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Remembering What We Were Before We Arrived: Obot Emana, Essien Emana, and the Ancient Agreements That Shape the Human Soul
Hardcover
PhilosophyReligion General Self-Help
Publisher Price: $32.99
Publisher: La
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For centuries, humanity has searched outside itself for meaning, identity, and spiritual authority. Yet across the ancient civilizations of Africa, there existed a profound understanding that every human being arrives on Earth carrying a spiritual throne, a soul architecture, and a destiny agreement formed before birth.
In Remembering What We Were Before We Arrived, Pat Akpabio, D.D., invites readers into a powerful rediscovery of that original knowing.
Drawing from the spiritual intelligence of the Ibibio, Efik, Annang, and related African traditions, this book introduces the concepts of Obot Emana, the spiritual throne of a person's life force, and Essien Emana, the deeper soul agreement that shapes one's purpose and journey on Earth.
These teachings reveal a worldview in which life is not random, and destiny is not accidental. Instead, each person arrives with a unique alignment between soul, spirit, and the unseen forces that guide human existence.
Within these pages, readers will explore
- The true meaning of Obot Emana, the spiritual throne within every human being
- Essien Emana, the contract your soul carries into this life
- The elemental origins of the soul through water, earth, fire, air, and ether
- The role of ancestral memory and spiritual lineage in shaping identity
- The difference between spiritual intelligence and institutional religion
- How misalignment with one's spiritual architecture creates struggle and confusion
- How remembrance restores clarity, purpose, and inner authority
This book does not ask readers to abandon their faith, culture, or identity. Instead, it gently opens the door to a deeper understanding of the spiritual architecture that has existed long before modern systems of belief.
Written with warmth, clarity, and ancestral insight, Remembering What We Were Before We Arrived is both a spiritual awakening and a call to remembrance.
It invites readers to reconnect with the deeper truth that their soul already knows.
The throne was never lost.
It was only forgotten.
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