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The Awakening

chiefresul

Updated: Dec 6, 2022

Greetings! My native, indigenous name is Chief Resul M.M.Bey. After nearly 60 years of age, I have experienced a spiritual awakening. My enlightenment can be called a gift from The Most High or a DNA download from the Universe. Following my epiphany, I felt empowered to proudly take on the task of building a home, a sanctuary, for members of a lost tribe: The Tainos. According to anthropologists cited on various historical websites, the true identity of the Taino native is Arawakan. This native people occupied what is now known as the Greater Antilles: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. I, Chief Resul, am of Puerto Rican/Taino descent, born in Spanish Harlem and raised in the Bronx by my mother, Puerto Rican-born Taino Queen Maria Estelle Sepulveda. My wife and Queen, Najeebah A.M. Bey, is a Canadian-born, descendant of the Jamaican Trelawny Parish Maroons. Our union has resulted in the blessing of two daughters: Salah J.N.M. Bey and Zakiyah E.N.M. Bey.


It was in 2008 that I began to truly understand and claim my Taino heritage and ethnicity. I have made it my goal to reach my indigenous people through an outreach in my ancestors’ native land in Puerto Rico, my Queen’s ancestral land in Jamaica and I cannot forget about my people native to my present home in Miami, FL. I wish to plant a tribal flag in each of these geographical locations to fulfill the mission of the Taino Moor Tribe:


“We wish to spread love and enlightenment by speaking love, life and righteous truth into all peoples we may encounter. As a tribe, we want to surround ourselves those who seek peace, freedom and justice for the awakened soul. We are the Taino Moore Tribe.”


During an unenlightened period in my life, I had an unfortunate stint in prison. Because of the type of criminal offense for which I had been convicted, I was required to complete a drug rehab program. I was placed in the Florida City Correctional Dade County Modality II program and had to complete a 10,000-hour curriculum. At the time, I was unaware of our common lineage and heritage, but I occupied a dorm with many who were descendants of different indigenous, aboriginal native tribes of the Greater Antilles. Most of us suffered from various forms of addictions: drugs, gambling, even money. When you’ve been raised in impoverished conditions, never having money, the moment your hands on it, you’re hooked. I had passive use of different narcotics, but my addiction was always money. It wasn’t the love of money that got me in trouble; it was my addiction to the love of money.


While serving my sentence, I started taking up the practice of meditation. One day, as I had often done, I played the Blame Game and condemned my family and our background for all the things that had happened to me, things I felt placed me in my predicament. I was actually very angry with my family. It wasn’t a pretty sight; sitting and feeling sorry for myself. But something happened one day in particular. I had flood of realization and awareness. When I began to think of all my brethren incarcerated alongside me, I realized many of us were victims of circumstance. Of course, there are evil men and women; bad just to be bad. But calculating the scores and scores of persons of color sentenced to imprisonment for non-violent crimes disproportionately to white counterparts, I knew something was off. ALL of us could not be “bad” people, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. It’s statistically impossible and could not be true. I roused from this meditation session knowing I would have to figure out a way to be an asset to my people. Not just for my legacy, but for the prosperity of an indigenous nation.


I successfully completed the drug rehab program and even became a Senior Peer Educator to other inmates in the program. Something in my spirit told me I had to get right. I had to be right within myself so I could help at least one man or woman to find their way back home. I am not going to push religion but I firmly believe the power of prayer, the power of meditating, the power of belief and the power of knowing one’s self changed everything for me. I transformed myself mentally and even began a physical transformation. I began to exercise and changed my diet. I have been drug free since 1997 and began a vegan lifestyle, too. It is now 2022, so you can do the math.


I have been motivated to be a source of encouragement to my people. To be a beacon of light and a leader of indigenous persons seeking a source of belonging. My mission is to have the Taino Moor Tribe recognized, not just as another indigenous tribe, but a tribe with a loftier purpose. Ultimately, my goal is to acquire funding to purchase land for the purpose of building and organizing resource centers in Florida, Puerto Rico and Jamaica for my Taino brothers and sisters. In these centers, I want to help my people empower themselves by teaching them to be self-sufficient entrepreneurs; assisting them with the setup of their own corporations to attain wealth for themselves. I want to provide leadership courses to help them remain independently wealthy.


I want to be able to provide courses to show them how to till the land and grow their own food. I want to help my people produce organic veggies and fruits without chemicals and GMOs. There is no better time than the present to teach them about the spiritual healing a soul enjoys when you connect with the earth and place your hands directly into the soil. I want to bring these lost souls into a new world of knowledge of self begins from the inside and shines on the outside.


I want to show them a way of healthy living is not just what food you feed your body, but transforming the mind. I want them to learn that taking care of oneself means loving self, learning to not only forgive themselves for past transgressions but family as well. I want those who have found themselves addicted to some substance and/or an unhealthy, unsavory lifestyle to heal themselves through spiritual guidance. This requires long-term healing with expert leaders at the helm assisting the weak to the road of recovery. My program will not be the common programs that use synthetic drug methods for treatment; placing them on a new schedule of drugs and into a different cycle of addiction. My program will be in the remote countryside with housing dormitories for the those enrolled, as well as housing for the healing administrators so they are on-site for immediate care, if necessary.


This is my vision, my mission. This is where the healing begins. Will you join me on the healing of a Lost Tribe, the Taino Moore Tribe?


-- Chief Resul M. M. Bey




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