Traditional footnotes and
bibliographies are literary devices of control when used as a persuasive tool in the propagation of the social sciences.Many of you already know this intuitively. But I’d like to explain the
mental mechanics behind what you know so that you know HOW you know what you know.
On the surface traditional footnotes
and bibliographies help to foster a sense of academic transparency between the
reader and the author. That’s a good thing. However, beneath the surface, they
are also applications that constrict the
reader’s interpretation of the text so that they never venture out beyond the narrow
intellectual confines that the author has set up for them in the text.
Subliminally this reinforces the
notion that you should automatically defer to an authority figure, not based on
the merit of what the authority figure is saying, but solely on the basis that what
is being said is coming from an established authority figure. In other words, YOU
ARE BEING PROGRAMMED TO BOW to A.D.A.M. (Academic Director of the Artificial
Man). Artificial humans do not have cultivated INSTINCTS that allow them to
discern from truth and blatant falsehood. Artificial didn’t originally mean
fake, though. That’s the oversimplified definition of the word. It is actually a reference
to anyone or anything that is a product Craftsmanship. A mason is a craftsman, but so is a butcher.
The cataloging method that I
used for my book, The Treasures of Darkness, gives the reader fuller insight as
to how I arrive at my distinct conclusions while simultaneously opening the
door for them to go BEYOND my interpretations of the topics I introduce through
a more direct experience of the information that I am sharing. That is my sacrifice and the future's gain. This ritual is
achieved through the medium of Black ink on a page. My book is called The Treasures of Darkness
for more reasons than I can explain through this format.
Going forward, I will explore new formats for a more holistic reception of distributable information. I am in pursuit of The New Book. This new book is a steadily flowing lifestream of knowledge that unifies various forms of art and media under one umbrella for a more visceral learning experience that stimulates the senses in the body of the anointed. Enjoy your weekend, and stay blessed.
Time
and space are inseparable. The purpose of closing your eyes to meditate is to
stand outside of time by removing space from your field of vision. There is no space
in absolute darkness, therefore there is no time in it either. Meditation is a
modality that inevitably leads us to The Treasures of Darkness.
To say
that time is an illusion is to say that space is also an illusion. Space is
made up of the 3 dimensions of height, width, and depth which all tangible
objects have. If you tell yourself that tangible things are not real, then you
will have trouble acquiring or maintaining tangible things and you will be
materially poor. You cannot successfully obtain something if you tell yourself
that it isn’t real. Universal law will not allow it.
Time is
NOT an illusion. It is a construct that one can transcend and then return back
to at will. We have bidirectionality of movement in this expansive sea of human
experience. This is the only perspective I know of that allows a person to grow
in their spiritual awareness and abilities, while also enjoying an abundance of
tangible materials within the Western cultural model we live in. Saying that
“time is an illusion” sounds deep when you’re talking about “chakras” and “Kundalini
energy”, but it’s really a philosophical path to poverty.
Many people
embrace the spiritual philosophies of the Far East without considering the
impact that they will have on their Western fiscal realities.
I just
completed watching a Netflix docuseries about Indian guru Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh. He’s perhaps more recognized to his readers as Osho the Master. The
series is called Wild Wild Country. The 6-part documentary documents the rise
and fall of the city that Osho and his Rajneeshees built in Oregon. Osho got
his nigga wake up call once he came to America from India to secure the Bag
from upwardly mobile Americans eagerly seeking new perspectives on spirituality.
The program is definitely a must see for all spiritual aspirants.
One of
the things that becomes clear to the perceptive viewer who watches the series
is the fact that in order for Osho and his followers to contend with the Hillbillies
in Oregon, they had to adopt a more aggressive, and therefore a more Western,
worldview to hold on to their LAND.
They
employed statecraft in order to buy themselves TIME. All land occupies TIME AND SPACE, which is a
very real construct within the Western cultural model. This is why Real Estate
has so much monetary value attached to it in Western societies. This fact should give you an even deeper
understanding of the simple phrase “time is money, and money is time.” Think
about what that means.
If the Rajneeshees
held strictly to the more passive tenants of traditional Eastern Philosophy
they would not have been able to secure land
in the United States.
Osho
the Gangsta and his secretary Sheela (who was the Indian goddess Durga
incarnated) saw to it that they had more guns than the entire Oregon police
department. They preached about sexual freedom and transcendental meditation, but
they had guns to protect their TIME AND SPACE (i.e. LAND).
They probably scared the Hillbillies testing their aim at their privately owned firing
ranges. That was a bad idea, because many white men are traumatized and haunted
by the thought of being devoured not only be people of color, but their
culture, even if that culture is being advanced primarily by other white men
and women. Those fearful white men will move in on any perceived threat to their way of life (whether real or imagined) with reckless abandon.
Wild
Wild Country is a great documentary. Pay attention to what the Rajneeshees got
right in their approach, but also, what they got wrong. There is a lot for you
to learn in this particular Netflix series. Like I said in my book, TheTreasures of Darkness: Living Jewels for Spiritual Resurrection, the
group that is united by core values that all of its members choose to live by
must live uniquely unto themselves, while appearing to be like everyone else.
Uniforms
that make you easily identifiable make you a target. How do avid Freemasons dress? They dress like everyone on the planet that you can
imagine. Moving through the sea of humanity with one singular mind, and no
identifiable appearance, makes you very powerful.
This ongoing conversation about
Cultural Appropriation is an interesting one when you look at it without the murky
lens of Slave Morality.
Culture isn’t so much defined by race
as much as it is defined by the local customs of a people who may even share the
same race and national identity. Even though northern Italians and Sicilians
share the same race and national identity, their cultures are very different. They
speak differently. They eat differently.
Some will say that this difference in
culture is because the Sicilians were more heavily influenced by Blacks, who were of a
different race. However Sicilians were not culturally influenced by Blacks as a
broad, monolithic group. They were influenced by SPECIFIC groups of Blacks who
had a common national identity based on a shared culture. The Zulu of South
Africa did not give Sicily it’s swag. Northwest Africans did. This
goes back to the Punic Wars of the 3rd century B.C.E.
Let’s say that Albert is an African
American who is mainly of Ghanaian and Senegalese descent. He doesn’t know this,
though, because no one alive in his family can trace their lineage back to a
specific country in Africa. Nevertheless, Albert wants to feel connected to Africa and its people. He becomes “self-initiated”
into Ifa without being authenticated by Yoruba practitioners or Afro Latino
custodians. Is Albert guilty of cultural appropriation? Of course he is.
While all West Africans may adhere to
overlapping principles that guide their perspectives and ways of being, they also
have a variety of distinct cultural expressions that highlight those
principles. What then grants people the legitimate right to claim a culture as
their own if we know that a person's race does not automatically tell us what
their culture is? Principles deal with generalized themes and concepts. Culture
is more specific. We are talking about macro vs micro, here.
To assume that cultural appropriation is
solely based on racial differences is to
ignore the cultural diversity that exists within a single racial group. Remember,
the term is called Cultural Appropriation, not Racial Appropriation. Race is an
artificial concept constructed by white men with an inferiority complex.
Culture is an organic expression of human instinct relative to local geography.
Culture is dictated by the intelligences that exist in the soil, minerals, and
plant life of the land.
If you are not from the land, and you
have not been authenticated by the people who are directly influenced by the
intelligences of the land, and you adopt their culture to your personal
benefit, then you are an appropriator of their culture. It doesn’t matter if
you are of the same race as they are. Race can be an indicator of culture, but
it is not culture in and of itself. Africa is a vast continent with many rich cultures. No Black person in the Americas has an ancestral claim to EVERY
single one of these beautiful cultures. They only have a claim to the ones that they are
bound to directly by blood, or by paying dues to the culture’s ambassadors and custodians. Black parents with children should consider placing a strong emphasis on their children learning S.T.E.A.M (Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics). If more of our children become geneticists then our descendants won't be claiming African cultures that they do not have blood ties to. When you Big Up people who are not YOUR people by blood then you will not gain spiritual power from it. Your bloodline will not advance. It doesn’t matter if the people you’re giving props to are Black like you. ARE YOU RELATED TO THEM BY BLOOD? This is all that matters. When my niece grows up, she can wear traditional clothes and adornments that women in India wear without being a cultural appropriator. My sisters and I have a great, great grandmother who was from India. My blog is called “Third Eye Max” for a reason. If you are creative, then ancestor reverence can take on many forms. I give props to my ancestry from Ghana, but I'm on my Shiva shit too.
One might say that I’m lost and
confused, and that true cultural appropriation is when a dominant racial group steals
culture from a submissive racial group and makes money off of it. In essence,
the dominant class fucks the submissive class, nuts on them, and walks away
without saying “I love you.” Fucking monsters!
Masochists who have a perverted sense
of power that they wield over others by affirming their perpetual victimhood, love
this definition. So do white liberals, because it promotes the docile slave
narrative that they wrote long ago. It’s the narrative of the NobleBlack wimp who clings to Slave Morality
instead of Master Morality. As a direct result, he is used and tossed in the
trash like a disposable paper plate.
White liberals want Black people to always
see themselves as helpless victims, who are somehow morally superior to whites
solely because they are human doormats for whites. Get the fuck outta here. God forbid Black
people see themselves as conquerors who take what they want because they like
what they take.
The reality is that in this global
village, we’ve all been cultural appropriators. We have been cultural appropriators in the
way that I originally described it at the outset, not how white liberals and
their Black puppets describe it. We take elements from cultures outside of our
own because we’re attracted to the novelty of human expression. We admire the
creativity that people showcase as they demonstrate to us who they are through
art, food, physical gestures, religion, and fashion. Culture Vultures are people who've made cultural appropriation their lifestyle and only reason for existing. They are parasites. Vampires. That is far more extreme than cultural appropriation.
I don’t want to hear any accusations
of cultural appropriation from pompous Black folks in dashikis espousing the
superiority of classical African thought, while making money off of Vegan
centered businesses. Veganism doesn’t come out of any ancient African traditions.
It comes from white people influenced by the Eastern Philosophies of Asia. Those
who tell you something far different are just New Agers in kente cloth. Veganism is dope.
It’s responsible. It’s wonderful. I respect it. But it’s not African.
You can’t utilize TRADITIONAL African modalities for spiritual empowerment and
be a Vegan. I remember long before Veganism became popular, Vegans did not use
animal products of any kind, for ANY purposes. The appropriators of veganism
today say that as long as you eat vegan you are a vegan. Before that, it was a pervasive lifestyle that was not limited to just diet. Cultural Appropriators
always adapt the tenants of foreign cultures to make them more amenable to their familiar
lifestyles because it’s more convenient for them to do so. If we’re honest, we can admit that we have all
done this. There is nothing wrong with incorporating other indigenous cultural elements into your psychic makeup, but give them their respect too! Don’t try to make it seem as if you are Super African in EVERY facet of your life. You’re lying!!!
Cultural Appropriation is the
hallmark of globalization. We bust open each others closets to wear each others clothes.
We break open each others refrigerators to eat each others food. The way many of us see it,
all human beings live in the same house. This house is called planet Earth. So it’s all good. Follow me on Instagram @MrMGMGrand
Adika Butler is a journalist, chef, creative consultant, and cultural philanthropist. He is also a Free Thinker, student, practitioner, and writer on the occult who expounds upon the subtle life sciences that underlie occult teachings and current events. As a Matthew Henson of the mind, Adika's mission is to go where few men have gone before. His exploratory scholarship includes, but is not limited to, the study of: ancient history, lost civilizations, Cosmology, Astro-Theology, Social Engineering, Psychology, Word Sorcery and the universal themes that serve as the foundation for all world religions. He shares his personal discoveries on Mind Glow Media, his website dedicated to the "soul" purpose of Opening Eyes and Illuminating Minds.