The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality: A Celebration of Ancestor Worship, Herbs and Hoodoo, Ritual and Conjure

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The essential resource and guide to African American spirituality and traditions.

This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions.

Inside you will find:
1. A celebration of healing, magic, and the divination traditions of ancient African earth-based spirituality
2. An explanation of how these practices have evolved in contemporary African American culture
3. A potpourri of recipes, rituals, and resources that you can use to heal your life

Among the topics covered:

• African spiritual practices of Santeria, Obeah, Lucumi, Orisa, and Quimbois
• Hoodooand how to use it to improve your health
• Ancient healing rituals and magical recipes of Daliluw
• Talking drums, spiritual dancing, clapping, tapping, singing, and changing
• ower objects, tricks and mojo bats, and herbal remedies

Previously published as The Big Book of Soul.

Reviews

"The Healing Power of African American Spirituality by the illustrious Stephanie Rose Bird is a timely and much needed inclusive contribution to humanity's spiritual awakening and evolution at this time. Ms. Bird gives us richly textured, detailed descriptions and powerful histories about numerous, authentic African, African-American, and Caribbean spiritual traditions and holistic health cures for the mind, body and soul. Each Afro-centric culture Bird discusses offers their own uniquely captivating and sparkling messages about how to live one's best, magickal life inspired by the ancient beauty and truth of African spirituality. If you want to deepen and diversify your spiritual practice, you must add this book and Bird's other titles to your collection." --Ifeanyi C. Oshun, author of Cats, Cauldrons, and Corsets and owner of Imaginate1111.com

Author Bio

Stephanie Rose Bird was a professor of fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for many years. Bird works as an artist, herbalist, aromatherapist, and sole proprietor of Almost Edible Natural Products and her fine art is held in several national and international art collections.