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Book your SpaceArchaela is a Jewess descended from the biblical tribe of Benjamin, son of Rachel and Jacob. This is a remembered identity, guided by Rachel, a matriarch of the Jewish people. These blogs, written under the shamanic name Archaela Miriam bat Rachel, is an ethnobiography recording the process of Archaela’s lineage healing, guided by Gogo Rachel.
From an African perspective, Archaela is a traditional healer-diviner (sangoma) initiated into the African Shamanic InZuza lineage. Through an inter-spiritual process, she identifies as a Roman Catholic reverting to Judaism. Her work is focused on enriching the world with spiritual integrity in order to manifest, in an inclusive environment, love and hope, authenticity, justice and mercy. There are three basic modes in which this is provided:
Readings in the InZuza lineage are done with or without the bones and sometimes with bone substitutes such as drawings.
Archaela is registered with NUPAATHPSA (National Unitary Professional Association for African Traditional Health Practitioners of SA). Her membership number, under her legal name, Aline de Gouveia, is GP 492.
When praying I may ask the Father for guidance through my ancestor Rachel – an open channel of patient waiting for her children to own soul-identity remember and act upon finding shelter within Jacob’s tents allowing for each of his children a space to be at home in beauty and harmony living in community for
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the western wall at the temple mount was built by the poor, the Jewish poor, who, being unable to afford hired labour, did the work themselves this is the wall that Jewish people weep at, the Gate of Tears, which according to tradition, is the only gate left open after the destruction of the Second
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the sukkah i built during sukkot was a pictorial revelation of my soul’s purpose as an israelite; (so happy i was to find this alternative usage being used in my new morning prayer siddur in the blessing prayer called she’a’sani Yisrael: “Blessed are You, Hashem our Divine power, royal Guide of the Universe, who has
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Beloved of the Soul Siddur: Soulful Prayers gazed at me from a display table at Kollel bookshop a daily morning prayer book written for people like me; an answer to my prayer for a siddur I could follow without anxiety about what bits I could pray and what sections I had to leave out when
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like locusts chowing africa’s crops so too malema and the eff; motherless these men seem to be completely ignorant of their ancestral gogos it is as though the sun through them burns too brightly scorching earth as they pass through by a third force taken over they are; one of their regional leaders said it
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my task is from now, always was; i had not the words for it until recently an inclusive term for there are men who support the feminine as there are women who trample on her for greed is genderless as is lust and stinginess sitting in my hastily made sukkah for which i sacrificed a
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Ownership is an interesting concept And might be the key To understanding eco-social sustainability; I find it interesting that this concept May be split from political ideology And religious identity For China is communist And capitalist at the same time; America is simultaneously democratic And imperialist Ownership is also split Between sectors And classes And
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A new pattern is emerging; I wake up before dawn Write for an hour Or a thousand words Not more For I had been cheating; Pushing myself For I wanted to speed up the process Get to the finishing line For this piecemeal own purpose ‘revelation’ Requires immense patience From one who is always on
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