The child of the Creator turned against her and became her greatest challenge. The children of nature turned against her became her greatest challenge. The children of Africa turned against her and became her greatest challenge. The child who attempts to use the power of understanding without going through the process of understanding becomes their own greatest challenge. This child turns against the Creator, nature and Africa, all three of which provide the proper context for understanding messengers and messages. This is true because all three are origins of humanity. In origins are origin-al messages.All these metaphors are messengers and messages to guide and provide context for understanding lives and experiences. All these metaphors are about the quest for power not understood. All these messages are about the differences we have in common. Origin-al messages from the Creator are in all expressions of the natur-al world outside us and inside us. These two dimensions of nature are always expressing the most important messages the Creator wants us to remember. Nature is Divine Speech. Nature is our ancestors, calling us to the knowledge of self through recognition of self in nature. Humans are an extension of nature. Our lives must be an extension of nature. Our lives must be in rhythm with nature. Our lives must not be based on a culture that corrupts nature and corrupts human nature. History promises that all such cultures who have lost the natural way, are fading away. Humanity will get the messages needed because the Creator continues rising above challenges as consistently as pages are turning in the original Holy Book and stars are shifting into full clear view.
(1) Rashid, Kamau Ph.D., “Jacob H. Carruthers and the AfricanCentered Discourse on Knowledge,Worldview, and Power,”The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2012, June),vol.5, no.4, p. 33.
