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the field of psychology, being a study of the mind, can benefit greatly from learning its metaphors. Sacred symbols and folk beliefs are keys to the deep mind, just as a clock tells time but does not contain it. These symbols are simply tools that represent subjective realities and psychic projections.

For Assata, spirituality was not an escape but a survival mechanism, a wellspring of strength, and a practice of remembrance. In Cuba, she deepened her understanding by studying African and Afro-Cuban religions, where ancestors and ordinary objects—rocks, leaves, shells—become sacred (Ifa-Orisa is an Earth based practice). She described this... See more

“I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don’t mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people.

In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at... See more