The Jengili (An excerpt from Master Naba's Book on Reincarnation)
By Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig
The Jengili is currently described by ethnologists as an
ancestral altar marked by a circle of stones. This is only an
honest description of what they can see. Now let's go to the
real face of M'TAM.
As explained in the previous Philosophy Podium the borders
between the material and the non-material universes, as
perceived by a human, present more challenges to human
intelligence than any other areas. These borders are as clear
and as confused as those existing between the solid world and
the fluid world, or the border between the Earth and the
waters. One is initially tempted to believe that the two
worlds are separated: water lies on the Earth, and the Earth
is surrounded by water. For humans to be able to explore the
seas, it becomes necessary to identify areas on the Earth
that are firm and solid enough for construction, so that
their structures won't sink into the sea, and yet deep enough
in the sea to be close to the deeper waters for construction
of their harbors and ports.
The Jengili is an ancestral altar marked out with a circle of
stones, but offerings or sacrifices in it are directed to the
mother of the ego or to the mother of the paternal ancestors.
What we are today is a result of what we've been as a group
of intelligences ready to go through cycles of reincarnation,
and what we are today is also the result of intelligences
that will constitute us after the individual journey through
cycles of reincarnation and transformation. Cycles of
reincarnation and transformation are under the rulership of
the God KHEPRA. The intelligences that constitute the
energetic identity of every individual come from diverse
elements of nature and the universe; the easiest
intelligences to explore are the ones transmitted through
those channels of the elements of nature that are also
easiest to follow and manipulate such as blood, water, milk,
sperm, saliva, etc.
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Veggie Fuel: Power Your Diesel With Grease
By Nekhitem Kamenthu
One of the biggest problems facing Americans today is the
emissions that come from car exhausts. This problem, coupled
with the exorbitant cost of gas can weigh heavily on
today’s drivers. There is a temporary solution that
minimizes these concerns, to some degree, but ultimately does
not solve the problem. To solve the problem, really, we must
stop driving. Since many of us will continue driving, we can
drive it in a cheaper, more efficient, and slightly more
“environmentally conscious” fashion.
We can run a diesel car on plain used vegetable oil that
restaurants throw out. All you need is a diesel car, and
about $1000 to $1800. The money will be used for necessary
alterations to the car, the parts that must be installed, and
the oil filtering supplies. The money will be paid back once
you stop paying for the gas you use. Many used diesel cars
can be purchased cheaply and will run well on this system. In
fact, the diesel engine actually runs better on vegetable
oil. This is because Mr. Diesel originally designed the
engine to run on peanut oil. It was only after some people
found it to be cheaper, that diesel fuel (which is
principally derived from a petroleum source) was favored.
Petroleum based diesel will tax your car quicker than the
vegetable based fuels. In fact, vegetable based fuels can
double the life of the diesel engine, simply because they are
more viscose (“oily”) and cleaner. Diesel engines
tend to be more efficient than regular gas engines. On my
2006 Jetta TDI diesel, I get about 50 MPG. It is not much
different on vegetable oil.
There are two ways to use refuse vegetable oil to fuel your
car. Each method thins the oil so that the engine can combust
it. The Oil can be thinned either with a chemical preparation
or with heat. The chemical preparation does not require
alterations to the car, and I shall discuss this process
briefly. The method that uses heat is what I am focusing on
in this article.
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Science & Reason: The Great Escape
By Rezib Tutsanai'i
Science presents itself as the tool all humans should use for
understanding and navigating reality. It supposedly is the
pinnacle of human endeavor that will finally answer the great
questions that every human being must ask. Science attempts
to escape from the dogma of faith and belief presented by
religion through process and observation. Science is faced
with the same problem that religion is faced with, however.
Science cannot escape from the reality that it is a newcomer
to questions that have already been asked by human beings for
hundreds of millennia.
Science attempts to present itself as a paragon of reason. It
is very tempting to accept this view, especially for those
who have enough intelligence to recognize that religion is
both illogical and irrational in its approach to the great
questions. In order to present itself as legitimate, science
must separate itself as unique by emphasizing the newness of
the information and technologies that it can provide and the
solutions that it gives to life’s problems.
What happens to science when reason itself shows that science
is nothing more than an amateur attempt at explaining what
other methods have already explained? When science finds
itself in this dilemma, it presents the questions and the
answers that it wishes to solve as complex mysteries that
require years of hard work to understand. It wraps its
concepts in its own veil of dogma that is guided by its own
priesthood which is enshrined in great institutions that
rival the great religions that have risen over the past 2000
years.
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Root Tones: Modern Music, Forgotten Medicine
By Nekhitem Kamenthu
Music is interpreted and viewed in many different ways. In
the same way, a person looking at a prism and sees many
different refractions, but ultimately, what the person is
observing is simply light itself.
Most of us know music in its contemporary cultural forms. We
see it as something that presents songs about life, love and
culture. Beyond these changing meanings, however, our musics
ultimately present us combinations of melody, rhythm and
harmony with words.
This time, we are going to look at music as an utterance, a
vibration that comes out from the silence. Since we know, as
Kem people, that existence is full, we also realize that it
is human perception which leaves us with the illusion of a
complete silence, of a total void from which something can
spring. What this suggests is that music (rhythms and
melodies, etc.) is latent in the web of the existence, and
that it is we who have the opportunity to call or tap into it
and to express it, amplify it through sound, and then bounce
it off our brothers and sisters, and so penetrating and
altering the very core of each others essences.
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Ka'at Ibi: The Reference Standard for
Meditation
By Nehez Meniooh
Meditation is a spiritual practice humanity has cherished for
ages. To routine meditation, add the Code of Human Behavior
and the Medu language and our lives will ensure our journey
towards purity. In modern colonial societies many schools of
meditation are offered to one who is searching for spiritual
activities. Asian, Indian, and even New Age meditation
techniques are readily available. For the many people
interested in approaching things from their origins, it has
been extremely hard to find "African" meditation techniques.
In a time when humans have become largely disconnected from
their history, seeking a reconnection is the only thing that
protects us from being misled or deceived. Metropolitan
cities bombard people with many distractions to politicize
their lives, making it harder and harder for people to commit
themselves to anything: they dare not trust anyone. This is
their situation: because the history of a thing offers us a
chance to investigate its intentions, modern colonial,
political powers are rushing to change history, and if they
succeed, that will make it much more difficult for people to
investigate intentions. The history of meditation is being
changed to credit India instead of Merita/Africa with the
first schools and forms of meditation. This distortion of
history would force honest seekers to penetrate
inconsistencies in the rewritten history to learn truths in
or in spite of the inconsistencies.
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