Forever, Wherever... Now and Never, Amun! (Part 2)
6. So I’m a Star, and a Starfish, and the respective oceans that house both?
YEEES! The prize of life is, according to AS, YOU ARE EVERYTHING (congratulations on your existential victory you beautiful orb of light). Our duty is to celebrate life by exploring all the diversity and potential housed in Infinite Source, which, I’m sure you can appreciate is going to take eternity for us to “complete”. We exist to experience everything, be everything, create everything and savour it all. So strap-your seatbelts, cause you’re going absolutely nowhere but the present all around you at the speed of light - forever and ever, wherever.
“Even the smallest moment contains eternity within it” – Banini Ray / “If you travel at the speed of light, you don’t experience time or space… no matter how far you go or long it takes, the journey will feel instantaneous” – Lex Fridman
7. Does that mean I can experience everything all at once?
Well… you can’t (sorry to rain on your parade). Life in its creative infinity is a series of interactions that create new possibilities which are either seized or not, that then create a NEW series of interactions. AS permeates itself through Culture. Culture serves two great functions in AS: 1) It portrays the consciousness of a people; 2) It provides a code of conduct for interactions. African Culture’s since time immemorial presented consciousness (ubuNtu) and customs (isiNtu) as a guide to how we engage each other, the environment, different dimensions/worlds and the multiverse at large. If the consciousness and customs are of a high calibre, you will experience the Infinite differently (more openly and blissfully) to how you would if they were of a low calibre (more harshly and painfully). AS condenses Infinite Source into everyday life scenarios through Culture, and this allows individuals to enjoy condensed “aspects” of Infinite Source (such as "bliss") in our own microcosmic way. Want to feel pain? Sure – live in a painful cultural setting. Want to feel love? Sure – live in a loving cultural setting. This is true both at the micro (individual) and macro (societal). You choose your life based on the consciousness and customs you engage in. I hope it’s starting to crystalize to you that it is from this vantage point where TOS will begin apply AS to commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, finance and all other wonderful topics we’ll encounter on our journey.
“Culture is coded wisdom” – Wangari Maathai
8. to Be or not to Be… those are our options!
Want to know how the core of our sun feels? Ask anyone with the surname “Langa”. AS is both art and science; science with focus on immersion rather than deduction. AS is manifested in culture through consciousness and customs and the core belief is that everything is One since everything stems from the same genesis point. Life then is about (take a minute with this) ONE THING EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF EVERYTHING THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. To understand anything, one must BE / BECOME the thing (resonate at the level of its consciousness) and EXPERIENCE the thing’s relationship to everything else (resonate with the customs of its relatability). The method of AS’ immersive science is to understand the consciousness of a thing as well as the customs of a thing, in order to best enhance the experience of the thing. This shall serve as the methodology used by TOS to investigate commerce, finance, economics and many more topics we shall cover.
“Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” / “A person is a person through people” – Zulu Proverb
9. Immerse yourself in the joy (or sorrow) of Life
I could tell you all about why African architecture is largely comprised of triangulated shapes (representing the synergy of Spirit (Soul), Mental (Mind) & Physical (Body)) and circular shapes (representing the infinite feedback loop of the esoteric (consciousness) informing the exoteric (customs) + vice versa); or how the integration of these two shapes inform us of our affinity to Infinite Source, but in simplistic terms, we need not go there to get the bottom-line. The bottom-line is we need thinking models that incorporate timeless yet time-tested principles in order to create a future befitting of our greatness. What we need is to choose differently – to choose joy, peace, love, and a culture built on a higher calibre of consciousness and customs. This is why TOS exists, to present to the world an alternative way of thinking and being in the second most primal sphere of modern life: Commerce!
“Know thyself and you shall know the Gods” – Khemetic Mason Proverb
If you made it here, congratulations. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed typing it. To next week and beyond!
Siyabonga!
This week’s affirmation: I am Infinite Source and I choose a blissful life experience!
This week’s vibe: https://open.spotify.com/track/6KCabZVh6Xgo6VRjmKRgOj / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6Y3s_hi3k - "Freefall" by Thandi Ntuli | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViWj8TmyHrw - "Somandla" by Mandisi Dyantysi
