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Sacred Journey Blog



Kimberly J.
Spiritual Teacher, Nomadic Healer



Spiritual teachings, technologies, and techniques to integrate the power of love and spirit into your daily lives



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Ritualized Writing With & For Our Ancestors



The dynamic interaction of energy through the use of work, celebration (in music, song, dance, myth) and placation (sacrifice, offering) was the standard mode of worship for early African peoples"
—Luisah Teish





Since the beginning of time humans have engaged in ritual to consciously collaborate with seen and unseen forces of nature. Rituals color our entire existence and solidify our knowingness of Spirit. Ritual is an intentional patterned movement of energy used to heal, create, and transform. Through ritual we familiarize ourselves with our own internal power to create, move, and replenish energy. Rituals elevate the energetic vibration of one’s internal and external space, creating a sacred invitation for spirit to work its magic. The interaction of energies created by integrating sacred words, thoughts, and symbols with breathing, meditating, dancing, chanting, and visualization allows the power of spirit to mesh seamlessly into our lived experiences.


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Black Women's Lives Matter Too



If I speak to you in anger, at least I have spoken to you: I have not put a gun to your head and shot you down in the street; I have not looked at your bleeding sister's body and asked, “What did she do to deserve it?”
— Audre Lorde





Political activist, scholar, author, and professor, Angela Davis asserts that the liberatory project of each individual must entail the liberation of all humanity. Therefore, neither the oppressor nor the oppressed can experience freedom until their relationship is transformed into one of human equality. Activist, scholar, and author Audre Lorde affirms that “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.” Bell hooks, educator, scholar, and author argues that the engagement in a movement to end sexist oppression requires participation in a revolutionary struggle to “eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.” These African American women scholars, activists, visionaries, and revolutionaries give clarity to the importance of naming, shaming, and eradicating all manifestations of race, sex, and class oppression.


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The Antidote



“In a world marked by violent ethnic, racial, and religious conflict and deepening social and economic inequality, any possibility of social transformation {and healing}...requires a spiritual revolution."
— Leela Fernandes





All disease and illness comes from imbalances in our personal, familial, social, and global environments. The current viral mass invader is produced, reproduced, and feasts on those imbalances. The extent to which we are engulfed by this pandemic is a direct reflection of the pandemics we are slowly dying from in our bodies, families, societies, and governments.


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The Healing Power of African Drumming



“Used as a vehicle to conjure, create, and transport life force, our ancestors noticed first that the same beat was present in all beings, in everything, and created vessels that embodied this essence, the eternal drum, implying heart and beat...With the heart beat drum as our guide, we—our ancestors called forth all that exists into equilibrium.”
— Afia Walking Tree





Everything She Creates Has a Beat...

Life begins with a beat; a vibration of energy that permeates through the cells of all human and non-human nature. The first sound we hear in our mother’s womb is that of her heartbeat.

A fetus vibrates to the primordial rhythm of the mother through the vibrations and pulse of her blood flow, the chemical energy in her body, and her emotions. These are rhythms of the living Spirit within the human body, the primordial beat of the drum.






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The Sacred Power of Love



“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi





Love is beyond a feeling, an expression, an idea, a longing, a desire to feel connected. It is the purest essence of who we are as divine beings. It is the energy that interconnects all planetary beings. It is the awareness of our oneness with Goddess/God, the Angels, the Stars, the Moon, the Sun, the Ancestors, Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. Love is the foundation for all creation. An intimate experience of all there is.






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The Sacred Art of Healing



The art of using healing touch and caring hearts, relationships and remembrance, to ease the pain of self and others, be they physical, emotional, or spiritual pains. It is the art of cultivating awareness that we are surrounded by Spirit, by energies and elements, ancestors and guides with whom we can be in contact and in dialogue as we make our daily round
--Anna Joyce





The sacred art of healing connects us with the divine forces within—spirit, ancestors, God, Goddess, angels, spirit guides, masters, teachers to create spaces for wholeness, expression, dreaming, healing, truth, beauty, love, and compassion. Without it, we would cease to exist.

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I AM Worthy



You must be courageous enough to explore the depth of your inner-being, inclusive of pain and trauma, to fully realize self and deem her/him/they worthy.
--Kimberly J.





Who Am I, Really?

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Posing this question begins the journey to self-exploration and establishing a sacred relationship with self. Reclaiming the pure essence of the embodied heart, prior to parental, societal, and egotistical conditioning is the key to loving ourselves enough to do the work to liberate mind, body, and spirit from oppressive, mundane cycles of fear, trauma, and unhappiness.

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Finding Passion & Purpose in 2020



The place I live and work is colorful, deep, soulful, creative, unique, emotional, and forever sacred.
--Alisa Starkweather





2020 is the year to move beyond survival to manifest your vision for a career that you absolutely love. The beautiful journey to discovering and uncovering the depths of your passion and sacred purpose through vocation can be both enlightening and intimidating.

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All My Relations



When we take up a new way, our minds and hearts are filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.
--Linda Hogan, Dwellings





The secret to maintaining balance is to be in right relationship with self, others, and nature. Relationships must be nurtured and thus require us to be actively engaged not only in the communications process, actively and passively speaking and listening, but also in the work to heal, restore, and make whole our broken relationships.



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