Topic: Maat, The Global Goddess for Just Societies and Nations Entry 6

Title: God Lives within us so Human Dignity and Worth, and the Light within Must be Protected Part 1

Video Inspired By: African Conceptions and Practices of Manhood and Womanhood (Episode #054)(LINK) https://youtu.be/S7NzKsmb0Ag

There’s a question many non-black, melanemic, non-liberal conservative minded individuals ask in spaces where we don’t frequent; why are Black people so arrogant? The question is actually asked in correctly but I’ll get to that in a minute. The question is usually framed differently, it’s usually posed as a statement; “So-and-so [a Black Being] is so arrogant” as opposed to “So-and-so [a Black Person] who carries themselves with [insert cliché praise word here]”. The word arrogant is a placeholder for the word self-righteous, as often the statement above is used to describe a Black Being after they did something right or stood morally against something or checked the complaining melanemic person for saying something immoral or doing something underhanded. In fact the statement, made question; is a placeholder itself as it is a lens enabling us to see a much more hidden question within the melanemic psyche. This question is stated as followed, what drives the Afrikan in America’s moral compass. The answer does not change no matter the question or statement turned question – our arrogance is founded in the ego depriving Laws embodied in Maat, an arrogant neutralizing spiritual worship practice most Afrikans in America don’t know they engage in. These Maat embodied laws moralistically drive Afrkians in America towards Humanitarian and the as yet wholly developed or defined paradigm known as Egalitarian, Ethics. These ethics, in turn, do not connect directly back to Maat but instead confirm a deeper truth which Dr. T’Shaka lays out in the above lecture.

He mentions in the lecture that “the ideal human being for the Bambara Maa, suggesting that the Human Being, within him or herself contains the essence of God” (listen to the lecture to see the connection between the almost identical word Maat); this essence if seen would appear as a light. This Bambara belief runs deep throughout the Afrikan in American psyche and the corresponding spiritual beliefs projecting from it. This belief is the invisible bridge which exists in, and is often missing from, many within our community – it is an Afrikan Ancestral bridge, that itself is the risen conscious portion from an undergirding subconscious foundation rich with Afrikan philosophies forgotten by the means imposed on us throughout the Maafa, but most notably this era rife with what Dr. T’Shaka calls “The Hostile Forces”.  This bridge, through study, apprenticeship and proper self-regulation, self-disciple and self-reconstruction; not only fills the space between Maat and the Afrikan in America’s Humanitarian and Egalitarian Ethics; but becomes the opening in which other buried Afrikan philosophies can emerge. These emerging philosophies create new bridges between openings within the cycle and even latch onto previously established ideas feeding them with ideas and concepts foreign to western ideals but domestically rooted in Afrikan. But these are topics for a different time and place.

The three sections described, enable us to complete the answer to the question extracted from the statement which prompted my writing of this entry in the first place. What drives the Afrikan in America’s moral compass; its Maat as a spiritual practice embodied through us, this in turn drives us to a Humanitarian and Egalitarian Ethics, which is both a projection from and is fed by, the Bambara concept of Maa. This complex internal psycho-spiritual process can be simplified into a one sentence answer to the above question – what drives the Afrikan in America’s moral compass, it is our belief (rather stated or not, rather acknowledged or not) that God lives within us, so Human Dignity and Worth and the Light within Must be Protected. I know, personally, this is a belief I have always held fast too; but I didn’t always know how to describe it to others. When fumbling about for terminology that fit what I knew to be true, explaining God altogether was the barrier which logical reasoning could not scale. Appreciating God as a central force to the Universe who has created Human Beings as a communicative element inside all the other creations projected from the mind; who also created helper Entities capable of engaging with Humanity, including those higher forces we also call Gods and Goddesses who themselves are microcosms assigned by God to be a carrier and executive for some element or character within them. Once I appreciated God in this manner, innergrasping what I was trying to say became easier. As did acknowledging the hidden dimensions within mysoul and myBeing, enabling me to see the process described above.

Beyond the personal, Afrikans in America must awaken to this great truth. In us lays a love for Humanity that is fed by our reliance on God for direction, it is a love that is fed by our reliance on hidden philosophies connecting us to traditions we don’t remember be a part to or from, it is a love that is fed by our unconscious spiritual lust to be the “ideal human being” which is the true meaning being the concept of Maa and it is the hidden aspiration motivating what we do as Afrikans in America, a country that enslaved us, lied to us about why they enslaved us and only set us free long enough to figure out how to re-enslave us without calling us that. A country that has tried to murder as many of us as it could through governmental policies created to deny us our right to grow and mature and become what God intended for us to be. A country filled with people who to this very day refuse to acknowledge the rule their Ancestors played in these heinous actions. A country who denies it culpability in enslaving humanity in scheme which literally seeks to kill the human in us, in an effort to replace what has been made by God with things made by demigods or those who wish to be in Gods placement. We, Afrikans in America, are driven by a hidden aspiration motivated by a need to protect God’s greatest project – Humanity; a project that is not perfect, but one that enables God to communicate with his creation in a way unavailable up to the present.

In the next installment I will write about how our desire to protect this light within each Human Being motivates the Afrikan in America to protect human communities including nations and if I have time (I’m trying to keep these under 1500 words for now), I will talk about how our desire to protect this light misleads us into accepting people who do not have the best intentions for our people as allies and friends.

I have two questions for you to ponder today, what is your favorite Maat Principle (not Precept) and why?

How do you use Maat in your daily life?