Definition 6 – Based On Reparations
Mental health is reparations health. Reparations means to repair and restore what has been lost. Any kind of health, once lost, must be restored and repaired in order for that creature to be healthy again. Mental health is no different. Since all of us in societies have suffered from malnutrition of multiple types and are doing self-destructive things as judged by suboptimal pursuits of beingness, and our culture is not nature-based and we are not in touch with our original African human nature and we are estranged from our common spiritual essence and have been subjected to racial, gender and other culture programmed toxic logic, and we have not repaired and restored our logic, we are still mentally ill.In our weakened suboptimal state we have almost lost total consciousness, yet feel wide awake, since sleepwalking and sleep talking are all we're familiar with. Reparations are needed. Reparations of mental health repairs and restores healthier logic of self in relationship to healthier logic of all else.
We must be careful not to sit around waiting for someone or some Great God Moment to reveal some huge truth or chunk of information that's gonna change our minds so we can then change our thinking, behavior and relationships. Information is already being provided constantly in bite-sized pieces. We gotta chew, swallow, digest and absorb what we already have before looking for some kind of all-in-one, all-encompassing nutrient medicine to snatch us out of opiate-endured sickness into health. Also, information is being brought into our awareness individually since we all need different parts of information in order to be healed. In other words, quit looking around for someone else to understand what you need to understand. Each person must pursue different angles of light that yet, still does intersect with others and their angles of light. At the same time the extended self, beyond humans in this dimension, is always assisting, so it is never us alone unless we shut out the extended self.
Nobody can change your relationship to self or to all else. Information can only be made available to you that can change your consciousness. As your consciousness changes, you will automatically change, remap and reconfigure your relationship to self and relationships to all else. (Van Sertima 473)You will change your relationships when you are maturing in one thing: self-respect, self in respect to all else, self-perspective, self-knowledge, self-esteem. Interfering with healthy understandings is the great deal of murky water regarding our relationship to information and our thoughts regarding that information.
Just because we believe something or know something or have learned something or have heard something or remember something or can repeat something, it doesn't mean consciousness has changed.
Consciousness has changed when behavior changes – when we begin moving differently and begin changing our relationships to hundreds of ideologies, values, traditions, contexts, concepts, philosophies, definitions and meanings.
A few pieces of nutritious information are insufficient to maintain or regain health. Reparations health doesn't come in a pill, shot, box or book.
When we are already sick, we can't just rely on low nutrition meals and healthy snacks. No! We must reverse the balance to where we are getting much more nutrition. Just as we think its a good idea to get a colon cleanse, we also need a mental cleansing as part of reparations health. Then we must get continuous nutrition that feeds spirit-soul, mind, emotion and body so we can beat back continuous unhealthy influences trying to establish themselves in different parts of us to prevent our weak spots from strengthening. In advance of us even recognizing our needs, earthly climate, solar system climate and galaxy climate are changing to assist those who will be healed by leading us out of the darkness of light and into marvelous darkness, out of which comes marvelous light.
You have been chosen to receive this information, thus you have been chosen for reparations.
