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The Body and Soul of the Warrior, the True Story of Yasuke, the African Samurai
2 min readJul 2, 2023
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This is an invitation, a demonstration, and a re-enactment of an African way of seeing into the soul.
The body must remain free, not enslaved. He was a slave but rose up to liberate himself and became the first foreign samurai warrior.
He was respected as a fighter, spiritual being, and became a legend. The mythic path of the African vision of seeing, being, and feeling are examined.
He was raised a shaman. His mother was a shaman, and he grew up to think like a magical being. However, . . . one day he was stolen and found himself on the sea.
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During his misadventures, the traveled the world, including India and met other Shamans. They fed him and respected him.
Europeans who enslaved him thought mind warriors and often copied strange methods for fighting, thinking, and becoming from other countries. Much of their ideas came from Africa, India, and even Asia.
A shaman is a warrior, and the warrior is not about fighting, instead it is a creative way of being alive and being part of society.
Balance, harmony, and vision are a departure against our colonial stereotypes about the warrior and our continued racism against blacks in general.
He learned how the tradition of the warrior is key to awakening his own heart to see what he seemed to have lost, just as Europe had lost a long time ago as our original societies, our original eternal relationships, as our spiritual connections weaken, fell apart, and became confused.
The clarity of the wisdom of the shaman is born in the body that merges with the soul and teaches how a warrior enters the eternally powerful mystic music of life.
Fight for your rights! He learned and did.
One day, his ship landing in Japan. . . .
