Our deep Ego (unconscious mind) is very interested in disturbing the flow of information to the Consciousness as Unconscious nourishes itself of emotions and tends to keep them inside without any sharing as Consciousness might criticize and erase the emotional impact.

Three is a sacred number in yoruba philosophy and metaphorically it seems to indicate that emotional stimula cannot easily be erased off from the interventions of our deep Ego. The inhabitants of Owa town made this drenched stranger their king.įor three times the traveller must resist to the interference of Esu before reaching to the arrival point. The Babalawos had predicted that thenext person to be installed as King at Owa town

He did the same thing with the third Esu.Įnraged, the third Esu caused the rain to beat Sakoto until he arrived at Owa town. He came across the second Esu, stretched out his hand with one bean cake to Esu,Īnd repeated what he had said to the first. He then ate the bean cake himself and went on. He met the first Esu and said “if I give you this bean cake, you would cause the rain The Babalawos further advised him to eatĪs he was going on his journey he tooks the bean cakes with him. He was advised to sacrifice a pigeon, a sheep and three bean cakes. Osunsun-igbo-yi-kos’oje, Oburokos’eje where the ones whoĭivined Ifa for Sakoto when he was going to Owa town. They heeded the advice and offered the sacrifice. Whatever the Babalawo wanted would be the sacrifice. They were told to perform sacrifice so that Okanran speaks about the importance of emotional communication as related to Conscious and Unconscious dynamics. As the sacred Odu Okanran relates about the communication process that involves emotions and communication, I started from this precise point, supported by old observations. Based on the evidences about the importance of human beings emotional world and psycho biologic communication in the complex process of getting sick and healing, I asked Ifa for clarification about the general sense of the healing process.

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