CJE-3065 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Babalawo
4 Nov 2016
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The source of this apparent contradiction can be traced to the way in which many of us are first introduced to religion and spirituality: we are encouraged to worship from early in our development. But even as brothers seek this divine unconditional love, they who experience all the ugliness in the world still have issues with god. At age 24, two years after graduating college, i went on an educational tour of egypt- or. Kmt, as the ancient inhabitants called it, meaning the black land . What fundamentally altered my perspective on african spiritual systems was the discovery of the odu ifa. The odu ifa is a collection of odus (yoruba sayings) used by the babalawo (priest) to provide counsel. The christian church taught me the power of collective worship, islam taught me that spirituality can be empowering, buddhism armed me with the tool of meditation, and. African spirituality revealed the power of my ancestry.
