The ManicaPost
Maxwell T. Freddy Mlambo
PEACE, honour, respect and satiety are forever contingent with what we all are as the perpetual perfection that is the eternal universal flow of electro-magnetic energy, that is the CREATOR; Mwari Musikavanhu.
Our ancestors prior to the forced imposition of Christianity and all of colonialism’s inherited institutions knew that we were part of a perpetual perfection that is life. This all pervasive force of life inherent in equal worth and measure of importance in the singularity that is everything we exist as, compels all of humanity to at times find itself as nothing other than another animal under the sun.
For we all eat free food from the sun and air we breathe. In fact, I could go on to state that the most important elements to our survival are not purchased, neither are they affected by money. So peace.
Divested as we are, by modernity and its ever narcissistic technology from what we truly are on this earth we plant the soles of our feet on under the sun, humanity in its ego driven pursuits for what it deems wealth; therefore twistedly-life, finds itself in a continuous state of competition, aggression, attrition, friction, war, battle, conflict and at the apex, death. This death, far from being metaphorical, is but a reality that pursues ‘modern’ Humanity relentlessly like one’s own shadow.
So in order to truly understand indigenous traditional African religious practice-Chivanhu/ChiAnhu/Ubunthu, one must recognise the inter-connectedness of one to the whole.
This recognition can be arrived at by divesting oneself off all the urgings of the ego, and thus placed, recognise the inherent perfection that is everything you live as. For our ancestors knew, as we subliminally acknowledge when we declare ourselves to be children of the soil or children of the sun, that we have no sudden death or end to fear because like our ancestors in the soil and air, so we too shall continue as such.
Everything is continuous. The last breath of air exhaled becomes the air and the flesh continues as the earth from which we everything on it gains sustenance and the right to be existent.
Rich or poor are just applied tags to deceive us into thinking that other aspects of us are more important than all others hence are to be revered obsequiously, respected and esteemed.
The first step to be taken when one seeks to return to the ways of indigenous traditional African religious practice is to make the recognition that you are that perpetual perfection that is the universal flow of electro-magnetic energy that is the CREATOR, equitably distributed as the force of life in all. Mwari Musikavanhu, Dzivaguru reHupenyu. One L.O.V.E!
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