I believe our ancestors travel back to our world on vibrations of love and hope.
Hope that we will realize we have gifts and spiritual powers, and we should cultivate them.
Hope we will live up to our potential and realize each day is sacred.
Hope we will stop dwelling on folks that let us down and focus on folks that lift us up.
Your loved ones in Spirit are there to guide and support you every step of the way. Trust the signs you see, the messages you hear, and what you feel.
It’s as simple as that.
I’m not sure where or when this family portrait was taken because Dad served in the U.S. Army for 20 years, and we lived in Texas, Japan and California before moving home to St. Croix, Virgin Islands in my early childhood.
I’m dressed in white, leaning against Dad. His name was also James.
My sister, Joan, on the far right, and I, are the only ones left. The rest are in Spirit.
I think about my parents a lot. I know they are pleased the second edition of my book, Meditations Across the King’s River will launch in a few months. A legacy continues.
I’m not the only one in my family feeling ancestral energy.
Two days ago, my son, Malcolm, said he could feel my Mom’s Spirit around him as he was fishing.
She always said Malcolm was her hero — even during his darkest moments. I know she’s proud of his amazing transformation.
As a toddler on St. Croix, Mom taught Malcolm to always respect nature.
Once when he wanted to step on ants that were biting him, Mom said; “don’t step on the ants — just move.”
Ancestral support does not always mean things will go your way. Sometimes the ancestors have a better plan.
Trust the plan. Trust the vision. Feel the love. Embrace it. You have a mission to fulfill. Your legacy must continue.
of Southwest Nigeria and Benin. During the slave trade, millions of Yorubas were brought to Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, Trinidad, Puerto Rico and other countries.
If you were to listen to some historians you might think that Santeria is a primitive faith. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Yorubas have always been highly advanced in many areas including: art, philosophy, mathematics and medicine.
Unlike some European cultures, the Yorubas believes in one God known as Olorun or Oludumare. Olorun is also the source of ashe, which is the religious energy that make up the universe, as well as all life and anything that is considered to be material.
The divine messengers or emissaries of Olorun are called orishas. The orisas are powerful forces of nature and energy that we can tap into to improve our lives not only spiritually but physically as well.
One communicates with the orishas thru prayer, divination as well as offerings or sacrifice. Trance possession, song, and rhythms are other means that humans commune with orishas. Those techniques are used to affect the daily lives of people who wish to have a deeper non secular and meaningful life while they reside on this planet.
During slavery, Africans could not openly practice traditional spiritual beliefs and so they “hid” them in Catholicism. For example, while slaveowners might have thought that the slaves were praying or worshipping “Saint Barbara,” in reality, they were praying to “Shango”, commonly known as the Lord of Lightning, fire and the dance.
For more information about Santeria, check out the book “Altar of My Soul” by Martha Moreno Vega. Dr. Vega is also one of the scholars that will appear in the film, Across The King’s River.
