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Philip Ryan Deal is a clinically certified herbalist and Babalawo living in Western Massachusetts. He has written books on Puerto Rican Vodou, Herbal Astrology, the IFA Oracle, and Techno Kabbalah. He was fully initiated into IFA and crowned an Oshun priest in Osogbo, Nigeria by the Iyadudu Temple. He is the founder of the Temple of Gu, the first AI powered Afro Indigenous mystery school in the Diaspora. He teaches Techno Animism and is available for private consultation. If you need his help, reach out to him through his website.

Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, and Voodoo has captivated the imaginations of Americans for centuries. Everyone is familiar with New Orleans Voodoo and its images of black candles, chicken’s feet, and skulls meant to invoke fear and awe in outsiders. Voodoo as practiced in the United States has become an amalgam of witchcraft, necromancy, rootwork, conjure, and a catch-all word for any type of magic that seems dark and ominous. In the Caribbean, however, Voodoo is spelled Vodou and is practiced as an African Traditional Religion (ATR).