In general, especially if they don’t know better than to believe you when you’re wrong, people respect the ability of your mind to show no fear in turbulent times. The people in the U.S.A who respect George Bush respect him not because he is a “bright man”. On the contrary, they respect him because even when he says some of the dumbest of things he shows no fear in saying them. There has to be a person in your life who talks a lot and you can’t figure out why people listen to him or her but they do. It probably has more to do with confidence they exude than it has to do with the information they supply
There is a biblical quote “study to show your self approved, a watchman rightly dividing the word of god”. There are three key points to this passage 1) “study to show thyself approved” Consciousness is about the self. The student studies to learn what the teacher knows to perfect self. The student is to become the teacher not sustain the teacher. If you cant teach it you don’t know it, and if you don’t know it you cant show it, and if you cant show it how will anyone “especially you” even know its there. 2) “a watchman” Instead of looking for the prophet outside of you seek the prophet within for the one within is the only one who can enlighten you, the other will only entertain you or pacify you. 3) “rightly dividing the word of god” you study, you protect your mind/heart from wrong information so that you can rightly divide all information or stimuli coming in to you from the objective world so that you don’t end up internalizing bad information in your subjective world because is that subjective world that “Nun” within from which all creation is created. It is that which your active will allows to become your dormant passive will that springs forth as your habits, your creative superstructure.
It is very popular, especially in esoteric circles, to say that the matrix isn’t real. This is true only if you understand that you create the matrix by your perceptions of reality. A semi coming at you is real and if you don’t jump out of the road it will run you over. The system of racism white supremacy is real and if we as a singular Africans or we as a people don’t act as watchmen for our minds it will destroy us. This is a perfect world, as Amos Wilson was fond of saying, if we allow garbage in we should expect to receive garbage back out. No soldier who is trained by the U.S. army expects the army to send him out to fight against the U.S. army.
No system fighting against itself can stand. Our conscious and sub-conscious minds form a system of thought, action, and creation. This is the reason why Europeans teach us a concept of objectivity under the illusion of universal truth which they define in their own image. Africans working under this paradigm are bound to work not in within a self interest but for the interest of him who has become their truth. The Buddha once said thought becomes word, word becomes deed, deed becomes habit and habit becomes character. I would argue that we must understand character as the sub-conscious result of accepted outside paradigms which then lead to our thoughts, deeds, and behaviors. What we allow to be presented uncritically to our subconscious will be the seeds of our future actions.
The African mind is capable of achieving that witch it is focused upon and is only limited by its conceptualization of its own power. It is never to late or to early to be that which you desire to become, but you can’t get there holding on to people who have limited themselves and wish to therefore limit you. Once you decide to walk the path of personal power you will have to be willing to walk away from those who aren’t willing for what ever reason to walk along with you. Every one around you is a guide to knowing yourself better. If everyone around you is limited then that’s the state you have chosen to be in right now. If you wish to be released from that state, speak the truth that you understand and walk within it and allow it to grow in your life.
Every path has a price but the price of not walking your truth is a lot more costly than the cost of walking it. You only kill yourself by hushing your truth for companions who, as soon as they get theirs if they ever do, will walk on from you and leave you lost in the abyss of confusion. Remember it is your consciousness riding in the bark over nun and if your bark is overturned it is only your light that will be put out and left passive in the abyss.