Reconciliation
An
essay about the theme of ancestry.
All cultures
have the base of their existence comprehension, the way to live, the belief or
beliefs in magic elementals, spiritual, all connected or having the nature as a
mother and the shelter of human being that we are.
The beliefs
myths, made people believe that at birth we sort out of big original, and when
we died we return to the Creator back.
In this
process of birth and search for perfection through ideal behavior like-minded
to in death be chosen by the Creator’s light, we named religion, and replay
behaviors na gestures of our social groups, these gestures are called culture,
that is the repetition of life’s comprehension of elders.
Passing time,
some groups start to standardize these manners, creating a conduct code, called
today by ethics. Though the fact is, exists a consensus between myriad
cultures, that we need to reverence our ancestors because we apprehend that
they are the example of behavior that we must follow. Therefore are the
Shamanistic spirits to Indigenous, the Orixás and Egungun or Vumbi to African
people, and the Canonized to the catholic church. However, we can’t believe in
ancestors just like objects, while also as all concepts and elaboration about
life, habits, vegetables, and animals.
Western christianity
shows a concept of reconciliation as a sacrament, where confessing the mistake
is the complementary element, the parallel to the main element of divine grace.
Though in cultures that believe in ancestors' cults, confessing it’s not just
to take on mistakes committed, but starts a saga of cults when gratitude is the
support.
Therefore,
reconciliation goes compulsorily through a reverence of our origins, where communion is the search by our
ancestors to reestablish spiritual contact, cultural and mystic with our family
lineage.
Nevertheless
in Brazil, we've got a big issue. The education of Brazilian people was broken,
with lots of moral issues, in structural and in concept, making a great
indigestible people salad, where the refusal of this historic training is the
main plate.
In this
context, reconciliation, and communion with our history is sometimes painful.
How many people have refused their true history, how many families rise by the
shadow of failure, because are built by rape, obligated marriage, or interest,
how many children haven't seen in the parents the behavior that must imitate,
and so forth. Moreover in our country, slavery, the violent miscegenation, have
made a layer of people extremely vulnerable.
However,
believers we are in God of Heaven, we need to claim our Ori (our heaven essence
that lives in our physical head) strength to overcome obstacles, and even more,
to take on, as shameful as that be our family story and thank.
Each culture
has its way of reverence its dead people, but for those who don’t feel
connected to any religion, my suggestion is the best way and also effective,
including for religious people, is the pray and mentalization with a clean
heart and pure feelings exempt by falsity.
The gratitude
to the spiritual world, and the respect for our family lineage, make us
understand that others, whom we can or can’t know, are also a tool for our
reconciliation and knowledge development. Alone nobody becomes better or worse,
just become neutral.
Just
ungrateful people develop a relationship of exploration with other people. I
can affirm, there is no love for others because there is no self-love, so, the
reconciliation process is pass through reconciliation with me, with my story,
therefore, conciliating, reconciliation, love and helping others, and
recognizing in others the possibility of my improvement, reconciling myself
with God and with my group.
Only those who
are free can be liberators!
Author: Baba Henrique – Ifadaré
Eegunyemi
temploileogi@gmail.com
Translation
by Íris Marques
contatoirismarques@gmail.com
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