A SPIRITUAL ARMY

While I was on the set of Alien filming my scenes as Parker, I noticed references to chapters and verses from the bible printed in miniscule writing over the monitors of the control room set. I had already been introduced to the strange Hindu references to Madam Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine painted onto the autodestruct panel by Simon Deering and wondered why no one else was talking about it.

I wrote down the details and when I got back to my Wimbledon house at night, got out a copy of the bible and looked them up but their meaning would remain a mystery until the year 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland.

In the early nineteen thirties, a spiritual master created a meditation center in Washington D.C where practically all of the members were African Americans. In the year 2008 I received an invitation from an extremely wealthy man and his wife, residents of Baltimore, Maryland, who had heard a television interview I was doing to promote the series I was appearing in. “Homicide: Life on the street’ for NBC which was being filmed in Fells Point, Maryland.

The couple had called on me to have dinner with them and to discuss the fact that in the inner city of Baltimore while they were enjoying excellent health and prosperity in the areas of Baltimore where they were located, the inner city was experiencing ignorance, disease, poverty, crime and homicide, fully equipped with a million missiles of misery, are swarming in hordes to invade the souls of black people in the city and in their homes.

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Take a walk up to the Trump Tower

The woman who called herself Maria Osric believed in a revolutionary new alternative energy source that would change the world forever, that short hair for women was appalling, that a utopian New World order was inevitable, and that Maria could channel communications from alien races located in star systems that were light years away to partner with the ancestral Jews. They would assist the Vril Society and an alien race. The ancestral Jews she said were Black men like my father. She told me that my father thought that America was particularly wonderful because America was the "melting pot" of the world. We have a variety of cultures in our midst, and it's wonderful to embrace another lifestyle. It's also been a helpful (albeit somewhat dishonest) addition to our labor force. Most of all, I think everyone agrees that America is (was?) a wonderful place of opportunity for people who come from oppressed nations like my father.

What she was telling me I of course already knew, but how did she know about my father Abraham Yaphet Kotto as a young merchant marine disenchanted with the evil empire he was born into, his long month’s stint eating bananas in the jungle was over, his own nation so financially devastated that it took a dump truck of money to buy a loaf of bread. He lived through the ups and downs of the Cameroons. When he found he couldn't enter the U.S. legally, he jumped ship in New York, sucked it up and got a job washing dishes in the garment district, he later on got a job as a construction worker.

As the strange German woman spoke about my father, I began to listen to the voice in my head begin to ask questions. How puzzling that my mom claims she didn’t know my father was past deportation, while still in this country. Why on earth didn’t she talk to him about his immigration difficulties, why on earth wouldn’t she at least have provided him with a good immigration attorney before he took that construction job in Queens for Fred Trump? At the time, I didn't know what my father was up to or where he lived, but according to Maria I should. After boasting to my mother’s family, Samuel and Leontyne Joseph about his Cameroonian ancestry, you would think he would feel some sense of obligation to his son whose very existence provided the foundation of his proud boasts. Unfortunately, now it looks like he used his life stories to gain entry into the Fred Trump organization and gained employment, yet felt no compulsion to share a little bit of his construction salary or even his affections with me his son.

“I thought, Screw Yaphet Manga Bell Kotto!”

It wasn’t until I was married and was with my first child that I received a phone call that my father had a stoke on the job, or something, I don’t know. He subsequently entered Bird S. Cooler hospital in New York unable to speak or move. He had suffered a stroke. I was devastated, for a man I had only seen four or five times in my life. A man that did nothing to lift a finger to relieve a son that he spoke so affectionately of, when he went to see the Black Rabbi at the African synagogue in Harlem. 

I didn’t know anything about my parents, my mother went into the United States army when I was maybe around three years old, I wouldn’t see her again until I was fourteen, my father? well I can count the times on one hand whenever I saw him, when the immigration officers came around to my grandmother’s house and ask questions about his where about concerning his legal status, I couldn’t answer, I’ll tell you what, I said to them, one day soon, I’ll take a walk up to the Trump Tower, see the Donald, and find out. 

From the pages of Yaphet Kotto Alien Diary.
A Cauldwell, Fulton publication.
© 2015.

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THE GOD DAMM WHITE MAN

"The Reviews are coming!"

THE GOD DAMM WHITE MAN might not be the great and definitive novel of racial "conflicts" in the United States, perhaps it has yet to be written—if, indeed, the grim story of blacks-versus-whites can ever be expected in all its grotesque proportions on paper. But until—or in lieu—the arrival of such a consummate book, we can turn to "The God Damm White Man," which comes to Amazon.com between now and November.

For this hard-hitting dramatization of Enoch Shadoobee's book as Translated by the great Yaphet Kotto about the painful sometimes violent conflict of racism in America in the last five and a half decades is a pretty, good estimation of the social problems involved and a graphic presentation of the sort of savagery that has occurred. It misses being a grand book because its story follows conventional lines It is more sentimental than realistic—and because its contours are somewhat too poetically-blurred.

Like Mr. Dickens classic novel, it tells a tormented tale of a bitter former street hustler named Enoch Shadoobee and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man, no longer moved by racial outrage at injustices forced upon him falls in love with making money and soon is pillaging and stealing from the pockets of his former friends and neighbors.

Whereupon his departed partner and close friend, returns from the dead defending the whites, and reminding him of a time when he was kinder and more innocent. There is emotional butchery and pathos at the end when he is forced to face his future in prison.

Yaphet Kotto, who wrote the translation and edited the original text, has not departed substantially from the pattern of the original classic. Both in plot and essence, this has the character of a story about ghosts and Shadoobee’s neglected fiancée Belle who ends their relationship after she realizes that Shadoobee will never love her as much as he loves money and violence. Then there is a visit later in time to the then-married Belle's large and happy family on Christmas Eve.

 The clash is pat, the personal feelings are obvious and the crucial scenes are written with the imaginative realism of a poetic horror.

In this connection, Yaphet Kotto aides Shadoobee in creating a stirring, strong portrayal of an all emotion-torn black friend. It is Kotto’s acting ability that gives him the power to pound passions with his pen and the frequent bursts of shocking savagery that throw shafts of sharp illumination through this classic that Mr. Dickens probably was not aware was there in the original. Kotto is as powerful a writer as he is an actor.

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The Crew Of Ridley Scott’s ALIEN Will Return In….

[via IGN]

ALIEN: ISOLATION PRE-ORDER CONTENT UNITES ORIGINAL MOVIE CAST

The worldwide video premiere of the cast can be seen in the brand new Pre-Order Trailer exclusively on IGN.com herehttp://www.ign.com/videos/2014/07/09/alien-isolation-pre-order-dlc-trailer

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Miraculous UFO Sighting in Marmora

Yaphet Kotto writes about the owner of a farm in Canada where 30,000 have traveled in homage to true believers,  in his brand new novel ”I don’t want to be told I’m seeing things”  He asserts firmly that the miraculous “Miracle of the sun that occurred for 14 years and continue to

take place was in fact a UFO sighting..

The farm, located in Marmora, Ontario, about 120 miles east of Toronto, has been the site of numerous claims since 1991, when phenomena erupted during a reunion of those who had journeyed to the famous apparition site of Medjugorje in former Yugoslavia.

The farm was owned by John Greensides, who died several years back, and his wife, Shelagh, 80, who is in the process of turning the land over to Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.

Yaphet reports that the local diocese based in Kingston has refused

to offer an official comment on the site, according to a diocesan spokesman, although a warning was issued from a bishop during the 1990s on the potentially harmful effects of staring at the sun. Kotto says that they are not staring at the sun.”My wife and I filmed the event, it’s silly and unscientific to believe that the sun can fly out of orbit, spin around, dive and then fly back into the sky. I’ve said this before and I will say it again in my book that documents other UFO sightings. Marmora is one of the strongest proofs in Canada, that we are not alone.”

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Yaphet Kotto Biography

Yaphet Kotto

The eternal force, the only real substance of the Universe, God, the original thinker, or in other words, the eternal joy and the force of free will which manifested the first born thought and omniscient feeling, a certain Sound which we would learn later on to be called the Word, or for some the Amen and for others still, the Aum which led to the idea of change in that which could not be changed, which meant Time for some and the idea of division in that which could not be divided, and for others it gave birth to what many if not all would refer to as Space.

The ensuing idea of the word issuing forth, the idea of rapid expansion vibrating until it exploded and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. Some have decided to call this event:

The Big Bang.

It may seem to some unusual for some that these ideas spring from the mind and beliefs of Yaphet Kotto, an African American actor. Yaphet was born in New York City, the son of Gladys Marie Joseph, a nurse and army officer, and Abraham Kotto (originally named Njoki Manga Bell), a businessperson from Cameroon.

By the age of 16, he was studying acting at the Actor's Mobile Theater Studio, and at 19, he made his  acting debut in Othello. He became an observer at the Actors Studio in New York. Appeared in countless off-Broadway productions, Broadway and then replaced James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, which brought him such attention it was almost as if he had starred in the original production.

Yaphet’s  film debut was in 1963 in an award winning film Nothing But a Man  but it might have been 1964 when he played a supporting role in the 1968 Norman Jewson’s  caper film The Thomas Crown Affair that led him to star in ‘Across 110th street with Anthony Quinn. The performance brought him to the attention of United Artist executives who thought he should be cast to star in the James Bond thriller as the lead villain ‘Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, another fine performance that not only cause Kotto be internationally known buy changed the motion picture industry’s ideas of black men as it was a first time a Black Villain had been seen on the screen in American film industry. Yaphet had already made film history when he killed a white man in the Columbia film ‘The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones” directed by William Wyler. He was single handedly changing the vision of black men on movie screens.  A decade later, change would destroy the image of the goody two shoes, good Negro  boy image created in films such as Lilies of the Fields, when Kotto played Parker in the sci-fi–horror film Alien, followed with a co starring role  with Robert Redford in the 1980 prison drama Brubaker, the black character was established. These performances opened the door of Sam Jackson, and Denzel Washington and Danny Glover. In 1983 Kotto came right back down to earth in the  sci-fi movie The Running Man and in the 1988 action-comedy Midnight Run, in which he portrayed Alonzo Mosely, an FBI agent.

As of this fate Yaphet has made more than seventy films and countless television shows the last of which was “Homicide life on the street" How does he hold it together and keep his feet on the ground. He has kept himself by meditation and Qui Gong practice, which he has practiced for the last thirty years. It was not an easy solution to the challenges of filmmaking. Kotto has always said that the easy road may not necessarily be the right road! He says that Qigong is not primarily meant for health and fitness. Although health and fitness is a bi-product of its practice. Qigong is meant to elevate your consciousness and help one to enlighten to higher truths of the universe.The fact that you have already been practicing Falun Dafa for many years is a great thing. He has thoroughly embodied its tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance; as a result, he has seen great results in both health and mind. He has of this date has millions of people all over the world who know not so much from motion pictures but from his support of India Guru Parmahansa Yogananda’s work in America and his practice of Falun Dafa. (Read more)

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The Spiritual Life

The name of the man in the picture with Yaphet Kotto is Joseph Terelya, Russian Visionary

The principle of our existence is spiritual. The direction of our energies, the promulgation of our thought, the inspiration of our lives, is the soul. The rest is subsidiary and transitory. In the spiritual ...rests man's greatness. And it is a poor economy that gives time and effort to the lesser at the expense and to the detriment of the greater.

Around finite and material things, if we but pause to think, there always cling the elements of undesirability; the difficulty of their acquisition, the uncertainty of their possession, the limited tenure of their association. But our concept of the Infinite presents none of these objections.

Spiritual growth is superior to material delinquencies. Its existence is above and beyond the material, and truth is eternal. Material entities in themselves are good, as all creation is good per se. Apart from metaphysical goodness, too, rises the goodness of utility. Man is free and may choose between the manifold kinds of good …apprehensible by the intellect.

But who chooses spiritual good and the compensations of spiritual development …chooses the highest good. His reward is unlimited and unalloyed, and his possessions are truth and eternity. The development of humanity must come through spiritual achievement. And this in turn must come from the individual. Each atom in the mass will partake of the perfection the mass exhibits. The atoms individually must first display the virtues …the whole makes manifest.

The spiritual man is reading in the trees and flowers, in the mountains and sky …new lessons of truth whose beauty charms. He is creating in all who know his conduct …a belief in spiritual values. And he is finding in his own being, in his own life …a peace ineffable.

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Christianity

                                                          






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