What of Cultural Healing?

In their natural norm of high civilisation, to have conceived of being ‘healed’ from their own high culture would have surely been deemed to be worse than absurd. Indeed, the fullest flourishing that being rooted in their superlative culture brings represents this people’s optimal well-beingness. In other words, this people were maximally healthy whilst steeped in their culture that gives rise to the best of themselves throughout their spheres of life expression. Healthiness of the spiritual and physical were of highly cultured living. Or, to state it another way, of highly civilised living. Of course, in normality culturally rooted and healthy self-expression serves the best interest of self in the continual thrust of upright ascension and security. For this pioneering soul people of the greatest and most enduring civilisations that have ever existed then, their highly cultured living in and of itself must have held inherent levels of healthiness or one might say inherent healing qualities to keep its people flourishing in rightful order.

In the contemporary era, the term cultural healing has been used to describe healthiness intrinsic in a people’s way of life. A mainstream source articulates cultural healing thus:

“Reconnecting people to the vibrant strengths of their ancestry and culture, helping people process the grief of past traumas, and creating new historical narratives”.

To illustrate the value of cultural health and healing, let us adjust the above definition with oppositional categorisation thus:

“Disconnecting people from their vibrant strengths of their ancestry and culture, hindering people from being able to process grief of past traumas, and denial of new historical narratives”.

One might then plausibly suggest that this is a description of cultural ill-health or a process of cultural damage. New historical narratives can be taken to mean the revelation of truthful Afrikan history, the creating of progressive history in the now and the projected trajectory of great Afrikan history to come. If this is denied then, what are Afrikans left with to do for themselves?

In a state of interruption and disruption, the adjusted definition, may well speak to the conditions of cultural deficit that Afrikan souls are subjected to. Such a state can be a great boon to others that mean the Afrikan ill as the door of invitation to disuse Afrikans at will can be manufactured, imposed and left wide-open. Obviously, this is not a healthy state of being for soul people to have.

Yet, it is for Afrikan souls to restore and recover themselves in cultural healthiness and as they continually build and secure themselves in ascension. In this, cultural healthiness is an act of engagement rather than disengagement. It is of participation rather than abandonment. The reconnecting of Afrikan people to the vibrant strengths of their ancestry and culture is vital activity. Periods of imposed trauma or disruption can then be identified in context and addressed accordingly. Meanwhile, the historical narratives recalled of the then, are made in the now and the tomorrows to come to empower the continuum of Afrikan souls never cease to be.

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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Also, in the approach to the important cultural observance of Kwanzaa, the text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa - A Kuumba (Creative) Restoration of Sacred First Fruits by this author is available to purchase online here. This publication provides informative detail on the of the Kwanzaa celebration. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja to pick up a copy.

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