THE FORCE OF THE PRIMAL
After our short break ...
OTHER SPIRITUAL CAUSES OF "DIS"'-EASE, SICKNESS OR ILLNESS
4. Energetic or ritual pollution is a negative energetic imprint due to certain situations, places, articles, and especially to unskillful exposures to blood or death.
One can find reference to pollution or ritual impurity in Leviticus. In biblical times, anyone who had been in contact with a dead body, or who had eaten an animal that had not been killed in a "kosher" manner, was not allowed back into the community until he or she had been purified. Kosher killing and preparation of meat requires the humane exsanguination of only certain animals and then extracting the remaining blood with the help of sea salt.
Religious Jewish women are not allowed to be in contact with their husbands during menstruation.
Native Americans have similar beliefs around menstruation and a woman is not allowed to participate in a sweat lodge during this time.
Sangomas also recognize a state of ritual impurity resulting from sex during menses, contact with a corpse, and eating a dead animal found in the bush or road kill. Blood which carries the life force is seen to have power. Sangoma believe this effect can be too "strong" for a man if sex occurs on a woman's moon cycle.
Ritual impurity can also occur after a journey, and in possessing certain objects that may have been used for negative purposes. One should be careful of buying antiques or decorating with certain objects that may have been used in dark ceremonies.
In sangoma belief and in the Bible, land or places can be polluted or cursed. Sometimes fire is the only thing that can purify demonic evil and malevolence.
"You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place." Deuteronomy
Demonic worship is often practiced with such zealotry, determination and passion that its power has a lasting force for captivating and destroying.
It is best that one not try to remove the rotten and decaying apples from the pile, but rather move the good apples far away. In some instances, if the stench and rot still present danger, then it may be appropriate for a cleansing, sterilizing and purifying to take place, but only by knowledgeable specialists in such matters. The Ancestors
Places with water are difficult to purify, water having consciousness, holds on to the profane vibrations.
“God’s purpose in so treating man is to lead him to himself and away from the pit.” Job.
It seems that Southern African primal wisdom was also well aware of the subtle energies that can lead humans to the “pit.”
5. Witchcraft or sorcery and the commandment, “Thou shalt not covet” was an edict against the evil "wind" or dark spirits, the evil eye, the evil tongue and the evil inclination. Witchcraft and sorcery are recognized as arising from someone with a heart of envy. Envy leads to covetousness which can have malignant consequences to a victim subjected to witchcraft as well as severe karmic consequences to the perpetrator.
6. Soul loss or soul sickness. Described as follows by the Ancestors.
The soul yearns to do the creator’s will and clings to the body when all is well. Soul dysfunctions, which are many, and a body caught up in cravings and attached to sentient pleasures distances the soul.
The soul withdraws causing “sickness.”
The body’s attachment to unskillful sentient pleasures needs to be broken so the soul (or essence) can return to the body.
“Because of the sound of my sighing has my essence cleaved onto my flesh…”
… Is speaking of the soul’s essence lodging comfortably in the body.
The right sound is crucial in breaking down or chasing away resistances. Sound shatters and crumbles barriers to the mind and heart. Sound speaks to one’s vibrations. One of the best ways to cleanse and clear oneself of the cloyingness of dark forces is to dispel or change the effect of their energy with sound.
Tibetan gongs, crystals bowls, didgeridoos, horns, rattles etc.
With song you can open the gates of heaven.” The Talmud
“We pray by singing and dancing.” San Bushmen and Bantu peoples
Causes of soul sickness or loss include; addiction, to drugs alcohol, sex, gambling; severe trauma, illness or abuse; grief from loss of a job, a loved one or one's health; severe anger, hatred, malice, envy, fear, burn out, isolation and a lack of meaning in one's existence
Like sound, incense repels and clears dark forces within and without. Smudging and blowing medicinal smoke can purify.
" The incense offering is a most potent antidote against dark forces." The Zohar
The Ancestors advise against the Buddhist practice of Tonglin unless one's vibration is sufficiently advanced to be able to handle the negative energy one is breathing in. Safer to breath in white healing light and transmit it to those who need it.
Regarding “Tonglin;” the Buddhist practice of inhaling negativity, pain, suffering, dark thoughts and evil -- breathing it in with the objective of transforming it into light and then breathing it out as positive, happy, healed and healing… Consider that only enlightened beings may have enough light and compassion in them to take on evil and transform it.
Some may argue that they may not be enlightened but that their spirit guides help with the work and protect the container. That being so, still great care should be taken…
Repairing the world is a different mission from taking on and transforming other people's evil and in the process maybe damaging oneself.
Red is a protective, cleansing color not only among Kabbalists but also in sangoma medicine and universally. Plants used for ritual purification because of sex during menses are frequently red in color. Purification in the Old Testament was done with water, fortified with the ashes from a red heifer, the red dye of a particular worm and cedar.
There are many ways to correct these disorders with prayer, ritual, sacred plants, exorcism (Femba in Zulu tradition,) incense and with love, laughter, sound and song.
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