#Kimoyo #AfrikanSpirituality
African life is replete with ritual. It states interrelationships with other beings in the universe. Ritual sacrifice symbolises the principles of interdependence and reciprocity. It is through ritual that the unexplainable is "understood," that...
African life is replete with ritual. It states interrelationships with other beings in the universe. Ritual sacrifice symbolises the principles of interdependence and reciprocity. It is through ritual that the unexplainable is "understood," that...
chaos is made to be ordered within the logic of tradition. It through ritual that trauma is avoided, crises dealt with and overcome and difficult transitions are perceived as passages between stages of normal growth and development. Universally, in ritual the African combines...
life with artistic expression. Ritual is, in a sense, the ultimate philosophical expression of the African world-view, for it is the modality within which the unity of the human and the divine is expressed, in which the unity of the human and the divine is expressed, in which...
the unity of spirit and matter is perceived and in which the Eternal Movement is achieved. When we perform rituals as our ancestors did, we become our ancestors and so transcend the boundaries of ordinary space and time, and the limitations of separation that they impose.
When we call the spirits and they enter our bodies we symbolise in our being the joining of and therefore communication between, two spheres of the universe; "heaven" and the "earth".
- Mama Marimba Ani, Let The Circle Be Unbroken,
- Mama Marimba Ani, Let The Circle Be Unbroken,
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