Mutual Compatibility & Orisa Lifestyle

Those who would have you believe that so-called Yoruba religion is enough are unaware of Yoruba civilization, which is saturated with spiritual consciousness but never to the point of ignoring the practical dimensions of farming, statecraft, warfare and family organization. According to philosopher Adébáyò Adésànyà, “this is not simply a coherence of fact and faith, not of reason and traditional beliefs, nor of reason and contingent facts, but a coherence of compatibility among all the disciplines. A medical theory e.g., which contradicted a theological conclusion was rejected as absurd and vice versa. This demand of mutual compatibility among all the disciplines… was the main weapon of Yorùbá thinking. God might be banished from Greek thought without any harm being done to the logical architecture of it, but this cannot be done in the case of the Yorùbá… Philosophy, theology, politics, social theory, land law, medicine, psychology, birth and burial all find themselves logically concatenated in a system so tight that to subtract one item from the whole is to paralyze the structure of the whole.”

My work has always been infused with a high level of social responsibility. Today, the Orisa Community Worship in Oakland takes full advantage of the local penchant for activism. I give reverence to Orisa Sango, the most celebrated leader in the Yoruba pantheon. May we collectively activate the spirit of right governance in the Bay Area Orisa Community. Ase!!! Check out 3 ways you can support the effort:

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