Pure Lagos

Time to do a little shopping in support of local business, African fair-trade goods and holistic healing!
Come on over to Selden Market and find your Nirvana through handmade goods, artisanal crafts, natural healing and high frequency vibes.

We offer a curated selection of inspiring goods from all over Africa. There are Ankara upholstered furniture, Moringa straight from the continent and pure/raw Sandalwood and Frankincense.

Take a look at this golden elixir, our pure Frankincense Resin from Nigeria. Purifies your space like Sage and Palo Santo~

We lovingly provide healing Tarot readings for guidance in all areas of your life and self expression. Check out our Groupon for half off on an introductory reading. Our resident Healer, Sia Alexander, will walk you through all manner of Self - Transformation and Expansion.

So much goodness is awaiting you here at Pure_Lagos and Heal Love Now. Make a point to come and recieve!

We also have luxurious and stunning art works brought over from Nigeria. More than 50 Lagosian artist participate in our collective and produce amazing pieces that we joyfully share with you.

Surprise! Yep, we've got books for you too. New York Times Best-Selling books to be exact. Fancy a Newberry Medal Awarded novel for National Poetry Month. Our shelves are stacked with them. See ya soon~

Wild Woman Affirmations!

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Sagrada Familia

The spectacular grace of Gaudi and his surreal artistry is the sole reason for my love of Barcelona.

The Sacred Family Iglesia is astoudning in its magnitude and beauty and makes for an enchanting experience pre-sunset.

The colors. The silence. The wonder of such a creation begun over 100 years agos. This is La Sagrada Familia.

I am in awe of the perfect alignment of the structure and humbled by the often overlooked brilliance of humanity in expressing God.

Devotion to divine Truth can stir the heart deeply and enable one to master seemingly formidable tasks.

The church external is always but a symbol of the sacred space within. Massive edifices no matter how illustrious can never approach the grand infinite in each of us. 

Gaudi was truly a genius and I am spurred on in my own art to be bolder, grander, fearless.

Everywhere in Barcelona his influence can be felt and there is such a creative phenomenon at play.

Come to Barcelona, this eclectic city in Spain and bring your journal, your sketchbook, your open heart. The streets are paved with color, energy and verve.

Hygge

The Danish concept of Hygge (hue gah) relates to the practice of finding genuine satisfaction in the simple pleasure of home, hearth and family.

                 

It is the being at peace with whatever comforts appear before you and relishing in the myriad ways one can appreciate a warm fire, a cozy hug or a meal cooked with love.

Hygge is my New Year's resolution and I intend to make home life the center of my activity. From the comfortable base of home I will reach out to the world with healing service and work. 

                 

I charge you to find ways to express this simple principle in your own life. Bring a little Hygge into your space this year and see how it transforms you, your relationships and your health~

Bending Reality

Your ability to reshape your known reality by exiting it and entering into the timeless/spaceless dimension of divine Love consciousness is limitless. In order to bend reality as so many sages of old as well as current day teachers practice, you must simply let go of identification with your body, your possessions and the material world around you. Go to a quiet place and surrender all thoughts to one third eye opening mantra such as, "There is nothing but God."

Begin to breathe into this mantra, knowing God as Love and allowing this high, light frequency to take over your being. Dwell in this beautiful understanding until it becomes you and therefore you become as God. When you reach this state of communion, all appearances and mental knowledge about your reality will dissolve. You will find yourself, outside of time and beyond space. Here you can create easily every good and perfect thing. You can shape and design the highest and best life according to your greatest ideals. Enjoy this level of transcendence daily and your life will blossom as the rose~

Yoga Blows the Mind

Flexing into the splits during my yoga practice today, I came to realize that this exercise is not just a physical one, but a psychological and spiritual one as well. Stretching your body requires flexibility of mind and demands that you open and free all the channels within you that may be blocked with rigid beliefs.

Rigid ideas of what's possible and acceptable and okay can prevent us from not only expanding our mind to infinite dimensions, but flexing our muscles, tissues and bones in new and expansive ways. It is vital during yoga to free your mind, to relax your standards and assumptions, and to feel into novel ways of being. 

In order to do the splits, to extend our limbs to the highest degree, a liberation must occur in our minds and hearts. We have to set ourselves upon a higher vantage point to allow the body to transcend barriers of space and time and fixed posture. Yes, we must in yoga lean into infinity and in so doing stretch beyond our perceived physical limitations. 

In your practice today, permit your mind to wander away from its ego occupations. Just allow your body to melt into the poses. Give it no false boundaries and expectations and watch as it bends and folds with ease, splitting and opening on a cellular level to regenerate and restore the eternal nature of your being. 

Love is Alkaline

Pure unconditional love has the effect of being alkaline for the body. It is detoxifying, purifying and invigorating. When we immerse one another in a fllood of living light we help to heal not only the spirit, but the mind and body as well. 

Likewise, surrounding ourselves with loving energy dissipates dis-ease and clears toxic residue from our system. Next time you're feeling physically drained take a few moments to hug yourself, say "I love you" several times and imagine kisses of sweet light embracing each of your cells. You will be amazed at the healing results. Love heals~

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Tarot on the Beach

Tarot and the ocean go hand in hand. The simple serenity of the seashore and the dynamic archetypes of the Tarot enhance and inspire each other. On this bright day enjoying Oceanview beach, I pulled three major arcana cards from the Wild Unknown deck.

First, The Fool: An innocent one approaching the field of infinite possibilities. A unique soul who risks all in order to fully embrace life, to experience all the magnificence that living has to offer. This sweet, sometimes foolhardy creature steps out on faith, lives by grace and in so doing embarks upon a hero's journey filled with adventure and excitement. For the Fool, life is no dull moment. 

Second, The Lovers: Two joined in holy love, soaring together to the depths and hieghts of communion and integration with another soul. Mates for life for whom nothing can cause separation, joined as they are in spirit. These two complement one another and exists in tandem, they communicate telepathically, transform during sexual union into one being, and together reach spiritual dimensions far and beyond what is acheivable alone. 

Lastly, The Magician: That master who wields power thorugh attunement with all 4 elements and therefore steps through the Divine portal. With a synergy of water that flows, fire that alights, air that inspires and earth that steadies, the Magi overcomes every worldly obstacle easily and thus, knows no bounds, no limitations and no lack. 

Yoga by Sea

Do yoga by the sea. Move your body along the firm sand and the glistening waves, while the ocean air soothes your heart and mind. All problems and worries will vanish as you, like a child, surrender to the joy in freedom of movement, spontaneous and wonderful. Stand on your head, let your limbs soar and dance in the open breeze felt only upon the edges of the great blue. Allow the seriousness of life to float away as you embrace fluidity and stream of consciousness-inspired motion. Touch the earth, feel the hot sand beneath you, and relish in the steady waves ebbing and flowing against the seeming permanent nature of things ~

Faith

"I assure you, if ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto any mountain, be thou removed, be thou cast into the sea; and it shall do whatsoever you saith; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" 

~Matthew 17:20 

God Loves Sex and Money

In this book, I delve into God, sex and money and how divine love connects each on transformative levels, which can enlighten our experience. The different qualities of God are explained in the context of elevating our view of sexuality and wealth. God is brought into the realm of the human, as a beloved, “closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.” I seek to answer the fundamental question of where God stands on the issues of sex and money by offering a psycho-spiritual analysis in very simple and direct terms. We are facing an existential crisis over the pressures of being a sexual being in a world dominated by the pursuit of money. This book is balm for the soul who’s lost its proverbial way.

Order your kindle copy here or print copy here ~

Awareness

"Whatever comes, do not push it away, whatever goes, do not grieve. Everything appears just like clouds floating by; they just come and go. Stay only as the unmoving awareness. Awareness and truth are one."

~ Mooji

Buddha

"All that we are is a result of all that we have thought."  

~ Buddha

Sun Yoga

Sun Yoga is a practice by which one lives off the energetic rays of the sun. In this practice, the sun is gazed at daily during sunrise or sunset for just a few minutes, in order to vitalize the pineal gland and feed the body with solar energy.

Apparently there are thousands of people around the globe living entirely off of sunlight. Contrary to popular belief, the body does not need food for energy or to stay alive. As all plants gain their substance from solar energy, we too can go to this pure source and receive our food directly. Along with pure water, Sun Yoga can give our systems all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals necessary for survival. The sun is clearly not the enemy it has been made out to be by the media. Studies have shown that it is, in fact, the chemicals in sunscreen and the additives in food, combined with extreme sun exposure that cause skin cancer. The sun itself is a benign, loving source of pure energy, warmth and light.

To practice Sun Yoga, one must be diligent in sun gazing daily whilst standing barefoot on earth or sand. The period spent sun gazing each day is increased incrementally. There is a systematic approach to this practice and when followed correctly, appetite lessens more and more until the body becomes naturally able to thrive on sun energy alone. This is an amazing practice with far-reaching implications for human growth and evolution. Sun gazing has also been explored as a way to elevate oneself spiritually and to overcome the density and limitations of the human form. Perhaps gravity itself will give way as we merge with the light, pure, free essence of the sun.

For precautions and a detailed explanation on sun gazing go here.

Tantric Union

In Tantra, we utilize the energy of sexual ecstasy to reach euphoric heights of physical, emotional and spiritual communion. We join with a lover and practice sharing our bodies on deep levels of sexual play, intimacy and oneness. Penetration and orgasm cease to be our one-track focus and we allow arousal to deepen, rise and reach crescendos of passion over and over again, without actually coming to a climax.

This process stirs up within us coiling flames of spiritual light which correspond to a profound and powerful energy sourced from our Creator. It is the energy of bliss, of infinite love and of absolute creativity. With it swirling inside us from tantric union, we can experience much more than the temporary and fleeting pleasure of normal sex. The awakening of the kundalini spiral or our pure life force energy is akin to opening up a direct communication line with the Divine.

As our lover accepts and receives us at the deepest core of being and we dance together in a warm, flowing explosion of sensual and heartfelt love, a way is provided for the two to become one. In this, the merging of our bodies' polarities extends into a dissolving of the boundaries between the human and God. Our process of synergizing seemingly separate bodies, minds and souls, unites the whole of creation into a spiral dance of the One Song.

All of us can experience this reunion in our own love relationships. In simply putting aside competition, coercion, judgment and manipulation, we begin to approach sexual union as a prayer, a sacred opportunity to offer waves of unconditional love upon our partner in selfless devotion.

As a result, we experience the transforming effects of tantric union:

Timelessness, where you are no longer bound by the concept of time. Every preoccupation ceases except the full exquisite realization of this moment with your beloved.

Boundlessness, during which your body and the body of your lover merge as the material fixity of each dissolve into the spiritualized One self.

Ecstasy and Euphoria, in the ultimate experience of total body orgasm after the focal point of sensation spreads from the region of the sex organs to encompass the entire terrain of your inner and outer form.

Synchronicity, of thought, feeling and action is felt between you and yours bringing about an ecstatic harmony with the All That Is.

In Tantra there comes the moment when you no longer are, your partner no longer is, and a new, greater being is created, merged in mind, body, soul and spirit. With this level of sexual exploration, lovers can never tire of each other as they venture past the limited confines of body identification and leap into the boundless heights of soul connection. Sex in Tantra between two souls will always be new, exciting and of transcendent quality. Seek and discover the depths of this mystery within your love relationship and God will always stand right at your fingertips ~


For more on this topic, go to my book, God Loves Sex and Money ~




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Cosmic Sex

When clarity of mind bursts forth from the constraints of human conditioning and encounters divine understanding, the synergy created is a deep and utterly transformational reunion with Self. In this reunion, a rising above the density of material existence is felt and the soul is set free into bliss. Free to surrender all but the loftiest notions of goodness, perfection and love. As the soul travels on this journey of oneness and alights in the orgasmic interplay with the highest realm, all the universe delights in ecstatic transcendence. The human mind is made whole again as it dissolves into the One mind. The All self unites and permeates the very essence of our being. We become complete, we heal, all problems are released and Grace alone prevails.

The crystal palace that shimmers between our old and new mind lights the way to the daily evolution of our small self. It is the sacred center of our being where we know God. Pouring forth the elixir of heaven, the ambrosia of angelic rapture, this mystical life center quenches the longing of our separate self, impregnating our core with Divine consciousness; and we ascend. We move past fear and sickness, overcome poverty and pain and rejoice in a new found integration with all that we truly are. The merging of the Essence self with that which was seemingly separate, is the sublime act of cosmic sexual union. "One becomes lucid within the dream of life and life is revealed to be a dream."*

After coming into perfect harmony with the Divine self, we receive the holy grail of communion and realize how empty we have been before this climactic moment.  In fullness, now, we soar with our hand on the philosopher's stone, not to hoard or contain it but to unleash its passionate promise unto the entire universe. In profound joy, we go forth vibrating in unison with the cosmos in a glorious expression of  bliss without end. As our body becomes the vehicle for the illumination of Spirit, we open at our very core to experience every nuance of the divine impulse. We become the cosmos~

For more on this, go to my book, God Loves Sex and Money ~


*Source: biologyofkundalini.com

Satori: Enlighten Your Brain

 
Nirvana, Satori, Samadhi - the apex of human experience; but the question remains, how do we achieve these blissful states of enlightenment? Is it through years of spiritual practice and study or can we find bliss now by the simple act of stimulating our amygdala with positive imagery? According to a diverse body of research both ancient and contemporary, we can, in fact, do just that.

By self-stimulating our frontal lobes, the most advanced part of the brain, we can shift our capacity for creative intelligence to an off-the-chart degree. This stimulation can occur as a result of simple exercises during which we charge our amygdala using certain visualizations. A good way to test how prominently our frontal lobes are operating in our lives is by checking our emotional state. According to brain scientists, when we are experiencing fear, self-doubt, sadness and negativity, this area of our brain is turned off. "When positive emotion is low, advanced brain function is low. Negative emotion (fear, anger, depression, boredom) is a warning signal. Positive emotion (happiness, joy, love) is a built-in reward mechanism to encourage us to keep our frontal lobe circuits open. This is nature's method for encouraging further evolution of mankind's consciousness." Rev. Mary Hardy, PhD.

In looking more closely at our brains, we find that there is not just one amygdala, but two, on either side of our forehead, each with a posterior and anterior region. Activity in the back region of the amygdala relates to fear based responses and negative impressions, whilst the forward region being stimulated correlates with heightened pleasure, expanded creative power and higher consciousness.

Those of us with environmental illnesses have inadvertently wired our posterior amygdala on a toxic circuit of hyper-vigilant reactivity to chemicals and intense negative mental/emotional programming. We are, in effect, experiencing the worse features of a very powerful organ which is designed to be triggered by our senses, particularly our sense of smell. According to research by T. D. A. Lingo, "we understand that the olfactory bulbs stimulate the amygdala gland through smell and activate the frontal lobes of the brain - transcending space, time, energy and matter through consciousness." Somewhere along the way for EI sufferers, a strong chemical exposure got encoded in our brains as toxic and caused our system to go haywire, mis-firing the posterior amygdala and over-stimulating our immune system, long after the acute danger had disappeared.

Knowing this, we can immediately see how mixed-up the communication has really become between our sense of smell, our emotions and thoughts, and our keen-eyed amygdala. And just as immediately, we can see the avenue to resolving this dilemma for good. To instantly decide to take all thought and attention off of the posterior amygdala (fear, anxiety, worry) and give our entire self over to the "charging of our frontal lobes," is the clear and present key to a complete and sustained cure for environmental illness - and the beginning of an absolute transcendent experience of life, in general. This is not just some kind of "magic" happening in the brain; during experiments where subjects' brains were electrically monitored, a substantial lighting up of the frontal lobes was evident during amygdala self-stimulation.

Two very simple exercises have been offered by one of the pioneering researchers in amygdala stimulation,  Neil Slade, and I have personally had amazing healing results with each. I feel that these exercises instantly bypass all the seemingly hard-wired brain channels which lead to multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, etc. Since we know the amygdala is intricately connected with the olfalctory sense, and that chemical odors trigger EI related symptoms, how about we stimulate the anterior amygdala by simply imagining an aroma we love while simultaneously seeing our front temples (seat of the anterior amygdala) being tickled by two feathers. Sounds quirky, I know, but I've tried it and it works immediately to shift both the intense chemical odor and the emotional drama created by the mind. And get this, it doesn't stop there. As physical symptoms are relieved and the body relaxes, a feeling of euphoria awaits just around the corner from this practice and increases over time!

The next exercise is to imagine a great source of light, God - the Universe, soaring down through the top of your head like a laser and splitting into two directions out through your left and right temples. Apparently, it is normal to actually feel a click inside when you have successfully 'turned on' your anterior amygdala. You can then play with increasing the intensity of the light as it moves through your frontal lobes. I have found the most incredibly blissful states arising from this practice, not to mention the instant relief from any and all EI symptoms, e.g., headaches, muscle pain, brain fog, nausea, etc. My sense of smell shifts in the most miraculous ways, with an immediate ability to catch whatever glorious scent is on the air, as if the charged amygdala, itself, begins to relax its defense and allow space for a joyous interaction with the atmosphere instead of a fight or flight response. It is truly an enlightening experience.
 
I believe those of us in the MCS, CFS, Environmental Illness community are the *wayshowers. We are the guides for the rest of humanity into the inner realms of our true selves. Our being hyper-sensitive is actually due to a hyper-powerful nature. We have the ability to tap into the synergy between thought and experience in profoundly acute ways. We sense what is below the radar of mass consciousness, giving us a portal into the spiritual dimension, the formless. Once we come to terms with our dis-ease, we realize it as a blessing - to enlighten us into our present power to make each and every moment our very own creation.
Contrary to the typical understanding of ourselves as canaries in a coal mine, I believe we are in fact star people on the precipice of the evolution of human consciousness. Let us take up our charge and heal the distorted world of human thinking.


*Wayshower - "A spiritually enlightened being who has the capacity to lead humanity through a process of spiritual development.  Some traditions believe that Jesus was the Wayshower."

Supreme Healing of the Diseased Mind

 
What if you could, had the power, and set forth the intention to train your mind to accept whatever you told it? Say, if your mind were like your child and listened intently to your every word and bought it all - lock, stock and barrel. Imagine the influence you would have in word, thought and deed, the ability to totally program your mind with the perfect, whole and abundant messages chosen by you according to your highest ideals. Well, based on the current scientific findings in brain chemistry, quantum physics and neural-plasticity, as well as the age-old wisdom of mystic sages, this power is in fact yours. It is time we took the roof off the human mind. "The sky is not the limit."

Are you prepared to acknowledge that your beliefs about a thing are 99.9% of the substance that makes it real? Could it be when you believe in toxic chemicals, cancerous cells, and depleted bank accounts you actually, of your own power, make these real for you in your experience. Could your world be neutral, waiting to follow your lead? The very fact that your life mimics your expectations is likely proof positive that you are the creator! Your nose runs when you "catch a cold," your money is short because it doesn't "grow on trees," and your relationships always go sour after that "six-month mark," simply because your obedient mind is only following your instructions and bringing forth experientially what you mentally create. Have you forgotten that you are a steward of infinity? Might you have misnamed your power and called it weakness. It seems the magnificence of you has been diverted, tripping over its luminous rays of light into a dizzying mis-creation. You are Power, remember?

You believe in a vitamin's effectiveness when you take and it works to the degree of your belief. Ever tried imagining you took a vitamin C and watching how your body responds as if? Tryed viewing an extra surcharge on your utility bill as a gift you gave to God and watching the increase flow. Ok, so this is beginning to make sense. It is resonating somewhere in you. I can feel it. It is even becoming obvious that you can do this. Now the question becomes, who is this you that does the opposite? And why is this you sending such limited programs to your mind and allowing them to manifest through your body and into your life experience?  Because this you is God, only stepped down to the lowest common denominator, the Supreme Self disconnected from its origins, The Creator who has forgotten itself, falsely identifying as the created. You, in losing sight of your divine Self, have bought into a world of limiting beliefs and perpetuated this faulty world unknowingly. Know thyself, I exhort.

It is, very clearly, a case of mistaken identity. You would not keep from your precious child a garden full of apples, knowing that this abundant place was yours to share. You would not deny them a cool fountain of crystalline waters to quench their thirst when you were the sole owner of the pristine land upon which this well had sprung. You would constantly venture to show them the beauty and love around them, as this very same glory poured out upon you daily, boundlessly. You would tell them wonderful stories, give them high-minded advice, reveal to them the greatest secrets to mastering the awe-inspiring feats you yourself were continuously accomplishing. Yes, you would give them the very best of your words, actions and thoughts, because you would understand that your presence was all-powerful and transcendent and what better else could you, would you, offer them.

Your mind and the body it expresses upon is your child. You are the all-powerful parent of it, by virtue of the living God within. The beneficient Creator. The fount of Love. Take back your Divine power. Imagine the very best of what you can conjure up and tell it to your mind and with all your heart believe it as true and real and act as if it is already done. For you are the Doer! If you say it, so shall it be done. Stop right now this moment saying things, thinking things, acting in ways that are not consistent with perfection, joy and wholeness. This will set you free from the false you who's lost its way and all its attendant sacrifices. The God in you will well up so magnificently, that all creation will come to meet it in humble acquiesence.

Let your highest Self stretch and unfold into its grand Being. Imagine yourself absorbing God essence all around you, for this is the Truth. Let every breath you take be as healing as the most expensive vitamins, every sound you hear sing the most melodic symphony, allow all sights to shine as pure visions of light and grace and acknowledge every encounter as a meeting with angels. Do this deliberately, constantly. Embrace the infinity of abundance and see money as always free and available through the direct action of the Highest Being within you.

 
Forget about the chemicals, toxins, diseases, disorders, crimes, wars, destruction, chaos and suffering that we alone have created in our misguided imaginations, as our false selves. These problems can only be solved through our releasing them, our discontinuing to tell that story to our children - our impressionable minds. It is time to tell the story of our realization of the perfect order that has always been at hand. We are the grand Creators, with the power to make this body and this earth exactly as we imagine it to be. So, it is time now that we put down the sword and remember who we are, whispering with calm authority, "wake up my child, your are free now...."