What is American Ifa?

American Ifa is the logical, rational, consistent expression of ancient African Truths and Observations and how they can most effectively be used to empower your life in today’s world.

American Ifa has peeled away the artificial barriers of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and color, all of which were the twisted representations of a particular cultures bias and prejudice, and were woven into the philosophy by those who found them convenient and controlling.

American Ifa has restored the ancient Truths of brilliant Yoruba wise men and women to their original Eternal Living Energy, and discarded the stories which represented contextual truth and observations of certain times and cultural settings of the past. In so doing we teach not the word or frozen truths that Western religion came to depend upon, and ultimately become impotent from, but rather eternal energies that express today’s truth in today’s world.

American Ifa is the result of more than a quarter of a century of examination and study relating to how to apply the basic Truths, Wisdom and Understanding of the ancient Yoruba wise men and women in a methodology that would discard the Christian/Muslim influences that harmed it.

American Ifa is a result of ripping away the Western religious worldview that saw the Earth, and our existence on it, as a constant struggle between good and evil. That viewed our world as part of a malevolent universe in which only the paternalistic guidance of a small group of priests could save us.

American Ifa restores the enlightened understanding that this is a benevolent universe, created by a benevolent God. That this Creative Force supplied us with the roadmap to successfully achieve our Destiny through the process of Divination, and the appropriate use of the other energies that were Natural part of Creation we call Orisa, and Ancestors. American Ifa restores this process to the Natural order and understanding implicit in the Creation rather than the artificial construct of a supernatural process that is above the understanding of man.

American Ifa restores your personal right to love and be loved, to health, to children, to fulfilling your Destiny without the paternalistic dependence of Western religion and modern Orisa practice. American Ifa understands your need to be helped and taught, but focuses on your learning to care for yourself, those you love and the Universe you are part of. It is this wisdom and growth, this relationship with those we love, the community we live in and the universe we are part of, that exemplifies the ancient African Truths.

American Ifa is: Ifa for today’s world!

Blessings,

Oluwo Philip Neimark

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