Except for the day you are born and the day you are supposed to die there is not a single event in one's life that cannot be forecast and if necessary changed. You are born with a specific path, divination serves as a road map to your path. Divination is defined as the faculty of foreseeing. Divination (Ifa) is an art and it involves having insight into one's fortunes and misfortunes from birth to death and beyond. Each person has a certain God given life potential.

As a person grows, the world challenges him/her with obstacles that tend to throw him/her out of alignment with whom he/she has the potential to be. Divination serves as a means to realign a person to their rightful path that was decided upon in heaven before one's arrival to earth. If one aligns is with the forces of nature, which are within us all, one will have a more fortunate outcome with one's endeavours. Divination is a means for achieving one's endeavours (spiritual aspirations) and teaches us to balance ourselves with our environment. This crucial element (divination) is missing in the masses of the African descendants in the New World and even in Africa itself.

Western science is biased against the validity of divination as the source of inspiration. Divination deals with the invisible/spiritual forces that exist in our reality. Western science deals with these unseen influences, but calls them "laws of physics". The methodology used by Western science, in its futile attempt to understand unseen influences, is to conjure up theories and create experiments that test their theory. If the experiment produces the expected result, given static circumstances, the theory is considered valid. This process is based on the belief that the universe functions in a mechanistic and ordered manner and that the spiritual (unseen) influences are non-existent. However, the spiritual realm does exist and has an influence in our lives that parallels the obvious (physical). Divination deals with these unseen influences that play a life and death role throughout the duration of our lives on earth.

Africa is the cradle of civilization. This cradle nurtured many different means for man to communicate with God. Throughout the African Diaspora only one form of communication, via divination and spiritual virtues, has reigned supreme. Ifa. Through the Ifa apparatus, divination is performed and fate is revealed. Ifa is expressed in all African countries in one form or another by one name or another. The slave master had to eliminate this ancient power that the African used in order to enslave the African in the New World. However, through it all, Ifa survives. Ifa is still intact and is as accurate and as relevant today, as it was 10,000 years ago.