One of the reasons we find it difficult to even imagine the thought of practicing African spirituality is the fear of the unknown.

We have been told that it is bad, it is idol worship, so keep far away from it right?

We are lions who have been conditioned overtime to think and see ourselves like dogs.

The idea of roaring feels strange to us but we are comfortable barking.

Yes, we are comfortable barking because being a dog is comfortable. Everybody around us is a dog, so if you are too, you fit right in.

Learning to roar would mean that you have morph into a lion. That means doing things that could blow your own mind.

To become a lion, you have to be ready to freak yourself out and be freaked out by nature. Hearing yourself roar for the first time would sure freak you out. Hearing other lions roar and not being sure if they are out to devour you is sure to freak you out also.

Imagine you, Chibuzor, the son of Mr Jude, born on 15th August 1989, a boy from such a loveable, humble background standing barefooted, talking to the sun, in all it's glory.

Or beckoning on the spirits that guide the waters. I mean that's beyond what you can wrap your mind around.

Yes, because your father's father taught him how to be a dog instead of a lion, and your father transferred the same conditioning to you.

So, it is really not your fault.

But Chibuzor born on so so day to so so Mr and Mrs isn't all you are.

You are a being that is here to commune directly with nature and the forces of the universe. You are a force of nature.

You aren't here to just go to school, get miseducated, get a job and start spurning children.

You are much more. You are here to play an active part in the perpetuation of the cycle and continuity of the universe. You have an assignment. You are a servant of the universe.

You should be communing with the sun, the waters, the air and the earth.

Talk to the morning sun with water in your hands when you are in distress. Ask for directions and observe your dreams.

Talk to the forces of the earth with a handful of sand at a 3/4 way junction, ask for directions and observe your dreams.

Talk to the wind. Talk to the gentle/violent wind. Tell them something, make a request and observe your dreams.

When you realize the things you are capable of, you won't waste time in the church. There are no answers in the abrahamic religions.

You are an earthling, a child of the universe. Interact to the universe directly.

Don't be afraid.

I am glad there's a slow and gradual awakening happening.

Nature doesn't need people to fight for it like the Gods of the abrahamic religions do.

We are at the age of enlightenment and many of the brainwashed zombies are waking up.

Those who can't see the signs of nature talking to them are suffering real life plagues.

A thread here actually inspired me to write this.

https://www.nairaland.com/7738767/story-life-lessons-learn

This dude seem to have a call to serve by a deity in his hometown and instead of answering, he's praying and fasting and hoping the deity leaves him alone.

Imagine having the honor and privilege of being called to serve one of the forces of nature and you are running to the churches to save you.

Imagine deliberately running away from your destiny because you are scared, brainwashed and ignorant.

sotall:
So true!

The present generation of Nigerians have been indoctrinated and brainwashed from childhood with islam and Christianity and all they think about is how to make it into an imaginary heaven.

This indoctrination and brainwashing from childhood is the greatest sin ever committed on humanity!

It produces a people that are mentally lazy and confused and those who live by wishful thinking of believing in prayers. This is why you see most Nigerians shouting God and Jesus in almost every activity of their daily lives especially for things they should be achieving with their brains and physical body.

You see their politicians wasting public wealth in buikding worship centers in government institutions and sponsoring religious vacations with scarce resources while majority of the people are in abject poverty.


Go to every nook and cranny of Nigeria and see religious centers competing with residential spaces.
Valuable time that should be used in solving our immediate problems are wasted by the youths motivation centers.

A big damage has been done to our psych and the plaga has a already taken root. With a significant majority already zombified, it will be a herculean task re-informing our people.

If you want to destroy a people, you have to first of all capture their minds, then turn them against themselves and watch them self destruct.

This is usually done through unceasing propaganda.

Before the propaganda is made operational, those who know better are eliminated and taken out of the picture. Then those that can't tell their left from their right are groomed in the new ways.

The new converts are then taught to first fear their old ways, then hate them and then completely denounce and abandon them.

This is the situation with Africans, Slave Trade and Christianity.

Before Europeans came to the shores of our lands, we were self sustaining, just like other human civilizations across the world.

We had trade and commerce. We had social and political systems. We had a healthy family system and we also had our spiritual belief systems.

Our customs and traditions were practiced and upheld with reverence to the laws of nature.

Nature was here before we came, nature provided all our sustenance, so we served nature in return for it's providence.

Everything we needed was given to us by nature, we in turn paid tributes in service and sacrifice.

We served nature and were in concordance with the elements of the universe. The Sun, The Waters, The Air and The Earth.

We understood the language of the universe, so we didn't overstep. The times we did, we paid reparations.

Whenever we erred, the universe through the forces that served them (water spirits, fire spirits, earth spirits and air spirits) drew their debt on their behalf.

There was an established system and everything that exists knew it's boundaries. (The Igbos say, nwa mmuo emegbula nwa mmadu, nwa mmadu emegbula nwa mmuo - may the spirits not oppress man and may man not oppress the spirits)

Everything as it should be, was passed down from generations through customs and traditions. Through oral and written stories. Through music, dances, adages, proverbs and spoken words.

We as Africans were in a peaceful coexistence with nature. Nature provided for and protected us and we paid homage from time to time.

There was a lot of spoken and unspoken covenant between us and the forces of nature.

Our ancestors lived through these covenants and thrived for thousands of years before the Europeans knew about the land called Africa.

What happened when they came?

They saw resources littered everywhere. Africa is richly blessed with everything humans need and more.

They wanted these things for themselves.

First they tried to trade but through fair trade, they wouldn't be able to give us much of anything because they had few of anything. Almost everything they had, we already had but everything we had, they were seriously lacking.

So, first they started kidnapping and trading our ancestors amongst themselves. Thereby eliminating the strongholds and foundation of the African society.

Then they introduced Christianity to the remaining unsuspecting, naive, fear stricken left overs.

It was a crusade of the highest proportions. A wave of unceasing propaganda against the things our ancestors did and how they used to live.

Everything we were, we were made to hate and fear. Everything.

Our traditional ways were termed idolatry. Our names were mocked and forcefully changed to European names with no African meanings.

Our lands were desecrated. Our African spirituality and traditional ways were bastardized and represented as evil.

These new Christian converts were brainwashed into thinking they have been rescued from something that meant them harm. So they started hating on those things.

This new mindset was then propagated from that generation downwards through the expansion of Christianity in Africa.

Traces of our past was practically wiped off. We forgot who we were.

We could no longer speak our language. We no longer bear our own names.

We no longer ate our native food. Everything we were, we abandoned and ultimately forgot.

We may have forgotten who we were, but nature hasn't failed to keep reminding us.

Our bond with nature was severed when the Europeans came.

The generation that understood the languages of the universe were no more, so there's a problem of communication.

The universe is still speaking to us children of nature, but instead of paying attention, listen and try to understand, we scamper in fear and run into the church.

We run into the churches and throw ourselves on the ground, screaming Jesus and holy ghost fire.

You are screaming Jesus and holy ghost fire to save you from who? From nature?

Don't you see that you are screaming in vain?

Can't you see that you have been taught to fight against forces that you should be conversing with?

The Europeans not only did harm with the introduction of Christianity, he also continued his propaganda through the entertainment industry.

Hollywood and Nollywood are tools that have been used to further turn Africans against the ways of their ancestors.

It is not a coincidence that we as present day Africans are struggling with creative ideas. With poverty. With sicknesses and diseases.

We are experiencing a fundamental lack.

It is because we have left that which made our ancestors great and until we go back, we will continue to struggle.

The Igbos have a saying that Ngwere hara ukwu oshishi, aka akpara ya (When the lizard leaves the safety of the tree, it ends up in captivity)

What we are running from isn't chasing us, but merely calling us.

Embrace the ways of your ancestors and start thriving.

There's nothing you would tell me that would surprise me because, isn't it obvious that I have been trying to tell you something that I know at least a little about?

You have a call to serve.

You are nwa Dibia.

Agwu mara gi. You are wasting time running from church to church.

pstemma1990:
I know Umuelemai very well, in fact that was where they gave birth to me, there a man they call Mr1, he has a hospital, that's the hospital that they gave birth to me...

As for God not having done anything for me?, u may not believe me but God has done more than enough for me, they are more than enough that he has done for me...

If u don't mind, let me share something with u, few years ago when I began to pray midnight prayers, God started opening my eyes, an Angel usually come to carry me to my father's house in the village to uproot things that was buried..

God specifically told me in 2014 that I'm going to have challenges, but I'll come out of it... I believe this is one of those challenges, I had to cry out because even the mighty do cry once in a while..

I've seen things that if I should open up to u here, u may not believe me, there was a time this people from my village vowed to kill me or make me mad, it wasn't a funny experience, they'll come and press me every night.. I'll be bleeding from my nose physically..

I cried to God, I increased my fasting and prayers, before u know it, I could catch them anytime they want to press me, that was how that one stopped, they still come to try me once in a while, the same God who did this ones would do the remaining ones.

Hahaha.

You are from Mbeke.

Do you know Umuelemai?

The bible you read says "my people perish for lack of knowledge"

Death is easy, if you die, you are still gonna come back and continue on the assignment left for you.

You are still in your 30s, so there's a lot of time for you to get back to your roots and raise your family name and lineage.

Your parents that have passed are waiting to reincarnate through your own family line and you are talking about death.

You alone can help yourself. No church can help you. You have even pastored a church and "God" couldn't help you.

African spirituality isn't idol worship. Wake up and see what's in front of you.

pstemma1990:
we are all speaking from our experiences, I may not know it all, but I understand some of these things (altars and idol worship)

My grandmother was faithful to them, served them all her entire life, but they killed all her 11 children right before her eyes, before she died, she gave her life to Christ and told us to follow the light of God..

If someone like her would turn her back on the idol and alter after serving them close to 70 years, why should I go and serve them.... They didn't even pity her children..... I've come too far to go back, if God cannot help me, then let me die this way, thank God I'm not married..

Who is God almighty?

You ancestors communed with God almighty before the Europeans came to Africa with Christianity.

You are an Igbo man with Igbo ancestry, facing an ancestral challenge but you want to run away from it and instead seek help in the church. The church that obviously just wants you to generate money for them.

The forces that beseech you aren't evil as Nollywood and the christian teachings have made you to believe.

At least you know the solution to your problems. When you are really ready, you'll go back home.

pstemma1990:
I get u point though, but from what I've learnt over the years, every other powers bows to the power of God almighty...

Going to the village to do it in a traditional way it's not the best option, because u will keep on going back to them (they may even ask u to serve them)

Thanks for ur contribution, but going to the River isn't an option... That was what my grandmother served, but yet all her children died...

I have a revelation to share with you.

The origin of your problems isn't from the church, so the solution isn't there either.

You are an African, facing a peculiar African spiritual problem.

It is not something you can pray away in church or wish away.

Plus, the spirits punishing you and your family aren't necessarily bad, they are just vengeful because you and your household owe a debt.

Yes, in African spirituality, ignorance is not an excuse.

The solution to your problems may be as easy as just bathing in your village stream but if you don't know, you'd keep seeking solutions in the wrong places.

I am speaking from experience.

Your comments on this thread have all been getting on my nerves.

Where the hell did you come from man?

Damn!

DeeBaDan:



Next time, learn to read more patiently

For her to have aborted the baby against your wish, move on.

Move on now or you'll regret marrying such girl.

Move on if you know what's good for you.

Pardon, it was a mistake.

Jozilinn:
I don't understand 🤨🤨

Hello.

I like your temperament and personality.

I would love to know you.

Klass99:


Oga no where in my post did I indicate a willingness or interest to help the OP. However the story is necessary to pass a message across and teach a valuable lesson.

According to you people on this forum Nigerian girls are useless, all of them, so please let our money be perpetually useless to you people too. Kindly help a fellow brother o, because this Nigerian girl never said she would.

I don't know why some of you are masturbating over a very candid post. The truth hurts and it's bitter ain't it. All of una go dey alright las las.

.

My brand used to be Star, till they started adulterating it then I switched to Life, then to Hero.

Now na Budweiser. The drink smooth for mouth.

But altogether, my brand depends on my mood and circumstances.

jobaltol:
Click like if you think Nigeria is blessed...click share if you feel that in the nearest future, foreigners would be queueing for our resident visas

Blessed with what?

BunbleBee:
madrid is behind Barcelona with how many points?

Yeye club wey rubbish my investment last night!