“Naim Akbar … has written, ‘Despite the impressive technological advancement of modern Western man relative to his own history, he ranks far behind the Ancient African people of KMT (Egypt) both technologically and spiritually. Part of the reason for this mental de-evolution is the limited conception of human potential that one finds in Western science.’ Western man’s limitation is a disaster for his captives, who are the descendants of the people of Ancient Kemet. The possible advancement of Western man and the redemption of ‘renaissance’ of African man is contingent upon rediscovering those concepts of human development which inspired the ascension of the people of Ancient Africa. Euro-American psychology approached its duty of man; an orientation to the study of the human being results in what Schwaller de Lubicz … calls ‘research without illumination.’ This distortion resulted in two rather serious problem for the Western scholar; one problem was his fear of the matriarchy and the need to inferiorize women. The other problem affecting the European distortion of mental science was a pervasive racism which has permeated the interaction of Europeans with African people and African knowledge. As Diop … has pointed out: ‘the common denominator which characterizes the mindset of the Egyptologists (as repeated in their various theses about Africa) is their seeming desperate necessity and unrelenting attempt to refute ancient Africa’s Blackness. The fundamental error of dichotomizing man’s make-up into mind and body and eliminating the spirit altogether was done in the glory of the material or the physical. Therefore, the spiritual or non-material world was relegated to the practitioners of the ‘Dark Sciences’ and essentially given to the dark races, but not without degrading such involvement as superstitious, primitive (in the sense of uncivilized) and unscientific (i.e., ignorant). On the other hand, the physical and material was the source of thought, action, intellect and science. Therefore, the material was superior and its practitioners (the Aryan races) were a superior people.’ Akbar maintains that ancient Africans paid extraordinary attention to higher states of consciousness present in man more so than the physical level of consciousness. This was the emphasis of the higher mind (Ka), soul (Ba), and spirit (Khu). Akbar said, ‘Man was viewed as the fundamental metaphor for all higher truth. The gods (neters) and most importantly the Pharaoh, all stood as symbols of profound truth. So, clearly the understanding of man (mind) was viewed as paramount in the science, the wisdom and the theology of Ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz … describes the Egyptian view of man as a microcosm: Man is a microcosm in the sense of a tree in relation to a seed. Potentiality is the macrocosm, since it includes all the possibilities of the tree. The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the earth and sky. Even more so, man who bears within him the total seed of the universe, including the seed of spiritual states can identify with totality and obtain nourishment from it. The dictum now correctly identified with its source, of ‘Man Know Thyself’, was the fundamental principle of the psychology of Kemet. George James, goes on to describe the Ancient Egyptian doctrine of self-knowledge is the basis of all Knowledge. The mysteries required as a first step, the mastery of the passions, which made room for the occupation of unlimited powers. Hence as a second step, the neophyte was required to search within himself for the new powers which had taken possession of him. Schwaller de Lubicz … observes that the universe is only consciousness from beginning to the end; the end being a return to its cause. This implies evolution of an innate conscious toward the psychological consciousness that is consciousness of the innate consciousness, the first step towards the liberated consciousness of physical contingencies.” Richard King, M.D. “African Origin of Biological Psychiatry” Page 51
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