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How to Recognize Your Spiritual Path (The Path to Your Awakening)

Looking back into my life, I am amazed at all the signs that showed themselves to me, that I were to become who I am today.

As a child growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, although afraid of them, I was fascinated by ghost stories being told by the elders on our veranda at nights. Stories of rolling calves (this is a particular kind of ghost that we talk about in Jamaica), De Laurence, and if Miss Mary next door obeah her sister and gave her “foot.” Conjuring these memories as I write makes me laugh as I could see myself sucking my thumb and sitting on my mother’s lap, covering my ears when the conversation came up about ghosts.

Although I only pressed my hands gently over my ears, not entirely covering them, so that I could still hear them talk. Yes, I was an odd child; and what fed my curiosity, I believe, the most, was my fascinating mother. In my mind as I look back on her, growing up, she taught me many things without actually having me as a student. I watched her and listened to whatever she would say. Out of all her children, I was the one who was unknowingly interested in everything and all things spiritual, possibly something innate within me, who knew who I were to be, told me to pay attention.

As I’ve written in other posts, I have always been aware of things that were beyond what the physical eyes could see although I had no way of explaining what I felt, and so it acted out in me being a fearful child, I was always afraid. I was so afraid that my family at times became annoyed with me for never wanting to sleep alone (sleep paralysis/duppy hol’ dung which plagued me), for being fearful of going into any room or being there by myself. Unknowingly, I was aware, spiritually, of things that could not be seen with the physical eyes. They were there, some who were my own guides and guardians, and others who realized that this child had a light within her, and thus made me feel their presence. I connected with the movie the Sixth Sense of a boy who was fearful of things that he realized that he could see and feel but had no idea what they were. This movie was the premise of my life, I believe.

Back then, it was as if those who were guiding me, held a lantern that lit my path of the road that I needed to trod. It was like following a pathway of light held by my guides, I was afraid of what I might be following, but yet still curious and fascinated enough to continue on. That light led me to America. The night before we were to leave, I went on my knees and prayed to God to lead us to a good place when we arrived in America (which I did not want to go).

In my prayer I asked God to set me free until I settled in America and when he was ready, call me back in again, for I had no idea if I could even find God in America, or if there was even a Church that I could go to. I was migrating to a new land, new people, new way of life, and new beginning. In hindsight I chuckle as I look back now and see even the very clothes that I wore when I left Jamaica, told me of my journey to spirituality, but I knew it not. The day we left Jamaica was on a Tuesday – the day of Ogun, the deity of Iron in the Ifa/Orisa tradition and protective deity of Jamaica. His color is green. On the day I left Jamaica, I wore a black body suit and green pants (two colors of the Jamaican flag which was not planned lol), however, the green represented Ogun and the black represented my ancestors.

The reason Ogun is important here is because not only is he the God of Iron and one of the patron Orisa’s of Jamaica, but he is also the one who clears the way. With his machete, he is the one who removes obstacles and clears the path; and also the Ifa that I have now, Ogun stands strongly within it’s verses. It was important for me to point this out to you because down to the very food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the jobs we do tells us of our paths, if only we know. Remember I always tell you that life speaks to us in codes – we must be wise to understand them. Had I been a knowledgeable elder then, seeing a younger Obara Meji heading off to America dressed as she was, I would have held a secret smile because I would have known who she were to be and the path that she was heading on.

You will know that you are on a spiritual path or on becoming awake or on your journey, regardless of who you are now and your beliefs regarding religion, if you:

  • Are very interested in every and all things spiritual or occult! example, books, spiritual parties, festivals, drumming, spiritual songs, spiritual churches, etc
  • The Universe and all it’s cosmology appeals to you
  • Religion and it’s teachings, you begin to question, trying to see what is beyond what has been put into books
  • You have visions and dreams where you may see or experience things that are out of the norm
  • A person who experiences Sleep Paralysis often or once in a while
  • Once in a while there is an intense vibrational feeling in the body (i.e. feeling as if you’re swelling when you’re awake and not asleep)
  • A personal connection to a particular culture and their spiritual traditions/almost feeling as if you’ve been apart of that culture before
  • Deja Vu Moments which are stunning in it’s flashback, remembering some of your incarnations or dreaming of them
  • The ability to foresee things even if you do not say it, you will see it manifest or unfold
  • The ability to sense when something is wrong an extrasensory perception
  • A unique love for nature and all within
  • A fear of nature and all within/the ability to see or sense spirit entities even if you are not sure what they are
  • A fear of sleeping alone and not being able to explain why that fear is there
  • Little or no friends
  • A disconnection within your family/ being the black sheep
  • Depression, anxiety, and panic attacks
  • An unusual fear which you cannot explain
  • An unusual curiosity about death and all it entails
  • Hypochondriacs
  • Cats and other animals being attracted to you
  • Constantly blamed for things you’re innocent of and unable to convince everyone else otherwise (in this area it shows you are a leader and are very strong)
  • Being a defender, the village lawyer, the one who always has to speak up
  • Being apart of your religion but still feeling a disconnection from it
  • An urge to build a spiritual altar to connect with ancestors, but please note that even though you have built an altar, do not believe that you have achieved any type of “power,” you have just been born, and no where is a child born and able to walk immediately as it comes from it’s mothers womb.
  • An urge to study herbs and plants and it’s medicinal properties and values
  • An attraction to crystals, stones, and other elements
  • Being fascinated by spiritual people

These are some of the ways a person can know if they were born with a certain “light” that will eventually guide them if they pay attention to where they ought to be and to who they are.

Side Note: Please know that if you are one of the “chosen ones” then you are on your way of being an interpreter of the world beyond and this world. Whether you are being gifted with healing, prophesying, warning, or otherwise, the “power” of being a spiritualist never belongs to the human being but to his Divine Creator who has sent him on this journey along with his guides who has helped him find his path. Most often, people, after being lead to their correct path, begins to believe that the “power” they hold, is their own. This is what destroys them in the end.

There was a time I noticed that my father had a large scar straight down the middle of his stomach. It began from the middle of his chest and ended past his belly button. My mother told us that he had 3 operations for Ulcer, after which we found out that he had gone through, as a young man, a horrible situation of being tied (spiritually binded) to his first baby’s mother (read here). After I met my Padrino, one day he was doing a Misa, a spiritual seance. He was a medium. The spirit came down, greeted me and told me a fascinating story: He knew me from I was a small baby that my parents would put into a blue crib and I would drink from a yellow nipple bottle while laying on my back. The spirit told me that he was the one who brought me to America with the consent of my nonphysical elders, because he was now one of my guides. He also said that he was paid to kill (my enemy’s) father, and on the day that he came to our house to do the work, as he entered the front door, he saw the most beautiful child laying in her crib drinking from her bottle. He told me that he fell in love with me that day. Not in way of wife, but in way of the “beauty” my aura radiated; and although he had been paid to take my father with him to the world of beyond, he realized he could no longer do so because of this child.

Instead and because he was already paid for the work, he did meet my father and hurt him, not in a way to kill him but in the way of sickness, which manifested itself in the form of Ulcers that he had to have 3 major operations on. I was shocked at this revelation during the Misa. Padrino was indeed not there and this was the spirit speaking, for how else could anyone know this about my father, as I sat there among all who were strangers to me, and my life back in Jamaica. The spirit continued to tell me that upon doing this work he opted to be apart of my spiritual guides and has been with me to this day. It was the first time in my life that I learned the name of one of my spirit guides and his function in my life.

He told me that Jamaica could not have supported who I were to be and although I resisted leaving the island, I had to, in order for Obara Meji to be born. With that revelation, I, who was on a path, sitting in Padrino’s house, realized that no matter what we believe we are here to do in this life, no matter who we aspire to be, it is the road of our destiny that is marked to be fulfilled.

Recognizing that you are on a spiritual path is not something that you will work hard at seeing or realizing. It will come to you because it has already found you. You were born to be who you are. Now there are people who resist their journey, I was one who tried, but try as I might, and as fast as I ran, I could not outrun what God had already written for me.

I love you all,

Obara Meji

Oò ṣá’gi lọ́gbẹ́, oò ta ògùrọ̀ lọ́fà, o dé ìdí ọ̀pẹ o ńgbẹnu s’ókè, ṣé ọfẹ ló máa ńro ni?
You neither cut an oil palm, nor punctured a raffia, yet you opened up your mouth under a palm for wine. Does it drip freely?

[Nothing ventured, nothing gained]

Everything comes when it must, and everything happens for a reason, do not hurry your life, what is destined for you, cannot escape you, just keep the faith, be patient and be prayerful, filled with compassion, kindness and respect for all, let these qualities be among your name, God will fill in the rest…..Obara Meji!

All religions are valid as long as it teaches peace and love….Obara Meji

There are no disappointments in life, only lessons learned!….Obara Meji

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Beautiful_Ori
2 years ago

Wow! The Spirit that was paid to go harm became one of your guides. Has this spirit become one of light then? Would it still take those types of contracts? E.g killing your enemy’s father? Fascinating! Thank you Ms. Obara!

Lolade
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Lolade
3 years ago

Hmmm,Sister Obara meji,I must commend you for a great work you’re doing here,its not easy to bring back a childhood memory,Sometimes last week,I was seriously sick,and when I slept one night,all I was hearing in my ears was ‘Ela Iwori’i used to remember some of my dreams and forget some as well, but on that fateful day,I did not remember it,but that sound continued ringing in my ears,I used to watch movies, especially Yoruba movies, But its been a very long time that I watch any yoruba movies,uptill now,I don’t know what it means,most of my dream is seeing myself… Read more »

Raypower76
3 years ago

Great One,

I can relate to more than seven items on that list. Please, those of us that are willing and ready for mentorship to grow in our chosen task are eagerly waiting for you for mentoring.

I can say I am fully ready!

Again, you continue to shock us with unbelievable revelations of knowledge beyond us but within us if only we are ready to learn.

Thank you Great One!

JOJO QUEEN
3 years ago

This made me cry!! I can relate to so much in this post, I just wish my spirit guides would Introduce themselves i wouldn’t feel so alone at times thanks for this teacher (obara)

Prosperity
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Prosperity
8 years ago

I have always had what they called sleep paralysis. But I will never forget once when I was about 19 or 20 I was staying at a friends house in Jamaica. A massive house on the hills. It was a big family and I enjoyed staying with them from time to time. This particular night I went to one of the bed rooms on my own to lie down. I was not asleep as I could hear my friend and her sisters chatting away in the next room. It was night the lights were off in the room which I… Read more »

Aisha
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Aisha
8 years ago

Thank you for this post. I relate to many items on this list. I also used to love hearing duppy stories as a child, I was obsessed! Lol.

queenleelee1
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8 years ago

Oh wow I love this post, and it gave me an insite as to why I am here. .From an early age I have always wanted to help and heal people..And find happiness in watching a wound heal or seeing a sick person get better..And as you said you don’t know why you do what you do, your just driven to do it. I am so glad my guides sent me to you my Obara..because I was lost and now I have found a path to take my journey to my spirituality on ..I have a visual mind so I… Read more »

toy7318
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

Ok 🙂

toy7318
8 years ago

You know lately I have been getting a chill in my body sensation. It isn’t like I am cold, but more like a tingling sensation in my body. I can’t even describe it properly, but it happens at the same time every night.

KB
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KB
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

Lol ツ

KB
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KB
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

Tehehehe hush Obara is true tho. Little or no friends is right in the list but i dont like that at all. Cami we still here mi love.

Yep ive acheived 16 out of the 27 spiritual points up top to know im on an awakening path.

Cami
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

Obara, me distracted (you know why). And is no lie that me absent mostly because me heartbeat dem TY/YW no de bout. I see NuNu, KB and Toy still so that’s good. I like reading the Newbies but them address you mostly.

Me soon follow up the feeding comment. Me ago fly out fi the day, so me do it tomorrow night when me return.

KB
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KB
8 years ago

Ok well 16/27…guess im really a spiritual walk. Lets continue TeamKB!!!

KB
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KB
8 years ago

Obara u have always protected ur family. From the cradle to now and beyond. Yu saved ur father before u even knew of danger.

jamaica007
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8 years ago

Interestingly enough I have felt this way for many years.. ” You will know that you are on a spiritual path or on becoming awake or on your journey, regardless of who you are now and your beliefs regarding religion, if you: …” all of them

Cami
8 years ago

O, funny you have the spirit story of you as a baby; mine own was of being fed by a spirit.

Cami
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

Good day! Obara Meji! lol Alright: went on the one day trip. It was a bit stressing, but good. However, me lost me *&%$#! phone on the bloody plane, so I had to buy a new one and the contacts didn’t port over to the new one…now I know about gmail account backup ;). Got tipsy on that potent inflight white wine looking back I should have declined the last pour, lol. It was the spirits that revived me and got me to a bathroom stall to sober up to get home safe. ASI Obara, as promised in short form… Read more »

toy7318
8 years ago

Good Afternoon everyone. Hi Obara, KB, Cami, Cher and the rest of ES family. Ty and Yw we miss you both… I love this ” You couldn’t outrun what God had written for you.” You are awesome

Cami
8 years ago
Reply to  toy7318

Hey Sistren, hope all is well. Morning everyone.

Obara, I like the new look on the site.

lincoln
8 years ago

Hi Obara Meji
Ok I have all those traits you mentioned!!!!
what do I do –

AcolyteCB
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AcolyteCB
8 years ago

Good morning KB and Courtney!

Thank you Obara Meji, for adding those two missing components because they really do complete your posts.

I believe your spirits do so to protect you (and or that person lest they do something foolish and have to pay the price). My male friend finds it very hard to meet women because his ancestors block this women from seeing him. It is fascinating how it all works.

I shall definitely be around as long as I am allowed to be! You have my word on that and I love you too!

courtney
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courtney
8 years ago

Good Morning Fam

Awesome post today.It is amazing how life comes together and how all the pieces connect. A wealth of knowledge makes me wonder and think about alot of pieces in my life.

KB
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KB
8 years ago

Ekaso Obara CB all ES

Whether you are being gifted with healing, prophesying, warning, or otherwise, the “power” of being a spiritualist never belongs to the human being but to his Divine Creator who has sent him on this journey along with his guides who has helped him find his path. ASE!!!

ok let me finishing reading this great post…it speaks volumes to me! hmmm

Cher
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Cher
8 years ago

Hi Obara and all the crew, great post as always! One of my favorite quotes, “many are called few are chosen”, you as you know are one of the chosen. God bless you! There is always something in your postings when I do read I can relate to. Thank you.

Manta
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Manta
8 years ago
Reply to  Obara Meji

In church they used to say take the road less travelled, guess a that mek it lonely. Be strong none the less and trod on.

AcolyteCB
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AcolyteCB
8 years ago

Hi Obara Meji and ESP clan! I used to say to my Jamaican boyfriend  (now ex) “Tell me a storyyyy” and sometimes he would tell me about the mermaids or the beings that dwell in the caves or sometimes he would laugh and say “guh way” lol..your childhood reminded me of this, because like yourself, I can’t get enough. I believe you were born in the right place as well. The land where Ogun and Oshun rule, so that was the ideal location. You know I cannot lie to you but 2 days ago, I was thinking about this tale… Read more »

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