If you know me, you know many of my posts are about spirituality. So why am I bringing a case against spirituality?
Although I do post about spirituality, my emphasis, however, is to bring spirituality to a more practical level. The reason for this is that even though it has been said that Black folks are very spiritual people, I will wager that White folks are more spiritual and that the more spiritual we go, the more we end up on their home battlefield giving SWS the upperhand against us.
Allow me to explain.
Everything in the spiritual world has its corresponding part in the physical world. This is one of the main points in much of what I write. It's like heaven and earth are tied together by spiraling columns. When you see the pigeons perched on a building, then suddenly taking flight, where are they going? Nowhere! They go round in circles because they found a column of warm air spiraling up from earth to the sky. Even when we don't see it, there is a spiraling column going from the physical, see-able world to the spiritual, un-see-able world.
Why do people go to pray at a very righteous person's grave site? Because as the decomposition occurs, there is a column spiraling from the earth upwards. They want to catch that essence, that "warm air," that heat.
In ancient times, when a people understood an event, but could not explain it in scientific terms, they resort to speaking about it in spiritual terms. Ravaging illnesses become curses, great good become blessings, and so on. The focus was on the energy that moved, the spiritual aspect of what's going on.
But even now, many ancient religious books still have a remnant of the connection between spiritual and physical. For example: most agree that water which is so life giving is the physical manifestation of mercy, instruction, life. Most agree that you can learn character traits from the animals.
In Judaism, we find these connections:
wine = understanding
oil = wisdom
rock = obtuse-ness
precious stone = something rare, of value.
sunrays = harsh judgment.
water = mercy, instructions
rainbow = mitigated judgement (water/mercy blocking the sunrays/harsh judgment
clothing = masks
Some more controversial connections I made:
knots and braids = reminders of laws to live by
Black folks are Spiritual People
It's not for nothing that Black folks are associated with Hamm in the Torah. Hamm in Hebrew means heat. Its like that same warm air that spirals from the earth to the heaven, the same connection of the physical to the spiritual. And sure enough, nine times out of ten, we find Black folks "out poping the pope, and outMuhammad Muhammad" as Malcolm X once said.
I'll never forget a word of advice my mother gave me when I decided to pursue Judaism. She said, "Don't be more Jewish than the Jewish people!" She knew the typical inclination of black folks was to do the most, especially when it comes to religion, and she warned me against it.
Indeed, how can Black folks not be spiritual. We have an ancient DNA that have seen it all, been through it all, and have learned. If there is spirituality out there, we have surely experienced it. And truly, much of what many religions hold by was started in ancient Kemet.
SWS folks are more spiritual
But the difference between white folks and black folks is that black folks have their feet in the soil. They are FROM the earth EXPANDING towards the heaven, like a column of warm air. White folks, it may be that they come from above. Either their history is just as the stories recounts about the Nefillim - demonic angels that "fell from the sky." Or, as another story goes, where Black people who slandered others would get stricken with an illness called Tzaraat in Hebrew (which was misinterpreted as leprosy for the English speakers). Or, somehow they are the albinos who left. Or a combination of all of these.
It has always been the practice of most black societies to bury their dead. To return it to the soil.
In nordic societies, it was more common to burn their dead, as if to return them back to where they came from -- the heavens.
How do you know when a fruit is ready? When it is vibrant with color. A red apple, as opposed to a pale apple is more attractive because we instinctively know it is has all its vitamins in place, it has matured, and is ready for consumption.
When we see someone or something pale, we think sickly, near death, closer to the spiritual, and farther from living, life in the physical world.
And sure enough, many SWS can't handle the sun. their skin begins to peel off of them. They have difficulty being barefoot on the soil. They want to go from their air-conditioned car straight into a building -- a skyscraper high in the sky. In fact, the penthouse is considered a great place to be.
In their lands, there isn't much resources and the weather is brutal. So physical life was not ideal. As a result they are/became very creative, very imaginative. The imagination comes to life. Movies made by black folks typically tend to be a recounting of real events. Movies and books made by white people tend to be out of this world, very imaginative, and thus amazing.
The Battlefield
When a sport team has to play against an opponent, there is an increased chance they will win when they play in their own home courts. More of the audience will be cheering the team on when they're at the home court. The team is already more comfortable and relaxed when at their own courts and familiar surroundings. Not to mention, who know what messages can be left for them when they go to a foreign court to play. In such a case, playing on foreign ground is hemmed-in ground (Sun Tzu).
The same concept applies in war. When the battle is waged in familiar ground, the home team know where to hide, the pitfalls of the area, they are familiar with the weather, and all their supplies are there. But when a team has to fight on foreign soil, they have to find ways to have supplies constantly shipped over, or they have to carry a great burden of supplies to make sure they have enough. Home ground is a lot easier and more advantageous than foreign ground. But the pitfall is that deserters can easily just run home.
The same concept applies when dealing with white supreme lunacy whose hope is to destroy the world and whose first order of business is to attempt to eliminate the "column of warm air" or remove their critical thinking abilities.
While we are on their land, the spiritual realm, we are in a vulnerable place. They are in familiar territory, and they have all their supplies at hand.
It's only now, in the year 2020, that we are waking up to the fact that we are left with no tangibles in America. South Africa's Black population is stuffed into 25 percent of the land even though they are more numerous than the colonizers. And they are okay with this.
In the Caribbean, although they have land and resources, it is being mismanaged. But everyone hopes that a savior will come and fix it all, punish the bad guys, and call it a day.
There does seem to be great progress nevertheless! Many African people are turning back to their ancient spirituality. There seems to be a growing amount of Black athiests. Some are exploring Asian religion, such as Buddhism which will, hopefully, give them a more well-rounded understanding that there are many religions in the world. In America, Black folks are upset that the church does not assist more in their lives, they are demanding tangibles from the government, and many are making connections to African countries and African spiritualities.
The struggle is real... but let's wrap things up.
Religion truly can be a powerful opium for the masses.
When colonizers came to the shores of Africa, they came with religion. Religion connotes righteousness and holiness. They came preaching about a better path in life. But when they got down and dirty, they put religion aside and brought out bayonets and knives. Essentially, they burned their "boats" and "bridges" to assure their own ranks that there would be no going back.
This is from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. When the soldiers of the colonizers were forced to pierce the skin of the native people and spill their life blood out, there was no turning back to holiness. If any of them truly believed in their heart that they were holy and that they were bringing holiness to the people, then this act of murdering them and ruthlessly taking their land and resources showed them they were not and that they will never be. The bridge was burned.
This should serve as a warning to Black folks as well. Black folks all over have been taken captive into a maze of religiosity that brings nothing. If we pull the battle back to physicality, back to tangibles, back to land and resources, what "bridge" would have to be burned so the people don't run back "to the plantation"? If critical thinking is wrestled back to Black people, would they also have to give up on religion in order to understand that we are here for good?
Although I do post about spirituality, my emphasis, however, is to bring spirituality to a more practical level. The reason for this is that even though it has been said that Black folks are very spiritual people, I will wager that White folks are more spiritual and that the more spiritual we go, the more we end up on their home battlefield giving SWS the upperhand against us.
Allow me to explain.
Everything in the spiritual world has its corresponding part in the physical world. This is one of the main points in much of what I write. It's like heaven and earth are tied together by spiraling columns. When you see the pigeons perched on a building, then suddenly taking flight, where are they going? Nowhere! They go round in circles because they found a column of warm air spiraling up from earth to the sky. Even when we don't see it, there is a spiraling column going from the physical, see-able world to the spiritual, un-see-able world.
Why do people go to pray at a very righteous person's grave site? Because as the decomposition occurs, there is a column spiraling from the earth upwards. They want to catch that essence, that "warm air," that heat.
In ancient times, when a people understood an event, but could not explain it in scientific terms, they resort to speaking about it in spiritual terms. Ravaging illnesses become curses, great good become blessings, and so on. The focus was on the energy that moved, the spiritual aspect of what's going on.
But even now, many ancient religious books still have a remnant of the connection between spiritual and physical. For example: most agree that water which is so life giving is the physical manifestation of mercy, instruction, life. Most agree that you can learn character traits from the animals.
In Judaism, we find these connections:
wine = understanding
oil = wisdom
rock = obtuse-ness
precious stone = something rare, of value.
sunrays = harsh judgment.
water = mercy, instructions
rainbow = mitigated judgement (water/mercy blocking the sunrays/harsh judgment
clothing = masks
Some more controversial connections I made:
knots and braids = reminders of laws to live by
Black folks are Spiritual People
It's not for nothing that Black folks are associated with Hamm in the Torah. Hamm in Hebrew means heat. Its like that same warm air that spirals from the earth to the heaven, the same connection of the physical to the spiritual. And sure enough, nine times out of ten, we find Black folks "out poping the pope, and outMuhammad Muhammad" as Malcolm X once said.
I'll never forget a word of advice my mother gave me when I decided to pursue Judaism. She said, "Don't be more Jewish than the Jewish people!" She knew the typical inclination of black folks was to do the most, especially when it comes to religion, and she warned me against it.
Indeed, how can Black folks not be spiritual. We have an ancient DNA that have seen it all, been through it all, and have learned. If there is spirituality out there, we have surely experienced it. And truly, much of what many religions hold by was started in ancient Kemet.
SWS folks are more spiritual
But the difference between white folks and black folks is that black folks have their feet in the soil. They are FROM the earth EXPANDING towards the heaven, like a column of warm air. White folks, it may be that they come from above. Either their history is just as the stories recounts about the Nefillim - demonic angels that "fell from the sky." Or, as another story goes, where Black people who slandered others would get stricken with an illness called Tzaraat in Hebrew (which was misinterpreted as leprosy for the English speakers). Or, somehow they are the albinos who left. Or a combination of all of these.
It has always been the practice of most black societies to bury their dead. To return it to the soil.
In nordic societies, it was more common to burn their dead, as if to return them back to where they came from -- the heavens.
"The Blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice"
How do you know when a fruit is ready? When it is vibrant with color. A red apple, as opposed to a pale apple is more attractive because we instinctively know it is has all its vitamins in place, it has matured, and is ready for consumption.
When we see someone or something pale, we think sickly, near death, closer to the spiritual, and farther from living, life in the physical world.
And sure enough, many SWS can't handle the sun. their skin begins to peel off of them. They have difficulty being barefoot on the soil. They want to go from their air-conditioned car straight into a building -- a skyscraper high in the sky. In fact, the penthouse is considered a great place to be.
In their lands, there isn't much resources and the weather is brutal. So physical life was not ideal. As a result they are/became very creative, very imaginative. The imagination comes to life. Movies made by black folks typically tend to be a recounting of real events. Movies and books made by white people tend to be out of this world, very imaginative, and thus amazing.
The Battlefield
When a sport team has to play against an opponent, there is an increased chance they will win when they play in their own home courts. More of the audience will be cheering the team on when they're at the home court. The team is already more comfortable and relaxed when at their own courts and familiar surroundings. Not to mention, who know what messages can be left for them when they go to a foreign court to play. In such a case, playing on foreign ground is hemmed-in ground (Sun Tzu).
The same concept applies in war. When the battle is waged in familiar ground, the home team know where to hide, the pitfalls of the area, they are familiar with the weather, and all their supplies are there. But when a team has to fight on foreign soil, they have to find ways to have supplies constantly shipped over, or they have to carry a great burden of supplies to make sure they have enough. Home ground is a lot easier and more advantageous than foreign ground. But the pitfall is that deserters can easily just run home.
The same concept applies when dealing with white supreme lunacy whose hope is to destroy the world and whose first order of business is to attempt to eliminate the "column of warm air" or remove their critical thinking abilities.
While we are on their land, the spiritual realm, we are in a vulnerable place. They are in familiar territory, and they have all their supplies at hand.
It's only now, in the year 2020, that we are waking up to the fact that we are left with no tangibles in America. South Africa's Black population is stuffed into 25 percent of the land even though they are more numerous than the colonizers. And they are okay with this.
In the Caribbean, although they have land and resources, it is being mismanaged. But everyone hopes that a savior will come and fix it all, punish the bad guys, and call it a day.
There does seem to be great progress nevertheless! Many African people are turning back to their ancient spirituality. There seems to be a growing amount of Black athiests. Some are exploring Asian religion, such as Buddhism which will, hopefully, give them a more well-rounded understanding that there are many religions in the world. In America, Black folks are upset that the church does not assist more in their lives, they are demanding tangibles from the government, and many are making connections to African countries and African spiritualities.
The struggle is real... but let's wrap things up.
Religion truly can be a powerful opium for the masses.
When colonizers came to the shores of Africa, they came with religion. Religion connotes righteousness and holiness. They came preaching about a better path in life. But when they got down and dirty, they put religion aside and brought out bayonets and knives. Essentially, they burned their "boats" and "bridges" to assure their own ranks that there would be no going back.
When he has penetrated into hostile territory, but to no great distance, it is facile ground. #
Li Ch`uan and Ho Shih say "because of the facility for retreating," and the other commentators give similar explanations. Tu Mu remarks: "When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."
This is from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. When the soldiers of the colonizers were forced to pierce the skin of the native people and spill their life blood out, there was no turning back to holiness. If any of them truly believed in their heart that they were holy and that they were bringing holiness to the people, then this act of murdering them and ruthlessly taking their land and resources showed them they were not and that they will never be. The bridge was burned.
This should serve as a warning to Black folks as well. Black folks all over have been taken captive into a maze of religiosity that brings nothing. If we pull the battle back to physicality, back to tangibles, back to land and resources, what "bridge" would have to be burned so the people don't run back "to the plantation"? If critical thinking is wrestled back to Black people, would they also have to give up on religion in order to understand that we are here for good?
