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I hear you loud and clear. And if that process of inward looking and asking those questions help you-and perhaps others-that’s great! Stay well.

@@poweredbynyame what I am saying is epistemology and ontology are essential to actually in a intellectually analytical coherent and substantial way are two of the most fundamental inquiries to knowledge itself and you can’t really engage with who what and how is the divine and likewise how it correlates with man and the rest of nature and creation, without engaging in these fundamental fabrics of philosophy. if you don’t go to the very bottom of knowledge and understanding and build up, you likely end up building up on not fully substantiated inferences and assumptions, and that’s just not intellectually conscience, and sometimes even honest. some of the most brilliant minds to these questions have gone insane and a very common conclusion when facing things like mortality and death is that you can’t really know and decline you can’t really know. Is it self refuting because it is inherently a lack of knowledge claim is a knowledge claim so it’s not logically coherent so we have to be able to know things for certain questions and assumptions about the world and the divine and the correlation of it all substantiate the existence of core abstractions love reason, substitute meaningful suffering truth, and the list goes on. I began to experience God years ago, but very quickly. I had these troubling questions and what really was confirmation that penetrated me to the core wasn’t the apologetics or the historical archaeological evidence of Christ, the resurrection and the crucifixion and the miracles regarding outside sources that verify them of Christ wish especially the resurrection and crucifixion is incredibly strong, but these things did not pierce the doubts I’m a poet so it makes sense. Why also, this is the reason but what really penetrated the storm in my mind was there is this thing it’s Aristotelian but also founded by the great philosopher and theologian. Thomas Aquinas is called natural law. which is because God is personal and because the God of the old and New Testament claims that he has revealed himself not just two exclusive electview but to the world more broadly. and this also would be the case just based on the pretenses of the existence of a personal God in which substantiates, inherently, objective morality and reality, and all these core abstractions in general is that you would expect him to be revealed at least to the people that contemplate and experience life on the intricate and contemplative and ruminating level to be able to go there and not be so distracted and consumed by what is trivial. And that is just the case, some of the greatest Poets an philosophers have concluded that all the core Abstractions of lice and essence of law love pain, joy, truth, and so on makes the most sense and really makes only sense out all the other religions in the person and archetype of Christ the Jesus of the New Testament, considering that many of these individuals died, horrific deaths, not with a personal bias on the matter they only had abstract experiences with this Christ through these extensions of his essence, such as love and reason and substantial suffering suffering, the action matters that actually produces wisdom wounds that make craters in the soul in the mind of depth an intricate perception as they died not Christians, which is so tragic but this this evidence not proof truth is unequivocal and indefinite evidence is likelihood, but this evidence is truly worth conjuring for academic and literary reference. I recommend a book. That thoroughly makes this case, called truth and beauty.

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Great questions. The first question depends on what you/we consider the “divine.” Based on that, then whether rules or laws deemed to be issued from that divine. Secondly, I’m saying that anything negative that we harbor, entertain and commit is a transgression against what we deem “divine law.”

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@@poweredbynyame Learning and sharing.. Thank you too bro. Bless up from Jamaica.

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@@poweredbynyame Subscribed to your channel. I stumbled across this video and saw some more of your content, I’m enjoying it man! Cheers from Camden, NJ.

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Yes, but see my Akan Diaspora book, especially the chapter on the British Caribbean for a fuller discussion.

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Yes, a destiny can be read but it’s not a simple reading because the decisions we made can stir the ship (our life) one way or the other. In other words, destinies aren’t fixed. Humans have free will and thus choices for a reason. I’ve seen numerous cases where a person’s destiny is set one way and things happen along the rough currents of the sea of life and things happen to our ship/life boat. Life is just too dynamic.

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Greetings. Great questions. I’ll try and respond in order. Since (potentially) have different ideas about initiation, I’ll put that to the side to say anyone can learn spells and ritualistic practices but not everyone can be born with (or granted) the power to achieve the goals of said spells, rituals, etc. And for those persons a human "teacher" is helpful but not required. Spiritual forces and ancestral figures can--and have taught yours truly--teach. Obayi/Obeah requires a discussion. See my "Akan Diaspora" (or Akan Pioneers, 2nd ed.) for a discussion of Obayi/Obeah. I am not sure what a "roots reading" is, though I've heard of it. But I do consultations that cover any and everything. For resources, see the about also "Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad," Volumes 1 & 2; Diane Stewart, "Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience"; "Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing," among others.

@@poweredbynyame , thank you? Are the below books?... "See my "Akan Diaspora" (or Akan Pioneers, 2nd ed.) for a discussion of Obayi/Obeah. I am not sure what a "roots reading" is, though I've heard of it. But I do consultations that cover any and everything. For resources, see the about also "Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad," Volumes 1 & 2; Diane Stewart, "Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience"; "Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing,"

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@@poweredbynyame , thank you so much. I sent you an email from your website. thanks

Good question. My argument was never about how great those practices were/are. European/white Christians were only-and not solely-one of several major actors in the global enslavement of Africans. Arab/Muslims, Indian/Hindu, Chinese/Confucius, indigenous peoples in US (among other places), and of course “Africans” and others were also involved. The matter of enslavement is bigger than a set of spiritual practices, which persisted under and outlasted the legal forms of “slavery.” See my “Transatlantic Africa,” 2nd ed for a fuller response to your question.

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Yes, purpose is very important but we can and don’t get comfort, care nor companionship from purpose. Purpose doesn’t have a soul independent of its possessor and so what do we do when our heart/soul needs the warmth and human connection from another heart/soul?

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I’m not sure I follow. Could you explain what you mean?

@@poweredbynyame They skipping through relations as soon as there's a small issue, no patience to grow and work things out. (Relationskip). Am in jamaica. Ackee is 1 of my favorite foods...eat it raw most times.

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