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Maa Aankh 2nd Edition Finding God The Afro American Spiritual Way By Honoring The Ancestors And Guardian Spirits
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Book Synopsis Maa Aankh (2nd. Edition): Finding God the Afro-American Spiritual Way, by Honoring the Ancestors and Guardian Spirits by : Derric Moore
Download or read book Maa Aankh (2nd. Edition): Finding God the Afro-American Spiritual Way, by Honoring the Ancestors and Guardian Spirits written by Derric Moore and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was pruned to be a preacher like his father, but when the Holy Ghost failed to save him from the drug related violence of the 1980s. He sought an alternative route and found the MAA AANKH, an Afro-American cosmology based upon Ancient Egyptian and Bantu-Kongo philosophy. In this unforgettable spiritual memoir, Moore reveals the roots of a spiritual tradition practiced in Central Africa, which originated in Ancient Egypt, as he fights his ignorance and skepticism of African spirituality, in order to overcome a generational curse, financial woes and the debilitating illness lupus.
Download or read book Maa Aankh written by Derric Moore and published by 1 SõL Alliance. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the crack cocaine epidemic hit Detroit in the mid-1980, Moore like many of his peers turned to the church to avoid the onslaught, but when the Holy Ghost failed to protect him from drug related crimes and violence. He searched for an alternative form of spirituality. After overcoming homelessness, poverty and being diagnosed with the debilitating disease lupus, he discovered an ingenious way to connect to the Divine. By drawing upon Ancient Egyptian philosophy and Afro-spiritual practices, that gave him the tools to overcome his illness and greatly improve every aspect of his life. In this easy-to-read, simple yet motivational style memoir of self-discovery, Moore the son of a preacher explains how depression and despair led him to turn his back on God, but how anyone can rekindle this relationship by learning history, recognizing their ancestors, identifying with their archetypes or spiritual guardians, and acquiring knowledge of self.
Download or read book Yemoja written by Solimar Otero and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a wide range of fields—religious studies, art history, literature, and anthropology—and focus on the central concern of how different religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora religions respond creatively to a history of colonization.
Book Synopsis Honoring the Ancestors the Kemetic Shaman Way by : Derric Moore
Download or read book Honoring the Ancestors the Kemetic Shaman Way written by Derric Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have an army of benevolent spirits surrounding you? Most people do but they usually jeopardize their spiritual protection by default because they do not know what spirits are. Or, they confuse trickster spirits with their good spirits, as Derric Moore author of the best seller Maa Aankh series and The Kamta Primer, did when he got the Holy Ghost. Learn how to identify the spirits surrounding you and attract good spirits into your life so that they can offer spiritual protection, help with health matters, comfort in relationships, support with finances, an advantage with your career and assistance in your spiritual development. Honoring the Ancestors the Kemetic Shaman Way is a practical manual that teaches you: What are spirits?How to identify the different types of spirits that exist?How to venerate your ancestors and spirit guides?How to venerate totem spirits?How to perform divination with your ancestral spirits?And, much more¿
Book Synopsis Honoring the Ancestors by : Donald H. Matthews
Download or read book Honoring the Ancestors written by Donald H. Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by historians, social scientists, and literary critics in the study of African-American religion and the Negro spiritual leads him to develop a methodology that encompasses contemporary scholarship without compromising the integrity of African-American religion and culture. Because the Negro spiritual is the earliest extant body of African-American folk religious narration, Matthews believes that it holds the key to understanding African-American religion. He explores the works of such seminal black scholars as W. E. B. DuBois, Melville Herskovits, and Zora Neale Hurston, tracing the early development of the African-centered approach to the interpretation of African-American religion. This approach involves "cultural/structuralism", the author's term for the method used by DuBois, Herskovits, and Hurston that emphasizes the thick reading of narrative expressions. Such a reading allows the scholar to identify the cultural significance of particular oral and written texts and serves as a point of identification and a cultural link between African and African-American religion. Matthews' close analysis of the spiritual employs a dialectical and postmodernist reading and reveals a religious philosophy that addresses the deepest concerns and desires of Africans in America. These concerns are cultural, political, and psychological, but are ultimately related to African religious structures of meaning. This book poses a challenge to end the battle between Afrocentrists and multiculturalists by acknowledging their common intellectual heritage in the works of DuBois, Herskovits, and Hurston. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of African-American religion and culture and those interested in Afrocentric literature.
Download or read book Ancestor Paths written by Aladokun and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had an unexplained phenomena - a knock at the door but no one there; the hairs on your arm stand up, as though you're suddenly chilled; a gradual aroma rising from nowhere; an abrupt noise; a strange sensation on different parts of your body, like someone stroking your hair; or dreams of your deceased loved ones? These are just a few examples of how your ancestors and spirit guides may be trying to gain your attention. Are you curious, WHY? Perhaps the world is divided into two kinds of people; those who can only fathom the solid material life (the visible world) and those who perceive that there is an active spiritual presence (an invisible reality) operative in most of our lives. Whether this perception is faint or fully actualized, the book Ancestor Paths is the ultimate road map to developing a clear understanding of the spirit world and why spirits try to commune with the living. It also explains how our lives are enhanced and healed through positive interaction with spirit. This book is filled with clear, understandable information on communing with those on the other side and provides outstanding insight on how your spiritual skills and talents can be developed to aid you and your family. Ancestral reverence is as old as human beings and has always been understood as a powerful force for individual, family, cultural and community strength and stability. The Lukumi/Yoruba priestess Aladokun, illuminates how honoring your ancestors and working with your guides can add enormous clarity, direction and peace to your life. Her soothing explanations, advice, caveats, counseling, and explicit directions makes you feel as if you have the most supportive teacher in the world. In a clear and easy to read narrative, she guides us through the infrastructure of the spirit realm, helping us to understand that our divine relationships continue and supports us in our spiritual growth. This guide, newly expanded, is filled with cogent answers to some of the worse misunderstandings we all have about spirit work. She's able to remove the irrational fear we sometimes have of our ancient practices, simplifying the rules of contact for building strong spiritual relationships. No matter where you are on the belief continuum, intrepid beginner or sage spirit practitioner, the comprehensive way this guide is written will make you keep it close at hand. The basics are well covered but it also takes us deeper into the secrets of self preparation, ritual and the power of prayer. She helps us to see that this is not just a curiosity or a hobby, but perhaps the most effective way for us to evolve ourselves, our families and the world. If you're a beginner, with your heart leading you deeper into spirit connection, you won't find a better step by step primer on developing your skills and natural talents. If you're an experienced spiritualist/practitioner, you'll be inspired in all new ways with newly added prayers, quotes and anecdotes that strengthen your understanding of why this work is sacred and the most important work that we do; the perfect book to support your work in guiding your students, clients, and godchildren on their spiritual path. And for the curious, you'll get an honest rendition about spirit life, gain some powerful insights, and, hopefully, become inspired by the stories and processes as revealed by an authentic priestess, Aladokun. Lastly, Ancestor Paths is a tribute to all divinities within the universe that continue to guide, bless, and elevate our souls towards higher consciousness and enlightenment.
Download or read book Kamta written by Derric Moore and published by 1 SõL Alliance. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Derric Moore became deathly ill due to the debilitating dis-ease lupus, the last thing he wanted to do, was to accept that it was "God's will." He needed something new and he needed something fast! So he appealed to God for help, and his ancestors and guardian spirits responded by giving him a spiritual system based upon Ancient Egyptian (Kamitic) theology and Afro-spiritual practices, which he used to improve his health. In this practical guide that approaches Kamitic philosophy from a shamanistic perspective, you'll learn how: -To tap into the Power of God within you - How to effectively pray and get your prayers answered - How we subconsciously make our bodies ill, but with a little effort can improve our overall health - How to change your dreams - Foretell the future through divination - Build sacred space to attract positive influences into your life - And, much, much more.
Book Synopsis Creole Religions of the Caribbean by : Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Download or read book Creole Religions of the Caribbean written by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions developed in the Caribbean region Creolization—the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices—is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the region. From Vodou, Santería, Regla de Palo, the Abakuá Secret Society, and Obeah to Quimbois and Espiritismo, the volume traces the historical–cultural origins of the major Creole religions, as well as the newer traditions such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism. This second edition updates the scholarship on the religions themselves and also expands the regional considerations of the Diaspora to the U. S. Latino community who are influenced by Creole spiritual practices. Fernández Olmos and Paravisini–Gebert also take into account the increased significance of material culture—art, music, literature—and healing practices influenced by Creole religions.
Book Synopsis Ancestor Reverence and Ritual by : Mignon Grayson
Download or read book Ancestor Reverence and Ritual written by Mignon Grayson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is steeped in guidance on how to delve into Ancestor reverence practices. You will come away knowing fully how to implement Ancestor reverence into your life. Altar setup, prayers, ways to connect and to communicate are included within the pages. Ancestor Reverence is an important part of spiritual development and healing. Healing of generational trauma and pain can come through connecting with our ancestry beyond the surface of mundane life. We can come to know more about ourselves and our life path from knowing our Ancestors. The ancient practices of honoring the Ancestors are coming back into our spiritual practices all over the world. This a beginner's guide that helps the reader start navigating the terrain of Ancestor veneration by learning the basics of this very beautiful and fulfilling spiritual practice. Utilizing primarily traditions from the African diaspora (Lucumi-Orisha, Yoruba, Bantu, etc) blended with the practices of Spiritism to give tools to assist in connecting with the rich legacy of the ancestors. This book is written as an act of love for our Ancestors who have been waiting for acknowledgement so that they can be helpful in bringing peace, success, stability and fulfillment to their descendants.
Book Synopsis The VAULT and the SPIRITUAL MASS. HONORING OUR ANCESTORS by : Mariela Alban Oni Yemaya
Download or read book The VAULT and the SPIRITUAL MASS. HONORING OUR ANCESTORS written by Mariela Alban Oni Yemaya and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VAULT AND and the SPIRITUAL MASS. HONORING OUR ANCESTORSSpiritual World, Spiritual Guides, Guardian Angels. Mediums. Selected Songs and Prayers.By Mariela Albán - Oní YemayáThe practice of the Spiritual Vault and Spiritual Masses has acquired a lot of autonomy and relevance within the cultural life and popular religiosity of the people of the Caribbean, Central and South America, particularly in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, among others. . It is noteworthy that its practice has spread to northern countries such as Mexico, the United States and Canada. Likewise to some European countries. Ancestor veneration is not just a system where ritual actions are involved. This embodies the historical soul of a family, the ancestral lineage. Therefore, the best way to learn it should be through an alagba lagba elder (that is, someone who has been doing it for much longer than us) who shares his knowledge from person to person, which is the traditional way of transmitting information about how and why. However, not all of us have someone from our tradition within reach who can provide us with such help, so we sometimes find ourselves unable to find reliable guidance. A guide may be helpful. This book can help you, but it is in no way a substitute for direct guidance from an elder. Thus, despite obtaining this book, I recommend insisting on finding a priest/priestess who can give you that help to learn. This book is for anyone who wants to delve into the practice of caring for and venerating ancestors. It doesn't matter that he is not initiated into any religion. The important thing is the willingness to want to honor his ancestors through ancestral spirit techniques, within African American religious traditions. And always have, as far as possible, the guidance of a suitable person, with the appropriate knowledge to learn how to carry out the practices of veneration of our ancestors.
Book Synopsis Rituals of Resistance by : Jason R. Young
Download or read book Rituals of Resistance written by Jason R. Young and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah. Analyzing the historical exigencies of slavery and the slave trade that sent not only men and women but also cultural meanings, signs, symbols, and patterns across the Atlantic, Young argues that religion operated as a central form of resistance against slavery and the ideological underpinnings that supported it. Through a series of comparative chapters on Christianity, ritual medicine, burial practices, and transmigration, Young details the manner in which Kongolese people, along with their contemporaries and their progeny who were enslaved in the Americas, utilized religious practices to resist the savagery of the slave trade and slavery itself. When slaves acted outside accepted parameters—in transmigration, spirit possession, ritual internment, and conjure—Young explains, they attacked not only the condition of being a slave, but also the systems of modernity and scientific rationalism that supported slavery. In effect, he argues, slave spirituality played a crucial role in the resocialization of the slave body and behavior away from the oppressions and brutalities of the master class. Young's work expands traditional scholarship on slavery to include both the extensive work done by African historians and current interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies, anthropology, and literature. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources from both American and African archives, including slave autobiography, folktales, and material culture, Rituals of Resistance offers readers a nuanced understanding of the cultural and religious connections that linked blacks in Africa with their enslaved contemporaries in the Americas. Moreover, Young's groundbreaking work gestures toward broader themes and connections, using the case of the Kongo and the Lowcountry to articulate the development of a much larger African Atlantic space that connected peoples, cultures, languages, and lives on and across the ocean's waters.
Book Synopsis Death and the Invisible Powers by : Simon Bockie
Download or read book Death and the Invisible Powers written by Simon Bockie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Bockie's] description of Kongo culture is vivid, beautifullyclear, and absolutely authentic, as only a native could make it.... I don't know ofanything of its kind that is both as good, ethnographically, and asreadable." -- Wyatt MacGaffey "Simon Bockie haswritten an engaging, often personal account of the views and behaviors surroundingdeath in his own society, the Kongo of Lower Zaire, northern Angola, and theCongo." -- Cahiers d'Etudes africaines ..". excellentbook of Kongo religious life and thought... " --Religion "It is a book that is remarkably well written, bothfor its readability and for its explanatory value.... the book is a superb startingplace for understanding Kongo religion, and will work as an introduction to Africanreligion in general as well." -- International Journal of African HistoricalStudies ..". an excellent introduction for anyone seeking tounderstand Kongo traditional culture and thought." --Oshun Rich in anecdote and case histories, Death and the InvisiblePowers is a personal account of the spiritual life of the Kongo people. It describesthe ancient traditions that nourish a culture whose name symbolizes the heart ofCentral Africa.
Book Synopsis Kongo Political Culture by : Wyatt MacGaffey
Download or read book Kongo Political Culture written by Wyatt MacGaffey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lutete devoted much of his attention to aspects of Kongo ritual and religious belief, including minkisi and the rituals for the installation of chiefs. The original text of what he had to say about chiefship is printed, with translation notes. The work of other informants is also used."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Maa written by Derric Moore and published by 1 SõL Alliance. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 42 Laws of Maat and the 10 Maat Virtues, the ancient philosophers of Kamit (Egypt) relied upon a set of shamanic principles that taught how to work the Ra (the Spirit of God), called the Seven Codes of Maa. Similar to the 7 Universal Laws, the 7 Codes of Maa allowed the Kamitic people to see science and magic as the same thing, and work them both. In this book you will learn how to discover your purpose in life, reconnect to your ancestral past, create sacred spaces, and foretell the future using ordinary objects found in nature in order to change your dreams into a reality.
Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Man and His Symbols by : Carl G. Jung
Download or read book Man and His Symbols written by Carl G. Jung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
Book Synopsis The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by : Isidore Kozminsky
Download or read book The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones written by Isidore Kozminsky and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
