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Here felicitiously flows our Cosmic Chant. [prompt 1...Left hand palm placed on the chest, Right hand raised with a clenched fist rending the air] Hail BEYONDISM!===>[reply 1...imitating the prompter, but rending the air 3 times] Awakened. Blooming. Creative....... [prompt 2...Left hand clinching the waist, Right hand palm stroking the chest] I AM a Blessed Beyondist (BB)===>[reply 2...imitating the prompter, but stroking the chest 3 times] Which amounts to being The Anointed One (TAO).......[prompt 3...Hands resting on the belly, head slightly bowed] In as much as My ‘BEING’ is in holy harmony with Nature and The SUPREME BEING so WHAT?===>[reply 3...imitating the prompter, but bowing the head 3 times] GOD IS FOR ME. GOD IS IN ME. GOD IS WITH ME. [facing each other, hands lifted up with open palm, slashing the air 7 times] AFRICA. AFRICA. AFRICA! ARISE. ADVANCE. ACHIEVE! AMEN! greeting

May you celestially celebrate the 4th BEYONDIST BOMBSHELL!

SUMMARY on how to NURTURE a NATURAL LIFE

  1. SIMPLY put, everything you accomplish in LIFE is determined by the amount of responsibility you take.
  2. UNLEASH from within yourself the potential and the capability of accomplishing extraordinary things.
  3. MEANINGFUL goals give you a clear picture of what you really want to accomplish in the near future.
  4. MAKE sure to clearly define your PASSION and dream, then start thinking about your present situation.
  5. A sense of accomplishments gives you a joyful sense of confidence, as well as ennobling encouragement.
  6. REASONABLE and solid success is related to all the areas of your LIFE, it is not just one-dimensional.
  7. YOU definitely have to critically analyse your victory because it will give you the base for future success.
  1. NOTABLE happiness received from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.
  2. USUALLY, the world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
  3. REALISTICALLY, everything which exists or happens for an individual exists only in one’s consciousness.
  4. THINGS happen for you alone; the most essential thing for you is the constitution of your consciousness.
  5. UNDERSTAND that, it is with great truth that Aristotle affirms, “To be happy means to be self-sufficient.”
  6. READILY, it is logical to say that ignorance on SELF seems to be the root cause of basic human suffering.
  7. EXISTENTIALLY, of all the people you have ever known, you are the only one you must KNOW really.
  1. NOURISHING passion is burning with an idea or a problem that you want to right and ever sticking to it.
  2. ALWAYS hold fast to your dreams, for if they die, LIFE becomes a broken-winged bird, which flies not.
  3. THE most illuminating secret of LIFE, is to fall SEVEN times and then illustriously get up EIGHT times.
  4. USUALLY, there is neither joy nor misery; only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
  5. REMEMBER that, he or she who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
  6. ASTUTELY, we must have felt what it is to die, so that we may fully appreciate the enjoyments of LIFE.
  7. LIVE, then, and be happy, and know that all human wisdom is contained in two words, ‘Wait and Hope.’

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“The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals—a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces.”
- The Kybalion

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May you gainfully get the 4th ILLIMITABLE INSPIRATION!

It is not what you SIMPLY do not know that gets you into trouble.
It is what you purposively know for SURE, but which you do suppress.
The WISE person regards the faith that is in him or her not as adventitious.
At the epitome of MENTORED MATURITY the highest TRUTH one sees, one will fearlessly utter.
Knowing that, let what may come of it, one is thus playing one’s right part in the world.
Aware that one can effect the change one aims at well; if not well also; though not so well.
Here is how to affluently accommodate yourself in a PRACTICALLY PERFECT manner:

  1. PRODUCTIVE LIFE is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. The completeness of LIFE depends on the completeness of this correspondence; and LIFE is perfect when the correspondence is perfect.

  2. ENRICHING correspondence is not a merely passive adaptation. What distinguishes LIFE is the adjustment of internal relations in anticipation of a change in external relations, as when an animal crouches to avoid a blow, or a man makes a fire to warm his food.

  3. REALISE at this early age that religious beliefs and political movements are built upon needs and impulses BEYOND the reach of intellectual attack. You should reconcile yourself to seeing the world roll on, without much heeding the heavy dosage of opinions you hurls in its direction.

  4. FUNCTIONALLY, if everybody thought more of the interests of others than of his or her own, we should have a chaos of curtsies and retreats. Probably, the pursuit of individual happiness within the limits prescribed by social conditions is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  5. ENNOBLING morality, like art, is the achievement of unity in diversity. The highest type of a human being is the one who effectively unites in him or herself the widest variety, complexity, and completeness of LIFE.

  6. CONDUCT, like anything else, should be called good or bad as it is well adapted, or maladapted, to the ends of LIFE. The highest conduct is that which conduces to the greatest length, breadth, and completeness of LIFE.

  7. THOUGH the joy of understanding may be a sad joy, yet those who have once tasted it would not exchange it for the frivolous gaieties and empty hopes of the vulgar herd. It remains true, no doubt, that death is terrible. But, much of its terror disappears if one has lived a well-adjusted LIFE; one must have lived well in order to die well.

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THOU SHALL BE AUDACIOUS TO ALLOW THE FLOWERING OF GENIUS--->

THOU SHALL BE AUDACIOUS TO ALLOW THE FLOWERING OF GENIUS

Opulently owning the 4th VOLCANIC VALUATION!

Audaciously allowing the flowering of our GENIUS is:


Not waiting for present conditions to ideally get more better.
Perpetually creating the necessary conditions to drive action.
Whatever our goals, a vital yardstick is continual cultivation.
Indulgence in a process of self-improvement and self-creation.
Seeking to network with those having more knowledge than us.
Incessant modelling our efforts on their positive achievements.
Diligently adjusting our key ideals and improving as we grow.

Youths/Comrades
Will-to-Selfhood
Selfhood Code
Sun
Awakening
All Ages
Will-to-Strength
Strength Code
Mercury
Success
Young Adults
Will-to-Love
Loving Code
Venus
Intimacy
All Ages
Will-to-Live
Living Code
Earth
Progress
All Ages
Will-to-Health
Health Code
Mars
Conquest
Torch-Bearers
Will-to-Lead
Leading Code
Jupiter
Greatness
Adolescents
Will-to-Relate
Relating Code
Saturn
Goodwill
Dads/Moms
Will-to-Parent
Parenting Code
Uranus
Nurturing
High Schoolers
Will-to-Become
Becoming Code
Neptune
Growth
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(Latin: “Fortune favours the bold”)


May you whoopingly win the 4th PURPOSIVE PRIZE!

To be MATURE is what we SHOULD and MUST.

‘Maturity’ implies reacting well and flexibly to reversals, discouragements and failures. 
To guiltlessly laugh at ourselves when we stumble and make mid-course corrections.
It is admitting mistakes made and initiating a reverse-course to remedy them.
In this uncertain world, the rate of our ‘Maturity’ is directly proportion,
To our resistance and our capacity to endure uncertainty. 
To deal with shortcomings by believing that we can achieve our objectives.
This is through learning what we need along the way. 

As the backbone of ‘Maturity’ is goal setting, what does this imply?

It is focusing of the will to move in a certain direction. 
Invest in the hours, give up lots of other things in LIFE and engage in hard, mind-bending work. 
First begin with a clear conception of what we want; putting them into words clarifies them. 
Rather than concentrating on material objects to acquire and possess, focus on fulfilling desires.
To do and to produce all what yields to a true sense of satisfaction. 
It is advisable to visualise ourselves accomplishing that goal. 
While losers visualise the penalties of failure, winners visualise rewards of success.  


iv. “It is better to give than to receive”.
- Malagasy (Madagascar) proverb


v. “Alive, we live in the same house or under the same roof. Dead, we rest in the same tomb”.
- Malagasy (Madagascar) proverb

vi. “When a fowl eats your neighbour’s corn, drive it away; another time it will eat yours”.
- Oji (West Africa) proverb

vii. “A person is a person because of other persons”.
- Sotho (South Africa) proverb

The 4th AFRICAN AFFIRMATION:

i. “If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright, if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked”.
- Yoruba (Nigeria) proverb

ii. “If you get a fine harvest of maize, do not break your local brotherhood and sisterhood”.
- Bemba (DRC) proverb

iii. “A tree on a hill in the savannah is a meeting place for birds”.
- Bembe (DRC) proverb
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iv. “If you obey the disbelievers, they will make you turn on your heels so as to be among the losers”.
- QURAN, Al-Imran 3:148

v. “And you did not veil yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should bear witness against you”.
- QURAN, Ha Mim 41:22

vi. “And WE gave them clear arguments in the affair, but they did not differ until after knowledge had come to them out of envy among themselves”.
- QURAN, Al-Jasiyah 45:17

vii. “As a lamp in windless place does not waver, so the transcendental, whose mind is controlled, remains steady in his meditation on the transcendental self”.
– BHAGAVAD-GITA, Dhyana-Yoga, VI: 19

The 4th SCRIPTURAL STANDING:

i. “Do not be deceived: ‘bad company ruins good morals’. Come to your right mind and sin no more”.
- BIBLE, Corinthians 15:33

ii. “Pleasant words are like honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body”.
- BIBLE, Proverbs 16:24

iii. “Give to everyone who begs from you; and him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them”.
- BIBLE, Luke 6:30-31
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“The beauty of life is to make it last for the better. Cuz nothing lasts forever.”
- American rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, alias Nas (b. 1973)
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May you felicitously face the 4th phase of DILIGENT DIMENSIONS

In conjunction with BEING, the question what is MAN? has always been a relevant question till date and numerous responses have been given. Etymologically the word MAN originated from the Greek word anthropos which literally means “human being” something that is living. Heidegger etymologically defined MAN as an ‘animal rationale’ something living with reason. In this our epoch MAN is presented to us under very fascinating, effective categories, yet, we cannot say that the reality of the human being has become in anyway clearer. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) considers the human person as a ‘will to power’ while Aristotle describes him as a ‘rational being’ and a ‘political animal’. Heidegger, in turn represents him as a ‘symbolic being’ just as German philosopher Ernst Alfred Cassirer (1874 – 1945) calls him an ‘alienated essence’.

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The 1st Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being - in – the – World #iv
Ambiguousness of Human Situation

“Today must also exist before being confirmed in its existence:
it exists only as an engagement and a commitment.”
— French novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and essayist Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)

In The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), Beauvoir builds on Heidegger and Sartre to explore the ethical dimensions of situated human existence, stressing the ambiguity of being both subject and object in the world. Let’s go BEYOND the TEXT by authoring a simplified, poetic synthesis of Beauvoir’s vision of “Being-in-the-World”, framed in the context of Self-Actualization, the African Renaissance, and BEYONDISM.

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on developing purposeful INSIGHT about LIFE)

  1. Inerrant Ambiguous Freedom
    1. I am a human not a THING or essence — I am becoming, layered and real.
    2. Not defined by birth, place, or gender — my TRUTH unfolds through will.
    3. SELFHOOD is ambiguous — both freedom and limitation shape how I feel
    4. In choosing, I categorically claim MEANING — I give the world my seal.
    5. Given the chains of history, choosing becomes a REVOLUTIONARY zeal.
    6. History tried to trap me, to limit, to curtail me, but I learn to rewrite the deal.
    7. To rise as AFRICA, I fully embrace freedom that struggles but dares to heal.

  2. Nourishing the Ethics of Becoming
    1. I must not only EXIST — I must EXIST in potently pragmatic ways that uplift.
    2. Not all choices are equal — some enslave and cripple, others liberate and shift.
    3. SELF-actualization is ethical — to EVOLVE and become is to give others a lift.
    4. In the AFRICAN Renaissance, this is restoring power where it once was stripped.
    5. Giving MEANING to LIFE includes empathy, care, justice, not just selfish gifts.
    6. History judges us not by comfort, or emoluments but by what we radically resist.
    7. To go BEYOND, I must be proactive and build futures where dignity can persist.

  3. Suitable Existence Against Oppression
    1. I am not BORN weak or inferior — systems of power try to make it seem so.
    2. No LIE can truly define me — though they try through rule, rank, and show.
    3. SELFHOOD is resistance — each astute act of TRUTH helps healing grow.
    4. In every deliberate decision of refusal, I RECLAIM what they want to forego.
    5. Greatness is not sheepish imitation — it is rising from what we already know.
    6. Heritage matters when reimagined, not when kept in someone else's shadow.
    7. To actualize AFRICA, I must use all weapons to fight every stolen tomorrow.

  4. Intimately Becoming Through Others
    1. I discover myself not in isolation, but always in relation with others around.
    2. No FREEDOM is REAL if others remain chained, gagged, or underground.
    3. SELF unfolds in solidarity — in the SPACES where collective voices sound.
    4. In choosing my freedom, I must let others also; I must never push others down.
    5. Growth is mutual — where one individual rises, other people must be unbound.
    6. Hope, deliverance comes not in domination, but in shared LIFE that’s profound.
    7. To go BEYOND, I must link arms, I must combine efforts and stand my ground.

  5. Gainfully Liberating the Future
    1. I am not slavishly TRAPPED in the past — I EXIST to birth what’s new.
    2. Not resigned, I RESIST despair — I IMAGINE what is good, just, and true.
    3. SELFHOOD thrives in the vision that challenges what we thought we knew.
    4. In rethinking and rewriting roles, rituals, and rules, I CREATE a better view.
    5. Generations await our courage and creativity — they dream in what we do.
    6. History bends toward those who act with SOUL and fondly follow through.
    7. To shape AFRICA’s rise, I must diligently dare what others feared to pursue.

  6. Holistically Transcending Roles
    1. I refuse to be foully defined by roles written in colonizer’s INK or law.
    2. Not wife, not husband, not subject, not mimic — I am FIRE, I am raw.
    3. SELF-actualization breaks the frame, challenges every assumed flaw.
    4. In every boundary, I perceive a pronounced line I was meant to redraw.
    5. Growth, maturity means becoming more than what the world once saw.
    6. Humanity demands we DREAM past hierarchy, not simply stand in awe.
    7. To be BEYOND, I must evolve — unbound, untouched by empire’s claw.

  7. Truly Authentic Rebirth
    1. I do not awfully live to cowardly conform — I live to become fully alive.
    2. No PATH is SACRED unless we soulfully choose it — unless we thrive.
    3. SELFHOOD is a flame — not simply inherited, but something we strive.
    4. In BEYONDISM, we do not return — we reimagine, renew, and revive.
    5. Giving birth to the FUTURE is how nations and civilizations truly survive.
    6. Her VOICE taught that change begins when we no longer merely survive.
    7. To actualize AFRICA, I must LIVE with PURPOSE, proud and dignified.






















The 2nd Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being - with – Others #iv
The Gaze that Becomes: The Empathic Path to BEYONDISM

“Empathy is the living experience of the other person in their individuality,
an experience which makes possible a true community of spirit.”
— Jewish-German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun Edith Stein (1891 – 1942). She was murdered in the gas chamber at the concentration camp on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.

Stein detailed how we experience others empathetically, not through inference but direct experiential participation. “Being-with-Others” is made possible by this fundamental capacity for shared lived experience. Below is a poetic simplification of Stein’s understanding of “Being-with-Others”, rooted in her phenomenology of empathy, intersubjectivity, and individual essence-in-relation. The poem aligns her insights with the themes of Self-Actualization, the African Renaissance, and the philosophical aspiration of BEYONDISM as a gateway to AFRICAN rebirth.

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on how to INSTALL value in your LIFE

  1. I Feel You, Therefore I Become
    1. I enter your intimate world not as watcher, but as one who feels you breathe.
    2. Not through assumption, but through empathy—what you suffer, I too receive.
    3. SELF is not sealed off—it is opulently opened, shaped by what others believe.
    4. TRUTH deftly dawns when your interior world and mine quietly interweave.
    5. Africa’s awakening begins where hearts feel each other and dare not deceive.
    6. Liberation generatively grows when the soul is touched by stories we perceive.
    7. Love is not profuse pity—it is proactive presence that helps each spirit achieve.

  2. Not a Shadow, but a Self
    1. I honestly see you not as physical extension of me, but as a world apart.
    2. No mirror, no echo—you carry an ennobling essence, a sovereign heart.
    3. Seeing you FULLY celestially reveals in me the forgotten, essential part.
    4. Together we are not halves, but WHOLES that HELP each other start.
    5. Africa’s Renaissance depends on honoring every distinct, SACRED art.
    6. Light shines brighter when difference is not threat, but SHARED chart.
    7. Liberation is SELF-actualization seen from the other’s LIVING chart.

  3. Suffering Seen, Dignity Restored
    1. I feel your wound not as mine, but as something calling forth care.
    2. Not to STEAL your grief, but to substantially stand with you there.
    3. Suffering, when shared with love, becomes a place where we repair.
    4. Tears carry bridges between spirits when the world forgets to be fair.
    5. AFRICA rises when DIGNITY is restored in how we see and bear.
    6. Leadership, born of EMPATHY, turns silence into radical prayer.
    7. LLiberation hears every wound, saying boldly: you matter, I swear.

  4. Time Made True in Togetherness
    1. I do not wantonly walk alone—my time expands with you beside.
    2. Never just my story, but one braided into the world’s WIDE tide.
    3. Self-actualization means choosing not to conquer, but to coincide.
    4. Together we CARVE a future from wounds history tried to hide.
    5. Africa becomes eternal when her people stand soul to soul, unified.
    6. LIFE becomes laudable legacy when lived with others at our side.
    7. Love verily makes time SACRED, no longer something to outride.

  5. Awakening to the Invisible Soul
    1. I sense soul as more than fact—silence sings beyond the known.
    2. Not everything true can be seen; your interior LIFE is your own.
    3. Seeing BEYOND the surface is where HUMANITY has grown.
    4. The invisible becomes VISIBLE when TRUST has been sown.
    5. AFRICA’s rebirth must root in knowing each LIFE is not alone.
    6. Liberation is the FLOWERING of what EMPATHY has shown.
    7. Love celestially sees the unseen and makes the SPIRIT known.

  6. Leading Through Empathic Knowing
    1. I do not lead by formidable force but by attuning to the silent plea.
    2. Nobility begins when a leader sees not power, but shared destiny.
    3. Service becomes sacred when it is shaped by feeling, not decree.
    4. Through EMPATHY, vision is not EGO—it becomes prophecy.
    5. AFRICA shall rise on the WINGS of those who SENSE and see.
    6. Light is not selfishly owned—it is PASSED on from you to me.
    7. Liberation is diligently LEARNING to let each other be fully free.

  7. Lofty BEYONDISM: The Empathic Flame
    1. I move BEYOND not to effetely escape, but to become ever more near.
    2. Never towering above others, but woven with them, soul to soul, clear.
    3. Self-actualization is becoming the flame that lights others through fear.
    4. This is BEYONDISM: where empathy births futures that persevere.
    5. AFRICA’s Renaissance begins in that gaze that says, I’m truly here.
    6. Liberation thrillingly shines not as dominance, but as a love sincere.
    7. Love, again and again, becomes the robust revolution we must revere.




















The 3rd Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being–with–in–Motion #iv
Entangled Awakening: Quantum-Spiritual Horizon through Diffractive Lens

“Matter and meaning are not separate entities but are entangled in a constant dance of intra-action,
where beings co-constitute each other in ongoing motion.”
— American feminist theorist and physicist Karen Michelle Barad (born 29 April 1956)

Barad’s view shows how being is always relational and dynamically unfolding through entangled motion. Barad Proposed that entities do not preexist their relations—they emerge through “intra-actions”. Being is always already in motion within relational fields of becoming. The core of his argument that human existence is not a static self-in-isolation, but a relational process unfolding in time and motion—deeply aligns with the BEYONDIST view of co-becoming and transcendent relationality within larger cultural or cosmic arcs.

(SEVEN articles on keeping your LIFE’s BATTERY fully charged)

  1. Being is not Separate
    1. BEYOND the veil of things and thoughts, Being pulses where borders blur and bend.
    2. AFRICA RISES not alone but through the existential echo where we touch and send.
    3. To be is to intra-act, not to EXIST as sealed-off spheres; not to live as caged objects.
    4. Through movement, SELVES emerge from moments—not from static, lonely years.
    5. Existence wondrously weaves in essential webs of matter, meaning, sound, and space.
    6. Relations bounteously birth reality; we are duly created and molded through each face.
    7. You and I are in all measures progressive patterns dancing—no empty, separate place.

  2. Agency Without Mastery
    1. Be not fooled by EGO’s lie: compulsive control is not true might.
    2. Agency is not owning force, but flowing with the quantum light.
    3. The future isn’t pushed by WILL, but pulled by shifting ground.
    4. To ACT is to ENTANGLE—to be MOVED as you move around.
    5. Each generous gesture resonates through matter, VOICE, and air.
    6. Real enduring POWER unconditionally listens, shifts, and dares.
    7. Your FREEDOM laudably lives in how you love; in how you care.

  3. Time as Tangled Thread
    1. Beneath the ticking clock, time pulses sideways, backward, slow, and wide.
    2. AFRICAN rebirth bends TIME itself—not simply forward in a linear stride.
    3. Tomorrow bleeds into yesterday where ancestors whisper through each breath.
    4. To move is not to leave the past, but to wittily weave through LIFE and death.
    5. Each transcendental moment HOLDS a RIPPLE of the ones before and next.
    6. Renaissance is not an absolutely new phenomenon—it’s a spiral dialect-text.
    7. You time-travel every time your SOUL to Others and the COSMOS connects.

  4. Tough Matter Means More
    1. Bones, earth, and drums don’t wait for thought—they speak their own becoming.
    2. As AFRICA awakens, she must be verily spontaneous, honor what is humming.
    3. The body is not a containing cage, but a flexible field where BEING gently grows.
    4. Thought is not hypothetically above the FLESH—it’s what the movement knows.
    5. Even atoms in existence naturally know how to relate—they shape, shift, and sway.
    6. Realness as existential nourishment comes from motion, not from what ideas say.
    7. Your MATTER in all disguises and perspectives MATTERS—openly hear its way.

  5. Essential Diffractive Seeing
    1. Be not trapped by reflection—look through, not back, to understand your part.
    2. AFRICA must not slothfully repeat, but DIFFRACT her past with conscious art.
    3. To diffract is to bounteously blend, to boldly bend, to let light make new forms.
    4. This solemn seeing, holily honors HISTORY without copying its worn norms.
    5. Each wondrous wave, substantially splits, interacts, then births new TRUTHS.
    6. Reality’s rebirth is not automatic; deftly depends on how we use our ROOTS.
    7. Your vision intentionally and intimately followed bends the world’s pursuits.

  6. Responsibility in Entanglement
    1. Belonging is not possession—it’s a vow to the webs that shape your being.
    2. Awareness means accountability, not just observing what you’re seeing.
    3. To be existentially entangled means you’re part of JOY and HARM alike.
    4. To affluently awaken is to assertively answer—not to hastily run or strike.
    5. Each audacious action, existentially echoes through the fabric of becoming.
    6. Real ETHICS RISE from knowing you are always becoming something.
    7. Your categorical choices, substantially shake the WORLD that’s coming.

  7. Yielding to Participation
    1. Breathe, and know your breath becomes the sky, the soil, the song.
    2. AFRICA is not just returning—she is re-writing how we all belong.
    3. Togetherness is not a solid stance, but the fluid state of being made.
    4. To authentically move is to co-create, BEYOND the limits others laid.
    5. Every boundary is implicit invitation to deftly dissolve and be remade.
    6. Rising meritoriously means you OFFER more than what’s been paid.
    7. You are the DIVINE DANCE, you are pure rhythm COSMOS played.

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The 4th Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being - pro – Stoical #iv
The 4th thematic arc of the journey: “Wisdom and Reflection.”

“I make use of this opportunity, daily pleading my case at my own court. When the light has been taken away and my wife has fallen silent, aware as she is of my habit, I examine my entire day, going through what I have done and said. I conceal nothing from myself, I pass nothing by. I have nothing to fear from my errors when I can say: ‘See that you do not do this anymore. For the moment, I excuse you.’”
— Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, and statesman Seneca (4? BC - AD 65)

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on how to build and thrive in your inner KINGDOM

  1. Kindling the Light of Awareness
    1. Know affluent awareness as the light that reveals hidden truths within and around you.
    2. In waking consciousness, illusions fade, and the path to clarity becomes verily visible.
    3. Never IGNORE the subtle signals your inner SELF sends through intuition and thought.
    4. Guide your actions with mindful observation, learning from every moment and experience.
    5. Deep reflection nurtures wisdom that STEADIES you in turbulent times and DECISIONS.
    6. Open your mind to the present’s laudable lessons, where the SEEDS of growth are SOWN.
    7. Mindful living is the foundation for self-actualization and collective AFRICAN awakening.

  2. Inviting the Mirror of Truth
    1. Know transcendental truth as the mirror reflecting both your light and your shadow within.
    2. In honesty with yourself, you find the courage to boldly face weakness and strength alike.
    3. Never shy from self-examination — it is the crucible where integrity is formidably forged.
    4. Guard against DENIAL; embrace all parts of yourself for genuine transformation to arise.
    5. Discipline your thoughts to seek substantial facts, not comforting illusions or easy answers.
    6. Open your HEART to difficult TRUTHS; they are gateways to deeper freedom and growth.
    7. Mastery begins with TRUTH — the foundation of an African Renaissance rooted in reality.

  3. Nobleness from the Wisdom of Silence
    1. Know that solemn silence is not effete emptiness but a fertile ground for insight and peace.
    2. In QUIET moments, the MIND attunes to subtle rhythms BEYOND noise and distraction.
    3. Never fear sober stillness; it is the space where true WISDOM gently unfolds its WINGS.
    4. Guide yourself to volitionally seek silence daily, as a merry refuge and a source of power.
    5. Deep listening within LEADS to affirmative answers not found in the clamor of the world.
    6. Open your awareness to the richness of PAUSE, where new vision takes root and sprout.
    7. Mindfulness of silence cultivates clarity necessary for SELF-mastery and cultural rebirth.

  4. Gaining from the Cycle of Learning
    1. Know that learning is a lifelong cycle, unfolding through triumph, failure, and reflection.
    2. In every experience, wisdom grows — even in frustration, pain or seeming setback’s guise.
    3. Never stop questioning; curiosity is the compass that guides toward higher understanding.
    4. Grow through mistakes, let failures be LESSONS that shape your EVOLVING character.
    5. Dedicate yourself to the deep pursuit of knowledge, balanced by humility and open heart.
    6. Open minds foster innovation and renewal essential to AFRICAN thriving and BEYOND.
    7. Mastery is a journey, not a destination — each substantial step strengthens the path ahead.

  5. Discovering the Teacher Within
    1. Know that the greatest teacher resides within, whispering truths through your inner voice.
    2. In stillness and deep reflection, you connect with wisdom passed through time and spirit.
    3. Never discount your intuition; it is the existential echo of ancestral knowledge and insight.
    4. Guide yourself gently, nurturing solid confidence in your inner counsel and moral compass.
    5. Develop trust in your own discernment; it acutely aligns you with purpose and authenticity.
    6. Open your heart to the subtle or laudable lessons found in both triumph and trial encountered.
    7. Mastery benevolently blooms when you honor the teacher within, leading the way to renewal.

  6. Orchestrating the Gift of Perspective
    1. Know that perspective transforms challenges into opportunities for growth and understanding.
    2. In stepping back, you see the whole — the deeper interconnectedness of people and purpose.
    3. Never be ignorantly trapped by narrow views; expand your vision to include many TRUTHS.
    4. Gain wisdom by embracing diverse voices, stories, and experiences BEYOND your own lens.
    5. Develop empathy that transcends borders, uniting the past, present, and future of AFRICA.
    6. Open to NEW perspectives that challenge assumptions and foster collective enlightenment.
    7. Mind enriched by broad vision builds bridges essential for Renaissance and BEYONDISM.

  7. Mind and Heart in Bounty Balance
    1. Know balance as the dance between reason’s clarity and heart’s compassionate wisdom.
    2. Integration of intellect and emotion creates a holistic harmony that fuels authentic action.
    3. Never neglect the voice of feeling; it radically reveals needs and values BEYOND logic.
    4. Guide deft decisions with both mind and heart aligned toward greater good and purpose.
    5. Develop emotional intelligence alongside rational thought for resilient, wise leadership.
    6. Open your being to this dynamic balance; it creatively births sustainable self-actualization.
    7. Mastery arises when mind and heart synergize; co-create the future of AFRICA’s rebirth.

See how to comprehend the REALITY of Human Situation in this regard.



















The 5th Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being - para – Absurdity #iv
Restore the Flight: Becoming, Freedom, and the Refusal of Absurd Fate

“What is a rebel? A man who says no—and means it—and then does not submit.”
— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir didn’t focus on “Absurdism” exactly as Camus did, but her existentialist reflections touch deeply on the absurd condition and human freedom. The above quote captures her view on absurdity and freedom. While not directly about absurdism, the quote reflects the existential defiance in the face of absurdity: recognizing the lack of inherent meaning, yet refusing to surrender, choosing to assert freedom and create value despite the absurd condition.

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on how to RESTORE meaningfulness in your LIFE)

  1. Refusal as a Beginning
    1. Rebellion begins when we courageously name the ABSURD—not as fate, but a fraud.
    2. Even oppression whispers lies, claiming meaninglessness to justify the theft of dreams.
    3. Subjectivity awakens when we categorically say “NO” to inherited scripts of inferiority.
    4. To begin absolutely anew is to audaciously affirm that meaning must be made, not given.
    5. Our HISTORY holds wounds, yes—but also the formidable fire to FORGE from within.
    6. Refusing ABSURDITY, we birth new PURPOSE, drawn from our SOVEREIGN depths.
    7. Every act of REVOLT is a solid step toward BECOMING fully, freely, fiercely HUMAN.

  2. Esteeming the Ethics of Ambiguity
    1. Real EXISTENCE is not fixed—it is FLUID, complex, and RADICALLY uncertain.
    2. Even MEANING must be wrestled from contradiction, not BUILT on false absolutes.
    3. SELFHOOD is never finished; we are always BECOMING, amid shadow and LIGHT.
    4. To live authentically is to embrace ambiguity without surrendering our freedom to act.
    5. Our AFRICAN Renaissance rejects rigid truths and embraces EVOLVING pluralities.
    6. Rising through CONTRADICTION, we CREATE—not by knowing, but by choosing.
    7. Even ABSURDITY is a weak bully; it bends when we act with lucid, ethical courage.

  3. Soulfully Becoming Through Others
    1. Relationships reveal our liberty—interwoven with the freedom of those beside and BEYOND us.
    2. Even SELF-ACTUALIZATION is not solitude—it is communion, collision, and creative tension.
    3. Subject and Other CO-CREATE the world, never whole without MUTUAL, genuine recognition.
    4. To dominate or submit simply distorts BEING; to laudably liberate is to fundamentally free both.
    5. Our AFRICAN Renaissance is not individualism—it is collective flourishing, plural empowerment.
    6. Real SELFHOOD blooms in the space where mutual freedom is deftly DEFENDED and nurtured.
    7. Every authentic “I” must existentially echo the communal “WE” in order to be ethically complete.

  4. Tough Feminine Freedom, Cosmic Courage
    1. Refusing essential roles, she rose—not woman, but Becoming in boundless motion.
    2. Even the “Second Sex” carries fire, prudent power, and the potential for world-making.
    3. Struggle is gendered, yes—but fundamental freedom is universal, and must be shared.
    4. To actualize oneself is to refuse submission in every domain—spiritual, social, sensual.
    5. Our liberation is also feminine, complex, and COSMIC—it births new myths of power.
    6. Resistance surely includes the soft, the intuitive, the silent REVOLUTIONS of SPIRIT.
    7. Even in sordid subjugation or onerous oppression, the WILL to RISE grows luminous.

  5. Opulent History as Project
    1. Remember: history is not definite destiny—it is a project always open to re-creation.
    2. Even in ABSURDITY’s ruins, the future can be chosen ANEW by conscious hands.
    3. SELF-ACTUALIZATION is political—it intervenes in history with intention and hope.
    4. To BE is not just to BREATHE—it is to solemnly shape time’s celestial MEANING.
    5. Our ancestors dreamed forward—now we must carry, correct, and complete their revolt.
    6. Revolution is not merely outward—it begins in INNER refusal and outer reimagination.
    7. Every merry moment lived freely radically reshapes the course of AFRICAN Becoming.

  6. Really Embodied Revolt
    1. Rooted in flesh, we zestfully rebel—not in abstraction, but in lived, sweating BEING.
    2. Even despair must be danced, walked, felt—through bodies bearing colonized memories.
    3. Sensual EXISTENCE matters—FREEDOM is found not just in thought, but in breath.
    4. To realistically reclaim SELF is to RESCUE the BODY from shame, erasure, and exile.
    5. Our RENAISSANCE must include laughter, love, land, labor—fully embodied liberation.
    6. Rising means verily re-rooting the SACRED in skin, voice, movement, hunger, pleasure.
    7. Even the ABSURD yields to a BODY that majestically moves toward its own TRUTH.

  7. Ever BEYOND Absurdity, into Becoming
    1. Rise not to escape the ABSURD, but to transform it through conscious choice.
    2. Even in chaos, the SELF can create fertile futures that resist imposed endings.
    3. Sovereignty is seized—not awaited—and each act of FREEDOM is SACRED.
    4. To BECOME is not to arrive, but to confidently WALK the edge without fear.
    5. Our therapeutic task is not to merely explain the world, but to shape it fiercely.
    6. Redefining EXISTENCE, we reclaim time, space, and soul from empire’s theft.
    7. Even ABSURDITY kneels to those who choose to become more than it allows.




















The 6th Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being-ready-to-hand #iv
WELFARE of Meaningful BEING: Readiness and the Rise of African BEYONDISM

“The hammer is not represented or theorized about—it is used.
The understanding is in the skill, not in the head.”
— American philosopher John Haugeland (1945 – 2010)

Haugeland explored how practical intelligibility arises from being-in-the-world. He interpreted “Being-ready-to-hand” within the broader context of practical involvement and situated understanding. The above quote reflects Haugeland’s key insight: understanding is embodied in skillful coping, not in detached mental representation. Tools like hammers are ready-to-hand precisely when they function transparently in meaningful activity, revealing a world structured by care and context.

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on nurturing your WELFARE in meaningful activity)

  1. Worldhood as WE-Existence
    1. We dwell not as isolated minds but within shared meanings we ALL enact.
    2. Every usable tool we touch, each task we do, REFLECTS a communal pact.
    3. Living is not inside us alone—it is in how our LIVES are solemnly stacked.
    4. Function and form acutely arise together in worlds where culture stays intact.
    5. AFRICA’s BEING blooms where kinship, craft, and cosmos are not abstract.
    6. Real SELF-actualization begins when living worlds are no longer cracked.
    7. Elevating the local restores a formidable fertile future colonization lacked.

  2. Engaged in World-Commitment
    1. We are not just beings in space—we’re committed to meaningful ways.
    2. EXISTENCE is suitably shaped by pure practices, not by solitary gaze.
    3. Language and LABOR give BEING rhythm that thinking alone betrays.
    4. Faith in essential engagement, holistically heals what history tried to raze.
    5. AFRICAN futures RISE where tradition and INNOVATION share praise.
    6. Renaissance justly calls for honest fidelity to TRUTHS that still amaze.
    7. Each genuine gesture renews IDENTITY through participatory phrase.

  3. Living the Style of BEING
    1. What we do essentially expresses a style—a way we inhabit and belong.
    2. Even the smallest acts carry meritorious meaning, like MELODY in song.
    3. LIFE is incisive interpretation—not passive, but vivid, active, and strong.
    4. Flourishing is when our style aligns with where we’ve come from all along.
    5. AFRICA’s style isn’t awfully lost; it’s just been masked by colonial wrong.
    6. Rediscovering it now will meritoriously make our anointing futures last long.
    7. Each style reveals BEING—the sacred place where many TRUTHS throng.

  4. Fitting Within the Fabric
    1. Worlds are not raw—they’re shaped by how we live and share.
    2. Each passionate practice, felicitously folds us into a form of care.
    3. LOVE for the land, for kin, for craft, is always thrillingly there.
    4. Fidelity to these meanings is how Africa therapeutically repairs.
    5. Acts of readiness—from farming to drumming—speak truths rare.
    6. Responsiveness, not cold detachment, brings lofty liberation fair.
    7. EXISTENCE essentially becomes real where LIFE is lived aware.

  5. Affirming Meaning through Mastery
    1. When we do things well, we affluently affirm the world as ours to make.
    2. Even tending cattle, weaving mats, or pounding grain—nothing is fake.
    3. Logic alone can’t holistically hold the paradoxical weight of LIFE at stake.
    4. Felicitously flowing with our world, we gainfully give more than we take.
    5. AFRICA duly rises when meritorious mastery is no longer seen as opaque.
    6. Renewal SACREDLY flows from honestly honoring effort for its own sake.
    7. Elevation, anointment begins where dignity celestially reshapes every ache.

  6. Responsibility to Our Shared Reality
    1. We’re answerable to worlds we co-create, not floating free of role.
    2. EXISTENCE is bound to meaning, to action that makes us whole.
    3. Liberation is LIVING up to BEING’s decisively demanding toll.
    4. Faith in passionate practice makes the broken SPIRIT console.
    5. AFRICA’s Renaissance is a reclaiming of the SOULFUL goal.
    6. Readiness is READINESS FOR—to embody, to care, to enroll.
    7. Each volitional responsibility radically renews the living SOUL.

  7. Emergence through Committed BEING
    1. We go BEYOND not by escaping, but by diving deep into the known.
    2. Even the familiar, rightly seen, is how gregarious greatness is shown.
    3. LIFE efficiently emerges where MEANING is carried, not overthrown.
    4. Fulfillment is found in compelling commitment, not wandering alone.
    5. AFRICAN becoming is not barely borrowed—it is holily homegrown.
    6. Real BEYONDISM boldly begins when the KNOWN is fully grown.
    7. ESSENCE is BEING-with, through a world we have always owned.















The 7th Dimension of BEYONDIST ‘BEING’
Being - unto – Divinity #iV
The Principle of POLARITY

“Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.”
— The Kybalion.

(SEVEN articles [each in 7 lines] on how to be in HARMONY with the Will-of-GOD and the Universe)

  1. Have a Core Understanding of Duality
    1. Honor the TRUTH that LIFE’s DUALITIES teach balance: light and shadow coexist constantly.
    2. Accept that opposing forces within you shape your journey toward self-actualization powerfully.
    3. Reflect on how Renaissance emerges through embracing contradictions; healing internal divisions.
    4. Mindfully integrate polarities—strength and vulnerability, tradition and innovation—within you.
    5. Open to complexity, recognizing DUALITY is a gateway to deeper wisdom and transformation.
    6. Navigate tensions with grace, using polarity as fuel for conscious personal and cultural growth.
    7. Your balanced awareness dissolves false separations, fostering unity within diversity and change.

  2. Affirmatively Embracing Opposites
    1. Harness the creative tension between OPPOSITES to spark insight and meaningful EVOLUTION.
    2. Always welcome conflicting perspectives as catalysts for expanding AFRICAN identity and vision.
    3. Refuse simplistic thinking that divides; seek INTEGRATION of contrasting truths for wholeness.
    4. Maintain openness to paradoxes that challenge comfort zones and inspire new pathways forward.
    5. Open dialogue across differences, building bridges between old and new AFRICAN paradigms.
    6. Nurture flexible mindsets that hold CONTRADICTIONS without losing sight of shared GOALS.
    7. You empower transformation by embracing polarities, cultivating resilience within the Renaissance.

  3. Realise the Polarity in Mind
    1. Hold steady as you observe OPPOSING thoughts, beliefs, and feelings within your mental space.
    2. Actively practice awareness, choosing which poles serve your growth and which hinder progress.
    3. Reflect on self-actualization as balancing CONFLICTING inner forces to discover authentic power.
    4. Mindfully redirect energy from negative polarities like doubt toward constructive confidence daily.
    5. Open yourself to paradoxical truths enriching your worldview and spiritual evolution profoundly.
    6. Navigate mental dualities with compassion, allowing complexity to deepen your Renaissance role.
    7. Your balanced mental polarity generates clarity, fostering healing individually and collectively alike.

  4. Meliorating Healing Through Polarity
    1. Healing occurs by reconciling polar opposites within self and communal African experiences shared.
    2. Actively engage INNER CONFLICTS to TRANSFORM pain and division into sources of strength.
    3. Reflect on how embracing historical wounds alongside hope fuels cultural resurgence and renewal.
    4. Mindfully INTEGRATE shadow and light aspects, honoring all parts as vital for WHOLENESS.
    5. Open heart space to polarizing feelings, releasing resistance that blocks collective empowerment.
    6. Nurture reconciliation processes that bridge divides, cultivating unity key for African Renaissance.
    7. You manifest healing through POLARITY mastery, modeling balanced growth for self and society.

  5. Opulent Polarity and BEYONDISM
    1. Harmonize polarity’s lessons with BEYONDISM’s call to transcend dualistic limits through unity.
    2. AActivate awareness that opposites are COMPLEMENTARY parts of a larger, interconnected whole.
    3. Reflect on how Renaissance thrives by moving BEYOND binaries toward integrated consciousness.
    4. Mindfully embody principles uniting diversity, cultivating holistic growth across mind, culture, spirit.
    5. Open new frameworks embracing complexity without fragmentation, fostering communal evolution.
    6. Nurture collective maturity recognizing polarity as a doorway to higher, sustainable inclusive realities.
    7. You pioneer change transcending DUALISM, advancing renaissance with Beyondist wisdom’s light.

  6. Notably Using Practical Polarity
    1. Hold DUALITIES gently in daily LIFE, balancing action and rest, strength and surrender WISELY.
    2. Act with awareness, choosing responses that harmonize polar tensions within relationships and work.
    3. Refuse extremes; cultivate moderation and flexibility to navigate challenges and opportunities WELL.
    4. Make peace with contradictions, using them as guides toward GROWTH and deeper understanding.
    5. Open your mind to learning from CONFLICT and contrast, enriching AFRICAN Renaissance efforts.
    6. Nurture self-compassion, recognizing polarity’s role in personal transformation and cultural healing.
    7. Your balanced practice of polarity sustains resilience, propelling the continent’s ongoing awakening.

  7. Yielding to the Gift of Polarity
    1. Honor POLARITY as a SACRED gift revealing depth, complexity, and the delicious dance of LIFE.
    2. Act in gratitude for lessons from opposites that sharpen insight, enlarge consciousness, broaden vision.
    3. Reflect on how POLARITY invites humility, teaching patience and openness amid due uncertainty.
    4. Mindfully celebrate contrasts as sources of creativity, innovation, and expanded AFRICAN identity.
    5. Open heart and mind to paradox, allowing new AFRICAN paradigms to emerge from that tension.
    6. Nurture awareness that polarity underpins transformation, aiding Renaissance and BEYONDISM.
    7. You embody this gift, balancing opposites to fondly fuel unity and HOLISTIC progress everywhere.

You may View the Condensed Version of this Principle HERE.

BEYONDISM BEATITUDE #4
Blessed is you who COMMITS to the perpetual utilisation of your latent energies,
For you shall DEVELOP from partially to fully functioning person.


i. Inside your folly a GENIUS is waiting to come out.

ii. Understand, VALUE and develop your PSYCHE.

iii. Be willing to take RISKS or leaps of faith.

iv. Aspire to be CREATIVE, to manifest competence.

v. Be open to CHANGE when the situation calls for it.

vi. Find ways to ACCOMONDATE what is new and different.

vii. Keep a part of the old that is useful; discard what is not.

Truly, this is your 4th Mortal Mission, as a function of your Divine Duty.

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably”. - Social activist and wife to F.D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

“The environment can act on the subject only to the exact extent that he comprehends; that is, transforms it into a situation. Hence no objective description of this environment could be of any use to us”. - French philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and political journalist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself”. - French writer Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

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May you intimately immerse in the 4th THERAPEUTIC TRANSCENDENCE


Why is BEYONDISM effortlessly ECLECTIC, without being effetely ENIGMATIC?
Here is the 4th DIVINE DOSE to keenly keep your PSYCHE bounteously BOOSTED:

BEYONDISM honors ancestors and others— Aquinas, Buber—each SOUL adds depth and dimension.
Openness is vital when TRUTHS existentially echo across traditions and histories that long to be healed.
Opacity vanishes where purpose governs—BEYONDISM selects, and reweaves into luminous coherence.
Strength lies not in purity but in prudent power to therapeutically translate, transform, and TRANSCEND.
THOUGHTS are weighed with MORAL gravity—only those that serve uplift and wholeness are embraced.
Each fragment becomes part of the MOSAIC when glamorously guided by UBUNTU and the BEYOND.
Dignity of BEING becomes the MEASURE—TRUTH is not borrowed or exotic, it is existentially enacted.

Our 4th Therapeutic Transcendence rolls out as spiced by Three Philosophers and Three Psychologists.
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The 4th ONE Word (hover below) which Breeds SEVEN Words to Depict Who a BLESSED BEYONDIST Is:--->
Articulate Factual Radiant Insightful Credible Astute Natural

The 4th of SEVEN reasons why you should be PROUD to be an AFRICAN:

  1. Articulate in tempering your unique personality towards the unity of character.
  2. Factually synchronizing the rate of external changes with your internal growth.
  3. Radiantly ensuring your core immortality by doing things with a lasting impact.
  4. Insightfully directing your mind towards the achievement of progressive targets.
  5. Credibly unchaining and magnetizing your mind for big, ennobling enterprises.
  6. Astutely yielding to nature wholeheartedly; esteeming her infinite enrichment.
  7. Naturally assuming benevolence silence on other people’ s morals and doctrines.

Readily Responding to the 4th BEYONDISM BELL

WALK steadily! O gallant son or daughter of Africa.
Accurately describe your next level of growth.
If you fail, your present level will be your only reality.
Have an accurate picture of the destination.
This is in order to proceed well with the journey.
See yourself there and very soon, the whole world will be forced,
To see about you what you already saw concerning yourself.

You may not be the cause of the coming AFRICAN AWAKENING; perhaps rather you will be a co-result with it of the forces that seethes and surges beneath the political and social surface of AFRICAN LIFE. You are the accompanying light and brilliance of the volcanic heat and conflagration. You are part of the unconscious process which will determine from below the conscious thought above. You are the gun powder with which the current progressives will blow up the castles of decadence.

1. On finding value and meaning to LIFE!

It is our flames of modesty, and our self-containment,
That will attract people to love us, need us and require us,
As our positive self-image and persuasive self-esteem,
Elicit admiration as we are high on the levers of innocence.
But this spiritual strength should not degenerate into pride.
It should be craftily disguised from the sight of others.
And should be tactfully concealed from the ears of others.

Verily, to praise and glorify ourselves and our possessions,
May serve as an inseparable vital and important ingredient,
In the basic sprouting of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE.
But the conditions becomes unusually and suitably favourable,
Upon our triumph in the struggle to subdue our evil instincts,
Of making others feel inferior, neglected and humiliated.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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2. When being a cry baby must be held in contempt!

We who are captive of dysfunctional beliefs that the morning,
Of our ambitions has been cut short and so we are weeping;
We are mourning and grieving the virtual death of our dreams.
We should develop the deep conviction that everything decisive,
Will be surely realised and actualised in spite of every obstacle.
We will eventually stop seeing any possibility of failure or defeat,
And our days of perturbations shall eventually be put to an end.

Verily, the moment we appreciate the eternal connectedness,
Of our individual ‘being’ with the universal Supreme Being.
Our spiritual sun shall never go down nor our moon withdraw,
And the swift arrow of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE,
Shall shoot straightly towards the farthest possible target;
Towards the highest levels where light never switches off.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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3. Upon deciding to be original and innovative!

The epitome of cognitive distortion is to foolishly succumb;
To allow our individuality be sapped from us by any force.
To allow the candle of our distinct selves to be blown off;
To allow the darkness of being copy-cats to engulf us;
To allow the originality of our motives and our ideals;
To be blighted and be thrown to the dustbin of history;
To be swept away by the torrents of cultural pressures.

Verily, the moment has really ripened whereby it is futile,
To camouflage the barrenness of past burdening traditions,
The deteriorating and sagging slack of venerated customs,
The degenerating jowl of feared and idolatrous superstitions,
For the bubble of obsolete modes of valuations has exploded,
In a hearty bombshell of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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4. On hardening and tempering our resolve!

We should continue facing and wrestling with challenges,
Always allotting ourselves the task of facing risks gloriously.
To continue walking in this valley of the shadow of death.
Taking up our arms and never showing our backs or heels.
Determined David-like to slay this Goliath of low morale.
To crash the silence of useless toils with triumphant songs.
To allow scourges to lift us nearer to our greatest goals.

Verily, to transform the continent from a laughing stock.
A disdainful thing of shame to be always trampled upon.
Always at the ebb of great tides and convulsions of Earth.
And to uphold our true meaning and worth to ‘Existence’.
Is the outright exhortation of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE.
Quitting upon anything should be despised by any African.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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5. In regard to benefiting from all competitions!

Competitions are indispensable encounters in our daily lives.
And conflicts are sometimes inevitable and even unavoidable.
While healthy competitions as well as reconcilable conflicts,
Serve to augment our ego-strength and our spiritual growth,
When we are defeated, we should not so much blame ourselves,
But should squeeze out inspirations for our further maneuvers,
And should avoid endeavours that deplete much of our energies.

Verily, unlike the shepherd who with shouts and constricts,
Drives his flock again and again over a single foot-bridge,
As humans endowed with supremely immense intelligence,
We should not behave as if there is only one bridge to future.
An AFRICAN RENAISSANCE invokes the search for many,
Means of conflict resolution until a win-win mode is attained.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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6. As a matter of being lovely to others!

The feeling of brotherly fondness for all in our midst,
Is not a state-of-affairs to be forced on us from without,
Or a concept which we persuade ourselves to adjust to.
But a passion whose inspirational reinvigorating power,
Should illumine our motives, as well as our objectives,
In order to be like snakes that slithers gently in the grass,
To merrily rejoice in our hearts like the morning birds.

Verily, the emphasize of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE,
Is premised on the need to modify by all available means,
New, purified and higher values of an African brotherhood.
Values, inclusive of vital guides of conducts and opinions,
That shall prevail over our society and propel it forward.
To instill once and for all the pure hymn of Mother Nature.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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7. If we should not be eaten away by cowardice!

Like some irrelevant, lost cloud that brushes past the sun,
With scarcely a shadow cast, and is gone without notice,
The security of our happiness lies in insensitivity to risks.
Like some lifeless statue curved from a very strong stone,
When the rain of daily afflictions strikes us, we waver not;
To continue feeling the needs and hitches of this existence;
To absolutely fill our hearts to the utmost level of overflow.

Verily, having tasted and tested the worth of our noble ideal,
Of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE in all its ramifications,
In light of present persuasive social-historical imperatives,
To ascend to this glorious, supreme heights and summits,
Our fundamental duty is to continue without any remorse,
To revel in moulding and producing courageous humans.
Blessed are we who pronounces the Greatness of our Times.

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Numinous Note #4

For many centuries, the rainbow of an African honour,
Had fallen into the abyss, its colours fragmented in ruins,
To a worthless, formless, and discordant mass of rubble.
But our energised instincts have courageously invoked upon,
The benevolent Laws of Existence to rise unto the occasion,
To awaken and save the rainbow from swallowing deep,
So that it may perpetually rise and merrily greet the sun.

In what SHOULD we believe?
That the WEIGHTS of all things must be creatively DETERMINED ANEW.

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Because the brain’s selective filtering system, often referred to as PRIMING, works on an activation/inhibition model, when the brain is primed by a certain BELIEF to look for something, it shuts down competing neural networks, so you actually have a hard time seeing evidence to the contrary of an already existing BELIEF. That is why people who are depressed see a more depressing world. It is also why you are so convinced that your view of the world is the “TRUTH.” What most people do not realize is they are participating in creating their own version of the TRUTH. O Thee Blessed Beyondist, stop mark-timing in your low self-esteem. Seize this historical chance and merry moment to soulfully scribe for yourself a unique ‘Individually Inspiring Instruction’. --->

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective. It stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” - British poet W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

THERAPEUTIC TUNE towards MEDITATIVE MOODS

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” - British critic Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) --->

JASON CASTRO - Only A Mountain
Born on March 25, 1987, American Jason René Castro,
Is a very successful acoustic folk-pop and a rock-star.
He is also a contemporary Christian singer-songwriter.
His ‘Only a Mountain’ released in 2012, is so inspiring .
You don’t have to find your way around this mountain.
Just tell it to move, it’ll move, and tell it to fall, it’ll fall.
Take your fear and say there’s nothing in your way.....


Another day, another fight
It always feels like an uphill climb
Another step, another mile
The story of your life

It’s harder than you ever thought
And it costs you everything you’ve got
When you’re back against the wall
And you feel like giving up

This is only a mountain
You don’t have to find your way around it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall
This is only a moment
You don’t have to let your fear control it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall

You’ve gotta find a second wind
It’s not as high as you think it is
Don’t give up and don’t you quit
You gotta climb if you wanna win

And I know it looks big
And I know you feel small
But just a little bit of faith can change it all
Change it all

This is only a mountain
You don’t have to find your way around it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall
This is only a moment
You don’t have to let your fear control it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall

Ask like you believe it
Trust like you can see it
Take your fear and say
There’s nothing in your way, no oh


Even when it looks big
Even when you feel small
Just a little bit of faith can change it all

This is only a mountain
You don’t have to find your way around it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall
This is only a moment
You don’t have to let your fear control it
Tell it to move, it’ll move
Tell it to fall, it’ll fall

It’s only a mountain
It’s only a mountain
Just a little bit of faith can change it all
Hey
Hey
Hey
It’s only a mountain
Just a little bit of faith can change it all
It’s only a mountain

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WHAT_IS_IT_IN_FOR_YOU?


It was U.S. writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?) who humouristically defines Childhood as: “The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” “All the joy, all the uncertainties, and all the solitude of childhood suddenly came back to me with that, the unmistakable flavor of the hams my grandmother made,” so wrote Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez (1928 - ). God has saved you a lot of shame for making you unable to remember when you were an infant. But, upon some critical triggers, you may remember with a little amusement the time when you were about six years old, and when you were unable to begin at the end of an operation and get back to the start. For example, you could use the information 5 + 2 = 7, but fail to figure out the answer to the 7 – 2 = ______. Listen to U.S. poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950): “Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.”

You may also laugh at yourself upon remembering,
The time when you could not conceive change,
And therefore believed in the permanence of objects and the world.
Installing the CODE to ACTIVATE your SELFHOOD,
Is catalysing your transition from childhood to adulthood.
Why should you then loath, and perhaps fume at being called a child?
Here are SEVEN PUERILE PATTERNS:
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KITENDAWILI!
TEGA!

Ni mnyama mgani Duniani kote, hutembea na miguu nne asubuhi, miguu mbili alfajiri, na miguu tatu jioni?

Jibu:
Binadamu.

Explanation:
A human being walks on all fours (crawls) when a child, walks erect with two legs later in the noon of LIFE, and walks with three legs (supported by a walking stick) in old age.

Pointlessly gave cause-effect relationships to events, which were not related.--->

This is overgeneralizing the connection between one known specific event and overassuming that casuality was related to the closeness of events.


Unwittingly attributed real physical properties to mental phenomena.--->

This childish realism led you to believe that thinking about hurting someone was actually hurting someone.


Essentially believed that inanimate objects had a consciousness and were alive.--->

This animism led you to believe that a lost item was hiding or that the sidewalk deliberately tripped you when you fell. You may have hit a chair for getting your way or scolded the shoe lace for becoming untied.


Randomly believed that human beings caused natural phenomena.--->

This belief in artificialism may have resulted in asking your parents to stop the rain for a picnic or to turn down the volume of thunder.


Indeed, you had trouble in understanding transformations, the transitions from one another.--->

You could usually point out the beginnings and ends of events but unable to understand and remember the sequence in-between.


Lacked three-dimensional thinking. You paid attention to only one dimension at a time.--->

For example, in the conservation of volume task, you failed to realise that the different-shaped glasses contained the same amount of beverage. You paid attention to only one dimension of time (height) and unable to consider the three dimensions needed to comprehend volume.


Egocentrism made it difficult for you to understand another’s point of view.--->

This is the belief that other people experience environment identical to you, and that the world revolves around you.



“As the roaring of the waves precedes the tempest, so the murmur of passions announces the tumultuous changes…”
- French philosopher, educator and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

“The nursery still leaps out in all they utter;
Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
- British poet Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

BEYONDISM prudently proposes that being accused of behaving like an TEENAGER,
Is a debasement you should not take at face value or simply entertain.
Here is why you should be ashamed at being told that you are responding like an ADOLESCENT.
And why you should also empathise with their sometimes irrational behaviours.
ADOLESCENCE is a stormy period in an individual’s psychosocial developmental process.
It is the period of delay, or transition between childhood and adulthood.
It is characterised by the following SEVEN AUTHORITATIVE ASPECTS:--->

Adolescents experience the most intensive and extensive changes in biology since birth.--->

During this time, there is a growth spurt, characterised by a sharp increase in height and weight. The changes in physical appearance are accompanied by a remarkable change in the body’s physical exertion.


Substantially, this stage is characterised by ability to deal with abstract things or concepts --->

without visible representations. In contrast to the former years of late childhood, one is now capable of systematic, logical and analytical approaches in dealing with problem situations.


Positively developing one’s self-concept and a sense of identity, is vital. The capacity--->

to think about oneself and question things becomes very necessary. One often want to know the reasoning behind decisions made; which may bring one into conflict with authority.


Entrenching oneself fully at this stage, entails refighting many battles one had earlier won--->

in one’s earlier years by forging for oneself some cultural perspective and direction, some working unity out of the effective remnants of one’s childhood and one’s anticipated adulthood.


Critically, the big test is on one’s ego’s accumulated capacities to integrate talents, aptitudes,--->

and skills, to identify with like-minded people and with other’s impression of oneself, and to begin to make vocational choices.


Thouroughly immersing oneself in the psychosocial prerogatives of this stage, forms the basis--->

for one’s sense of destiny. In this way one is able to form Ego Identity, which results in a sense of coherent individuality that enables one to resolve one’s conflicts adaptively.


Satisfactorily answering the question, ‘Who am I?’ is a MUST. Failure to do so, one suffers--->

Role Confusion; the inability to conceive oneself as a productive member of one’s society, by failing to find an occupational identity as well as a meaningful place in one’s culture.




“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
- French writer and feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)

“Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.”
- Irish novelist and poet James Stephens (1882 - 1950)

“An adult is one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally.”
- Anonymous

In the spirit of adventure and discovery,
BEYONDISM teaches that, sometimes the best way to learn something,
Is to just plunge in and start trying things.
You can learn a lot by observing the results in such a process.
Going forward, outlined here are SEVEN INITIAL INDICATIONS,
That you have phased out your CHILDHOOD as well as your ADOLESCENCE.
You are now RIPE enough to boldly face your EARLY ADULTHOOD.
--->


Intimately understand that transformations do not affect physical attribute --->

of the object e.g. dough rolled in flat like a bread only changes the form, but weight and mass does not change.


Negating shallowness, by getting BEYOND one main characteristic--->

of a situation and considering many aspects at once. This entails being able to compare an event with its broader context.


Incorporate diverse views, and look for physical causes of events, --->

to establish rules to guide behaviour, and to expand your spatial awareness and time consciousness.This entails realising like Spanish novelist and dramatist Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616): “Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”


Telling the bitter TRUTH laughingly, or teaching the hard FACTS, softly. --->

Use of humour to help reinterpret situations and to help control such emotions as anger, anxiety and depression. Humorous jokes are those that provide moderate amount of intellectual challenge.


Indulge in developing the ability to judge behaviours more in terms --->

of intentions rather than merely by consequences. This is what informs the cardinal maxim of the criminal law, ‘actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea’, which means ‘the doing of an act does not make a man guilty unless he has a guilty mind’.


Accept that your own thoughts and feelings are not necessarily shared --->

by others and may reflect personal opinions other than reality. As a result, you know that, you can sometimes be wrong and thus begin to seek out external validation for your ideas.


Leaning towards the cultivation of the ability to view situations from others’--->

point of view and know that a variety of possible viewpoints exist. This waters down any dogmatic tendencies, and lays the basis for tolerance as well as a democratic disposition.


Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
Simplicity carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
If you be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows you are a citizen of the world.
Elegance is grace under pressure.
Elegance is not being noticed, it is about being remembered.
Elegance is when the PSYCHIC inside is as beautiful as the PHYSICAL outside.
Upon activating your SELFHOOD, you shall be ECLECTICALLY ELEGANT thus:

  1. Ennobled in all aspects, to fully stiffen your vertebrae with unwavering confidence.
  2. Living by ardently adding power, responsibility and authority to your freedom.
  3. Endeavouring to diligently inculcate enduring honourableness to your conducts.
  4. Gainfully and categorically alloying solid persistence to your unwavering courage.
  5. Affirming the inerrant need to fuse perseverance and choice to your deep dreams.
  6. Nurturing and clarifying your perception with the compulsion of passionate duties.
  7. Truly inculcate upon your PSYCHE a lyric interlude amid the prose of hectic LIFE.--->

As you continue cherishing and nourishing love with wisdom, you shall be able to deepen your devotion with sacrifice. In the end, you shall merrily sing like English Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822):

Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but it can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

“Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light,” so proclaimed Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745). English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), in Sonnet 17, depicted elegance thus:

If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, ‘This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne’er touched earthly faces.’






IT IS ‘PARTICULARLY PRETTY PERTINENT’ to note that myriad militating factors and belligerent barriers are evident in the general fabric of our African society. Prevalent as they are, they may also have affected each one of us to a certain degree, either directly or indirectly, implicitly or explicitly. More regrettable and viciously appalling, is this state-of-affairs made, if we take into consideration the fact that, a reasonable number of our YOUTHS are confused, naïve, helplessly battered by cruel forces that crush their dreams before they are even born. These youngsters are consequently seized by a strong feeling of marginality, not belonging, a widespread feeling of inferiority and of personal unworthiness.

When these younger members of our society perceive themselves as creatures who have been denied freedom to choose; who have chosen things but not things they would have chosen if they had the power to choose truly, we should not expect any positive reaction from them. Having been raised and drilled to fear the YES within themselves; to repress their deepest cravings and desires, they move in the spurious innocence of absent-mindedness, whose secret motive is innocence while guilt.

The young African is an unfortunate, feeble and fragile creature, which find itself living in the midst of victims of ‘Bad Conscience’; people who would lose no chance of lashing out ‘Emotional Plagues’ (the idea of making others feel bad in order to free oneself from responsibility). Burdened by the blackest horror of guilt, which slowly fills the cells of the heart, until it is wrinkled and totally paled, in this state of ‘Emotional Senility’, one loses pride and one is condemned to a LIFE of virtual psychological imprisonment. --->

Our society has become achievement-oriented, stressing the goal of success as an end in itself almost but of course, not entirely irrespective of the means employed. In this virtual darkness, living our lives somewhere along a wide curve of deep-rooted, bottle-up inexpressible anger, the smell of adour of decay is almost everywhere. South African poet Daniel Peter Kunene in Pirates Have Become Our Kings (1968) captures this point vividly:

War is
When the teeming life
Of the sea and the earth and the air
Is arrayed in the butcheries
For the satiation of the few
Who carelessly toss a silver coin
While the angry millions look on.
The spilling of blood is not war itself.
It is but a culmination of the
War that began when man first felt envy,
Selfishness, conceit, arrogance, callousness
And let the unbridled vices loose to victimise.

“Thou cam’st on earth to make the earth my hell.
A grievous burden was thy birth to me;
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild and furious;
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous;
Thy age confirm’d, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody,
More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred;
What comfortable hour canst thou name
That ever grac’d me with thy company?”
- English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) in Richard III, Act 4, Scene 4


“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
So confirmed U.S. writer Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
More worse, when the youngsters have been walking along false paths,
Chosen for them, far much before they had really deliberatey decided,
This makes them feel helpless, disoriented, disillusioned, impotent and unimportant.
The end result is the ‘prevailing pathetic PSYCHIC pattern’, amongst a large section of society,
Informed by some or all of the following SEVEN CORROSIVELLY CAPTIVE CONVICTIONS:
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Considerably, the world is awfully harsh at the very outset.--->

Happiness is a delusion outside mortal reach; it is merely impossible to attain any refreshing amout of joy under the prevailing circumstances.


Assailed by misfortunes and calamities from all corners--->

and directions, it is apparent that little can be achieved in a society where everything is unforeseeable and utterly unpredictable.


Perceived from all possible angles, LIFE has little MEANING--->

and has nothing important to offer. So far as things are, nothing matters very much, and very few things matters at all, and whatever seems to matter cannot be trusted or relied upon.


The society is indifferent to my needs. Whatever I try is--->

condemned to fail, and all my efforts are exercises in futility. All in all, individual aims in LIFE fade away instead of being realised.


I am a fated stranger to LIFE. I do not feel as if I am entitled--->

to enjoy the GOOD THINGS of this world. There is no one to rely on for moral and social support when in dire need, or even whenever I am in trouble.


Very few chances to make any substantial breakthorough in the--->

society exist. Therefore, I should greedily take what I can today, because tomorrow there will be no available opportunity.


Every avenue for my diligent and prudent efforts to be duly--->

rewarded, is either closed or very narrow. As such, it basically takes dishonesty, duplicity and deceit to succeed instead of hard work and competence.



‘NULLIFYING NIHILISM’ is not an incident, it is not an accident, it is not a temporary aberration, but the logical consequence of bottled up emotion of ‘future hopes strangled’. “If you want to converse with me” cautioned French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694 - 1778), “define your terms”. So before we make any further motion, it is important that we come out clear on what we mean by NIHILISM.

Having found themselves in such a catastrophic mode of personal perception, the victims reacts in different ways which depend so it would seem reasonable to infer, upon their ‘personality predispositions’ and partly upon the ‘specific social situation’. Suffering shockingly shattering stress, the most appropriate phrase to explain the end result of such a state of mind is ‘an unprecedented flight towards Nullifying Nihilism’.--->

The word NIHILISM can etymologically be traced from the 19th Century German word Nihilismus, as derived from Latin word Nihil, which means ‘nothing’. The term NIHILISM was first used to describe Christian heretics during the Middle Ages (a period in the history of Europe that lasted from about AD 350 to about 1450). In the academic circles, the word NIHILISM was in fact used as early as 1799 in the letter of the German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743 - 1819) to his colleague German philosopher and educator Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814): “My dear Fichte, I really shall not be put out if you or anyone else want to call Chimerism that which I am opposing to Idealism, to what I prefer to call Nihilism”. The word Chimera implies something merely imagined, at bottom as nothingness. What therefore, does NIHILISM mean? Ask German philosopher and philologist Friendriche Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) here, and his answer flows: “That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; ‘why?’ finds no answer….Radical nihilism is the conviction of an absolute untenability of existence when it comes to the highest values one recognises; plus the realisation that we lack the least right to posit a BEYOND or an in-itself of things that might be divine or morally incarnate”.

In Russia, the word NIHILISM was applied in the 1850’s and 1860’s to young intellectuals who, influenced by Western ideas repudiated Christianity, considered Russian society backward and oppressive, and advocated revolutionary change. The words of Russian revolutionist and anarchist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814 - 1876) reflected the concept of Nihilism: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life...God, or rather the fiction of God, is the consecration and the intellectual and moral source of all slavery...and the freedom of mankind will never be complete until the disastrous and insidious fiction of a heavenly master is annihilated.” ‘NIHILISM’ therefore, emerged as a designation applied to various radical philosophies whose adherents were profoundly skeptical of everything, leading to an uncritical rejection of all positive values, culminating in a pessimistic believe in NOTHING. --->

This explains why Russian NIHILISTS were considered would be murderers, one and all-assassins by premeditation, if not by deed; a people who did not know what they wanted, but were perfectly ready at all times to commit any sort and number of hideous crimes. In an interview with British foreign correspondent William Beatty-Kingston in 1890, Prusso-German statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898) known as the iron Chancellor for the strength of his leadership, depicted Russian Nihilism thus:

Overeducation in countries like Germany leads to much disappointment and dissatisfaction; in Russia, to disaffection and conspiracy. Ten times as many young people are educated there for the higher walks of LIFE than are places to give, or opportunities for them, in the liberal professions, to earn a decent living, far less wealth and distinction. There are too many free scholarships and presentations by half, by appointments to which poor people’s children are taught to be unhappy and useless. Perhaps it is not quiet the right kind of learning, too. Priest’s children, for instance, most get their high school and university education for nothing. What good does it do to them? When they have gone through it, in nine cases out ten there is nothing for them to do, and their learning is worse than a superficiality to them, for it make them discontented and miserable. They are painfully prepared to compete for greater prizes than life really offers save to a very few, who rarely spring from their class. I have come across street watchmen who had studied in universities, and taken bachelor’s degrees. Could anything be more cruel, as well as absurd? Such people filled with envy and hatred of all that is prosperous and high placed, readily takes to conspiracy and crime. They are not fit to construct, but knew just enough to qualify them for destroying. It becomes much easier to damage than to redeem; so they do evil and calls it redemption.

A definition is a statement that is true, because of the way in which we have agreed to use words. Stipulative typical NIHILISM in our African society, can be construed to be either ‘Nullifying’ or ‘Nourishing’. It is ‘Nullifying’, in as far as it reflects our succumbing to the seemingly heavy yoke and oppressive burdens of existence, thus prompting us to say ‘NO’ to LIFE in all its illuminations. It is ‘Nourishing’, only to the extent which it propels one to say ‘NO’, in the manner of annihilating and repudiating all negative LIFE attitudes and aspects, and in its place assert an absolute positive affirmation of LIFE.--->

“Nothing in the world matters; not even success in America but just void and emptiness await the career of a soul of a man,” so proclaimed U.S. writer Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969). Algerian-born French novelist, essayist, and dramatist Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) had the audacity (or pessimism?) to script these words: “One cannot be a part-time nihilist...I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my own proclamation and I am compelled to believe, at least, in my own protest. The first and only datum...within absurdist experience, is rebellion.” Perhaps Camus did not have the luck to see these words (or simply ignored them?) of German philosopher and poet Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): “What I am doing is to recount the history of the next two centuries. I am describing what is coming, what can no longer come in any other form: the rise of nihilism.” Still in this most critical matter, Chinese journalist Wang Ruoshui (1926 - 2002) had a pondable point:

A specter haunts the intellectual world.
Who are you?
I am Man.


--->


In his book Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), American psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 - 1990) asserted: “Survival is the only value according to which a culture is eventually to be judged”. Skinner argued that, a human being is nothing more than an organism, a bundle of behaviour shaped by his or her environment; that during evolution the environment shaped the behaviour that survives in our genes; that after birth, environmental conditioning shapes each one of us in this LIFE. American psychologist and educator Edward Lee Thorndike (1874 - 1949) had formulated ‘the law of effect’, which states that when a behaviour or a performance is accompanied by satisfaction, it tends to be stamped in and increased; if accompanied by frustrations, it tends to decrease. Following this line of thought, Skinner viewed ‘reinforcement’ as anything that increases or decreases the likelihood of a response, and that it is the effect of one’s behaviour that determines the likelihood of its occurring again.


A basic explanation of an ideal case of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ is that,
Our African society in face of modern requirements which calls for constant adjustments,
Is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension;
To the point of near snapping.
‘Nullifying Nihilism’ has its breeding ground in a society,
And particularly our African society, that is poor or low on positive reinforcements.
Here are SEVEN ways to show how it is a case of SERIOUS SUBMERGENCE:
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Situationally, frustration is an emotion which occurs when one is unable to satisfy a drive, because the response that would satisfy it is blocked. It arises when our need for a stable thought system, by which to organise--->


perception and make sense out of the environment, in other words our ‘frame of orientation and devotion’ is strangled and chocked. When the individuals subjective expectation about realisation of their aspirations and ideals is nibbed in the bud, then it is not too late before the fire that is frustration spreads into a deadly inferno of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’.

Essentially, when there is a lack of coherent connection between a shattered present and an uncertain future, any truly creative activity is ruled out, as well as any possibility of self- assertion. As long as it is impossible --->


to indulge in any creativity, or as long as the individual is obliged to create in a vacuum on the temporal fringe of social evolution, he or she is seized with a strong desire to destroy. The irrational violent conduct of young people particularly in secondary school and institutions of higher learning is in fact an unconscious protest against feeling of hopelessness and helplessness.

REVENGE is the domineering instinct which arises as a means of enduring LIFE, and as a self-preservative measure. It is at bottom an attempt at justifying one’s lack of power and self-confidence. Out of the--->


cauldron of unquenched hatred and with nothing worth celebrating, one’s whole spectrum of percept, is wholly distorted by the venomous eye of resentment, into a new colour, a new significance and appearance. One develops a bitter conviction for the reversal of all estimates of value, and an envy of all elevated human ideals. In a word, ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ is itself a principle of dissolution and decay.

Instinct of the denial of LIFE, is the prevalence of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ at its extremity. This points towards a total decadence of value judgements, leading to the conviction of the futility and worthlessness of reality. --->


It moreover implies a radical repudiation of value, meaning and desirability, a fanatic faith that all is false, that there is no TRUTH at all, that all that happens is MEANINGLESS and in VAIN. The revolt of the ‘Nullifying Nihilists’ begins in the very principle of resentment becoming creative and giving birth to values – a resentment experienced by creatures who, deprived as they are of the proper outlet of action, are forced to find their compensation in an imaginary revenge.

Occupationally, when our youths are bound in a confusion which it seems impossible to fix, and against which it seems merely foolish to protest, a vague taste of sorrow prevails. This throws them into a condemnation--->

of asking questions that are never new to them, but to which they have no hope of finding any answer. Anytime they contemplate a way out of the present rottenness, or a bright future, a silent sound of ‘NO’ eats into their minds in every spiral and stays there circling in tightening rings, never letting go. In their warped, ailing and bleeding consciousness, the world seems not here, not present with its terrible closeness, but something outside. It is such a strong and primitive thought, that there is nothing in loneliness but pain. The victims are trapped in the vicious cycle of desperation which was outlined by Scottish historian and philosopher David Hume (1711 - 1776) in this manner: “Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed”.

Undermined and defeated in most aspects of LIFE, ‘Nullifying Nihilists’ are bewildered souls who perceive themselves as social outcasts. They are caught in the whirlpool of mourning an inhospitable earth and --->


immersed in the conception that one diminishes in a world that does not nurture him or her, in a word, one ‘wastes and pines’. Entangled in an irresolvable struggle and trapped in the web of aimless wanderings and focusless meanderings, these are unfortunate creatures who are beset with reflections of being ill-suited for the world of ‘everyday’.

Sad and lost, as the victims are gripped in search for a belief system which can explain the horror of their lives, their answer finds itself in the simple word, ‘NO’. A ‘NO’ which is an imaginary revenge of refusing the--->

society that had initially refused them. It is a ‘NO’ which is frequently the voice of revenge, and only defeated warriors can contribute to it; and when any person invokes it, it is his or her wounds that speaks. At the extremity, they will say ‘NO’ to everybody and everything; ‘NO’ to every order and probably ‘NO’ to every request and every plea. As the negativism of the toddler whose favourite word is ‘no’, is evidence of the child’s struggling attempt at autonomy, Nullifying Nihilistic ‘NO’, tends to give temporary empowerment to the powerless. ‘NO’, tends to imaginary deny the dominion of the strong over the weak. ‘NO’, may serve as the opium which eases the minds of the tortured, the traumatised and the guild-ridden. ‘NO’, is the illusory hope that what came before will never be again.


Majority of our societal members are in desperate peril; without a productive, fulfilling and creative LIFE we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. A good number of them laments like English playwright Philip Massinger (1583 - 1640):

I am driven
Into a desperate strait and cannot steer
A middle course

“Sometimes virtual crimes lie dormant, and operas are stored away in a maestro’s head, only to await the creative influence of genius to inspire their opening bars,” so said Brazilian novelist and short-story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 - 1908). The dominant thread of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ is what Nietzsche referred to as: “The hatred of egoism. Whether it be one’s own, or another’s”. The worst offshoot of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’, is that the victims get attracted to, or lured by ‘Catchy Cultism’, or find refuge for the expression of their perverted and bottled up instincts in ‘Gnawing Gangsterism’.--->

Let us narrow down on ‘Catchy Cultism’. First, it is extremely important that, we note the remarkable difference between ‘Sects’ and ‘Cults’; words which are seemingly related and often confused for each other. If we focus on the ‘Sects’, it becomes undeniable that, their emergence is precipitated by the inability of their adherents to fit in the voluptuous consumption ethic of other members of society, or the mainstream churches. They consciously or unconsciously establish themselves as the refugee of the poor and marginalised. This explains why, as their members rise in the economic scale, they begin to compromise their original world-renouncing ethics, whereas those left behind in social struggle, draw apart into separate and congenial groupings. It is such folks who continue to constitute the main support of contemporary ‘Sects’.

The above can be paraphrased to mean that, various ‘Sects’ come into being because the existing churches and denominations have lost the purported early fervour, and become strongholds of the respectable and circumspect middle class. This illumines on why, while the mainstream churches pray to God who is the ‘King of Kings’, a God who ‘helps those who helps themselves’, the ‘Sects’ prayers are emotionally charged, and addressed to the God who is the ‘help of the helpless’, and the heaven that is oftenly preached in their gatherings is the sort of place that may well appeal to the person who knows what unemployment means, who has to live on one meal a day, who has had to tighten one’s belt, who works in a monotonous job, and who has tried to bring up one’s family in a smelly little box of a place.

‘Sects’ are basically the grouping of the hard-pressed and frustrated, who without such faith and the company of their fellows at the bottom of the social scale, would be utterly defeated. It is also significant that, they exalt the simple manners, necessited by their indigence, into moral virtues. Honesty, thrift, abstinence, simplicity, diligence – these reflect their economic position almost as much as their moral ideas.--->

The particular and distinctive trait of ‘Sects’ is that, having never been able to succeed in the world, they take revenge by speaking ill of it. After resigning themselves to some weird, humanitarian illusion, they develop a distinctive code of ethics, which is a corollary of its worldly estate. It is a legalistic, rigid, puritan, black-and-white morality which divides men and women all too easily into world-affirming goats and world-renouncing sheep, or, in other words, into children of darkness and children of light. The vices are merely the practices of the opulent, whereas abstinence and mortification of the flesh are the moral foundations of their code. They despise all ostentation and all literature, art and music, that is not propaganda for their particular tenets as wholly mundane or as ‘spiritual pornography’. Listen to prominent American Professor of Comparative Religion Horton Davies in Christian Deviations – The Challenge of New Spiritual Movements (1965):

As the comfortable members of the historic churches find emotional outlets in cultural associations and social recreations usually outside the churches, for the sectarians, however, religious community provides the whole of their LIFE. Indeed, the sectarians deliberately adopt devices to stir up the emotions and, with complete sincerity, they attribute the results to the direct activity of God, the Holy Spirit.

In The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology (1976), American Religious philosopher Roy Wallis (1945 - 1990), argues that a ‘sect’ is characterised by ‘epistemological authoritarianism’, whereby they possess some authoritative locus for the legitimate attribution of heresy. According to Wallis “sects lay a claim to possess unique and priveledged access to the truth or salvation and their committed adherents typically regard all those outside the confines of the collectivity as ‘in error’”. He contrasts this with a ‘cult’ that he described as characterised by ‘epistemological individualism’ by which he means that the ‘cult’ has no clear locus of final authority beyond the individual member.

If you want to be a slave in LIFE, then continue going around asking others to do for you.
They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, freedom, and LIFE itself.
They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever,
Having volitionally given your core identity away for a paltry price.
Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a SORDID SLAVE,
Because you yourself and nobody else made it so.
SEVEN ways to AFFLUENTLY ANALYSE the nature of ‘Catchy Cultism’:
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Affirmatively, ‘Sects’ are products of religious schism (a term which means any formal and willful separation from the unity of the Christian church and unlike heresy, with which it is often linked, it does not of itself--->

denote doctrinal deviations) and therefore maintain a continuity with traditional beliefs and practices. ‘Cults’ on the other hand are groups of movements propelled by a tendency to resist the discipline of real religious or social practices, opting for mere fascination with extra ordinary phenomena. A ‘Cult’ arises spontaneously around vague beliefs and systems of ritual practices with the exhibition of a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea or thing. A ‘Cult’ centers on sacred symbols, as manifested by a body of admirers, and often employs unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and authoritarian control.

Notably, whereas ‘Sects’ exists in tension with the church that they defected from, ‘Cults’ by engaging in boundary-maintaining practices and creeds exist in tension with the larger society. Whereas the ‘Cult’ --->


is able to enforce its norms and ideas against members, a ‘sect’ normally does not strictly have members with definite obligation, only followers, sympathisers, supporters or believers. A ‘Sect’ may also have members which choose to leave later, which is allowed; whereas a ‘Cult’ use any means necessary to keep its members (including coercion).

A vital characteristic of the ‘Cults’ is their craving for objectivity and authority. As they cannot bear the burden of facing the crude realities of the world, they find the black-and-white ethical code a respite from the--->

responsibility of weighing motives and intentions. There is an unconscious tendency among the members to demand of their leaders that they give them certainties, since they have enough doubts of their own. Emotionally deprived as they are, they are fanatically devoted to their leader(s), who further exploit this state by further mind controlling and brain washing them, stripping them of their ability to act or think independently, by seeking control of every aspect of member’s lives and allowing no questioning of decisions.

LIFE may at times seem valueless or meaningless. Whether one joins a group (a cult in this regard), because of how he or she views the group, or for fulfillment of subconscious psychological needs, or through--->


forms of psychological manipulation, the underlying reason is to find refuge and consolation away from seemingly harsh, intolerable, inconsiderate and the unfair larger society. In this spiritual and psychological search for community, the lure of an ideological organisation held together by charismatic relationships, and demand of total commitment, becomes irresistible.

Yearning for a sense of belonging is a vital need in LIFE. On a deeper examination, the relationship between ‘Cult’ groups and the individual members who join them is appalling. Some form of coercive persuasion or --->

mind control is used to recruit and maintain members by suspending their individuality, besides suppressing their ability to reason, think critically and make choices in their own best interests. Upon recruitment and in a very subtle and indirect manner, members are put in physical or emotionally distressing situation, and their problems are reduced and narrowed down to one simple fantastic explanation, which is repeatedly emphasised. Having come from a perceived unlovely larger society, they are subjected to a kind of ‘love bombardment’, receiving unconditional love, acceptance and attention from charismatic leader or group, thus getting a new identity based on the group.

Subjection to entrapment (isolation from friends, relatives and the mainstream culture), where their access to information is severely controlled, is another cultic strategy. Through debilitation, use of special methods --->

to heighten suggestibility and subservience, coupled with powerful group pressures, this promotes deep-seated dependency on the group and its leaders. This is solidified by the fear of extreme consequences of revealing the group’s secrets, besides desertion from the group. There are also constant use of ‘Breaking Sessions’ (which is used by members and cult leaders to attack on those who are suspected as not measuring to the expectations of the group, like recruiting others members). A person is verbally and emotionally attacked untill one to extreme case, cries uncontrollably.

Effetely driven by the delusive conviction that, they alone are treading the right path, is the bitter necessity to condemn others outside their circles. This leads to the development of an acute ‘Them-Against-Us’--->

mentality, that entrenches mass neurosis. The consequence of this is that, they unwittingly isolate themselves from the larger society – the larger society becomes virtual enemy. Members are constantly warned of engaging themselves in the affairs of the general society, in the guise of avoiding intoxicating themselves, with the implied societal rogue ways and ideals. Contact with others is restricted only to the purposes of recruitment, otherwise members are under strict orders to relate only with members of their cult. This sheds light on why they are disposed to say ‘NO’ from the very outset to what is ‘outside their circle’, ‘different from their circle’ and ‘not their circle’; and this ‘NO’ becomes their creative deed.


“Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?”
- American rapper and actor Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) (b. 1990)

“And is it true? And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all.”
- British poet and broadcaster John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)

Action will furnish belief,—but will that belief be the true one?
This is the point, you know.”
- British poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)

Mass movements are a function of adaptation; its pulse is change.
A movement without mass is a cult.
And it is in cults that stupid tyrants hold sway.
The only difference between a religion and a cult is that,
In a religious group, if you contradict them,
They call you stupid in a polite way,
And in a cult, if you do that, you are expelled.
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‘Cults’ are very good at imprisoning TRUTH through institutionalised system of beliefs and dogmas. With the mind imprisoned in superstition and fear, the individual personality gets crushed, and originality is suppressed. The individual lacks not only mechanical efficiency, but is denied that spiritual freedom which drives human beings to discovery and free movement. By encouraging ceremonies and practices that soon lose their original meaning and become mere routine, ‘Cults’ have discouraged their adherents from trying to understand not only the unknown, but also what might come in the way of individual’s social and intellectual effort. They have refused to allow their members to fall into that chaos of mind, and theory which prevail in the camps of the advanced intellectuals of our time. By discouraging curiosity and thought, and preaching the philosophy of submission, they tend to close and limit the minds of their members and to produce dependent, dislocated, unfree individuals. Allaying themselves to shadowy theology, ‘Cults’ produces narrowness and intolerance, credulity and superstition.

With everything designed to advance the goals of the group’s leaders, and to appease their highly elated appetite for money, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families or the community, all ‘Cults’ are at high risk of becoming abusive of fundamental ‘rights’ and ‘freedoms’ vital to a civilised LIFE. This is in part due to members’ adulation of the charismatic leader, which invariably makes him or her to become corrupted by power. This is further consolidated by the fact that most if not all ‘Cult Leaders’ are men and women who are possessed and obsessed by a murderous and pathological desire for power, and an insatiable appetite for cheaply acquired wealth, that they will tread this path with a suicidal gusto – through socially conducive channels if possible, or through other underhand methods if necessary or expedient.--->

This brings us to another devastating trait of ‘Cultism’ (though not restricted to cults but to other sects as well) which defies all theological fundamentals, in the manner of TERRIFIC THEOPRENEURSHIP. This is not a new phenomenon as it can be traced back to the 16th Century Church under Pope Leo X (1465 - 1521), the last non-priest (only a deacon) to be elected Pope (1513 - 1521). In his era, Papal Indulgences (a grant by the Pope of partial remission of time to be spent in purgatory or of some other consequences of a sin), were so popular that they were publicly sold not only for the living but also for the dead. To the ordinary folk, an Indulgence became almost an insurance policy against punishment for any sin, and repentance fell by the wayside. “Everywhere”, wrote Dutch writer, scholar, and humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536), “the remission of Purgatorial torment is sold; nor is it sold only, but forced upon those who refuse it”. One of the most popular Theopreneur of those early days, was John Tetzel (1465 - 1519), a Dominican friar, whose claims for the effect of Indulgences were exceptionally extreme and superstitious. “As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs”, he said.

In our modern times, the game has taken a notch higher though in a different dimension. Mushrooming of religious outfits, with fluid management structures and hideous characters at their helm, has made these deceitfully designed churches, to accrue profits that rival blue-chip companies. With sect or cult leaders - or call them pastors if you like – enjoying opulent lives at the expense of the flock, most of these modern day Theopreneurs are so creative and smart and persuasive in their oratory that, it seems even Tetzel is not fit to wipe off the dust in their jackboots. They spend a fortune running expensive promotion campaigns in the media, buying cutting edge ICT equipment and engage top gospel singer and DJ’s.

At the bottom of Theopreneurship is unemployment which pushes some devious good-for-nothing idlers, to start churches as a way of earning a livelihood by sponging off the less discerning. With despondency, illiteracy, ignorance and superficial knowledge of basic theological teaching taking a very high toll on our people, these religious quacks have a very wide leverage in twisting the gospel, and use it to blackmail their flocks and rip them off. Clients who lead the pack are the frustrated who finds solace in expressing their sighs. The poor looking for clutches for their inflictions. Youths seeking divine intervention in their search for jobs. The singles in search for life - partners finding good medium to project their fantastic longings. Barren women and those unable to bear sons or daughters doing anything for the pastors to get a miracle baby, even going to the extreme extent of enduring sexual abuse. Those with chronic diseases are reduced to paupers, by selling their hard earned properties on the promise of miraculous healing. With an express and clear intent to exploit hopelessness in the society, their theopreneurial designs has taken a modern dimension and dynamism through ‘e-prayers’, ‘solve all your problems’ SMS’s via mobile phones, where they earn a lot from these messages.--->

‘Terrific Theopreneurship’ has fantastic longings as its breeding ground, which finds their tap roots upon the oppressiveness of reality, where they also bloom. It is a notable assertion that in times of anxiety, scarcity and decline, as we are witnessing in our time, fantasies takes root in most people so powerfully because facing reality becomes so tormenting. In this situation, most people therefore, become simple preys to all sorts of charlatans and cons, who by spinning a fantasy or a quick fix solution out of an oppressive reality, promising a great and total change from poor to rich, misery to ecstasy, sickness to health, gains a good following. They further plung their captives into untold miseries, by turning them into objects of exploitation. It has become a norm to find gullible followers giving astronomical sums of money in the name of ‘planting a seed’, to these callow organisations calling themselves churches, headed by these ‘over-promisers’ and ‘under-delivers’.

In short, membership to a ‘Cult’, demonstrate an unstrategic, tactless, unwittingly if not unconscious case of running away from a bicycle (seemingly harmful society) into a motorcycle (actually harmful cult). The bicycle might only bruise you, but the motorcycle will maim you. Upon realisation of the danger unto which one has plunged oneself into, a deep sense of bitterness against oneself seizes the person. Consequently, the only source of consolation may be found in committing acts which are harmful to others.

We are now on ‘Gnawing Gangsterism’. Our geneneral constitution as human beings – our bodies, our souls and our minds – owes much to Nature. We would therefore be in a better position, to assert that, the incompatibility, the lack of harmony with Nature excites derisions, which cannot be kept secret or repressed. Would the resultant effect, which is a consciousness of cruelty of Fate, incite the victims to acts of violence? French writer Gabriel Chevailler (1895 - 1969) in the novel Clochemerle (1936) strives to give the answer:

There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases which completely ignores human strife fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad. Whilst vast masses of human beings are tearing each other to pieces in hatred, Nature, with sublime indifference sheds her brilliance over all these horrors and during the short breathing-spaces which the combatants allow themselves, by some evening of magic loveliness or morning of festive beauty reveals the absurdity of all this raging madness. But all that beauty, which should help to reconcile mankind, is expended to no purpose. Its only effect is to reconcile them to still greater energy in their ruthless activities, fearing that they may vanish in their sight and leave no trace, and unable to conceive any more impressive and lasting monument than wholesale destruction.--->

“With us humans, primitive savagery lies close below the surface of our veneer of civilisation. When you get the chance of really losing your temper with an adversary and of being able to consummate it by killing him, it is a luxury unknown to those who have never indulged their evil inclinations”, so writes British soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941), in Lessons From The Varsity of LIFE (1933), in a rather extreme manner. However much we contend the potential possibility of every human being to be on the other side of law in one way or the other, when people team up in gangs or become part of a movement with a distinctive sub-culture of their own, they tend to view crime as a comparatively normal behaviour.

Normal in this respect is restricted to the members of a specific group, which defines acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in certain ways, that are in conflict with general and legal codes of the wider society. Perhaps British novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) has a point here: “I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.” Listen to English poet, playwright, and literary critic John Dryden (1631 - 1700):

But treason is not own’d when ‘tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.

Through the organisation, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, sharing a common identity, a ‘Gang’ is basically a criminal organisation or else a criminal affiliation defining itself to be in opposition to mainstream norms - but at the same time deviously aspiring to be recognised by the same society. “Like art and politics, Gangsterism is a very important avenues into mainstream society”, thus commented American novelist Edgar Laurence Doctorow (1931 - ).

“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.”
So affirmed Italian poet and dramatist Vittorio Alfieri (1749 - 1803).
To paraphrase several sages: violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and violent.
It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Varieties notwithstanding, a gangster is a member of an organised gang of criminals, especially a racketeer. ‘Gangsterism’ entails aligning or subscribing onto an illegal or antisocial group which uses underhand,--->

even terroristic methods to achieve their ends. Being products of social deprivation and alienation, members are sometimes bound by a rigid code of conduct that includes abhorring all contacts and cooperation with the authorities. They mostly engage in activities ranging from illicit liquour, to gambling, prostitution etc. Others engages in activities like extortionism, collecting protection fees, trading and smugglings in drugs and narcotics, arm trafficking, human trafficking, kidnappings for ransom, carjackings, armed robbery, illegal immigration, assault, pandering, financial crimes, money laundering and piracy.

In the year 2011, the United Nations estimated that ‘Gangs’ made most of their money through the drugs trade, and they were thought to be worth US dollars 352 billions in total. ‘United States Department of Justice’ estimated --->

that there were approximately 30,000 gangs, with 760,000 members impacting 2,500 communities across the United States. ‘Gangsters’ are therefore, as dangerous to the society as they are lethal to themselves, for they may end up being typical killjoy and peace destroyers. Misled as they are by their megalomaniac ideal; always busy trying to hypostasise and deify their own guiding line, and to cross those of others, they are tightly held in the grip of a guilty past, hatred of the present and fear of the future. Their compulsive character is due to the anxiety lurking behind them. Their striving for power is born out of a feeling of inferiority. They are therefore, subject to compulsive drives which are born of feelings of isolation and helplessness and represents ways of coping with the world despite these feelings.

Overly enveloped and engulfed as they are by intoxicating power of frustrations, when resentment has sowed and infused new energy in them, no attitude or threat of terror can waive their sadistic appetites. Construing the--->

general society as unjust and therefore, its virtual enemy, physical violence becomes the only available and most cherished weapon of achieving most if not all of the ends of the ‘Gangs’. Gang violence refers to mostly those illegal and non-political acts of violence perpetrated by gangs against innocent people, property, or other gangs. Throughout history, such acts have been committed by gangs at all levels of organisation and nearly every major town or city was ravaged by gang violence at some point in its history. Modern ‘Gangs’ have introduced new acts of violence, which may also function as a rite of passage for new ‘gang’ members.

Lately, American psychologist Albert Bandura (1925 - ) argued that both children and adults can develop complex patterns of behaviour, emotional responses and attitudes through frequent exposure to live or filmed model.--->

He demonstrated that observation of live and filmed aggression leads to the development of aggressive behaviours. However, according to American psychologist Rollo May (1909 - 1994), the argument against violence on television would be stronger if it were made against the passive character of television viewing rather than the emulation of aggressive models. As televised entertainment cultivates the spectator role rather than active participation, its greatest danger may lie on the cultivation of feelings of impotence that contribute to violent behaviour.

Essentially, human LIFE is a conflict between achieving a sense of the significance on one’s self on the one hand, and the feeling of powerlessness on the other. This boils down to the basic factor in our contemporary--->

African crisis, which is the feeling of insignificance and powerlessness. As it is a notable psychological fact that violence has its breeding ground in impotence and apathy, it goes that, when we make people powerless, we encourage their violence rather than control it. As history has proved, if by virtue of its power and authority, the stronger group decides to irresponsibly refuse to recognise the rights of comparatively weaker group, the results are self-evident; friction and strife, often with a tragic end. In other words, persistent oppression of a physical or psychological nature has sometimes persuaded the oppressed to commit daring human actions. The message is expressible with utmost clarity, that violent deeds are done by those who seek to enhance their self-esteem.

No wonder then, ‘Gang’ violence or aggressiveness may be used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a ‘perceived pointlessness’ of ‘existence’ that one may develop upon realising that --->

there are no necessary norms, rules or laws, leading to estrangement in some way from regular society and its prescriptions. Anomie as a social disorder was popularised by French social theorist, who was one of the pioneers in the development of modern sociology Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) who borrowed the word from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau (1854 - 1888). Durkheim used it to imply an absence or diminution of standards or values (normlessness), and an associated feeling of alienation and purposelessness, evoking a yearning to settle down in an illusory environment where all norms are habitually broken.

Thoughtfully emphasising on the relationship between culture, social structure and anomie, American sociologist Robert King Merton (1910 - 2003), advocated the idea of ‘structural-functional’ in regard to deviance--->

and anomie. Merton defined culture as an “organised set of normative values governing behaviour which is common to members of a designated society or group”, whereas he construed social structures as the “organised set of social relationships in which members of society or group are variously implicated”. Anomie, then occurs when there is “an acute disjunction between the cultural norms and goals and the socially structured capacities of members of the group to act in accord with them”. In his theory Merton linked anomie with deviance and argued that the discontinuity between culture and structures has the dysfunctional consequences of leading to deviance within society.

“If it weren’t for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song,” so sung American singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins (1932 – 1998). In explaining how social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime or engage in social deviations, criminologists use the ‘Strain Theory’. Strain may either be structural or individual. Structural Strain refer to the processes at the societal level which filter down and affect how the individual perceives his or her needs. It means that if particular societal structures are inherently inadequate or there is inadequate regulation, this may change the individual’s perceptions as to means and opportunities. Individual Strain refer to the frictions and pains experienced by an individual as he or she looks for ways to satisfy his or her needs. This means that if the goals of society become overlay emphasised to an individual, actually achieving them may become more important than the means adopted. As anomie means a discontinuity between cultural goals and the legitimate means available for reaching them, therefore, an individual suffering from anomie would strive to attain the common goals of a specific society yet would not be able to reach these goals legitimately because of the structural limitations in society. This result in passive or active exhibition of deviant behaviour.

Discrediting the cause of violence to genes and attributing it to society, in an article in the ‘Discover Magazine’ (1997), Betty Ann Kevles and Daniel J. Kevles, argues:

We would probably all like to cure society of violent behaviour with something akin to a vaccine to prevent its spread and an antibiotic to cure what we already face. But the medical analogy gives undue weight to the biological basis of the behaviour. We need better education, nutrition and intervention in dysfunctional homes and in the lives of the abused children, perhaps to the point of removing them from the control of their incompetent parents. --->

There is also a vital explanation of ‘Gang’ aggressiveness in the manner of violently trying to repossess that which was in one way or the other taken away. When people develop the conviction that, the resources enjoyed by a certain class or group of people, was taken away from their fathers or forefathers, and when they perceive these prosperous people as cause of their present wretchedness, the psychological, if not historical justification for violence ensues. This is borne of the fact that when someone snatches something from us, our first instinct is to take it back - no matter if it was a check for a thousand shillings or a matchbox, our first instinct is to reposes it - irrespective of the means employed, the intensity of the means and the duration taken to organise oneself towards this end.

For those who have lived sheltered lives that has made them feel insulated from day to day troubles, they tend to wish away ‘Gangs’ as disgruntled elements out to bring anarchy, in a peaceful environment, and who should be pursed and dealt with ruthlessly. But if we look for instance at those North American ‘Gangs’, like the ‘Shinning Path’ or ‘Tupac Amaru’, who justified their violence by the Marxist conviction of stealing from the rich and helping the poor, we see them perceiving themselves as martyrs who were being sacrificed on the altar of political savagery and an unjust economic system.

When ‘Gang violence’ find impetus and justification from a political ideology or a theological conviction, it becomes more ferocious. It is here that we might witness the extreme cases of ‘suicide bombers’ - the worst situation for any society to contend with.

Commenting on his own novel ‘Chronicles from the Land of Happiest people on earth’, Nigerian author Wole Soyinka (1934 -), laments about Nigeria (which is an echo of all that is wrong with most African countries): “We have a habit of swallowing bile in this nation, which is putting a brave face on things. The danger is that there comes a point when this veneer shatters completely and it manifests itself…in violence that strikes people as meaningless but actually there is a reason behind it – there is a buildup of numerous causative forces.” We Africans continue to make meme out of anything and drown everything in mirth and laughter, even as we warn each other that “it will end up in premium tears”.

Having been reduced by society into utter helplessness with poverty intricately weaved in the very fabric of their lives, with nothing to quench their appetite for life, the psychological resultant is unquenchable appetite for destruction as Afro-American writer James Arthur Baldwin (1924 - 1987) noted: “The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable”.--->

This now boils down to another remote explanation for the ‘Gang’ aggressiveness as an attempt at throwing the inward pain outward against the society which had or has purportedly caused it. It is a paradoxical case of confusion and impotence swelling enough into something, asking for a way out of confinement.

American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), best known for his application of psychoanalytic theory to social and cultural problems, sought to dig into the essence of this kind of inclination to violence or what he referred to as “Lustful Destructiveness.” In an article The Nature of Violence (1969) Fromm writes:

One of the chief reasons for the development of this type of lustful destructiveness is a deep sense of impotence (not necessarily sexual), of unaliveness, of boredom, of passivity, of the dread of a never-changing routine, and of the grayness of daily LIFE which possesses many people. The impotent person in this sense is uncreative – in thought, in feeling, in personal relationships, in art – and finds his deep satisfaction in that which is only one step less miraculous than creating life, namely, destroying life. It is true that creating life requires the capacity at least for sexual potency if not for love; or if we do not deal with physical life, it requires activity, participation, and interest. Destroying life requires nothing but a pistol, a knife, or a strong hand. The one whom life eludes finds intense satisfaction in at least showing himself to be the master over the life which he cannot grasp.

WHILE ‘CULTS’ ARE MEN AND WOMEN who will say (and accept) anything in order to foster a sense of belonging and pride, ‘Gangsters’ are men and women who will say (and accept) anything to soothe their pricked and troubled conscience.

Groups regarded as ‘Cults’ have much in common with groups regarded as ‘Gangs’ all over world. They are similar in that both groups restrict members’ exercise of freedom in thought and belief; both demand unquestioning obedience from their members; both have self-appointed authoritarian leaders; and once persons join both types of groups, they tend to undergo certain predictable personality changes. --->

Cults, like gangs, fall in the realm of deviance, and both types of groups encourage members to become situationally dependent on the “group identity.” Both gangs and cults recruit members based on the human need to be accepted and be a part of a group that will affirm personal significance.

The primary difference between cults and gangs is that cults have as their axial principle of organisation; some spiritual/religious/ideological belief system. Gangs, on the other hand, are commonly perceived to have no such well-developed belief system.

Further, gangs are more sinister in terms of the use of violence against their own members and those outside the gang. Disobedience in a cult occasions much less severe discipline, and violence against non-cult members is not common behaviour for cult members.

“Dogma thinks it knows. Belief knows it does not. Dogma is credulous. Belief is sceptical, but for ever open-minded.”
- British writer and academic Graham Dunstan Martin (1932 - )

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
- British writer George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

“I shall never be a heretic, I may err in dispute; but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”
- German theologian and religious reformer Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)


If a value (order, loyalty, sacrifice) has lost its concrete content, what is left of it?
A mere empty form; an imperative that goes unheeded, no more cherished.
And all the more furious, it harshly demands to be heard and obeyed.
Do not let any ideal (or dogma?) to become your spiritual eclipse.
Before the TRUTH will set you FREE it will have pissed you off.
Before you find a PLACE to BE, you will have lost the PLOT.
SEVEN ways to CRITICALLY COMPARE ‘Cults’ with ‘Gangs’:
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Categorical, though ambiguous in their motives, ‘Cult’ leaders exhibit an extreme case of ‘disinterested commerce’ with their followers, who are only useful if they are imbecile objects of exploitation. On their side,--->

‘Gang’ leaders exhibit a pathetic case of ‘abject intercourse’ whereby their followers are only good if they are perfect grooves in the commission of the most bizarre acts. Both Cult and Gang recruiters are propelled by this policy of U.S. novelist Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999): “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Shrouded in utter secrecy, if their rogue acts goes unnoticed the more ennobled they feel, as Roman writer, philosopher, and statesman “the Younger” Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4? BC - 65 AD) noted: “Crime which is prosperous and lucky is called virtue.”

One of the outstanding characteristic of ‘Cults’ is that there is no room for ‘genius’ to flower and its emergence is suppressed with utmost vigilance. For the ‘Gangs’, ‘love’ is sponged off ferociously, thrown out of--->

the window and its attempts at finding its way in is countered with utmost aggression. Seeing the society in the eyes of a victim, ‘Cults’ and ‘Gangs’ cannot conceive any dream of a bright future, but perceive only nightmare of dark things awaiting ahead.

Most of the time, ‘Cults’ have their eyes focused to heaven in search for antidotes to their ailing hearts and hoping to be showered with the heavenly dose of certainty to sooth their uncertain and restless minds. ‘Gangs’--->

often have their gaze fixed to the earth and their hands are upon the soil, always scratching, always scrambling in a bid to try to squeeze out something, even anything, using any means, to fill their stomachs.

Precisely, if most ‘Cults’ are pseudo-religious, then most ‘Gangs’ are irreligious, such that whereas ‘Cult’s’ hearts are desperately crying out to be cleansed by for instance, the Holy blood of Jesus Christ, ‘Gangs’ are--->

ready to soil their hands with the blood of anyone who would act as an obstacle in the path towards the realisation of their needs. While the ‘Cults’ are cautious in their undertakings not to miss the blessing from the gods or God, ‘Gangs’ would do anything oblivious of incurring any wrath from any circle and any mention of a potential curse from gods or God will not deter them.

Actually, it is an undeniable sociological fact that, for one debased purpose or the other, in every human society, there is an inclination for groups to get into exclusive union, espousing and propagating ideals which--->

defeats the common good of the majority of its members. ‘Cult’ and ‘Gang’ organisations are known to have existed in Africa in as early as 18th Century. However in our times there is general pervasive tendency and latent predisposition in some sections within our society towards ‘Cultism’ and ‘Gangsterism’.

Research shows that, having allowed and condoned an unjust, exploitative and corrupt social system to thrive for our short-term benefits; having indulged in all sort of consumptive maladies; having restricted free--->

expression of impulses, we force the deprived members of the society to commit out of frustrations all kinds of pathetic acts. ‘Cultism’ and ‘Gangsterism’ are ill winds which blows nobody good. As such, if immediate intervention measures are not taken (by channeling the neglected people’s energies to productive ends), then we have to be braced for underground organised gangs, secret societies which will not hesitate to unleash high levels of crime, social disorder, and widespread social malpractices. The responsibility should be placed squarely upon shrugging shoulders of the general society.

Eventually, as the common denominator of all ‘Cultists’ and ‘Gangsters’ is that their influence begin when the illness of society begin, thus escalating the disease further, the buck of social malaise stops at the door of--->

general social archetype; the sum total of our warped thought form or predispositions and perceptions. The words of Belgian astronomer and statistician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (1796 - 1874) attest to this: “Society...prepares crimes; criminals are only the instruments necessary for executing them.” “No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been,” so unearthed German-born U.S. philosopher and historian Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)


“Ten men love what I hate,
Shun what I follow, slight what I receive;
Ten, who in ears and eyes
Match me: we all surmise,
They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe?”
- British poet Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what LIFE has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.--->


WE HAVE TO TRAIN OURSELVES to see the other side of the Medal; the positive side of Nihilism. Thus, among the overriding objectives of BEYONDISM entails a SELF-driven effort at a conquest of ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ in favour of ‘Nourishing Nihilism’.

We ought to realise that frustrations creep in when we are not ready or willing to make necessary changes or adjustments in our LIFE, which encompasses our beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviours; personal as well as social skills. Our LIFE being an echo of our actions, frustrations comes across as an ‘existential’ voice exhorting us; ‘slow down, think straight and make constructive, positive changes in your LIFE’. By obeying to this extortion of nature, we are able to work our way through, thereby bettering as well as strengthening our personalities. But first and foremost we must be aware of ourselves, and avoid bottling up all our feelings. A positive move in this direction is to question our obsolete beliefs, check on our values, build up our self-image and learn to be more assertive and less passive. This is because self-esteem cannot be sought as end in itself; it must come as a by-product of meeting standards of excellence; taking pride in work, learning about LIFE and imparting that wisdom.

‘Nourishing Nihilism’ as a defiance against absurdity of our human situation and as an assertion of authenticism was well articulated by French philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and political journalist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980). Sartre conceived humans as beings who create their own world by rebelling against a reactionary authority and by accepting personal responsibility for their actions, unaided by society, traditional morality, or theological scruples. Distinguishing between human existence and the nonhuman world, Sartre maintained that human existence is characterised by nothingness, that is, by the capacity to negate and rebel. His theory of ‘existential psychoanalysis’ asserted the inescapable responsibility of all individuals for their own decisions and made the recognition of one’s absolute freedom of choice as the necessary condition for authentic existence.--->

In his most celebrated phrase Sartre said: “Man is a being who makes himself a lack of being in order that there might be being”. In Ethics of Ambiguity (1964), French novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and essayist Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), forwards the argument laid down by Sartre:

By uprooting himself from the world, man makes himself present to the world and makes the world present to him. I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating. I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I cannot appropriate the snow field where I slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

It is refreshing to note that as human beings, we are not by nature always inclined towards a pessimistic ‘NO’ (as opposed to an optimistic ‘NO’). Something in us resists a fundamentally negative decision, such that, we are always duty bound to overcome any sort of negative temptation. As our eyes are meant to see, our intellect to know and our will to strive, we are not by nature blind to a fundamental identity, thoughtfulness and value of the uncertain reality of our human nature and the world. The paradox of human nature is made more paradoxical by the fact that, even a bitter protest against reality is often a clinging to this reality.

This is why it is not myopic to assert that, the development of ‘Nullifying Nihilistic’ tendency is an important testimony to the YOUTHS’ readiness for a positive ideological involvement. So the supreme aim of most of us who might have fallen prey to this tendency should be to strive to overcome, transform and make the negation to be only transitional and this instinct of destruction merely the precondition of new creation; the great ‘NO’, a preparation for the great ‘YES’.

“And now that the purgatory is over
I invent phrases, thoughts, days,
a short story where blindness
may be lived as nakedness.
Converted into words
desperation is impossible.”
- Spanish educator and poet Jenaro Talens (1946 - )

“By different methods different men excel;
But where is he who can do all things well?”
So asked British poet Charles Churchill (1731 - 1764).
Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.
Enjoy LIFE fully; that is what we are in this world for.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
BEYONDISM outlines SEVEN ways to FONDLY FULFILL your aspirations:
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Fundamentally, ‘Nullifying Nihilistic’ tendencies might be a blessing in disguise, when we are ready to meet the challenges and put some effort into changing our LIFE patterns. If we are not ready to do this for--->

ourselves (nobody else can do it for us), then our LIFE will never be a HAPPY one. For our ‘existence’ to be well and suitably adapted for its purpose in this world, a little troubles here and there are inevitable and probably necessary, as the Kikuyu, Kenyan proverb goes: “Necessities never end”. We should remember the inspiring words of Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961): “Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of LIFE, is without trouble”. “There is a time in the life of every problem”, Mike Leavitt in ‘Readers Digest’ Dec. 1996 advised, “when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.” The density of SOLUTIONS designed must reflect the intensity of underlying PROBLEM. A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) in Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3 adds his voice on this:

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

Uninspired as we might be, we ought to look for inspiration from King David in Psalms 118;22: “The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner”. We are called upon by Nature to search--->

within ourselves for a concealed ‘YES’, which should drive us that is stronger than all our ‘NO’s’. This will make possible the crossing from a ‘NO’, a will to affirmation of LIFE even in its strangest and sternest problems. We will appreciate the will-to-LIFE, rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility and eventually realise in ourselves the eternal joy of becoming. Listen to Catalan cellist, conductor, and composer Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973): “Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement...as if they were lost and desperate.” This may mean surpassing our ‘reason’ into the essence of our ‘being’, as Italian writer, poet, and political activist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876 - 1944): “Let’s break away from rationality as out of a horrible husk...Let’s give ourselves up to the unknown, not out of desperation but to plumb the depths of the absurd.”

Left or right, nothing should deter our efforts at SELF-ACTUALISATION. “Genius hath electric power, which earth can never tame”, so asserted American writer and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child (1802 - 1880).--->

Confronting and transcending ‘Nullifying Nihilism’ entails the triumph of reality over nullity; of value of our LIFE over emptiness and meaninglessness; of sin and failure. We are ‘existentially’ called upon to develop fundamental trust in ourselves. This means in principle, saying YES to the uncertain reality of our human nature and the world, making ourselves open to reality and being able to maintain this attitude consistently in practice. This positive fundamental certainty implies pro-LIFE fundamental certainty in regard to all of our human experience and behaviour, despite persistent, menacing skepticism and uncertainty. Listen to the words of Swedish statesman and United Nations official, who served as UN secretary general for more than eight years Dag Hammarskjöld (1905 - 1961):

You dare your Yes – and experience a meaning.
You repeat your Yes – and all things acquire a meaning.
When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but Yes?

Freedom from all impendments, is a function of PSYCHIC PRECISION. “Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of reason”,--->


so taught American psychologist Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980). There is an incessant need to defy our weary past and affect a self-traumatic shake-up; to wake up from our inertia in LIFE. This is in order to fight those factors that stand against our lives and start seeing old things in new ways, learning consciously how to adopt creative coping mechanisms so that LIFE may be full of meaning. The words of British prime minister and writer Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) are very inspiring in this regard: “Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.” However, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) cautioned: “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

It is at times never necessary to lift the lid on our bad past; it should rather stay dead and buried. However, it is only on the basis of sincere reflection about what has taken place in our lives or about the current state of affairs--->

with respect to demands of the future, would we be able to respond by adjusting, modifying or correcting previous decisions including the failure to make important decisions. We must deal with any problem in its infancy, in its early blooming stage. In Henry V, Act 2, Scene 2, English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) posed this question:

If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d, and digested,
Appear before us?

Locating our BEARING is an ‘existential’ compulsion. At bottom it is a Godly condemnation. A vital ‘existential’ fact is the likeness of mistakes, mishaps, blunders, failures, with knives which either serves us or cuts us,--->

as we grasp them by blade or the handle. If we grasp the knives by the handle they become instructive in cutting through the thicket that is ‘existence’. If we are really thoughtful, we are apt to learn from our failures as from our successes. Those of us who are actually ‘tramped upon’, but potential ‘noble souls’, or ‘free spirits’ should amass the necessary courage, and make a non-negotiable decision to move from being reactors to being actors; from being victims to being victors. To assert like American poet Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), in Leaves of Grass (1855):

I will…let appear these burning fires that were threatening to consume,
I will lift what has too long kept down these smoldering fires –
I will now expose them and use them.

Living an enriched LIFE entails contending that, success is the capacity to rise above failure. If we are determined not to let some unhappy past smother the present, we should therefore, forget our ugly past, by living--->

today and by imagining a bright future, by refusing at all cost to permit the negative feelings of yesterday prevent us from attaining to the present goal. We should and can be enriched and ennobled by our scars rather than destroyed by them. But this would only materialise if we dig beneath our mistakes and find treasures underneath – our assets that give us the means to achieve happiness - if we discover the inner space of our minds, ferreting out the guilt and hurt feelings that distort our self-image and make us less than what we are, thereby, rising above failure and discovering that we are successful not from the successes we achieve but from the failures we surmount. Opennness is key here. On being asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) replied: “Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.” Other crucial ingredients are outlined by British writer and poet G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936): “Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen,” so sung English singer and songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse (1983 – 2011). Like mother Earth herself which is varied everywhere by high mountains and deep valleys, our Human Existence is characterised by unevenness, full of hollows and encompassed by protuberances. To confront and successfully deal with those tough and most intractable challenges of our Time, we have to be pragmatic problem solvers, preferring long-term solutions to quick, expedient fixes.

We should be, and continue being revolutionaries driven by the objective of handing succeeding generations a truly better world - though not a purely polished one. As a means of continually rekindling our thirst, we should always be skeptical, but open-minded, abscording the dogmatic credulity of thinking that ‘we know’, and ascertaining the belief that ‘we do not know absolutely’.

We should perpetually resolve to face our problems up front and strive to solve them the best way we can; by avoiding being either superficial, parochial or arrogant. The only way in this direction is to advocate perspectives based on balanced optimism rather than mere idealism. The aim here is to install a modicum of hope and meaning in our lives, by signalling the willingness to carry our own cross. --->

An illustration of the extent of confidence in the innate tendency of human beings to make good choices can be seen in a speech by American psychologist Carl Rogers (1902 - 87), delivered to students at the Midwest College in 1957:

The basic nature of the human being, when functioning freely is constructive and trustworthy. For me this is an inescapable conclusion from a quarter-century of psychotherapy...We do not need to ask who will socialise him, for one of his own deepest needs is for affiliation and communication with others. As he becomes more fully himself, he will become realistically socialised. We do not need to ask who will control his aggressive impulses; for as he becomes more open to all of his impulses, his needs to be liked by others and his tendency to give affection will be as strong as his impulses to strike out or to seize for himself. He will be aggressive in situations in which aggression is realistically appropriate, but there will be no runaway need for aggression...The only control of impulses which would exist, or which would prove necessary, is the natural and internal balancing of one need against another, and the discovery of behaviours which follow the vector most closely approximating the satisfaction of all his needs.

IT IS AN ABSOLUTE HUMAN CERTAINITY that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. Most people are slow to champion INTIMACY because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: INTIMACY does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. --->

BEYONDISM, begs to provoke you, by informing you that, an important psychological development task for young adults, is the establishment of intimate meaningful social relationships. The term intimacy originated from a latin word intimus which means inner or becoming close to another person. However, the key to the achievement of this intimacy is the establishment of an identity of who one is during the adolescence period. Intimacy is a mutual process through which an individual knows the innermost subjective aspects of another person. The words of British poet Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) have an eternal erotic resonance:

“Youth means love,
Vows can’t change nature, priests are only men.”

“Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
- U.S. poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)


Happy is you who is an eager student and a young adult,
Yearning to learn about the nature of human relationships,
And hopeful to glean some scientific insight, into how to improve your own.
Blessed is you who enjoys learning most,
Given the current climate, of casual relationships which can go ill-defined.
The most nourishing, enduring intimate robust relationships decisively differ,
In contrast to casual raw relationships, in seven GLAMOROUSLY GENUINE ways:
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Gainful knowledge is the overriding factor. When forming deep, intimate relationships, we share a vast amount of personal information that we would not necessarily feel comfortable sharing with others. Of course,--->

the amount of information may differ from one person to the next; research shows that women, on average, tend to share more intimate information with their friends as well as partners, in comparison to men, who generally reserve more intimate topics for their partners. Nonetheless, with our intimate partners in healthy relationships, we feel safe sharing our deepest dreams, desires, fears, past histories, traumas, and goals for the future. Generally, this is a reciprocal and gradual process.

Effectively, intimate relationships also tend to be highly interdependent, wherein each partner influences the other meaningfully, frequently, and vastly, in terms of topic and importance. They tread this path informed--->

as they are by the words of French novelist and politician Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803): “Who would not shudder to think of the misery that may be caused by a single dangerous intimacy? And how much suffering could be avoided if it were more often thought of!”

Nurturing care is another hallmark of healthy intimate relationships. There is a considerable amount of care each partner places in the other, and this differs from the care that one would typically display to another,--->

non-intimate person. Intimate partners thus show concern for each other’s well-being, comfort in times of distress, and safekeeping the other from harm. While the display of care can differ from one person to the next (as a function of communication style or differing displays of affection, for instance), intimate partners tend to display genuine, selfless care for each other.

Unconditional trust is what holds the other six components of intimacy together. Trust is a difficult concept to discuss because of its complexity, but we certainly feel it even without fully being able to define it.--->

Trust is the confidence that we place in another human being to act in a way of honour and fairness that is of benefit to us, or at the very least, that our partner will not cause us purposeful harm. Remember the words of French ecclesiastic and churchman Cardinal de Retz (1613 - 1679): “The most distrustful are often the greatest dupes.”

Indeed, healthy intimate relationships involve partners who are mutually responsive to each other's needs. This means recognising, understanding, and supporting each other, both in times of pain and gain. When each--->

partner feels like the other meets his or her needs, this culminates in feeling appreciated and loved. “A gloomy, hare-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar; but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delirious and dismal as himself,” so illumined Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711 - 1776).

Now, after a certain point within a healthy intimate relationship, each partner recognises a close connection and changes his or her view from “me” to “we.” This is mutuality. For instance, wherein at the beginning--->

of a relationship, a partner may say, “Muriuki and I are going to out of town this weekend,” when the relationship deepens, both partners change their view of themselves, as well as their lexicon: “We are going out of town this weekend.”

Eventually, commitment is vital. Within healthy intimate relationships, there is a mutual volition for wanting the relationship to continue indefinitely, which further allows the other six components of intimacy to grow.--->

With the idea that the relationship is to continue for an indeterminate amount of time, it allows for trust to continue to deepen, common knowledge to further be shared, mutuality to envelop, care to be shown, and continual effort be put into responsiveness and interdependence for both partners.

While physical appearance may be the most important factor, in selecting new acquaintances, its influences declines later, as individuals seek to establish a marriage relationship. It is important to factor in gender difference in the selection of a romantic partner. A statement of intent is made here that, while physical attractiveness is highly appreciated by men, women place greater emphasis on social and personality characteristics such as faithfulness, warmth and honesty. All these considerations form the basis of courtship.

Courtship is a turning point in one’s developmental process and begins with a casual encounter of Dating between two individuals and progresses into a more serious relationship. Will Durant termed courtship days, as “the fairest part of human destiny”, and cautioned:

“Not that courtship waited till maturity; half the games our childhood played were love games; and even a girl of five can flirt with skill. Courtship serves vital purposes; it stimulates love to greater fullness, and gives time for that selection of the best which slowly raises the quality of LIFE”.--->

Courtship may lead to engagement, also known as betrothal – the formal agreement to marry, and one that ushers in serious planning for the wedding and the LIFE ahead. Whereas there may be negative reasons for marriage like sex, economic support, escape from loneliness and escape from parental home, a lasting marriage is anchored on positive reasons like commitment, companionship, intimacy, love, happiness and procreation.

Consequently in this age which is haunted by divorces, the adhesive force that keeps couples together has the ingredients like an ability to change and adapt, enjoyment of each other, and trust for one another. Other vital imperatives are an ability to live with the unchangeable, an assumption of permanence, a balance of dependencies. You should also not forget a shared and cherished history, as well as a degree of luck in choosing a worthwhile partner.




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The 4th Enduring Excerpt

In the summer of 1845, American writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) left his family to live a solitary and simple existence in a one-room dwelling he had constructed on the banks of Walden Pond not far from his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. During his two-year stay, Thoreau practiced simple living, providing himself with all the basic necessities of food and clothing, in order to concentrate his efforts on thinking and writing. He received few visitors, spending most of his days in contemplation and observation of nature and working on his essays. In the book Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), Thoreau gives out his insights.
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...It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned any thing of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me any thing, to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about...”















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  1. Without any pleading or justification, it is the humble hope of BEYONDISM, that you have been (or you will be) conceptually cleansed, perceptually purified and existentially enabled, to authentically acquire the gainful gusto to LOCATE your BEARING. Your PSYCHIC PRECISION having been therapeutically tempered to ACTUALIZE your POTENTIAL, you are (or will be) therefore, explicitly empowered to implicitly indulge in soulfully spreading the gallant gospel of an African RENAISSANCE.
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  4. Fundamentally, the MODEL is precisely for SELF-REALIZATION, SELF-ACTUALIZATION, as well as SELF-SUFFICIENCY purposes only. Consequently, it is not intended to be a substitute for dueling with the hustles and bustles of real LIFE, or the traditional face to face counselling with a trained (and certified) counsellor or a psychotherapist. (c) 2025 by GILBERT KINYUA MWANIKI, an engineer, a scientist, a programmer and a psychologist. All rights reserved. Due credit is hereby accorded to the most able editor of this work, Anthony Mutugi Gichuki (a loftily loyal comrade-in-arms against DECADENCE).
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  6. Read and re-read this work, and for any comment, correction, compliment, criticism or complain, Whatsapp: +25420314852 or Email: mwanikikinyua@gmail.com. You may also go to BEYONDISM FEEDBACK form and/or 2A/3P FEEDBACK form. Follow me on X: @guruG, or find me in my FACEBOOK page: kinyua mwaniki. An African subject I was born, and an African subject I hope to die. AFRICA, with all thy faults, I love thee still, my continent. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?
  7. Eventually, BEYONDISM has spoken; the case of MEANINGLESSNESS, PURPOSELESSNESS and VALUELESSNESS is (or shall soon be) concluded once and for all. I think I have (or will), by God’s inerrant inspirition, diligently discharged my ontological obligation in duly developing this laudably large and WONDERFUL WEBSITE - which is deftly determined, to be candidly crowned in the Africans’ PSYCHE, as a magnum opus (Latin “Great Work”). Let those who think I have said too little, or too much, forgive me; and those who think I have said just enough join me in giving thanks to God. AMEN! In the meantime, until our EARTHLY Kingdom transpires (through our efforts and innovation) into a HEAVENLY Kingdom, continue to:
    1. Grow strong...........................so as to...........................Meaningfully live.
    2. Immerse passionately.............in order to......................Work productively.
    3. Learn diligently.......................with an aim of...............Arousing creativity.
    4. Belief cautiously.....................with a view of................Nurturing inquiry.
    5. Esteem boldly.........................for the purposes of.........Indicting futility.
    6. Romance deeply......................towards..........................Keen loving.
    7. Think broadly........................as a function of................Iindividual orientation.