Ògbóni
From Myth to Physics
Yorùbá Esotericism at the Matrix of Disciplines
A Response to Olayinka Agbetuyi
2
Part 1
Collage by myself evoking matter and energy transformations in the earth, in nature in general, in the human being and in machines, mediated through images of CERN ( the European Organization for Particle and Nuclear Research) research and Ògbóni, Yoruba esoteric order, iledi,Ògbóni sacred space ritual structure, all centered in the figure of Onile, Owner of earth and of Human habitation on earth, centre of Ògbóni veneration.
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Abstract
This essay is a development of the philosophical and mystical potential of the Yorùbá origin Ògbóni esoteric order. This effort is carried out by demonstrating intersections between Ògbóni cosmology, in its ritual activity, and scientific cosmology within the framework of its technological expression, particularly in particle physics, the study of the smallest constituents of matter.
These conjunctions are demonstrated in the context of relationships between an account of the ritual construction of the Ògbóni iledi, the order's sacred meeting house, and the activity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Particle and Nuclear Research, both creativities described as contrastive ways of engaging with varied conceptions of energy.
This essay is a response to queries raised by Olayinka Agbetuyi, in the USAAfrica Dialogues Series Google group, as a rejoinder to my article, "Ògbóni: From Myth to Physics : Yorùbá Esotericism at the Matrix of Disciplines: A Response to Olayinka Agbetuyi", which reacted to his engagement with my earlier essay published in the same group, "From a Horned, Naked Woman to Cosmological Physics and Explorations of Consciousness: Developing the Wisdom of the Yorùbá Origin Ògbóni Esoteric Order through its Multi-Cultural and Trans-Disciplinary Associations : A Voice from the Universal Ògbóni Fraternity".
Acknowledgements
I salute those who have made this effort possible through the years of their own creativity, seeking to understand deeply hidden knowledge and making it available so others may stand on their shoulders to see the universe from the foundations they have created.
I also salute those whose material and moral support prove fundamental, even in the pursuit of goals far from their expectations, benefactors who do not wish to be named.
Great thanks are also due to Olayinka Agbetuyi, whose priceless challenges provide the blast of air on which the wings of the eagle may soar to greater heights.
All these possibilities rest on the initiatives of those, who, centuries ago, their names now forgotten but their influence ever resonating, created Ògbóni in a time now unknown, and of their descendants, who have kept alive the ancient flame, the response of a particular people to the glory and mystery, the majesty and power of humanity's terrestrial location in the journey among the stars.
Iya!
Alagbara!
Agba!
Mother!
Powerful!
Old!
Ògbóni initiation chant from Peter Morton-Williams, "The Yorùbá Ògbóni Cult in Oyo", Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 30, No. 4. 1960. 362-374. 368.
Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Contents
Invocation of Onile
Central Terms : Philosophy and Mysticism
Structure
Description of Àse from Rowland Abiodun
Ògbóni Cosmogram :Visual Summation of Human Existence Within its Terrestrial and Cosmic Contexts
Ògbóni Adinkra Stanzas
Thanks and Dialogical Context
Similarities Within Differences Between CERN Research and Ògbóni Ritual: Goals, Methods and Languages of Expression
Divergences in Surface Structure and Convergences at Deep
Structure
CERN's Cosmological Investigations
Goal and Methods
Machines
Mathematical Language
Differences Between Non-Animistic and
Animistic Mathematics
Animistic Mathematics: Odu Ifá and Hindu
Yantras
Imaginative Significations: Mathematical Symbolism Describing the Equivalence of Matter and Energy in Physics
Physics, Philosophy and Spirituality as Contrastive but Correlative Quests for the Fundamental Character and Dynamism of the Universe
Ògbóni Goals and Methods
Ritual Use of Mythic Symbols
Correspondences and Differences Between Mythic and Mathematical Languages
Imaginative Significations: Material Forms
Evoking Energy Generation by Human Beings
Within Humanity's Cosmic Context as Depicted
in Ògbóni Ritual
Comparative Methodologies: Ògbóni Iledi Ritual as Paradigmatic of Humanity's Engagement with Energy
The Unknown Creative Factor Implicit in CERN Physics but
Explicit in Ògbóni Myth : The Question of an Ultimate Reality
and Power
CERN and Ogboni: Methodological or Incidental Parallels in Instrument Positioning?
Questions about the Implications of the Underground Positioning of Central Instruments in CERN Research and Ogboni Ritual
Differences Between CERN''s Large Hadron Collider and the
Ògbóni Iledi Ritual Complex
The Rationale for the Underground Location of the Large
Hadron Collider
Exploring the Logic of the Underground Positioning of the
Ògbóni Iledi Ritual Complex
Cultivating Relationships with Spirits, Sentient
Agents Unbounded by Material Limitations
Evoking, Concentrating and Directing Àse, Creative
Cosmic Force
CERN and Ògbóni : Convergences and Divergences in Terms of Forms of Energy Engaged With
Relationships Between Matter and Consciousness in CERN Research and Ògbóni Ritual
CERN's Particle Physics Research and Consciousness
Àse and its Relationship with Consciousness
Visually Conjuncting Ògbóni Symbolism and CERN Research
Correlative Visualizations of Human Relationships with Diverse Conceptions of Energy
The Associative Power of the Ògbóni Iledi Ritual Complex
The Spectrum of Ogboni Visualizations of Ile, Earth, as Onile, Owner of Earth and of Human Habitation on Earth
Between Hindu Myth and CERN Physics
Shiva's Cosmic Dance and the "Dance of Subatomic Particles"
The Diffusion of Hindu Mythology and Philosophies into
the Thinking of Modern Scientists
Erwin Schrodinger and Julius Oppenheimer
My Journey in Exploring Àse through Nature Mysticism
On Language
Developing an Economy of Donations Rather than of Purchase in this Project
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