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          the spiritual and the physical.    We all are at various levels       morning after a long night of

          Meaning that a person is both      of our spiritual journey, but      death (sleep).
          a spirit and a body but with       personally, I would rather be
          the soul or the mind as the        walking in the forest having       And by the way, it’s not my

          bridge between both. Your five     conversations with the Father      job or duty to prove to anyone
          physical senses are the channel    of Spirits about anything in       that God or the Divine exists.
          through which data is absorbed     my  mind  or  His  mind  than      That you spend all your time
          into your mind and channeled       sitting in a church listening      arguing that He does not
          into your spirit. But there is also   to someone talking about the    exist simply shows you have

          the reality of the “five spiritual   letters that Apostle Paul shared   something within you telling
          senses” which are mostly dulled    about two thousand years ago.      you otherwise. It’s like
          due to disuse. It is a deeper      It doesn’t make any sense. Paul    saying Kenya doesn’t exist

          way to relate with the spiritual   understood his own spirituality    anywhere on the globe but
          realm, for the spirit must by the   and he lived it out until the day   you have high blood pressure
          spiritual senses relate with other   of his death. So why should I    each time the name Kenya
          spirits and the Father of Spirits.   leave my own spirituality and    is mentioned and you won’t
                                             walk with divinity and study       stop searching online for the

          It is by your spirituality or      Paul’s spirituality and walk       current price for a ticket to
          your  identity  in  the spirit  that   with God? I can study Paul’s   Kenya. If God doesn’t exist
          you relate and communicate         life to gain knowledge of          according to you, then it does

          with   Divinity,   relate   and    patterns of the spiritual walk     not make sense that you are
          communicate with nature, relate    or study the patterns of some      fighting and bullying anyone
          and communicate with people,       African spirituality to have       who says otherwise.
          and vice versa. But what we        more understanding, but that
          mostly have now are people         cannot be my ultimate goal.  My    I am not interested in any

          trying to put everyone else in     ultimate goal is to rise into the   religious jargon someone
          the  box of  their own thinking    maturity of both my spirit, soul,   calls  spirituality.  If  your
          and assumptions.  You meet         and body, in conformity with       spirituality does not have a

          someone  today  and  the  next     the Father of all Spirits, God, or   positive effect on the state of
          minute you think you know          whatever else you want to call     your heart, the shape of the
          them  and  then  want  to  define   Him.                              words coming out of your
          them by your lack of knowledge                                        mouth, and  the actions you
          or faulty assumptions. You even    There are those like Mansa who     display on the outside, then

          throw trick questions at them so   say there is no God and that       you are lying to yourself and
          they trip on words and by that,    they are gods in themselves. I     your so-called  spirituality  is
          you fill your cup of egotism and   agree that they are gods, even     another cloak of deception.

          false knowledge about them.        the Bible says the same, but I
          That’s foolishness, to say the     wonder why they cannot make
          least.                             themselves wake up in the




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