Poem about Ubuntu

This is a poem about Ubuntu that I wrote after attending John's workshop in Wales. I came with curiosity,

Intellectual interest,

Prepared to criticize,

Proud of what I knew.

My own fearless self

Was free to walk away

I nearly did.  Then,

Moving through the motions,

Something dissolved.

Seeing the simplicity

Of opening hearts,

Sensing support,

Honouring ancestry,

Inviting,

Accepting,

Allowing,

Something true,

Something sweet,

Something right,

Came.

Now expanded

By the beauty of humility,

I go smaller.

Smaller

Is not what it seems.

Smaller

Is connected.

Smaller

Is bigger.

Smaller

Is huge.

Rob Fradley-Wilde, 3rd May 2009

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Sacred Agreement

Sacred Hoop Magazine issue 59. Pip Waller, medical Herbalist, shares the similarities she has found between the traditions of the sangomas of South Africa and the old ways of her home in Celtic North Wales

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Bridge of Reconciliation

Features article in the Sacred Hoop magazine, Issue ,56 2007. In this article John talks about his Sangoma calling as a 'Bridge of Reconciliation', and his work as helping to bring understanding between white & black people in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Healing through dance

(Galway Independent, 12 January 2005) Anna King talks to traditional healer John Lockley about the healing power of dance (xentsa) and the art of divination (vumisa).

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