I remember almost as though it were only yesterday this day 31 years ago. It was the first time I would be in Auchi, the land of the Otaru. I arrived the day before on a bill to give a public talk at Auchi poly technic on the subject: The Key to Peace And Happiness. My hosts were Mr and Mrs Osiki, both engineers, and lecturers at the polytecnic.
Being human, one part of me kept remembering home in Lagos, because my wife and I were expecting a baby next day. And, as sure as day, he came. If you wonder why I was far away from home when I had fore knowledge of such an important event, I would say April 18 is one of the most important dates in the Gregorian calendar for humanity on earth and elsewhere in the universe, and that I made the necessary arrangements back home for the coming of this baby.
Very April 18 reminds me of the purpose of human existence on earth and rekindles me to not pursue tinsel in the place of gold, chaff instead of wheat, perdition for life. All of us are helped in different ways for better and clearer understanding of the purpose of existence, particularly on earth, but we are too sloppy to catch the lifelines. How many persons remember their dreams, or understand them? I was lucky to have an Out of Body Experience ( OBE) at 24. Psychic researchers now call it OBE or Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), if it is only being able to sense or to know what the average person cannot.
Please permit that, before I proceed, I recall a psychic case from the book Conversations With God, which was a gift from an acquaintance, Mr Jocob Akindele, who is also restless in ever deepening his recognitions about existence, peace and happiness and how to achieve them. One of the highlights of this book is a school boy named John, if my memory serves me right. He is reserved, hardly mixes. His class teacher noticed him but most probably always shrugged her shoulders until one day during lunch break. She asked him why he was sitting in the class and not out-door for recreation. His reply was court and shocking:
“ John has an Accident”
The teacher has a son named John, but it did not cross her mind that this John was talking about her son. Soon,the class re-assembled from break . Soon, the headmaster accompanies some strange persons into the class-room. They conversed with the teacher who gathered her books and hand bag and left with them after managing to bid her pupils bye.
When she returned a few days after, and was alone in the class again with this boy during another lunch break,she humbly asked…
“How did you know John had an accident?”
I do not remember the rest of the story. I remember my first OBE, though. From deep sleep, I found I was not the person deep asleep in bed…that deep asleep in bed was my body. I was the one awake and walking about in the room. I was not hallucinating.
It was a real, day conscious experience which has occurred more times and helped me to understand that life goes beyond being born, going to school, graduating from the university, getting a job, chasing and making money, getting married, raising a family, becoming a grandparent someday, dying someday and becoming lost in the memory of succeeding generations of humans.
As a litmus test, ask your children if you are over 70….who were Adeola Odutola, Obafemi Awolowo, Rufus Giwa, Ernest Shonekan, Tafawa Balewa, Michael Okpara, Denrus osadebey, Joseph Tarka, Isac Boro,Malam Aminu Kano, Ahmadu Bello, Margaret Ekpo, Olu Onagoruwa, Dick Ihetiu (Dick Tiger), Hogan Bassey and Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle. Many Nigerians have faint memories of them today. Many do not know them. Yet they made waves in their time. Was their existence circumstantial?Where may they be now, if there was a purpose for their existence? What is this purpose? What is the key for unravelling or defining it ? I discovered from my OBE that we all exist in a world governed by natural laws which brought it about, and that peace and happiness are guaranteed only in the recognition of these laws and unconditional observance of them. It is in this light that I seek to address some of the major events of last week in Nigeria highlighted in the headline. Bobrisky and Junior Pope.
Bobrisky
Society has wise ways of bursting the balloon of its deviants who beat their drums too hard and too loud for the comfort and safety of everyone. That was what happened to a man, 33, born and named Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju but who has chosen to call himself Bobrisky and is applauded by the public as “Mummy of Lagos”. Recently, kindred souls decorated him as Nigeria’s “ best dressed woman”. It wouldn’t have been any one’s business if he merely changed his name to Bobrisky. That is his own business. I was born Olufemi Babatunde Kusa. Olufemi was my baptismal name at birth. I took on John at 17 or 18 when Rev. Earl M. Fyne baptised me as an adult in the pool of water right behind the altar of the chapel of Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo. The Epistles of St. John fascinated me. I believed Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju adopted Bobrisky for stage craft. In the stage craft which brought him fame and money and trouble, he dresses and behave like a woman. His father was upset. Who is that parent who lives a straight , natural life who would have no headaches and sleepless nights over such a son who was popularising trans gender life, and, thereby, encouraging lesbianism, gayism and heterosexual life especially among young persons who are being dragged by the internet to the abyss or bottomless pit? In reality, trans gender life deforms the original identity of the human soul, but not of the human spirit the kernel of the soul. I cannot be a judge in respect of Bobrisky’s inner life. I described here only that which I have recognised from my search for The Truth following my OBEs. I have recognised that we who call ourselves human beings today were once unconscious spirit seed germs with potential to grow and mature into conscious spiritual beings. We can glimpse this when we plant a seemingly lifeless mango seed, vegetable seed or ear of corn in the right soil. As spiritual seed germs, we were planted in the soil of the material world, far, far below the spiritual world, Paradise,our home.
At a point in the course of becoming more conscious than when we left home, we were opportuned to decide in which of the two activities in creation we wish to permanently dedicate our existence. We had to choose between active or passive existence. The Active or Positve is rough or rocket, obtuse and material laden. The Passive or Negative is not derogatory, but a fine and deliassivecate countelever Activity to active or rough activity. It means the finer existence which inclines homeward,from where it constantly draws values and power in support of the downward striving positive activity. To the male gender on earth belongs this activity and to the female gender belongs the gentler finer delicate activity. Once the preferred activity is chosen, it cannot be changed in the entire existence of the human spirit. In the entire universe, only these two activities exist. Any attempt to change it causes a distortion of the soul of the person concerned, and sometimes affect the physical body.
Delineation of both activities manifests, also, in the outward forms of the female and male human bodies.The female bodies is finer because the force within it is finer and more powerful than the force within the male body which, to support its course and obtuse work on earth, is endowed with strength. Thus, it is wrong to call the female gender the weaker sex. It is the more powerful gender. There is a difference between Power and Strength. Psychically, woman can bear more stress and inner pain than man. However, man has the strength of bigger muscles. When a man is effeminate and cannot stand up to his calling and duties as a man, he may begin to alter the configuration of his soul. This may begin to affect his body. If he returns to the earth after his dismise, h-incarnate, in a female body,if he has not corrected his spiritual aberrations. Thus,we may find a man in a woman’s body. The same may happen to a woman who returns to the earth in a man’s body.
Today, there are many men in women’s bodies and there are many women in men’s bodies.These thoughts are not original to me. They come as revealed knowledge to mankind at this time in events connected with events of 18 April 1875, that is 149 years ago. Distorted souls are useless souls in Creation. There are only two activities..Male represented by the perpendicular line in an equal-armed Cross, and Female ( Passive or Negative) represented by the Horizontal blind in the same Cross. Old civilisations knew about this Cross. It is sometimes used in decorative manner, though with a serious message, on the robes of some priestly Caste. It was the Cross of which the Lord Jesus spoke when He asked His followers to pick their Cross and fellow Him. He couldn’t have been speaking of the Crucifix which had not featured in His earthly Mission. Distorted souls are trans genders. They are attracted to one another in friendship and marriage. Globally, Nigeria inclusive, more women are inclining towards active activities, are unwittingly shifting the balance in the equal armed cross. This is why the nations are becoming more unbalanced and the world is upside down right from the family level.
I said earlier I could not be a judge over Bobrisky’s life. I can only see his conduct against the background of the conception of the Distorted Soul, of which I am privileged to have an idea. The judge who sent him to jail for six months is a Wise man. He asked Bobrisky if he was male or female. Bobrisky replied that he was male. Had he said he was female,the Judge may have asked doctors to scan “her” genitalia. If the scans found no female breasts,ovaries, follopian tubes, uterus, cervix or vagina but the male genetalia of penis, scrotal sac and testes, Bobisky may have gone down for lying on oath and obtaining money from the public at his public and other shows under false pretenses. In the end, Bobrisky pleaded guilty to disrespecting Nigerian currency. He “sprayed” money at a function and stepped on currency, according to video evidence. A wise society has thus found one of several wise ways to put away for some time one of its deviant numbers who had been beating his drum too hard and too loud to the discomfort of many people and a generation of young, gullible persons he was encouragin to distort their souls and accompany him to the abyss or bottomless pit.
Junior Pope
I am not moved by surface talk, and do not enjoy the company of lococious and garulous persons. I once wrote so in respect of former American President Donald Trump when he stampeded Americans living in Nigeria to flee home, saying COVID-19 would kill Nigerians” like flies”. In the end, Nigerian COVID-19 deaths were far smaller than malaria, tuberculosis, maternal deaths while COVID-19 killed Americans and Europeans “like flies”. Thanks for the infinite goodness of God for our sun and herbs, more natural “lifestyles and other divine mercy. I do not watch films and listen to comedians. There is hardly anything elevating or uplifting in their contents. They either drag society down, grope along with it by mirroring ignorable ways and means, hardly upbuilding guardians and leaders. They parade only base content to cause unguarded laughter and make fabulous money. Many of them even try to drag conception of the the unsubstantiated Almighty Creator far below dense human nature. Only birds of a nature swing along with them.
So, you should please forgive me if I say I did not know the actors reported to have died recently and even Pope Odonwodo a.k.a. Junior Pope who drowned last week in the River Niger along with 11 other members of a group working on a film ironically titled: The Other Side of Life. He was unlucky to not be among the nine survivors. You have to be something other human to be not touched by the manner of his death and of his struggles to survive the drowning. What first touched me was the spiritual admonitions or warning connected with a mission to the earth of which 18 April 1875 is a signpost. The warning is that Carelessness Will Avenge Itself Bitterly. Junior Pope and two of his other colleagues did not wear life jackets in a boat cruise on a river known for boat capsizes! He was even making boastful video posts to sell the upcoming film with statements such as that they were making risky sacrifices to entertain their fellowers. We learnt through Junior Pope that our words form our world. A risk, indeed,their trip was. the episode tried to give herbalism a bad name, but, is, nevertheless, filled with spiritual content. The accounts are varied and confusing. I followed the story line that he was brought out of the river dead and taken straight to a mortuary where the staff observed his finger(s) twitching. This is a familiar story line in Raymond Moody’s Life After, which reported how hundred of “corpses” in mortuaries walk out on their own or were revived on exhibiting signs of life and lived on to share their experiences about the other Side of Life, that is in the so- called Beyond. Junior Pope was thinking and talking about his three sons just before the boat capsized. This bonding may have bonded him to his body in an Out-of- Body Experience (OBE), and he may have been trying to communicate that he was still alive.
His messages picked, goes the story line, he was taken to the herbalist for rituals. The case was a medical emergency which should have taken priority over a native doctor’s rituals. I do not, by this, undervalues the power of incantation and all of that to bring back into the body the soul of a departing person, in so far as the silver cord which bounds them has not been severed and brain waves ceased altogether. There were reports that Junior Pope was still breathing. Only a medical doctor can confirm dead upon confirming that the brain has stopped to emit waeves. This is when the soul is irrevocably separated from the body or the cord no longer conduct vibrations between them, and the body consequently becomes lifeless, cool and dead.
Everyone has been talking about mermaids and water spirits and wondering if they exist and are responsible for accidents in rivers and streams. Yes, they exist. They are species of Nature beings or elemental beings whose activities have to do with water. They are our friends. At the command of the Almighty Creator, these beings are prepared for us this great universe which is to be our home in our growing-up millennia in the material sphere of the world from which, before the dissolution of various parts, we are meant to have become spiritually mature and ascend homeward to paradise. The elemental beings give us rain to calm sun heat, give us streams, rivers, seas, and oceans to drain the land of rain floods and provide us marine foods and water for several uses.
In their work, they do not harm us if we learn about them and fellow their guidance because they obey in all strictness only the Will of God. If there are problems with rivers, these may have to do with the thought forms of phantoms and demons which human beings have imbued into them. In some parts of Akwa Ibom State where many persons still actively worship marine life forms, there are some rivers aliens to the land must not step into. There are some which twins and twins mothers must not get near. Only the native doctor can say what he was up to. At about this time in Lagos, no fewer than seven persons died in water,five in swimming pools and two in the third mainland Bridge when their over sped passenger bus broke through-rail barriers and the impact flung two passengers into the lagoon below.
May we all benefit immensely from the events of April 18,1875 which gave mankind the key to peace and happiness, and help of inesteemable value for their ascendance from this dense part of the world to the luminous gardens of Paradise….Amen.
