DEAR PAN-AFRICANIST SPIRITUAL ROMANTIST: WE ARE NOT UNIVERSES UNTO OURSELVES!
A seductive cocktail of spiritual and philosophical confusion… Prologue: A Seductive Cocktail of Spiritual and Philosophical Confusion There is something particularly seductive about the following statement: “ We are cosmic beings, each a universe unto ourselves. Our bodies are sacred temples, and the true kingdom of heaven resides within us. Let’s embrace spiritual harmony with nature and reject external notions of divinity and ownership. ” I found this as a tag to reel by a vocal pan-Africanist influencer, Maponga Mara-Rah III, that popped up on my timeline. It sounds spiritual. It sounds liberating. It sounds profound. It even borrows expressions that bear some resemblance to Christian language. But beneath its attractive vocabulary lies a confusion of fundamental proportions: the confusion of the creature with the Creator, of the human soul with God, of the temple with the One worshipped in the temple, and of authentic spiritual freedom...