“It is through the initiation process that the Muntu (human being) learns that becoming sick is losing one’s Ngolo, energy of self-healing power. Through initiation, the Muntu learns that the role of a healer (therapist) is to regenerate the diminishing energy or self-healing power. To be initiated is to acquire the highest knowledge that the community experience has accumulated through time and space. It is to bulwa meso, to have one’s eyes open. To have the power to see, feel, touch, hear and taste what the ordinary way of life does not allow us to see, feel, touch, hear and taste…. It is to walk on the path of mastering knowledge in life. It is to be seen and to see oneself before lumweno lwa mampinda ma luzingu (“the mirror of fathomless knowledge of life”). It is learning to see the past in order to predict the future. It is feeling and holding tightly the past segment of the biogenetic rope in his/her hands to insure its linkage to the future.” Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau “Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Africa” Page 17
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