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Christopher Willis Brown, a Priest, Lecturer, and Instructor, was born in Flagstaff, Arizona to Arthur and Dorothy Brown, on September 17, 1970. He lived on the Navajo Indian Reservation in his early years, where is father was a Guidance Counselor for the United States Government. A few months before his 6th birthday, he and his family consisting of his mother, father and his two older siblings moved to Longview, TX, which was where the family was from originally.

Sangodare comes from a very spiritual and religious background. His maternal great great grandfather Pat Willis was a minister of the gospel and is mentioned as one of the most influential people in spreading the good news for the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century in the State of Texas, which would later become known as the Church of Christ. It was the Church of Christ where Sangodare would first learn about God and religion. But it was from his father that he would start learning his multiplication tables at the young age of 6. It was also the influence of his father that would peak his interest in history, the different religious denominations, their founders and when and where they began.

A Sango Priest and Priest of Ifa (Babalawo), Christopher is the founder of the Sangodare Institute for the Study of GAN Philosophy. He was initiated by the late Oluwo Afolabi A. Epega, fifth generation Ifa Priest from Ode Remo, Nigeria. It is from Dr. Epega that Christopher received the name Sangodare (pronounced shong-o’-dah-ray). He received his Rites of Passage and Initiation as a Priest of Ifa by Chief Priest Sola Ade of Akure, Ondo state Nigeria, Gaga Community. It is here where he received the name Ifagbemi.

With the founding of The Sangodare Institute, Sangodare Fagbemi is creating a vehicle that bridges the gap between science and religion, a life ambition of his godfather Dr. Afolabi Epega.

As a Priest of Ifa, Baba Sangodare Fagbemi instructs that Universal Consciousness can be analyzed and interpreted by studying various modalities such as Geometry Astrology and Numerology. These sciences are an essential part of all religions and when one is able to study linguistics, and the etymological roots of words, one is able to see the interconnectedness of all things.

Sangodare also teaches that, “The study of universal truth and the wisdom of nature is called Ifa.” It is a beautiful system of morality that teaches good gentle character (Iwa pele & Iwa rere) veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols, articulated by science, expressed through nature and whose language is mathematics. This is the foundation of GAN Philosophy.

Sangodare has been a student of comparative religions for approximately 16 years. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Texas Southern University. He has worked as a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin and the United Space Alliance in the Space Shuttle Program for NASA. As a schoolteacher, he has taught high school Algebra and Geometry. He currently lectures, and teaches Ifa, Numerology, the Science of Religion, and the Science of Sacred Geometry throughout the United States and Internationally.