A Rich Spiritual Heritage of Africa

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ok, those of you who know me know I study

EVERYTHING.

I have sat down with the naqashbandi Sufi, the Omei schuan Taoists, the southern Baptists, the Ecclesia Gnostica, the Al Khemi, and the Hogun and the spiritualist. I thrive on studying Pachmama of the Yanomamo of South America, and the Kumulipo of Hawaii, and even my ancestral Gruagachan Tuatha tha' Albion, called Scotland these days. And in all of these studies, I have always venerated those who walk these paths with me, those who walked these paths before me, and those who will follow.

History is very important to my family. We have a large vested interest in history, for if we ever lose that, we will be ill-equipped to seize the opportunities we lost before. I never take this for granted. Most people can't tell me what the names of the members of their immediate family who came to America were.

Perhaps a people VERY disadvantaged in this are the descendents of those forced to be stripped of the identities they carried from their home country. Most notably, I am now addressing those who claim the Sub-saharan Africans that the Dutch began bringing here in the chains of slavery in 1619. My dominant family legacies on both my mother and father's sides weren't here during that time (we were part of the NINA immigration), so there is little for me to connect to that, directly.

What i have done, however, is search for African history and beliefs. I did this when I was trying to isolate a person's history as part of my attempt to research a genuine lineage for a girl I was seeing, who was a black American. My hope was that she would quit living in the inaccurate notion that she was a "black-irish" descendent of witches who predated the celts. Yup, she thought the picts were of African origin. I don't think she was "crazy", I think she was desperate to have a historical connection, and history is famously difficult to piece together. It did nothing that the Picts were short bark haired pale people who bleached their hair and tatooed their bodies in the style that became a custom to the Gaels. It did nothing that her "authentic Afro-Irish Witchcraft" was in fact the Post-Elizabethan French Grimoire Tradition. She just desperately needed to find a way she fit into the history of the world, and needed for it to be more significant than the dark history of American slavery.

So, I did research. It was not easy. We collected her physical traits, I did some hypnosis to reveal some genetic inclination of "inherited learning", and some good old book work, and a phonemic analysis of the names in her family, and found something she could actually claim as her own ancestry,.. which really did exist. It was not Atlantis, or a secret clan of african ninjas, or the mystical black druids, jews, or even the neice of black Jesus. it was Ifa.

Ifa is also ironcially closer to her own beliefs after she finished mangling the French Grimoire tradition, and copying liberally from a number of "New Age" books about "Old World" spiritual technologies. Did we find out she was a queen? No. Did we find out who her actual ancestoatrs were, no. Does it make her feel better knowing Kwaanza is not REALLY a black-irish witches Sabbat that was stolen by the church, as she was being told by her "afro-american black-irish coven sacred to Isis". YES. She accepted a spiritual heritage that SPOKE genuinely to her, and is far closer to her own heritage, and through that she has been getting more information from the afterlife, and she has found genuine relatives who share a common ancestry.

I will share it with you all,... regardless of race or heritage, it is very sophisticated and worth studying.

http://www.awostudycenter.com/history.htm

just trying to make the pursuit of personal meaning sincere and Hermetic,

vertical,
raum

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Being Afro American, having and or tracing back your roots is such a hard thing to do...Luckily for my family, we have a pretty in tact family tree, and trace our roots back down to the first man brought over...Beyond that, however, I'm not sure...Thanks for this link my friend...