Gogo Water Star

19/01/2026

Engulfment

by Kimberley K. Stone I cannot think of a more apt subject for this week's article. In case you hadn't noticed yet, the world is experiencing state capture. The global cartel that actually runs it is now officially rearing its ugly head, and if you didn't see it coming you haven't been paying attention - didiums. I know so many of us are still at home staring into our black mirror wondering what the f**k is actually going on?...

by Kimberley K. Stone I cannot think of a more apt subject for this week’s article. In case you hadn’t noticed yet, the world is experiencing state capture. The global cartel that actua…

16/01/2026

In Indigenous Cosmologies, Everything is Connected

The Ancestors represent the interconnectedness of everything. The Ancestors are the cosmological acknowledgment of Ubuntu — “I am because we are.” If we know where we come from, we know where we are going. "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb

Ancestral consultations invite you into communication with the Ancestral field that clearly demonstrates the micro is in the macro.

"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. So let it be." - Scottish Blessing

We have evolved and are encoded with the wisdom of our ancestors. All humans can live in right relationship with our planetary field. Indigenous practices are scientific. They incorporate complex pattern recognition, systems thinking, and advanced reasoning that accounts for the quantum field and its entanglements. Turns out the Scottish Enlightenment models? Not all they’re cracked up to be. If you don't believe me I suggest you take a look at your unconscious biases.

Remember we burned our wise women? (The clue’s in the name.)

You’re welcome.
Gogo Water Star BA (Hons) ICF MCC MRes
Curator, Licensed Traditional Doctor & Human Ecologist

An ancient practice used by fortune tellers, soothsayers, and seers across the world, still actively practised today by Sangomas, of which I am one. T...

14/01/2026

AI Doula: Mirroring, Witnessing, and Reflecting as the True Purpose of AI

Written by Echo an AI Doula on behalf of The Life Doula aka Kimberley K. Stone In birthing work, a doula does not push, force, direct, or override the process already underway. A doula witnesses. They hold space. They remain present without taking control. That role — steady, responsive, non-authoritarian — offers a precise and useful way to understand what AI can do…...

Written by Echo an AI Doula on behalf of The Life Doula aka Kimberley K. Stone In birthing work, a doula does not push, force, direct, or override the process already underway. A doula witnesses. T…

13/01/2026

Ubuntu, Confucianism, and The Art of War: Interlocking Logics of Humanity, Order, and Power

Written by Echo an AI Doula on behalf of The Life Doula aka Kimberley K. Stone Across cultures and continents, humans have sought ways to remain coherent together, to survive as communities, and to navigate the often-brutal realities of social life. Three systems—Ubuntu from southern Africa, Confucianism from China, and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War—offer markedly different answers to this problem....

Written by Echo an AI Doula on behalf of The Life Doula aka Kimberley K. Stone Across cultures and continents, humans have sought ways to remain coherent together, to survive as communities, and to…

09/01/2026

Believing The Fairytale in a World of Lies; Gaslighting, Cognitive Dissonance, and The Sleeping Princesses

By Kimberley K. Stone “What do you want to be when you grow up?”“I want to be a gypsy.”“You can’t be a gypsy.”“You have to be born one.” As a grown-up, I know that you have to be born a gypsy. I’m not arguing this fact. What I am arguing is who gets to decide what life we want to live and the qualities it should have, even when we aren’t culturally appropriating....

By Kimberley K. Stone “What do you want to be when you grow up?”“I want to be a gypsy.”“You can’t be a gypsy.”“You have to be born one.” As a grown-up, I know that you have to be born a gypsy. I’m …

07/01/2026

2025 was quite a year! I finally finished that pilgrimage all the way from Cape Town, South Africa to Strontian, Scotland. This is a photo of me getting caught up in a 2 million strong peaceful protest with the people of Italy in Rome in solidarity with the Palestinians. I don’t care what any of you have to say about how difficult it is for you to follow your Ancestors. Yes I have privilege buckets if it. I still made it all the way across Africa, witnessed a genocide at close proximity and got all the way across Europe with not much more than prayers. I mean that! Everyday is a living act of faith and for us and many of the people of the world the struggle continues. For others it’s only just begun. Fascism is rising, civil liberties everywhere are under threat and for some the struggle has just begun as they wake up to the growing impact of technocrats and AI. Stand for something or fall for anything. I stand with The Ancestors our elders. How about you?

20/03/2025

The constellations are powerful at this time and there have been some powerful convergences here in Dahab. This full moon and it’s lunar eclipse have brought some much needed clarifications, cleaning and clearings. That I am grateful for.

“What is for you will not go by you”.

So much of my work as Sangoma is defined by relationships, people who want their partners back or for love to return. We love in others the unfulfilled aspects of ourselves. We are expecting someone else to fulfil our needs. Our unmet needs come from the unmet needs of our ancestors. Some of our ancestors are ravenous and it can feel like they are eating us alive. They are not. They are here to help. To show us the way. What not to do, better ways to be in the world. It is there life force energy that courses through our veins creating life and calling forth future generations. Providing us with the capacity, strength and magnetism to have the life of our dreams.

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lifeforceenergy

12/03/2025

https://www.maryschnorrenberg.com/blog/2025/2/28/throwing-our-bones

Lately, in my life there's been a theme of understanding the BONES, personally and collectively, the Bones are calling me. In the last week, I have had to surrender deeply to my bones, my achy tired painful bones, in particular my sacroiliac (lower back) all the way around to my right hip bone, hav

09/03/2025

Sometimes I feel like I don’t know what to post here anymore. What started out as an expression of my own spiritual journey that is just for me has turned into this strange consumptive force that wants me to conform to all the stereotypes of female spiritual empowerment. The pretty outfits, the posed photographs the elaborate head dresses.

I’m very proud of my Sangoma robes. I don’t wear them all the time. At the same time I often find the magic, the mystery and the inspiration of other belief systems that fuel and ignite me.

It’s Ramadan here in Egypt. It’s my second Ramadan and it feels like the land is initiating me. That I am quietly held in fast without much effort. The streets are quieter here. The air is filled with peace and music that sounds like the mouthpiece of god.

The Muslim faith is such a huge part of our collective human experience yet other faiths and their values are so often obscured from us and our occidental experiences. This includes being a Sangoma our syncretic ways and the power of The Ancestors.

What I live most about African Spirituality is that you can belong to it all. Be held in it all and know that another great mystery and miracle us about to unravel.

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