African Spirituality 101: How To Get Started - An Ifa Perspective
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African spirituality for beginners. Getting started in African spirituality from an Ifa perspective. Coming from Abrahamic religions to African spirituality can be daunting. Where do you start? Should you start with the orishas? What about your ancestors, how do you connect with them? In this video, we break things down and simplify getting started in African spirituality.
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It's been a season unlearning ,re-learning for me and I am still learning a whole lot about my origin and TRUE IDENTITY! I am thankful
Where do I start
similar..... n not allowing the reconditioning to to happen subtly the by way of guilt n being gaslit and a lot of that comes from those close to you your family and friend s
Amani Na Baraka I recently found out that my G.Pop DNA is from the Western Bantu Kingdom I've made contact with them on Fb 💪🏿🖤✊🏿 it's the Best Feeling Ever now I have to touch down in the MotherLand I also have a friend from the Great Ewe Tribe 🖤 Fafa Yayra
Yes I will like to know more about ori. Thank you
Ase Ase Ase Ooooo ! Thank you very much for this information. Now I know better, I must do better!
@@Epartistry_ You are welcome
Very knowledgeable thank you
This is great for a reawakening to bring us back to our roots!
Gratitude brother. Gathering a notebook and pencil. Ready for 102 and up. This is very informative and spirit lead. ASE ASE ASE
@@Rebirthholisticproducts You are very welcome 🙏🏾👊🏾
Yes please do go live !✨️
Please drop a live time for the ori prayers! It's been difficult to find good content on ori. Thank you for everything that you do
You are welcome! Look out for it.
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿❤❤❤Bro, I’m an African descent and I’m tired of colonialism lies which made us rejected our Ancestors spiritual, History and cultures. I also want the African spiritual leaders to write down their knowledge on papers instead. I used to be a Christian after reading the entire Bible and Apocrypha. I realized that the God in the Bible belongs to Europeans and its brothers Israel.
It's been a season unlearning ,re-learning for me and I am still learning a whole lot about my origin and TRUE IDENTITY! I am thankful
@@adebisiadeaga7865 We learn for as long as we are in this present form.
did you learn anything yet?
333 likes at the time of me viewing this much needed message. I missed this video for some reason. Yes, please teach us more about ORI. That would be a very much appreciated video. Thank you for your time and what you do, Sir 🙏🏽
Much love from the US. Im tapping into my origins and I appreciate the knowledge and guidance!
You are very welcome
So grateful to be here. After many years I was initiated a few years back. Although a beautiful tradition of the light the people are difficult to deal with especially where poverty is concerned. I feel I have been misled and was given details via my heart to practice alone yet no man is an island. I do not and will not connect with a mortal man woman again. I dont want anyone doing for me what I can do for myself. Plus I live in the west so no blood sacrifice here. I'm deeply saddened by the vampires I have met. Disappointed to say the least
Mo dupe o.
Due to my direct ancestral heritage, I'm a devotee of Odinani Ndi Igbo. However, I resonate with virtually all Afrocentric spiritual traditions, including Isese/Ifa as they all have the same foundational roots, values and principles.
So true, they do have the same values and principles. If only more of our people could see that and stop with all the tribalism. I will be inviting Odinani Igbo experts to this platform.
@@TheNaijaZen That would be awesome.
@@TheNaijaZen I would love that
Thanks for this video, never knew of this type of service very enlighten it's glad to know some one is willing to impart so much wisdom in a nut shell I'm an awaken being and willing to learn more for I' m neither body or even the mind.
My Brother thank you sooo much. I got more out of your talk than I have from others who spoke for hours! Bless you!
😊 glad i found you... Una no plenty and we need to all grow and let these truth be in abundance so that we can subjugate the widespread mainstream influence of religion andnits poison in africa...
This was excellent, looking forward to hearing more.
Good day thank you for your information yes I would like to learn about my ORI ...
Thank you for sharing this information with the collective. I am now a new subscriber. Blessings 🙏🏽
@@Rainbowfinch-vp4lw You are welcome and thank you for subscribing.
Thank you for this informative video. ❤
@@iLoVeaNiMeS101 You are welcome
New Subscriber, Thank you 🌝 Ase Ase Ase 💛 🌻
Good day!
Have always known of the Orishas, but was weary because of not knowing how to learn more of them. I am truly grateful to you because I have no idea of my Ori and don't want to disrespect the Orishas knowingly. I have subscribed and truly look forward to developing my Ori.
Delphine from Florence, SC 🎉❤
You are very welcome. Glad to have you here.
Thank u for all u do Modupe' Baba Ase'0oooo
You are very welcome
Yes ❤
@@yasmeenfrancis 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
New subscriber! Keep going King!!! Indeed Africans in the Diaspora are on this journey ESPECIALLY women!!! I give thanks for the revival that dare I say is being fueled by the Diaspora because they are more activated and aware of decolonizing. Curious about your thoughts on what is happening in Benin under their President Patrice Talon who is an unapologetic Vodun practitioner.
@@rositascarborough5751 Thanks. There is definitely a reawakening. Not just in the diaspora, but on the continent. Not sure what you are referring to re Benin. The attempted coup drama? I don't really voice public opinions about situations I am not very familiar with. A large percentage of people in Benin are proudly vodun practitioners, as they should be.
Happy to oblige. Benin is undergoing a spiritual renaissance that is unprecedented on the continent. What I mean, Vodun has now been elevated to a political, economic and cultural strategy for the regime of Patrice Talon. They just passed a citizenship law for Diasporans….even surpassing Ghana in the breadth of this new policy. They are sinking $ 250 million in to renovating all their cultural institutions. The only countries that have invested that sort of money is Egypt and Morocco where cultural touridm id such a cornerstone of their economy. Finally Ouidah is being transformed with a central focus around the foundation of Vodun. Vodun Days has moved beyond a public holiday to a full blown national festival and celebration backed fully by the national government. Every body who has visited Benin talks of the transformation in that country that is very visible. Last but not least Patrica Talon considers himself a protege of Paul Kagame and is following a very Rwandan development model.
Greetings, Thank you for this video. I would love to learn more about connecting to my Ori. Can you talk more about the practice of libation. Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I'm looking forward to your videos on proper libation practice and on daily connection rituals for Ori.
If you're moved to do so, I'd like to learn more about the Odu (specifically those having to do with Olokun). I'm hoping you might have advice or insight on legitimate resources that a new student can use to learn more.
THANK YOU!
Thank you ❤
@@everythinqforever4561 You are welcome
My focus is on humanitarianism, and I have a keen interest in understanding various African traditions as I engage with individuals from that region. However, one of the most significant challenges I face is the prevalent lack of self-belief among many Africans regarding their own religions and traditions. Communicating this to others proves to be difficult, as they are often influenced by external perspectives that do not benefit them.
Religion significantly influenced the process of colonization; without its impact, it is uncertain whether Africa would have experienced colonization at all. However, the outcome remains speculative.
By all means, please share more about the ori development process(es). 🙏
@@jennivelez7777 Will do
I’m full of gratitude for this information.. I’ve been doing plenty of Ori and ancestor veneration work to date as well as I’ve received my Egbe.. my current dilemma is do I need to cut my locs to fully receive Isefa or Itefa?.. my spirit is not calling for that at all 😢
You do not need to cut off your locs for Isefa, but you need to for Itefa. Are you sure it is "your spirit" not calling for that? In this tradition, that would be your Ori and why would your Ori get in the way of your greatest good? If you have done divination and been advised to do Isefa or Itefa, this "spirit" might simply be vanity or the inability to let go/attachment. Your Ori can help with that.
I want to learn this. How do I start? What do I have to do?
I know people from the Caribbean and South America who are more in touch with this than myself from the USA 😢
@@SinaLaJuanaLewis I don't get it. They are all part of the diaspora.
@TheNaijaZen yes but if you look at black American history our people were forbidden to use drums to worship our gods. So imagine what that does.
@@SinaLaJuanaLewis Oh okay, it was a general statement. I thought it was in response to something I said in particular. I get it
Thank you for this video! I would love for you to do a video or live about ORI. 🙂 I have my notifications on!
You are welcome and noted! I am yet to do a live on TH-cam but Ori ALWAYS comes up on my lives. We will make it happen on YT.
@@TheNaijaZen I’m following you on Instagram as well because I don’t want to miss out!😊
@@madamlaveeAppreciate you
Thank you very much. I'm new here, but I am enlightened. Please do a special video(not a live, cause not everyone might be chanced for a live) on Ori, and Liberation. 222
You got it. Libation video drops on Wednesday
Hi, can you do videos on Ori work?
Modupe Baba! Please do a video about Ori.
I will do that
I would like to learn
@@bettermyselftoday I believe you are learning here. If you would like coaching check out the services page: naijazen.co/services
Any referral on some books for studies?
Thank you for the video.
Question:
My immediate ancestors were neglectful and abusive. Do I have to honor them ? Also I live in an apartment in a big city. No yard
Would it be just as good to pour my libation into a plant? I would not dare go outside before sunrise where I live. I may not make it back lol 🙂.
Thank you for your time 🙏🏽
@@momentswithyahya4239 Allow your Ori to guide you with regards to honoring your ancestors. Hopefully you have the true story and not third party information. Or you can do a generic "to all my ancestors with good intentions".
A dedicated plant or pot with earth can be used, but make some time to go to a park, beach somewhere, when you can.
I also suffered the same thing. Nasty uncaring ancestors even though I asked for the good ancestors. It appeared that some of them however were tied to me from former lives. And others were those criminal earthbound types who had been barred from returning to the Astral fields. They caused me serious problems. Though mostly when I was on a low vibration. The solution was to perform Soul cutting rituals, separating me from any remaining karmic ties. I now call upon only the highest Ancestors. The ones of bright light and not the "normal" good ancestors who are exactly the same people as they were on the earth. Faults included.
I would like to know if you can do a video on how to do Libation properly
It's coming.
Well im white from usa and i study kemetics . My wife is from Ghana she is Muslim . I cant tell her anything. Deep brain washing from these abrahamic religion. Its very hard !
Thanks so much sir. But sir is it possible to do a video on ori .
Definitely possible and coming
3.54:kikuyu ..yes you got that correctly
Aboru Aboye Àwò, Where can I find biographic information on you and your Lineage/Learns, please??
Adupe oo ati Gbogbo Ire oo Odabo
@@awoyemiesutundefakayode4061 Ogbo ato asure iworiwofun. It will be added to the new site, we are working on it.
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sir respectfully I want to ask you some questions ?? I understand what you are saying but how do we come home to Alkibilon when they mix us up on those slave ships? Some of us in the diaspora can not even trace where we came from.how are we going to even know which tribe we belong to??
@@mysticintraining7129 Respectfully, I really don't understand the questions.
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I have heard this before.but not explain like this.
Is it incorrect to pour libation into house plants?
@@niccolasgadsden6366 I will be discussing that in the video dropping on Wednesday. Incorrect isn't the word I would use. Set your notifications. 👍🏾
Alafia Baba much appreciated educating the masses including myself Ase0ooo
My girl fried is Yoruba yet she pays no attention to IFA .
By other so called babas and fake teachers. I've had enough. It is becoming more like religion also.