that dwell within all of us. Gender is one of the laws or principles of Imhotep (aka- Hermetic principles)

People are now struggling with gender roles in these times so, some may have a problem with this proverb because of gender politics in the media. Many people have been utterly and hopelessly poisoned by the corruption of western society and western thinking. We live with venomous comments that reek of hateful propaganda, spoon-fed to the masses regularly through media and even academic outlets.

 It would uplift us all to heed the words of wisdom of our ancestors; unfortunately, many will just trample and destroy these values, just as many had contributed to the destruction of the Cherokee people and continue to destroy aboriginal peoples and their way of life.

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Farm; is a spiritual center to become balanced physically, emotionally and spiritually and to Realize your fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Life Coaching, gentle yoga, classes, Energy work Courses, Gifts, and Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special Events. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-304-7240 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/amen-urban-farm, for more information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh  , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com/  , Amen Par Ankh is a place of peace and healing through connection with nature and the cycles of life. Here we can truly come together and create and build something to share together. It is our intention that this spiritual center becomes a sacred space for personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, but is also an active space for expressions of our life. Dua (Thank you!) ♥. We offer:

Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansing, & Classes

EMWOT Property Management for Green Sustainability

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Farm; is a spiritual center to become balanced physically, emotionally and spiritually and to Realize your fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Life Coaching, gentle yoga, classes, Energy work Courses, Gifts, and Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special Events. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-304-7240 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/amen-urban-farm , information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com/ , Amen Par Ankh is a place of peace and healing through connection with nature and the cycles of life. Here we can truly come together and create and build something to share together. It is our intention that this spiritual center becomes a sacred space for personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, but is also an active space for expressions of our life. Dua (Thank you!) ♥. We offer: Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansings, & Classes

Announcing Harambee Builders Cooperative

Our Bold and Brave African American Men of Kansas City are Coming together to create a better tomorrow for Kansas City with their own Self Determination.

 

Harambee means "People Pulling Together". As it is in our ways of the past, So it Shall Be, Now and in the Future.

Establishing a cooperative is not one of the more common ways of doing business. Yet the Harambee Builder's Cooperative has come together with an approach to not only provide resources, training and a verifiable income, but also ownership in their own company, where they work, as well as ownership of one the homes that they have built, if they so choose!

If you would like to be involved or learn more information, fool free to contact them by calling the number on the flyer below.

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Farm; is a spiritual center to become balanced physically, emotionally and spiritually and to Realize your fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Life Coaching, gentle yoga, classes, Energy work Courses, Gifts, and Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special Events. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-304-7240 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/amen-urban-farm , information: http://emwot.ws/amen_ankh_urban_farm , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com/ , Amen Par Ankh is a place of peace and healing through connection with nature and the cycles of life. Here we can truly come together and create and build something to share together. It is our intention that this spiritual center becomes a sacred space for personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, and expressions of our life. Dua (Thank you!) ♥. We offer: Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansing & Consulting

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life)

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) nestled within the Amen Ankh Farm; is a spiritual center to become balanced physically, emotionally and spiritually and to Realize your fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Life Coaching, gentle yoga, classes, Energy work Courses, Gifts, and Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special Events.

Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life!

Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , Call: 816-304-7240 sign-up for courses and support: http://www.gofundme.com/ amen-urban-farm , information: http:// amen-parankh.blogspot.com/ , http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh

Amen Par Ankh is a place of peace and healing through connection with nature and the cycles of life.

Here we can truly come together and create and build something to share together. It is our intention that this spiritual center becomes a sacred space for personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, but is also an active space for expressions of our life. Dua (Thank you!) ♥.

We offer

Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansing & Consulting

Cultural Ministry Services

We are available to consult and perform the following services for you:

(All services below are fee-based)

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Ceremony

We are all members of Creation! We are Seeds, then Siblings, and then we become Ancestors. It is part of the Kemetic tradition to acknowledge and proclaim our relationships and membership in our Family.

For example, the spring brings the announcement of pregnancy and allows everyone to acknowledge that new life - Seeds (one yet to come) - is on the way from the source of Creation. For this gift we hold a Seed Ceremony (like a baby-shower) to celebrate pregnancy, the gift to the mothers (fertility) and to the father (virility,) and the new life on the way.

Once the new child/children are here a welcome ceremony is held 30-days after the arrival.

Between six-months and the first year of the child/children arrival a naming ceremony is held. This time period is considered the period where-in the child determines if it wants to stay. The naming ceremony (Aq Ren) marks the child/children's commitment to stay in this world. During the naming ceremony the child is dedicated to the Neteru, Aku (Ancestors) and Mut-Tef Ka-Neter (Mut (mother), the Tef (father) Ka-Neter ('god parents')), and to the faith and community. Both the consecration and naming ceremony are performed for adults as well.

We are available to provide services for as few as one, or for as many as a village.

Some Services -Counseling, Mediation, Coaching, Readings and Consulting - can be provided via video and tele-conference, other services are provided on location.

For information, consultations and Services call:

816-304-7240

Kemetic Seba Services

Libation Ceremony

Pouring a liquid to open the way for the Creator, the Seeds (yet unborn), the Siblings, and giving venerating the Aku (Ancestors) is part of our way of life. We provide this consecration for our community at all ceremonies.

Adult Naming Ceremony

Names, like words, have generating power - they call you into being. Insure your name associates you with the Creator and the life-creating and life-sustaining forces, and with your cultural heritage. We are also available to consult on name selection.

Child/Youth Naming Ceremony

You should have a name that calls Your child - him/her to power, prosperity and abundance.

Kemetic Wedding Ceremony

Contact Amen Par Ankh to begin planning you Wedding and receive your Kemetic Consecration for yourself and your family.

Ancestor Ascension Ceremony

The funeral ceremony is principally designed to bid the deceased farewell; the Ancestor Ascension Ceremony is to acknowledge and celebrate your departed loved-one as an Ancestor. An Ascension Ceremony is generally scheduled to take place approximately 40-days after the transition of the deceased.

Home/Business Blessing Clearings and Consecration Ceremony

Your home and business are a reflection of your personal and professional self. They serve as an extension of you. Be sure they both support your highest and best self by creating a welcoming and clear environment.

Amen Par Ankh will come to your location to clear negative, stagnant energies and then bring light into your space through music, aroma, prayer and blessings.

When is it appropriate to clear and bless your space?

When you are preparing to move into a new home or office setting

If you feel uncomfortable in your surroundings

After a separation, death or divorce

Before and after a major experience or transition

To clear out the old and bring in the new

You will be amazed at the difference in your home-your sanctuary, and Your Business!

To schedule your clearing and/or blessing, contact Adenike and Sasteh (Prices will vary depending on length and depth of the ceremony and travel accomodations)

“We realized that it was time to have our home Blessed and Cleared of Energies for our new family. We want to make a permanent, progressive change in our lives.”

Green Griot Gathering

Amen Par Ankh offers African Storytelling to teach urban agriculture in Schools, Community Centers , Churches, Theaters locally and across the country and the globe.

We share music, poetry, song, dance and culture of food for all ages!

 

Harambee!

African storytelling is a call and response interaction. There are distinctions of storytelling from Africans who still practice this art all over the world. In the modern world, storytelling techniques such as music, chant and audience participation make up the best presentations of African storytelling. Communication methods such as video and the Internet now allow anyone to experience the joy of an African story well told.

Empirical stimulation of the five senses helps to create a memory. Use of color, sparkle, music, song, foods, chants, shaking hands and embrace and wonderful aromas aid in embracing the experience.

The storytellers or “Griots” know people will listen if the stories are fun and entertaining. An audience that is laughing or otherwise experiencing deep emotions will be fully engaged in the story and therefore open to more learning.

Morals and instructions in proper conduct can be found in African storytelling.

The first Griots certainly did entertain but they also served as vessels of moral guidance. It is rare to find an African story that does not convey deeper meanings. Each time a person hears a story, even when it is repeated, they may find a new perspective on the teaching.

Animals, Insects, plants and other forms of nature are part of the African storytelling process.

Familiar players, such as Anansi the Spider, show up in many African stories. No matter how they are portrayed, such characters as the weaver-bird, the lion, mosquito and the hyena all become players in this special storytelling. Trees, lakes, rivers and other plants provide a geographical reference as well.

African storytelling can teach historical lessons.

Storytelling is a way for any culture to pass on its history. From stories from Africa, generic terms used now such as “Hero” “King & Queen” or “family” once had real names, meaning and a place in the geography of the Africa. These stories, still told with names in some parts of the world, help the audience to know where they fit into the world and history.

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Counseling

Counseling - Family, Marriage, Grief Counseling is designed to assist and guide participants to a healthy place. Our counseling guides you through the process of examining and understanding from which solution, resolution, wholeness and completeness can be had. Counseling is highly recommended in for Family, Marriage and Grief matters.

Family Counseling & Marriage Counseling

Before, during and post-marriage

In School, Community Crisis and Intervention Counseling

We provide youth and family grief counseling and supportive services.

Mediation

In life conflicts occur. Most often we are able to resolve them on our own; however, there are some occasion and some conflicts that require professional assistance. Mediation can be the solution that enables both parties to find a resolution. Mediation empowers both parties with a neutral third party and support that is committed to a healthy outcome for both sides. Mediation is a win-win for everyone.

Family Mediation

Mediation - services address family conflicts, anger management, business conflict, adolescence

Youth counseling

Mentoring, Manners, Etiquette, Self-Management, Behavior Control, Values

Discrimination Mediation

We provide discrimination mediation

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Coaching - Life, Business, Endeavors

Each of us can use support of a Coach to get more from ourselves than we can generally command alone. The best athletes, entertainers, leaders, and business-people all have coaches to call, push and guide them to giving and doing better than they would if left to do it on their own. A Coach is like your conscious and your mirror - they reflect back to you the extraordinary and outstanding self that you say you can be. Do not leave your life to chance - move beyond ordinary to extraordinary with coaching.
Coaching can be for a short period of time - to complete a project for example - or indefinite that you may continually produce at your very best.

Business Coaching

Coaching to supports you in achieving optimal performance and prosperity

Life Coaching

Coaching to supports you in achieving optimal performance and prosperity

Readings

Readings – Health, Relationship, Destiny, Career- the four corners of our life as humans. Cultivating your highest Spiritual, Energy Having peace, harmony, order and balance is essential to our well being - Readings allow us to look at what is present that you may need to address in order to achieve your optimal well being. Spiritual Readings assist you in relating to the families of creation - the Neteru, Ancestors, Siblings and seeds. Energy Readings assist you in recognizing if you are balanced and or if there are imbalances.

Spiritual Readings

to assist you in being centered, grounded and balanced.

Energy Readings

to assist you in being centered, grounded and balanced.

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1. Cleansing Therapies

Diet & Nutrition counseling,

Holistic Nutrition

Detox

Bath products,

Fasting

2. Energy Body Work-

Massage

I Ra-Sa Ankh- Energy (Reiki/Karuna)

3. Movement Arts

Thai Chi-

Yoga –Dance

4. Sound, color and light Therapies

Music Meditation and breathing

Mandala color healing

Tattoos

Henna Applications

5. Natural hair treatments

Washing

Beading

Braiding

Lox- start-up / tune-up

6. Holistic Medicine

Depression

Anxiety

PTSDs

Eating Disorder Recovery

Addictions Recovery

Healing From Trauma

Family of Origin Work

Spiritual Development

Adolescence and Families

Couples Work

7. Youth Education/ afterschool and summer workshops

Tutoring, Homework/ Homeschool help, mentoring, manners, etiquette, self-management, behavior control, Values

8. Sustainable Goods and Natural products

Become a member of the Amen Par Ankh family and receive special discounts on all services, packages, workshops and products and gifts!

AMEN PAR ANKH PRICING

General Circles

Please see the classes and workshop section.

Family sessions

In-office, long-distance or remote:

60 minute Session = $50

Group/ family Package held within 4 day periods = $200/$50 per session

Long-Distance Session = (prices vary according to distance)

Additions to an existing session = $25

Grief/ Emotional Release Ascension Ceremony

In-office, long-distance or remote:

$50 per session for an individual

Group/ Family Package held within 14 days = $195/$65 per session

Spiritual  Blessings

 

Amen Par Ankh offers an excellent cleaning, makover, Refresh, Redocorate, and Renewal-  for your place of business, home or any area that needs those special touches!

Prices vary according to each individual need. please contact our Par Ankh: 816-304-7240

 

Natural Healing Health Reading and Counsultation

In-office, long-distance or remote:

$75 per session

Package of 3 held within 14 days = $195/$65 per session

CHILDREN’s Counseling

Having children in need of services can sometimes stretch your pocketbook. We understand and make it easy for you and your child(ren) to receive the services needed. Please see following:

We also offer In-School and Community Crisis and Intervention Counseling.

Children 0 – 10

With family members – $20

Session alone – $25

Children 11 – 13

With family members being treated – $30

Session alone – $35

Children 14 – 18

With family members being treated – $35

Session alone – $40

Special pricing is available to assist those with budget constraints.

 INDIVIDUAL MODALITY PRICES

Private Sessions in-office, phone, Skype or other remote types:

One-on-one – $50 per hour

A Package of 4 sessions paid upfront receives a 20% discount, making sessions $150!

There is a wonderful opportunity for a holistic healer who would like to be in private practice and--at the same time--part of a Farm and spiritual center with other healers supporting each other. A treatment room is currently available for full or part-time use. The rate for Full-time use is $500/per month or $90.00 per week. half-time use is $50-per week, with a $100 discount for anybody that is able to make at least a 6-month lease agreement, and there are daily/hourly rates available, as well. Room features 5 screened windows that can be opened to allow fresh air into the room and blinds that open from the top. Floor is oak wood. Rental of the room also includes use of the lobby and a bathroom with a Jacuzzi tub for hydrotherapy, for your clients, and kitchen access to for a break room. Discounts are also available for use of the larger areas that are part of the center if you would like to work with clients in a larger space, as well.

 

ANKH (life) SENEB (health) WDJET (Strength) UDJA (prosperity)