None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds – Inner Freedom The Bob Marley Way!

June 22, 2011 — Jihad Saad

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds “

Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Who doesn’t know Bob Marley? This freedom icon has penetrated the world consciousness with his music and message. Wherever you go on our planet, you’ll find Bob posters hanging, and you’ll hear his music playing. At an age where no internet no social networking existed, Bob transcended cultures around the world, uniting people from different countries, races and religions.

In the timeless Redemption Song, one of the last songs he ever wrote, Bob says it all: None but ourselves can free our minds!

These words take an even deeper meaning when we remember who Bob was. He was a descendant of black captives deported to Jamaica, and his people had suffered 400 years of slavery. In this song Bob calls people for freedom, but not freedom from external conditions, not freedom from political systems or freedom from outside chains… but freedom from mental slavery!

Yes Bob was an inspired mystic, and he knew the Secret too. Freedom, wealth, abundance, health, you name it, starts first and foremost in our mind!

Can you see that all inspired persons from different traditions, basically say the same thing? Whether it’s entrepreneurs or musicians, teachers or prophets, eastern or western, rasta or yoga.. the message is one: we’ve got to take responsibility of our lives, and it all starts in our minds!

So won’t you help to sing, this song of freedom…

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Redemption Song

January 14, 2009 — Jihad Saad
We will talk a lot about Bob and the Redemption Song in this blog.But for now, and to start with, I propose to give you a small feel of the song, just to warm up the mood.How many times have we heard people playing this song on guitare? Everywhere I traveled, and anywhere I saw people play music, whether in the Pont des Arts in Paris, or in remote beaches of Indonesia, I heard this song play. For wherever there is a guitare, and a singing heart, there is the Redemption Song!
Most of us download the chords from the internet, memorize the lyrics, and play the song. G C Am F, thats how we know it. First we play the Sol, then the Do, then La mineur, and then Fa, and we repeat! The good players among us can even play the introduction notes. And those who have good voice, can sing it in tune.But for Bob, it is different.He havent heard it on the radio, nor in the Legend CD. He heard it in his own heart.
No one taught him the chords, no one showed him the notes. The chords and the notes are the sound of his own feelings.
It is him who the pirates rob, and sell from the bottomless pit.
And yes it is his own hand that was made strong, by the hand of the Almighty.And he addresses us, he urges us, he screams to us: liberate yourselves from mental slavery, have no fear..
And he shouts out his pain: how long would the good people be killed, our prophets, himself..
And with resignation he surrenders to his destiny: we have to fulfill the book..

And finally, he asks us one thing, one last thing, for this song is his last song, on his last album. He asks us to help him sing, the songs of freedom.

Because all he ever had, is Redemption Songs.

Let us watch, let us hear, let us feel… this Song of Freedom.

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