Superstition according to who?

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

One of the difficulties in the minds of indigenous black people that are in an oppressed state of functioning is that, the mind finds itself in a highly conflicting situation whose dynamics are regulated by the type of education being fed into it to an extent that when this particular mind eventually settles and is declared educated, it is when it functions within the perimeters, climate and most importantly it is when it exhibits the characteristics similar to those of white Europeans.. .

in other words, when the mind of a black man is a full clone of that of the West! ... ..
the consequence under these circumstances and state of mind is that, the black man of Africa is forced to adopt to the so called linear thinking of the type encouraged by the European enlightenment and renaissance, which is the type embedded in the European education system being fed into us. The enlightenment preferred ''reason'' over superstition which was associated with Africans, but by now we should know that Africans had a dual approach to knowledge and therefore structured knowledge was there before the arrival of our white children upon our shores, the religious texts Papyrus, the shabaka stone and Timbuktu manuscripts are quick examples! Anyway, we again see that superstition in this case is defined within the confines of the European mind in that they[Europeans] reasoned that there was no rationale in it and therefore, no meaningful knowledge could be sourced out of it!

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but to the African mind proper, that which is not contaminated by foreign education systems and interpretations that is, the understanding is that ''spirituality just like gravity is discovered and not created by man'' and therefore, the first truly new and radically transcendent notion to arise in human consciousness since the burial of the dead and the mysteries of priesthood was the notion of resurrection and reincarnation'' which are said to have germinated among the people of the great lakes and upper Nile in Africa. The essential religious texts that deal with these notions are captured in the Egyptian ''Book of the dead'' which is more than 3000 years older than Christ! These texts deal with the dead and their new life as spirit in the realm beyond and the notion of the divine intellectual power or God.

So, according to Edward Bynum the earliest spiritual intuitions of eternal life lived in the heart of this religion that inspired human civilization and over the eons went through many transformations from its seed idea brought down the Nile Valley. The presence of ''advanced and abstract'' intellectual and spiritual ideas in the core of this African creation was both an annoyance and perceived anomaly to most European scholars as they could not believe that black Africans could think to that deeper spiritual level, I suppose this was due to their racist convictions.

Nevertheless, Christians in Egypt or Copts as they were known never succeeded in divesting themselves of the ''superstitious'' and weird mythological conceptions which they inherited from their heathen ancestors. these heathen beliefs and formulations had a profound effect on the actual development of Christianity, Islam and Judaism and they are echoed in certain doctrines of ''Tibetan book of the dead'' compiled millennia later but taken by racist Eurocentric scholars to falsely be an advanced spiritual text.

from this above here, we see that the earliest ''abstract intellectual'' development of the African mind transcends the boundaries and limitations imposed by linear thinking or so called reasoning! It is out of nonlinear creative intelligence of the African mind that some deeper order unfolds, and out of that unfolding, light is brought to the human race in a form of a complex knowledge system which white Europe relegated as ''superstition'' purely because they could not understand it even though out of it was birthed various religious doctrines appreciated across the globe to this day.
When we discuss African renaissance, these are the sort of things we as blacks must reignite!

Bring back superstitious African education!!!