![]() May you merrily make the 7th MEANINGFUL MOVE! The central dynamic in the ‘Activation of SELFHOOD’ has its tap roots on the ideal of a future-oriented striving toward a goal of significance, superiority or success. This is precisely borne out of our inner awareness of weaknesses which ought to be cured, and strengths which ought to be consolidated. Mistakes are the fee we pay for living a full LIFE. You have within yourself a pressure toward unity of personality, spontaneous expressiveness, full individuality, seeing the truth rather than being blind, being creative, and a lot else. You are so constructed that you presses toward positive values, serenity, kindness, courage, honesty, love, unselfishness, and goodness. You have an unconscious, innate, natural capacity and drive to become the best possible person you CAN BE. Not only does your organism know what it needs to eat to maintain itself healthy, but also it knows intuitively what it needs to become the best possible, mentally healthy and happy “being”. We stress the importance of moral and ethical behaviour that will lead you naturally to discovering, becoming yourself. Here are SEVEN ways on how an ‘Active SELFHOOD’ UNCONDITIONALLY UNFOLDS:The central dynamic in the ‘Activation of SELFHOOD’ has its tap roots on the ideal of a future-oriented striving toward a goal of significance, superiority or success. This is precisely borne out of our inner awareness of weaknesses which ought to be cured, and strengths which ought to be consolidated. Mistakes are the fee we pay for living a full LIFE. You have within yourself a pressure toward unity of personality, spontaneous expressiveness, full individuality, seeing the truth rather than being blind, being creative, and a lot else. You are so constructed that you presses toward positive values, serenity, kindness, courage, honesty, love, unselfishness, and goodness. You have an unconscious, innate, natural capacity and drive to become the best possible person you CAN BE. Not only does your organism know what it needs to eat to maintain itself healthy, but also it knows intuitively what it needs to become the best possible, mentally healthy and happy “being”. We stress the importance of moral and ethical behaviour that will lead you naturally to discovering, becoming yourself. Here are SEVEN ways on how an ‘Active SELFHOOD’ UNCONDITIONALLY UNFOLDS:Under favourable social conditions, ‘Active SELFHOOD’ entails setting ourselves on the voyage towards our individuality, our being, our essence, our GODLINESS; to what Friendriche Nietzsche referred to as ‘down below…the unteachable in us’. No one should take a central role in your LIFE other than yourself. As such, ‘Active SELFHOOD’ implies being guided by the notion that, anything that is of importance comes from within us, thereby invoking in us the thirst to turn at the immense reserviour of energy within ourselves and finding what really ticks in each one of us. Finiteness is what characterises our mortality. No human being can escape death. Consequently, what informs our ‘Active SELFHOOD’ is our ability to play the ‘Game of LIFE’ according to whatever curves LIFE throws at us. One of the greatest deterrent to our HAPPINESS, and general well-being is defeatism. In this regard, ‘Active SELFHOOD’ is the power, determination and the road ability to engage reality for whatever we find it to be. Leaning on others for help or assurance for our convictions, waters down all our ASSERTIVENESS. From this standpoint, ‘Active SELFHOOD’ implies the potential to deal with reality without falling back to infantile defense mechanisms. Digging deep into the wells of our POTENTIALS, should not be negotiated. At the bottom of ‘Active SELFHOOD’ is to hold still upon the swing of things and to eventually look at the world situation in the face without caving in or being overwhelmed. Striving without toiling unnecessarily, is to be a BLESSED BEYONDIST. Towards this end, the absolute affirmation of ‘Active SELFHOOD’, is enduring tolerance, the ability to refuse to be put off by stress, frustrations, or disappointments. Tantamount to sowing of a seed, watering it, propagating it and shielding it from pests, towards its optimal fruition and ultimately harvesting it, when appropriate attention is paid to those vulgar circumstance which largely influence human character, it therefore goes that, if you correct all those tattered social schemas and dysfunctional stereotypes, you should rest APPARENTLY ASSURED that:
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May you reveretially receive the 7th LUMINOUS LIGHTNING!
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[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! May you celestially celebrate the 7th BEYONDIST BOMBSHELL!
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THOU SHALL EXPAND THY MIND TO ITS UTMOST HORIZON--->THOU SHALL EXPAND THY MIND TO ITS UTMOST HORIZONWill-to-Selfhood Selfhood Code Sun Awakening Will-to-Strength Strength Code Mercury Success Will-to-Love Loving Code Venus Intimacy Will-to-Live Living Code Earth Progress Will-to-Health Health Code Mars Conquest Will-to-Lead Leading Code Jupiter Greatness Will-to-Relate Relating Code Saturn Goodwill Will-to-Parent Parenting Code Uranus Nurturing Will-to-Become Becoming Code Neptune Growth |
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iv. “If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp”. The 7th AFRICAN AFFIRMATION: |
iv. “And who despairs of the mercy of GOD except those who have gone astray”. The 7th SCRIPTURAL STANDING: i. “Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation”. - BIBLE, Psalms 25:4 ii. “My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my soul! Awake O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!” - BIBLE, Psalms 57:7 iii. “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your lips”. - BIBLE, Proverbs 27: 2---> |
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May you felicitously face the 7th phase of DILIGENT DIMENSIONS |
In our fortunate age, the big questions, “Where am I?”, “What am I?”, and “Why am I?” tend to be set aside in the busy period of practical responsibilities between the brief fresh freedom of adolescence and the equally brief serenity of stocktaking in age. In the first place, the averagely intelligent majority find their early sensible and serious concern soon blunted and stultified by failure to get comprehensible answers. Later, distracted by the drain of economic needs, professional ambition, and family cares, they are compelled to settle for ready-made, approximate solutions. It is surely a sane solution to adjust to the approximate answer and the traditional authority — except for those whose vocation it is —as philosophers, priests, and scientists —to pursue the questions over all their lives. |
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i. Nakedness is never a promise of clothes.ii. Come into terms with all aspects of your LIFE.iii. Avoid all sorts of hide and seek games with yourself.iv. Arrive at an honest assessment of yourself.v. Seek to have an undistorted view of yourself.vi. Travel the long road, towards maturity of purpose.vii. In fear you will not achieve anything distinguishable.Truly, this is your 7th Mortal Mission, as a function of your Divine Duty. |
May you intimately immerse in the 7th THERAPEUTIC TRANSCENDENCE |
Why is BEYONDISM effortlessly ECLECTIC, without being effetely ENIGMATIC? Here is the 7th DIVINE DOSE to keenly keep your PSYCHE bounteously BOOSTED: BEYONDISM is ECLECTIC, YES—but never awfully aimless, and never LOST in VAGUE abstraction. |
| Our 7th Therapeutic Transcendence rolls out as spiced by Three Philosophers and Three Psychologists. |
| See below how the ideas of these icons fuse in, in laying down a new African dispensation. (To conveniently rotate the 3D Cube below, mouseClick left inside, hold, drag abit and then release. Consequently, move the mouse in your desired XYZ direction; to stop double-click left again.) |
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The 7th ONE Word (hover below) which Breeds SEVEN Words to Depict Who a BLESSED BEYONDIST Is:---> The 7th of SEVEN reasons why you should be PROUD to be an AFRICAN:
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BEYONDIST Text to Speech ConverterHail Assertive African, click here to listen to what you have affirmatively ascribed unto thyself You are participating in creating your REALITY whether you know it or not. There is nothing magical or woo-woo about it. It is simply the way our brains operate. When you deny, reject, or are unaware of this, then you have very little power and will feel like the victim of fate, or circumstances. But with awareness comes choice. When you start to understand the process and make it work for you, now you are empowered to be in charge of the LIFE you create. 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’. ---> |
Born on January 8, 1967, American Robert Sylvester Kelly,I Believe I Can Fly - R. KELLY This King of R&B is better known by stage name R. Kelly. From 1990 he has been singer-songwriter and a producer. This 1993 song ‘I Believe I can fly’, is a call to dream big. If I can see it, I can do it; if I just believe it,...nothing to it. I believe I can touch the sky; I think about it every moment, Spread my wings and fly away; I believe I can fly and soar. I used to think that I could not go on |
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Soon, BEYONDISM will get firmly rooted in the African PSYCHE. Before then, at this historical moment when the African PSYCHE lies foully prostrate upon earth, crushed under the weight of DACADENCE, BEYONDISM ventures first to lift its mortal eyes to its face and second to withstand it to its filth. Under the inerrant influence of BEYONDISM the age of GREAT FLOWERING is dawning in Africa. All the MEANINGLESSNESS is to be rudely torn off, and pave way to the new conquering empire of LIGHT and REASON. Upon your REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT being stirred, your mind will grow in the direction of esteeming excellence.Soon, BEYONDISM will get firmly rooted in the African PSYCHE. Before then, at this historical moment when the African PSYCHE lies foully prostrate upon earth, crushed under the weight of DACADENCE, BEYONDISM ventures first to lift its mortal eyes to its face and second to withstand it to its filth. Under the inerrant influence of BEYONDISM the age of GREAT FLOWERING is dawning in Africa. All the MEANINGLESSNESS is to be rudely torn off, and pave way to the new conquering empire of LIGHT and REASON. Upon your REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT being stirred, your mind will grow in the direction of esteeming excellence. |
The To UNRAVEL, PROVOKE and NURTURE your ORGANIC, NATURAL and ORDERLY PATTERN |
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#1. UNLEARNING OUR PERCEPTIONS and conceptions about an unchangeable Human Nature and an omnipotent environment, is the most persuasive assignment of our generation. There is no knowable limit to change or growth; and perhaps there is nothing impossible but what our ingrained prejudices and our learned biases make it so. Think of it this way: we like to scoff at the superstitious and irrational ideas that most people held in the seventeenth century. Imagine how those of the twenty-fifth century will scoff at ours. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U NDERSTAND that, our current knowledge of the world is limited, despite the advances of science.NOTHING conditions your ideas more than the prejudices and biases instilled in you by your parents. RIGIDITY of our mind is further increased by our culture, as well as the historical period we live in. A bit of humility about what we know will makes us curious and interested in a wider range of ideas. VIEW the ideas and opinions you hold, as tentative toys or building blocks that you are playing with. ESTEEM and keep some, others you will knock down, but your spirit remains flexible and PLAYFUL. LET your mind loose to be forever and valiantly voyaging in the SEA of innovation and CREATIVITY. #2. NOT PERFECTION AS A FINAL GOAL, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining, is the aim of living. The bad person is the one who, no matter how good he or she has been, is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good person is the one who, no matter how morally unworthy he or she has been, is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging him or herself and humane in judging others. The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U SUALLY, you do find it frustrating when people resist your progressive ideas out of sheer stubbornness.NO wonder, you are largely unaware of how your core stubbornness afflicts you and limits your creativity. REMARKABLE flexibility and learning at a rate that far surpasses normal capacities, is your latent power. ASPIRE from NOW to be highly motivated to learn, be genuinely curious and hungry for new information. VERILY, our creeping sense of superiority is lethal; slowly closes us off to new ideas and vital influences. ENLARGEMENT of the mind entails radical adaptability, and a sense of time alloyed to critical reasoning. LIKE a sponge, allow your mind to open up and absorb new ideas; keep softening up your mental muscle. #3. REALLY, A YOUTH IS AN UNRULY and irregular soul, caught up too frequently in a cloud of myth, and letting fleeting pleasures too richly veil the face of TRUTH. “Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things, and has put under his feet all fears, and inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed,” so noted Roman poet Virgil (70 - 19 BC). BEYONDISM preaches a return to things, to what Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle (384 - 322 BC), referred to as the “unwithered fact of nature” and reality. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U NDER all circumstances, our troubles are due to dogmas; we thus find no TRUTH about ourselves.NEGATIVELY, we take some venerable but questionable proposition as an indubitable starting-point. REFUSING to put this assumption itself to the test of observation or experiment, is lethal and stunting. AFFIRM a lusty pragmatic preference for the concrete particular, for the flesh and blood individual. VEER on the side of your Human Nature instead of traditions and authorities, and you will be OKAY. ENDLESSLY put your Human Nature on the rack and compel her to bear witness even against herself. LOVE of REALITY and TRUTH will enable you to direct your Human Nature to your ennobling ends. #4. APPARENTLY, YOUTH IS THE AGE OF EXTREMES: if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration. The great difficulty of youth is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite. For one extreme easily passes into the other, whether through “over-correction” or elsewise: insincerity doth protest too much, and humility hovers on the precipice of conceit. The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U NDER stress or any threat, you may lash out in anger, reveal a paranoid STREAK, and become PETTY.NOTABLE stress or tension can reveal flaws in most people that they have carefully concealed from view. RISING pressure and stress levels in your LIFE - whenever you notice them - must be watched carefully. ANY sign of unusual brittleness or sensitivity, sudden suspicions, and extreme fears should be monitored. VALUE observing with as much detachment as possible. For perspective, find time and space to be alone. EMOTIONAL leakage is what you will experience under high degrees of stress. Never imagine otherwise. LAUDABLE self-awareness and reflection will prevent you from making decisions you will come to regret. #5. VERILY, THE SECRET OF PEACE is not to make our achievements equal to our impulses, but to lower our impulses to the level of our achievements. “If what you have seems insufficient to you,” said the Roman Stoic, Seneca (d. 65 A. D.), “then, though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” The only way to dictate the future, and play royal highness to the universe is: Seek not to have things happen as you choose them, but rather choose that they should happen as they do; and you shall live prosperously. The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U NTIL you appreciate that there is so much in LIFE you cannot control, will you embrace all adversities.NOW and then you will experience illness and physical pain. You will go through separations with people. REALLY, you will face failures from your own mistakes and the nasty malevolence of your fellow humans. AND your task is to accept these moments, for the opportunities to sharpen and strengthen your PSYCHE. VEERING on the side of TRUTH, you affirm LIFE itself, accepting all of its possibilities and crude realities. EVERYTHING happens for a reason, and it is up to you to glean the lesson – always see events as fateful. LOVE that which happens of necessity – do not merely endure it. Just want nothing to be other than IT IS. #6. EFFECTIVELLY, A BLESSED BEYONDIST deserve to be called the true Extender of the Kingdom of Man over the universe, the Champion of Human Liberty, and the Exterminator of the Necessities that now keep men and women in bondage. It is true that, if the affections or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it. But generally the precept of the Pythagoreans is good, “Optimum lege, suave et facile illud faciet constietudo,” (Greek, choose the best, custom will make it pleasant and easy.) For custom is the principal magistrate of person’s LIFE. The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U NBURDEN yourself of all yokes; simply realise that your LIFE is not that bad and that the sun is shining.NOtabunravLY focus on the roots of any problem, and the possible unintended consequences that might ensue. REACTING instead of thinking is not good; in most cases our actions are based on insufficient information. ALARMED by the present problem, NEVER grab for a solution without thinking deeply about the context. VISUALISING possible negative consequences, often spells the difference between success and disaster. ENDEAVOUR to go to several degrees in clearly imagining the permutations, as far as your MIND can go. LEVERAGING yourself through this process will convince you of the wisdom of doing nothing, of waiting. #7. LUCIDLY IN THE ESSAY, Of Youth and Age, Francis Bacon puts a book into a paragraph: “Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business; for the experience of age in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things abuseth them. . . . Young men, in the conduct and management of actions, embrace more than they can hold, stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue absurdly some few principles which they have chanced upon. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compel employments of both, . . . because the virtues of either may correct the defects of both.” The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your desire to UNIQUELY UNRAVEL your abilities: U TILITY, celebration, courage, and creativity are qualities often suppressed by adherence to static beliefs.NO wonder then, through actualisation of your potential, you will experience an exceptional zest for LIFE. REALLY, the net effect of individuals cultivating their potential is all about positive social change at large. AFFIRM yourself as a “whole person” greater than the sum of your parts and immerse in self-exploration. VIEW yourself as one who seizes the crucial opportunity to orient our troubled culture to its healthy path. ESTEEM in pushing yourself BEYOND your mind, and you will revel in the dance of Cosmic Consciousness. LIBERATED in this spiritual way, everything unfolds as sacred, as an end in itself with an absolute worth. |
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#8. PRUDENTLY SPEAKING, to be good does not merely mean to be obedient and harmless. Goodness without ability is lame. All the virtue in the world will not save us if we lack intelligence. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#9. READILY, A HUMAN BEING EXISTS by instinct, but he or she progresses by intelligence. Instinct comes ready-made, and gives decisive and usually successful responses to stereotyped and ancestral situations. The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#10. ONLY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE GOOD by reason i. e. those who, under the guidance of reason, seek what is useful to them. They desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of mankind. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#11. VALUE YOUR FRIEND as if he or she was to become your enemy, and LOVE your enemy as if he or she was to become your friend. Do not betray even to your friend too much of your real purposes and thoughts; in conversation, ask questions oftener than you express opinions; and when you speak, offer data and information rather than beliefs and judgments. The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#12. ORDER TENDS TO BE AGAINST the grain of our minds. We prefer to follow the straggling lines of filthy fantasy. We often gravitate towards wantonly weaving our philosophy, precariously out of our innocous illusions and decadent dreams. The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#13. KEEP THE WELLS OF YOUR HEART always filled to the brim. The EROTIC (LOVE) impulse is to be regarded as the inner LIFE of the tree (the species) upon which the LIFE of the individual grows. It is like a leaf that is nourished by the tree and assists in nourishing the tree. This is why that impulse is so strong, and springs from the depths of our nature. A proud bachelor, the most distinguished French astronomer and mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749 - 1827), is reported to have said on his deathbed that science was mere trifling, and that nothing was real but LOVE. “Man follows only phantoms,” were his last words. The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
#14. ENDEAVOURING TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES, is the first and only basis of virtue. For we are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of vital issue of our LIFE and our fate. The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zeal to POSITIVELY PROVOKE your ideals:
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#15. NEEDLESS TO SAY, what one human being can be to another is not a very great deal. In the end everyone stands alone; and the important thing is, WHO it is that stands alone. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#16. UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, a persistently creative LIFE, of which every individual and every species is an experiment, entails overcoming one’s inertia painfully, step by step. It means groping gradually towards knowledge and consciousness and “more light”. The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#17. REAL STUDIES CANNOT BE EITHER end or wisdom in themselves, and knowledge unapplied in action is a pale academic vanity. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. Crafty people condemn studies, simple people admire them, and wise people use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#18. TRULY, OF THEORY AND OF PRACTICE, one without the other is useless and perilous; knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. We strive to learn the forms of things not for the sake of the forms but because by knowing the forms, the laws, we may remake things in the image of our desire. So we study mathematics in order to reckon quantities and build bridges; we study psychology in order to find our way in the jungle of society. The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#19. UNINHIBITED, BEYONDISM DIRECTS us first to seek the goods of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied, or not much wanted. A bit of wisdom is a joy forever. When extended to leadership, BEYONDISM is a movement guided by total knowledge and perspective, as against aimless and individual seeking. Just as the pursuit of knowledge becomes scholasticism when divorced from the actual needs of people and LIFE, so the pursuit of leadership becomes a destructive bedlam when divorced from BEYONDISM. The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#20. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT, in every country of the developed world, where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the means for luxury and leisure, culture has followed as naturally as vegetation grows in a rich and watered soil. To have become wealthy was the first necessity. Remember the French maxim, Primum vivere, deinde philosophari - First one must live, then one may philosophise. The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
#21. EMANICIPATION OF OUR SOCIETY, will only rise on the wheels of individual, as well as collective effort. As time moves on, the perennial disorders of our African soul, will be over. As a continent, we are like youths disturbed and unbalanced, for a time, by the sudden growth and experiences of puberty. But soon our maturity will come; our minds will catch up with our bodies, our culture with our possessions. Perhaps, there are greater souls than Shakespeare’s, and greater minds than Plato’s, waiting to be born. When we have learned to reverence liberty as well as wealth, we too shall have our African Renaissance. The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your strive to NEEDFULLY NURTURE yourself:
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#22. ONLY CREATIVE THOUGHT can give itself with all its strength to the illumination of human purposes and the coordination and elevation of human LIFE. Thought is an instrument of re-adaptation. It is an organ as much as limbs and teeth. To be creative means to be in love with LIFE. You can be creative only if you love LIFE enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#23. REASONABLE STRIFE OF EACH against all is one of the shocking nature’s method of developing the hidden capacities of LIFE. Struggle is the indispensable accompaniment of progress. If humans were entirely social, they would stagnate. A certain alloy of individualism and competition is required to make the human species survive and grow. Without qualities of an unsocial kind human beings might have led an Arcadian shepherd LIFE in complete harmony, contentment, and mutual love; but in that case all their talents would have forever remained hidden in their germ. Grumbling will neither ease your burden nor clear your shortcomings. Honesty and ambitious contentment is key. And knowing what you CANNOT do is more important than knowing what you CAN do. In fact, that is good taste. “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit,” thus taught Roman politician and writer Pliny the Younger (62 - 113). Our desires tend to propel us to seek the contrary, as U.S. writer and humourist Mark Twain (1835 - 1910): “Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.” The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#24. GOD-INTOXICATED SPINOZA LAID DOWN a simple rule of conduct: To speak in a manner comprehensible to the people, and to do for them all things that do not prevent us from attaining our ends. He informs us: “He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavours to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully. Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul.” The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#25. A PERFECTLY SOUND CONCEPTION of Human Nature is: Every IDEAL has a NATURAL basis, and everything NATURAL has an IDEAL development. “Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment,” so taught Spanish-born U.S. philosopher, poet, and novelist George Santayana (1863 - 1952). Aristotle frankly recognised that the aim of LIFE “is not goodness for its own sake, but happiness.” The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#26. NOWADAYS, TO PRODUCE GREAT WORKS, one must have knowledge. “Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed,” said Francis Bacon. Let us learn the laws of nature, and we shall be her masters, as we are now, in ignorance, her thralls; science is the road to prosperity. “Men are not animals erect,” continued Bacon, “but immortal gods.” “The Creator has given us souls equal to all the world, and yet satiable not even with a world.” The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#27. INSTINCTS ARE MAGNIFICENT as a driving force, but dangerous as guides. For by what we may call the individualism of the instincts, each of them seeks its own fulfillment, regardless of the good of the whole personality. What havoc has come to people, for example, from uncontrolled greed, pugnacity, or lust, till such individuals have become but the appendages of the instinct that has mastered them. Le matin je fttis des projets, et le soir je fats des sottises - (French, “In the morning I make good resolutions; in the evening I commit follies.”) Never again will you slip in this trench of decadence. Procrastination, evil in itself and appalling in its consequences, is one of the dangerous derailments to Locating your BEARING. “I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again,” so preached French-born U.S. cleric Stephen Grellet (1773 - 1855). And as English playwright and poet William Congreve (1670 - 1729) believed: “Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
#28. CLEARLY IN THE NOVEL COMPLEXITIES and artificialities of urban LIFE, REASON is the better guide; but in the great crises of LIFE, and in the great problems of conduct and belief, we trust our FEELINGS rather than to our diagrams. If REASON is against RELIGION, so much the worse for REASON! Face up to your LIFE situation resolutely, as Chinese writer Liu Binyan (1925 - ) recognised: “Smashing a mirror is no way to make any ugly person beautiful, nor is it a way to make social problems evaporate.” “The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch,” so said U.S. business executive Michael Armstrong. Listen to English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) in Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d, The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your need to be OBLIGATORILY ORGANIC:
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#29. NEVER BE TOO ARROGANT, or fantasise that being in a high position is pure bliss. Men and women in great place are thrice servants; servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of busy-ness. In most cases, they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their action, nor in their time. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#30. AN AFRICAN RENAISSANCE WILL AROUSE the African continent from its “dogmatic slumber,” upon rising to the solid power on the romantic wave. It will bask in the exhilarating iconoclasm of a bright future, before ruling the speculative roost of Africa. But these will be secondary and surface developments; underneath them the strong and steady current of the BEYONDISM movement flows on, always wider and deeper; until when its essential theorems will be the axioms of all mature intellectual discourse. The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#31. THE ITALIANS HAVE AN UNGRACIOUS PROVERB, Tanto buon che val niente, so good that he is good for nothing. You should accord your preaching with your practice, and seek a judicious mixture of dissimulation with honesty, like an alloy that will make the purer but softer metal capable of longer LIFE. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest,” so taught Confucius. The very basic core of a human being’s living spirit is the passion for adventure. The joy of LIFE comes from our encounters with new experiences. Once you become accustomed to such a LIFE you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#32. UNLIMITED IN YOUR IDEALS, you should strive to possess a passion for research, a power of suspending judgment with patience, of meditating with pleasure, of assenting with caution, of correcting false impressions with readiness, and of arranging your thoughts with scrupulous pains. You should have no hankering after novelty, no blind admiration for antiquity. Imposture in every shape you should utterly detest. For all these reasons you should consider that your nature and disposition has a kind of kinship and connection with TRUTH. The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#33. READILY, BE AWARE OF ESCAPING from the stings of reality into a hothouse world of illusions, where the victories denied you in LIFE and LOVE could be had for the imagining. The inherent danger here is that you will develop an obtuse sense of decency and honour; and through it all an unsullied conviction of your moral superiority. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#34. AWARENESS, COUPLED WITH FREE WILL is a corollary of consciousness. To say that we are free is merely to mean that we know what we are doing. Choice is burdensome and effortful, it requires resolution, a lifting up of the power of personality against the spiritual gravitation of impulse or habit or sloth. Choice is creation, and creation is labour. Hence the worried features of humans; and their weary envy of the choiceless routine of animals, who are so placid and self-contained. The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
#35. LIFE ASKS, WHAT IS IT that brings the bite of remorse, and the new resolution? It is the categorical imperative in us, the unconditional command of our conscience, to act, according to Immanuel Kant “as if the maxim of our action were to become by our will a universal law of nature.” We know, not by reasoning, but by vivid and immediate feelings, that we must avoid behaviour which, if adopted by all people, would render social LIFE impossible. Do I wish to escape from a predicament by a lie? But while I can will the lie, I can by no means will that lying should be a universal law. For with such a law there would be no promises at all. Hence the sense in me, that I must not lie, even if it be to my advantage. Prudence is hypothetical; its motto is, Honesty when it is the best policy; but the moral law in our hearts is unconditional and absolute. The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your yearning to be NATIVELY NATURAL:
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#36. ONLY A SENSE OF DUTY will make you live a fulfilled LIFE. An action is good not because it has good results, or because it is wise, but because it is done in obedience to this inner sense of duty, this moral law that does not come from our personal experience, but legislates imperiously and a priori for all our behaviour, past, present, and future. The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a GOOD WILL, the will to follow the MORAL LAW, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves. Never mind your happiness; do your duty. “Morality is not properly the doctrine how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness,” so illumined Immanuel Kant. The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#37. REVEL IN LIFE AS A POSITIVE POWER, an effort that builds its organs through the very persistence of its desires. We need to emphasis the elusive contingency of things, and the remoulding activity of mind. We should never think of the world as a finished and pre-determined show, in which our initiative is a self-delusion, and our efforts a devilish humour of the Angels. We should see the world as the stage and the material of our own originative powers. We are not cogs and wheels in a vast and dead machine. Now, if we wish it, we can help to write our own parts in the drama of Creation. The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#38. DESIST FROM SUCCUMBING to any sort of slavery. As a “free person” keep your courage up even though you know that in the end you too must die, that all things must die. Nevertheless, you will not surrender; if you cannot win, you can at least enjoy the fight; and by the knowledge that foresees your own defeat, you stand superior to the blind forces that may destroy you. Your worship will go not to those brute powers without, that by their aimless persistence tends to conquer you, and tend to tear down every home and every civilisation that you build; but to those creative powers within you, that struggles on in the face of failure. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#39. EXISTING IN ALL HUMAN BEINGS is the fear of lack of EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. Because no one in ISOLATION is strong enough to defend him or herself and procure the necessaries of LIFE, it follows that people by nature tend towards entertainment. Rire et faire rire - to laugh and to make laugh - was Voltaire’s motto. “If Nature had not made us a little frivolous,” he said, “we should be most wretched. It is because one can be frivolous that the majority do not hang themselves…Dulce est desipere in loco (It is sweet to be foolish on occasion)... Woe to philosophers who cannot laugh away their wrinkles. I look upon solemnity as a disease.” The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#40. ROUSING GRANDEUR OF AN AWAKENED AFRICA, will be the pomp of power coupled to the light of thought. Virtue, or rather excellence, will depend on clear judgment, self-control, symmetry of desire, and artistry of means. It is neither the possession of the simple person, nor the gift of innocent intent, but the achievement of experience in the fully developed human. Yet there is a road to it, a guide to excellence, which may save many detours and delays. The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#41. LEARN TO UTILISE THE TIME you have to combat time; and when you will rest in your deathbed you will be a CONQUEROR. Learning leads to work. Work keeps one virtuous, whereas every learned man who fails to acquire a trade will at last turn out a rogue. Truly, you do not wish to be useless to society and a burden to your relatives, and to die of hunger. Listen to Voltaire: “Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing…All people are good except those who are idle…One must give one’s self all the occupation one can to make life supportable in this world...The further I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes in the long run the greatest of pleasures, and takes the place of the illusions of LIFE…If you do not want to commit suicide always have something to do.” The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
#42. YOUR REASONING WILL BE USEFUL, only if it is about things, and must keep in touch with them at every step. Abstractions have their use as summaries; but as implements of argument they require the running test and commentary of experience. Freedom is the supreme good; for without it personality is impossible. LIFE and knowledge are today so complex, that only by free discussion can we pick our way through errors and prejudices to that total perspective which is TRUTH. Let individuals, let even teachers, differ and debate; out of such diverse opinions will come an intelligent relativity of belief which will not readily fly to arms; hatred and war come largely of fixed ideas or dogmatic faith. In matters of grave importance, style and sincerity, are two vital things. “Can you call order that fictitious peace which you obtain by cutting with the sword all that you are too stupid to organize with your limited intelligence?” so asked Spanish politician and author Francisco Pi y Margall (1824 - 1901). The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your zest to be OPULENTLY ORDERLY:
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#43. PRECISELY, ALL REALITY IS ONE IN SUBSTANCE, one in cause, one in origin; and God and this reality are one. Mind and matter are one; every particle of reality is composed inseparably of the physical and the psychical. The object of BEYONDISM, therefore, is to perceive unity in diversity, mind in matter, and matter in mind; to find the synthesis in which opposites and contradictions meet and merge; to rise to that highest knowledge of universal unity which is the intellectual equivalent of the love of God. The ultimate good is beauty, and that the ultimate joy lies in the creation or cherishing of the beautiful. “We too often forget,” says British social philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) at the outset, “that not only is there a soul of goodness in things evil, but generally also a soul of truth in things erroneous.” The 1st batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#44. APPARENTLY, IT IS BETTER TO ERR on the side of hope than in favour of despair. Open-mindedness, and willingness to face the facts as they are, instead of trying to distort them into a particular pattern are the essence of civilization. The world comes to us dripping with the qualities of the senses through which it has flowed, and the past comes down to us through a memory treacherously coloured with desire. Only one thing seems certain to a human being, and that is the experience of the moment; this colour, this form, this taste, this odour, this quality. These are the “real” world, and their perception constitutes “the discovery of essence.” The 2nd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#45. THE ONLY REALITY IS THE INFINITE ONE “That art thou.” Whoever is able to say this to him or herself, with regard to every being with whom he or she comes in contact, whoever is clear-eyed and clear-souled enough to see that we are all members of one organism, all of us little currents in an ocean of CREATION, he or she is certain of all virtue and blessedness, and is on the direct road to salvation. Be on the lookout for those who begun by desiring too much, by staking all on one passion, and then, having lost, spends the remainder of their LIFE in a passionless and petulant boredom. If perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have “battered,” “botched” and “bungled” our lives, and we cast the blame upon the “environment,” or the “world,” which have no tongues to utter a defense. Most people hide behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened, or how inept they are. Religion is an art that shows how to enjoy LIFE. Any religion which considers LIFE meaningless and full of misery and teaches the hatred of LIFE is not true religion. The 3rd batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#46. THROUGHOUT YOUR EXISTENCE, beware NEVER to develop pessimism or cynicism, in the bitter personal contact with the stings and penalties of LIFE. It is better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all. There is glory and desirability of strife. You should long for peace, even as you live in the midst of war. The growth of knowledge increases joy, as well as sorrow, and the subtlest delights, as well as the keenest pains, are reserved for the developed soul. You should wish to experience LIFE keenly and deeply, even at the cost of pain. You should hope to venture into its innermost secrets, even at the cost of disillusionment. The 4th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#47. ENLIGHTENED HAPPINESS, LIES RATHER in achievement than in possession or satiation. The healthy person asks not so much for fleeting sensual pleasure, as for an opportunity to exercise his or her capacities. If he or she must pay the penalty of pain for this freedom and this power, he or she makes the forfeit cheerfully; it is not too great a price. We need resistance to raise us, as it raises the airplane or the bird; we need obstacles against which to sharpen our strength and stimulate our growth. LIFE without tragedy would be unworthy of a human being. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well,” so affirmed Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 26th president of the United States (1901 - 1909). The 5th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#48. REASONABLY, BEYONDISM IS BASED on the Principle of Growth, whose corollaries are the two great commandments of a new and natural morality: first, the Principle of Reverence, that “the vitality of individuals and communities is to be promoted as far as possible”; and second, the Principle of Tolerance, that “the growth of one individual or one community is to be as little as possible at the expense of another.” Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. The 6th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
#49. NOTABLY, THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF POLITICS should be that a society is to be judged by the measure in which it enhances the LIFE and capacities of its constituent individuals. BEYONDISM advocates a government by individuals of merit and honour; it would be an aristocracy, but not hereditary. ARISTOCRACY will mitigate the conflict of egoism and altruism, which results from the clash of the individual with one’s family, one’s group, and one’s race. What we expect is a great enlargement of the sphere of sympathy, and a great development of the impulses of altruism. The intensity of patriotism is one instance of the passionate preference of larger interests to one’s immediate concerns. Every generation of social living deepens the impulses to mutual aid. Unceasing social discipline will so mould human nature that eventually, sympathetic pleasures will be spontaneously pursued to the fullest extent advantageous to all. The sense of duty which is the echo of generations of compulsion to social behaviour will then disappear; altruistic actions, having become instinctive through their natural selection for social utility, will, like every instinctive operation, be performed without compulsion, and with joy. The natural evolution of our African society brings us ever nearer to the perfect state. This will be the ‘luminous summit’ of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE. The 7th batch of SEVEN keys to unlock your longing for a PRUDENT PATTERN:
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PICKING the FRUIT only when it has RIPENED An unripe PSYCHE cannot be ACTUALIZED. And if you struggle with it, you will find it being more corrupted in new subtle ways. The PSYCHE must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained integrity. A weak PSYCHE cannot be INDIVIDUATED. The WHOLE person, is the only HOLY person Anybody who gives you an ideology to believe in is your enemy, because that ideology becomes the barrier for your PSYCHE. You cannot perceive the TRUTH. The very desire to find TRUTH disappears. Ideologies cripple and paralyse you. They create a kind of subtle bondage around you, they imprison you. All ideologies are destructive, and poisoners of humanity. Beware of them! A BLESSED BEYONDIST is a really free individual. |
INNER FLOWERING is the merry mark of GODLINESS A BLESSED BEYONDIST should be as accurate and objective as a scientist, as sensitive, a full of heart, as a poet, and as rooted deep down in his or her being as a mystic. He or she will be livelier, and more alert. Live a simple, ordinary LIFE – day to day existence. Feeling hungry, eat; feeling sleepy, sleep. Do not hanker for anything perfect. Perfection is impossible. The way out of the evil of endless willing is the intelligent contemplation of LIFE, and converse with the achievements of the great of all times and countries; it is only for such loving minds that these great ones have lived. “Unselfish intellect rises like a perfume above the faults and follies of the world of Will,” so taught Schopenhauer. Most people never rise above viewing things as objects of desire hence their misery; but to see things purely as objects of understanding is to rise to freedom. |
(Recite the following unto thyself) If I do not know where I am going, I will probably end up somewhere else. B ehold, if I cultivate the conviction that I will eventually Activate my SELFHOOD, then I will have, as Victorians boasted, “raised myself by my own bootstraps,” to a higher level of Actualising my Potential. I will develop prudent positive power, progressive as it is in its centripetal (moving forward as opposed to moving away) tendency through the liberating process of SELF-AWARENESS. The encouraging words of Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 26th president of U.S (1901 - 1909), in a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910 becomes very persuasive:
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POWERLESSNESS and disappointment are the feelings which will gnaw at my sense of well-being, in the event of my denying or suppressing the need, or importance of SELF-ACTUALISATION, and therefore the---> commitment to strive for it in any way. This reversal will lead to enslavement, to what is called the false self. My false self is the accumulation of all voices I have internalised from other people - parents and friends who want me to conform to their ideas of what I should be like and what I should do, as well as societal pressures to adhere to certain values that can easily seduce me. It also includes the voice of my own ego, which constantly tries to protect me from unfaltering truths. |
USUALLY, this False Self talks to me in clear words, and when it comes to activation of my SELFHOOD, it says things like, “SELF-ACTUALISATION is for the geniuses, the exceptionally talented, the freaks of nature.---> I was simply not born that way.” Or it might say, “Success is all luck. Those who have made in LIFE are only people who were at the right place at the right time. I could easily be in their place if I had a lucky break.” Or it might say, “To have an indelible mark in this world, I must have the touch of gold”. Or it might say, “To work for so long at something that requires so much pain and effort, why bother? Better to enjoy my short LIFE and do what I can to get by.” |
REASONABLY, as I have known by now, these voices do not speak the TRUTH. SELF-ACTUALISATION, is not a question of genetics or luck, but of following my natural inclination and the deep desire that stirs---> me from within. Everyone has such inclinations. This desire within me is not motivated by egotism or sheer ambition for power, both of which are emotions that get in the way of SELF-ACTUALISATION. It is instead a deep expression of something natural, something that marked me at birth as unique. |
PRECISELY, in following my inclinations and moving toward my highest level of potential, I will make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity---> in nature and among human society. It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and retreate into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Alienating myself from my inclinations, and my active SELFHOOD, can only lead to pain and disappointment in the long run, and a sense that I have wasted something unique. This pain will be expressed in bitterness and envy, and I will not recognise the true source of my depression. |
ONE thing is certain: my True Self does not speak in words or banal phrases. Its voice comes from deep within me, from the substrata of my PSYCHE, from something embedded physically within ME. It emanates---> from my uniqueness, and it communicates through sensations and powerful desires that seem to transcend me. I cannot ultimately understand why I AM drawn to certain activities or forms of knowledge. This cannot really be verbalised or explained. It is simply a fact of nature. In following this voice I will realise and unleash my own power and satisfy my deepest longings to create and express my uniqueness. It exists for a purpose, and it is my LIFE’s TASK, my DESTINY, to bring it to fruition. |
STRATEGICALLY but subtly, as I continue working on improving myself, it is vital to realise, as French novelist, playwright, philosopher, autobiographer, and essayist Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) that:---> “For us humans, it is not a question of wondering whether our presence in the world is useful, whether life is worth the trouble of being lived; these questions make no sense. It is a matter of knowing whether we want to live or not and under what conditions”. I have amassed all the necessary raw materials vital in ACTIVATING my SELFHOOD. I have accumulated all the ingredients that defines WHO I AM. Formidably fueled by a thorough AWARENESS of myself, I can now comfortably ADJUST to my developmental process, as a guaranteed guide for SELF-ACTUALISATION. |
EVENTUALLY, I will be my brother’s and sister’s keeper, by protecting fellow comrades from any manner of BULLYING, THREATS, INTIMIDATION, HUMILIATION or HARASSMENT. Of utmost importance,---> I will guard against losing the SOVEREIGNTY of my PSYCHE by innoculating myself from any kind of BRAINWASHING. This is an effort I will extend to my comrades by enlightening them on potential traps that may make them gullible to INDOCTRINATION. All in all I take it as my divine duty, to friends and foes to “INSPIRE them, to PERSPIRE, before they EXPIRE.” |
The Candid Covenant of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE is implicit. If you want a sense of purpose you should get it from yourself. |
![]() The 6th Enduring Excerpt In one of the most controversial works of 19th-Century philosophy, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883 - 1885) German philosopher, philologist and poet Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) articulated theory of the Übermensch, a term translated as “Superman” or “Overman.” The Superman was an individual who overcame what Nietzsche termed the “slave morality” of traditional values, and lived according to his own morality. Nietzsche also advanced his idea that “God is dead,” or that traditional morality was no longer relevant in people’s lives. In this passage, the sage Zarathustra came down from the mountain where he had spent the last ten years alone to preach to the people.
“When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest of the towns lying against the forest, he found in that very place many people assembled in the market square: for it had been announced that a tightrope walker would be appearing. And Zarathustra spoke thus to the people: |
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