As we do on Earth, so They do in Heaven!

It was amazing and indeed funny to read from the popular UberFacts that "Americans spend about $100 million on astrology every year!" I was just about to digest that information when I also saw that women, according to a stariq.com survey, made up 75% of the population of astrology readers. And I felt like declaring that "as we do on earth, so they do in heaven!" I always thought Americans never cared about issues of "the unknown".  
In Africa, especially among Nigerians, people will not venture into anything...schools, careers, marriages, starting a family, building or purchasing homes and practically every life's endeavor without first "checking it out" spiritually. Most of us take these sensitive esoterics steps by paying visits to our individual pastors, alfas, prophets, herbalists, astrologers and other sundry spiritualists.

Acting as intercessors, these individuals we run to consult will then do the spiritual checking through prayers, divination, visions and other means. The result of the esoteric trips will then be presented and analyzed for the seekers. The subsequent stages will involve the seekers being counseled to avoid certain things or to embark on some fasting and prayer sessions. In some other cases, special courses of actions are prescribed or certain rules with "dos and don'ts" are imposed. The over-all objectives of all these actions are to avoid future problems and to appreciate some expected benefits.

And where Africans daily pursue esoteric and spiritual consultations in regard to their individual endeavors, the Asians will often go beyond the individual stuff to also invoke spiritual influences upon their business ventures. This therefore explains their penchant for engaging the services of Bhuddist monks in performing spiritual cleansing of new establishments such as banks, insurance and other corporate outfits. 

Ironically, there are a few Africans who, by virtue of their religious believes, consider these spiritual practices as evil and superstitious. These individual Africans go further to refer their people to Americans who they consider as too "civilized" to indulge in spiritual pursuits such as astrology, divination and other esoteric considerations. I hope such Africans could see or read the UberFacts report. And I do wish they will travel to Asia to go see the spiritual endeavors of the Asians.