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The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop (in English)
Orland Bishop
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The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop (in English) - Bishop, Orland
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Synopsis "The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop (in English)"
When I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage. I find myself in their collective soul journey from a place of homeland to a dream of the Promised Land. This book is a telling of the soul striving of people of African heritage into the American experience of creating a community--a community created for the possibilities of new covenants within the larger collective sphere of human life. The work to which I have dedicated my life is to attend to the ancestral shrines. Ancestral shrines are co-creative imaginative influences on how I see the world. They serve to enhance the human encounters that form relationships and communities within which I work and live. The primary emphasis of my work is to support the recovery of the individual's capacity to stand in openness for the higher purpose of one's own life. My work is in service to the creative freedom of others. This book reveals through the spiritual tradition of African Gnosis my identification with the impulses of particular individuals in the history of the African experience in America. Their lives and work reveal the spiritual frameworks that have guided me to my understanding of the promise of the Spirit of America. This book navigates the flow of the American stream from sovereignty to slavery to service of the higher mandate of the collective soul quest for a covenant of prosperity into which human beings can live. The Spirit of America is born in this service. C O N T E N T S Introduction Part I: History as Initiation 1. The Darkness of Night2. The Middle Passage3. Making the New Covenants Part II: Personal Initiation 4. The Beginning of the Personal Path5. Gnostic Initiation6. The Story of Lazar7. Ritual and the Rites of Passage8. Shade Tree9. Ancestral Memory10. The Veil11. Imani Part III: Returning Home 12. Accessing the Seventh Shrine13. The Prophecy of Martin Luther King Jr. [Cover image: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851): Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying--Typhoon Coming On), 1840, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]
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