"The healing work of Afrikan Spiritual Warfare must take place on the most personal level. For Afrikans, the "personal" is "collective." As we do our healing work we help to heal our people. As we heal ourselves we heal our Ancestors. Spiritual Warfare is not only about fighting the enemy outside of us. It is about using Spirit to do our personal work of healing, growth and development. It is about "Doing Maat." Doing Maat is being honest with ourselves, asking each day, "Am I all I ought to be?" (Fanon) and "Am I doing my best work?" (Nana Clarke). Spirit demands work. Spiritual Warfare is not about "religion." It is not escapist. There are no easy answers. It is not a comfort zone. We must struggle to confront the hard questions, just as we struggle in confrontation with the enemy. This is a transformational process. We must use our connectedness with the life force (Ntu) and, most importantly, with each other, as a source of courage with which to confront the truth of our actions, our choices and our resulting behaviors. Personal growth comes only through the struggle to be the best that we can be. Ultimately, it is we who must hold ourselves accountable on a personal level. Ultimately, it is each of us who creates the Community. If we do not do our personal work, we can also destroy it. Ayi Kwei Armah talks about us "finding our larger self." The health of an Afrikan person, the health of an Afrikan family and community, and the health of the Afrikan World Nation, depends on our ability to move beyond the dictates of "ego" (kalanitu), the inauthentic, defensive, smallest and undeveloped self. Spiritual Warfare will give us the courage to look into the mirror of our Maafa-wounded souls and to begin the healing work for which they are crying. Until we engage ourselves in this work, we will not be effective warriors/nation-builders. Spiritual Warfare involves the personal inner healing work that prepares us to sustain productive relationships on which community is built. Afrikan Spiritual Warfare will give us the courage to heal." Marimba Ani
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:57:41 +0000
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