ep.2 abrahamic n indigenous religions as the body

hi hi,

I know this is a tense topic. Give me some grace as I express how I've unlearned the restrictions of Christianity, while holding the nuance. I know Christianity was initially a very liberative belief system before the impacts of colonialism. I hold immense gratitude for Jesus, AND, its been necessary to explore my ancestral spiritual technologies. 

I need you to know exactly what I am about, if you'd like to move forward with me and my work. 

Blessings! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:56

I wanna create a portal where you can feel a mortal Where you can feel a mortal where you can feel a mortal I wanna create a portal.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Okay, y'all, so this this episode is a little you know controversial. It's a I'm gonna be talking about Abrahamic religions and indigenous religions and kind of my own experience reconnecting with my ancestors and unlearning some of the restrictions of Christianity. So if you're not quite in the mood to get into that, uh, you know, skip to another episode. But this really does kind of give you a background that I think is necessary on my belief systems because I really only want to support I I want you to be along this journey knowing what I'm about. And I'm not trying to be liked by everybody, but I'm really trying to be genuine. Hey y'all, I wanted to get on here because I had previously uploaded a recording that I realized I don't need to get so deep into the weeds of. I still want to speak to the importance of indigenous religions and traditions as we navigate these times in the Aquarius age. It's so important for us to understand that there's multiple different beings, multiple different layers that impact this almighty God, right? And within indigenous traditions, many people do believe, especially in the North American traditions, but also in African indigenous peoples, so across the world, that there are nature spirits, that there are, you know, messengers to this kind of bigger God, uh, and that God isn't necessarily in the God made the minute uh details, but aren't necess isn't necessarily like guarding or guiding like guiding everybody in the weeds. You know, these indigenous practices really do believe in the the communication with the great spirit and um how it's just so much more nuanced than this one supremacy God. And I think as I've been unlearning the impacts of Christianity, which I want to make clear were essential for me to understand the um the importance of being in reverence for something that is unseen. And that was really necessary for me to learn, and yet while sitting in those pews and seeing a person hanging from a cross, I really had to look at myself, and I think I really wanted to share that with all of you because as you are along this journey with me, I do not want you to project onto me some of the religious restrictions that I experienced within Christianity, and so that's why I wanted to bring this conversation right from the beginning. It's not that I believe any person should or shouldn't believe in Christianity or Islam or Judaism, which are all Abrahamic religions. I do understand that there is a there's a place and time to really center the power of the Abraham of Abraham as one of the first prophets who was willing to sacrifice his own son for God. God in the end was like, no, I'm gonna give you a lamb or something like that. Instead, you showed me that you are willing to sacrifice even your own child. And there's also a lot of ways that Abrahamic religions have encouraged enslavement across the world and have been fine with sacrificing human sacrifices. And so I want that to be understood as we are navigating these times where we have different people in the world who are using their religion and their belief in the Abrahamic spirit, right? The ability to kill one's own child, the ability to be willing to have others kill for your supremacy, right? Because the idea that there's this one God, and so we're gonna fight everybody's other God because our one God is the only God. And that was never the way of many indigenous religions and traditions. It was always about friendliness, it was always about collaboration, it was always about understanding the quote-unquote democracy almost of the spiritual realm, that there are many different beings that are supporting us, and angels and even demons, right, that challenge us, support us, serve us when we are aligned with this greater spirit, knowing that there are many components, many parts of the body that allow the brain to exist, right? If we always elevate the brain as the only mechanism of learning, right? If if if the brain is, you know, as we see in especially capitalism and the West, where we're sitting all day and all of the body components are not engaged in the learning, it's just your brain receiving more and more information for eight hours a fucking day, that creates sickness. That creates dis-ease. And so that's what I really want everybody to understand. It's not, oh, your religion needs to be thrown out or something, it's really to acknowledge what are the parts of my belief system that are encouraging the current systems that are in place right now. Is there this self-sacrificial uh process with the work that we do in this country? Yes, in the United States, self-sacrificing is the name of the game. If you are tired and exhausted by the end of the day, you did your work. And it's not like the exhaustion of a good workout, it's the exhaustion of sitting around all day and your brain taking in so much information and not being able to move it through the body, which is necessary for that information to become embodied and become knowledge and wisdom. And so we are in a moment where I think all of us need to really look at our belief systems, knowing that there's plenty of space for all of us to believe in what gets us up in the morning, to to, you know, honor our gods. And I really believe, you know, Allah is a beautiful God. I really do believe that, you know, the God, you know, of Jesus, all of these beings are genuine, and there have been ways that people have utilized those particular systems to cause immense suffering, all while stripping indigenous peoples of their own processes because they don't believe in the supremacy of one God. And so I think that needs to be acknowledged. I don't want people to listen to me or stay on this train with me who can't hold that nuance. So if you're hearing this and you're very triggered and you don't feel like continuing to work with me or can or connect with me, that's fine. I understand. I know it's a tough conversation, I know it brings up a lot. I'm always here for debate. I really do believe in that, but I'm not here for disrespect. So I'm not going to disrespect you, you're not gonna disrespect me. And if you no longer want to continue listening to this, I would hop off, take your space, and do what you gotta do. With that said, I am very grateful that I have focused on unlearning the ways that Christianity restricted me to the understanding that I must sacrifice myself for the good of the world. And that was a necessary thing to unlearn because in unlearning that, especially as a brown, biracial, black human, that I'm not here to sacrifice myself for the karma that other, specifically, you know, white people over time, specifically European colonizers and imperialists, but imperialists across the board, all over the world. I'm not here to offset their karma. I'm not here to spill my blood for them to not have to adhere to the consequences of their own belief systems. And that's why I think it's really essential for us to really dive deep into our ancestral veneration. We need to heal ourselves and be in connection with our ancestors. Ancestors being beings who are people who really tried their hardest in their life to uplift others and themselves. I don't think of ancestors as just being people who caused harm. I honestly feel like that's the remembered dead, you know, people that we remember who are dead, who may have caused immense harm, but that doesn't mean I'm going, you know, to my altar to pray to them. I can forgive them in in the sense that I am letting it go in my own life, but I'm not gonna sit and pray to people who harmed me. So that's the only, you know, that's what I think when people say, Oh, I pray to my ancestors. Okay, good. As long as you know that those ancestors are really people who have been doing the work, who have done the work, and who have been raised in the spiritual realm to help to help and guard you, um, not to harm you, not to punish you, right? Our ancestors can give us signs, and it's if we don't listen, there's consequences, but that's not them punishing us. And so all of that understanding and being able to pray to more than just one God was so essential for me because I I it helped me understand that I need to pray to multiple parts of my body. I need to, you know, pray to all these, you know, because because the heart is a key, you know, the the spleen is a key, the, you know, my leg, all of these offered multiple dimensions that allow me to traverse the world in beautiful ways, nuanced ways. And so that was essential for me to understand of like how indigenous religions and traditions are very much like acknowledging the multiplicity of the body and how it all um supports each other, and that the brain serves the body, right? So the idea that like our God we serve our God, our God serves us. Like there is and it is meant to be a reciprocal relationship. It's limitless what's possible when we connect with the divine. And so I believe in everybody having a connection with the divine, and I really want everybody to really look at their ancestral lineage and discover the different spiritual technologies that exist and not get too attached to one religion. Not that you can't, it's just I I just hope and pray that more people give themselves the permission to know that it's okay to have that multiplicity, and it's so important to really look at that Abrahamic spirit and really receive and explore what it means to you and how are you moving through the world, and how is that maybe affecting how you see the world, how is that affecting how you treat other people, how is that affecting how you think of consequences? And that's what I'm calling us to do, knowing that we are all we are all one, like however you believe in is yours. And I hope you receive this, I really do, and I hope it just inspires you to kind of just you know chew on it a little bit. Because for me, I walked away from Christianity with Christ consciousness, that was essential. I had to let go of the Abrahamic spirit on my own, on my own terms. That was what I had to do, but my Christ consciousness, that was essential for me to realize that people are walking around doing things that they're not even conscious of most of the time, or that they're asleep to, being freaking ridden by all different types of entities and demons, or whatever you want to call them, that you know, have that push them into behaviors and decisions that are extremely harmful. And so it's it's so important for us to have that Christ consciousness, be aware, you know, that even the people who were nailing him to the cross did not, you know, God they they do not know what they do kind of vibe. And so I just wanted to share that with y'all. No, like to really share with y'all where I'm at, you know, that I'm deep in the honoring of like the parables and the different ways that the Bible does, you know, offer you know, uh comfort and offer, you know, even cleansing of the spirit, right? That is so important. You can do a lot with the Bible. Uh, and it's a and and and many of our ancestors did have the Bible or whatever your lineage is that could be in regards to the Abrahamic religions. But I just I found it so important for me to get to this point where I'm now looking to my ancestors to learn more about what you know, my old ancient ancestors to learn more about what they practiced, what they learned, and if there is a way for me to incorporate some of those teachings into my own life. And in doing so, I have found the multiplicity because I believe, you know, in the orishas, the Yoruba tradition, I have I have um ancestors from West Africa, and so like just even those different orishas, which are different nature spirits, uh beings, um, and being able to like walk through different spaces in my environment and honor the mountains, honor the rivers and have a name for them, knowing that they have so many names before them, right? I always say that. I say the names I know and the names unknown to me, I pray to, right? And so that river is honored in the multiplicity of that river and in the diaspora of that river, and at the same time, I look to the skies and I thank God. I I you know at the same time I look to the the world around me and thank spirit. Um and it just has expanded my heart, y'all. And so this is not to convince you, this is to like be a confirmation where I'm confirming that it's okay to have the multiplicity, it's okay to have you know the both and, and just keep in mind, you know, some of the ways our systems have been harmful and how we can be accountable and ensuring that that is not carried forward. Okay. Alright, loves. I just had to get it out, and hopefully you're still with me, and um very grateful for you.