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Abstract: There is an ancient African belief system, which says that humans are on a journey toward spiritual enlightenment. However, for the last eight hundred to a thousand years humans have apparently been thrown into a virtual time warp disconnected from any real sense of what is really important in life. This research focuses on some of the knowledge and wisdom once cherished by indigenous people because it kept them grounded in reality. For example, the reader will be exposed to the customs of Kenya, a country on the continent of Africa, relative to spirituality and rituals for maintaining contact with the creative force of the universe for the individual and the community. In all, the reader should emerge from this research with a clearer understanding of spirituality, the creative force of the universe and his/her role in maintaining the preceding relationships.
Keywords: spirituality, religion, seventh sense, awakening and consciousness.
America stands as an example of what life can be like in a modern technological society. As we move further into the twenty-first century evidence suggest that Americans, by and large, are currently living in the best of times and the worst of times. With the aid of machines Americans can do things faster and more abundantly than almost anybody living anywhere on this planet. For example, there is instant food for persons living a fast past life style; the cloning of animals presumably to produce a better product; test tube babies for couples having trouble conceiving; full-grown chickens in a matter of weeks to increase profits; and cars that can travel at speeds nearly two and a half times the national speed limit. In spite of the abundant life in America, there are some who continue to come up short as evident by America's large prison population. A population that is one of the largest among the industrialized nations of the world and about sixty percent of those locked up are African Americans and other minorities. At the heart of the fast pace American life style is an endless pursuit of material wealth for a select few while the majority of Americans and yes, the majority of Africans Americans, drift along hopelessly pursuing happiness albeit through external means. What generally ends up happening is...