The renewed attempt by the Honourable Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili to re-brand Nigeria has been greeted with mixed relations by Nigeria. Why some readily accepted it as been the right step in the right direction considering the battered image of our country. Some others simply believe it is business as usual. This skepticism was borne out of the fact that many such attempt has been made without any meaningful result but a waste of tax-payers money.
While this may or may not be the case with many others, they already find their place in this familiar project. As the fever catches further, different Nigerians from different walk of life already designed are carrying out various programmes to demonstrate their relevance. In fact, there have been claims and counterclaims from different quarters about who should and who should not be responsible for the image laundering of Nigeria and what form it should have taken or not.
It is against this background and in line with the word of our Lord Jesus in his that “seek ye first the kingdom of God....” that the Eckankar, a Spiritual Organisation believes that it behoves on us as a nation to think first of building the man spiritually rather than waste time and resources in building structures that may not last if proper foundation is not given to the man which made up the society that we are struggling to build, re-build and re-brand over and over again.
In further and practical demonstration of their believe in the spirituality of man over the building of structures, the Eck as they are popularly known and referred to by their faithful will be holding a public discourse on Building the Man as they present five new books by the Spiritual Leader of Eckankar, American Born Harold Klemp on Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th of April at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre.
The books exhibition and public discourse will feature the five new books by Harold Klemp, Spiritual Wisdom on Health and Healing, spiritual Wisdom on Relationship, Eckankar: Ancient Wisdom for Today, Truth has no Secrets Touching the Face of God and other such life searching books.
Particularly, the book Touching the Face of God is an expose on the way we experience God in our life which is important to becoming the man that God want us to be so that we can be a leading light in our society. Each quote in the book help every individual discover how daily practice of contemplative techniques and spiritual exercises helps you to receive guidance via direct communication with the divine spirit to become a wholesome being and in effect build a society to behold.
Going the way of the Ecks and other schools of thought, it is obvious that it will do us a lot of good to think of how to build the individual by ensuring that those in power search their minds, re-brand themselves spiritually and not their pocket. It is pathetic to think that day-in-day-out, our leaders divert funds with which they are suppose to provide the basic necessities of life for the people to their personal account for the benefit of their families and generations to come alone, sowing the seed of corruption which has now eaten deep to every facet of our lives – religious organisations, schools, offices etc
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