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and Truth means, a physical manifestation
of that which is in the spirit. Our world is in
a massive misalignment because the spirit
reality and the physical reality of most people
are out of alignment. Imagine what the life of
Jeremiah would have been like if there was
a disconnect between who he was before he
was formed in his mother’s womb and who
he found himself being when he was born.
This here, is the problem of the entire world.
The misalignment of Spirit and Truth.
So, African spirituality takes into sacred
cognizance how man is connected to nature
because the human body comes from the
same material as that of nature, but there
is a higher realm from where it all became
what we see. Spirit and Truth must thus work
together for true spirituality to be achieved.
But this must begin with how we see, hear,
and judge things or people.
Truth is culture
Truth is the physical reality of Spirit, while
culture is the day-to-day application of
truth. A man’s truth should determine his
way of life, which is the same thing as
his culture. Africa or Alkebulan as names
find their purpose and meaning within the
context of a life-giving Spirit. This is why
both Africa and Alkebulan, as names, are
“MOTHERHOOD” in nature and essence.
Thus, an African person who has understood
this spiritual essence must live out the culture
of life daily. His daily lifestyle will not allow
the eating of junk food because such foods
have no life in them. He cannot plant crops
with poisonous chemicals because it kills
life and biodiversity. He cannot eat or plant
GMO foods because it has no life in it. He
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cannot build his house with materials that are
toxic to him and the environment. He cannot
allow injustice or anything that takes life out
of others or the environment. He is indeed
called Alkebulan the Mother of Mankind and
a true life-giver. So, until we begin to see and
practice the African culture from this point of
truth in alignment with spirit, we may really
be far from what it means to be Africans.
I have listened to many Africans who, in
their quest to speak for African Spirituality,
come at it from very childish and prideful
attitudes. They speak in your face telling you
that you cannot be an African if you are not
professing the embrace of African spirituality
like they do or if you don’t engage in the
worship of ancestors or the other various
things they talk about. But it just shows they
have no real understanding of what they are
talking about and they are not speaking from
personal spiritual experiences. They read too
many books and watch too many YouTube
videos on African Spirituality and then try
to impose things on people without a single
spiritual experience of their own. How do
you impose on someone else what you have
never experienced yourself? Is that not how
charlatans do their business? And I say this
because you cannot undermine other people’s
spiritual experiences or journeys just so you
validate what you are saying. It’s childish
thinking.
You cannot say an African can’t profess
Christianity or any other form of Spiritual
Knowledge System and also be an African.
Mind you I did not say religion, I said
Spiritual Knowledge Systems. To think that