The Essence of Voodoo Within the voodoo society, there are no accidents. Practitioners believe that nothing and no event has a life of its own. The universe is all one. Each thing affects something else. Scientists know that.
Nature knows it.
Many spiritualists agree that we are not separate, we all serve as parts of One. So, in essence, what you do unto another, you do unto you, because you ARE the other. God is manifest through the spirits of ancestors who can bring good or harm and must be honored in ceremonies. There is a sacred cycle between the living and the dead. Believers ask for their misery to end.