If you do not understand racism (white supremacy) and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you. - Neely Fuller

We need something to clarify everything for us, because we get confused...but if we use the concept of Asili, we will understand that whatever it is they are doing, whatever terms they use, however they come at you, you need to be thinking about what? How is this going to facilitate their power and help them to dominate me? -Marimba Ani

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Conception, Birth & Upbringing
Unity Consciousness #124

Many are entombed just outside the womb.

Perception Of Conception

No matter how a person is conceived, the result is the same. The coming together of egg and sperm happens the same no matter the circumstances of conception.

No one can choose their parents or whether their conception happened when their parents had sex, “made love,” had forced sex or were married. The parts about parents a child cannot control, which is pretty much everything, does not change the child into something less than a child, a full person and a human being.

Control Yourself, Leave The Rest Alone

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I should;
And wisdom to know the difference.

At a minimum, every person is responsible for self-control, self-study, decisions made and self-correction.

Control Who You Are By Knowing Who You Are

Every person is a child of Creation born with purposes and promises. Who we are is not determined by human standards. We are divine beings. Life does not come “from” parents. Life comes from the Creator and “through” parents. Our main parent is the Supreme Being of the universe.

Appreciate Life Itself

If parents did nothing else except help the Creator get us here, it is more than we can do for self. We must be appreciative of this in order to be appreciate the preciousness of this life on Earth. Even if our parents are not unified after we are born, we must not allow that to overshadow the most important unity they did achieve – union of egg and sperm that brought us into being.

Substance Is Greater Than Circumstance

Truth is, everyone is born of imperfect circumstances. Everyone has multiple things to deal with and overcome from start to finish of this lifetime. There are no exceptions. No person has ever been dealt “the perfect hand.”

Even so, nothing is placed before us or upon us that the ability to overcome it has not also been placed around us and within us. We must go through the journey and complete the tests if we are to be our best.

Circumstances outside a person are not greater than substance within a person. If anything, a person is stronger due to their circumstances, not weaker. The very presence of the circumstances themselves prepares the person to be able to handle the circumstances. Nyame is faithful.

Whatever comes through or survives any set of circumstances is only able to do so by making the necessary adjustments. We must use the ability to adjust to help ourselves and not use our uniquely tuned abilities, that are specialized to fit our circumstances, in self-defeating, self-destructive ways. We must turn perception around, energy around and life around.

Stop Wishing Things Were Different And Make Them Different

A person who thinks they would be better off today if their conception, birth and upbringing were different is mistaken. What we control is what makes the biggest difference. Everyone has this same ability and opportunity. Even though we might have a different set of circumstances, as long as we control what we should, we determine the way our lives go.

A person who does not control what they should, squanders resources because what it means to be wealthy and fortunate are misunderstood. A person who controls what they should, lives fully rather than foolishly.

Conception, birth and upbringing only become obstacles when we misunderstand their purposes and our purposes.
As we grow in knowledge of self, we re-conceive ourselves and are born again in understandings. With consciousness now rising, we are able to rise out of circumstances and overcome encasing ourselves in a tomb outside the womb.