There is “One major difference between Kemetic Spirituality and Christianity” that a lot of people miss. It is a known fact that Christianity was inspired by Kemetic Spirituality. What is often forgotten is that a lot of the Christian concepts have their origin in Kemetic Spirituality. In this video, I share a major difference I have found that has helped me in living my life according to Maa. Understanding the difference between the two will prevent you from making a mistake that so many other have done.
Have you ever really asked, “Why do spiritual people have problems finding love?” I have been in numerous relationships, and I have noticed that when you date someone on a different spiritual level. It is a challenge. Thankfully, in my present relationship, where my wife and I are preparing for our fifth anniversary. We are applying a spiritual practice, which is making our love deeper and stronger. Check out “Why do spiritual people have problems finding love?” Please note: I AM NOT A LOVE GURU. I AM JUST TELLING YOU WHAT WORKS FOR ME.
“WHAT WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON NOT RUNNING IN THE OLYMPICS” Believe it or not, there is a very valuable spiritual lesson that can be learned so that you can learn how to avoid making the same costly mistake.
This is a very important lesson because in the era of “wokeness” people are under the impression that they can do whatever they want without any consequences. This is a great illusion created by Set, but Set remove the Maa nor Maat. It is very easy to fall for it, and a lot of athletes and entertainers always get caught in Set’s trappings.
As I have mentioned before, Set always has a habit of making people look like an ass (donkey). The donkey or jackass is a totem of Set because it symbolizes Set’s potential to do great works but blinded by his stubbornness. The only way to check Set is by living according to the Maa. This is Divine Law, not manmade law.
I wrote”Don’t be fooled!!! Maat is not the 42 Negative Confessions” is in response to hoteppers.
You see, Kemetic Spirituality has become so popular, there are some who are trying to hijack it and convince people into believing that Maat is all about the 42 Negative Confessions. Don’t be fooled! Maat is not the 42 Negative Confessions. I am here to tell you that this is not what Maat is about. For more information on Maa, check out the video and see Maa.
Juneteenth Does Not Restore Maa (Balance)! In fact, I am appalled at how many people really do not understand history. From my understanding, after Lincoln emancipated the enslaved. Two years later, the news was received in Texas and they referred to it as Freedom Day.
Now for the record, I have mixed feelings about this because I understand the need to celebrate the end of physical bondage. However, I know that historically right after this event. Many Blacks had to return to the same slave masters for employment, where they received even less pay for their labor. In other words, here’s the start of the wealth gap that is haunting us today. You see, the former slave owner now had to pay wages of let’s say $0.20, while he made $40.00 off of goods. So, do you think we should be celebrating Juneteenth which marked the beginning of financial slavery? I don’t think so either. That’s not Maa (Balance, Righteousness, Truth).
Basically, there’s a lot of people who don’t understand what Independence means.
“Are Ghosts Real? Do Ghosts Really Exist? Should We Be Afraid?” According to the film industry, ghosts are malevolent beings walking around haunting houses, and scaring the bejeezus out of people, but are they real? In this short video, I explain what ghosts are from my Kamta spiritualist perspective. I also explain the role that ghosts play in our lives and how to deal with them.
In case you did not know, the summer solstice is upon us and I have “Two Ways to Celebrate Summer Solstice.” Summer Solstice is the longest day and the shortest night of the year. Historically, this celestial event occurred before the rising of Sirius, which marked the inundation of the Nile River. As a result, in ancient Kemet, it marked the beginning of the New Year. I enjoy festivities and for the longest time, I have looked at ways of making celestial events engaging without bastardizing their spiritual significance. Here are a couple of ways that I plan to celebrate Summer Solstice. I hope you enjoy it.
So, do you honor, venerate or worship your Ancestors? This is a question that I have asked years ago, but it is also a question that some people ask when trying to understand the importance of working with Ancestors. So, do you honor, venerate or worship your Ancestors? The best way to answer this is by briefly sharing my story.
When I first started honoring my Ancestors, there was not a lot of information around on the subject. In fact, the only information on working with the Ancestors when I first picked up this practice was, Luisah Teish’s Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals and Awo Fa’Lokun Fatunmbi’s Iwa-Pele: Ifa Quest: The Search for the Source of Santeria and Lucumi. These two books were basically the only books in English at the time that actually explained how to do the setup. All of the other books were in Spanish and were written for the growing Santeria/Lucumi community. Most of the other books written in English were typically about Haitian Vodun, and. Most authors focused primarily on how odd and different working with the Ancestors was compared to western religious ideas. This is why it trips me out when I hear ‘other’ people saying they have been working with the Ancestors for x, y years and taught to them by their grandparents.
Because I am like, where were you at when Blacks and Latinos were being ridiculed and persecuted for working with their Ancestors? I am not saying that there aren’t any people who were legitimately working with their ancestors, for the record. But as I mentioned before, working with the Ancestors is a popular topic. Many people are just on the bandwagon just to make money, but I digress.
When I started working with my ancestors since there was not much information published, and there were not many elders who were publicly around that practiced it. I learned about this practice through trial and error.
When I first started working with my paternal grandfather, maternal great-grandparents, and Malcolm X on my small shrine. When I was working with Malcolm, I had read his autobiography a few years before Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film debuted. I remember I had emulated Malcolm so much that I found myself wearing glasses even though I don’t wear glasses. Then, I stopped eating pork and even imitated how Malcolm spoke and his mannerism. Then, one day I discovered that Malcolm’s picture had fallen off of my little shrine. It was around the same time I had learned that Malcolm didn’t dance because Muslims didn’t believe in it. Dancing was one of the things that stopped me from converting to Islam because I knew in my heart that dancing was an ancient form of expression. When I heard someone saying that it was evil or making a commandment that you could not do, it was a big turn-off. I just left the church for this; there was no way I would get into something else that told me what I could and could not do.
Then, I remember working with this Kemetic prince named Ra Hetep. I don’t know; for some reason, I thought he resembled me so, I got a picture of him, and I placed it on my shrine. Then, I would pour libations to my Ancestors and include him by asking for his help in understanding the Kemetic religion. When I worked with him, I found myself getting headaches for some reason. Still, I kept trying to mimic the Kemetic religion as best I could. Again, this was all trial and error.
Later, when I met my godfather and mentor, Papa. He taught me about Spiritism, and one of the things he told me was that I needed to restrict my time with my Ancestors. After a little while, I finally took Ra Hetep’s photo down, and I stopped working with him.
As I said before, a lot of what Papa taught me I didn’t understand until much later, but when I got it. That’s when I began to tie the terms with the practice.
So What’s the Difference Between Honoring, Venerating, and Worshipping?
I know that some people would disagree and say they are the same but to me. But, when I asked others “Do You Honor, Venerate or Worship Your Ancestors?” I noticed that some people wondered but never really thought about it. This made me really look at this spiritual practice so, I studied how people in Africa, China, and Latin America worked with their Ancestors.
Today if someone were to ask me, “Do You Honor, Venerate or Worship Your Ancestors?” I would explain that to honor the ancestors means to remember them. When you honor the Ancestors, you are “remembering” who they were and give them the energy to continue their spiritual progress. To venerate the Ancestors is to pay respect to Ancestors, which means there are attributes that they possess that you admire. To worship the Ancestors is to give the Ancestor devotion, so the act of pour libations daily and calling their name is Ancestor worship.
When Papa suggested that I restrict my time with my Ancestors. He was telling me in so many words that I was giving devotion to the wrong Ancestors. I later learned that the problem I was having was that I was trying to work with Ra Hetep, although I had no connection to him. This was the reason I kept getting headaches. (Don’t ask me why. It didn’t make sense to me, but it happened.) It was also was attributed to me being stuck in mimicking the Kemetic religion and not growing.
I eventually was able to establish a rapport with Ra Hetep indirectly. Still, this experience helped me understand that there was a difference between honoring, venerating, and worshiping the Ancestors. It also helped me realize that what most people refer to as ancestors were their biological ancestors. However, we also have historical ancestors, cultural ancestors, mystical ancestors, and teaching ancestors that act and behave more like spirit guides.
Today, I honor my biological ancestors and give them energy to continue to spiritually grow. However, I venerate my spirit guides because these are the spirits that help me to deal with issues in my daily life. I think that when you venerate Ancestors who have not spiritually grown. They don’t contribute to your wellbeing. If they were selfish individuals, then if you venerate these individuals you take on their characteristics. This in my opinion is the reason when you see people get the Holy Ghost. They return to their heathenistic ways once the Holy Ghost leaves because they are actually channeling a low ancestral spirit. It is only a “holy spirit” because they refuse to study metaphysics and spiritism.
So, this might not work for everyone, but for me. I know my biological ancestors are spiritually growing because, as I have mentioned throughout my books and in previous blog posts. My grandmother helped me to discover the Maa Aankh. But, I know my grandmother did not know anything about the Kemetic religion or culture. She was a devout Christian, but she had a strong Kongo-Angolan influence like many Black people from the Mississippi Delta region. How did my grandmother help me connect the Kongo Cross to the Kemetic Ra philosophy and theology when she didn’t know anything about the Kemetic religion? She partnered with a Kemetic spirit guide. That is the only way.
This is why it is important to honor your biological ancestors regardless of where they were in life. That means respecting their religion and even offering them the foods they enjoyed in life, such as pork. They will help you as best they can because they do continue to love and miss you. But, if they can’t help you, they will get you to someone who can like a venerated ancestor. However, I recommend venerating your historical, mystical, and cultural ancestors who will help you elevate yourself and others.
Npu (Anubis) weighing the Ab (Spiritual Heart/Sou)
Are You Really Called to the Kemetic Path? How do you know if you are or not? Well before I answer, the other day I was listening to Oshay Duke Jackson – who did a video titled “Here’s The Real Reason Why The Black Church Doesn’t Cater To Black Men Anymore.” Like most of Oshay’s videos, this video was funny and hard-hitting because he states. The reason there are a kazillion churches in the black community versus the white community is that there are a lot of beta males setting up churches instead of being patient, waiting their turn, and working with the established alpha male pastor.
As I said, he was so on point because growing up as a preacher kid, I saw this trend all the time. Many people allege they were called to the ministry but because most black churches do not clearly define and explain what the calling is. Most people, especially men, assume that their calling means they are called to be a preacher.
This reminds me of one of my uncles who started a church and had church service in a school gymnasium. His parishioners were another one of my uncles, his kids, my uncle’s kids, and their kid’s friends. Ten people. Yeah! Ten people attended his church that was conducted in a gymnasium for years. I mean, clearly, read the signs.
Anyway, it sounds funny, but Oshay touched on something that I felt is not spoken on within our conscious and spiritual community. These same “I was called to the ministry” people (especially males) exist in the conscious and spiritual community as well. These dusty, so-called woke men are only about getting their shine and nothing else.
After watching the video, I commented to Brother Kushite Prince how these individuals have superimposed that same funky attitude into the spiritually conscious community. I told him how I remember talking to this brother who had a t-shirt business. He explained that out of all of the t-shirts he sold, the biggest sellers were Biggie, Tupac, and Bob Marley T-shirts. When I asked what about his Malcolm, Marcus Garvey, and other spiritual conscious shirts. He flat out told me that “conscious” dudes don’t buy anything. All they want to do is talk and waste his time. Basically, it is the women who buy most of his merchandise, which is why Biggie, Tupac, and Bob Marley T-shirts were his big sellers.
This is why whenever I meet a spiritually conscious vendor, I try to support them by buying at least something like some incense or anything. If I say I want to improve my community, I need to do it. You see, there is no reason to advertise buying black if you practice the principles of Maa, which encourage you to respect and love your environment.
This is why when I see people who are claiming to be about this Kemetic life, it makes me want to ask them, “Are you sure you were called to this path?”
Understand. I am not here to judge, but it really gets on my nerves to see people (mostly men) talk about the glories of Kemet. Yet, they aren’t supportive of those who are doing the work. Instead, they would rather sit or stand around complaining about how they are put down or oppressed and argue about how much knowledge they got versus someone else.
This is why I keep stressing that your name change, your attire, the food you eat, and all of the booksyou have read don’t make you Kemetic. I mean think about, if you ate some meat or if you don’t wear an ankh, do you really think this matters in the afterlife? No. What does? If you said, the concepts and principles that you live by or the Maa, you are absolutely correct. This is the only thing that matters. This is the reason you incarnated to this planet. This is the reason you are here.
Family. Remember that Christianity was inspired by Kemetic Spirituality. So, when they say that your Christian life makes your light shine, it is more accurate in Kemetic Spirituality. I am saying this because many people are into this Kemet thing but ain’t doing any kind of work on their soul.
I mean, one of the reasons I left the church was that they did not have a spiritual technology that would help you develop spiritually. In all of my books, I talk about how the church’s remedy to everything was to give your life to Jesus and pray. But everything in life does not follow this same cookie-cutter pattern. That’s why when crack cocaine hit the streets in the mid-1980s, this cookie-cutter salvation didn’t work for a lot of us. It didn’t work for me, which is why I got out of it and found my salvation through Kemetic spirituality.
If you are really about Kemetic spirituality, it ain’t no joke because your Spirits are brutally honest and don’t do that Christian sugarcoating. (The negative Spirits do because many of them are delusional, but I will save that for another post). We always see images of Npuweighing the spiritual heart or Ab on the scale, but this is because They (the Spirits) don’t hold back and will tell you what you don’t want to hear so that you can grow. They will say to you, “Man/Woman. The reason you can’t get no mate is that you got some conditionings you got to deal with.” If you don’t understand this or if this sounds foreign, you may need to question if this is your path.
Our Spirits guide us in life and in death.
So are You Really Called to the Kemetic Path? Better yet, how do you know are really Called to the Kemetic Path?
Answer: Synchronicities, or as they say in the church, “God doesn’t give you a vision without making provisions.” In other words, you know if you are called to the Kemetic path because you will receive signs indicating that you are on the right path. In fact, this is when you will meet and see your guides. If it is meant to be your Spiritswill make things fall into place, unlike my uncle who was struggling to maintain a church by renting a school gymnasium.
The point that I am trying to make is that if you want “change,” then you need to put in the work to make it happen. What the church calls your ministry, which I refer to as your maa (personal truth, balance, order, etc.)is reflective of the Maa. If you are serious about Kemetic Spirituality, you need to overcome your ego and work with those trying to improve the community’s conditions. Stop trying to do things just to get recognition and do it because it needs to be done. Stop waiting for someone else to do it, and do it yourself. Stop publicly criticizing one another just because you don’t see or agree with the vision given to someone else. Resolve all conflicts by consulting the Ancestors, and be prepared to fight for what you have earned.
Who Infiltrated Black Consciousness? Pt.1. Conscious used to mean “aware” of BS, but nowadays conscious people are more judgmental than anything. So, what happened? Well, I have said it before this Who Infiltrated Black Consciousness article, but the message fell on deaf ears, so I am repeating it again.
Black Consciousness has been infiltrated and hijacked because people do not understand what consciousness means. Everyone who claims to be conscious or woke is not conscious. They wear all the things that will attract you such as the right hairstyle, say the right things, etc. but they are missing a key element.
Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
This is why as soon as you let these so-called conscious people in the circle. You find out that they are agents like the woman in red (in the Matrix) waiting for you to slip. (See Why I Don’t Trust “Woke” People).
Were you paying attention to me or the woman in the red dress? Look Again!
Today “conscious” people are the most judgmental people I have ever met. They will rock their ankh medallion, their natural hair, and even tell you how powerful and cool their Afrikan name is. But as soon as you open your mouth and say that you disagree with them. They not only want to war with you but do everything they can to destroy you in the so-called name of “consciousness”. Does that sound familiar? Yeah, replace “consciousness” with “God” and we will see this familiar narrative.
Consciousness wasn’t always like this. I remember some years ago, I was one of the first to say that Obama did not represent our community because he does not identify himself with the Black or African American culture. I said who gives a damn that he can play ball and sing Al Green songs, this does not make you Black. I said that our community keeps getting played like a grand piano because we do not have a true understanding of what our culture is. We have a weak interpretation of what blackness is and, the enemy knows this. This is why politicians can come into our community and say that they are Black so long as they look black, can dance, eat certain foods, etc. All while passing policies that focus on imprisoning or killing us.
Consciousness Back in the 1980s (l.r. top: Dr. John Herink Clarke, Dr. Yosef-Ben Jochannan “Doc Ben”, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Amos Wilson. bottom: Steve Cokely, Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima)
Remember, I told you Family that when I came into this thing. It was during the crack cocaine era of the mid-1980s. My best friend and I used to listen to the public radio station in Detroit, where this guy would play Dr. Clarke, Doc. Ben, Dr. Jeffries, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Steve Cokely, Marimba Ani, Amos Wilson, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, and a host of others’ lectures. At the time, X-Clan was the biggest rap group because they brought an entirely new dimension to hip hop. I mean people were still into PE, BDP, PRT, Brand Nubians, and Gangstarr because they rapped about politics, social justice, and consciousness mostly from the Five Percent teachings. But, X-Clan came in heavy with the Kemetic and Yoruba traditions sprinkled with other esoteric teachings like Freemasonry. I mean one of their iconic songs opens up with a mojuba (a Yoruba prayer sung in many Afro-Cuban and Afro-American Yoruba houses) to Ellegua who alongside Anubis is mentioned constantly throughout the album.
Professor James Small
One Sunday afternoon after listening to a lecture on the radio. My boy G and I heard that Professor Smalls was going to be speaking, and that’s how we got into the conscious community. After that, I remember going to see Dr. Jeffries and several other lecturers after that.
Now we both had a deep love for Detroit because we saw how crack ravaged our community ‘with the quickness’. After all, we were the children born after the initial white flight era, so we saw the devastation that was left behind. We both wanted to do something to change things, so we joined several study groups, but we quickly noticed something. What we noticed was that within the “conscious” movement that there were four stagnant groups of conscious people:
The first group of conscious Fam I encountered consisted of older Brothers and Sisters who were revolutionaries from the 1960s and 1970s. Many of these individuals were ex-Black Panthers or ex-members or affiliates of other groups like the Black Liberation Army. The problem we found with these Fam was that they were right about a lot of things but they had no physical means of funding their movement. This serious issue is parodied in the comedy I’m Going to Get You Sucka, with Clarence William Thomas III.
The Future to Occupy Wallstreet
The second group of conscious Fam I encountered was also from the 1960s and 1970s. These were the folks you hear about who claimed to have walked with Martin L. King Jr. in Washington. (Not to be disrespectful but so did thousands of others according to the pictures, ya know?) Many of these Fam members were teenagers or kids during the Civil Rights era, so they understood a lot about politics. As a result, they had a lot of contacts mainly because these were the lawyers who helped bail them out during the sit-ins.
The problem with these Fam was that they were so incredibly disconnected from the youth, that it was unreal. I mean any new idea brought to them was quickly dismissed with a side order of “You young whippersnappers don’t understand”. Some of this can be seen in Spike Lee’s Drop Squad.
The third group of conscious Fam I encountered was sponsored by younger Brothers and Sisters. Many of them grew up like us under the Hip Hop influence, so they were either Five Percenters or at least familiar with Clarence 13X’s teachings. But, many of these young heads were all about smoking weed and being self-sufficient through selling T-shirts. For the record, I have nothing against making and selling T-shirts or any of these businesses, but we need businesses that also employ others. In fact, any mention to these young Brothers and Sisters about college, working with politicians, or working for corporate America was met with “You are sellout!”, or “You must be a Mason or part of the Boule”! I mean these cats had no wisdom at all. They had little respect for elders and spirituality including traditional African beliefs was a joke. I mean a lot of these cats were really stuck on that conspiracy bit. I am not trying to offend, just telling it how I saw it.
Anyway, the fourth group of conscious Fam consisted of a mix of both but they were all about spirituality and esoteric stuff. So depending upon who you talked to would determine how they respond. I mean you might get the same response but it was with a dose of things will get better if you meditate. Yes, many of these individuals in my opinion had superimposed Christian values in their Kemetic way. It wasn’t as bad as when Martin joined the cult and changed his name to Sunflower.
Brutha Shaquille Sunflower
I ended up joining the latter conscious group – the spiritually conscious group, which became the basis of my story (whew!). But, the thing was that all these groups had the same problem. All of these groups alleged to be “conscious” but they were not. They were simply INFORMED.
“Conscious” means you are aware so that when BS comes knocking on your door, you send it away but none of these groups were “Conscious”. All of these groups were riddled and covered with BS because they didn’t understand one thing. Slavery affected everybody on various levels, which means no matter how “Conscious” you claim to be. You still are affected by it subconsciously.
I didn’t tell you but the reason I joined the spiritually conscious group years ago was that there were various parts about the Story of Osar that really resonated with me. In regards to being conscious, it was the understanding that Hru’s eye had been gouged out by Set. This is an allusion referring to the fact that the reason conscious folks cannot advance is that we have all been tainted with Set’s poison (of slavery, colorism, social conditioning, religious bs, socialism, capitalism, you name it).
Another allusion regarding Hru’s eye being gouged out is the idea of holism. If these groups all worked together, there is no telling what they could have accomplished but they didn’t for the same reason.
What people need to understand is that Hru is the hero/heroine and the symbol of consciousness in the Kemetic tradition because after failing to defeat Set. He realizes he needs the wisdom of his/her father’s vizier, Djahuti (Tehuti, Thoth).
Now, do not err as I did in assuming that Djahuti means older people or priesthood, because that is how I got duped into following people who allege to be priests (You can read about it and how I escaped that cult mentality in the Maa Aankh). But, Djahuti refers to the Spirit of Wisdom, which is safer and easier accessed through divination oracles.
I made the pitch about using an oracle for divination a while ago because it is the only objective tool that we possess and cannot be swayed by Set. I explained how there are numerous types of oracles in the Maa. I explained what oracles are from a mathematical probability perspective to eliminate the spookiness about them. I even spoke about how in other cultures, oracles are widely used but in the West, they attempt to demonize them by alleging that they are fortune-telling devices. (See Why You Should Be Using An Oracle).
Black Lives Matter Coloring Book
Family, the point is that if we used oracles, we would have been “conscious” of the various agents of Set like groups like BLM and their George Soros agenda. See Dr. Frances Cress Welsing ‘s lecture on the Emasculation of Black Males.
Again, if an oracle was used we could have detected that John “Grandmaster Jay” Johnson of the NFAC (Not F*cking Around Coalition) was an either agent for Trump or a Spook sitting by the Door.
John “Grandmaster Jay” Johnson of NFAC exposed as a Trump agent
Family. So Who Infiltrated Black Consciousness? Well, we know that the FBI created and used COINTELPRO against our leaders, so why is it so hard to believe that they or some other entity is not doing the same thing now?
As Talib Kweli said, “You a fool if you don’t think the govt hasn’t already tapped your line”. So, what better time to use an oracle than now.
We have entered the critical point and we cannot continue to rely on our wits and what we think. To do so will be very costly and detrimental to our objective. Get you an oracle and learn how to use it, so that we can defeat this enemy together.
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