In this piece of writing I am going to explain what does fiyah mean in the Rasta culture, as a purifying element of mankind. To begin with it is worth saying that fiyah has representations in almost all world’s cultures, through legends and stories and in the majority of these cultures it is seen as having divine origin. Fiyah for a Rastaman is of divine origin, an element sent on Earth to purify sinful lost souls and keep human race in inity.
This usage of fiyah is also mentioned in the Bible, so it shouldn’t be anything surprising about it. This is also reiterated by the fact that Hell is often seen as a place in flames, in which the souls of the sinners are tormented in order for them to get purified and later on go in Heaven, because of being already clean. To avoid this, the Rastas try to purify people’s sinful souls by converting them to the Rastafarian creed, this process being often depicted through metaphors that contain the cleansing element-fiyah.
So the main purpose of a Rasta is to convert as many people as possible, in order to help improving the world. More to it, a Rastaman has the fiyah inna his soul, his eyes, inna all his being, this helping him not to get vulnerable. This time, fiyah represents the shield that makes the Rasta different from the others, him having a pure heart, conscience and being open-minded, these making possible for him to keep the joy inna his heart no matter what. This fiyah makes the Rastaman untouchable, whereas the others are vulnerable and waek because of their frustrations of not being able to ruin the Rastaman’s happiness.
In conclusion, I believe that fiyah is the metaphor used by Rastas to show a pagan’s conversion to the Rasta creed or to explain the calm and joy that are specific to Rastas. So it isn’t a bad thing I don’t want the wrong being of no one, even I tell you sincerely that I wanna see lots of you burning, so we all can be purified!!!
All the Best!!!

Friday night, 16th of November, people party loud in a warehouse of Rocar’s owning. Besides other names, on the poster, top of the list are Blanos Distruzos & General Levy. After the set of some local djs, Blanos walked up to the stage. I was expecting more, since on the poster said Blanoz Sound System - Live! The performance was very good, or maybe it’s just my opinion because I’m always moved by Marius’ voice; and speaking of the voice, too bad it wasn’t so loud and clear, like the percussion, that was the cherry on top of the cake in the performance. As usual, Blanos enchanted the crowd, and made the warm up for the guest artist. (more…)

‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, /And in this judgment there is no partiality. /So arm in arms, with arms, we” fight this struggle, /’Cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.’ (Bob Marley-Zimbabwe)

We have the liberty to decide upon what to do or not. We have the right to do that. But by conforming yourself to the comfortable ignorance, you become enslaved and the right you have becomes of no use.

I speak about ignorance, because I had the opportunity to hear what limited knowledge do our co-nationals have about the Rasta culture. After all, we are talking about choices. I am not as bothered by the limited info about this subject as I am by prejudice and their mentality. I think that even if you listen to a couple of fragments from reggae songs you are not entitled to generalize and come up with shallow ideas about the Rastafarian culture (and those who know what it is know as well what I am talking about: the general opinion-Rasta means dreads plus weed). Lots of people remain only with this idea, refusing to believe that beneath those elements there is a powerful and solid spiritual part. (more…)

I have seen lots of bored people, who have a monotonous life and do the same things each day, without observing any change. This is the feature of an indoctrinated man, who is so preoccupied to satisfy the needs of the system he pertains to that he does not have time for himself anymore. It’s time for you to open your eyes and see that nothing good can come from the fact that you consume your daily energy for respecting some rules and forget about your friends and your own life. After a while you start noticing that everyone who some time ago like you, now sees you as an unprepossessing person and the one who loved you doesn’t care anymore. There’s only one solution for this! Make it in a way as for the things inna your life to be unique. Like this you will easily observe that there’s ONE LIFE, in which you have to overcome the status of a simple part from the mechanism represented by the social system and try to discover your essence, to find your roots and clear your mind. You only have one life in which to show to the others who you really are and this is not to be made by imitating other people, trying to be what you’re not or strongly forcing yourself to keep up with the others. The sole interesting thing that we really have is our own personality, which is more fascinating if we let it show freely and without trying to please the others.

    We neither have to hide our feelings or intentions from no one, nor try to imitate another person, because the ones around us are going to judge and appreciate us by the way we are, not by the way we want to be. (more…)

    Looking on the window you see the same busy people every day, too busy to pay attention to minds full of beauty. They are too occupied to realize that the ones next to them are no longer the people of yesterday, people of the past that close their eyes and pretend not seeing the injustice.

More than 2 000 years ago a pure man sacrificed himself in order for the world to learn something, a man who preached loving our neighbor to become united and indestructible. This man brought a new era, a new way of thinking, a new concept which after such a long period of time seems almost forgotten by everyone. Nobody loves his neighbor now, but just for the sake of vanity prefers to put him in trouble. Nobody bears in mind the sacrifices needed to build a house that is going to resist in time. All seek for straw huts that at the 1^st blowing of the wind are gonna fly away like heavenly birds do. (more…)

Day by day I see lots of people and hear lots of opinions, some of them in contradiction with themselves, some not, but I hear and see less and less often what I would like to. More and more people choose a wrong path in life. A higher and higher number of them want to earn money as easy as possible and without work. If you find yourself being like that, I advise you to think about what you desire to be in life. Would you like to live as a parasite, on the expense of the ones that surround you or would you like to be a lion? Maybe it is easier to gain money by stealing or deceiving people, but think at the following words: ‚You can fool some people sometimes But you can’t fool all the people all the time’ (Bob Marley).

To put it simple, you cannot base your life on such a mentality. Soon people are going to realize what kind of a person you are-maybe not today, nor tomorrow, but soon they will find out, even if you try to hide your true personality. If you live and earn money from others’ pain, you are not my brethren! Could you tell me how is it possible for you to be happy when the only thing you do is to bring trouble; tell me who is going to be near you when you’ll have a hard time? I assure you: Nobody! (more…)

I would like to start with explaining what it means that I am a Rasta, because I find more and more people that have biased, wrong opinions about us. There is nothing worse than judging a movement you don’t know anything about…so I intend to bring into discussion some arguments to explain my choice.

First of all, as you have already red on this site, Rastas are split into 3 congregations, each one with its own ideas and doctrine. If the first 2 of them (Nyahbinghi and Bobo Shanti) are stricter in everything related to its members’ conduct and dietary choice, the 3^rd one (which is the largest in terms of membership and whose member I am as well), 12 Tribes, is looser. This congregation’s flexibility was the first thing I like about it, together with the way in which its doctrine perfectly suited me. So I thought that something which is such in concordance with my own self cannot be a wrong option. Here are some ideas I found interesting about it. (more…)

The subject on which I started to reason today, on a rainy weather that appeals more for sleeping than for thinking, is love. Love towards your neighbor and your beloved one. It must be said that sometimes our mind is blurred by rage and bad feelings, making us see our neighbor like an enemy; we have to stop for a moment and remember that in every man you can find feelings and at least a bit of goodness. There is no good or bad man, no wrong or right decision, because all men, as well as their decisions are influenced by the environment. It is everyone’s choice if he tries to find his essence and returns to pure thoughts and noble feelings that differentiate man from animal.

They say that every noble aim is hard to achieve, so only the ones that really desire to know themselves go on this path full of dangers which is the one of knowledge. In order to truly discover the world where there is no hatred, greed, envy and jealousy you have to detach yourself from the environment you live in and pay some attention at your own person. You have to try to understand your choices and think about what determined you to act in a certain manner. Only then you can truly say you know yourself and you can start the long journey on the path of purification. (more…)

Lately, I see more and more persons following their interest no matter what. Lots of people refer to it as being a quality, but I say it is a weakness. And in the following lines I am going to try and reveal you my opinion about this kind of persons, who should burn down in order not to damage the peaceful spiritual environment that I try to maintain., implying through this, as well, that I do not get hurt.

The sole fact that you forget that there are also other people in the world except you and only see what you have to do FOR YOURSELF, transforms the human being into a robot without feelings and compassion for the ones around him. Our role is to make a better living environment for our descendants and this cannot be without putting an end to all the conflicts and wars. These things can be done only by bearing n mind that near us it is a man that has feelings, the same as we have. He deserves at least an equal amount of attention as we do. Life means more than survival, it is about friends, feelings, love; Our life means RASTA! (more…)