Genes Are Genius Recipes For SuccessPhase OneUnity Consciousness #1292

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(Part 9gh of 11)

In the previous message we are reminded genes are seeds. We know a seed needs the right conditions in order to bring forth what is in its potential. Likewise then, genes also need the right conditions to flourish.

When you place genes in an utamawazo context that works against those genes, then those genes must falter in numerous ways. Yet, because of the nature of genes, those genes will vary themselves in order to survive in terrible conditions. And then continue to vary themselves until those genes learn how to do better in those conditions.

Egypt Kemet fell like all before her and all after her. Her seed now struggles to survive under the footprint of worldwide enemies who were once her children. Pride in the genius within self can be obtained in the past of self or in the past of the past 500 years or in any portion of times earlier. Genius has proven itself during all times. Not to its fullest extent, but to an extent sufficient to show us what is possible once the seeds in us receive the proper conditions of nutrition without beaucoup toxins. The fact that you are here is sufficient evidence of the genius in you. It is not all about you but it is all in you. Once you understand what it takes for you to exist under these conditions, you will also know what it takes for you to thrive, which simply stated is “more of the same.” So though we may bemoan our fall and degradation, we do not despair. Within us is intellectual genius which the Seed Sower planted in us. We call it resilience.
You are a seed. Prepare the soil for yourself and do so straightaway. The rest of the conditions needed for you to flourish are being taken care of by multi-level climate change.
What have we said? Genius takes development and cultivation. In order to limit genius, you have to develop and cultivate a system to do so. For example, you develop and cultivate, (1) genderism, (2) white-is-right racism, and (3) religion. Who cannot see the conditions changing that are allowing these inhibitors of genius to be removed. Some of the removal will come in one fell fail swoop. And there it is. The decay of one set of conditions providing the nutrients for the growth of the next genius of seeds that have been prepared exactly for this moment, these times, these days, this Age. We are the chosen ones right now, as surely as those throughout history who do what they are here to do are also the chosen ones.

What have we said? Genius is not limited to the few names we can list, even though those names add up to hundreds. No genius is confined and unleashed by conditions.
Remember; conditions do not exist by virtue of the actions of humans alone. No, rather conditions are formulated in the heavens in the star configurations we call constellations or Ages.
Therefore the universe always has a greater, stronger hand in assisting the rising and falling of the seeds of genius within the universe, within self and within all else.
Right now, the universe is shifting energies and awakening a different recipe of genius while putting to sleep current recipes. In other words the universe, through climate change, is changing the recipe for success.

History has repeated itself so many times, the only reason for us to remain blind about these times is if we don't look because we're afraid of what we might find.

Brown, William Wells, "The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, & His Achievements," New York : Thomas Hamilton ; Boston : R.F. Wallcut, 1863, p. 35-36.

We note the year of this publication is right around the time that supposedly white folks set black folks free. Praise de duh lawd fer delibbering us frum dem times wen tings sho nuf wuz hard.

Here's the first truth. Long before white enslavement by blacks and long before black enslavement by whites and all during the enslavement of blacks and since 1863 up until today, genius has shown itself. If it had not, it is a certainty, this world would be an even much worse condition in the human dimension.

The existence of the internet, that came into full bloom as a result of African genius, is just one example. But we claim this genius not for ourselves but for our ancestors, the elementals who are ever-coming to climate change the conditions that will allow thriving seeds to falter towards dormancy and also allow faltering seeds to thrive towards vibrancy.

Phillip Emeagwali, a father of the internet

Copyright 1995-2018 Ancestors through Usekhu. All Rights Reserved.

Modern Humans Cannot Make Food NutritionPhase OneUnity Consciousness #1170

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(Part 9bp of 11)

Nutrition is a primary creation.

1. First Truth: Humans are primary creations, who in their optimal state of awareness, are also primary creators, thus translators of nutrition into different forms that preserves the integrity of the nutrition, the life-sustaining vibration.
2. Second Truth: Humans are primary creations, who in their suboptimal state of awareness, are secondary creators, thus, interpreters of nutrition into different forms that diminish the integrity of the nutrition, the life-sustaining vibration.

So then, by what distortion of truth is the human, (who cannot make the basis of nutrition – water – ), instead able to make other forms of nutrition?
Without having mastered understandings of water or its metaphors, the basis of nutrition becomes separated from the process of transforming nutrition into other forms. As a result, not only is understanding lost, but so also is nutrition.

During these suboptimal times, humans have increasingly made more and more things to consume that are further away from optimal nutrition. But at least it tastes, looks, smells good and is filling.
These non-foods, suck the waters of life out of our cells along with minerals, vitamins and whatever other seeds of wholeness are in our tissue and bone factories and storehouses.
Why the drain on health?
Because non-foods do not contain sufficient nutrients to allow them to be processed. Plus, the nutrients they do contain are used to help breakdown and neutralize the toxins* they rode in on. Thus the body does not benefit nearly as much from non-foods we consume as we think. The opposite is mostly true. The body must give up nutrients when we eat non-foods, thus health is slowly weakened towards an increasing deficit.* The body must use stored nutrition in bones and tissues and convert it for energy. The body must “rob Peter to pay Paul.” The body must take supporting nutrition from our immune system and other system's infrastructure components in order to keep daily processes going. The body must take pieces of the house and burn it for fuel.

Do We Even Have A Taste For Nutrition?

If our tastes were what they should be, to facilitate health, there is no way we would consume the types of things we do. Our tastes buds, in their optimal state of calibration, would reject poison, rather than accept it.

It is impossible to grow up in a healthy environment and have unhealthy thinking.
We blame it on the environment which is culture which is part of the overall climate we are part of.

Climate turned suboptimal and thinking followed and behavior, thus culture, followed.
Climate change rules the day, every day.
It starts with water.
Water is the power to be and to do, to live and to think, to eat and to move about. Water is the power to be and to do..

Drink water watoto!
Eat, drink, think and be water.
Consume water in all its optimal forms.
The Source of Double Doors and Triple Fountain in the Square is expressing breast milk from many teats because we are being reborn all over earth.

Notes:
*Toxins are consumed in foods and toxins are consumed through breathing and through the skin. Personal products, that supposedly make us more civilized, are adding to the conditions of dis-ease. Most personal products contribute to our daily toxin intake, thus increasing our need for more nutrition, especially water to flush toxins out of skin cells, lung cells, liver cells, kidney cells, intestinal cells, colon cells, rectal cells, etc. Detoxing and colon cleansing are continuous ongoing events that are supposed to take place through nutrition (that is why we pee and poop and sweat and shed skin and lose hair, pass gas, get boogers, eye crust, etc.).

*Deficit occurs when nutrients are deficient. Defeat is also a word variation of deficit and deficient. Thus, as stated on Day 5 of December 2012, we choose to fail or succeed based on what we consume.

Freedom and victory and success and health and wealth and happiness and love, etc. are attained through optimizing our food nutrition. Levels of awareness are one part of this optimization process.

Beingness Versus Being At WorkPhase OneUnity Consciousness #1155

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(Part 9ba of 11)

Still too prevalent is “beingness” that gets replaced with “being at work.”
Again and again, week after week, I still encounter more of those whose beingness favors the suboptimal more than the optimal. Even so, I have, of late, encountered sparkling diamonds whose beingness is refreshingly wonderful. All of these people I encounter as they are performing work duties. The more suboptimal ones are resistant to assist beyond the rigidness of policy and procedure. The more optimal ones are flexible in trying to find a way to provide the assistance needed.

All of us are having the same types of experiences dealing with the thinking and behavior of each other.
What we are experiencing is coming through people, but it is the processes we interact with, that are responsible for the good behavior performance and the bad behavior performance.

Briefly described below are the four basic scenarios we encounter through people who are reflecting the processes they are interacting with.

1. Optimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Optimal Processes of Being At Work

The results of these two overall processes are people who select the right job for the expression of their genetic potential and also for which the workplace places the person in the right job and provides them with the resources to function properly, whereby neither the person's beingness outside of work and being at work is compromised.
Healthy employees who interact with this person are delighted. Unhealthy employees are frighted. Why? Because they think the optimal performance of another makes them look bad plus it reminds them of their sadness.
Customers are initially taken aback and almost thrown offtrack because their fabulous interaction with an optimal/optimal person is so out of the norm of what they have come to expect subconsciously in other workplaces.

2. Optimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Suboptimal Processes of Being At Work

The results of these two overall processes are people who select the right job for the expression of their genetic potential but the workplace is suboptimal in some way that does not allow the person to function properly being at work without compromising beingness.
Healthy employees who interact with this person encourage the person to get out while the getting is good, because they themselves are doing the same. Unhealthy employees encourage the person to make a career of it right here. Why? Because healthy and unhealthy speaks to our level of awareness of more than the importance of a paycheck.
Customers receive average service, but not nearly as good as possible due to the limitations the workplace places on the person's beingness, thus genetic potential to perform optimally by going above and beyond the suboptimal status quo culture of the workplace.
The optimal/suboptimal person will suffer slow death the longer they remain improperly yoked unless they are able to transform the suboptimal into the optimal. Optimal people are punished for being “too good” at their job. I complemented a person for going above and beyond and the employee got in trouble for going outside their lane because unbeknownst to the employee, the company is manipulating customers to sign contracts and because the employee's assistance reduced my exposure to their manipulation. This craziness goes on all day in suboptimal workplaces.

3. Suboptimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Optimal Processes of Being At Work

The results of these two overall processes are people who themselves select the wrong job for the expression of their genetic potential, but the workplace places the person in the right job and does provide them with the resources to function properly; however, the person's beingness outside of work compromises being at work.
Healthy employees who interact with this person will encourage this person in the right direction, and after awhile, if the person does not improve, the direction encouraged is out the door. Unhealthy employees are happy to have a friend and sad to lose a friend.
Customers are treated combatively as if in a tug-of-war for assistance. Customers wonder how in the hell this person remains an employee. The longer the employee remains, the more customers leave and the less new customers come and the more the performance of other employees and the company suffers.

4. Suboptimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Suboptimal Processes of Being At Work

The results of these two overall processes results in people who themselves select the wrong job for the expression of their genetic potential, and the workplace places the person in the wrong job and does not provide them with the resources to function properly. Since the person's beingness outside of work matches being at work, it is a match made in sick heaven. This is a classic miserable person loves miserable company loves miserable person. For their part, both the person and the workplace believe themselves to be the epitome of what is desirable in the world. Why? The paycheck rules logic.
There are extremely few healthy employees in this scenario.

You know you are in a suboptimal/suboptimal situation when all conversations in the workplace and at home boil down to it's a job, a paycheck, you need the money to survive, blah, blah, blah. Nowhere does the pursuit of beingness enter into the plan to get up and out and onto a more optimal path. Collect that check.
Despite behavior performance that is disgusting, suboptimal people are rewarded because they will do whatever it takes to keep a job. This is not just theory. When a person prostitutes and sells their spirit-soul, they will do anything to anyone for the job and money. Anything to anyone.

Customers are treated disrespectfully as if of a lower class of human who should just be grateful the company exists. Customers are few and dwindling. Companies like this only exist because they are the government or have locked down the market, momentarily or regulatorily.

In the suboptimal/suboptimal, both employees and workplaces use the context of money as the text or subtext to justify their worth, power, influence, prestige, etc. Money is the coverall for self-defects in their processes. As long as money comes out the other end, who cares if it smells like spiritual stank. The weight of gold broke the wagon down and is why the ship sank.

In Closing

Who among us does not know most workplaces are #4 followed by #2?

Suboptimal processes of beingness combined with suboptimal processes of being at work, is the leading cause of death in the world. These causes and effects are mutation cancers.

The main reason this is so widespread is cultural.
Optimal cultures focus on processes that promote optimal beingness first, then pairs that with being at work. I have a master's degree (whoopee!) and never heard of beingness until led to it outside of the processes of the culture. Self-esteem discussions are inadequate outside of Optimal Theory/African Utamawazo.

The most important processes are those of beingness. These are those outside of the workplace, yet we spend much of our lives studying for, training for, preparing for getting a job (being at work).

1. We must optimize our processes outside of work. Why? Because non-human nature is optimizing. And we keep following the blind...
2. We must save resources in preparation for the final changeover from suboptimal to optimal. Do not expect a smooth transition. Current processes will continue to breakdown and finally stop “working.”
3. We must plan to get out of suboptimal situations that limit beingness.

Whatever is suboptimal drains energy. Energy is life. And that is why the suboptimal kills, literally, all aspects of self. Optimal uses energy but transforms it into optimal energy.

As a reminder from the beginning of this message, the optimal process/optimal process is emerging and returning, slowly. Just not fast enough to keep us from having to endure longer. Though this is true, what is also true is that some people and workplaces and processes are dedicated to staying suboptimal for life. We know this because of the principle of resistance in the Universe. These energy forces, in human form, are restless and relentless in keeping as many processes as possible suboptimal because that is when they are at their “best” in the illusion version of progress.

Jinja, Uganda Means Rock? | Brief Critical AnalysisPhase OneUnity Consciousness #1085

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(Part 4 of 4)

According to the Ugandan government website:
1. The origin of the name “Jinja” comes from the language of the two peoples (the Baganda and the Basoga) who lived on either side of the River Nile. In both languages, “Jinja” means “Rock.”
2. The area was called the “Place of Rocks” or “The Place of Flat Rocks.” The word for stones or rocks in the language of the Baganda is Ejjinja (Plural Amayinja), and in the Basoga dialect this became Edinda. The British used this reference to name the town they established – “Jinja.”

I Say: Language contains more than one meaning per word. Jinja absolutely means more than “rock,” because we can see that the word, Jinja and Ejjinja are clearly forms of Djindja.

The way the Ugandan website reads, it sounds like, prior to the British, the place was just called “the place of the rocks.” this makes no sense if the words Jinja, Ejjinja, Amayinja and Edinda were available within the language and much simpler to use while still conveying the same meaning.
Furthermore the website states the word for rock is Jinja in both languages when singular, but spelled differently when plural. Even if this is accurate, it should be clarified or omitted since the singular Jinja is name of the area.

3. The Ugandan website goes on to say: Before 1906, Jinja was a fishing village that benefited from being located on long-distance trade routes. In most of Africa, rivers like the Nile hindered migration, this explains the ethnic boundaries along the Nile as one moves north from the river’s source on the northern shores of Lake Victoria.
4. However the area around Jinja was one place where the river could be breached due to the large rocks near the Ripon Falls. Here, on either bank of the river, were large flat rocks where small boats could be launched to cross the river. These rock formations were credited with providing a natural moderator for the water flow out of Lake Victoria. For the original local inhabitants, the location was a crossing point, for trade, migration and as a fishing post. This might explain why, despite this barrier, the two tribes have very similar languages, and the more powerful Baganda had an enormous influence on the Basoga.

I Say: How can Jinja benefit from being on a long distance trade route, yet, that same trade route, the Nile, also hinder migration?
Rivers facilitate migration.
The ethnic boundaries along the Nile are explained by human behavior and British and other Asian continent invaders who divided the territories. The ethnic boundaries are not explained by a non-existent inability to migrate due to being limited by rivers.
Clearly, if the two groups on either side of Jinja were able to intermingle from side to side, then it's not hard to walk or float down the river and migrate little by little.

The second paragraph admits boats were available. Although the boats are called small, the boats were as large as they needed to be for their intended purposes.
Secondly, the continued use of British names such as Ripon Falls and Lake Victoria is criminal in the most sacred of places.
The Great Waters is Nyanja ya Ukerewe, not Lake Victoria.

Ripon Falls, was named by a Britisher, John Speke in 1860-63, after the second Lord Ripon of Britain.
The continued used of “Ripon Falls” kinda sorta indicates Africans had no name for it after hundreds of thousands of years and didn't even know it was there until John Speke discovered it. Thank God!

It sure sounds like, before the British arrived, Jinja was a village and after the British arrived the place became a flourishing town, just like all the islands and continents which were improved by European invasions. Was this another one of those upgrades in civilization?
Overall, the Ugandan website reads like a British delusional promotional piece that they improved life for the disorganized villagers who didn't even think to call the place Jinja and didn't know how to make it down the river until the British sailed up the river.

What Else Is Associated With “Rock?”

It is possible the continued usage of the Englicized names is intentional to preserve the Asian delusion until the appointed time. Jinja or Djindja does sit in the vicinity of one of the sources of the Nile's powerful flow of energy and nutrient outpouring. As such, Jinja could be viewed as the “Tser, “the sanctuary, temple, palace and seat or throne of the rock of the horizon that sits in the waters. (BB 72-3/84-5)
Ser is a most ancient and universal root for the rock. Whether a divine or human title, “Ser” or Sire, means the chief, arranger, placer, disposer at pleasure. The title of the king of the Kheta was SIR; Assyrian Sar; The Seren and Serene (Highness) are diminutives of Sir or Ser. [when we change Tser into Djer, we are close to Djoser, a king of Egypt, of dual nature] (BB 214/226; 422/434)
The Ser or Tser as the rock of the horizon was also called Ser-en-Tep and the Tep Hill of upper heaven. Its location was at the initial point, where the solar ark rested in the birthplace of the beginning. (BB 452/464)
Ts in the form of St means to stand, sit or stay which is imaged by the rock or stone representing fixity as types of “Set.” (BB 170/182)
Tes is the dense, hard rock (BB 283/295)
Tu-t means rock, mountain. (BB 78/90)
Baa means stone, rock, solid substance or salt. Bay-salt is called rock-salt. (BB 379/381)
Bekh is the rock. Bak or bake is to encrust. (BB 379/381)
Pekh became Bekh is the feminine birthplace and abode, the Bu, But, Buto, Beth. (BB 384/396)
Bekh or Bekha is the solar birthplace or land of the birth of the sun represented by the Hill of the Horizon, the Tser Rock, stationed as a figure of the equinox. Since Bekh is a form of Pekh, the earlier forms of the words are Pekh, Pu, Put, Peth, Pekha and Puto. (BB 384/396)
The Bekh represented the hill of burial on one horizon and the resurrection on the other horizon. (BB 385/397)
Kar is the underworld, underground enclosure, a chest, sarcophagus, coffin, tomb, hole, passage, prison or cataracts of water underground. (BB 398/410)
Karas, a place of embalmment, a chamber for the mummy. (BB 398/410)
The Car stone is a rock, but the full form of the rock, as Craig or Carragh, includes the Car (Kar) of the Akh or dead. In that case the Car-akh and Car-rekh have the same signification, as both the Akh and Rekh denote the dead. The Rock is a worn down Caraig of the dead. In Egyptian Ruka is to hide, to stow away in safe secrecy. (BB 398/410)
The Kep is a concealed place, sanctuary, abode of birth, is Cave in English. The Messu (Messiah) is born in a cave of the rock or mountain. (BB 420/432)

Jinja, Uganda, you are right there at the source of spiritual power and must be held to the highest of standards. For you and everyone else who has even the slightest sense of their Africanness, the fullness of that same power is right below the surface in your genetic potential where the secret of your success lies. It is buried treasure.

Quarterback SmarterbackUnity Consciousness #992

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A continuation of “Abolish MVP, Hall Of Fame & Contradictions, Unity Consciousness #988”.

What quarterback has ever won a game without the defense also winning the game?
In any sport, we acknowledge a player's success also depends on the right system and supporting cast.
Yet some folks continue to elevate the quarterback position in American football to be the single most critical piece and no other position comes close.

I contend that a good team with an average quarterback will have more success than an average team with a good quarterback. It's basic math that tells us this. A good team has more players performing at high levels who can make up for some of the quarterback's deficiencies. On the other hand, if the quarterback is the best player, the quarterback cannot make up for the deficiencies of several players. Multiple examples are clear such as the great catch by a Patriot receiver at the end of the game in the last Superbowl. There are thousands of examples. In basketball, we see it clearly when players miss free throws. It changes everything.
We sometimes acknowledge a coach's success is dependent on his players.
It has been proven that Kareem, Erving, Kobe, Lebron, Olajuwon and Michael could not win championships without several other players and a whole bunch of moving parts, including bench players. Remove one piece and the whole thing wobbles, teeters, falters and often falls apart and short.
We acknowledge all teams must have a core group of players.
Yet, we want to anoint Tom Brady as the hands down best quarterback because he was the quarterback of multiple Superbowl winning New England Patriot teams.

Let's put Tom Brady on the Cleveland Browns and change nothing else and then see how great a quarterback he is.

Why hasn't Tom Brady won every Superbowl and every game? Is he the reason for their winning and not the reason for their losing?

Any person who pays attention to any team sport knows every play and every position matters on and off the field.
When it comes to quarterbacks, we all know, that if not for great receivers, there would be no great quarterbacks and no great teams. We all know that if not for some pass catches and dropped balls or a good block or missed block or good offensive, defensive or special teams coordinators, equipment managers, trainers or field goal kickers, that the entire game changes and so does the narrative of teams and so does the narrative of quarterbacks.
Quarterbacks are not an island, especially not Tom Brady. He is the beneficiary of being in the right place, right time when everything worked out right.

In regards to the success and failures and greatness of individuals compared to the team, Russell Westbrook is 100% correct.

Finally Say Farewell To A FoolMake Adjustments To ReasoningUnity Consciousness #662

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The only way I can be a fool is to not understand (know) myself as I am. Understanding is a function of logic. When logic does not function properly, internal processes cannot return proper understanding of information to my senses. As a result, I become a fool because I am fooled by my own logic.

Failure Of Own Logic

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Faulty Operation Of Logic

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Fragmented Outcome Of Logic

Since thoughts are driven by logic, once logic fails to function in balance, behavior falls out of balance.

I use belief as my main basis for making decisions.

I begin to believe what is not known more than I believe what is known.

In a twist of faith, I also allow what I think I know to be an automatic reason for disbelieving what I think I don't know.

I Am Such A Fool

by Ancestors through Usiku

Even Mr. T doesn't pity me
Keep being told plain as day
“Hey! You're going the wrong freakin' way!”
I nod and keep going further out the way
Heeding not warnings, needing lots of praise
Logically thinking I'm getting to being okay
And that well, includes feeling the imbalance of hell
When logic fails, so does my ability to tell
I can only see the physical surface
Even so I feel nervous
Wondering about value of values, versus
Why it takes so much self-worth to purchase
Dreams and so many stuffin' things
Knowing nothing can pay for higher purpose
Or the process to understand where logic leads
Except the attention of a reforming fool
Getting better at knowing self

I am a fool if I think I must go through the experience of making the same mistake others have already made.
I do this because logic has failed.
I think because I am different and unique that the principles of life somehow make adjustments and allowances for me and don't apply to me in the same way and won't have the same fundamental effects.

Relationships are fooled when each person decides their own set of values and expects unity.
For example, what if hydrogen and oxygen, each had a different set of values? How much water would there be? How much nutrition/food/medicine would there be? (Food Fight #59).
I must not continue living a fool's life by thinking the relationship between any two things or among any three or more things is different than my relationship to any single thing or two or more things.
Mirror image metaphors tell me this is not true. Mama has told me the same thing since before the beginning, UC#1.
Thus, I am a fool if logic tells me my spirit, mind, emotion and body can each have a different set of values and still work together for their greater good and my greater good.
By restoring and repairing original information (data and instructions) of mirror image metaphors into my brain computer, my logic will process it and I will understand.

Even in a faulty fragmented condition, my logic, despite all the ways in which it has failed me, still has its foundation intact. This I understand because I understand a principle of natural law and order: what is out of balance can be brought back into balance.
If logic can fail (function out of balance), logic can also be brought back (repaired and restored) into balance. The process that damaged my logic produces failures and the reverse of that process simultaneously and automatically produces all the successes I need, thus allows me to logically fare well. By this process also, colors are in reverse and the last is becoming first. Health is being repaired and restored in the universe above and without and then to Earth below and within.

Thus, by extension, failure is a function of logic. Success is a function of logic. Both are determined by how my logic functions. Thus, failures and successes are functions of understandings.

The More Intelligent & More Successful LieUnity Consciousness #589

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She or he is more intelligent and more successful than someone else.

This is yet another constantly repeated lie that damages children and adults.

When someone says or thinks they or someone else is more intelligent than others, what is this based on?

Usually the wrong definitions and context for intelligence are being used.
Every person has intelligence in every part of their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being. The major difference is:
(1) The ways we use this intelligence
(2) How much of it we use
(3) Which spirit is guiding us, the higher self or the lower self.
Despite these things, it does not mean someone is more intelligent, it just means the combination of the three factors either enhance the expression of intelligence or detracts from the expression of intelligence.
All three of the above factors are broad categories consisting of multiple items which have been addressed elsewhere.

(4) The fourth difference that makes us mistakenly think someone is more intelligent is due to improperly comparing the expression of intelligence. For instance, are you more intelligent now than when you were younger? I contend that you are not. You have always had the same amount of intelligence but have learned to use it in different ways, use more of it and make decisions which spirit to follow. What this means is that comparing self now to self at an earlier time in order to state you are more intelligent now is an erroneous comparison. Likewise comparing self to anyone else at any point in time will always be an erroneous comparison as it pertains to being more or less intelligent.
This does not change the fact that our current level of expressing intelligence can be characterized a certain way but that characterization does not change the amount of intelligence we have the capacity and potential to express. As we change the three major factors, we will express more of the intelligence we already possess.

There are plenty of things the supposedly more intelligent can't do that the supposedly less intelligent can do.
In order to even begin to approach the notion of being the most intelligent, not only must a person be able to do everything another person can't do but also must be able to do everything the person can do and do it better. Everything. Not just in a few areas. Name me one person whose expression of intelligence meets this criteria.

We have become humans who continue to start off on the wrong foot with our thinking because we continue to use the wrong context and associated definitions.
We start out with the prevailing popular false notions of society instead of the prevailing truths evident throughout creation and civilization.

More intelligent and more successful is the same lie in a different form. It is simply stated differently.
All of the above also applies to the lie that someone is more successful than someone else. Based on what? What is success? These questions have been answered here and elsewhere.

All that has been said, applies to individuals, as well as nations, and every grouping, designation and institution in between.

The Context & Conditions Of SuccessUnity Consciousness #399

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Just like any other idea you have, "success" must be put into a context in order to understand what success means.

What Is Your Context For Success?

Is it optimal or suboptimal? Does it include a natural world context, a historical context, a spiritual context, a gender context, a racial context, an ancestral context, a self context...?

You must spend time thinking about the contexts you are using to base your understandings on. What are these contexts? Where did they come from? Do you understand them enough? Will these contexts help you get to where you need to go? Do any of these contexts conflict with each other or your goals for success?

The Normal Context For Success Is Self

As you just learned, all understanding is based on understanding of self. Likewise, all success comes from this same context - self.

Whether you know it or not, everything you think about, do and understand you relate that information to yourself. This is a good thing because:

"Man in the full knowledge of himself is a superb and supreme creature of creation. When man becomes possessor of the knowledge of himself, he becomes master of his environment, the captain of his own ship, the director of his own destiny, the accomplisher of his own ends. Man should understand himself because man is full of knowledge and this knowledge is a gift of nature. When Mother Nature created man, she deprived him of nothing. He was given the faculty of understanding all things around him. This faculty for understanding has not been taken away from him. None of his senses have been taken away from him." (From, Marcus Garvey Interview )

What Is A Successful Context For Self?

A successful context for self helps you understand how you are connected and related to the whole human family, the natural world, all Earthly creations, all celestials, the universal, the quadruplets, the triplets, the twins and the One.

In ancient times, when everyone knew they came from the same family, humans were taught interconnectedness and interrelatedness. This is the only way humans were able to live for hundreds of thousands of years without destroying the planet and each other. This teaching still occurs in some places where the seeds of civilization are flourishing as models for success.

The context for self must look through this context which is the Creator's. This context is known by looking through what the Creator has created. The closest and best thing to use as a guideline is yourself.

Once your context for success is based on understanding self, then you can more efficiently work on the conditions of success such as getting nutritions.

The Power Of Context

A person who understands at the minimal level as an Initiate of Learning Self is better prepared to achieve success than a person who understands at the highest level through an educational context not based on self.

The reason is basic, Initiates learn from an inward-outward-within-without unifying perspective rather than approaching something to be learned as something outside of self. Success is the result of a personal growth process that is connected to that which was successful at giving you life and is successful at maintaining your existence. You will be on a more certain path to success as you understand more about the successes you already contain.

Success pursued through a self-understanding context brings rewards* that exceed any reward of success defined in other ways.

Even if you choose not to think about success in terms of understanding how you are connected and related to everything else, at least remember, "nothing matters unless you are successful at being a human being." (Rubin Hurricane Carter)

Choosing To Succeed Or Fail

*Be not deceived by thinking the philosophical does not translate into the tangible and practical. It is exactly the spiritual and conceptual that must come first and brings all things into being and has transformed matter into all forms you see right now and continues to change things. The rewards are spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and material.

Converting Struggle & Education Into SuccessUnity Consciousness #215

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The following is largely quoted and paraphrased from Dr. John Henrik Clarke's lecture given sometime between 1989 to 1993 on Education: The Highest Form of Struggle.”

“While we have educated ourselves a lot through struggle, we have not converted the struggle into an instrument of liberation, because we celebrate victory without analyzing the components of victory, how to maintain each victory and how to apply each victory towards more victory.

The Civil Rights Movement couldn't survive today if you understood it had to have a political force. It had to have a political definition under it to take us from one place to the other.

The Civil Rights Movement came at a time of the Caribbean Federation Effort, the time of the African Freedom Independent Explosion and when we realized the American dream was not dreamed for us. We realized the American promise wasn't even made to us Africans.

The Civil Rights Movement came at an appropriate time in history but we have not learned the lessons from it we needed to learn.

By educating us politically, Marcus Garvey taught us that someplace in the world you were sovereign once and will be sovereign again!

When Marcus Garvey said, ”Up, Up you mighty race! You can accomplish what you will!” he meant if one mind can accomplish it another mind can do it.

Conversion Process Of Turning The Highest Form Of Education Back Into the Highest Form Of Success

The kind of knowledge that comes out of struggle is innovation. We must take what we've learned and transform it into what we need it to be.

We must take whatever we have learned in any kind of way and take it back to an African philosophical base and an African value system base and make our usage of our education serve African people.

The higher education of struggle is rehearsal for nationhood. We must rehearse for nationhood by being master of our own communities. Wherever we are in number, take back the community from top to bottom for Africa's sake, for our Ancestor's sake, for our descendents' sake, for humanity's sake, for creation's sake and for goodness sake. Wherever we are in any percentage, at least take the percentage that belongs to us. At this stage, it will be our fault if we are the majority and allow the minority to be in charge in our community. We have proven we can break through and move beyond all their manipulations. Work together, vote together, spend together, stop spending at certain places together, boycott together and African root them out. Practice the "21 Behaviors To Counteract The System Of Human Racism White Supremacy." Turn protest energy into proactive energy for independence of the things we know we need and not let all our energy out as reactive energy pleading for change to a psychopathic citizenry while we continue bleeding like rain because we won't take care of our own necessities, even though we are fully capable of doing so.

Unity Consciousness #4 | Values Cause Failure Or Success

Before we seek to understand how values cause failure or success, we must look at where values come from.

Values Come Out Of Philosophy

This is expected since we've already learned Maat is a philosophy and Maat is where the African value system comes from.

According to Obenga, “Human beings always need to discern what is real, true, right, or lasting. Such insight is wisdom, because understanding what is true, right, or lasting necessarily elevates the mind. To philosophize was not just to speculate about life and reflect on nature, but also to be engaged with love, intense desire, and strong enthusiasm in the investigation of causes underlying reality in order to build up a system of values by which society may live.” (1)

This tells us, the only way to create a value system not respectful of creation is to have a philosophy that hates, has intense disgust and strong enthusiasm against the laws and orders of nature. This type of philosophy can only be developed through unscientific means.

Choose A Value System, Choose To Fail Or Succeed

A value system strengthens through respect. It connects people to an interdependency on resources the Creator has provided and to an interdependency on each other. Those who share this type of value system do not go outside themselves for what is necessary to maintain the value system.

Per Ancestor & Master Teacher Yosef ben-Jochannan, “The reason we are failing is because we have taken European values.”

He goes on to remind us, successes come “when the African man, woman or child, approach whatever they are doing from an African perspective.”

It should now be clear to every African, Maat is the way out of this mess. If this is not yet clear, as always, we must seek additional understanding. One way is by studying to show ourselves approved.

Refocusing Responsibility

Values cause failure or success. People choose values from their philosophy. People create philosophy from their understanding of reality, that is to say, what they either believe or know is true. Even after we account for all mitigating factors, people are still responsible for their failure or success.

Africans must examine who the philosophers are their values are coming from. If we don't know or don't want to try to figure it out, one thing we do know is our value system is not working out.

It's much easier to reset our value system to the African philosophy of Maat. We have to reset and reformat our computers sometimes, and having no other choice, it always ends up being worth it. We must do the same and reconfigure our lives, unless someone can provide a better option.

Related Proverbs:

Follow no one's advice or their ways, holidays, traditions, religions, educational teachings, social behavior, family dynamics and relationship ideas unless you also follow the philosophy of their value system.

Who Is The Creator? | First Basis Using Exodus 3: 13-15

In response to this comment on Africa | More Fundamental Than Bibles.
“Who is the creator that you speak about? Does he have a name? My God is the I Am, Alpha to Omega, beginning and the end. Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I could go on and on. Jesus is my Savior not my religion.”

In Exodus 3:13-15 of the Christian Bible, is a fundamental principle. The name of God is not the most important thing.

God did not answer the way Moses expected. First God said, just know I Am. I am who I am.

Next, God continued to address Moses' concern, but even so, God did it broadly. Tell the Israelites I am the God of all your ancestors and all of you.

Additional Lessons

God redirected Moses from a human concern over a name and said, first Moses, you need to be able to grasp that I am who I am, who I say I am and who I want to be. The Israelites need to be able to do the same thing. I am not tied to a name. I Am is not tied to a name. My identity is not bound up in names the way humans use names as proof of identity. Essence is more important, more proof, more authoritative and more powerful.

My essence is that I am who I am. This is what humans need to remember today. Even though many examples, experiences, occurrences, events and scriptures contain things that apply to that moment only, the fundamentals they contain are always applicable and effective.

Secondly, God said to Moses, answer the Israelites this way: Israelites, God is your God because God is the God of your fathers. If there is any doubt about this, God can't help us and we can't go any further because there is a fundamental separation.

Continue to say to them Moses, we cannot afford to have a misunderstanding of the essence, authority and power of who we call upon for help. In order for us to work together and get out of this mess, we must fundamentally be on the same page as we turn every page. We must have knowledge that God is capable of helping us in the way in which we need help and that we are capable of doing what God tells us to do in order to help ourselves at the same time God is helping us. There's a long way to go to get ourselves out of bondage and to where we need to be. There must be fundamental fusion, not confusion.

There must be fundamentals that are unshakeable in order to make progress. This is necessary to achieve success with quickness. This is the process to receive God's promises. Promises come through awareness and application of fundamentals established.

First Basis For Using The Term “Creator”

We all have the same Creator. This is a fundamental commonality of creation. “Creator” is a unifying term as we work our way out of the bondage of blindness that keeps us from freely seeing our essence. “Creator” is used in the King James Version of the Christian Bible 5 times.

Why Different Creators For Different Folks Is Unlikely

Based on the histories told by various branches of the family tree, it sounds like everyone with their separate Divinities and culture, simultaneously sprang up on Earth and each developed their own root system with all the basics for survival and civilization. These separate, different Gods and Higher Powers couldn't afford separate Earths for themselves and their separate people. After realizing they had to share Creation space, they agreed on natural laws of the ecosystem but not on rules of living for human interaction. Even so, not one of these Higher Powers opted to separate their people by having them live underwater, underground, breathe carbon dioxide or have incompatible reproductive systems. From, Day 8: Human History Is Revealing & Healing

Is there more than one Creator? Yes or no, explain fundamentally how this is so.

Fundamentals | Always Applicable And Effective

Their execution may have to be reshaped but the principles for progress and health are timeless and powerful, no matter the year because the problems have the same fundamental causes.

Consciousness raising indeed is what is needed. Kwame Toure addresses this in the video, Converting The Unconscious To Conscious

History, created greatness, land, resources. Present understandings regarding these concepts, and more, are a matter of mis-education that is blocking the memory that is resident in our DNA.

In addition to what Brother Ture suggests, here are 5 views from others, including myself, that state fundamental problems and pretty much tell us, in essence, where the bulk of our focus should be.

1. “Many problems stem from land ownership and water rights. Land and water provide the ability to meet basic needs.” From, Our Fatal Flaw – The Absence Of Harmony. The Root Cause Of Many Problems.

2. Power is land and the tools to work the land. This idea is borrowed from Dr. David Deberry, ”Forty Acres – Power And Justice”

3. Willie Lynch adherents know what power is and how to get it, they say, ...”to master a human being, no matter what his race or color, all you need to do is to strip him of his identity, his land, the strength of his culture, and the memory of his ancestors.” In other words, take, mis-educate, then dominate." (1)

4. “When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible” (Jomo Kenyatta, former President of Kenya, African Nationalist and leader of the Mau Mau rebel group)

5. ”The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” (Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart) and Family Relationships | Why Things Fall Apart And So Continues The Meaning Of Life & Existence (Part 8j)

6. Malcolm X has told us in “There's No Such Thing as a Non-violent Revolution,” that “revolution is based on land, land is the basis of all independence, land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality.”

What is more fundamental?

Update 5.26.17

What is more fundamental is spirit-soul. Call it spiritual only or soulful only if you choose. No matter what, we must increase our understandings of the spirit-soul aspect of self and the spirit-soul aspect that exists in all else. We can always begin within and by observing and listening. We can also begin with studying spirituality and its lesser form, religion.

What is more fundamental to help us achieve necessary understandings for our evolution, is understanding fundamental things such as origin, beginning, dimension... This reconstruction process of contextual framework allows everything else to logically fit into proper position and automatically simultaneously initiates the process of reconfiguring all other connections, until the importance of land becomes so brilliant, that it outstrips our glorification of money, just as we already understand the Sun is superior to all lights on Earth shining at once.

What is more fundamental is a steady, continuous improving integration (optimizing as opposed to maximizing) of all fundamentals.

(1) Brewer, Rose PhD, Associate Professor, African "American" [quotes added later]Studies, University of Minnesota, Minnepolis, MN, "Teaching and Critical Thinking: Implications for African "American"[quotes added later] Studies",http://www.ahc.umn.edu/bioethics/afrgen/html/TeachingandCriticalThinking.html , accessed 6/9/13.

Study Perspectives: Esperanza Spalding, Spirit Motion & Intended Greatness Context And So Continues The Meaning Of Life & Existence (Part 6)

Read Part 1 - ”All Ways To Communicate Begin With Definition & Context And So Begins The Meaning Of Life & Existence” (Part 1)

Humans must stay in motion according to their intended process of development in order to maintain the feel and rhythm of time and everything else in motion.

When I see Esperanza Spalding, I see myself in her physicality, including her beautiful, power-receptive, power-reflective hair. Her music and spoken words emanate a deeper beauty also possible in me. It is available to all who allow themselves to just be – spirit motion.

1. Billboard.com Interview (6:01)
2. Conversation with Ngozi of Society HAE(11:36)
a) Interviewer: ...that's important for young people to know, you can struggle, but it doesn't negate you from [success]...
b) Esperanza: We're all smart and we all have the capacity to do incredible things. We're human beings. That's what's so special about being a person. You have the capacity to do almost anything you put your mind to. When you study something [in a school setting], it's not for the test. Tests are for your teacher to know you learned something. But the most important thing is that when you are on your own time learning about something, that's for you, that knowledge is for you, not for the teacher.
c) Esperanza: Like most people who have reached any level of success, it's many years of cultivating your craft. [She started at least by age 5]
3. Interview in the Bing Lounge, Kink.fm (7:37)
a) Since I don't exist alone, I'm not a floating free agent, all of these people and forces and music and bands and influences I'm connected with, at least the edges of them are getting illuminated too.
b) I'm happy to talk about accepting something I feel will be good for more than just me.
c) Children need to know they are cared for and they have the capacity to do great things. If children have to wait until they are adults to know and then try to go out and make something happen with money or influence, it's too late. [I know what she's means here and it is late and a crying shame but anyone can start right now]
d) For young people to be involved in the community and to be developing their creative, linguistic and mathematical minds, all these aspects of the human brain that are developed from studying music from the time they are little and at any age.
e) I couldn't understand it intellectually but intuitively, it gripped me.
4. Esperanza sings, “Little Fly” (live in the Bing Lounge, Kink.fm (3:16)
5. Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding jam at the 53rd Grammy Pre-Telecast (3:43). This is a double outstanding whammy!

Statements beneath each video are edited, shortened or paraphrased from quotes.

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Expanded Definitions: What Is Money? Quotes, Proverbs & A Joke.

Basic Definition

Money can be anything that can serve as “a medium of exchange that facilitates trade.”

Expanded Definition

Money is a standard measure of value that makes it easier to trade different types of resources. (From ”Expanded Definitions: What Is Time – Money? Keeping Track of Time & Climate Change”)

In other words, money is a temporary placeholder for the value of natural resources.

Money has no value unless there is a resource it represents. When a person works for money, that money represents multiple resources (time, energies, choices, beliefs, values, knowledge, talent, abilities). This is why businesses have departments called human resources.

Illusions

1. You need money to live.
2. Money means success.
3. Money is evidence of the truth.
4. Money is power.

Realities

1. Money is a part of the economic system, resources are a part of the ecosystem.
2. You only need the ecosystem to live.
3. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” (Dr. Booker T. Washington)
4. Success or failure depends on how well we use available resources.
5. The biggest part of how we make it hard on ourselves is to misuse and under-utilize our resources. In other words, you have not because you waste a lot.
6. “Power is not money but to define money.” (Dr. Bobby Wright)
7. It's possible to have money and still be in slavery because “slavery is when all life sustaining institutions [basic needs] are controlled by another group.” (Dr. Bobby Wright)
8. If anything, make money that makes you versatile, not servile.
9. Faith in money is a vice of the highest cost and ultimate price.
10. Money is a tool forged from resource, only a fool sees it as the only recourse.
11. Instead of saving money, we should be recycling money.
12. It's not possible to believe in anything greater and be limited by anything lesser.
13. You don't need a receipt to exchange a belief.
14. Money is expensive unless money represents the full value of the resources you trade to get money.
15. Wages are a wager.
16. “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.” (Proverbs 11:28)
17. Capitalism keeps you focused on its money instead of your resources.

If you employ your resources via true education - knowledge of self, self-study and independence of basic needs - life will no longer teeter on the narrow fulcrum of money but rest securely on the broad foundation of resources.

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Punch and counterpunch from a marital dispute:

Husband: “If I had the money, I’d leave you!”
Wife: “If I had the money, I’d give it to you!”

Day 8: Human History Is Revealing & Healing

10 Days Of Upheaval & Fulfillment

"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture [and] affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."

When he made this statement, Malcolm X spoke on several levels, perhaps without knowing. This statement is appropriate to individuals, groups and humans in total.

If we really mean what we say about tolerance, compassion, diversity, legality, constitutions, sensitivity training and all such concepts that indicate inclusiveness then all that is taught regarding human history must be inclusive of what took place.

For the human race, it stands to reason, if we have one beginning, there is one overall history. If we have one beginning, there is also one transcending. Spirit beings move towards this wholeness because it releases inner peace, thus outward peace. Human beings who are rising in self-knowledge move away from a fragmented, partitioned mindset and towards a more cohesive existence. Only by spirit will people become unified. This awareness springs up in season like steady progress.

One of the main inhibitors of humanity's growth has been the devaluing of humans and other life. In 1614, Captain John Smith describes the people he met when he first reached the “New England” area of America as “a goodly people.” He did not call them "savages" or anything that lessened who they were. Even between Christopher Columbus and Herodotus they praised people from Ethiopia, Khemet/(Egypt), Dominican Republic and from San Salvador; an island of the Bahamas. These goodly people shared among themselves and with newcomers.

Honesty and truth are energizing. Mind-centered living, having cut itself off from learning, must look elsewhere. This elsewhere is overindulgence of one or more basic senses. In the case of history, the overindulgence of pride and desire have caused other knowledge to be either left out or plagiarized.

Based on the histories told by various branches of the family tree, it sounds like everyone with their separate Divinities and culture, simultaneously sprang up on Earth and each developed their own root system with all the basics for survival and civilization. These separate, different Gods and Higher Powers couldn't afford separate Earths for themselves and their separate people. After realizing they had to share Creation space, they agreed on natural laws of the ecosystem but not on rules of living for human interaction. Even so, not one of these Higher Powers opted to separate their people by having them live underwater, underground, breathe carbon dioxide or have incompatible reproductive systems.

This ill-logical notion of human history grates the senses with no other purpose but to annoy angels attempting to reorient this recent ball of confusion back towards fusion. The notion of separate histories turns the world counter to the Pangaea - the one continent that existed in the beginning. Evidently people must think the heavenly host heard on high is singing different songs in different choirs with different directors. I don't think this is what is meant by Psalm 100:1 that says “Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.”

As long as we continue to keep up the historical, religious and geographic differences that claim we are fundamentally different and do not share a common beginning and ending (historically, earthly and spiritually), then the noise of strife, suffering, brutality, callousness and abuse will continue to dominate the Dark Age that exists today.

Truth is, every branch of the human family comes from one rootstock. Historical representations that deny or ignore this fact, fuel superiority, hatred and disparities. This type of education is not the key to success for humanity to fulfill itself.

First history must be revealed, the good, bad and ugly. Then and only then is the healing of the human race possible. A good place to start are basic facts like Queen Mothers Ardi, Lucy and Eve. If we don't start tens of thousands of years ago, current perception of history will never match reality and expectations of inclusiveness will never match outcomes.

"Of all our studies, [human] history is best qualified to reward our research."
- - Malcolm X

“There is nothing new in the world except the [human] history you do not know.”
- - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States

Everyone is included in this summary of recent history by W. E. B DuBois, “The White Masters of the World.” Note: It may be helpful to print this article or copy, then paste special as unformatted text into a word processing program and increase the font.

Day 7: Love & Happiness, Ready Or Not?

10 Days Of Upheaval & Fulfillment

Love and happiness are basically the same thing. The real pursuit of either one is an internal experience. This experience is anchored to the ideas and standards we set, respect and connect with.

Mind-centered living comes with the ability to care for another deeply but since it does not involve the entire self, how can connecting with another spirit occur? How can self-love blossom if the entire self is not considered worthy of respect? Personal connection only comes physically, mentally and emotionally while the search for satisfaction is ongoing. It is never found. Souls have no chance of mating.

As always we must align spirit, body and mind, nurture ourselves with food, pursue purpose with passion and improve self-awareness. Once these pieces are on their way together, love & happiness become possible.

Love is an enhancement. It's way up there above deep desire, devotion, affection and emotion. Love is entire. Because love is the whole shebang, it retains all of its faculties. It doesn't lose its mind or go blind. Love does not cause us to abandon the path to our better selves because love and happiness emanate from a spirit trying its best to express its fullest from the Highest.

The combination of dedication, devotion and determination directed towards making ourselves better is the epitome of love making love and a hallmark of happy people everywhere.

Many of us want to reach places far from where we are but we don't have the time, patience or energy to travel the learning process to get there. We prefer to be swept off our feet and carried or we trade newfound time, patience and energy to earn money to purchase our way to love & happiness.

The reason we live and breathe must not be for imitators of love & happiness. It's Day 7 and, by now, we should be getting the sense, that perhaps, we're not making the most of what we've got. If we've followed this series we should have encountered a few reminders of how we can give ourselves a better chance to reach our goals by using all available, mostly free resources.

Hopefully we will stop hiding from what we are seeking and take more steps towards our potential. Now is the time to decide whether we are ready or not for love & happiness.

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Day 5: Choosing To Succeed Or Fail

10 Days Of Upheaval & Fulfillment

The spirit doesn't live in the center of the chest. The spirit is in every cell just as oxygen, water and protein. Each of these living elements contribute to health and success. Each cell also contains spiritual genetics inherited from parents and ancestors plus each cell has a mind and memory of its own. All these things: cells, bodies, minds, thoughts, memories and spirits all need the energy and nutrition we can only get by eating food.

Physical Food

One way to feed all these parts at once is by eating physical food. Physical food (solid and liquid-water) also includes the amount of rest we get, the air we breathe and sunlight. Simply making better and better choices on what we allow into our bodies helps the trillions of cells in our bodies become stronger. This will also improve our minds by helping our brains function better. What we are trying to accomplish will become easier simply because we are functioning better. This will also help our spirits because the spirit, just like anything else, cannot thrive where there is disease or it is not being fed.

Mental Food

Another way to feed body, mind and spirit at the same time is by eating mental food. Mental food comes from our thoughts, introspection, reflection, what we read, what we watch, what we listen to, who we talk to, what we talk about, what we study, what we are taught, what we practice, what we investigate, what we analyze, critical thinking and more. Mental nutrition improves the mind (mental health) and also helps the body and the spirit.

Spiritual Food

Spiritual food is another way to get nutrition. Some of the ways to get spiritual food have been listed on Day 3: Spiritual Nutrition Makes A Difference. We can also get spiritual nutrition from work, relationships of all types and from quietness and stillness. Spiritual food is the most abundant natural resource. The only limit to receiving spiritual nutrition is the degree to which we commune with natural things. When the spirit is receiving food, the body and the mind are also benefiting.

Choosing Success Or Failure

The only way to succeed or fail three ways at the same time is when we choose what to eat. When we are younger, we don't have a choice, but each day we get older the choice in all areas becomes more and more something we control. When will we make the necessary adjustments to what we control? Everyone has choices, even those in prison and in other limiting situations.

Success or failure does not depend on money. Money is a temporary placeholder for the value of natural resources. Success or failure depends on how well we use available resources. That depends on choices. Choosing to eat more food is a resource available to everyone.

Just to be clear, every time we eat something physically, mentally or spiritually, we are choosing to succeed or fail.

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Gardening: Plants Minister By Example

The more time I spend amongst nature, the more merrier I become. This is all due to their life examples.

No matter which plant ministers, a common theme is that gardening is not a matter of expertise. Expertise has a tendency of getting in the way of progress. It is a supposed lack of expertise that fuels a fear of failure that keeps a lot of people from returning to being friends with nature. Gardening is simply placing plants and seeds where they have a chance to grow and trusting nature to do most, if not all, of the rest.

Life Example 1: Two sunflowers arose after sleeping in layers of soil since Fall 2008. Two things:

(a) Some seeds do emerge. Keep placing 'em on soil and amazing things will happen.

(b) The petals of one sunflower is all yellow as commonly thought. The petals on the other plant are mostly red with streaks and tips of yellow. This same variance has also occurred on the same plant. These seeds came from the same seed head, the same mother. This is the story of human diversity, esp. the varying trait of skin tones.

Life Example 2: A rose bush I considered dead and tried to completely remove three years ago has steadily come back strong. From just a pinky-sized, dried out looking, scrub of a stalk, it produced several crimson roses this Spring. It has the same irrepressible spirit as the peach tree. Patient willingness for inner growth during a transition period leads to the outward revealing of already present success. Strong roots prevail.

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Be One or the Other

I was able to make a contribution because we had the Brotherhood and because I wasn't afraid.--E. D. Nixon, the person who recruited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Asante for the person, E. D. Nixon, whose person-all convictions were stronger than fears. He looked the gangbangers in the face, stayed the course and continued to make contributions that have lasted into my person and lifetime.

We fear because we don't “understand” history in the context of its everyday all day impact on our thoughts, behaviors, lives and situations. Neither do we “understand” the impact of each person on the continuum of history.

Dr. King and Rosa Parks succeeded because they put their person into how they lived. They also succeeded because of others. E. D. Nixon succeeded because he put his person--all in also. His success was enhanced by the Brotherhood and enough community members to support a boycott.

There seemed to be more persons, “ones and the others,” way back in the day who understood their ability to change history and impact lives in accordance with their beliefs. There seemed to be more persons then, than now even though being afraid seems more warranted then, than now. Those people were jailed, assailed, bombed and what not. We succumb to mediocre M-bombs.

They gave up convenience when it interfered with courage. The bus boycott lasted three hundred and eighty-one days. Nowadays, each person can at least give up those supposedly convenient stores in their neighborhoods that ain't doing their communities a bit of good and drive to the ones that will. [economic impact] Each person can at least vote in people with their interests in mind. [political impact] Each person can at least begin the mental journey back to Ancient Egypt. [cultural impact] The ancestors are waiting and rejoice each time one person enters the epicenter of all history...[spiritual impact]

E. D. Nixon put up his house in order to bail Rosa Parks out of jail. Many of them gave their precious resources to the futures of what was right and necessary. They put up their jobs. They focused on the dismantling of systems not just individual situations.

In one sense, E. D. Nixon was already doing better than most since he had a "good" job as a Pullman Porter. In the true sense, he didn't do what he did for himself or his family...understand the personal and historical impact of this one person's actions. He understood legacy. Thankfully he was not too busy or tired.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful because economic banks were breaking, yet the will of the people could not be broken with fear.

Who will be the next person, the one to step to the front or the one to support someone who is not afraid? Be one or the other.

Success is a process

Life Sentences #4

Success creates belief in everyone except the dreamer. The dreamer's belief creates success.

A slow process is better than no process.

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