What is Voodooism (sp?)?
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Voodoo is a derivative of the world’s oldest known religions which have been around in Africa since the beginning of human civilization. Some conservative estimates these civilizations and religions to be over 10 000 years old. This then identify Voodoo as probably the best example of African syncretism in the Americas. Although its essential wisdom originated in different parts of Africa long before the Europeans started the slave trade, the structure of Voodoo, as we know it today, was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola. Ironically, it was the enforced immigration of enslaved African from different ethnic groups that provided the circumstances for the development of Voodoo. European colonists thought that by desolating the ethnic groups, these could not come together as a community. However, in the misery of slavery, the transplanted Africans found in their faith a common thread. \n\nThey began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own. In this process, they comingled and modified rituals of various ethnic groups. The result of such fusion was that the different religious groups integrated their beliefs, thereby creating a new religion: Voodoo. The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. This Afro-Caribbean religion mixed practices from many African ethnics groups such as the Fon, the Nago, the Ibos, Dahomeans, Congos, Senegalese, Haussars, Caplaous, Mondungues, Mandinge, Angolese, Libyans, Ethiopians, and the Malgaches.
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I can not supply you with the information you require because without knowledge and experience of what you are doing this can be a dangerous thing. What I am giving you is information that may lead to a better understanding of 'Voodoo' instead. These are note from a previous answer I gave.:\n\nFor too many, the word “voodoo” conjures up some wild images. Weird curses involving bones and pins stuck in poppets. Secret societies making sacrifices to their demonic gods. Evil priests raising zombies. Media has given us a sensational but unrealistic view of the vodoun religion. Although some of these are mildly accurate (sacrifice, animal bones and voodoo dolls) they are but a small part of the religion that is practiced today. Just as in Wicca, the vodoun make charms and create spells for money, health, etc. In fact because of the images associated with this word, most practitioners prefer the term Vodou. Although media would have us believe the vodoun are strictly in it for self-gain, that’s not true. According to Vodou belief, magic shouldn’t be employed for selfish gain, especially if it would hurt someone else.\n\nVodou came form the tribal practices and beliefs of the slaves who were brought to Haiti from West Africa. In the 17th century, slaves bound for the West Indies were taken from over 100 different African ethnic groups. The beliefs and customs of all these groups combined to form Vodou. The two groups who had the greatest influence were the Fon and the Yoruba.\n\nThe most important religious practice was ancestor worship. By remembering their ancestors and passing down their knowledge from generation to generation ensuring that their religious traditions would live on.\n\nThe Fon believed in hundreds of immortal spirits called vodu. Because the people had personal relationships with the spirits, they needed to communicate with the vodu. Ritual enabled them to talk to the spirits. The most important elements of the tribal rituals were…\n- dancing, drumming and chanting to communicate with the spirits\n- animal sacrifices made as offerings to the spirits\n- a priest or priestess who interpreted messages from the spirits\n- possession of the bodies of participants in ritual by the spirits.\n\nThe main purpose of the ritual was to communicate with the vodu and receive their guidance in making important decisions. They did this by communicating indirectly with the spirits via the priest/priestess to help their followers determine who their personal vodu were and to interpret the messages for them.\nPriests and priestesses were chosen for their ability to connect with the spirits. They were said to have inherited this talent from their mothers or fathers. They were “born into priesthood”.\n\nPriests became the religious and community leaders of the slaves. Any rebellious priest was usually sold to prevent them from “sowing the seeds of dissent” in that empire. \n\nThese religious practices continue to thrive today for modern day Benin. Vodoun is the official religion. It is also the dominant religion in Togo and southwest Ghana.\n\nAs in every religion, there are those who use it for wrong. With any religion that deals with magic it is said these wrongful users practice black magic. Although legitimate priests and priestesses are taught both the good and the bad, they take an oath upon initiation not to cause harm to others.\n\nThe lwa most likely to assit in black magic are : Kalfou, Ezili Danto’, Marinette, Bosou, Ti-jean-petio, Maman Brijit, Ge’de’- Nibo, and Baron Krimine’l.\n\nOnce a priest/priestess begins to practice black magic, they are known as a bo’ko’. A bo’ko’ has no temple or devotees and does all his/her rituals in secret. Bo’ko’ are said to serve the lwa with both hands because they practice both white and black magic. When a bo’ko’ buys the powers of one of the dark lwa, he’she must pay a high price, usually life-long service to the lwa. This pact between t
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To know more about it, please visit :\nhttp://www.parapsychology.org
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West African or not anyone that speaks things into existence is a practitioner of Voodoo.\n\nWhy just last week I said I wanted a new car and last weekend I went to the car dealership and bought one.  What I said the previous week came true.\n\nFurther proof you have never seen me pray either
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You're right to be worried.  You're a product of (and held captive by) your culture.  When the majority believe in, say Flying Invisible Space Monkeys, then you'd be crazy not to   1: figure out as much as you can about the FISM phenomenon and  2:  try to reason them out of their space monkey delusion.
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I don't belong to a cult.  I am religious, and voodoo does not work.  It is all phony.
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a controversial belief system developed by L. Ron Hubbard, based on a person being an immortal spiritual being whose survival depends on him/herself and his/her attainment of brotherhood with others and the universe\nHope that helps ya! God Bless!!
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Pastafarianism.\n\nAlso known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.
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Which Pagan path do you want to hear about? It is an umbrella term or a general name placed to someone who practices an earth based religion but no specific path beyond that.\n\nA short list of a few pagan paths so you can refine your search. This is not quite all of them and some can have variations within themselves as well.\nSanteria\nVoodum(the religion behind the practice of Voodoo)\nWicca\nAsatru(spelling may be off0\nOdin-ism\nSatanism\nDruidism\nBuddhism
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Black magick is very rare.  Contrary to popular belief, VooDoo, Voodou, or Hoodoo, is not an EVIL religion that only curses people with voodoo dolls.  In fact most of the Voodoo rituals are for health and fertility.  \n\nYes those rituals do exist in almost every form of Witchcraft, but they are rare and hard to perform.  In most cases you wouldn't receive any kind of Curse on you unless you really ticked someone off.  \n\nIf you are worried that you may have been cursed or someone is casting spells against you there are some simple steps you can take.  There are various herbs that can protect you from things like this for example Tarragon and Aloe.  \n\nIf it is serious you can go to the website below to find a local coven that is willing to bless you.
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The main thing that has to be considered is would you consider you self at risk for harm.  If you don't believe in witchcraft/voodoo it would be hard to file a threat charge since you have no belief that you will be hurt.  If however you do believe in witchcraft/voodoo then you'd have a case since you'd have a genuine fear for yourself.    \n\nHere's two examples:\n\n1)I'm going to murder you.  In this case anyone would believe that was a threat since a person can kill you.\n\n2)I'm going to beat you with a wet noodle.  No harm will come from that and thus no threat.
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biased and elaborate, eh?\n\nsolitary practitioner is the best.\nHonour all but Follow none.\n\nyou research however you wish, whatever you wish, whenever you wish.  the trick is, once you've found out that little piece of Good information, that will provide you with the rest of your motivation to continue.\n\nyou can be a solitary practicing christian, pagan, buddhist, visual artist, musician... etc.  though being an sp does imply persuits spiritual in nature, it truly can encompass any tradtition or sets of traditions, as long as you considered and carry out all aspects of what you do fairly and on your own.\n\nin sp, y'are only limited by You.
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It's a bunch of junk based on the rantings of L. Ron Hubbard.  They believe because there is a lot of hypnosis involved in it.  It is a religion that uses a lot of psychobabble as it's base.  They teach that all mental illnesses can be cured with vitamins and exercise  It involves thetens (aliens that live in all our bodies), There is also auditing session and garbage about the earth being a prison planet for aliens.  Toss in there Hubbard was a good friend and great admirer of Alister Crowley and some of what is in it is almost word for word some of Crowley's rituals.  There is also rumors and stuff floating around, how true it is I haven't a clue, that when you reach OT8 you learn that Hubbard called himself the anti-Christ and that humans have it all wrong, that Lucifer was God and God was the evil one.  It's whacked out!
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Hired by a team of scientists investigating suspended animation, Davis was sent to Haiti to discover the truth behind the mysterious Haitian legend of the zombi -- a mindless corpse allegedly reanimated by black magic and forced into servitude through the arts of shady voodoo experts. Shockingly, Davis discovered that the legends contained a large grain of truth, albeit radically misinterpreted by most audiences. According to Davis, zombis did in fact roam the Haitian countryside. However, they weren't technically undead.\n\nThe process began when a voodoo priest (known as a houngan) or some other properly educated individual decides that someone in the community has wronged him, or someone else, and must be punished. Backed by a strong cultural context and the predispositions created by the religious beliefs of the local people, houngan creates a special powdery toxin that sets the stage for zombification.\n\nThe intial dosing contains large amounts of a poison known as tetrodotoxin, aka pufferfish. The pufferfish is a delicacy in Japan, where daring gourmands enjoy preparing the fish very carefully in such a way as to remove its toxic glands. If the preparation is not sufficiently careful, the diner instead goes into a deep paralytic coma that can resemble death. If the preparation is really sloppy, actual death can ensue. The line between coma and death is extremely thin, which is why the fish is suitable for zombification, naturally.\n\nThe upshot of all this, according to Davis, was that the victim appeared to drop dead after being topically exposed to the poison, which he anecdotally heard was scattered on the doorstep of a house where it entered through the victim's feet. After the victim was "dead" and buried, the houngan and his cronies would unearth him or her a few days later in a terrifying ritual enhanced by a second powder containing hallucinogenic drugs.\n\nBetween the trauma of being buried alive, the effects of the first drugging, the trauma of being dragged from the grave in a midnight ritual, the effects of the second drugging, and the cultural expectations of people living in Haiti, the victim's psyche was so royally fucked that they deeply, truly believed they had been transformed into a soulless, will-less undead creature and behaved accordingly -- following orders and shambling a lot. (Some victims eventually recovered their bearings, although they were never quite the same.)
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voodoo? who do? you do?\n\nI really don't know much about voodoo. I don't want to say no because I still have hope that there is some magic in the world, but from what little I have heard it just does not seem realistic to me. I should become more informed
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probably demon possed\n(stupid satanists)\nthere are more people like that trust me
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Fanatical would be a better word I would think.  It's a 'religion' that is based on self improvement and learning to fix your own problems without needing professional help.  Once you get into it's quite hard to get out.  From what I have learned there is hypnosis involved in parts of it as well as thetans (aliens) in your body that you need to help put to neutral to grow.  It's really wierd.  The higher up you go the wierder it gets.  I do know L. Ron Hubbard was a good friend of Alister Crowly (the worlds most evil man who formed a lot of things on modern Satanism, and he did call himself the anti-christ) and a lot of Crowleys teachings are incorperated into it.  Some almost word for word.  There is also documentation around now, how true it is I don't know, that Hubbard did call himself the anti-christ as well. Also, that the supposed highest level of it, OT8, teaches that God was the bad one and that they are truely worshipping Lucifer, the good one.  It also involves that they are aliens and earth is a prison planet that aliens use as a prison so to speak.  They do deny that but they also denied OT3 vehimitly when it was leaked as well and it was true.\n\nPeople who have left it do frankly say that it is evil and brainwashing is involved.  People who have studied the teachings say that as well, that it is based on princiles that are false and don't do what they say they do.  They have such a strong following because they do have a lot of money and do sue people who say anything bad.  They may not win but what they do is wear the opponent down or keep litigating until they run out of money.  There is also the celebrity angle.  They are catered to and given special treatment.  They are heavily recuited do to their star power and influence with the masses.\n\nThis is a cult and it is one of those that is scarey, no doubt.  People do have a right to worry about them!  See the following links for information....