ENERGIES OF SANTERÍA

By Mayte Abad Morente

Usually, at the beginning of our process of spiritual awakening, we look for answers to our questions outside of ourselves rather than inside of ourselves. Instead of looking for God within ourselves, we search for God outside. We try to find a spiritual master, guru, prayer or something that reveals the truth to us. We want someone to show us our path and teach us how to evolve spiritually.

So often, the teacher we choose knows even less than ourselves. As we listen to these outer teachers we become deaf to our inner teacher. Then we don?t follow our inner voice, and we don?t open ourselves to our Higher Self (the Divine part inside of us). We strike out blindly.

We just have to seek inside ourselves, and the help we need is presented along our own path.

At first, feeling subtle energies — energies from the Angels or entities which vibrate in unconditional love — is so difficult. We barely notice their presence if we are in our minds, with our internal chattering.

The energies of the entities of Santeria, Umbamba, Voodoo, etc., the thicker energies of the orishas (Afrocuban deities) are so much easier to perceive and feel. In our 3D world, in this polarized reality, "to see is to believe" works so well.

The orishas, with their weighty energies, are easy to hear, see, and feel for people who have only had experiences with material things. Besides that, even if the people don?t perceive the orishas, the results of their intervention are obvious. For example, a santero (a kind of priest in this religion) can do a sort of work to heal someone from a serious disease, and it appears to work immediately and miraculously. Everyone is impressed by miracles.

We have to keep in mind that the orishas have their own agenda, their own personality, and usually, they are not energies of unconditional love. They do something in exchange for something. When we go to them, it may be that we are not respecting our soul`s journey and it will be harder for us to learn the lesson we have chosen.

When you see an orisha come into a medium's body, you can see the change in this person with your own eyes. The physical characteristics, the gestures, the voice, everything changes, and sometimes, the medium has a supernatural strength. When you see this, you believe, and little by little you enter this "world".

One time I heard a sentence: "Magic is like the ocean, perhaps you live in a desert and don?t believe in the ocean, but if you go to the shore and wade into the ocean, you will surely get wet".

If you work with Santeria, whether or not you keep the items associated with its practice (altar, flag, collars...), you are creating obligations and responsibilities to the orishas and their related spirits. And over time your dependence increases, and your freedom decreases.

I speak from my point of view and my experience. The energies of Santeria remind me of the energies trapped within the vortexes of cathedrals and other buildings here in Spain. We humans have prayed to, made supplications of, and made pacts with these entities to fulfil our own purposes for many, many years. When we did this there has not always been unconditional love in our hearts. We have cried out to these entities for revenge as well as for healing. We have pleaded for our love to be returned to us by another, or for our situation to be improved, and for obstacles to disappear.

It is time to awaken to our Divine part. It is time to love unconditionally and to live in our hearts. It is not time to fight and reject. We have to release these energies, give them permission to follow their spiritual path, so they can evolve. We cannot load them with our power and our tasks.

Everyone wants to evolve, but evolve without effort, without taking the time, without change...and this way does not work. We have to listen to our soul and follow our heart. Inside our heart there is nothing separate from us. All the creation is ONE, and every one of us came here to give Life a chance to be ONE again consciously. May we try, each of us, to do our part, and continue working.

Aroha tino nui (in Maori, the greatest unconditional love)

Mayte Abad Morente

8mayte@gmail.com

About Mayte Abad Morente

Mayte Abad Morente resides in Spain. She is a Reiki Master (Tibetan Usui) and translator (English-Spanish). Her journeys and studies with esoteric teachers and native elders inform her writing and translations. She has translated and helped to edit writings from the Maori Elders, essays by Norma Gentile, and two books by Drunvalo, "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, vol 2" and "Living in the Heart", as well as various DVDs soon to be published by Conchita Castellanos and Teohua. Email: 8mayte@gmail.com

Mayte Abad Morente with Drunvalo Melchizedek