Let go of someday
Embrace today
Lest you find yourself
Trapped in a room
Stacked floor to ceiling with
Unfinished plans
Unable to find the door
To your own freedom
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Itefa in Nigeria
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Ifa thoughts and philisopy by Ifalola Sanchez.
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Reposting this blog
It's come to my attention that my blog has been reposted to other places on the internet, this is fine under the following conditions.
1. My work is copyrighted (except Odu Ifa, which no one owns) and rights always remain with me.
2. Please clearly site me as the author of the piece so people do not think it's your own.
3. A link must always be included to this blog so people know where it came from. http://ifalola.blogspot.com
In the spirit of sharing and respect for my time and energy, please do not violate these terms. Ifa will also be unhappy.
1. My work is copyrighted (except Odu Ifa, which no one owns) and rights always remain with me.
2. Please clearly site me as the author of the piece so people do not think it's your own.
3. A link must always be included to this blog so people know where it came from. http://ifalola.blogspot.com
In the spirit of sharing and respect for my time and energy, please do not violate these terms. Ifa will also be unhappy.
Who is Ifalola
I realized that people might not know much about me, so I decided to add a short profile of who I am. I was born in '69 into a latino family in the US. My dad's family practiced the Orisa tradition, but I didn't find my way to the tradition until I was about 18. After finding a lucumi Ile and worshiping for several years, I was "rayado" in Palo Mayombe, later passing to Padre then Bakonfula. After some time I eventually fulfilled my obligation to initiate (kariosha/dosu) as a priest of Yemoja. After receiving my Awofakan and being told I had to pass to Ifa, no matter, I began studying Ifa and thinking about what that meant to me. My search began, when Henry Drewal, a friend, brought his Oluwo to lecture at his classes at University of Wisconsin, Madison, I realized I had found my Oluwo, Kolawole Oshitola, Ejiirosun. And so after two years of email and calls with Baba, consulting Yemoja and Ifa, I went and did my Itelodu (Itefa) in the Challenge area of Ibadan, Nigeria. I went with a good friend, a lucumi Awo Ifa, who became my Ojugbona (Ifajoko, Osa Ogunda) and my Wife, Ifatolu.
It's been a wonderful ride with ups and downs, and I hope that with the support of my family and community I can continue writing, whatever doubts or hardships might come my way. May Ifa always guide us all to achieve long life, filled with Owo, Omo ati Ire gbogbo! Ase o!
Ifalola omo Iwori Aweda
It's been a wonderful ride with ups and downs, and I hope that with the support of my family and community I can continue writing, whatever doubts or hardships might come my way. May Ifa always guide us all to achieve long life, filled with Owo, Omo ati Ire gbogbo! Ase o!
Ifalola omo Iwori Aweda
Ifalola in Nigeria
Itefa in Nigeria
1 comment:
Iboru iboya ibocheche, at last a true baba la awo, Congratulations on your book, Already have a copy. Love your reflections on the religion. Want to know your views on animals sacrifice. I'm an old disenchanted baba who is looking for answers .I just came to your writings yesterday and I feel in resonances with you views.My experience with Ifa had been one that is far away from what I see as spiritual. You seem to have the intelligence and spiritual insight of someone who is conscious. My encounter with baba la awo was one of disillusion in the amount of unconscious behavior I experienced with them and in the lack of spiritual concerns in the people in general.All this make me suspect that your spiritual insight have the support of something Outside of Ifa and your have rely on that support to comes to terms with Ifa.Do not misunderstand my view of Ifa
, I believe as a Oracle is a depository of great wisdom, but as a religion as is practice today in the Americas not so.I just came across your book yesterday and based on it you can be the only true baba in the world today and if this is so then what you advocate is not ifa but Novo Ifa.The way I see your initiation into ifa came about when you was throw out of the ceremony and they saw you as anti lucumi.Lucumi as a religion or spiritual path I never heard about it.Actually I never heard of an afrikan religion.All I see is an observation about life in order to come to terms with spiritual realities.Hope I can heard from you and continue this conversation. Thank you
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