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SPECIAL REPORT: The Mental, Spiritual Healing Powers Of Holy Bible-Themed Reggae Music

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970's: Jamaican-based, classic reggae Music king Bob Marley Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images



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Jamaican-based classic reggae music's hypnotizing melodic rhythms are often irresistible and mentally helpful to the hearer, worldwide supporters and adherents say. This special report and post reflects their points of view.


The music is often inspired by the uncompromising, charismatic Christian leadership of black nationalists like Christian Emperor Haile Selassie I and Marcus Garvey.


Couple the word, sound and powerful lyrics and themes straight from the Holy Bible and you have an enduring music genre without the need of publicity and help from the enemies of God who seek to promote wickedness in music lyrics and genres, and to suppress Christian-themes in broadcasted music.


In fact, no other music genre, including American Gospel plus "Negro" spirituals and hymns, incorporate more amounts of Biblical themes and passages than classic reggae.


Traditional Jamaican-based reggae also incorporates themes of Pan-Africanism, especially that of internationally-acclaimed and decorated Haile Selassie I. Also known as Ras Tafari, he is remembered as a world statesmen from Africa the likes of which the world had never seen.


He established and oversaw the vaunted Organization of African Unity. He also unabashedly represented his royal family heritage and history in the noble line of ancient Israel's kings David and Solomon.


This is the same line to the everlasting throne of God's Kingdom into which Jesus Christ was born. The noble line of King David claimed by Ethiopians Emperors since the union of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Isaiah 43)


Emperor Selassie's supporters and proteges include Marcus Garvey, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, aka "Burning Spear."


All of the above helped "set the captives free"from British-led African colonialism and Deep South American Jim Crow and civil rights injustice.


Deep Jamaican native Marcus Garvey is recalled as one of the most unique and powerful orators of the 20th century. His "back to Africa movement" was derailed on trumped-up charges. The movement to grant him a pardon from the office of the US President is going full speed ahead, spearheaded by his descendants.


Mr. Garvey's astronomically popular Universal Negro Improvement Association was considered the grassroots movement of the late 1910s - 1940s.


Way more so than the NAACP, that was considered more of a middle-to-upper class movement. Its leaders included academicians like W.E.B. DuBois.


Marcus Garvey was self-educated, largely from his dad's personal library.The UNIA is considered, by many, to be the forerunner of Black Nationalist movements including the Nation of Islam and Rastafarianism.


The Rastafarian movment, while more Christian than Islamic, that he helped to inspire has evolved into a movement that incorporates all races.


Under his uncompromising and charismatic leadership, Black Nationalism in American reached unprecedented levels of membership, support and expanded to the international reaches of black communities large and small.


Not to be confused with the "woke" or "social justice movement," Black Nationalism exploded in the 1930's after Emperor Selassie I was crowned King of Kings, Lord of Lords in Ethiopia, in an unprecedented ceremony attended by nearly all of the world's heads of state, presidents, royals and-or their representatives.


The African independence movement swept Africa after Ras Tafari was crowned emperor. The Rastafarian movement took shape in the 1940's, established by a well-dressed Jamaican orator named Leonard Howell.


Not only does the classic reggae music Rastas make sound good, it has virtually no forms of cussing or promotion of gangsterism or vulgarity.


There are plenty of "dubs" or instrumentals that promote tranquility. healthy eating, exercise, prayer, Bible reading, black history and standing up for inequality in all forms and fashions.


The art form accepts fashionable criticism because of its views on the medicinal, mental health and healing qualities of natural herbs including cannabis.


The music does not have to be listened to under the influence of medicinal herbs, alcohol or tobacco.


The desire and prayer for many adherents is for the Lord to allow them to experience the same spiritual uplifting, peaceful attitudes, illumination, enlightenment, blessed love-filled hearts and perseverance power with or without herbal inducement.


The spiritual powers from upon high helps experienced listeners in the "casting down of imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowldege of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:5)




Singers are less likely to be racked with scandal like men of the cloth are. Many wildly popular Christian ministers have lost followers like running water. But the music cannot go away. Music is like fashion. If you keep it long enough, then it will come back in style.




The Word of God is everlasting, and that is why reggae music is too.


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