Take Over Control Of Your Spiritual Destiny

“We have no control over our lives individually or otherwise, because a [metaphysical] “black hole” exists in our psyche, heritage, soul, life, etc.” (TOC P7) We are overburdened now.

How did this happen?

First, we among other peoples in our situation were shut out of the religion of our roots and metaphysical black hole developed inevitably in our psyche, heritage, soul, life, etc. Nature abhors vacuum. They saw faces and ancient civilizations of Africa in dreams. Inputs came from their ancestors. The ancestors spoke to them in dream-state experience. These are experiences occurring while they were neither in deep sleep nor more full awake. These experiences were more vivid and live. Hence, our youths started voting with their behavior that they needed some theories and theologies about life and existence rooted in their psyche that they kept experiencing in dreams and similar circumstances.

The ancestors that they experience were irreconcilably different from the ones that they were taught about at Sunday schools. The ancestors communicated with them and they deeded confirmations or explanations when they came round. This is the mystery that they wanted unraveled, not the alien stuff that the tourists, missionary teachers, and journalists tried to feed them with.

The elders responded; however, the youths got misinformed by our “educated” elite, priesthood, and elders acting on behalf of the ancestors that spoke to the youths in dream state experience. Alternatively our ancestors are partly to blame for failing to insist on healing and interceding on the behalf of us all. They missionary teachers among others fed them concurrently with myths about the “fall of man” in the Garden of Eden. Adam and his descendants were cursed, and Africans share in that curse. Some were even told that they were descended from a branch of those who had been preordained to be hewers of wood and fetchers of water for the rest by being descended from “illegitimate” child of their ancestors. Some learned that they were the properties of shrines and wives of deities via their parentage.

People seem not to know that they have a choice to decide on the lineage to identify with. You can reject any burdens or curses on Adam, or that are alleged to be due to your birth or ancestry. It is not true that some human beings are intellectually empty. Neither should anyone identify as one among lumpen people that are so content with life that they now must accept fate without protestation. You need not seek whom to blame or at whom to direct your fury. Your being overburdened is not preordained. Seek peace, learning, and wisdom; you will find it.

Who caused it?

We have blamed others for our plight for too long. I am not interested in castigating those who allegedly caused it. I am interested instead in the circumstances without pointing accusing fingers at anyone outside of us. We must state that the situation at present suggests that we have inflicted most of our burden on ourselves. If anyone is to blame, then it must be our priesthood and ancestors. However we ought not be dwelling on this, rather we should attempt at solutions to redress the situation and lift the burden from our heads and the heads of our people in particular and humanity in general.

What Is The Solution?

We had become confounded. Being persistently deprived of the source of spiritual nourishment, we are now overburdened with false everything – we are burdened with superstitions, vexatious ancestors and spirits, and now fury that can destroy us. All these we must overcome with peace, learning about Truth, and more wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is to know on whom or that to offload your burdens successfully. Do not lay them on other people. Avoid physical violence by all means when trying to vent you fury.

By R. D. Hargaalga Snr. (The Oboiro)