Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Religious fanaticism and reaction formation
In Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation is a defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites. This mechanism is often characteristic of obsessional neuroses…. My operating assumption: where there’s sanctimonious crusading about morality, there’s fire.
SOURCE : Hoodoo (folk magic) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“[In] Hoodooism, anythin’ da’ chew do is de plan of God undastan’, God have somepin to do wit evah’ thin’ you do if it’s good or bad, He’s got somepin to do wit it . . . jis what’s fo’ you, you’ll git it.”[12]
SOURCE : Ryan Lobo photography: Inside Aghora
In my best Star Wars analogy, the aghori is so pure and self-confident in belief that he purposely chooses to embrace the dark side because he knows that therereally is no dark side and thus emerges pure and good in the end. Most people would get confused on this [...]
Like its better-known cousins Voodoo and Santeria, Palo Mayombe is one of the witchcraft-oriented religions which emerged when African tribal peoples were brought to the New World with the spread of the slave trade.
SOURCE : Palo Monte Mayombe and its influence on Cuban contemporary art. – Free Online Library
Natalia Bolivar Ar6stegui’s recent publication on Palo Monte (1998:61) includes a section entitled “Nganga Cristiana? Nganga Judea?” She acknowledges that most Cubans equate this duality Duality (physics) with good and evil but explains that the reality is much more complicated [...]
SOURCE : SPIRITUALITY AND APPLIED ETHICS: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
Sacrifice is also the means by which the Yorùbá repent from moral evil. The person who has sinned or committed an anti-social act can only fully indemnify himself by first, changing his ways, and then offering sacrifices to the appropriate god. For example, because the god called [...]
SOURCE : Quimbanda – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quimbanda is an Afro-American religion practiced in Brazil. It is often also called Macumba and found mostly in urban areas such as Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Maranhão and Pernambuco. It is generally viewed as a subset of Umbanda, but may be more accurately described as representing the [...]
SOURCE : Obeah & Myal
Both Obeah and Myal allowed enslaved Africans access to this type of mystical power. Obeah and Myal traditions emphasize the relativity of good and evil and the potential for good and evil in every person under variable circumstances. Because African religious cultures often adhere to some principle of moral neutrality, they [...]
First man created the rifle, then he created the bullet – powerful weapons!
A good man uses his rifle to hunt and bring food to the village. He makes a lot of people happy.
A bad man uses his rifle to kill innocent people. He causes sorrow for everyone in the village.
MORAL: Let’s not blame the weapon. [...]
Once there was little ant crying for help and telling everybody: “My stomach! I have pain in my stomach!”
People walked by him and asked themselves: “Where is that screaming coming from? Who is it that in such pain?”
Finally, a man saw the little ant and smashed it.
MORAL: Never tell people your problems. Fix them yourself.
