Ogboni Explorations

“The Yoruba origin Ogboni esoteric order is a group of people united in their secret deliberations by their belief in Earth as universal mother”. “Interesting. Even if their discussions are largely secret one can appreciate their veneration of Earth as an effort to make meaning of terrestrial existence”. “True. Life on Earth can be seen as brief and puzzling, at times requiring some reassurance to persist with”. “Absolutely. We find ourselves here without any known prior agreement of ours to come here, ignorant of any identity we might have had, any place we might have been in before entry into the Earth, and where we shall go after that. Various answers are provided to these questions, none of definitive value or universally accepted”. “A perplexing situation indeed”. “The human being grows in physical and mental powers, reaches a climax in both, though at different times, then descends in strength of those powers, until they break down totally, leading to their leaving

Search for Self Actualization through Ogboni In describing myself as founding the Universal Ogboni Fraternity, people approach me in the hope that I can help them achieve strategic goals of getting along in the world-jobs, economic security, wealth, power and spiritual protection the Yoruba Ogboni esoteric order is reputed to provide. I explain, as I also do on a number of my posts about founding this new branch of Ogboni, that I have never been nor do I aspire to be a member of traditional Ogboni, preferring to create my own system based on the older one. I also explain that I do not possess any spiritual powers that can provide for them access to the well being and power they desire. I also do not yet have a network that can assist with finding jobs or advancing capital for business, some of what may be gained by belonging to a close fraternal group like Ogboni. But I am developing knowledge about