Identifying the Problem

The following post was written December 25, 2009. Despite being several months removed from that holiday season, I felt these thoughts were worth sharing once more.
Here we are once again at the season to be jolly, but the socio-economic conditions for people of color have improved only slightly and not significantly enough to reclaim the needed degree of mastery and personal sovereignty over our own lives. The question is in identifying the source of the problem.

The problem lies in our having forgotten our true identity both as individuals and collectively as a people. The awareness of our historical legacy could, if truly embraced, revive the passion for excellence in all our daily encounters. I do not mean a re-enforcement of the decadent paradigm we already inhabit, but an awakening to a higher order of thought.

A higher order awakening begins first by unconditional love of ourselves, respect for our home planet, its inhabitants, and the recognition that all life is sacred. This once was part of the cosmology of people of color the world over. True spirituality and the esoteric dimension of our consciousness have been sabotaged by mistaken notions. 

Still, our historical legacy of being among the first in laying the foundation for all the world's civilizations, as well as all the unparalleled historical accomplishments as Moorish peoples could galvanize our children to aspire to excellence. This remains prerequisite to a higher order of thought on the spiritual, intellectual, and socio-economic level, but not ever for the sake of materialism.

Yet, people of color are thoroughly conditioned into the world of materialism where a quest for fame, fortune, and more and more possessions takes priority over recognizing that as a community we are socially bankrupt and devoid of true spirituality. Remembering our eternal purpose empowers the raising of our consciousness beyond the repetitive loop of the pseudo spirituality of traditional religious practice. Hence, we suffer from a deep spiritual vacuum being re-enforced by religious practices keeping a prohibition on our conscious evolution, and the distractions of entertainment keeping us focused on things having no redeeming value.  In the meantime, we continue to ignore the needs of our own communities and those disempowered.

As a community, we must recondition our children away from the deceptive practice of being overly distracted by media entertainments and the false system of Western civilization’s competitive practices to that of cooperation and support for our brothers and sisters. We must see again that people matter more than fame, fortune, and material possessions. We must recapture a love for ourselves on both the individual and collective basis so that we may once more empathetically love each other.  This must become our practice and conscious method of operation for the sake of our survival into the next generation.  We raise our communities when we raise our motivation for living.

Our motivation for living should never be the acquisition of more and more material possessions to brag about and then to compare ourselves with others as if this somehow makes us people who are more valuable. We must begin to see again that the greatest treasure lies in the relationships we have with each other.  This includes not only our close family relations but ever as important the global community. We are all one.

The knowledge of our unity as sentient beings was lost in the dim past through subterfuge and alienation to the right understanding of all things.  I am not speaking of what was lost during slavery. This goes much further back than slavery. Slavery resulted only because the damage to our consciousness had already occurred. We are children of the stars and as such, the very essence of our consciousness suffers erosion by miseducation and disinformation that keeps us spiritually feeble.  We have adopted defunct philosophies, delusional religions, exploitative political ideologies, and temporal distractions that have no redeeming value. We must find again the quiet within our own souls. We must return to ourselves and the Eternal Source that resides within.

We must take the time to gain mastery over our own minds, to go within and find once more the sense of calm - that place of peace where our conscious minds and hearts become at one with the Eternal Source.  Only at this point will we remember who we are and for what purposes we have come to inhabit the planet in the first place.

I am Jioni and I love you all!