By Keidi Obi Awadu, The Conscious Rasta, © 2003 / 6243
“He who
dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the
press and radio, is master of the mind” – Joost A. M.
Meerloo, THE
RAPE OF THE MIND: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and
Brainwashing
Key to the
overthrow of the Mysteries System which was the dominant university of
instruction for the great scholars of ancient Khemet, was the usurpation
by hostile external forces of the symbols which were the guideposts for the
citizenry of the empires. Manly Palmer Hall, in his masterful work The
Secret Teachings of All Ages, gives us a clear explanation of the critical
importance of this theft of our African inheritance:
Egypt, a
great center of learning and the birthplace of many
arts and sciences, furnished an ideal environment for transcendental
experimentation. Here the black magicians of Atlantis continued to
exercise their superhuman powers until they had completely undermined and
corrupted the morals of the primitive Mysteries. By establishing a
sacerdotal caste they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates,
and seized the reins of spiritual government. Thus black magic dictated
the state religion and paralyzed the intellectual and
spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and
unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priestcraft. The
Pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the Scarlet Council—a committee of archsorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood.
These
sorcerers then began the systematic destruction of all keys to the ancient
wisdom, so that none might have access to the knowledge necessary to reach adeptship without first becoming one of their order. They mutilated the rituals of the
Mysteries while professing to preserve them, so that even though the neophyte
passed through the degrees he could not secure the knowledge to which he was
entitled. Idolatry was introduced by encouraging the worship of the
images which in the beginning the wise had erected solely as symbols for study
and meditation. False interpretations were given to the emblems and
figures of the Mysteries, and elaborate theologies were created to confuse the
minds of their devotees. The masses, deprived of their birthright of
understanding and groveling in ignorance, eventually
became the abject slaves of the spiritual imposters.
Superstition universally prevailed and the black magicians completely dominated
national affairs, with the result that humanity still suffers from the
sophistries of the priestcrafts of Atlantis and
Egypt.
Similarly,
in contemporary society
the ruling class, most often belonging to secret
societies that have preserved the legacy of the usurping priestcrafts,
utilize the power of symbol manipulation and cultural reprogramming to maintain
their control over the perceptions and activities of the citizenry, who is most
often reduced to beastly natures; distracted and satiated with low-order
gratification.
These
societal dictators are backed on a scientific level by mind control research
which has, with each generation, gone deeper into the power of symbol
manipulation as mechanism for controlling mass behavior. Yet theirs is not new or
groundbreaking research as we have demonstrated how the ancients used similar
methods for directing the common activities of their citizens. What is
different is that the basic direction which the new symbols are guiding the
masses toward is so contrary: individualism, materialism, religious
fundamentalism, dependence, perversion, xenophobia (fear of the other),
warmongering and other antisocial behaviors.
In order
to maintain this misdirection of the masses of the citizenry, and in particular create for the
African a subculture of dependence, the symbol manipulators have taken to
saturating our community with symbols of debasement, perversion and
distraction. Within our geographical concentration is a preponderance
of billboards and posters advertising liquor, hypersexualization,
diseases, fertility control, criminality, disfunctionality
of the family, crass materialism and individualism. Worse yet, the
leaders that we have come to rely upon, themselves supported by the symbol
manipulators, seem not to be savvy enough to realize that their own greater
ambitions of transformation for the larger community are undermined by the
great presence of these symbols of debasement.
These
distortions are indeed ubiquitous; invading our senses of sight and sound from
every conceivable source of communication. Yet our research has confirmed that this is
a deliberate process with deliberate aims. We have extensive writings
from social scientists which openly express their intentions:
“Sufficient financial backing for regular utilization of mass media,
constantly to communicate the desired objectives to the ‘common man.’ New
values can be deliberately created, disseminated, and adopted as personal and
collective goals highly desirable of achievement. But the concerted
effort of the major social institutions—particularly the educational,
recreational, and religious—must be enlisted with the ready cooperation of
those in control of the mass media… By utilizing the various tested devices,
our modern genius in advertising may alight upon simple phrases well organized
in sequence and timing, and co-ordinated with other
efforts geared to realize the ‘grand design.’ But there
are required a host of laborers with plenty of
financial backing.” – Sociologist Philip J. Allen, Univ. of Virginia
And on the
subject of Media Advocacy, we share the following from our vast body of mind
control research:
In summary,
[media] advocacy consists of a large number of information activities, such as
lobbying with decision makers through personal contacts and direct mail;
holding seminars, rallies and newsmaking events;
ensuring regular newspaper, magazine, television and radio coverage and
obtaining endorsements from known people. The goal of advocacy is to make the
innovation a political or national priority that cannot be swept aside with a
change in government. In the context of development programs, media advocacy
may be carried out by key people in international agencies, as well as special
ambassadors, but is gradually taken over by people in national and local
leadership positions and the print and electronic media. – Family Tree of
Theories, Methodologies & Strategies in Development Communication:
Convergences & Differences, The Communications
Initiative
Mass Communication Media:
Vehicles for Change
Our current
state of technological and intellectual development would seem to pale in the
face of the glorious ages of ancient African empires. Yet the entire
world has changed in ways which are irreversible. We do adapt to the paradigms
of modern, industrialized society just as we hold true to those axioms of
culture, spirit and natural existence which we know to be true in light of our
Divine Creation. As such, we know that we must make fundamental changes
in the behaviors that have become commonplace within
our community and the larger society; behaviors
which, unchanged, will continue our degeneration to the point of annihilation
and erasure from common history.
Key to
the transformation and restoration of African people to the values expressed in
the Principles of Ma’at (Truth, Justice,
Propriety, Balance, Harmony, Reciprocity and Righteousness) and stated with the
guiding laws of The 42 Negative Confessions, we will utilize the power
of symbol manipulation to set up new guideposts to influence our generations. We must and will take
responsibility for the images that saturate our neighborhoods
and invade the psyche of all members of our self-defined social group. We
decree that images which have affect over our youth, middle-aged and elders
must be a compliment to the noble legacy that we wish to be the enduring
self-image of African people on this planet. Symbols and images which are
an affront to the wisest elders of our collective village must be erased and
replaced with those which give pride to the members of the village.