Shamans believed that in times of distress, pieces of the soul break away. They run and hide in the underworld, the subconscious intellect. A Shaman will employment to find the lost pieces of the soul, however it is incredibly dense to do without calling on the father of lightness and purity, Obatala.
Obatala, In Yoruba is the father of all creation. He brings about wisdom, purity, and peace. Most importantly, he is the mediator between darkness and blaze, and can aid to raise the consciousness of an entire civilization or just one simple human being. Obatala presides over cells within the human body, in particularly DNA.
Legend has it that Obatala descended from the heavens on an iron chain. This chain represents the genetic codes of data that are housed in our DNA. The chain also represents rings or cycles. This could mean the cycle of lifetime, the cycle of energy, or much cycles of poverty and abuse.
In my earlier articles I discussed how our environment influences DNA. Epigenetic cells really turn DNA cells on and off like a blaze switch. It works in response to our feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions. We are very much in control of our bodies, much at a cellular level.
Sometimes, our bodies become unbalanced and we get sick. Our sickness can be mental or emotional or much both. We may visit a doctor or a spiritual healer who works with both physical and subtle energy. I mentioned before that subtle energy is invisible. While physical energy is dense and tangible. Subtle energy acts as a blueprint that instructs physical affair on how to operate.
Many spiritualist, healers, or shamans normally treat their patients by visiting the subtle earth. In the subtle earth, they consult the instructions manual to see exactly what part of the body or intellect is not operating effectively. In many situations, human beings’s instructions manual have been changed. It has been translated into French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Shamans, spiritualist, and healers cannot know the instructions and cannot find a path to translate it, since the language that it was written in is immediately dead.
This is the cause why it is so vital for us to know our culture and history. Our culture is the original blueprint of our souls. Without it, we are less than whole. Throughout history, parts of our souls have broken off. Our deities, our Gods, our practices are shunned upon and live in the dark recesses of societies’ congenial intellect. This is the reflection of how split and broken we are as spiritual beings. Obatala is the orisha of lightness and consciousness. He can be called upon to rewrite, or recreate the instructions manual. We demand to have an instructions manual, written in our own language, so we can place together the lost pieces of our soul.
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