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Seventy books. One library. Set down plainly and printed without ornament.

Three decades of practice across Ifá, Vajrayana, and the Thai forest tradition, set down plainly and printed without ornament. A working library of seventy titles for the shelf and the study.

Cover of Oduduwa: The First King
Cover of Obatala: The King of the White Cloth
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Six streams of practice

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Ajarn Shaman Shu

I write from inside three houses. I hold transmission as a Vajra Master in the Tibetan tradition, where I was trained in the long preliminaries before anything was called empowerment. I was later ordained Ajarn in the Chok Lap Thai forest tradition, and the precepts of that house govern how I do protective and prosperity work. In the Osayinbola lineage I was crowned Oluwo of Ifá, and the odu have shaped how I read every other tradition since. These books are not comparative religion. They are working notes: what was given to me, what I tested, what held, and what I would tell a student sitting across the table.

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