Among the West Africans and aspirants in the United States and the Caribbean, Orunmila is recognized as a primordial deity that was present at the beginning of creation. According to legend, around 2000 B.C, Orunmila was born again as a priest teaching aspirants an advanced form of spiritual knowledge and ethics known as the Odu. Orunmila also led a league of priests known as Babalawos. From the holy city of Ile-Ife, he instructed them on how to use the Odu to help aspirants to overcome their karma and stop the cycles of reincarnation.
Karma is a retributive process whereby we re-experience certain situations in life, until we learn a lesson, or get back on our right paths. Babalawos not only use the Odu to guide us and to help us pick up on certain patterns and mistakes that we have made in past and current lives. They work with our energy, also known as ashe to help us reach a divine state of oneness. We reach a divine state of oneness when our earthly consciousness, known as the Ori is elevated and developed to an extent where it can be unified with our heavenly consciousness.
I explained in earlier articles that those who are completely developed vibrate on a much higher frequency. Also, I touched on how difficult it is to reach a divine level of oneness. This is because many of us still operate using our earthly consciousness, which are lower desires such as greed, envy, and power. These lower desires urges us to go for the quick fix, they force us to take shortcuts and to be cunning and vindictive. These desires affect our decisions, which in turn generates bad karma. People who always complain about being stuck in a rut, or people who make the same mistakes, over and over again are going through cycles of reincarnation.
People who operate from a level of earthly consciousness are not only re-creating their own bad experiences, but they are allowing themselves to degrade spiritually. Energetically, they are becoming weaker and it will be more difficult for them to manifest good things into their lives. Many of these people become "vampires" for they need to feed on people with lower vibrational frequencies in order to survive. We can see this with drug dealers, thieves, and other criminals.
The only way to stop this process is to develop the Ori and elevate oneself to a level of heavenly consciousness. This happens when people become aware and start to raise not only their own vibrational frequencies, but others as well. This means that people need to make their decisions differently. They need to create win/win situations, where all parties involved are elevated to a higher state. People can do this by working with Babalawos who understand the Odu.
Author Resource:-
Yamaya Cruz is the author of When The Shadows Began To Dance. She writes about African spirituality, chakra healing, shamanism and much more. For more information go to http://www.newafricanspirituality.com
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