The 2024 U.S. presidential election has ended, and here we are, standing at a historic crossroads. A former president has returned to the White House, and the world is watching….
Have you noticed that the word Santeria has the effects of a false passwords that quickly closes all doors when it is uttered? According to the proven Pharisee manner, Santeria…
How is it possible that becoming aware of something one can attain enlighten? How is it possible to become free from the unconscious by just being “aware”? This questions is…
Differences. How simple a word, yet how much it has divided our humanity. Is it in our nature to judge a person by the color of their skin and not…
The Odú are the sacred symbols that hold the ase (power/life force) of everything in existence.
Fate and free will do not form a dichotomy in my view. Both are a part of life. However, I subscribe to a greater level of free will than many…
I find three concepts from clinical psychology helpful in looking at some of the ways we stop ourselves from becoming whole. “Flight from wholeness” is called repression. This refers to…
Human beings, by their nature, experience conflict. That is, none of us (on this plane of existence) is so highly evolved as to have our whole act together. We are all learning and growing.
What Ifá is not… Ifá is not an Association of “Religions” Ifá is not a “Traditional” or Cultural Association Ifá is not a Secret Society or Cult. Ifá is not…
When the universe came into Being at the moment of Creation, it was Olodumare, who was given the task of sustaining all that is.
Nowhere is the profundity and beauty of African spirituality more apparent than in the Odu Ifa, the sacred text of the spiritual and ethical tradition of Ifa, which is one…
OGBE OWORIN (Day of Weeping) This is the Odu that shares why Ifa is worshiped every five days. We Babalawos give respect by performing this ritual, here and in Nigeria,…
