One of the major goals of Ausar Auset Society International is to re-establish the Kamitic way of life for African people and the world. In doing so it is necessary to bring new meaning and understanding to the common activities that make up our lives, and transform our common-everyday activities into traditions of spiritual cultivation and nation building. Queen Mother Maash-t Amm Amen of Ausar Auset Society International is spearheading this effort in a very innovative and powerful way through the creation of the Het-Heru Healing Dance. As a former professional dancer and actress, and practicing priestess herself, Queen Mother Maash-t Amm Amen has been able to tap into an attribute of her divinity to create a dance that embraces the sexual and sensual energies that dance arouses in order to channel and nurture that energy for its true power to heal women spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

In her role as Queen Mother of Ausar Auset Society International she has created the Het-Heru Healing Dance as a first step toward building a broad foundation to address the health and healing issues that impact not only black women, but all women. Her goal is to introduce women to the power of dance to heal and nurture themselves that they may be able to learn how to vitalize and heal the female reproductive system, how to release the tensions and stress masquerading in their life as anger, grief, depression, loneliness and fear, how to stimulate the hormonal and endocrine system to promote healing, and how to harness their own tremendous healing power.

Queen Mother Maash-t Amm Amen is an accomplished author, play write, dancer, and actress. Her vision is to empower women to heal themselves and to develop healing institutions that provide women the education and methods to heal themselves and to heal others. Queen Mother Maash-t Amm Amen envisons the Het-Heru Healing Dance being the foundation of a new health agenda and movement among women that will help to re-establish the connection between our daily living and our health, and lead to the building of a new health and healing industry that is rooted in the Kamitic way of life.

May 19th marks the 77th birthday of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, otherwise known as Brother Malcolm. For Black people across the globe Malcolm X represents a pivotal point of consciousness that sparked a movement of mental and spiritual upliftment that transformed the culture and political expression of Black people. Speak to any Black Power generation activist, organizer, nationalist, or revolutionary and they will tell you that either their personal experience with Malcolm or his autobiography were defining moments that shaped the course of their life, career, and ideas about politics, education, religion, culture, government, and themselves. In honoring the life of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, we should be able to utilize his legacy to continue the mental and spiritual upliftment of Black people.

Malcolm X's life, in many ways, personified the condition and potential to do great things that exists in all of us. Malcolm's life story is a story that captured the transformation of a typical black man living in America in the mid-twentieth century, and in many ways his story captures the experience of the typical black man living in America today. He grew up the same way that thousands of our young men are growing up today and his life can be used as a means to inspire our young men and women to empower themselves through education, spiritual upliftment, and social, economic, and political activism to build a better life for themselves, their community, and the world.

Many of our youth today are caught up in drugs, crime, and violence in the same manner that Malcolm was as a teenager and young adult. Many of our young men have been to jail and/or prison and can relate to the childhood experiences that Malcolm had that led him to live a life of crime and engage in the tearing down of his own community, as well as being able to appreciate his rise as a nationalist leader. In learning and understanding about Malcolm's life and transformation the youth can see their own lives and begin to see the benefits of developing themselves intellectually, morally, and spiritually for the benefits of themselves, their people, and the world.

One of the most powerful aspects of Malcolm's legacy is that the adversity and degradation that he experienced as a child and black man in America was overcome through his own efforts, through the humility to accept guidance and instruction, and the determination to discipline himself to be able lead and guide others. As many of us try to understand and work with our youth, particularly our young men, the legacy of Malcolm X's life can serve as a powerful tool that can spark the next generations movement of mental and spiritual upliftment. 

In celebration, the 23rd Annual MalcolmX Festival will be held this weekend, May 19th and 20th at West End Park, 1111 Oak Street, SW, Atlanta GA 30310 from 11am-7pm. For more information email: info@malcolmXfestival.com or visit www.malcolmXfestival.com.