Now, the master of the Awo in training also had a master, and so did the master before him and before him etc.

Not only how to understand the use of the oracles and the verses attached to each odu, but also how to use nature for medicines (spiritually) or for work to aid humankind. Within the training, they will learn many things. But Let’s Start With The Babalawo Image Source: Ī Babalawo, before becoming independent and working as a Babalawo for the community, must go through extensive training. change, ideas, physical manifestations, “knowing”, what is tangible, what has arrived, etc. Like a pregnancy, it gives way to form, i.e. car crash, natural disasters, even obeah, etc.) in order for something to change. Darkness is necessary because everything begins with it. Malevolent beings are seen as dark beings, but they are actually Light beings that take on the “role” of dark when something needs to happen (i.e. When that energy gets ready to play a “negative” role in our lives, that energy now manifests itself as dark. * Note: No energy that comes up on our Earth Plane is ever dark. all have a particular animistic energy that allows it to work for human beings and the earth. In Nigeria, Ifa traditional practice is the study and veneration of nature as pure energy. What I mean by “pure energy” is this: Every leaf, every stem, every flower, etc. In this post, I will try my best to explain what is happening behind what you see. Now this post is about the spirituality behind Ifa and Orisha as a traditional practice. Eventually, same church, or should I say the same Christian God, sent me to Africa… to Ifa. As a matter of fact, after my awakening, I was told to go to a church that I did not grow up in: Revival/Zion. While in the revival church, I began to use the wisdom that my sweet Padrino had taught me years before to show the way of studying nature to the Bishops and Pastors of my church. I’ve written about this here many times before but it was my spirituality, my awakening, that pushed me to Ifa. I awakened to my spirituality in a very horrible way.

In my opinion, I believe the Yoruba tradition of Ifa-Orisa sits at the top of the pyramid of every practical, theoretical, and traditional practice or study.

In this post, I will try my best to explain what is happening behind what you see.

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