Includes the author’s interviews with bush doctors, healers, and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica.Shares the spiritual wisdom of Rastafari through the stories, teachings, and traditions of practicing Rastas in Jamaica This ebook covers 5 Rasta Rules to think wisely 5 Rasta rules for using technology 13 Rasta Ital Food Laws story of queen Esther 7 Rastafari Rules for Dreadlocks 4 Rules for dressing as Queens 4 Bible quotes on how women of Jah should dress 7 Rasta Rules for the home 5 quick Rasta rules/guidelines for marriage, and socializing 5 guidelines for Raising Rasta children Solomon’s Wives 6 Rasta rules/guidelines for Ital Food cooking 20 Rasta Rules & Laws about sex 20 Various Laws for Rasta 6 Blessings of Obedience to Jah Rastafari 5 Punishments for breaking Jah Rastafari Rules 9 Rules of The Jah Rastafari Holy Sabbath 10 Rasta Rulesevery Rasta knows 3 Rasta Rules for Holiness and purity 5 King Selassie I Rules in Quotes (last) 5 Rastafari Holidays
RASTA WAYS OF LIFE HOW TO
Find out how to truy live as a Rasta, and keep all the regulations of Rastafari. Rastafari do have rules for embracing the faith that most people do not know. From the 13 Laws of cooking Ital Rasta food, to Rasta rules for marriage, sex and relationships. Highly recommended, especially for any reader looking to better understand the Rastafarian way of life through the words of the people who practice it.This book will teach you all the rules and laws and regulations of living as a Rastafari. Rastafarian spiritual wisdom, recounted here in authentic Jamaican patois, emphasizes equality: an unwavering faith and hope in the holy spirit that lives in each human being.”. Hausman skillfully connects the lives and beliefs of these peaceful and resourceful people-fishermen, wicker weavers, Rasta preachers, respected elders, and wise men and women-through heartfelt conversations that arise spontaneously while sitting under the shade of a pimento tree, in a dusty yard, or by firelight in the cool evening ocean breeze. They are all, as his eloquent mythlike prose reveals, the voices of the cherubim and seraphim of old.”. This book goes straight to the heart with truths that are seldom written but often said in my home country.” -įolklorist Gerald Hausman takes us deep into the modern dreamtime of Jamaica’s backwaters, enthralled by the company of living prophets and conmen, killers and saints, obeah workers and ethereal half-real creatures of the sea.
You will also meet younger rootsmen whose faith is constant and true. Within these pages you will meet a man who knew Marcus Garvey and an elder who met Haile Selassie I when he came to Jamaica. Illustrating the unwavering faith and hope of the Rastafari of Jamaica, Hausman shows them to be a people who, above all, emphasize equality, because the Holy Spirit within each of us makes us all one and the same.ĭay by day, the elders who formed the foundation of Rasta in the 1920s and ’30s are passing. He shares their views on the medicinal and meditative powers of cannabis-the sacred herb of Solomon-and explains that while Rastas believe it to be “the opener of the door,” they maintain that peace and understanding must be found within. He connects their stories, lives, and teachings with important biblical passages as well as reggae songs.
Through interviews with fishermen, mystics, and wise men, as well as direct encounters with spirits and the spiritual, the author reveals the deep wisdom that underlies the “old ways” of the Rastas. He also met elders who were present when Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia and descendant of the House of David, came to Jamaica in the 1960s. He met bush doctors, Rasta preachers, members of the Marley family, and respected elders who knew Marcus Garvey, prophet of the Rasta movement and vocal proponent of the Pan-African movement in America. During his 15 years living in Jamaica, Gerald Hausman developed deep friendships with Rastafarians and rootsmen, enabling him to experience firsthand the beliefs and traditions of these followers of the Kebra Nagast-the African gospel excised from the King James version of the Bible. Tracing their lineage back to King Solomon-the wisest man who ever lived-Rastafarians follow a spiritual tradition of peace and meditation that is more a way of life than an organized religion. Explains the connection of Rasta beliefs to important biblical passages.Reveals the old ways of the Rastafarians and how their beliefs form an unbroken lineage tracing back to King Solomon.
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