No people, no village. God exists because of the community. #community #mermaid #leopard #nkita #nkimba #palo #petwo #lemba #bunzi #clan #kanda #sosyete #munanzo #tribe #krewe #ganggang #nganga #ngangankisi #bakisi #nkisi #nkisinsi #malongo #mamiwata #madreagua #motheroffishes #yemaya #lasirene #mbumba
Customs are purely human; tradition implies a direct connection to the creative. The community is a channel; natural laws cannot be broken. What’s good for the community is good for the people in it. Milk…it does a body good. #community #society #nkisinsi #bunzi #twistedroot #socialorder #sieterayos #nzazi #bossou #hevioso #sango #highjohntheconqueror #respect #kanda #clan #tribe #descentgroup #nkita #nkimba #lemba #palo #petwo #malongo #nkisi #vodou #lechero
May you enjoy well-being all the days of your life #mfumu #nkisinsi #nganga #malongo #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #nsi #kanda #community #society #clan #lineage #ocha #ifa #candomble #vodou #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #sarabanda #nzazi #nkadiampemba #bigchief
If you said Drake, you a damn liar. #findthelie #israel #palestine #majorlabels #entertainmentindustrialcomplex #illusionofchoice #blackcapitalism #hollywood #vooter #jessiejackson #kendricklamar #judasgoat #dnc #commodifiedculture #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #socialorder #community #ocha #ifa #vodou #lakouvodou #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
Atmosphère montpelliéraine de ce jour #ambiancecocooning #tranquillechezsoi #episodecevennol #gouttesdepluie illuminées par le lampadaire à l’heure bleue Merci pour ce petit goût de couette douillette en ce 1er mai pluvieux🌧️🌧️🌧️ #dana #jengu #amphitrite #thetis #tefnout #bunzi #pachamama #suijin #anahita #sarasvati #oshun #thetis #lemanja #faro #chalchiuhtlicue … « La pluie pose à terre des miroirs à étoiles. » Jules Renard
I’m not a rapper I’m a game spitter. #bigtymers #callyourmom #growup #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #vodou #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
A simbi is not a deity. But it is a living force of many in one, and, as such entitiy forces, sìmbi can all be seen like invisible channels through which the living, divine power (the natural law/order) operates. Simbi is the life principle itself, and, as such, for the Bântu people, Kôngo in particular, there is no need to worship it nor to build worship places for it. Once he reaches the age of reason, Múntu, he has at least one obligation to his simbi, the life principle that holds up everything: learn to know, accept, become, and live like it, i.e. mature to its purest nature, its “itness.“ At this level, an initiate accepts that he/she is one with the life principle, which is everything in everything seen and unseen; past, present or to come. He is one with nature, the “living-seed energy” in and around him. #simbi #mettet #soul #mpungu #orisha #lwa #prenda #path #destiny #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #vodou #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #simbasimbi #tatafukiau
Good morning, fellow human beings! #gm #findthelie #prozac #community #clan #kanda #tribe #covenant #children #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #lakouvodou #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #abakua
The covenant between community members often extends well beyond the limitations of friendship. #community #clan #kanda #tribe #covenant #ganggang #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #lakouvodou #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #abakua #sanpwel #bizango #egungun
The community is a channel, and what is good for the community is good for the people in it. Serve your community and not your self! #community #society #kanda #clan #tribe #palo #petwo #malongo #nkisi #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ocha #ifa #vodou #lakou #asogwe #sanpwel #abakua #egungun #kebekebe #nkisinsi #chief #mfumu #bakisi #sacredgroves #kumina #sanjuancongo #tijeanpetwo
Judges uphold social order under threat of violence (justice) that the village might thrive and be fruitful. The Night Watchmen punish criminals and invaders alike for the sake of the women and children (the continuity of the clan). Fertility follows order. #nkadiampemba #lungambe #lukankazi #kebekebe #egungun #zangbeto #ireme #loupgarou #bizango #sanpwel #mardigrasindians #palo #petwo #ifa #vodou #ocha #abakua #bunzi #nkimba #rara #cuba #haiti #jamaica #trinidad #venezuela #guyana #neworleans #nigeria #benin #congo
Contemporary notions of mysticism are pure projections of fantasy born of identity that preclude one’s ability to see clearly or even at all. You are, in fact, special…just like everyone else, but your belief in magic will keep you from EVER actually healing. #mysticism #magic #bologna #projectionoffantasy #bababooey #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
Any crisis within the community reflects on its leadership, and a leader who stands aloof from his people is a puppet to outside forces. #crisis #community #leadership #spit #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nzazi #sieterayos #nkadiampemba #bossou #hebiosso #baronkriminel
Consider an end to forcing your ways on nature and simply find your place within it. Owe nothing, fear nothing! You can hide from the devil but you can’t hide from God! Can’t nobody hide from God! #fortune #socialorder #witchcraft #kindoki #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nzazi #sieterayos #nkadiampemba #bossou #hebiosso #baronkriminel
May today be the last time any of us ever encounter this word and I do mean ever. Belief in magic is infantile, delusional, and mind-numbingly boring, simple as. #shamanarchist #buffonery #witchcraft #narcissism #magicalthinking #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
You must don’t know who I’m is 😭 #somebodybettertellem #chiefchief #tatamfumu #mfumumpu #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
When we seek to negate that which we oppose, we curse ourselves to live forever in its shadow. Balance is key, balance in all things! Reject the negative and embrace a life of action! #reactionaryforces #exploitation #globalism #nationalism #witchcraft #dictatorship #exploitation #usa #israel #palestine #iran #socialorder #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
Any social system beyond the village level requires the objectification and abstraction of our fellow human beings on earth. Eat, drink, and then sleep for you ignore how the village was built. Just watch and see, don’t be involved in fundamental social issues of cultural and systematic discrepancies. Don’t seek to know the regional center of driving forces for fear of being confined by these forces. #politics #globalism #nationalism #witchcraft #dictatorship #exploitation #usa #israel #palestine #iran #socialorder #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo
The self-pity of victimhood is witchcraft and dictatorship in that it results in a person sustaining themselves on the sympathies and energies of other people through the power of emotional manipulation like some very real vampire. #victimhood #vampires #witchcraft #dictatorship #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #bantu #kongo #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #blade #kingkong #juicyj #neworleans
Like suicide, the desire to free one’s self from the cycle of death and rebirth is but the pleasure-seeking behavior of the uninformed. #death #rebirth #cycle #time #suicide #ghosts #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #loango #bantu #kongo #ndundu #mbaka #ocha #ifa #santeria #arara #vodou #asogwe #candomble #kumina #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #neworleans #caribbean
When I consider how many projects I have at hand and factor in how old I’ve already become, it’s clear that the notion I ever had anything even remotely close to what people call “free time” was nothing more than pure fantasy born of delusion. Balance is possible, thank goodness, but not until you seek it. #balance #kinenga #momentum #work #freetime #leisure #daysoff #slavery #pleasureseeking #desire #lack #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #malongo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #sanctifiedchurch #spiritualbaptist #briyumba #viliyumba #lucero
To embrace action is to become one of history’s actors; to embrace reaction is to become a slave. #action #nganga #doer #healing #reactionaryforce #slavery #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #malongo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #sanctifiedchurch #spiritualbaptist #briyumba #viliyumba
All too often today, people are told that conflicts and violence are inappropriate in a healthy society, but real healing, in fact, implies a willingness to confront volatile forces that would otherwise overcome the life of a human being. It is in this spirit that we HUNT DOWN imbalance, ATTACK loneliness, and MAKE WAR on disease. Healing implies conflict. #healing #conflict #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #malongo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #sanctifiedchurch #spiritualbaptist #briyumba #viliyumba
Watching people you’ve known your whole life continually choose slavery and death can be very difficult, but it does get easier over time. #friendship #capitalism #secularhumanism #materialism #idealism #magicalthinking #powerlessness #choices #lack #desire #slavery #death #palo #petwo #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #malongo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #sanctifiedchurch #spiritualbaptist #briyumba #viliyumba
tfw when a vampire witch wanna wind up in a ditch #witches #witchcraft #vampire #werewolf #loupgarou #cannibalism #witchfindergeneral #palo #petwo #vodou #lemba #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #asogwe #lakouvodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #candomble #umbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #blackhawk #nkadiampemba
Imagine all the people lol #profanity #peace #action #life #healing #metaphysics #community #culture #palo #petwo #vodou #lemba #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #asogwe #lakouvodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #candomble #umbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #blackhawk
Healing and metaphysics are to be experienced and not learned intellectually. Culture is an act and not an identity. To embrace action seeking balance always is to live. I was once a tiny acorn, but I am now a mighty oak with branches that reach to heaven. A thing of beauty is a joyful river. God exists because of the community. #action #life #healing #metaphysics #community #culture #palo #petwo #vodou #lemba #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #asogwe #lakouvodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #candomble #umbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #blackhawk
No one. #selfpity #manipulation #entitlement #victimhood #dictatorship #witchcraft #community #palo #petwo #loango #bantu #kongo #bavili #viliyumba #lembanzau #sarabanda #luceromundo #cholawenge #vodou #ocha #asogwe #lakouvodou #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #ifa #candomble #mbanda #kumina #spiritualbaptist
Self-reliance is witchcraft. One day there is literally no one to help you but yourself, and the next thing you know, you find that it’s still true. How embarrassing for you! #witches #witchcraft #individualism #selfreliance #community #palo #petwo #loango #bantu #kongo #bavili #viliyumba #lembanzau #sarabanda #luceromundo #vodou #ocha #asogwe #lakouvodou #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #ifa #candomble #mbanda #kumina #spiritualbaptist
ANYONE looking to be initiated at solstice needs to make arrangements with us now. #initiation #summersolstice #fathersday #lemba #tiemblatierra #danballah #obatala #community #palo #petwo #loango #bantu #kongo #bavili #viliyumba #lembanzau #sarabanda #luceromundo #vodou #ocha #asogwe #lakouvodou #nkita #bunzi #nkimba #ifa #candomble #mbanda #kumina #spiritualbaptist
That witchcraft ain’t it, fam. All that lack is trash, fam. Your website is trash, your merch is trash, fam. Nobody wants to join your live, fam. Y’all hatin’ ass weirdos lyin’ on yourselves, fam. Catch up with your kind, mane. Your overconfidence is adorable. Wash yo’ face and hands! Cry for mother! #haters #hate #hating #lack #desire #envy #witchcraft #kindoki #nkita #lemba #bunzi #nkimba #palo #petwo #ocha #asogwe #ifa #vodou #kumina #candomble #mbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #kanda #ancestors #nkulu #bakulu #ngolo #kundu
The community is a channel, and what goes will come back. People today, however, are so entrenched in the material conditions of their own lives that they often fail to see how their personal choices do affect their entire community of the living and the dead and its ability to function properly in health, wealth, and longevity. “Bad luck” is nothing but imbalance solidified, and when you tend to your ancestors, you tend to yourself. Good fortune and fertility follow social order within the community. #nkita #lemba #bunzi #nkimba #palo #petwo #ocha #asogwe #ifa #vodou #kumina #candomble #mbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #kanda #ancestors #nkulu #bakulu #ngolo #kundu
Most people would avoid death but make conscious decisions every day that contradict this fact. But death is real if anything is, and a healthy balance between life and death is crucial to living to one’s fullest capacity and potential. #life #death #coin #change #community #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
Within the community, everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Everyone else is welcome to listen and learn. #grievances #listenandlearn #community #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
Many people wait to take their medicine until they feel better like waiting to eat until they stop feeling hungry. Many such cases. #backasswards #cartbeforethehorse #community #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
Like going to the hardware store for milk, many people will often go online to try and learn metaphysics, but any real metaphysics can only be learned by experience. People will meet where they meet in this glorious and postmodern world, of course, but once they do, real families and communities are built here on earth in the terrestrial on the strength of shared experiences. #community #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
When we focus on the past we feel resentment, anger, and regret; when we focus on the future we feel worry, anxiety, and fear. Failure to live in the present often results in physical maladies and material hardships that can be very difficult to surmount. Be present and live forever in the moment! Process the past and plan for the future, but remain ever present. #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
Embarrassing/frightening how many people today literally identify with their own facades, but gross materialists will always suffer in very predictable ways. #grossmaterialism #individualism #humanism #liberalism #totalitarianism #aesthetic #death #thereal #metaphysics #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #obeah #candomble #lukumi #asogwe #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #nkisi #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #ngolo #kundu
Me, I love gossip, because when people gossip, I get to see who will entertain gossip. Tongues wag and they always will. I love gossip. #gossip #ngangalemba #ngangankisi #tatankisi #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
If a person would receive Lemba, first they must suffer an affliction, for Lemba manifests itself in his body by making it ill. Then they must send a boy with chicken and wine to the Lemba priest. The priest will mix Mpolo [earth] into a small pot and send it to the sufferer. When the sufferer has drunk the Mpolo Lemba and improves they then become a Lemba Child and the priest a Lemba Father. Then [the Father] sends two chickens to the Lemba Child whose mouth was cleansed with the Mpolo, and instructs them in considering a day for putting Lemba into their body [for initiation]. For whoever drinks Mpolo will be initiated; they must be in command of fortunes. Therefore the Lemba Child will begin assembling many pigs, chickens, and other edible animals for the day of initiation. Then they send a messenger to the Lemba Father that he should come initiate his Child. In other words, if you have been helped by the medicine of the community, we’re all to understand that you are marked for initiation and that you can, indeed, be helped. #initiation #mpolo #lembachild #lembafather #ngangalemba #ngangankisi #tatankisi #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. #revelation12v12 #goodfriday #inhabitersoftheearth #thedevil #thewrathofgod #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #baronkriminel #nkadiampemba
Me got di stopper, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stopper To every DJ, dem haffi talk to me proper Say, galang Cutty Ranking gwan go kill them with the lingua Tell you Cutty Ranking him full up of a stamina London, Paris, even California Down a Japan, or me gone down a Africa Down a New Zealand, or even inna Canada Yes a Cutty Ranks, mi a go kill you with di culture Ram up every crevice, mi a go rule every corner Galang Cutty Ranks, Lord, you hot like a pepper ”Pay down pon it”, it a come from Shabba ”One worl’ a gun”, it a come from the Ninja Admiral Bailey, him a obeah worker No obeah cyan catch me, ‘cause me full up of stamina Listen, Cutty Ranks, Jah-Jah know me a di danger Anyweh mi go, Lord, a roots and culture Ram up every crevice, mi a go rule every corner Settle pon di rhythm, like a any horse rider Listen Cutty Ranks deh pon di microphone center Follow me now massive and crew #cuttyranks #thestopper #goodfriday #rootsandculture #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Deviations (mvengomono) are found in all aspects of life. Their understanding is important because they can tell what we have become. They can pinpoint who is or has become dangerous in the social body. One must understand that deviations are, at once, symptoms and trends. As symptoms, they can tell, not only about the state of people’s self-healing power, but about their mind as well. As trends, on the other hand, they can tell where a specific individual, society, or the world in general is being led. Deviations are keys to world problems today. Through deviations man is creating most of his problems, such as pollution. For many it is not easy to see and understand that they are on the edge of deviation. So are groups, societies, and even governments. But maybe this might help—let’s say that if what we do or make creates fear in us and around us, it then probably is an act of deviation. Deviation from certain traditions not only hurts ethically, physically, and spiritually; it cuts us off from our unique genetic key of life: our individual self-healing power. Democratic systems are becoming more and more undemocratic, especially toward young nations—Christian values are gone; collective societies are becoming individualistic; humanistic values are yielding to terroristic behaviors—all these are fundamental deviations that affect not only the world’s balance, but individual health and self-healing power as well, a unique and freely given power, genetically passed down by parents who can warrant the strength only at the moment of conception. Once out of the belly and through the dingo-dingo (“process”) of growth, the individual learns how to keep this self-healing power in balance, kinenga. SELF-HEALING POWER AND THERAPY Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau #deviations #kanda #society #fazenda #fear #destruction #modernity #progressivism #tradition #metaphysics #theancestral #creativeforces #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
…and the same goes for religion and government; it’s all about how people treat others. #politics #economics #religion #government #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
If you think this is about you, it most definitely is. #desperation #selfpity #attentionseeking #witchcraft #objectification #entitlement #confusion #dictatorship #stuntedancestors #ghosts #witches #demons #dogma #lack #desire #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Your individualism is humanism is idealism is objectification is narcissism is witchcraft is cannibalism is not it, fam #individualism #humanism #idealism #objectification #narcissism #witchcraft #cannibalism #metaphysics #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Nobody can do better for you than you, but the community can always see farther than the individual. If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired and willing to hold yourself accountable, REACH OUT. There have only ever been two classes of people in the world—the initiated and the uninitiated. What’s good for the community is good for the people in it! #nganga #tobeoneaskone #suffering #healing #community #therapy #metaphysics #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Happy Palm Sunday, people #palmsunday #extramile #spring #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Objectivity affords one the accountability needed to fully embrace responsibility. You can do it! #objectivity #accountability #responsibility #growup #glowup #adulthood #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
A man that grows up is in the process of making history, and he enters the rank of the ancestors, those well-minded people who grew up before him. On the contrary, a man that does not grow up, the one who deviates and is not well-minded, is not in the process of making history; he enters the rank of the [nkuyu] bad ancestors, while living, the deviators, the regressive and “stunted” ancestors. #men #boys #grownmen #overgrownboys #ancestors #ghosts #nkulu #nkuyu #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
To quote my dear friend Jessie Mae Hemphill may she rest in eternal peace, “Listen, I will put my religion down, shoot you in the ass, an’ pick it right back up!” Don’t get it twisted and let your tongue write checks your ass can’t cash, but do step up if you really feel like you all that. #holleratme #hmu #partytime #letsdance #masterless #war #jazz #jazzy #jizz #njism #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Everyone is welcome within the community so long as they do not disrupt the ways of the community. One must first learn the old ways and principles if they are ever to understand the new. One accepts the community for what it is and not what one wants it to be. #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
There is no privacy in affairs. All problems related to man are social, economic, and political. And all social, economic, and political problems are problems of the peoples’ interest; they should be discussed publicly to instruct both idiot and intelligent individuals alike. #community #noprivacy #publicaffairs #socialorder #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Dem haffi talk to me proper. #thestopper #obia #wanga #kindoki #ndoki #nkondi #saintthomas #nkadiampemba #thejudge #thechief #nkisinsi #community #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
It is the community that made him/her a habitual smiler and a talkative individual, not his/her mother. Community members are born simple, nice, and good, but they become what the community wants them to be/become. The human being is a social product; he is what he eats, learns, hears, sees, feels, and lives. The actual behavior of a human being is a learned behavior. Very often one’s nature is oppressed by the society. #socialproduct #community #kanda #clan #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
To misrepresent the community is to compromise its future, so when a person fails by misrepresenting the community, they are buried alive in a public place. #mbongi #lemba #buriedinthemarketplace #community #policy #politics #nkisinsi #tatamfumu #kinzonzi #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Kanda ngongo: bankaka kwenda; bakaka kwiza. The community is a channel: people go (die), people come (are born). The community renews perpetually its members and its principles accordingly to its [fu] systems, conforming to the natural laws, that of birth and death, the theory of [makwenda-makwiza], what goes will come back, the perpetual process of change through [dingo-dingo], the constant back and forth flow of [ngolo zanzingila] living energy. It is neither comfortable nor convenient to understand, but the fear of death is a fear of living, and slavery is most definitely a choice. #community #coming #going #life #death #slavery #bondage #materialism #attachment #karma #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
Events within the community are not a rarity. Human community always has problems to confront. Life within the community is a perpetual debate. To be a community member is to be ready to confront problems. #nkisinsi #socialorder #community #kanda #problems #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
If you curse the community you curse yourself. It is uneasy for one to blame or condemn one’s community. Avoid the attack of the community against you. If you do leave the principles of the community system, you become an errant and a deviant. The loss of one’s own rights of belonging to a community (society/nation) is maybe more harmful than an imprisonment for life. #community #deviation #witchcraft #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch
If someone is trying to prove ANYTHING to you at all whatsoever, understand that they already know they ain’t shit and act accordingly. Annoying people require compassion. Maybe that’s what’s so annoying about them, and if so, well…who wants to think about why that might be? #compassion #insecurity #arrogance #medicine #goodcharacter #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #hoodoo #kumina #obeah #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #umbanda #candomble #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #viliyumba #lembanzau
I hate to break it to you, but there is no moral arc to the universe and no one is coming to your pity party. We get it, we do. To live is to suffer. So sorry. Very, very sorry. And yet, no one is coming to rescue you—not “the good guys” or “the bad guys,” not your mommy or your daddy. Your suffering is neither noble nor unique. Even the stillborn experience the fullness of life’s challenges. Get over yourself. And yes, join/build a community, but understand that even that is simply intended to help you get over yourself, witch, and embrace your place within nature instead of picturing yourself on top while underneath. You are not special. For many, this is exactly why you’re having the pity party, but we’re still not coming. At some point, all of us must come to understand that everyone must pull their own weight so as not to be a burden, and let go of the magical idea that a politician, priest, pill, spirit, or magical coconut could EVER be capable of doing your work for you. #bittermedicine #growup #doittoday #stopwaiting #stopcrying #stopbeingawitch #seekbalance #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #hoodoo #kumina #obeah #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #umbanda #candomble #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #viliyumba #lembanzau #demons #disney #magic #humanism
A demon is nothing more than a negative thought form become manifest, and dogmas reinforce themselves. Life happens, we have problems, and we live through them, but we also run the risk of feeling doomed because of what happened if we become attached/identity as victims. Self-pity sets in and we begin to tell ourselves and others “I can’t, I’ll never, it’s always this way for me, etc.” and this type of self-created demon can attract real ghosts that thrive and sustain themselves on this unhealthy need for sympathy. Working through the pain is the only way to end this unhealthy and inappropriate cycle. Have courage, and remember that you have everything you need as an adult to to end the pity party once and for all. #demons #dogmas #processing #emotions #traumas #firmlyheldbeliefs #magicalthinking #victimhood #palo #petwo #vodou #ocha #ifa #kumina #candomble #umbanda #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch #hoodoo #healing #nganga #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #pain #selfpity
Skeptics have long dismissed the practice of divination for its perceived inability to effectively predict the future, even going so far as to dedicate entire philosophical treatises to its refutation. For centuries, the uninitiated have sought to disprove what they disavow—any real and true metaphysics rooted in cosmology, cosmogony, and the fundamental understanding that this physical world is, in fact, nothing more than our perception of the metaphysical itself and the very particles that constitute this expanding/contracting universe. Particles, all vibrating under the influence of myriad natural forces that sprang forth from the initial force responsible for the “Big Bang,” i.e. pure metaphysical/creative forces manifesting in/as the physical/natural world. Now, considering that we, the living, do interact with these forces from moment to moment throughout our lives, and that they do indeed have the power to affect our ability to grow, is it so difficult to understand that traditional divination involves not some passive prediction of the future, but an active discernment of the natural forces surrounding a person at any given moment? #consultation #divination #discernment #cosmology #cosmogony #metaphysics #healing #neworleans #lemba #nkita #nkimba #bunzi #palo #petwo #ocha #ifa #candomble #umbanda #quimbanda #mbanda #kumina #obeah #obia #hoodoo #spiritualbaptist #sanctifiedchurch