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Lots of young Africans, in
the name of being spiritually
woke, are walking away from
the Christianity that they
claim corrupted their African
spirituality, are now running
here and there all across the
continent, saying they are trying
to get back to the spirituality,
cultures, and traditions of their
forefathers. I have no single
issue with that and in fact, I
applaud it. I too stopped going
to church in 2007. But what I
can sense is that such people
running around, talking about
spirituality that they don’t
understand end up heaping
upon themselves more religions
and religious complexities
than their hearts, where true
spirituality lies, can carry. They
get corrupted, obsessed, and
then possessed with entities
and realities that they are not
prepared for or cannot handle.
My thoughts on spirituality
In its simplest form, spirituality
is the consciousness of and the
embrace of your identity before
Divinity. It is about knowing
who you are as a spirit, your
place and mandate in the realm
of the spirit, even while you
are having a physical human
experience in the physical plane
called Earth.
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God, or the Divine All, does not Religion
see visions or have revelations.
He does not need them. What Religion is just a set of
we call revelations or visions on rules, guidelines, rituals, and
earth are just what the Divine is processes that tries to help you
thinking, imagining, or doing figure out your spirituality. But
that we have been given access spirituality is not meant to be
to see either through divination, figured out, but to be embraced,
visions, revelations, or whatever lived out consciously on the
else is available to a man on his outside based on the innate
journey of becoming one with connection to Divinity on the
the Divine. What this means is inside. It is about the system of
that the spiritual realm is the Divine Knowledge (the tree of
mental or thinking or dwelling life) whose water flows from
place of God and our spirituality the Creator down to all created
is basically who we are within things and back to the Creator.
that place of the Divine and our It is a beautiful movement of
corresponding purpose or duty the spirit of life that makes an
on earth. This is what forms our individual a part of the whole
spirit and truth. and then the whole is also
fulfilled in the individual.
One of the seven principles
of the Kemetic spiritual Therefore, a spirit having a
knowledge is the principle of human experience should, by
“as it is above, so it is below” or the depth of its own soul, know
as the Bible puts it “your will be his or her spiritual identity in
done on earth as it is in heaven”. the grand scheme of existence
What does that mean? All that and does not need any set of
man is looking for in religion is rules or guidelines to do so. And
to bring into the physical plane yes, there are sets of rules and
that which is available within processes that guide a seeker of
the mental plane of the Divine. truth on the pathway to spiritual
maturity, however, a person’s
Every religion on earth uses spiritual identity is already
various methods for accessing hardwired within their DNA
the mental plane of the Divine and they do not need any form
and I am not here to tell you or forms of religion to know it.
which is better to use. Most African cultures tell the
creation story from two sides;