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If there is any "secret"
regarding the successful empowerment of your own life, it lies in the
reality that one must follow a consistent set of principles and rituals
when connecting to the energies of the Universe. As an Oluwo of Ifa, I
subscribe to, and follow, the essential patterns and instructions of Orisa
worship as they were developed by the Yoruba culture of Western Africa.
Other cultures developed their own rituals and practices for contacting
and working with these energies. Each had its own "set of instructions,"
and each worked, to various degrees, as long as you were consistent and
true to the integrity of their energy matrix.
It is when one mixes
these instructions that results begin to diminish or disappear. As I have
stated time and time again, the instructions for flying a jet plane, a
helicopter, a prop plane, a dirigible ALL work... but they only
work for the aircraft they were developed for. If you are flying a jet,
and decide it would be interesting to use the helicopters flying instructions
to cruise along with, you will crash.
The attempt to integrate
Palo, a derivative of the energy matrixes of other cultures of Africa,
into Ifa, is equally destructive.
An increasing number
of individuals who have already been "scratched", or initiated into Palo,
have come to us in recent months to explore Ifa. For too many, their attitude
is "I cannot change what has been done, so let me integrate this into
Ifa." It simply cannot be done. Because someone was "born", or initiated
does not prevent them from changing. Who, among you that is reading this,
was born or raised in Ifa or a similar African paradigm? I would venture
to say "none." Rather, you were born Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Baptist
etc., and through exploration and intuition came to be drawn to the Orisa.
If you come, or are drawn, to the Orisa, you can only make that connection
through the consistent, logical and loving use of the energies proven
to help you empower your life. You cannot mix and match, nomatter how
much you would like to. To attempt to do so is as futile as attempting
to mix oil and water.
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