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Each human being has
psychological issues that hold him or her back from living fully. Psychology
studies those issues. Psychotherapy applies what psychology knows about human
nature to healing the individual.
I have used what
psychology knows about human beings to understand who I am and have healed
myself. Since healing myself I have been asking myself how I can best utilize
my knowledge of healing people. It is not enough to heal ones self one must
extend healing to other people. The question is how?
It is in thinking
about what to do with my encyclopedic knowledge of psychology that it dawned on
me that Africans need healing and that I could be a source for their healing.
For over a thousand
years Africans sold their people into slavery. They sold their people to Arabs
(from about 900AD) and later to Europeans (from about 1500).
In one form or another
Africans sold their people into slavery from about 900 to 1900 AD. Just
imagine what life in Africa during slave times must have been like. A child
goes out to play with other children, and, perhaps, slavers captured him and
sold him into slavery and his parents would see him no more. A woman goes to
farm and, perhaps, enslavers kidnapped her and sold her into slavery. A young
man strays from his village known paths and enslavers captured and sold him
into slavery. Enslavers instigated inter village wars and folk were captured
and sold into slavery. Life in such a place must have been Hobbessian state of
nature where all were fighting all and life was insecure, brutish, nasty and
short. Africans lived in total insecurity. And they lived in that insecurity
for a thousand or more years! Just thinking about what this must have done to
their personalities makes me shudder. Could an African have escaped such a
dreadful world with a healthy personality? I doubt it. I believe that many
contemporary African personalities were damaged by their people’s residual
slave culture.
In my opinion,
Africans developed a culture that devalued life. This culture bred hatred for
human beings. Africans hate themselves, they do not love themselves. How could
they love themselves if they were busy kidnapping and selling themselves into
slavery? And the people so sold were taken to far away places, to Arabia and
America and were lost to their people forever. Just imagine the heartache
mothers felt at losing their children forever!
I believe that because
of slavery and its pernicious culture Africans now mostly know how to abuse,
oppress and sell themselves. Just look at what is called African leaders; they
do not have sleeplessness nights thinking about how to improve their people.
Instead, they stay up nights figuring out how to rob their people of the little
resources they have and cart them to the West. The African leader is the most
self centered human being that walks this earth. Give him money to help his
suffering people, even money to help those with AIDS, and he redirects that
money to his personal pockets and like an ape and antisocial criminal who does
not feel guilt and remorse from his criminal behaviors he does not seem
bothered by what he did.
I believe that one
thousand years of selling their people have essentially made Africans
antisocial personalities, criminals, men without conscience. If you do
not accept this thesis then entrust Africans with financial responsibility in
your business and see what happens. The typical African would rob you clean and
not feel bad from doing so. He has no conscience. Indeed, he would feel kind of
great from cheating you.
The contemporary
African is a sadist and derives pleasure from causing his people pain. He is
totally reprehensible, contemptible and despicable. All he knows how to do is
cheat but not how to help his fellow human beings.
In my judgment the
contemporary African has soul sickness and worse does not know it! I believe
that contemporary Africans are suffering from the spillover effects of their
ancestors one thousand year’s slavery.
Africa’s soul sickness
is manifested, inter alia, in their current penchant for wars. In African
countries people enter politics essentially to gratify their egos desire for
importance; I call it politics of narcissism. I am yet to see an African
politician who actually seeks political office because of what he wants to
accomplish for his people. Instead, they are in office to seem like big men.
When other politicians
especially those from different ethnic groups affront African politicians
inflated egos they are quick to resort to violence as a means of settling
personal scores. Instead of peaceful conflict resolution they shoot it out,
they kill each other. Thus the numerous inter-tribal wars of Africa: Nigeria,
Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Angola, Namibia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leon,
Liberia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique etc.
Africans do not value
each others lives and easily kill each other for vain glory reasons. Worse,
they do not consider it a big deal killing each other. Consider: The
Hausa-Fulani and their Yoruba cohort killed or starved two plus million Igbos
to death during the Nigerian civil war (1966-1970 and to the present do not
believe that they did any thing wrong! Like predatory animals, criminals
really, they do not exhibit guilt or remorse for killing their fellow Africans.
You see, in their warped minds African lives have no value, so kill them and go
to sleep and have sex with numerous women and in sexual paroxysm forget the
crime of killing some of God’s children.
In Rwanda the Hutu
deliberately massacred over half a million Tutsis. No big deal. As I write the Congolese
are killing each other, raping and maiming their people. King Leopold’s crimes
against the Congolese pales in comparison to what the Congolese are doing to
their people. In Sudan some Africans who call themselves Arabs form militia,
Janjaweed, and hunt other Africans, those not considered Arab in their culture,
for sports. That is correct, Northern Sudanese take joy in killing Southern
Sudanese, burning their villages and kidnapping the children for slaves. These
savages calling themselves Muslim turn their fellow Africans into slaves in the
twenty first century!
In Mauritania some
Africans who call themselves Arabs take joy in enslaving other Africans.
I tell you, Africans
are totally depraved. I believe that slavery and other factors have reduced
Africans to amoral criminals and that it would take, at least, a century of
gradual resocialization before we can transform them into human beings.
Criminality is not in
Africans genes as some racist whites claim, it is in their psyche; it is a
learned behavior and as such can be unlearned. Nevertheless, let us dispense
with foolish political correctness and stupid sensitivity to African feeling
and call Africans what they are: criminals and or primitive savages.
Sometimes, I feel
ashamed that I am a member of a people whose leaders could care less for their
people’s poverty, a people who find it easy to kill each other and not show any
qualms of conscience. God, these people are despicable. And this shame is not
from personal loathing; it is based on accurate observation of Africans
behaviors. What exactly has Africans done lately that is admirable and that
Africans can take pride in? If you are an African nationalist please show me
what Africans have done that makes Africans proud? Is it their zero
contribution to science and technology and good governance?
I believe that if it
were not for the international community reigning Africans in they would soon
slide into capturing and selling each other into slavery. Africans civilization
is skin deep. Let us find a way to help these people and not delude ourselves
into thinking that left alone as they are that they can do the right thing.
They are too far gone to know what constitutes the right thing.
Please note that
Africans did not fight to stop slavery; it took non-Africans to come in and
beat up on Africans to get them to stop capturing and selling their people!
I left Africa after
secondary school. I attended white universities and taught at them. Gradually,
my focus shifted to things white and I lost contact with things Africans.
For many years I had very little to do with Africans. In fact, I went for over
ten years without relating meaningfully to Africans.
About three years ago
an accident exposed me to the African world. I had asked a lady friend living
in Spain about information on Nigeria and she referred me to an Internet forum
called naijapolitics as the best source of information on Nigeria. I joined
that group. In it I was exposed to the behavior of mad men, literally. Here,
folk specialized in mutual psychological abuse. Essentially, members of this
club take sadistic joy in insulting each other. Putting each other down
is their specialty. These people live to degrade each other, for they see
themselves as a degraded people, slaves! (I am no longer part of them but from
some emotional distance observe them.)
In the three years
that I participated in this group I was subjected to such verbal, emotional and
psychological abuse that if I had low self esteem, I would lose my self
confidence (many of them have zero self confidence but do not know it). In all
my stay in North America no one had abused me as much as I received from
Nigerians in a short interval. And what they did to me they did to each other,
so I was not an exception.
I believe that
Africans lost self respect from their socialization to their slave culture. I
believe that slavery messed Africans psyche big time.
In my judgment, the
contemporary African no longer knows how to love. In fact, if he sees you
as loving he considers you as weak. Seeing you as weak he deliberately sets out
to exploit you. You see, he sees loving persons as naïve to be exploited by tough
him. Like his slave selling ancestors he uses folk to get what he wants and
when they are no longer useful to him discards them as piece of trash. In his
mind such an outrageous behavior is a sign of sophistication! This shows you
how inhumane these people have become.
In North America
African men see loving American women, especially white ones as fools to be
used and discarded. They marry these women and use them to obtain green
cards (permanent residency) and discard them without the slightest sense of
wrong doing. Indeed, they feel like they are smart from doing such dreadful
things. They do not wonder whether there are consequences for using human
beings and discarding them, whether there is such a thing as karma.
Why should they worry
after all their ancestors sold some of their people and did not think that
there was negative consequence for their horrible behaviors? Could
Africa’s unimaginable poverty and the people’s suffering be a result of
Africans past and present criminal behaviors?
In my judgment, as a
result of selling their people Africans have become predatory in their
behaviors. To call them human beings is to abuse the term human being. At best
they are a sick race.
As a sick people,
Africans need to be gradually re-socialized and systematically healed of their
mental disorder (devaluing human life is mental disorder).
As I ponder what to do
with my knowledge of psychology it dawned on me that I have unique skills that
equip me to help my fellow Africans. In the past I had inadvertently avoided
Africans. That was self defeating behavior. I have to be with Africans to
understand them. Understanding them shows me that they are sick and in need of
healing.
There is no use avoiding
Africans because they are mentally sick. The universe gave me psychological
skills for a purpose, among which is to heal Africans.
A true healer must be
sick and have healed himself. Like most Africans I was not a loving person and
in that sense was sick. I have learned to love and in that sense have healed my
psychological illness.
A healed person is in
a position to heal sick persons. Because he himself was sick he understands the
nature of the illness to be healed. The illness that we are talking about is
Africans inability to love themselves.
I have found my
purpose at last; my purpose is to help heal Africans of their one thousand year
malady of self hatred, to teach them self love.
Until Africans know
what love is and learn to love themselves, they are not going any where in this
world. They are so screwed up that they cannot even govern themselves. Asking
them to govern themselves is like asking a bunch of criminals to govern
themselves: they steal from each other and the result is chaos. To improve
their politics Africans must first learn self love and love for all Africans.
At present, African politics is no more than the politics of criminals.
Africans engage in
criminal thinking and behavior that is palpably obvious to all and, yet, they
think that they are so clever that they have fooled people into seeing them as
honest persons. Consider. When finally I rejoined them I decided to set up an
institute to provide a venue for studying African issues and create jobs for
Africans. I used my savings towards this end and eventually recruited a bunch
of Africans to help me out. Do you know what they did? They waited until
I had all the necessary state approvals and without having participated in the
work or spending money and time on it they decided to take over the institute.
Like Nigeria’s 419 advance fee criminals these folk, some so-called university
professors, actually attempted to steal my business (and money). Worse, they
talked tough as if they wanted to intimidate me, to arouse fear in me and out
of fear I allow them to get away with stealing. Apparently, my quiet, scholarly
demeanor gave these criminals the impression that I was a pushover.
The boldness of these
criminals behavior helped me understand Nigerian credit card scammers and
identity thieves that Nigeria is exporting to North America. If unchecked these
thieves would transform North America into the chaos that is their country.
For our present
purposes the salient point is that Africans have become thoroughly criminal in
their thinking and behavior and would engage in incredible criminal acts. If
you are dealing with them you must be aware of whom you are dealing with and
set mechanisms in motion to anticipate their criminality and checkmate it. You
must remember who you are dealing with. You are dealing with those with over a
thousand year history of antisocial behaviors (selling people is criminal
behavior). You must see them as criminals to be helped to become decent human
beings. You must not be angry at them but, instead, like a father gently
correct their learned evil behaviors.
Psychology exists to
understand human behavior; psychotherapy exists to apply what psychology knows
in helping people remove the obstacles to their living fully. Once you know
what the obstacles to folks living fully are and remove them in you the goal is
now for you to help remove them in other folk.
The African and to
some extent the black American has lots of psychological issues. He is totally
discouraged. He no longer believes in his ability to do the right thing, to
make money through his own hard work. He now believes that the only way that he
could make money is to steal it. He goes into government to steal money and
become rich. He works for white companies to steal from them. He does not
figure out ways to make money through hard work.
We must systematically
teach Africans courage and give them self confidence and belief that they can
actually make a living by working hard. We must teach Africans that they can
make money the right way instead of stealing it.
Bill Gates did
something; he produced a product/service and sold it to make money and become
rich. That is the best way to become rich. There is nothing wrong with becoming
rich, what matters are how you become rich. Do you have a product or service
that you are selling to make money from?
Africans must be
taught to have products and or services and sell them and make money off them
rather than want to become rich by stealing money from their people and
governments.
I have been looking
for something worthwhile to do with my life; now I have found it and I am
invigorated to go to do it.
The universe is a
mystery. We go through all sorts of situations and ask why me, why am I made to
go through these particular situations? There is a reason why each of us is
exposed to the situation he is in. The situations I went through were
meant to teach me the nature of love. Now that I know what love is I must
teach about love? It is to find my purpose, my mission in life, teaching about
love, that I went through the experiences I went through.
My mother was a saint.
She worked herself to death trying to help her children and others acquire
education. Her parents died when she was young. She married a man who was
pursuing ego ideals and did not know how to love a woman. She lived without
love. Love is the natural environment of human beings. She was starved of love
hence was depressed. I must do whatever I could to prevent other women from
experiencing mother’s loveless fate by teaching African men to love their wives
and children.
THE DANGER OF MAKING
UNCALLED FOR GENERALIZATION
It does not take too
much cerebral work to observe that what I have stated about Africans is a
generalization and could not possibly apply to all Africans (they certainly do
not apply to my saintly mother and am sure to many other loving African women
and some men). In every generalization there is an exception. But when a
problem affects the majority of the people it is right to generalize. I believe
that whereas a few Africans love that the majority of them do not know what
love is. Therefore, I feel justified in treating all Africans as if they do not
love.
I know that those who
do not wish Africa well can seize on my generalization to say that Africans are
a different people, perhaps a lower breed of humanity to be treated
differently. In North America there are white racists who seize on the fact
that blacks, on the average, do poorly on IQ tests to say that all blacks are
dumb (but there are blacks who score over 140 on standard IQ tests like WAIS),
on the fact that many blacks wound up in America’s racists jails to say that
all blacks are criminal genes (but there are blacks who would rather die than
take a penny that does not belong to them). Let racists suit themselves. I do
not argue with them. From where I stand all human beings are the same, equal
and one.
I have pointed out a
possible causal factor for Africans inability to love: character styles
developed during one thousand years of slavery.
If you remind me that
in every country that there are those who, for any number of reasons, do not
love I say true. We know that many of those with personality disorders
(paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial,
borderline, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive and passive aggressive
etc; I have written about each of these elsewhere) and those with major mental
disorders (schizophrenia, delusion disorder, mania, depression etc; I have
written about each of these elsewhere) do not love. Mental disorder, as I have
pointed out in numerous writings is, among other things, characterized by
withdrawal from meaningful intimate relationships with other people. This is
true in Africa as elsewhere. Be that as it may, I stand by my thesis that unloving
behavior is extreme in Africans.
The Igbos of Nigeria
have a saying that “Ala dindu ana eshe agugo” (if the place you are
going to is close by there is no use arguing about what it looks like, you go
there and find out for yourself). If you doubt that the typical African is
unloving randomly choose ten African men to relate to and see how you feel
about them. The chances are that seven out of the ten would exhibit unloving
behaviors, such as exploit you and not feel like they did anything wrong. I
submit that, at least, seventy five percent of Africans fit the image of them
that I have presented. There is nothing that I would like better than for
someone to prove me wrong!
WHAT IS LOVE?
What I am about to say
on love is predicated on borrowing from many religions and philosophies. I
studied and borrowed from Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and
Gnosticism to synthesize my world view. There is hardly an original idea
in my worldview. Nothing is new under the sun.
Christian Gnosticism,
especially as rearticulated by Professor Helen Schucman, (of Columbia
University, New York) as is apparent in the following discourse, influenced my
worldview.
Gnosis is Greek for
knowledge. Gnostics claim to have penetrated the secret of being and know what
the truth is. Whether it is classical Gnostics as Plotinus (Enneads), the
writer of the Gospel of Thomas, the writer of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the
writer of the Gospel of Judas or contemporary Gnostic writings such as Helen
Schucman’s A Course in miracles, the main theme in Gnosticism is that the world
is no good, is dark, and that folk should leave it and return to a good place
(heaven).
I accept only what
makes sense to me. If what you say does not make sense to me you can stand on
your head until you go blue in the face and I would not accept it. I am not
persuaded by so-called authority argument. To say that an idea is attributed to
authority figures, those who claim to speak for God, such as Jesus Christ and
Mohammed, hence credible do not persuade me. This is who I am and have always
been. What follows is what makes sense to me. What makes sense to me may not
make sense to you. To your own self be true, Polonius said in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Such is life.
What is love? By love
I do not mean romantic and erotic love though those are affected by love. Love
has to do with our interpersonal relationship. Love is when one person
sees another person as like him and believes that both of them have
common interests and consciously sets out to do what serves their mutual
interests and refuses to take advantage of the other person even if he could do
so and get away with it.
Loving is giving to
the other what nurtures him or her. Love understands that all of us need love
and loving another as one would like him to love one even if he does not
reciprocate that love. Love is a giving thing (and in adult situation also a
receiving thing; if the loved person reciprocates with love).
Love is working for
our mutual, collective good. In politics love is doing what serves the interest
of the public. In business love is producing goods and or services that serve
all people.
Our nature is love. When
we are not in love something is amiss and we are not happy. We are only happy
in loving environments. Why so? This is because our nature in
heaven is love.
You may or may not
believe in God, that is your prerogative. I am not here to impose my belief
system on you. Nevertheless, every philosophy must have ontology and I am
obligated to review my ontology, my perception of how the world came into being
(I have done so in detail elsewhere) and my epistemology, what the world means
to me. Take it or leave it, it is what makes sense to me, what I believe is the
truth. If my truth is not your truth, then go find out what is the truth.
I hope that your own truth gives you as much peace and joy as mine gives
me.
I am a scientist and,
as such, am thoroughly conversant with cosmology, such as the Big Bang
hypothesis of the origin of the universe. Yet the following seeming
unscientific view of our origin makes sense to me.
ONTOLOGY: STORY OF
CREATION OR MYTH OF CREATION
As I see it,
originally we were in spirit. Spirit is one and yet infinite in numbers. If you
like, there is one spirit (that is nameless but that we can follow religious
nomenclature and call God). That one God extended his one self into another
self. He gave all of himself to that other self.
If you like to
anthropomorphize this phenomenon you can say that God the Father extended
himself to God the Son. Now there appears to be two Gods, God the Father and
God the Son. In eternity, heaven, there are only two persons, God the
father and God the son (the later is all of us).
Where God the father
ends and God the son begins is nowhere. God the father is in God the son and
God the son is in God the father. There is no space (gap) and time between God
the father and God the son.
God the father and God
the son share one self and one mind. God the father and God the son are
joined and are unified. This is the state of eternity aka heaven.
God the father is
creative and gave his son his creative ability. God the son is creative. He,
too, creates his own son by extending to his son.
Your father extended
his shared self with God to you and you, in turn, extend that shared self to
your our children, who, in turn, extend it to their children, ad infinitum.
Creation has been
going on forever and ever. There was never a time when God the father and God
the son did not exist. God the father and God the son have existed eternally;
they are permanent and changeless.
God the father and God
the son are the same and equal. The only difference between God the father and
God the son is that God the father created God the son, otherwise they are the
same; they are equally important, for without the one the other cannot exist.
God is a creator, a
father; as such, he cannot be God without his creation, his son;
God as a father needs a son to be so; without his father God the son cannot exist
for a son needs a father to be a son. God the father completes his son and his
son completes him.
DESIRE FOR IMPORTANCE,
SEPARATION AND THE DREAM
At a time in this
eternal union (time that has never occurred since there is no space and time in
unified eternity) God the son wished that he were God the father.
Another way of putting
it is that God the son wished that he created his creator and created himself.
Obviously once created one can create other selves but cannot create ones
creator and ones self. Once fathered one can father ones own children but
cannot father ones father and ones self. The teenager may wish to be his
father’s father but he cannot succeed though he can have his own children.
Simply stated, God the
son wished to displace his father, if you like, he wanted to kill his father
and expropriate his role as the father and create reality. This is the
famous authority question between God and his son.
The son wants to
father himself, create himself and reject his father’s authorship of
him. Of course, this is impossible of attainment. Unable to create
himself the son seemed to, in Hindu creation myth, cast magical spell on his
“eyes” (there is no eyes in eternity, we are talking in metaphors here,
remember) and went to sleep and in his sleep dream that he is now separated
from his father and is his own creator and creator of the world. As it were,
his father is now dead and he has usurped his authority and has created himself
and the world.
In lieu of self
creation the son of God invents a self concept for himself, concepts for other
sons of God (as they do for him) and for everything.
Our empirical world is
the world that the son of God (us) invented in his sleep. Our world is a dream
and is not real. It is the opposite of God’s world.
God’s world, heaven,
is unified, is love. Our world is separated and hateful. Heaven is
permanent and changeless and our world is transitory and ephemeral. Heaven has
one shared self and all are the same and equal. In our world we see ourselves
as separated from each other and as unequal and as different. Heaven is
deathless and immortal. In our world folk do (seem to) die.
In our world we
miscreated ourselves; we invented false separated selves and use them to
replace the us that God created, Unified Spirit Self. Our separated ego
self is a self we invented to replace the unified, that is, holy self (whole
self) that God created us as. But our world has actually not come into
being. However, it seems to have come into being in a sleep-dream state.
We are sleeping and
dreaming this world. This is a literal not figurative statement. When you have
had the experience Hinduism calls Samadhi, Buddhism calls Nirvana, Zen Buddhism
calls Satori and Christian Mysticism calls mystical Union with God you would
know the truth of unified spirit self.
In unified spirit
there is no you and I, no seer and seen, no subject and object. Unified spirit
is not a world of space, time and matter hence is not a perceptual world. For
there to be perception there must be you and not you, other people and things
for you to see. The world of spirit is a world of union where all share one
self and one mind.
No one in our
separated world can understand the nature of unified spirit for in the extant
world we seem to have separated minds and look at things from separated
categories; we cannot understand heaven with our separated ego minds.
Heaven is ineffable.
UNION IS LOVE, GOD IS
LOVE, THE SON OF GOD IS LOVE
Heaven is unified.
Union is love. Heaven is love. God is love. God’s son is love. Our true self is
love.
We seem to have
separated from God (love) and now know the opposite of love. Our world is a
place we dream the opposite of love.
All existence is
unified, is love. Union has no opposite. Love has no opposite. We cannot not be
in love though we can dream that we are outside love. We always live in the
presence of love while dreaming that we are outside love.
GOD THE FATHER, GOD
THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
When God the son
seemed to have separated from God the father, God the father created the Holy
Spirit and sent him into the mind of God the son, into his world to teach him
that he is always love.
In heaven there are
only two Gods: God the father and God the son. But now that God the son
has separated from God the father and God created God the Holy Spirit there are
now three Gods: God the father, God the son (us) and God the Holy Spirit. God
the father is transcendental God (God outside this world), God the son is in
this world as us (sleeping and acting as our egos, human personalities) and God
the Holy Spirit is the immanent God, God as God but in this world. The three
Gods are the Holy Trinity, three persons in one person. Actually, all three
share one self and are one mind.
In the world God the
son has forgotten his true identity as part of the trinity. He sees himself as
a separated self, an ego housed in body and living in the world of space, time
and matter. He appears to have three parts to his mind: the right mind (where
the Holy Spirit is), the left mind (where the idea of separation, ego, that is,
the human personality) is and his forgotten unified mind with God. The Holy
Spirit remembers his unified mind for him while he sleeps and dreams that he is
separated from his father.
The Holy Spirit is
here in the world teaching us (the separated son of God) love. The ego, loves
opposite, speaks first. The Holy Spirit speaks after the ego has spoken and
corrects what the ego spoke. The ego invented this world and the Holy Spirit
reinvented it. The Holy Spirit does not destroy the world made by the son of
God, he merely makes it lovely. The son of God invented a loveless world and
the Holy Spirit blesses that world with love.
The Holy Spirit helps
us behave as we do in heaven, lovingly. On earth love does not seem
appropriate. On earth what seems appropriate is hate. On earth we do see other
people do bad things to us. To our earthly ego minds what seems appropriate
response to other people’s hateful actions is to hate them. We see others
attack us and our ego reasoning tells us to counter attack them in self
defense. Defense seems appropriate in the egos world. Defense seems what keeps
us alive in the egos world. Without defense we believe that other people would
destroy us and they would, for body can be destroyed. But what can be destroyed
has no worth and value; body has no worth and value. (Body has symbolic worth
if it is used to love other children of God hiding in bodies.)
The Holy Spirit
understands that what seems natural to those on earth is defense to attack. He
also knows that our true nature in spirit is love. He therefore teaches us to
overcome the seeming appropriate earthly pattern of behavior. He teaches us to
perform miracles.
To perform miracle is
not to change water into wine or make diseases go away but to consciously love
those who attacked us when counter attacking them seem the most logical thing
to do to keep us alive on earth. The miracle is love. Love transcends the logic
of this world. To this world love seems insane. But to the Holy Spirit love is
the most logical behavior. To love is to forgive those who attacked us.
It works this way. You
see another person attack you, do something bad to you; the ego (your earthly
thinking, the wrong mind, the left mind) wants you to defend yourself. Since
the best defense is offense the ego wants you to attack the person who attacked
you. If you listen to the ego you defend yourself with offense, you counter
attack those who attacked you.
Now that you have
attacked those who attacked you they now feel attacked by you and defend
themselves by attacking you, again. This way our world is place of mutual
attacks.
A place of mutual
attacks must be a place of insecurity, conflict and wars. No one is safe in our
world.
The Holy Spirit enters
this battle field earth and asks us to perceive those who attacked us
differently. When you are attacked, the Holy Spirit tells you that the attack
is a call for you to love the attacker. Both attacker and attacked separated
from love. If you forgive the attacker you have loved him.
Forgiveness means not
counter attacking the person who attacked you but, instead, teaching him that
love is better than attack.
The person who
attacked you offers you a chance to change your identity. Already you
identified with the ego separated self. As the separated ego self you defend
against attack with attack. On the other hand, if you identify with the Christ,
the son of God who has risen from the sleep of separation, you forgive the
person who attacked you.
In forgiving those who
did wrong to your ego you know that you are not an ego but the Christ.
Forgiveness gives you salvation, resurrection from ego and knowledge that you
are the Christ, the son of God who is as his father created him, loving towards
his father and all his brothers.
Forgiveness means
overlooking attacks on you and loving the person who attacked you.
Forgiveness means not bearing grievances against those who wronged you.
Forgiveness means not seeking vengeance and revenge against your detractors but
instead working for their good.
This is what Jesus did
to become the Christ. Jesus was attacked and his body destroyed and he forgave
those who did so. He did not bear grievances or seek revenge. He knew that his
ego and body is a dream figure and did not defend it. By not defending it the
attackers seem to have destroyed his dream ego and body. Thus, he seemed to
have died. Three days later he showed himself to his disciples. He did not die.
He did not die for he was never in body. Body and ego are dream figures, not
real person.
When we seem to die
all that happens is that we see ourselves in light bodies (this is a fact not
speculation, a fact I know from personal experience). Upon seeming
physically dead the individual sees himself leave his body and sees himself in
another body, a light body. (This is a trick for neither dense nor light body
exist; what exist is formless unified spirit self.) He subsequently returns to
gross body if he still believes in separation, in ego housed in body.
Jesus no longer
believed in separation; he gave up his separated ego self and in doing so
overcame the world hence did not return to the world; he now lives in spirit.
Nevertheless, to convince his disciples that he is still alive Jesus took on
another body, his old body and showed it to his disciples. When folk saw Jesus
die (in their mutual dream) he merely woke up in a light body and, ultimately,
in formless spirit world. He took on another body to show his disciples that
death is not real.
All these seem like
magic until you are enlightened and illuminated to our real self. You suddenly
experience the disappearance of your body and you first see yourself in a light
body. Ultimately, you experience yourself in bodiless, formless state of union
with all being.
I have always found
those who claim to be Christian and talk about Jesus but have not seen him very
amusing. I insisted on seeing him and have seen him.
You can see Jesus,
now. To see him, however, you must live his gospel of forgiveness. You must
meet the condition of heaven, love, before you enter it. You must forgive all
God’s children.
No unforgiving mind
sees the face of Christ, has Christ vision. In fact, seeing the glorious figure
of Jesus Christ in light form is indicative that you obeyed his laws, the laws
of the New Testament, laws which replaced Moses laws of the Old Testament. The
New Testament, in case you do not know, is forgiveness of all people. The Old
Testament is punishment of sinners.
Forgive and love all
God’s children and see our brother Jesus standing right in front of you,
extending his hand to you taking you to our home in God. After that beatific
experience you become a teacher of forgiveness and love, like Jesus and help
bring our other brothers home, as I am trying to take you home. Nobody returns
home as an individual but in groups; we left in groups and return in groups.
I am not speculating
but speaking from personal experience. Take it or leave it; I am telling
you the truth. We do not live in body; we do not age and do not die. Being
born, aging and dying takes place in a dream. What took place in a dream has
not taken place in reality. But for those who want the dream to seem real
they seem to be born, age and die.
The world is a place
where the son of God comes to seem separated from his real self: his union with
his father and brothers. We believe that we are separated from God and from our
brothers.
GUILT AND SELF
PUNISHMENT
The act of separation
makes us feel like we did something terribly wrong. We feel guilty. (Separation
is what Christians call original sin. Adam separated from God and thinks that
God is angry at him and is punishing him. He did not separate from God and God
is not punishing him. He is the one who punished himself.)
Guilt calls for
punishment. To be on earth is to feel like we are sinful and ought to be
punished by God. We think that God would punish us.
God knows that he and
his son are eternally unified and that his son cannot separate from him. God
knows that his son merely dreams that he is separated from him. God cannot
punish his son for a crime (separation) that he has not committed. Besides, God
is not punitive.
God and his son share
one self, so if God punished his son he would be punishing himself. Only an
insane God would punish his son hence himself. God is sane and does not punish
his son hence himself.
It is God’s son who is
temporarily insane (belief in separation is delusion disorder, insanity) hence
punishes himself for a sin he has not committed.
(Delusion is belief in
what has not taken place, what is not real as real. We have not separated
from God yet we believe that we have and see a world that seems to suggest that
we are separated from God. The world we see is a hallucination, dream, in our
minds. To be on earth is to be insane.)
The Holy Spirit tells
us that we have not separated from God hence have not sinned; he teaches that
we remain as God created us: holy, sinless, guiltless and innocent.
(However, there is a qualification here. To know that we are sinless etc
we must jettison belief in separation, give up the ego and return to union. In
union, which is God, we are guiltless, but in time, separation, we are guilty.)
We do not want to hear
that God is not punitive. We would rather believe that he is punitive and
expect him to punish us (hence our ministers preach God’s wrath at us and
eternal damnation for our sins). Without waiting for God to punish us, knowing
that he would not punish us, we punish ourselves.
Punishment makes us
seem separated from God hence sinful. Punishment is a mental trick to make
separation seem real hence gratifies our wish for separated existence. It is a
childish game we are playing. Our suffering on earth is our self punishment for
our alleged sin of separation.
AFRICANS PUNISH
THEMSELVES TO MAKE SEPARATION SEEM REAL
Africans believe that
they are separated from God and from each other hence guilty. They believe that
God wants to punish them.
God does not punish
his children. If his children know that he does not punish them, like the
prodigal son they would give up the world and return to him. But they do not
want to give up the world; they do not want to end separation; they still want
to keep their egos, painful as they are. Thus, they would rather believe that
they are guilty and worthy of punishment and punish themselves. They punish
themselves with their suffering on earth.
Africans sold their
brothers and sisters into slavery to Arabs and to Europeans. This is an
unthinkable crime. I believe that this crime is so heinous that if Africans
acknowledged it they would commit mass suicide or become depressed and loathe
themselves, see themselves as criminals of the first order. To avoid negative
self perception Africans deny responsibility for slavery. Instead, they accuse
their partners in the crime of abusing some of God’s children, Europeans, for
making them kidnap their people and sell them. Let it be noted that at no time
during slavery did white folk go into interior Africa to kidnap or buy slaves;
they parked their slave ships at the coast and Africans marched into the
interior of their evil continent kidnapping their folk and bringing them to the
coast to be sold.
God, just thinking
about what our ancestors did makes me nauseated and vomit. I feel depressed
just thinking that my ancestors sold their people into slavery. I have never
ceased apologizing to every black American I see, asking him or her to forgive
me our sin.
(If contemporary
whites are held responsible for their ancestors sin of buying African slaves,
contemporary Africans must be held responsible for their ancestors selling
slaves. Both whites and Africans must make reparations to black Americans;
until we make amends to those we abused I do not think that things will work
out well for us.)
Of course, Africans do
not persuade any one with their rather childish attempt to avoid taking
ownership for their criminal behavior. I believe that the poverty of Africa is
largely accounted for by the criminal behavior of selling our people. In our
unconscious minds (utilizing Carl Jung’s idea of collective unconscious as my
guide) is the belief that we are evil and deserve to be punished and suffer.
Because of our belief
that we sinned (from separation from God and from selling our people) we punish
ourselves with poverty and its attendant suffering.
All Africans need to
do to overcome their poverty is accept that they are guiltless. But to see
themselves as guiltless they must give up their belief in separation. Giving up
belief in separation requires giving up their egos. Africans admire their vain
egos. To be seen as a very important person is practically all they live for.
They masquerade around as very important egos. Africans are the most
narcissistic creatures that walk the surface of this world. What is an African
but a person who is title crazy? See, just about all Nigerians want to be
called Chief, Dr. Professor Afo Shi.
Giving up their egos
means seeing themselves as one with all people, and working for all human
beings’ common good. When they work for all people their poverty would end.
But as long as
Africans believe in separation and work for only individual interests,
Africans, as they currently do, must live in pain, poverty and suffer.
There is no death yet
those who believe in separation must suffer and die, for the wage of sin
(separation) is death. (Separation must end, that is, die, for us to know
that we are eternal unified spirit.)
AFRICANS LOVE TO BLAME
OTHER PEOPLE FOR THEIR SINS AND FATE
Africans do not want
to give up separation, give up their narcissistic egos. To keep their egos they
play a mental trick on themselves and convince themselves that they are
innocent persons whom others do bad things to.
These people sold
their people into slavery but instead of accepting responsibility for this
heinous crime and feel depressed for it hence change, they blame white folk for
that crime; in blaming other folk for their criminal behavior they would not
change that behavior. In blaming others for their dastardly behaviors (such as
stealing their people’s money instead of developing their people) they retain
that childish sense of perfection we see in them.
Blaming others for
ones action is an ego defense mechanism to make one seem perfect despite ones
evil behaviors.
Africans developed the
odious habit of always blaming others for their criminal life styles. At
present their leaders know only how to steal from their people but not how to
help them. These antisocial personalities then turn around and blame white folk
for Africa’s fallen house.
Africans must learn
that they are responsible for their fate; they must love their people and work
for their common good rather than steal from them.
THE GOSPEL OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT
The gospel of the Holy
Spirit is that God’s Son has not separated from his father and that he merely
dreams that he is separated and all that we see him do on earth is done in a
dream. What we see God’s son do has not been done for they are done in a dream.
Since they are dream activities they have no lasting effect (for dreams are
causeless). God’s son must therefore be forgiven and seen as his father still
sees him: as innocent. God’s son is sinless, guiltless and innocent despite the
seeming evil we see him do on earth.
Africans are still
holy and innocent despite the evil of selling their people into slavery and
thieving their people’s money (while pointing two blaming fingers at white
folk, forgetting the three that point back at them reminding them of their
greater role in their damning fate).
Jesus was a man who
listened to the Holy Spirit’s gospel of forgiveness and when he was ready
practiced that gospel of love as forgiveness. He preached forgiveness
(let him who has not sinned cast stone at the adulterer, sinner; how many times
should we forgive sinners?; seventy times seventy times, that is infinitely;
our father forgive us our sins for we have first forgiven those who sinned
against us, is the only prayer the man from Nazareth taught his disciples; all
these underpin the importance of forgiveness in the gospel of Jesus Christ)
forgave those who killed his body. Jesus knew that those who destroyed his body
did not touch his spirit. Our spirit is eternal.
By practicing the
gospel of the Holy Spirit Jesus became the Christ. He is today the foremost
disciple of the Holy Spirit. If you like, he is now like the Holy Spirit
for he lives like the Holy Spirit, lovingly. If you like, you can substitute
Jesus for the Holy Spirit. If you are a Bhakti and like to worship God in form
you can see God as Jesus and worship the form of Jesus. This is harmless
illusion. But if you can deal with reality the truth is that God, Jesus, you
and all of us are formless and are unified as one spirit self.
God takes his sons
where they think that they are. God reaches us where we are. He reaches us in a
manner that we can accept. If you insist on seeing Jesus in form and forgive
all he would appear to you in form (an illusion, of course). Ultimately, you
experience the truth of our oneness and no longer need to pray to Jesus or to
God or worship them, for you know that they are parts of our one shared self.
All that is asked of
you is to love and forgive God’s one son (you and all of us). God’s son is
eternally sinless despite the seeming evil we see him do on earth.
Forgive all Africans
despite their evil of selling their people and their present callousness of
heart of not working for their people. Do so and experience the peace and joy
of God that passes human ego understanding.
Jesus taught the
gospel of the Holy Spirit. That gospel is love (forgiveness is the meaning of
love in a world we seem to harm each other). When we listen to Jesus and
the Holy Spirit and love all (forgive all) we approximate our true nature.
On earth we cannot be
our true nature for on earth we live in separated state. Separation produced
the world of space, time and matter. We live in bodies made of matter and walk
in space and time.
The earth is not
heaven for heaven does not have space, time and matter. Heaven is total union
hence total harmony and love, peace and joy.
On earth we are in
forms, in bodies and live in space- time. The best that we can do is
approximate love but not perfect love. We approximate love when we consciously
love other people and forgive them what they do to us.
When we forgive and
love our earth becomes relatively peaceful, and happy. The earth becomes a
happy place (a happy dream, a borderland between heaven and earth, the gate of
heaven but not heaven itself).As the Persian mystic, Bahaullah pointed out,
while on earth at best we attain what he called the lesser peace, not the
greater (total) peace of heaven.
The teachers of love
are the teachers of union, the teachers of God. I am a teacher of God, a
teacher of love, a teacher of union; a healer of separation; a person who
closes the gap between God and his son, who rejoins the shattered son of God
into one whole (unify all people).
A HEALER MUST FIRST
HEAL HIMSELF
I was totally
unloving. I was the epitome of the ego, the absence of love. Through
experience I learned that love is what matters most in life.
To be an ego is to be
separated from God and all people; I was totally separated from other people
and did not care to have close relationships. I used to tell me that I do not
need other people. Like my then mentor, Frederick Perls of Gestalt therapy, I
would repeat the mantra that you and I do not need to restrict ourselves to
please each other. If we meet and serve each others need that is fine but when
we are not useful to one another we move on and away from each other without
feeling guilty. I am not here to please you and you are not here to please me,
I would remind me.
I healed my sickness
of separation; I learned to love people. I closed the gap between me and other
people. I rejoined those I separated from, Africans and people in general and
our father God. In union, which is love, I found relative peace and happiness.
A son of God who has
returned to his father, returned to love and found peace must teach peace to
other sons of God who have not found it.
In teaching peace one
learns peace. In loving other persons one loves ones self. One teaches what one
wants to learn, love.
I want to learn love
(union with God and all creation) so I teach love (union).My mission is to
teach all people love.
I look at my immediate
brothers, Africans, and see them as not particularly loving. I feel called upon
(by God, my higher self) to teach them how to love.
To the extent that
Africans love one another they know the peace of Jesus Christ, the peace of the
Holy Spirit, the peace of God.
When Africans learn to
love one another they would work for one another’s good and the African
continent would become a happy place and real political and economic
development would start taking place in that seeming cursed land.
My mission is to teach
Africans love and since I am an African in teaching them I teach me; one learns
what one teaches. What I teach other people, since they are parts of me, is
what I teach me. What I give to other people is what I give to me. Giving is
receiving, for God has only one son, one son that is in infinite places and
when we give to any of those sons we have given to God’s one son, to our self.
As Goethe observed,
when you are committed to doing something you like doing, such as teaching and
learning love whole heartedly, the universe (God, love, all people) will be
committed to helping you; people will open doors for you.
You should not fence
sit, vacillate, waffle; you should be completely devoted to teaching and living
love, twenty-four seven.
In the past people,
especially their bodies were repulsive to me. Perceiving peoples bodies as
repulsive I avoided them and lived in my head, thinking. In practical
terms this meant that I separated from people.
Now overlooking
people’s seeming repulsive bodies (body does not exist, body is a ruse to avoid
relating and loving people) I approach people for relationships. As a
philosopher, what Hinduism calls Jnana yogi, I still do not feel comfortable
among Bhakti folk, those who are not thoughtful and see God as a father figure
to worship.
A course in miracles
means a course in love. Love is the miracle. In this world hate and separation
seems the normal thing to do, so to love is like transcending the world of
nature, a miracle. Teaching people to love one another is asking
them to do the opposite of what they came to do in this world, which is to hate
and bear grievances. In teaching love one is actually teaching A course in
miracles without calling it what one is doing. I do not call what I am teaching
religion or metaphysics. I call it teaching love, for love can be taught in a
secular way.
WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
What is the truth? The
truth is love/union/God. Teaching love/union/God is teaching the truth.
My goals is to
continue writing and publishing on love, teaching about love, giving weekly
seminars on love, traveling all over Africa teaching Africans how they
can love themselves. I seek ways to teach Africans non-violent conflict
resolution, so as to reduce their incessant ego caused wars. Teaching them to
love one another, I believe, would reduce their tendency to unnecessary
violence in trying to resolve their intertribal conflicts.
So far, I have
expended my personal funds in doing this necessary work. My office space
and staff costs me a lot of money. I am now seeking funding to continue this
very necessary work.
I work under the
umbrella of Africa Institute Seattle, Center for Love Directed Living:
AIS-CLDL.
CONCLUSION
I explored abstract
metaphysical concepts in this paper. The task is to transform them into
concrete useable philosophy. How do we do so? It is simple. As Francis Assisi
said love and all else is detail. We must love one another; that is all there
is to all philosophies, religions and the laws of society.
I am an African. For
any number of reasons I stayed out of Africa and away from Africans during most
of my adult years. Recently, I reintegrated myself into the African community.
I was shocked at the level of unloving and uncaring behaviors I witnessed in my
fellow Africans.
There is no two ways
of putting it: most of the Africans I was exposed to showed signs of antisocial
behaviors. These Africans did not care for other people but instead sought ways
to cheat them and upon doing so did not show signs of guilt and remorse
feeling; indeed, they seemed to take pride in figuring out ways to exploit
their fellow human beings. I was amazed by what was taking place before
my very eyes.
As an African it
seemed in my best interest not to go public with the untoward behavior I saw in
my fellow Africans. Publicly talking about it would seem to play into racists
hands; racists seize upon any mistake made by black folk to tell the world that
black folk are different from other human beings hence ought to be
discriminated against. Thus, for the longest time I did not talk about
the incredible sociopathic behavior I saw in Africans. But after weighing the
good and bad involved I decided that making the problem public is better than
keeping quiet about it. Ignoring it to save my African face is one way to not
solve the problem. Keeping quiet over a perceived problem allows it to fester,
multiply and eventually destroy the fabric of society.
We must find a way to
help Africans overcome their one thousand year learned criminal tendencies. I
believe that selling slaves made Africans to devalue their lives and to find it
easy to engage in criminal thinking and behavior.
When antisocial ideas
enter Africans little heads instead of seeing them as temptation to go the
wrong path hence resisted, they immediately act on it.
All over the world,
human beings have inappropriate thoughts enter their minds. All of us are
tempted to be unkind to other persons, to steal and use other people. But if we
are properly socialized we know that since we do not want other people to not
care for us and steal from us we desist from doing so to other people.
The man from Nazareth
said: do unto other people as you want them to do to you. Let us be honest with
ourselves, we all want other people to love and care for us, so we ought to
love and care for other people.
In my judgment we must
teach Africans to do unto others as they want others to do to them: love them.
They must be taught that love is strength not weakness.
Exploiting other
people, that is, criminal behavior is weakness. At present Africans show all
the signs of weak character structure but take them as strength! We must all
come together and help these benighted people before they finish themselves off
with their uncaring behaviors. They would not do any right thing to help their
people so that their people would always be suffering thus making us feel guilty
and give them monetary handouts to help their people, money that they quickly
pocket and, like amoral apes, do not feel guilty.
My goal is to do
whatever is in my power to help retrain Africans, to get them to love rather
than exploit one another. In doing so I am helping make amends for the sins of
our ancestors in selling their people hence forming a slave culture and
bequeathing it to us.
I hope that you join
me in correcting the mess our ancestors handed to us. And if you are a non-African
I hope that you do your bit to help Africans become true human beings.
In my opinion true
human beings are those who, in Alfred Adler’s individual psychological terms,
serve our common social interest, those who transcend their self centeredness
and work for our public good. God bless you for helping transform Africans into
human beings.
*The ideas broached in this brief essay were
elaborated on in my other writings. For a sample of my writings please visit my
website: www.spiritualpsychologytoday.com
Ozodi Thomas Osuji,
PhD ( University of California)
February 4, 2008
I can be reached
at (206) 529-4745; email ozodiosuji@gmail.com or ozodi@africainstituteseattle.org
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