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Afrocentric Mystic Memory |
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A striking déja vu experience occurred in 1989 when my sister Joselyn gave me Yogi books elaborating on ancient African philosophy. While reading each book, I sensed such familiarity with this totally unfamiliar subject as to "know" before hand what would come on the next page.
Also, in comparing those Afrocentric mystic principles with the principles contained in my writings of the prior 15 years, there was an amazing resemblance. Could it be that my ancient African ancestors had transmitted messages directly to me for help in shaping my "worth" oriented system of values -- values related to love, goodness, truth, beauty, harmony, and unity?
Closely related are your déja vu experiences in hearing wise advice from your mother during trials and tribulations -- and when she is nowhere around. To further explore this fascinating déja vu subject, let us assume to be true the following ancient African beliefs about its three components -- the sender, the transmitter, and the receiver.
The original senders of Afrocentric messages were mystically oriented indigenous ancient Africans who fashioned a sublime system of "worth" values. This was based on believing they were made in God's image, were all spiritually related, and were obligated to show good character fellowship behaviors by being of service to those in need.
In each African village these beliefs and practices were "group determined" and "group enforced" and thereby formed a "collective group mind." This means each individual was constantly sending forth spiritual thoughts almost identical to fellow members of the village.
Furthermore, those collective thoughts were also of a "like-kind" with the "group mind" thoughts of villagers across the African continent, despite the variations in the way each group of villagers lived. As a result, there was a continent wide African collective good character "group mind" that vibrated at the same high rate as that in the Sublime plane.
An analogy is the group prayers for the spiritual healing of physical ailments Black people use to penetrate into the realm of higher powers. In other words, ancient Africans' mystical values and traits of good character took the form of a collective group "thought cloud."
Then the "thought cloud" of mystic memories transcended the upper boundaries of the human mind to settle in the Sublime as a "mystic memory satellite." Being above time and space, signals out of that Sublime memory satellite could be sent to any Afrocentric person anywhere in the world and into any age period (e.g. today's Black Americans).
Such a process is sort of like television stations generating enough power to transmit signals to a satellite in outer space so as to relay those signals into individual home television sets.
The only requirement of the receiver of the satellite Afrocentric mystic memory was to either make a mental demand for its wise message or to simply listen for it without interference. Amazingly, recent studies have shown a déja vu "center" and a God module (concerned with spirituality, prayer, and religious experiences) -- both located in the temporal lobe of the brain.
Could it be that the God module is the receiver of the Afrocentric mystic memory message? If so, the good character system of values generated by ancient Africans can be done as a direct transmission to all "tuned in" Black people.
Perhaps when we are faced with a situation of having to do something but have no idea what to do, the close relationship of the God module with the déja vu "center" explains how we might receive an "intuition" for doing the "right and decent thing." For this sender-transmitter-receiver theory, (see "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy p. 77 to 87), ancient Africans themselves called it "the sympathy of all things."
They urged all village youth to study and master the collective memory that "lives in one's bones" so as to carry out one's life purpose for the health and wholeness of the individual and the group villagers.
Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D
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