The Journey Kwantu

I think spiritual burnout has led many people to make drastic decisions or to misinterpret their experiences. Some people left church because of spiritual burnout. Some people cut their beads, burnt their cloths and called ancestors demons because of spiritual burnout. In some cases the severity can lead to something that resembles a mental illness. […]

The vast majority of us will eventually find ourselves in some form of a crossroads in our spiritual journey. When we get to this point the decisions that we are faced with can sometimes make us doubt everything that we hold as not only true but also important about our beliefs. Can you think of […]

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But the topic of spirituality in the workplace is still a very broad one in terms of individual experiences and I was curious as to how others have navigated their encounters with spirit and spirituality as well as the complexities of spiritual purpose. So I spoke to Gogo Jebhu who spent years in the corporate […]

The nature of African spirituality is such that it involves not just the acknowledgment of the existence of the spiritual realm but also the existence of amadlozi and spiritual forces and the individualized encounters that we have with them in our daily lives. What is strange though is that as African spirituality continues to grow […]

This episode is a continuation of the topic asking Does changing countries affect your identity? It is part of a series that deals with the question of whether or not our identity affects our spirituality. I encourage you to make time to listen to the previous 3 episodes to get a better understanding of how […]

What happens to your identity as a black South African when you no longer live within the socioeconomic or political or even the cultural norms and criminal violence that defines so much of who we believe we are? If you are a black South African who is or has been living abroad for some time […]