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The Use of Art as a Gateway to The Spirit World in African Spirituality.
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If this your first time watching me on this channel, you are highly highly welcome.
This is a place where separating facts from the fiction, the science [music] from the superstitions, and the concepts from the misconceptions about African spirituality.
Today I'll be talking about the use of arts, artwork, as tools for spiritual developments.
Uh this is something that is very very important and necessary to the spiritual development of uh any group of people.
In fact, what the main materials that we depict or showcase the spirituality of a certain group of people is their artwork.
For instance, how do we know that uh these people are Chinese people or these people are uh African people or they are Indian people?
Uh is based on the artworks that they create.
These are cultural elements that are unique, original to those people.
So, with this in mind, we can say that arts uh and craft is an integral aspect of any people's culture.
And uh it contains the embodiments of uh the basic elements that you will find in that culture. For instance, uh anything that represents uh their way of communication or expressing themselves, uh their views of nature can be regarded as an art form. For instance, their musics, literature, paintings, dressing, uh sculptures, uh movies, any kind of display is all that uh, depicts their originality, their language.
It's all elements of their hearts, their heart form.
So, for you to say you want to indulge yourself in uh, any kind of spiritual practice of a people, you must know or assimilate or be well versed in it in the cultural uh, elements of that uh, people.
For instance now, we African people that are claiming to be now Christians, why do these our brothers and sisters feel that they are Christians?
It is because they have that they have been able to they have been exposed to the cultural elements of the people that give them that religion.
We shall include but not limited to their language, number one.
Their music of their language. For instance, this their gospel music, songs of praise of these people, their literature, as in the Bible.
The Bible is a compilation of the arts, craft, cultural elements of the people that created it or the people that uh, made it and wants people to absorb to accept it.
So, when you accept Christianity as a Christian African person, what happens is that you stop practicing your own culture or you limit the practice of your culture and you absorb that of a foreign uh, entity. This is why some people say religion is simply cultural supremacy because people that spread their religion, it comes with their culture, it comes with their hearts.
Comes with their language, their world view.
So, the more people that accepts that religion, the more they accept the culture and the world view of the people that is promoting it.
This is a a major problem with Africa.
So, you see what's now in Africa, most of the time we speak English because of the influence of colonization, it is not our original language, but now it's a major lingua franca because we have refused to promote the use of our own language.
If I start speaking my language now, many of my African brothers and sisters can no longer understand this.
Because uh for whatever reason, everybody have their own language and everybody we say other people we say, "Oh, I cannot have time to learn another African language. You must speak my own.
If you don't speak my own, I will not speak your own. So, how do we communicate? We speak the language of the enemy that came to colonize us all.
Now, we are using that that language as a yardstick to communicate with each other to bring peace and harmony.
This language is an influence of the effect of colonization. It is part of the cultural attributes of the people that bring it.
Now, the dress codes, the way we dress nowadays, we dress like those people.
We also adopt the spiritual practice of those people. We now worship the God of those people.
We now claim that the ancestors of those people are now our ancestors.
This is where we really heads wrongly.
When you now say that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all those um uh scallywags in the Bible are now your own ancestors.
What it means that your energy, your spiritual focus is on them and anything that they represent.
This is the reason why most Christians are sticking upon their self that every Sunday they must go to church.
Because the people that brought the religion, Sunday is their major day of worship.
They go to church and um when they go to church, who are they venerating? What is the deity behind this? This is the uh son of God, which is Jesus.
Which is another art form of the cultural representation of the God of the colonizers.
So, what happens is that we focus on this art form, which is nothing but the image and the picture of the deity of Jesus Christ.
We believe that this thing have power over us.
This thing is the highest authority on earth and in heaven and what not. And uh this is what the African people now worship, most of them.
And uh what does this do as a towards it?
Takes our mind to that place to see uh the the this the God of the colonizer as the most ultimate power in the world.
You will see this God as a somebody that have the power to destroy us at will.
Somebody that does not care about us except we worship him.
And even if we worship him or not, we don't have any right or any is we are totally powerless before him. That is what they say that all your righteousness are like filthy rag for this guy.
And uh you are nothing before him.
It's just by his grace that you are who you are.
So, what this uh cultural symbolism did to us is a sort of um uh bedrock of imposing inferiority complex upon the general people.
Total sublimation, total subjugation, total obedience, total um surrender.
When you have positioned yourself to this level that you now put your knees on the ground to worship the God of your enemies.
Uh you worship the symbol which they give to you, which is the cross of the naked man with a loincloth that's saying this is your ultimate savior.
It means that you have totally surrendered to the total will of the enemy.
That you are nothing. You have been totally and completely defeated.
You have been defeated in mind. You have been defeated in spirit. You have been defeated in soul.
This is the ultimate happiness for the enemy to kneel down and worship his symbol in this way. To give your life, your soul, all your property, everything you own.
You now will it to this symbol.
It means that you are nothing. You have been totally subjugated.
This is what it means, but many of these so-called brainwashed Christians they don't see it like that. In fact, they see it that they have been saved.
That when you totally surrender to this symbol it means that you have been saved. You are a new creature and that the this symbol, this thing will now make you enter an invisible heaven when you die to spend eternity inside this heaven.
But the way the colonizers see it is the way of them total humiliation for you. It's a humiliation because this thing was designed to oppress you.
To take away your identity.
To take away your integrity.
To take away your soul. To take whatever belongs to you. This is the essence of the religion.
And they they have succeeded.
So, when you have gone to this level the way most of our brothers and sisters are now, it means that they have no power. From now on, they do whatever the deity tells them to do.
And who controls the deity?
It is the people that created it.
This is how they came into Africa.
Right now, some Africans have smartened enough and they're now called and saved pastors and Daddy G.O.
They open churches, start pushing the so-called gospel to their own people, and using the same symbol to enslave the people.
And who are the ultimate beneficiaries of whatever their congregation will submit to them?
It is the pastors, of course.
The pastors, the Daddy G.O.s, the Mommy G.O.s. This is how they buy their private jets, live their larger-than-life life life, their entourage, everything, because people have willingly agreed to submit their spiritual authority, their spiritual autonomy, their integrity to them through the cultural representation, the tools of this culture.
So, heart and craft is a very powerful medium.
When you see a symbol and you believe that symbol is stronger than you and that is that is more is more power than you powerful than you.
And you accept to follow this symbol.
This is this the use of what we call subliminal suggestions in a psychology.
Subliminal suggestions are suggestions that are made that uh a way of uh kind of controlling, sending um sensory message or stimulus that operate beyond the below the threshold of conscious perception.
It means that you are being manipulated by this image or by this suggestion, and you don't even know that you have been manipulated.
Arts can have this effect on people.
It's a powerful effect on people.
You know you can control people's mind through arts. You can stimulate people's mind through arts. You can also liberate people through arts.
And we do this a lot in you we see this a lot in spiritual practices.
How does one come into consciousness in spirituality?
How do we elevate people's consciousness in spiritual and spiritual practice?
It is through the use of the elements of arts and culture that we can use to do all these things.
The story behind the arts, the presentation, the appeal, the emotional appeal, then all the synchronization of all these elements, you can use them to manipulate psychic consciousness, you can use it to do whatever you want to do to people.
This is why art is important, especially music, visual arts.
Now, when it comes to spirituality, you go to any spiritual system, assuming you walk into any temple, maybe an India India temple, what do you see there? You see the images of their deities in their form, uh you see the music, they play the music for you, you see the elements of the arts, the five elements in it's always present there.
And of course, the energy of the people that are creative those things, they have put it inside the this images for you.
So, you can be manipulated to the degree of how you open up to these images or how you are susceptible to them.
This is how it works. It works on various level of uh of uh spiritual perception. It can work on the physical level.
It can work on the sub leave the sub level the under the minds, what they call the subliminal, subterranean, subconscious. It can work there.
It can also work on the unconscious level as well.
So, spiritual and practices have been able to incorporate this art into all of them, their practices. And they use them to bring people to bear or the to bring people to do what they want to do or to bring people to obey or to be compliance or to get the kind of mindset that they wants them to get.
So, this kind of settings of use of art is very very important.
If you look at me now, you look at my altar, you will notice that I have some symbols as well.
These are symbols that represents uh elements of the African consciousness.
These are symbols that can help you to focus on all the tasks at hands.
Looking at the symbol of this tattoo now, it will give you the impression that yes, whatever I am talking about is uh serious and uh it should be taken seriously.
It can also be mysterious. It can also be uh a little bit uh behind the veil. Let me use that thing.
You can see symbolism of this. You can see symbolism of the element of fire, of air, of our internal consciousness.
All these are visual perceptions to take your mind to exactly where I want your mind to be, which is the focus on Africa, which is the focus of the afterlife or the invisible realities of nature.
All these are art forms that I have to surround myself with to showcase the spirituality that I am representing.
All these came from different cultures in Africa.
It represent life, can represent love, represent the frequency of energy, vibration, of duality, life and death, white and black, balance.
You can see all these things are represented here. So, I use these symbols to try to connect with my audience, so that you will know that whatever I am talking about is something that should be taken seriously. And uh for me to spend a lot of time uh talking about this subject, you will know that it's something that is very, very dear to me, something that we uh I will encourage you to create time to look into.
It is a part of my cultural expression.
So, it is something that is very, very important. That is why every spiritual practitioner have a must have a base. In African spirituality, we have what we call altars. You must have an altar if you are a serious practitioner.
Your altar will contain elements of the own culture or symbols that you uh that you want to be associated with or what will be able to make you focus on your spiritual practice.
It There be any kind of symbol that means something to you.
Means something to your people, means something to your practice, or something that we use regularly.
Very, very important.
So, you must have an altar. If you don't have an altar and you say you practice African spirituality, I will see it like maybe you are not really practitioner like that. You are not really dedicated or maybe you don't have privacy for creating your own personal altar.
Because the altar is a focal point in every spiritual system.
When you go to a church, you will see their own altar there. Of course, there are candles and incense and there are picture of Jesus Christ. We just know that automatically this is a church. You don't need anybody to explain to you what this place represents. Same thing with a mosque.
When you come to African spirituality, it is the same thing. When you see the altar, you don't need anybody to explain to you that this kind of altar this is what it represents.
So, the altar is an expression of the in heart form of the spiritual or cultural representation. It is very, very important in spiritual practice. It takes the mind to where you want to focus on.
And uh it's kind of creates a kind of physical counterpart in this in this world.
Because according to the law of duality, whatever we have here have a spiritual uh a spiritual sequence in the meter or what you we call the astral plane.
So, if I have a physical altar here, you should know that the in the uh astral plane there's also a spiritual representation or a spiritual double of this very altar in that spirit world.
So, this is what we call the egregore or thought form. Or some people will say this is the soul essence of the physical altar.
So, for you to kind of um anything you do here, anything you have, you have that spiritual double in the astral world.
So, when you uh focus physically on the altar and you do your meditations, spiritually your mind is also there in the astral plane doing the same thing you are doing here.
And uh when you go to bed in the night and you sleep, and uh maybe you see yourself doing your spiritual work in your uh altar double, you can also carry the same experience to this physical world as well.
So, creating a physical altar is a way of uh focusing on your spiritual development or physicalizing your spiritual double in this physical plane.
So, it's a way of a uh a special place for your spiritual consciousness or a place where you can make contact with the spirit world.
So, it is very very important that you have such a place. What it goes to show is that you take your spirituality very seriously, and uh you want it to be permanent in your life, and uh you want to have a space for it.
In fact, for you to even create the altar mean that you have created a space in the in the spirit world or in the astral plane for your spiritual development and advancements.
So, creating this goes a long way to show that you are serious about your practice, and you want to really advance or go deeper in your practice.
So, when you see serious practitioners, you will find out that they have or they must have an altar, more than one.
In my case, I have like three.
I have three alone in just one house.
If I say I want to count all of them now, that I think it's about five of them.
Because uh I take it very seriously.
There are some people that have more than 10.
To different deities, different principles of creation.
These are things that you just cannot ignore.
As you go deeper in your spiritual practice, you will discover principles that you are connected to, that you have to work with, that the wisdom and what they represent is very, very necessary in certain point in time of your life, and you just have to create a space for them.
It's as simple as that.
You have to create a space for them.
You create an altar for them.
And though you venerate a principle.
It depends on the kind of job you do.
We have different kind of occupation.
All these principles are there to represent the ideology of the profession of people.
Let's say you are you are working in the like a welder, or you like a mechanic, you working with iron, computers. You might want to venerate a deity like Ogun.
Because this deity is in charge of that uh that's very department.
So, you might have to Ogun, maybe you also work with a water, you might have to another altar for a water deity.
Maybe Oshun. Maybe you work with another elements, you might have a an altar deity as well.
It's like that. Some people that are in the fashion industry, creative industry, they might have an altar to Oshun specifically for that very thing.
People that are in the medical field, quite naturally, a lot of them venerate and say Huti or Jehuti. You can also see that the medical staff is the caduceus of Hermes or Tehuti.
He's the father of medicine.
You will see all these things. So, we have different principles that are out there.
So, depending on your field or area of specialization, your altar have to reflect the kind of deities or principles that you are working with.
Like, uh, for example, now, I have this principle of representing death, rebirth, uh, resurrection, reincarnation.
I have to, uh, be with this principle because, uh, the aim of this channel is to awaken people from their asleep or from the state of coma.
Many of our African people, they are just moving around, but spiritually they are dead. Many of them are brain dead.
They are trapped in Christianity, trapped in Islam.
I have to kind of find a way to venerate a principle that can be able to wake them from that state of coma, to bring them to consciousness.
So, this principle is very important to me. You can also see primary form of this principle.
Giving life to the lifeless, making the unconscious conscious.
This is the essence of what I do on this channel.
So, my altar have to reflect that principle.
The principle of duality, the principle of of of life giving birth of reawakening, of spreading of consciousness, of illumination.
Empowerments.
Bringing balance and harmony.
I have to be able to do all these things.
So, I need to work with those kind of deities, deities of wisdom.
Deities of prosperity.
Deities that uh stand between the spectrum of decision making.
The crossroads issue.
A catty, Ogu Pagira, Baron Samedi, Baba Legba.
All these are the principles.
And a lot more of them.
I just cannot ignore these principles in this day and age.
It's like a war zone.
To wake our people up.
So, we cannot We must go deep.
We must be able to do the needful.
According to Malcolm X, by every means necessary.
So, it's a serious matter for me and I take it seriously.
So, I don't play with these principles.
I have to venerate them. I have to bring them into my A lot of people will be afraid to even include these principles in their pantheon.
Especially new people, they'll be scared.
They don't want these, they don't want problem, they don't want that kind of commitment, they don't want uh anything that will shake their mind or take their sleep.
They just want to be peaceful. Who told you that spiritual path is not a peaceful It's not exactly a peaceful path though.
Like that though. But uh Many are called, few are chosen.
If you are meant to be here, you'll be here.
I never planned that I'll be doing these uh spiritual videos that I I never planned it.
I don't know if the path chose me, but we are here today.
and it is what it is.
So, in your journey, in your development, you might see yourself in places that uh you did not love, but do that you didn't expect, but you have to be equal to the task.
So, when you start practicing, you will find out that your you you will be advancing. Maybe the first deity you make contact with we gravitate to another uh deity.
Deity you keep, it's like you're advancing. When you finish, we call it pathworking in spirituality.
When you finish learning the lessons or gaining the wisdom from one deity, another one will come to your life path, and you will start learning from that. When you finish learning the lessons of that one, another one will come.
So, it's a continuous development. But, despite that journey, there are still a few of them that will stay.
Why some, you will leave them behind.
So, it is not uncommon. It is In fact, it is a very, very normal to find people switching deities in the spiritual path.
You can see somebody venerating a particular deity today.
Within 3 months or 4 months, the person have another new deity at the altar.
Within another 6 months, you will see another new deity there.
It's very normal in spiritual path.
Very, very normal.
Very, very normal. This is it. You have to grow.
You have to progress until you find your perfect fits, or until you keep you reach where you are going.
This is how it is. So, in my journey, I have come across a lot of spiritual systems, a lot of spirits. I have read so many books, so many grimories. I have walked, done a lot of pathworking.
Even some of those spirits, I don't even remember their names anymore.
But, at a particular point in time, they were very, very important to me.
And uh I gained a lot of experience during that time.
And when the lessons are over, I have to move.
You will find this very, very normal.
This is how life is.
According to one of our spiritual practitioner pathway, a boy becomes a man, you do away with childish things. As you become When you We are born, most times they place us into um a system in Africa. You're born in Southern Nigeria, you're a Christian. In Northern Nigeria, you're a Muslim.
As you begin to grow, you find out that the spiritual system is not really a good fit or whatever the society is trying to position you is not the main truth.
You will leave it. Some people will even change their name.
You matured. When you mature, you give yourself a name that this is the real you.
When you come into the path of spirituality, you get into the introduction class and you learn those things, you advance, you get that knowledge, you move to the next level.
You will find that that's uh I want something heavier. I want to go deeper.
Okay, I've learned the lesson of this principle of Is that all you have to offer? I want to know more.
This is how it is. You keep going and you keep going and you keep going and you keep going.
The knowledge never ends. So, you will run through a lot of spirits, a lot of deities. Some of them you become allies with. Some of them you quickly forget.
It is very, very normal.
All this while, you will be exposed to different arts, different tools, different energies and vibrations, different way of doing different kind of things. All this is what will build your character, build your spiritual knowledge, understanding, and everything to make you who you are. It shapes your your your your body, shape your destiny, shape your identity.
All this is what we call in the life of a person.
So, it is very very normal for this to happen, okay?
Now, heart form carries presents who you really are.
The kind of hearts that you see or that you that are drawn to you can be used as a gateway to express your true self or express or connect with that very uh thing that you really want to connect yourself to.
So, when you come to African spirituality, we see a myriad of heart forms from different culture.
All these are based on the perceptions of the people that created them or what they are into.
You can learn a lot from a people by studying the kind of hearts that they have. This is very very true.
When I see different kind of cultural masquerades from different tribes in Africa, I from by watching the masquerade, watching the dance, the moves, I can I try to study to learn what kind of what aspect of science or principles that this is representing in nature.
Uh studying this can make you to understand where these people are coming from and how that's can be useful for you.
There are many things There are many masquerades that we have in Africa. It's from there that you see some masquerades that some people do.
When they compare the image of the masks, they discover that these masks these people are dancing with is the face of an ant, a very tiny ant that many people have not seen the face of an ant before.
So, but this very particular culture they somehow How did they know that this is exactly the face of an answer you see them doing maths to be dancing?
So, in that culture probably they have some kind of um microscope that they used to study this animal very very well to see its real face and they used it to create a masquerade.
There are some kind of dance that when you see it it sort of defy gravity.
You will ask how is this even possible?
In African cultures we see some kind of masquerade that uh elevate the principles of elevation principles of weightlessness principles of of time dilation of so many kind of scientific principles evident in the dance cultural dance of a masquerade.
You can be able to depict or pinpoint that aspect of science that these people are using this masquerade dance to represent or that aspect of nature that they are kind of venerating.
Most times you can just see that it's just an ordinary dance but when you look beyond you will find this kind of dance is not an ordinary.
It has a certain kind of meaning a certain kind of spiritual or scientific connotation that they are representing here.
You can be able to deduce that our cultures cannot just be all barbaric they are actually advanced.
By studying the art forms of our people these cultures you can be able to know how far these people have gone in life.
When uh the white people used to say that Africans are primitive and they came to West Africa when they discovered the Nok culture their Nok statues and the Benin bronzes they knew that these people are not um barbaric people they are very very advanced based on the kind of cultural artifacts that they see that these people have been producing.
Same thing in Kemet.
It was so glaring that they have to lie that it is aliens that did this. African people cannot do this. They are so dull.
How can they be able to design sculptures and pyramids with laser precision?
Where do they have the tools? How did they get this technology?
It is impossible. It has to be aliens that built Egypt.
Many white people believe this Because they don't want to they don't want the news to go out that Africans that they are saying that they are backward can never have the knowledge to do such kind of things.
So, your culture can be a way of showcasing your ingenuity to showcase your wisdom, your advancements.
It is a very good vehicle for just that kind of thing.
When you look at some culture of some people, we know that we we have also primitive tribes.
So, if I give example of some people now, they will say I mean, insulting them.
The people that are chasing other people in South Africa.
Those people, the Zulu people wearing animal skin and spreading their leg on the jumping and marching ground. If you look at those idiots now, you will know that their culture you cannot compare it with many other cultures in some part of Africa like West Africa, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, and even Kemet. You when you Okay, show me your hard work.
You will find that that those people don't have hard work that show an advanced level of ingenuity. I'm not insulting them, oh, please. Not because they are chasing people away from their country, oh.
I have no quarrel with them. It's their country. If you want to chase people away, by all means, chase people away.
It's your business. If I say I want to chase people from my house today, nobody should complain because it's my house.
So, I respect their wish, but I'm just using their culture as an example, not because I hate them. I don't hate them.
There are many good people in South Africa. I agree.
They have a right to chase anybody they want to chase. It's their own cup of tea.
But, if you look at some aspect of their culture uh compare it to a culture like the Benin culture in Nigeria.
When you see the artwork of Benin, you see Benin bronze, you see Benin sculptures, you see Benin uh carving tree, you see their woodwork.
And you look at another tribe that is chasing people out of their country.
You will find out that one culture, they are both from Africa, but this one culture seems to be more uh more scientific, more well-grounded. They are They seem to have more intelligent than another people that is doing that kind of rubbish.
When you look at the Kemetic culture, now when you see their pyramids, you see their statues, you will know that yes, these people they going to You see Sudan, ancient Sudan, Kush.
Kush even predates Kemet. Many people don't know that.
Many people don't know that there are over 250 pyramids, mini pyramids in in Sudan.
Pyramid building did not just start up in Kemet. It started in Sudan.
We even have some pyramids, ancient pyramids in Nigeria.
It didn't start one day. People perfected the art.
When you check some cultures in ancient Africa, you will find out that some cultures, due to their artwork, they they are more advanced than some other people that you will want to classify as hunter-gatherers. For instance, those bushmen, Khoikhoi tribe, they don't have their hearts work.
You're not going to even find any heart work.
They get the most some of the language architecture everything seems to be at a very minimal level.
When you see the way the people they run things, you going to say these people they are brain never go far like that for life.
They never evolve for they never advance. They don't have any kind of innovation.
Scientific innovation or ingenuity to do better yet. They still there like um normal level.
But when you see some other cultures, you will know that here these people they have gone far.
This is how life is. Life is on stages.
Those people that we are talking about now like those the ancient Benin people of Nigeria or Kemet people or there was a time they were like those hunter-gatherers.
There was a time that they started from somewhere.
Okay?
Their culture did not just But as they begin to mature in life they start growing advancing to the point that we met them before all this colonization rubbish started taking place.
So what am I trying to say here is that um from people's culture arts and culture you can be able to understand their level of scientific development and spiritual development and mental development. It is very very true.
So when I meet a new people or a new I study their art. I actually go to museums. I am one of the few Nigerians that when I travel to somewhere I will go to your museum. I will go to your shrine to go and look to study. I like to work out.
What I'm going there to do is to know more about the people so that I can understand where they are coming from.
When I go to a cultural festival, I don't just go there to I go there to see if I can learn something new.
My aim is to extract the science from the culture. Extract the science from the tradition.
This is the way I look at it.
So, when you see me in all those places, I go there to see other people can be dancing, doing their ooh la la la la and the rest.
But, my own way of seeing going there is to see the scientific ingenuity behind the spirituality of where science and spirituality connects or what these people are trying to showcase, what kind of knowledge are they depicted in the cultural dance or in the hearts and culture.
This is how you can know more about the people.
Many people you see them in Nigeria today, they will tell you they are from a particular land, a particular place.
People can lie all the time, but if you want to really catch them to find out where they come from, trace their spirituality.
Find out where the deities they are venerating come from.
A lot of people will lie that we are indigenous to a certain part of land, but the deity ask them which deity are you venerating? What is your original deities?
Immediately they mention those deities, don't listen to them. Just trace the origin of those deities.
You can easily know where those people migrated from.
This is how I trace a lot of migrating pattern of people.
They can lie about their place, but they don't They have always forget to lie about the things that the juju that they worship.
You ask them, "Which juju that they worship? Where did juju come from?"
You will know where the people from come.
You will know if that deity was imported or or if the deity or is organic. Very easy to trace the origin of people by following their spiritual footstep.
This is part of the arts and craft of those people. They cannot deny it.
How do you separate the red Indians of America from the so-called pre-grims?
The colonizers that are calling themselves pre-grims, people like the Donald Trumps of America.
It is obvious.
They came to invade America with the Bible.
They came from Europe.
Now, they will lie that this is our land. We are original living land. You is not original. America is not your home. Go back to where you come from.
You are a foreigner in this land.
Your religion shows you you are a bloody Christian. You don't know anything about the spiritual um uh system of the indigenous people of the so-called red Indians, more ox of that land. You don't know it. You cannot know it. You are not part of You are not from there.
It's easy.
Very easy.
So, we can see this in our different situations in different parts of the world.
Your hats depicts your spiritual practice.
Comes with it. Same thing with Arab.
The Arab people, the Africans claiming to be Muslims now.
How did Islam got into Africa? It came by Arab invasion.
Now, many Hausa people in northern Nigeria will swear that they are Muslims.
Your parents were colonized by the religion. They were forced to become Muslims. It's as simple as that.
This is how um Africans became Muslims.
We were not original Muslim. It came from uh Mecca, from Saudi Arabia.
We know all these things.
So, tracing the deity of a people is very, very important.
The art form that you see, that they are venerating, the art form, the language, comes with the religion, the culture.
All these are important.
So, for we African people to come up again, we must promote our culture. If you don't promote your culture, your culture will die.
Most African people make the mistake of promoting other people culture. This is what is killing us in Africa.
We instead of us our artworks, we don't do them anymore.
We don't create artworks anymore. Our dresses, we don't even wear them anymore. Our language, we don't speak it anymore. Our deities, we say they are demons. We are happy to kill and burn our ancestral shrines with our own hand.
What is happening is cultural assassination we are doing to ourselves.
We are destroying ourselves with our own hands.
This is what is happening.
Destroying our hearts.
Now that we are waking up little by little, you have to start coming back showcasing your artwork.
This is why I take the pain of actually going out to invest in cultural development in my community.
In my own life, I went out I if I have a lot of money, I would buy a lot of artworks.
When I went to the after festival, you know, the after cultural uh center in Abuja, I saw a lot of our indigenous artifacts that are on on the sale.
A lot of foreigners are buying those things and taking it out of Africa.
I saw indigenous cultural masks for my own culture.
Something that I cannot find in my state.
I was shocked to see these masks on sale in the cultural market.
If I have money, I would have loved to buy it back and bring it back to my state, but I don't have enough money. I don't know if they have sold it. I saw cultural artifacts from so many cultures in in Nigeria for sale to anybody that can buy it.
When people buy this stuff and take it out from the country, we lost it forever.
And most of these things we look so common, they contain the spiritual composition of years of knowledge, wisdom, ingenuity, and of course the spiritual essence of the community.
Because these items, they have been kind of they have participated in so many ritual ceremonies over the years. So they have accumulated a lot of residual memory.
So these items, they are like memory cards that contain a lot of spiritual energy of the people that have been using them.
So when you take this kind of items from the community, it's like an integral part of the community have disappeared that they can never get back.
So one thing the colonizers did when they came to Africa, they stole so many of our uh our cultural artifacts and they take it to their museums, it's like they are like stealing the souls, stealing the history. Whoever steal your history can easily manipulate your your future, stealing the soul essence of the community.
Imagine having a something like this.
Let me give an example of a uh artifact like this.
Maybe for the last uh 500 years, the old community have centered their their worship or deification on this particular objects.
So what happens that each time they come to say prayers, do their rituals, maybe pour libation, kill their fowls, spill the blood or something, the the artifact will be accumulating all those residual energy, all those memories. It will become if you are serving it with the veneration, the reverence that I've been giving to it, it now becomes like a a memory card or a battery that holds that collective consciousness of the people that have been making contact with it.
So, with time, this artifact will now become like a very central or integral piece of the community of that very village or kingdom that they they have it in. So, it will contain a a a large portion of soul essence of those people that have been making contact with it.
So, imagine this thing to be like 2,000 years old. Meaning for the last 2,000 years, it has been recording the spiritual consciousness activities, interactions of the people that have been making contact with it in that community.
So, when this object is not taken away from the community, somebody come and they stole it and they take it to Europe and they sell it.
What do you think happens to that community?
The community will feel lost.
They will feel shocked and confused.
Something that we have built our life around is a focal point for us.
We When we have for When we have problems, we go there, we close our eyes, we meditate, and we get the solution.
It's now kind of holding a spiritual essence of all our ancestors that have died before us. It is their embodiment because they have also made contact with it.
People that have gone before, they now use the object as a point of contact to relate with people that are currently on the physical plane. So, that object is like a gateway.
It's also like a battery.
Also like a memory card for holding the consciousness of the community for the 2,000 over 2,000 years. Now, when such an item is taken away the community will have a hard time making contact with those ancestors that have gone before them.
They will feel lost and empty for some time.
And of course if we take them a lot of time to be able to create an object like this, they can never create an object like this anymore because it is unique.
So, when you remove the central deities from the communities, you steal them.
This is what happens. It's like a certain part of the community have been lost.
When you remove that picture, you remove that object, you remove that status, you destroy it, you burn it, or you steal it, you have steal a portion of the soul.
You have steal a portion of the history of that community.
You have intervened.
And you have caused a kind of imbalance in that community in the in the life of those people.
This is what happens to what happens to Africa.
What happened to a lot of villages when our artifacts were stolen like this.
We were cut off from our source in a way.
What this will bring is imbalance. It will bring sadness. It will bring sorrow. It will bring depression. It will bring trauma.
The community can no longer be complete.
Just like you have somebody in your family and you say that the person died.
That family will not be complete anymore.
This is what happened to us when these objects were stolen.
And till now we are still suffering. We are still missing them.
So, that's why you see some people calling for bringing back repatriation of these objects. We really need them back.
For us to reconnect back to them for it to bring that focus back to the community.
We need those objects back in Africa. It is part of us, part of our soul, part of our community.
We need it. We need them.
Where they are taking to they are held hostage because the people that are holding them hostage, they are not connected to the objects.
No matter how hard they try, they can never connect organically to those objects because it's not made by them.
It is not their own.
But they want to force themselves to connect to it by force.
This is the way most of these white people do claiming, "Oh, we are all from Africa. We are all children of Africa.
We must take it. We have a right to snatch the object and whether I like like it or not, the object must work for us."
This is the way they do it.
But the original people, even if it work for you, it will not work more like the way it will work for the original people that created it.
This is what you need to know.
Same thing with the Jesus that they bring to us.
Now they have given us Jesus.
But yet we are still suffering.
Imagine the person that have the created the Jesus and the person that is giving the Jesus, who do we the Jesus work for more?
Is the slave master that gave you Jesus and the slave. The slave is praying for freedom.
Why the slave master is praying for more power to oppress the people he gave it to? How can a slave master and a slave cannot worship the same God?
The God will only answer to the people that originally created it because they were create they created with their own image and spiritual essence. They create it to help them to uplift themself.
They created for their own benefits.
To make themselves prosperous and dominance. This is why they create that deity.
So, the deity will naturally work for them because the deity is their image.
It will work for them more than the African people.
When the African people pray to the Jesus Christ for freedom, they will get more bondage.
Instead of them pray to the organic ancestors that they have the blood connection to, they're praying to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that you have no DNA connection to. So, if the real children that have the DNA connection of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is praying, and the other children that does not have that blood connection is praying, who do you think Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will listen to first?
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will first listen and answer the prayer of the people that contain that have their blood DNA inside them.
First, because those are his original children, his biological children, both biological and spiritual.
Before he will say he want to listen to the people that are not his biological children. So, these African Christians and Muslims here are short changing themselves.
For a deity to work for you, you it has to be created in your image.
By yourself, by your hands, by your own people for your deity to work for you effectively.
Your own ancestors are your team players because you are the physical representation of them.
If they don't help you, if you don't even help your own children, a stranger won't help your children.
It's not possible now. Check out.
It's not clear.
So, this is the mistake we are making in Africa.
For we to come back to the roots, our ancestors must be our primary assignments.
Taking them first, our indigenous deities. Our indigenous arts and culture, we must start promoting them.
The way other people are promoting their own and using their own to oppress you, they must also see your own. So that it will not look like you are a homeless or a fatherless child.
People will not respect you when you don't have your own originality in this world. This is why racism is still very strong. Many Africans are complaining of racism.
As far as you are still a Muslim or a Christian going to church every Sunday and you fighting race, you are not You are the one promoting racism. The white man will never respect you.
A white man will not give you language, give you shirts, give you a technology technology. Then the worst thing, even your own spirituality not even still give you.
And yet you want to claim equality with him. How now? You will never be equal with him because you are a caricature of him. You will always come second place to him because you have proved that you are totally inferior. You have no originality, zero originality inside you because everything you have, he gave it to you.
This is where we are. Our African people will not listen. Even if we take things from the white man, our spirituality must remain our spirituality. We should not take that one.
Which must be yet his spirituality and carry our own spirituality.
This is the only way he will respect us.
This is what the Chinese people did.
Yes, they took a lot of things from the Western world, but their spirituality, it is still their spirituality. This is how Chinese people have been able to remain strong. This is how the Indian people did it. They took things from them, but their Indian Hinduism is still their Hinduism. Japanese people, the same thing. The Thai people, the same thing. When it comes to Africa, we accept everything including its spirituality gave to us. That's why we are its intentional permanent slave.
As far as you accept everything from him, you cannot claim equality with him.
It cannot be will not be possible.
After everything, we just look you call them in the phone. What are you? You are a caricature or a caricature is a caricature.
A photocopy is a photocopy. If this is an original document now, then I photocopy 20 of it. The original one is still more important than the 20 copies or the 50 million copy that I photocopy from the document. This is the way it is.
So, the original one I will still value it more. I will still keep it. This is why original document they are held in high esteem.
Original and photocopy is not the same.
What the African people have done now we are photocopies of them because we have destroyed our own originality. There's nothing original to us anymore. When you as a black man have accept every single thing the white man have give you, you are not a black person anymore. You cannot be an African. This is what led to the term we have called Negropian.
Because that kind of people have no originality anymore.
You accept his clothes, you accept his language, you accept his culture, you accept everything. Even you the spirituality you accept. Then what are you? You are no more African now.
You are just a wannabe European.
Simple.
If it's possible for you to bleach your skin, you will bleach your skin. We know.
But many of them not get money to bleach skin. It's expensive.
And that of death sentence, they not will bleach their skin. But many of these African people if they know that bleaching their skin will not make them die, will not give them skin cancer, the way I see it, Africans will do it.
If a technology comes tomorrow that you can bleach your skin to white and you will not have melanoma, you will not have the effects that affected Michael Jackson, a lot of these Negro people will do it in a heartbeat.
Because they hate themselves so much.
They have no identity. They want to be white by every means necessary.
These are the ones that will be the ultimate defenders of Christianity.
The ultimate defenders of white supremacy.
The ones that are coming to fight me on this channel every day.
Not them. No worry. I will buy bleaching cream for them.
Maybe when I need a little small money I get, I will buy bleaching cream and make them go.
Make we get peace. Make them all go join them.
Maybe it will reach that level one day.
So, this is where we are with art form.
When you expose yourself to certain art forms, it can control you, it can manipulate you.
It will change your life and your world view.
So, it is a very important that we surround ourselves with our own African art form.
The ones that they have taken from us, if we can bring them back, we should bring them back.
Put back in our community.
Making the central focus.
So that our youth, our future, our children can see these artworks, can also communicate comm- communion or contact with it and get the inspiration from our from their ancient ancestors to do greater things in the future.
This is why go back into the heart. Well, I have a lot of heart stuff in my home.
And I will still get more.
I won't do trade, I buy, I sell.
People in Africa, people that want heart form, I sell some for them because I need them. They are very important.
Pictures, statues, elements, queries, the culture, the deities, all of them are very, very important. We must surround ourselves with all these things. All this our African iconography, it is part of the veneration. It houses the spirits.
It houses the soul essence of our deities, our elemental spirits, our elemental being. And it helps to showcase, promote, and preserve our spiritual identity and culture.
All these are the elements that preserve it. All these things you look from the skull to the statues, to everything, to all these ones, they are We are preserving the culture with all these items, whether you like it or not.
So, you must have them.
Very, very important, integral to your spiritual development.
Have them. The more you have them, the more the older they they have, the more valuable they have.
This is how it is.
Okay. So, you I want you to guys to consider this, that heart is very, very important. It's a way for measuring the spiritual development, scientific advancements, or alignment of a group of people. And it's also for connecting with your spiritual essence in rituals. We do, we present them, we uh connect with the deities as gateways to the spirit realms.
Very, very important.
important.
All these things very, very important.
So, the importance of them, in fact, cannot be overemphasized.
Okay. [snorts] So, this is what I want to talk today.
Uh I hope that I'll be able to make this clear with this uh simple examples.
Questions and comments are welcome, as usual.
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Now, we are waiting for the students.
So, this is what it is. So, I thank you all for being here today. I'm very happy and delighted. And of course, if any of you have not gotten any of my books yet, it is always there. And I know say I go talk about them before.
I have no go waste time to to not take advantage of this opportunity.
This one, the latest one on ancient sacred Yoruba spirituality, for people that want to know about organic African spirituality from West Africa, this book will help you.
In this book, I focus on two major deities, primordial deities, which is Olokun and Ogun.
If you want to know how to venerate Olokun, the primordial mother of life, of all mother of the ocean, mother of divinity, this book will help you venerate her.
I give the principles or the steps that you need to do.
Ogun is also here, the god of technology, fire, war, blood, innovation.
You need to know about Ogun in this day and age. Ogun is a very active deity.
Ogun is a king spirits, uh very powerful.
Ogun will help you to open your eyes to how to advance and develop your spiritual developments.
Ogun is that deity that you will find where science and spirituality meets.
The deity of the black panther, you see the black panther movie, is also a a symbolism of Ogun.
This is a deity we call the uh Ologbo sharing, you know, Nigeria. Ologbo meaning cats, king of cats, or a cat with nine life. You know, the cat doesn't die. Ologbo means it's black.
Obia Obia, black Ologbo cats.
So, the essence of this book is to give you that wisdom, that dark ancient melinated wisdom to elevate your African consciousness, to bring you online.
This is the essence of this book.
So, for people that want to improve or advance their spiritual development, you need to buy this book. Then, this one is on plasma physics.
Plasma physics is that physics that talks about the plasma realm. In science, we have what they call matter.
And the the thing matter can be defined as anything that have weight and occupy space.
And they also told us that we have three main type of matter, which is solid, liquid, gas.
Now, there's a fourth state of matter, which they call plasma, which they don't normally teach in the primary and secondary school.
Plasma physics is that highest level of physics in the world because plasma physics talk about the study of things you cannot see with the naked eye, but they are part of nature.
Example of plasma energies or plasma object is your sun. Your sun, the sun we see every day is a giant plasma generator.
The most powerful plasma generator, without the sun, we will not be here.
The sun is our father who art in heaven.
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
That your Lord's prayer is an ancient Egyptian or Kemetic prayer from Africa of worshipping or venerating the sun.
The sun is a deity. We know that without the sun, we will not be here. So, the sun is our father.
The earth is It's mother, and we are the children.
So, plasma physics will make you know about the secret of the sun.
How the sun generates its energy. This is the wisdom that the colonizers have been hiding from you.
When they tell you they have nuclear plant, nuclear reactors, blah blah blah, fusion.
They study the sun to create those nuclear fusion reactors.
It's how the sun generates its energy.
Same principle that they simulated to create a plasma fusion generator or reactor.
So, you need to know about plasma physics because this plasma physics is the physics that will give you power to knowledge of unlimited power.
Power to create engines that you can use to run forever, to create starships, shuttles that can go to space, to travel from galaxy to galaxy without refueling.
Have you ever seen anything come to pump gas in the sun?
The sun generates its own energy and recycles it.
This is the science that will make man ultimate god of the universe.
And we are going there, and we will get there, and we will do we'll very soon within the next 10 years we'll conquer this plasma physics. We'll start making plasma energies, and we'll be going to space like we're going to London or we're going to to to to to any part of the world. Once we have those plasma engines in place, people will be going to space on a on a daily basis.
We will get there. Don't worry, it's our destiny to go there. Plasma physics is what will take us there. So, you need to study it. And guess what? The origin of plasma physics is from African spirituality.
So, African spirituality is not about um killing fowl and doing all those local local things that people will try to tell you. It's advanced science.
So, you need to know it. So, the book is here, the knowledge. This is the first book written on plasma physics in the history of Africa.
Before you plasma physics, you need to know quantum physics.
Quantum physics studies the visible and invisible invisible particles of nature.
So, we move from quantum realm to plasma realm.
So, these two go together. That is why I write this book for people to understand this knowledge.
So, it will help you. If you don't have these two books, please have it. You will only get it here.
Okay. Now, let me be seller.
So, the knowledge is here.
We're still waiting for the students.
This one is on herbs. If you want to know about herbs, various herbs that can help you to treat different kind of illnesses.
These remedies are here.
All diabetes and arthritis, high blood pressure, so many kind of things.
Many Many herbs are here. Even the herbs you have not been able to fully research them to their capabilities. I need people to come into this study to continue from where I I am.
We need more people. We are living in the plant kingdom as well, the animal kingdom, the mineral kingdom. There are a lot of things to know.
So, science and spirituality goes together.
So, you need this book. If you have not have it, then the last but not the least, uh which part of our main tape pathways to ascension.
This one is for people that uh want to uh make contact with African deities.
They don't know who to teach them.
I wrote this book as a green wall.
It's a spiritual textbook for you to be able to create an altar to make contact with the deities by yourself without any middleman.
So, all the instructions are here. Very powerful book. I put a lot of pictures.
This is the use of hearts. When they say using artwork, the pictures here we only take your minds to where I want you to go.
So, the pictures in this book, they are very good. I use make use of pictures here to transport the consciousness of the user into the realm of the deity.
So, you see the importance of art in spirituality.
The spiritual symbols here that I put in this book, they are so many to take you there. Just by reading the words, reading the book, and looking at the images, you're already connected to the deity.
So, you see where art is involved in spiritual essence. So, this is a very powerful book.
The first green wall out of Nigeria that is authentic, original, organic, and it takes you there.
So, you need this knowledge for your spiritual development. A lot of pictures are here.
I really go deep into this the world there to tear this knowledge tear it from the fabric of all the spiritual essence. So, this book will take you there. Powerful book. When you hold it, it opens a gateway for you.
Which part of our main thing is here?
So, if you don't have any of these books, avail yourself. The knowledge is here.
So, you don't have excuse that nobody told me anything, nobody gave me anything. Uh story story in our day.
Yeah, we deal with knowledge, facts, and wisdom on this channel.
Okay, we don't waste time here to beat around the bush. So, if you're ready to learn, I there. Now, we the runner.
You can also join my program. I have a 6-month program where I teach African spirituality from the history, science, metaphysics, the hardcore spirituality. We have beginner program, we have intermediate, we have advanced.
Anyone that you choose based on your spiritual level of progression, there's something for everybody.
Register for my program, join. When you buy my books, you register, you're also supporting me to make African spirituality grow.
You're also doing your part, your contribution and development.
And all the ancestors will be happy with you, too. The spirits that is helping me to bring all these things, they will also be grateful and they will also help you, too.
To take you to that level that you want to be, that knowledge that you are looking for, that thing that you are looking for, they will also push you forward to make you that you get that thing in this life.
As well, this is the way it works.
Okay, now when hand wash hand, I both hands they clean.
So, you can support me by buying these things. So, if you want to buy your meditation beads, your spiritual soaps, I have different type of them, perfumes, ointments, candles, oh, native chalk, cowries, miraculous stone, black stone, thunder stone. I have a lot of articles, but I have a website, Rebirth of Knowledge.
You can get it there.
Or you contact me directly.
You also want to do your oracle tarot divination and consultations. I do that on this channel as well.
Apart from that, I thank you very much.
Those people that have been supporting me, I'm very happy and delighted and the ancestors will continue to bless you.
And of course, I'll be seeing you all in the subsequent videos as usual.
So, take care and bye. Peace. One love.
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