Elevate Your Consciousness
Elevate Your Consciousness
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“The ultimate
explanation of all things is a state of consciousness.” Emmet Fox
Albert Einstein
said, “You cannot solve problems using the same consciousness that
created them.” In other words, if you keep doing the things you
do/did; you will always get the results you’ve gotten. Life is
about facing challenges and danger, solving problems overcoming
obstacles and bringing forth the best of what is within ourselves. No
one escapes this process, it is part of life. All of us have to
endure what Shakespeare called “the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune”, the vicissitudes of life, trials and tribulations, ups
and downs, failures, successes and triumphs. Each of us must deal
with this reality, you can run but you can’t hide from life!
We are living in an
era of accelerated change on all levels: personal, familial, social,
moral, technological and economic. While change is the essence of
life, change can be disruptive, damaging, difficult and often
calamitous. Much of the calamity in our lives are situations we’ve
brought on ourselves, through our own thinking and actions. Other
issues/circumstances are due to outside forces. For example the age
of European expansion and colonialism brought about disastrous
changes everywhere they set foot on this planet from the fifteen
century on. Everywhere they went social and ecological disruption and
upheaval followed. Their ruling elites rationalized their plunder and
genocide by saying they were bringing “civilization”, “spreading
Christianity” and saving indigenous people from the ravages of
benightedness, isolation and savagery.
This of course was
a made up justification for what they were doing. That consciousness
was based upon what I call reverse or anti-Ubuntu where the
Caucasians (Arabs and Europeans) felt is was their birthright to take
whatever they wanted from others, “what is mine is mine and what’s
yours is mine”, and might make right were their mantras.
Contrarily, Ubuntu
says “I am because we are, we are because I am,” it is a
philosophy and worldview of inter and intra-connectedness,
interdependence, cooperation, mutual aid and responsibility.
The contrasts
between Ubuntu and anti-Ubuntu are based purely on a way of thinking,
doing and behaving in the world. Our current world reflects this
predatory consciousness. This is why the world is in a perpetual
state of conflict, rapine, suffering and depravity. It is based upon
a consciousness of greed, callousness and exploitation. It has been
that way since the fifteenth century.
If we say we want
change and we say we want to make the world a better place, we have
to alter our consciousness, we have to think, behave and relate
differently to ourselves, each other, the “other” and the
environment. We cannot save the world using the same consciousness
that is currently destroying it; believing we are separate from it,
that we have no kinship with those who do not look like us, the
animal kingdom (other than our own pets) and the natural order.
The Dictionary of
Psychology defines the word consciousness as: 1.the state of
awareness, 2.the totality of experience at any given moment as
opposed to mind which is the sum of past consciousness, awareness of
acts, activities and reactions, 3. the subjective aspect of
neurological activities, 4. self-knowledge, self-awareness.
Many mystical and
philosophical teachings say we humans are not consciousness, we are
not totally aware, that we are susceptible to illusions and
unreality. I don’t have time to fully comment on this but suffice
it to say these teachings are correct, we are not fully aware, we are
not using the totality of our mental faculties and potential and we
lack self-knowledge, the true knowledge of who and what we are.
Ancient sages
admonished “Man, Know Thyself.” Unfortunately, we don’t know
ourselves and we haven’t even attempted to discover our true
selves! We have allowed those who rule over us to dissuade us from
the commencing the process of self-awareness and self-knowledge.
Their socialization and pedagogical institutions and systems ignore
the processes of self-actualization and individuation in favor of
pigeonholing us and keeping us ignorant of who and what we really
are. As a result, our consciousness is extremely limited and myopic
to the point of cognitive impotence, we’re being reduced to
Zombies.
In the West various
movements have sprung up to counter what I call the Zombification of
humanity. Various teachers, philosophers, mystics and metaphysicians
have introduced and promoted the ancient wisdom teachings from Africa
and Asia in an effort to improve humanity. In the early twentieth
century one such teacher as an Englishman named Emmet Fox. He was a
leading spokesman for what he called the Truth Movement. He
visited America and while he was here lecturing, he went to the
headquarters of Unity in Kansas. While there he gave a speech
entitled Life is Consciousness. In it is said, “The way to meet a
problem is to raise your consciousness, If you do this, the problem
disappears. In the Bible a valley always stands for trouble, sin,
limitation: and the mount (mountain) for uplifted thought and prayer
for understanding. We must go up the mount,; raise your
consciousness.”
Emmet Fox also
spoke about self-image, cultivating your self-image as a divine
being, “The Great I Am that I Am”. This is not new, the Nile
Valley Mastery Schools taught their initiates to cultivate and
invigorate their latent potential, physical, psychological and
emotional with the ultimate goal being identification as a living
divine being!
I encourage you to
read any of Ra Un Nefer Amen’s Metu Neter book series
especially Nuk Au Neter I Am A Divine Being The Kametic Holy
Scriptures ISBN 978-0--9820156-1-2 . Dr. Muata Ashby also teaches
these anceint African principles of personal transformation and
enlightenment.
This is the great
secret of the ages; if you want the energy and conditions of your
life to change for the better, raise your consciousness, change your
self-image, commence seeing yourself as a divine being, as an
extension of THE CREATOR (Ubuntu: I am because of THE CREATOR and THE
CREATOR is in me.)
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The Brouhaha About Affirmative Action
The Brouhaha About Affirmative Action
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The recent US
Supreme Court’s ruling stating the student acceptance policies at
Harvard and the University of North Carolina which factored in race,
gender and economic status were unconstitutional and a violation of
the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the
law will have huge impacts on not only college acceptance and
enrollment but on the psyche of this nation. That Supreme Court’s
ruling is preposterous and to use the Fourteenth Amendment to the US
Constitution as the rational is an egregious injustice in itself!
The Fourteen
Amendment like the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US
Constitution were written, and ratified following The War Between The
States (incorrectly called The US Civil War) in the late 1860’s.
(Note: a civil war by definition is when two or more parties/groups
engage in hostile and violent activities against each other or the
government in an attempt to take over, usurp or abolish the existing
government. That is not what happened in the US! The Confederate
States seceded from the Union, galvanized themselves, formed their
own separate government with their own governing body, their own
currency, commerce and international relationships.
South Carolina
demanded the Union evacuate and surrender Fort Sumter which was
located in the Charleston Harbor. Abraham Lincoln refused to
surrender the Fort and he sent supplies to reinforce the post. As a
result hostilities broke out starting the war between the Union and
Confederacy.
Following the war,
a “reunited nation”, was forced to address and figure out what to
do with its enslaved population. (Note Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation did not free any enslaved people, not one, not any
in the Confederacy and none in the Union states that still enslaved
Blacks!) The so called “Radical Republicans worked to resolve the
status of enslaved people in this country; to clarify and define
their legal standing and status. With little dissent because their
former Southern colleagues were no longer in office or power the
Republicans were able to rally support for, draft, pass and ratify
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US
Constitution.
Here’s the tricky
part, the Thirteenth Amendment did not abolish slavery entirely! Read
it for yourself and see. As far as the Fourteen Amendment goes, since
its ratification Section One has never been uniformly enforced on any
level in this nation! The Fifteenth Amendment gave the right to vote
but once the Southern oligarchs retook control via a treacherous deal
with the Republican Party in 1877, they worked assiduously to
disenfranchise Blacks and reduce us to peons and neo-slavery!
This brings us
back to the recent decision by the US Supreme Court. We have been
programmed and brainwashed to believe the US Supreme Court is the
institution where the nation’s brightest legal scholars and minds
reside, a place where decisions are flawless, unbiased, rendered with
the best interests of the greatest number of people and that they are
just. It’s all propaganda and lies.
The US Supreme
Court has been a bastion of racism, gender and class bias, political
cronyism and ideological partisanship and politics since its
founding! The Supreme Court reflects the prejudices, biases, values
and consciousness of the ruling class. The courts for the most part
were designed to maintain the status quo and balance of power for
certain groups. We can see it at work today as Presidents attempt to
pack the court with their ideological sycophants.
The Supreme Court’s
recent decision is merely one of a long series of rulings that in
turn have had devastating consequences for Blacks and the nation, the
most familiar cases are: Dred Scott 1857, the Civil Rights Cases of
the 1880’s, Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 and others too numerous to
mention. Keep in mind even a favorable ruling like Brown vs Board of
Education has not resulted in racial equity in education or the
society ingeneral! To fully grasp this reality read Shades of
Freedom Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal
Process by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. the late great lawyer and
jurist.
The fact is,
“integration” was not the lawsuit known as Brown vs Board of
Education’s goal! Destroying the US state sanctioned apartheid
system was its goal and the 1954 Supreme Court ruling came up way too
short! De jure housing segregation has been made illegal; but de
facto housing segregation still exists, red lining (arbitrary
property devaluation, land use restrictions withholding resources
based on color and class) still exist, job discrimination still
exists and “Affirmative Action” has not eliminated systemic bias
and deprivation!
This is the crux of
the issue but we have to also grasp the fact that in addition to the
lies and misrepresentations about the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments we have been lied to about “Affirmative
action”. Its critics say Affirmative Action promotes reverse racism
and preference! Not true. “Affirmative Action” has not, I repeat
his not resulted in massive shifts, improvements or parity in wealth
or employment for Black people. Black unemployment is still the
highest in the country, “Black
men have the highest unemployment rates of any race/gender group, and
the lowest labor force participation and employment rates among men.”
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-are-employment-rates-so-low-among-black-men/#:~:text=Employment%20in%20the%20population%20by,January%202020%20and%202021%20
The
fact of the matter is the main beneficiaries of “Affirmative
Action” have been White women!
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11682950/fisher-supreme-court-white-women-affirmative-action
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/who-benefits-most-affirmative-action-30356404
https://www.aaaed.org/aaaed/History_of_Affirmative_Action.asp
But the plutocrat owned mind control apparatus will not tell us this
truth.
Just
like the lie “Separate but equal” was pushed, internalized and
regurgitated so too the lies about “Affirmative Action” being
reverse racism are perpetuated and promoted as fact when in reality
they are lies. Here are a few examples of the lies and the
refutation of these dastardly falsehoods:
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DAS/Commissioners-Office/Myths-and-Facts-11082007.pdf
,
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-29/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision-college-admissions-misconceptions
,
https://www.mic.com/articles/183223/5-big-myths-about-affirmative-action-in-colleges
All
this talk about a “colorblind” society and judging people on the
basis of their character rather then their pigment sounds noble; but
when has America ever been a colorblind society? When have Black
people ever been judged by their character in this country,
especially now? The same people who rue the changes brought about by
Civil Rights agitation now use the rhetoric of the movement to thwart
implementation of the very changes needed to bring justice and
equity!
Do
not fall for their okey-doke and the flim flam. Remember the
Thirteenth Amendment did not totally abolish slavery (convict
leasing, mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex,
disenfranchisement are its legacy), Section One of the Fourteenth
Amendment has never been uniformly or universally enforced and the
Fifteenth Amendment was ignored, suppressed and fought against for
over one hundred years! Today there still vestiges of resistance to
Black political power and active threats of disenfranchisement. This
is the real deal not the fairy tale propaganda they want us to
believe.
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