The Gate of Return — A Portal to the Divine Self

The Gate of Return — A Healing Portal for Africa and the Diaspora!

A Spiritual Gate of Self-Healing for Africans and the Humanity!

The Gate of Return is a portal of Love — a divine energy portal that allows Africans to access their true self and live harmoniously with the fabric of reality. The Gate is not a place. It is a consciousness. It is not a place we travel to but an internal space we resonate into. It is not a specific location on Earth, but a space within ourselves.

This inner travel requires us to use certain vehicles of consciousness — thoughts, emotions, reflections, and contemplations — in order to traverse the current consciousness and arrive at a different and higher self. The voyage is spiritual and metaphysical in nature. We are not traveling to any distance in space/time but rather traveling internally using vehicles and prisms that allows us to see the road and map the journey. Similar to the ways we use a car or an airplane to travel across the land and the air, we use certain qualities of thoughts, emotions, and states of consciousness to help us navigate the journey.

We, as a people, have arrived at a time and space that requires us to stop and contemplate the journey have been be on. Now is the mement for all Africans, especially the African Diaspora, to truly reflect on our collective odessey.

The Gate of Retun is a contemplative portal through which we can gather the spiritual Wisdom and the healing energy we need for the future ahead!

The Power Field of Gratitude
In order to access the Gate portal, we need to start our journey right where we are today by opening our hearts to gratitude. By opening our hearts to gratitude, our inner eyes — our souls — will begin to see the entire journey from Africa to the New World as a miraculous triumphant journey. Instead of only seeing the physical history, we will gain access to the metaphysical journey — the energies behind the events.

Gratitude is a powerful spiritual field that brings into our awareness the true dimension of our survival and illuminates the events along the path. Without gratitude, we would not be able to value our lives, let alone that of our parents, our grandparents and that of entire families and friends who gave of their life energy so that we can be alive at this moment in time. Only gratitude will shine the right light into our history and reveal the monumental accomplishment of our ancestors. In order to move into this contemplative mode of gratitude, we need to turn inward.

Contemplate the “Miracle” of Your Presence
Close your eyes and focus your attention on your breath. Notice how suddenly you awaken to your aliveness. You are alive and breathing! You are here in this present reality.

The fact that you are alive is the first miracle to be celebrated!

Do not take is monumental fact for granted. You were not supposed to be alive at all. You’re not supposed to be here in this reality. In order for you to be present at this moment, thousands of lives had to be sacrificed and their dreams differed so that you can exist and thrive. This miracle can only be seen and understood once your heart is open and able to resonate the emotional energy of gratitude.

Move deeper into this feeling of gratitude for being alive. Feel the rhythm of your breath in and out of your lungs. You are actually propelling your own life forward with every breath you inhale and exhale. Just having your breath alone is an unspeakable victory.

You are victorious because you are alive, nothing more!

Expand your awareness and take notice that behind your life, there are infinite cosmic forces sustaining your vitality and awareness. Move your attention to the air, the sunlight, the water, the earth, and all the elements of nature supporting your existence. They are all in alignment with your life energy. They’re all here to support your thoughts, your emotions, your intentions, and your creativity. The entire universe is in fact blessing you at this moment with its complete energy. Be thankful for this complex network of living cosmic forces behind your presence.

Let your mind wonder to your immediate families and friends. Be thankful for their nurturing and support. Focus on the positive ways they have contributed to your journey. Look for events and moments that inspire gratitude, even those that challenge you. They all add up to your life.

Now that you are deep into the space of gratitude, realize that you have entered into the proper heart space that is in true synchronicity with all the primal energies of nature (air, water, sunlight, earth, so on). The more you expand upon this energy of gratitude, the deeper you move into harmony with nature. By aligning your thoughts and emotions with the primal love energies of nature (cosmos) you are now beginning to purify your self of any thoughts and emotions contrary to the natural laws of goodness. By focusing on being grateful, you will find your internal guidance — the loving soul energy that will illuminate your voyage and show you the miracles along your path.

This is the space you want to be in — a loving space filled with great souls!

The practice of gratitude engages our hearts in ways that allows us to see every one as a helper in our journey. This transformation in our internal energy brings our being into harmony with the greater nature. Whenever we are able to sustain a harmony with nature, our life takes on a path of its own. It blossoms with beauty and creativity.

Stay in this path of purity by sustaining an open heart filled with gratitude. Gratitude is one of the major pathways to reharmonizing ourselves at the deepest core of our soul, bringing our entire being into proper balance and synchronicity with nature. Remember, we have to claim our divinity in order for our spiritual essence to enter our realm of conscious awareness.

By entraining our thoughts and emotions with feelings of gratitude, we are reclaiming our divine essence and aligning this energy with nature’s love principle. We are essentially levitating ourselves from mere human to a divine being.

Do not wait for anyone else to value your life. You must be the one to first accept yourself, your mind, your body, your soul, your creativity, your faults, and your genius. You must be the first to become aware of how special you truly are. The more you look outside of your being for acceptance, love, and appreciation, the more you will suffer as your energy is trapped and used to create even greater obstacles. The moment you turn inward and realize you are complete in your essence, you will begin to awaken to your divine self.

Turning inward does not mean that you will no longer love anyone else but yourself; on the contrary. It means that you are turning the loving attention inward, while radiating the same love energy out award. Instead of focusing your entire energy towards the outer world and finding yourself empty when that love is not reciprocated, you turn it inward and let its glow illuminate the world around you.

This is analogous to how stars are formed. A start first creates a gravitational center from which it pulls all debris from its surroundings. As these material and gas elements are heated and reduced to energy, it begins to build an ever-stronger gravitational pull around itself. Eventually, this inner force brings greater and greater elements into the center, hearting up and forcing the elements to bind together into a solid light core. At this point, the core becomes a young star — a ball of fire sustained by its own internal thermonuclear energy.

As you turn inward with a loving attention toward yourself, you will begin to gather your entire history, and its metaphysical elements of thought, emotions, opinions, and events, and so on, and pull them towards your heart — soul — center. As these elements flow into your heart, they become fuel as they are heated up and transformed into even higher loving energies. This inner loving focus will bring greater and greater elements into your heart center, heating up the core as the elements are forced to bind together, eventually forming a self-sustained consciousness supported by its own loving energy.

At this point, you become a young star — a loving human being who radiates goodness and sustains its own living through its internal thermo-lovingenergy!

The Healing Light of Forgivenss
Once you are able to feel gratitude for being alive, you are ready to begin a new journey — the journey of forgiveness. This journey will take you right into the very core of your being. In order to arrive at this internal Gate of forgiveness, you will need to face the essence of life. The ultimate quest of life is nothing but life itself. There is nothing more invaluable than life for it is every being’s primal focus: to be alive. This primal directive requires that you align your entire energy with nature and its laws. Nature is love — unconditional love. In order to harmonize with nature you need to move your heart towards universal love. The only way you can sustain your life is by having the Forces of Nature — love — on your side.

Forgiveness is the act of reclaiming your life energy. By releasing all the negative thoughts, emotions, stories, words, attitudes, and so on that have accumulate into your physical and spiritual bodies, you detoxify your body, mind, and soul right down to every vibration of your being. To forgive is to release all the toxic energies of thought and emotions back to nature.

Forgiving is analogous to grounding yourself to nature — Earth. It is to purge all the toxins from your system. These toxins include the personal and collective memories of any act of racistor discriminatory nature. These memories and histories are essentially vibrations plaguing your spiritual and physical bodies by causing anger, frustrations, shame, animosity, rage, and so on. These pollutants eat away at your life energy. By simply holding on to these thoughts and emotions, you are destroying your very life energy — your ultimate gift.

There is no economic measure for the value of your life. Nature only measures energy in qualitative terms. Thus, it measures life energy, not economic, political, social or group success. So be grateful for your life energy. With this life energy, you can create all other quantitative trappings of life. However, first and foremost is the fact that you are alive and healthy.

Enter The Gate of Return
The act of forgiveness will enable you to enter into resonance with the Gate.

Forgive all the ancestors, both black and white, involved in your journey.

Forgive all those that benefitted from the misery of slavery. Forgive every human soul that continues to benefit from the energy and consciousness of slavery. Surrender that energy to the great Divine. Let it go. Once you have come to a point in your life that you are ready to forgive, then you are ready to begin your journey into the Gate.

The Gate is entirely made of love energy. It does not accept any energy other than love. Only by entering into resonance with universal love will you be able to enter the Gate. As a state of cosmic consciousness, the Gate is a quality of heart energy that is in harmony with the very fabric of space itself. Space is an energy field made entirely of love energy. It does not accept any other quality of human vibration. All other energies like anger, hatred, animosity, sadness, and so on will be rejected. In order to harmonize your energy with that of the space itself, you will need to modulate your vibrations to the higher universal love energy.

The Gate of Return is about harmonizing your being with the very element of reality — the space you live in.

This journey starts by first going into your self and focusing your attention on your presence; being thankful for being alive! Once you have awakened to the miracle of being Alive, you need to immediatly begin to clense your heart of all energies harmful to your contined existense. Forgiveness is the most powerful spiritual healing medicine you can give to yourself.

Forgive all those that have trespassed against you and your ancestors. This act of forgiveness is, first and foremost, for your benefit. Forgiveness is an act that immediately benefits the forgiver. Done with sincerity and complete surrender, forgiveness will tranform you from a victum to a victor! You will immediately experience a sense of relief, relaxation, and invigoration. You will notice a sudden recovery of strength, vitality, and centeredness. A sense of harmony will overcome your being and align you with the universal energy.

You will become a triumphant Being of Love and Light — a true source for the presense of Divinity upon the Earth — the cosmic purpose for your existence!

This is the promise of The Gate of Return: to reclaim our Divinity!

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