Empelandaba:
Part 1
The End Of
This World Is Just The Beginning Of Another
We are approaching the much vaunted and long overdue Dooms
Day, prophesied by many astrologers, pseudo-scientists and New Age enthusiast
paraphrasing the Mayan Calendar. The fact that this very calendar is composed
of obscure and archaic symbolic hieroglyphs and interpreted by mostly English
speaking modern conspiracy theorists did not deter the publishers of numerous
“2012” books, documentaries and even big budget Hollywood blockbusters from
profiting from this dubious “discovery”.
The reality is that for millennia and within many traditions
and cultures, humankind has generated similar End of the World stories, in fact
every contemporary book based religion has one. They all sound distinctive and
are made to seem like the exclusive revelations of the various Gods, prophets
or seers. But there appears to be many similarities and parallels running
through all of these tales of human or earthly annihilation. From the ancient
Egyptian/Kemetan Pyramid and papyrus scrolls and rituals of the Secret Orders
to the Abrahamic religious traditions and the aforementioned South American
Mayan civilization, the consensus is that what begins must surely end. But the
difference is that while some say “No one knows the day or the hour of the Day
of the Lord (Judgement Day)…”; the others declare that “It is written and
encoded in the stars that when such and such occurs, the End Time is near…”.
Yet even in the former tradition, we can hear of Jesus the Christ telling his
devotees that certain events must take place on earth that will be mere signs that
the End is at hand.
The problem with all this religious speculation is that it
comes with a lot of collateral damage. So many people, believers and even those
who are not even part of such conspiracies end up on the receiving end of the
conspiracies, which increases levels of unwarranted fears and the more people
exist in fear, the more susceptible they are to all kinds of manipulation and
propaganda.
But there is another more positive side to the concept of
the End of The World and that is the one posited by radical revolutionary
movements such as the September National Imbizo; www.septembernationalimbizo.org
- Even though this is a burgeoning young political movement largely made up of
online contributors, supporters and followers, the few members who are
spearheading it do meet regularly and many campaigns have been staged to
varying degrees of success. In the bleak economic climate of the world and
within the Black world in particular, SNI propagates an End of the World theory
that is influenced by Black Consciousness and to a specific degree,
Afro-Pessimism. What this means is that they view the existence of Black people
within a predominantly White Supremacist society as an aberration to the natural
order of the universe. A failed experiment. In other words, in order for the
Black person and the Black woman in particular to realise full human status,
the neo-liberal and global White Capitalist governed world must come to an end
and there is no way around it, no reformist solutions or truth commissions can
remedy this situation. This means that the world as we know it and as we have
experienced in throughout the past cruel 3 or 4 centuries of Black subjugation,
has to end in order for people of Afrikan descent to live decent lives. The
Black radical revolutionary believes that it is impossible for people of colour
to enjoy the benefits of an immoral Eurocentric society while the rest of the
Black world languishes in abject poverty and acute types of inferiority
complexes.
This is not a doomsday prophecy, it is not even a
pessimistic of cynical view, but one based on careful analysis of the bleak and
desperate Black condition…One has to simply think of the so called Democratic
Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, the so called New South Africa, Mali, Haiti,
Jamaica and any other African state to see that things are really out of order.
But what is order? Is it Western styled modernisation or laissez faire
macro-economic policies as instituted by the International Monetary Fund,
governed by the World Trade Organisation and enshrined in the policies of the United
Nations? Surely, there is more to the world than this; this state of desperate
human suffering would exist if all these institutions were truly created to
right the wrongs, or could it be that they were enacted to sustain them?
As already mentioned, the idea that the world would or
should come to an end is enshrined in many religious texts and while others
offer promise of a New Earth, others promise Heavenly abodes for the chosen
few, it all “depends” on certain preordained factors, you have to meet the
standards of perfection espoused by the specific gods, priests or prophets.
Everything is related though and one has to relate all this end of the world
talk to something, perhaps in the human psyche or in our various cultural
ideals. Since religions and organisations do not emerge out of a vacuum but
usually as part of coping mechanisms, we have to investigate further why obsoletes
are ‘encoded’ into our stories and ways of seeing. Let us leave that for
another telling. For now let me share what one of my online friends sent today,
interestingly, I wrote part of this article yesterday before receiving this
email, so I guess the spirit of the End is really upon us; so read with an open
mind:
“The
winter solstice, according to ancient spiritual cultures, is the time when the
energies of the earth enable the greatest enhancement to the ability to enter
the state of altered consciousness, thus enhancing man’s ability to communicate
with her/his spirit and the Divine World Spirit. It is also the time when the
Divine World Spirit dispenses the seeds that will govern the coming year. The
2012 Winter Solstice also marks the ending of the current era of 5126 years
(Kali Yuga—age of darkness), and the beginning of a new era that will manifest
greater spiritual awareness in the world—Age of Aquarius, Satya Yuga, etc. Only
those people that are in harmony with divine law, and especially those that
have made a special preparation for the occasion through initiations will
receive the spiritual dispensation that will descend during the solstice. Yes,
there will be a catastrophe; being left out of the direct reception of the
dispensation.”
Please
follow this link and listen!: End of What World? – Ras Heru-Khuti*
Menzi Maseko ©
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