Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : The Machine in our Heads – The Original Tribal Self vs “Civilization” In childhood, a modern person travels an enormous distance between stone-age primitive creature and responsible contemporary citizen. When confronted with the awesome power of civilization whose first representatives are parents, teachers, priests… the child faces, psychologically, the same situation as its [...]
SOURCE : Reincarnation in African Traditional Religion One of the ways of increasing the ancestor’s vital force is by sacrifices and prayers from the living descendants. Hence the wish of Africans to have many children who will offer sacrifices to them after death. By an inverse movement the “force” of the ancestor flows into the [...]
SOURCE : Friedrich Nietzsche and Multiple Souls Nietzsche wrote his essays and books to shock the human race into thinking about the way in which they live. His fear was that people were going to grow dull, boring, and become sheep like in existence. Content to live in their mundane and safe lives never wanting [...]
Internet Book of Shadows: Chaoism and Chaos Magick (Pete Carroll) I reject the conventional view of post-monotheistic Western psychology that we are individual unitary beings possessing free will. I prefer the description that we are colonial beings composed of multiple personalities; although generally unafflicted with the selective amnesia which is the hallmark of this otherwise [...]
SOURCE : Neopaganism and the Pythagoreans : Leave Animal sacrifice for the ancients Animal sacrifice was a normal element in Judaism and most Pagan traditions in ancient times. Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans rejected animal sacrifice and all other forms of animal slaughter and abuse on the grounds of transmigration of the [...]
SOURCE : EPISTEMOLOGICAL DUALISM AND THE PRIMAL OTHER That the Bantu word for being can only be performed as a copula and that within this schema the Cartesian cogito cannot be translated is probably the most radical way of stating that the essence of African ontology, usually adumbrated in the expression “I am because others [...]
SOURCE : Bantu Philosophy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tempels argues that the African philosophical categories can be identified through the categories inherent to language. According to Tempels, the primary metaphysical category in the thought of Bantu-speaking societies is Force. That is, reality is dynamic, and being is force… “‘Force’ is not for Bantu a [...]
SOURCE : Placide Tempels The purpose of this website is to make available a number of documents related to the life and work of Placide Tempels, author of the widely discussed Bantu Philosophy.
SOURCE : Master Page The unifying essence of the universe is the invisible power known as ase. Ase is variously described as a vital force or the power to make things happen. In conversation it is typically used to praise and invoke manifestation. In the Yoruba universe, ase is the ground of being, the life [...]
SOURCE : Kongo Cosmogram This is the simplest manifestation of the Kongo cruciform, a sacred “point” on which a person stands to make an oath, on the ground of the dead and under all-seeing God. This Kongo “sign of the cross” has nothing to do with the crucifixion of the Son of God, yet its [...]
