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African enough attention to. And I do not
Spirituality speak of life as in childbearing, even
though it is part of it, but that Spirit
or consciousness within every African
AND THE that makes them want to accept
everyone as part of a spiritual spring
SACREDNESS from which the Breath of Life flows
and for which we are in tune with
defending life both among humans and
OF UBUNTU in nature. It is the one deeply seated
attribute that makes us Africans and
it’s from that depth that I want to share
my thoughts about African spirituality.
By: Samuel Phillips I was listening to a short clip where
Joshua Maponga was talking about
African spirituality. He was making a
from the unseen realms of the Spirit, except if very interesting point about how too
such man has walked beyond the veils of this many people, in the name of trying
world and stepped into the spirit realm. We to interpret African spirituality, have
may have access to things in the physical that created more divided and confusing
come from the spirit realm in tandem with how definitions and concepts that are
they are meant to bring us to newer levels of leading more Africans astray. In that
understanding to change our lives even as we video, he defined African spirituality
journey through this space called Earth, but no in very simple terms using a statement
one should boast of the fullness of knowledge, like when you realize that you as a
especially if the knowledge was given from human being in a physical body came
the unseen realms. That would be pride and a from the same soil material as the trees
corruption of the soul which will do more damage in the forest, and then you understand
to our communities than the current spiritual the interconnectivity between man
ignorance. and nature, then you will begin to
understand African spirituality. (my
Don’t give sacred things to dogs and pigs paraphrase)
I have often shared in this magazine that the In my meditation about what he said,
one sweet thing that I could relate the culture it made sense to know that the same
of Africa to is “LIFE”. The incubation of life Sacred Breath from the Creator that
and the ability to nurture life is one foundation animates and gives life to nature
of the African culture that we have not paid (nature is not the Supreme Being) is
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