"God Tribe Called Shabazz"

First of all I'm feeling ambivalent about making it to the Show and Prove this Weekend. I really want to go b.u.t. some other more pressing issues came up. My financial resources had to be fully directed towards Custody Court on June 13th. I had to retain a Lawyer because I'm seeking Residential Custody of my two young Queens Asiyah (10) & Aziza (8)! I have a very, very good case in "Showing & Proving" that I'm the best suited Parent to provide their needs. Hopefully I'll be bringing them with me next year! Anyway, here’s some thoughts and situations that I’ve dealt with lately besides that:

• I see that Michael Jackson and 50 are doing a song together! Willie Wonka meets King Kong and this joint might go "Plutonium" forget Platinum! I’m also interested in seeing what the video will look like (if they do one). My guess is that they’ll do it like the Nelly/Tim McGraw video where they made sure that they never shared a scene together! It won’t be nothing as ego-crushing and career dismantling than to see Mike with his feminine nut grabbing screeches dancing right next to Fifty lookin’ all hood making gun gestures with his hands towards the camera! This situation can be either an explosion or an implosion!

• I was recently approached by this Wiz who told me that her “Married” friend who just had her 3rd child 6 weeks ago, who’s husband is still recovering from a car accident he suffered in the last 6 months “wanted to know my status?”. Among other “things”, she thinks I’m honorable! All I can say about that one is you won’t read about that in my Koran! The ill thing about it is that she actually told this Wiz to ask me! Obviously, we as an Original Man have alot more work to do in regards to changing how we are “collectively” perceived. She really must have expected me to react to this too & by jumping out of some nigga’ bag!

• Last month I did the Knowledge to the movie “Memoirs of a Geisha”!!! It was on point. I tell you, I need me an Earth that carry her science like a Geisha, word is bond! They took that “how to keep a man and in general how to act at home and abroad” MGT & GCC Science to the level of an art! I mean, these Wiz’s show & prove that many of us have truly been settling for the poor part. Don’t just rent this joint, buy it and add it to your Book of Life!

• I work at the Seneca Niagara Casino. I Native owned and operated “gaming” operation that is unlike any place I have ever worked at before. It’s a whole story within itself. Anyway, on the “Wisdom Day” (The 2nd) this Colored Woman (white woman) came into work all excited about what she learned at work yesterday. She quizzed everyone (about 7 other people) during Pre-shift (A “Manager” coordinated 10 minute meeting before the start of the shift) about what a “Rusty Trombone” was! She stated that it’s when you kneel behind a guy and toss his salad while you beat his monkey (to paraphrase her)! She dropped this nasty shit like it was a jewel or something. I’m standing back feeling like my conscience was raped. Anyway, “a savage means a person who has lost the knowledge of him/herself & is living a beast life”!

• My young Queen Asiyah (10) got chosen to participate in a Leap Forward Program because she is enrolled in this SAT Afterschool Program sponsored by Jamir Nelson of the Orlando Magic. It’s a 4-year 5 week Summer Camp program where she stays on a College Campus, learns subjects like Science, Math and Latin and travels to do field research. She also got selected to participate in a Youth World Leadership Conference in DC next Spring! She’s been doing her thing. Even though I’m proud of her, I constantly try to emphasize that she is living for her and that this is about the knowledge of “herself”, not the knowledge of Saladin. I show her (and my other Queen Aziza) the Freedom of living this Culture in a way that we naturally got these lesson’s; from the natural, free flowing world around us! Anything other than that would be a religious crime.

• Over the past month I’ve been doing a Community Video Project with my class. We’ve been going out in the immediate Community getting interviews from residents and film footage to document how the Community can be developed. We are also emphasizing the major components that define a Community such as Family, Culture, Economy, History and Architecture. It’s been fun and enlightening! One disturbing thing we found in one square block was 9 homes that were boarded up and abandoned by absentee landlords. To add fuel to the fire, the doors were either wide open or could be opened with a simple twist of the doorknob! Statistically, 60% of all homes make less than $25,000 a year and 45% are below the National Poverty Line. Besides this, only 10% of the people have a College degree. Many of my students come from this environment and I feel blessed to have an opportunity to be a part of reversing these statistics and showing & proving that the Cream always rises to the top!

• Through observation I noticed that I have a sexual cycle that I go through. It’s a time when I’m really feeling intimacy compared to times that I’m strait without it. It’s approximately a four week cycle. The interesting thing about this is the fact that I’m not the only one who knows this! Wisdom’s (Women) pick it up like a specialized cologne forged from pheromones! Sometimes I feel like I’m walking around with a shirt on that say’s “Alpha Male”! From the perspective of the Ego, yeah it feels good, b.u.t. at the same time I know that it’s a temporary attraction power. Discipline is the glue that holds us together, especially the brother’s! There were times when I built with a Wiz and was all wise right & exact and when that cycle come around.. . Well, let’s just say that it’s a very humbling experience. I say this all to say what? To the brother’s, know your cycle and be honest about it! One of the greatest “National” setbacks is when we are showing and proving the righteous dimensions of our Culture and began seeing this sincerely reflected in a Wisdom’s eye’s, only to find ourselves exchanging body fluids with her like a scene from a Michael Douglas movie! Don’t get me wrong, ain’t nothing wrong with making love, but brother’s we gotta’ make sure that it will not compromise our integrity or have her doubting our ability. She will test us!!! It’s a bad feeling to look in a woman’s eyes who your trying to teach and know that she ain’t really listening to shit you saying by the smirk on her face. She’s probably sitting there wondering when the next time she can get you to hit it from the back, like the other “nigga’s” she dealt with!

• I formally got Knowledge in Born Power (95). To look back on the 11 years since I’ve had my lesson’s I’ve become happier, healthier and more aware of what my destiny is comprised of. Sure I’ve gone though hell, but I have always come out right through learning what I needed to be taught at the time. By being committed to “PEACE” and saying “PEACE” as much as I do, it continues to have a profound effect upon my state of being and worldview. I also live in an environment that reinforces this too. All in all, there is nothing more fulfilling and beautiful than living life the way in which it was designed. Take the time to use your nose to smell the scent of a blossoming flower, listen to the song of the birds, hug someone that you love, and stop for a moment to gaze at the stars! As ugly as people can often “make” life be, appreciate what life was and will be long after they are gone!

Chef Dave Martin

BRAVO'S Reality Show "TOP CHEF"

"I'm not ya' Bitch, Bitch!!"

Over the last two month’s I learned a new word for the first time, Bitch! I am Understanding Knowledge (31) and I have never used this word in my vocabulary my entire life. I can say that I never saw a use for it in describing what I see, but all that has changed! Now I use the word “bitch” where it applies. Particularly in reference to these savage bitches I see on a daily basis. It’s interesting to see how low some of their expectations are, especially when it comes to sex. I heard people say stuff like, “A no good man made a no good woman!” and that’s “generally” an accurate statement. We just can’t overlook these bitches who continue to be grimy and live a savage way of life regardless of the circumstances. They have a choice, and many of the bitches I see “choose” to do the shit they do! Maybe it’s something in the water?

Population ratio’s of females to male dictates a lot of the grimy shit that these bitches do in much of the same way that colored people gravitate towards devilishment seeing that they are facing global genetic annihilation. In many places, women are in a situation where they are 11 to every “1” Single, Educated, Truthful, Employed, Healthy, HIV Negative, Strait, Identity Conscious, Non Criminal, Black, Man! Black women often look at eachother and live by the mantra "Either I must compete or get beat on my feet"! For the Black woman in America she is facing some very slim choices. Statistically, many of them won’t ever have the opportunity to deal with the above mentioned type of man. They will either settle for some other type of male, turn lesbian/bisexual or find other unnatural methods to compensate for this unbalanced population ratio of females-male. Shit I got two young Queen’s myself and I know the potential for them to become one of these grimy bitches who will phuck another woman’s man just to say she has one! Not on the basis of available choices, but based on the fact that there aren’t many Single, Educated, Truthful, Employed, Healthy, HIV Negative, Strait, Identity Conscious, Non Criminal, Black, Men around. Choices are very slim indeed and the Rap Music serving as the theme music for their generation doesn’t look promising either!

Now that I’ve gotten that off, check this out. First of all I’m not putting up with the shit. I don’t think these bitches are cute showing they ass, running game and parading around knowing they got kids somewhere. I ain’t entertaining nor “trying” to civilize none of these bitches either! Most of them know exactly what they’re doing and they ain’t ashamed about it. I also need to speak on these headwrap wearing, cutthroat, Little Kim lyric quoting, ¾ wearing, closet freak, trying to use my mathematics to boost my Ego, game playing, frontin’ satisfaction, toxic earth bitches! Ya’ll don’t move me either! You a bitch wit knowledge, a bitch that basically know better!

To get a clearer understanding of where I’m coming from do the knowledge to “Axiology”. It’s the science of how people arrive at certain value systems! Axiologically speaking, because so-called “Men” have been on some misogynistic, patriarchal, oppressive bullshit towards women for centuries, we forced women to adapt and cope with specific societal roles as best they could. Unfortunately, this became a proverbial “pelon”, a psychological/social place where many Devils were manufactured! A Bitch by definition is “a female dog” and because of our backwardness as men, we simultaneously prepped many women to become other than themselves too! This of course is speaking from a historical perspective, but it is entirely up to us (once we know this!!) to choose if we want to make this type of mentality contemporary. For instance, as a brother who knows this, I would be a grimy muthafucka if I choose to try and take advantage of women who are starving for a man, knowing that I couldn’t give them the time, attention and financial support they truly need! I’m just on some pimp shit! Now a woman would also be just as grimy after knowing that statistically it’s 11 to 1 and she decides to get on some “New York” shit (from Flavor of Love) to try and get a man! There are women all across America getting down like this and these bitches are trifling, head wrap and all! And the nigga’s who are on some smorgasbord shit are just as grimy! See, I strive to be conscious of the gender inequality on all levels in society (and it’s manifestations) be it social, economic and population wise. America has been a 5oo pound Gorilla riding both our backs, b.u.t. some of us have learned to use this as method to protect us from shit we think will be worst than our back ache! Feel me?

So what solutions do I see? We gotta’ either honestly and openly try to deal with polygamy, HONESTLY, or start an Earth convent (not a lesbian colony) that will ensure that we can create some equilibrium. This Lifetime Network bullshit got to go, it’s difficult enough already dealing with regular bitches, we don’t need to be sitting there drawing up Asiatic bitches too! The Planet Earth is supposed to be the home of Islam, not a place where a woman is always scheming, manipulating, lying, competing and trying to use devilishment to keep a man, and justifying the shit based upon her “survivalist”, poor part of the Planet mentality! I know some of you are sitting back saying “Yeah all that is caused by the Sun of Man!”. Yeah that’s “generally” true, b.u.t. not in these epidemic cases where bitches know alternatives but still choose to be bitches, and proud flag flying’ bitches at that!

Those women who feel offended, defensive or outright angry about the truth then it’s you who I am talking to specifically. Get ya’ shit together, be honest with yourself and quit running game bitch! When the Black man comes into the Knowledge of himself he knows that he enters a “societal/globally universal” category where each day his value appreciates! He knows that he is the piece with the magnetic because there is nothing in comparison to Original Man and if you ain’t on no Geisha science then you bullshittin, strait up! Those males (not men) who feel offended that I would call you out like that, you need to get off that grimy shit of trying to manipulate women like that! If you can’t be financially (this is America!), emotionally and physically supportive to more than one woman (openly & consistently) than quit frontin’! Your killing yourself (in more ways than one) trying to make provisions to show off your stable at the show & prove each year! It ain’t impressive.

My physical "Golden Sun"

The Quest for Self

The Culture of the Nation of Gods and Earths is an inner sensory based reality. Not to dismiss the external world we walk and experience life in, it’s just that we realize that it is a mirror of what we sense within. Those who seek to learn it go through the same ego de-structuring side effects that a sensory deprivation subject undergoes such as disorientation, amnesia, apathy, hallucination, and mild schizophrenic episodes. This takes place all in the name of re-discovering the truth. Usually when people approach learning they fail to realize that the first step is to often unlearn things that they have been taught. It’s often a case of “a full pot can’t be filled!”.

I’ve met people with a host of determined ideas besides the idea of simply being a student. I’ve had people tell me how they desire to be taught even though they had no knowledge of what they wanted to learn. I’ve had people expect me to assume a Teacher relationship to them through subtle inference in order to avoid feeling ashamed from asking for my help. I’ve had people desire to learn for the purposes of locking it in a safe, taking advantage of the poor & ignorant, becoming rich or to be idolized!

I’ve always said that my life reflects the state of my heart and the expression of my mind. Nothing more or nothing less. Success is rooted in this basic understanding. The Culture we live should be fashioned to Free us from any negative vices that prevent us from being a positive asset to ourselves, our family, our community, the human family and the world at large. Our Culture serves as a repository of ideas that forge a system of values that define our world-view and shape our reality. These values express themselves through a language, diet, way of dress and behavior towards eachother and the world.

If the Culture you live does not serve a positive self/collect interest, then you should consider what re-adjustments need to be made in order to serve these interests. Culture serves as a skeletal structure to support the preservation and prosperity of a collective body of people in partnership with the Planet. From this perspective, it is easy to understand that the masses of people suffer from a collective insanity! Anytime that a person continues to use a language, diet, dress and behave in a way that is clearly destructive to themselves and others, this is insanity! Some people will die today holding on to a tradition that died 2,000 years ago.

I am not promoting the concept that we should discard “all” the things that we have learned. I am simply saying that to embrace the “be like water” concept that Bruce Lee built about from a “Cultural” context is not a bad thing. We must be fluid yet firm and often times “like a fine mist” in our thinking, all the while maintaining who and what we are. We can’t be afraid to learn something new nor to utilize different approaches to solve problems. In the process we’ll discover many things about ourselves and the world that we simply did not see. And to my Universal Family, this is especially true with us. I think that sometimes some of us live this Culture “traditionally” in a way that we conceptualize and follow “The Father’s” legacy like it’s the Hadith! It must be understood that many of The Father’s methodologies were innovative during his time in much of the same way that we need to be innovative! I am speaking on the “methodology” of teaching not the teaching itself. Like my brother I-Majestic built about in his blog about Dipset, “people often like to be around negative people because it’s more fun to be around them!”. That’s all wise indeed!

I’m gonna end this with an experience I once had. I used to go to a few Rally’s that were held at a park out in Bethlehem (Buffalo, NY) on Saturday’s. On one occasion it was organized by this God who rested out there and it was on a Saturday in the Summer. It was a beautiful day, brisk wind, sunny and just one of those days that make you smile. The park was small and there were more than 30 children (boys and girls ages 6-13) playing there, running around, in the sand box, they were everywhere! It was wonderful seeing them just enjoying themselves and it made me smile. Anyway, off from all the activity I see this heavy, dark figure at a picnic table with stacks of books weighing it down. With his head down reading, and dressed like he just came back from a Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it’s the God he called together the Rally! Now I was so turned off that I passed right by him and went to play chase with the seeds, and yeah the irony is the fact that it started at the “Wisdom” hour. I said all of that to say this, let’s not be corny wit this. I know I have been at times and still do but I check myself about it by laughing at myself with the knowledge that life is colorful and full of vitality! Shiiiittttt, I had locks for 6 years and decided to cut them a few months back when (among other things) I realized that my teaching method was coming off like some Daz Efx shit to my students in my program!!! I had to re-invent myself in order to be proficient in what I do.

Peace,

Saladin

Bill Cosby is 5 Percent!

On Saturday Jan. 21st Me, some Chaperones and some Students from my L.I.F.E. Program went to see Bill Cosby at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel here in Atlantis (Niagara Falls, NY). As an Employee at the SNCH I have had the wonderful opportunity to network with many people in different Departments and build good relations. One of those networks is with the Director of our Entertainment Department Karen who (through conversation) encouraged me to put in a request with our Executive Office to get tickets donated to my Program for my Student s to see Bill Cosby. After following through with her advice, I was successfully able to secure 15 tickets ($60 each) for us to go to the show!

Now to give you alittle insight into the show first I gotta’ give you a perspective of the audience, 85% Colored (White) and Middle Aged (between 40-55). The rest of the audience was comprised of people of different ethnicities, ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Starting on time, Bill Cosby came out and got directly into conversation. It’s funny because he wasn’t performing, acting or even doing comedy as some people “think”, he was just being himself and sharing his perspective on life situations! I think that people have underestimated Bill Cosby’s sense of self identity and political consciousness as well, b.u.t. he is indeed a very, very political person! Even more so than a Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle simply because Bill Cosby is a lot wiser in his subject choice and his ability to articulate it without offending someone. Here’s an example of what I mean when Bill Cosby got into talking about ethnicities:

“Back in the early 1960’s when I worked with Warner Brother’s it was very segregated. I mean all of the stage hands were white and there were no black people anywhere. I had the opportunity of working with this one African American who was very, very light skinned who happened to get into the union at the time. You know he was very, very light skinned, his hair wasn’t tightly rolled and his features….his feature’s you know they weren’t very Sphinx-Like or like those of the Nubians. And you know, different ethnicities have way of identifying eachother regardless of where they may be. For instance if your Italian and your working around all Polish people and another Italian person walks in you look and at them and kind of give them a kind of wink and a nod (of acknowledgement)! Well, when I met Hernandez and we seen eachother he gave me “The nod” as if to say “Yeah I’m here and they have no idea who or what I am.”

Seeing Bill Cosby gave me a new appreciation for people who exist in the sphere of Comedy. Comedians are Magicians are like Alchemists! To have an ability to cut across all ethnic, age and socioeconomic divisions and transmute a subject to articulate it’s universality it’s the work of a Master! Laughter is “Understanding” and to have the ability to instantaneously get people all to agree is Supreme Enlightenment! Here are some of the humorous lesson’s Bill Cosby dropped about different subjects:

Age, Doing the Knowledge and Trust
“As you get older you learn to just not say anything. Me and my Wife Camille often sit in the house for hours in the same room without saying a word and it’s beautiful, it’s peaceful. When she asks me to go places I don’t even ask anymore, I just go. I know she’s not going to take me to someplace weird like a XXX Adult Porn Shop or something like that.

Women and eating the Right Foods
“As you get older your wife starts to talk to you and treat you like a Little Leaguer or something. She starts laying your clothes out and stuff and you can’t even eat what you want anymore. She gets your food and gives you what she wants you to eat. I was at this party one time for this 1 year old person and 18 other 1 year old people who don’t even know it’s a party, and I was sitting at a table full of other Grandparents and Great Grandparents and all of our wives were in the kitchen pulling the skin off of stuff and rinsing gravies and sauces off. My wife brought my a half of turkey leg with sink water still dripping off of it and this one guy sarcastically asked any of the other fellows at the table if they wanted to try his cold slaw that had been rinsed off, you can still smell the mayonnaise!”

Potting Training and Living a Beast Life
“ My daughter has been trying to Potty Train her child and she had her sitting on the toilet on top of the snap on chair that’s the size for children. You know it snaps right on to the toilet. My daughter is all intellectual and she’s sitting across from her 2 year old daughter reading a book called Everybody Poop’s (Bill rolls his eye’s in the back of his head and say’s “ya think”!). She’s reading her this book about some broccoli traveling through this and that and it’s making juices here and etc.. . See, my Father trained us. He just took us to the park one day, took all of our clothes from us and told us we can either use the bathroom like other human beings or live with the animals! I’ve never had a problem since.”

Word is Bond
“Back in 1967 I lost the key to the house and my wife made sure she told me that she had to change every lock in the house. Since 1967 I have never had a key to my house! I will leave to tomorrow and a fellow will pick me up from the airport and drive me to my house. This fellow has a key and he doesn’t even live there, yet I still do not have a key.”

Bill Cosby is has often been called “America’s Dad” and I can see why! As Father, he has been able to touch audiences of people (especially Caucasians) far and wide with a sense of knowledge, direction, discipline and compassion that only a Father has. As a Comedian, it is also indicative of having a higher consciousness! Not only must you be aware of current events and global affairs but you must also be well read (books, situations and people) in order to critically analyst your subject matter to see the humor in it. No Comedian is not dealing with a high level consciousness and Bill Cosby has been one who has been doing it for over 40 years! It tells you something that he’s swift enough to make a 6 year Original Boy and an 85 year old Caucasian laugh at the same time!

In closing, I would like to say that those people who seem the most neutral, who appear the most accommodating are often times the most politically dangerous! Don’t sleep on Bill Cosby, we have a jewel within our midst! In the truest sense of the concept “Father of Civilization”, Bill Cosby is a living example of this. If you ever hear that he’s coming to town don’t hesitate to go see him, you will not be disappointed!

Family Tree Project 2005

www.africanancestry.com

I have been overwhelmed with emotion!!! I have discovered that my Maternal Ancestry originates with the Tikar People of Cameroon!!!

My last two weeks have been a monumental moment in my life. I received the results for the family tree project I was doing and discovered my Maternal Roots! My DNA shows that I come from the Tikar people of Cameroon which is in West/Central Africa!!! All weekend I have been doing research about my family and I have found some very interesting facts that give me insight into why I do certain things today. For instance, I love plantain and banana’s which is one of the major exported items along with palm oil, ground nuts, yams and other things. The country is right by the Congo (Tropical Jungle) and at the base of Mt. Cameroon and there are all kinds of animals and plant life that are native there like Gorillas, Elephants, Lions, Cheetah’s (which happens to be one of me and my daughters favorite animals). I have been collecting and sometimes making statues or dolls out of wood or other natural items that I find and my people are world renown for their craft making, especially dolls and masks that represent our ancestors. It’s like a profound sense of closure and understanding of intuitions and ideas and that I have been expressing since my birth! It’s something I cannot truly put in words.. .

When I looked at my results I just started crying because it meant so much to me! Even though my Parents have taught me things about our "Continental" homeland and tribes throughout Africa’s 52 Countries, I always felt a sense of emptiness not knowing the "actual" place that my ancestors came from and being able to truly identify with our cultural view of the world. It’s like for the last 450 years, most black people have been like "adopted" children to America. And just like adopted children in general, you see a marked difference in attitude and sense of identity between them and a child who grows up knowing and living with their "real" Parents. This has forced many of us to adopt a compromised sense of identity that was given to us by those people who have lied to us the most. In reference to what I’m saying, El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcom X.) once said, "If a cat crawled inside an oven and had babies, just because she had her babies in the oven it doesn’t make them biscuits!" You can see that historically many "non-white" people have collectively failed to understand this simple analogy. Make no mistake about it, there is a profound sense of insanity going on inside of women who go out of her way to identify with being a man, fair skinned so-called Latino’s trying to be accepted as a white people with permanent tans, black women burning their hair strait and wearing blue contact lenses, and black men using their best clown antics to be accepted as "honorary" white men. Most non-white people in this society have been conditioned to feel as though they have to be "humble" about their culture because it might make white people feel insecure, threatened or uncomfortable about themselves, and obviously there is a reason it does. You see, when you reaffirm your culture in the presence of white people, it simultaneously reveals their historical and present relationship to you.

This brings to the surface not only our historical relationship to eachother, but also our present day attitudes and beliefs that are derived from that history, either positively expressed or negative. Basically, you can still have the same slave/slave master or male/oppressed female relationship that existed hundreds of years ago simply because people haven’t seriously talked about these issues to analyze their impact upon human life. The impact that continues to benefit some and disadvantage others! It’s nothing wrong with discussing anything but put it in the proper context and consider the things that "shape" that discussion and what goals that discussion has and will achieve. Now don’t get me wrong, there are some wonderful things about American Society and American Culture because it is a conglomerate of many different influences. I’m just saying that we should never disregard the totality of our cultural identity in order to be "included" or try to "make it" in this Society. America has a way of directly and indirectly telling non-white people that you must drop or extremely modify your identity if you want to live in America. In just the last two years alone you’ll be surprised at how many people from Arabia, India and other Muslim and Hindu countries have changed their name to names like Bill, Betty, Mike and John in order to try and be accepted, non-threatening, not offensive and comfortable in American Society! What can they tell their children about integrity, truth, faith and cultural awareness?

To conclude, I just had these things on my mind and I’m sure you can appreciate where I’m coming from. Being involved in this DNA Project has heightened my cultural sensitivity and has given me a stronger sense of pride in my Heritage, literally, not just in the spiritual sense that I have always identified with my homeland. Now I can go back home and actually get citizenship in Cameroon!!!

My daughters were very, very excited too and we are already making plans to go there in 2006. For my Family Tree Project I also offered 19 other tests to other families besides my own. It is my hopes that through this Project, they will be able to develop the insight to understand their present-day context in American Society and adjust their world-view to culturally serve their best interest. There were a few people who discovered that their ancestors are the Mende People of Sierra Leone who’s world renown for their "Diamond" mining industry! Think about what type of impact that this knowledge has on a person who has only knew poverty, and who has only been taught that their ancestors were slaves. Not only will "Diamonds" never look the same to them again, but they will be "forced" to psychologically view themselves with a different self worth!

Peace,
Saladin

Born King M Allah

5th Annual Universal Family Day

Cee Allah's Nation (Canada)

"All the Human Familes of the Planet Earth"

Today I wanted to say PEACE to our Universal Family that reside in Cee Allah's Nation, Canada for all those who were unaware that we are not only Universal in a conceptual sense b.u.t. Universal "literally".

In the Mighty lands of Steel City (Hamilton) and Truth Cipher (Toronto) Ontario Canada we truly have a manifestation of a Human Family. I've had the opportunity of meeting Gods and Earths who are 1st and 2nd generation from China, Mexico, Barbado's, Nigeria, Persia, Pakistan, Jamaica, Trinadad, Ethiopia and I'm sure other brothers and sisters that come from a different cultural backdrop than America. It's a beautiful thing to see the concepts of Universal Flag, Universal Family, Original People, and Human Families in the flesh and lived out to the fullest Equality!

As an Original Man born and reared in American Society, it is quite a different socioeconomic and psychological dynamic than Canada. While the English were primarily responsible for colonizing the land and minds of the people in America, their little brother "France" were primarily reponsible for colonizing Canada. Also consider the fact that a different methodolgy must be used in teaching our lessons to a brother who just came from Nigeria, a sister from Ethiopia or a brother who is second generation from China! The brother Born King M Allah is performing a task that everybody cannot carry out, especially someone who has never been in the midst of such an ethnically diverse place like Canada! Think about it for a second.. .

The reason a posted a picture of our brother Born King M Allah is because he has worked dilligently to make our Nation a strong and visibly presence out in Canada. I give the Lord the upmost respect for doing what he does because if it wasn't for him representing what we teach then many of our brothers and sisters from their respected lands would not have had the opportunity to come into this Knowledge. All the Gods and Earths that rest in the Province of Ontario are connected to the God in some way. He's a humble brother b.u.t. will put you on your square if need be and he doesn't allow anyone to take any shorts. I also want to shout out his A-alike Born Truth Allah because he has been with the brother also as a shining example of who we are as a Nation! For all the years that I've I've known Born Truth he has always progressed and has been as sharp (or sharper) in his expression than last time. In other word's he's the type of God that you always want a new born (someone who just started learning) to meet.

I cannot neglect to mention his Earth "I-Asia" as well because she is definately the "Mother of Civilization" to Cee Allah's Nation. She is one of the few Earths that I have met that is always building and adding on to the Cipher showing and proving who she is! I-Asia is the epitome of what a Queen, Earth, Mother, Sister, and Teacher is. Our young Earths out in Canada who have an opportunity to be in her midst are truly blessed.

The future of our Nation already exists, and our Family in Canada represents a small scale model of what The Father envisioned when he instructed us to teach all the human families of the Planet Earth!

It is imperative that any a member of The Nation of Gods and Earths take the opportunity to visit our family out in Cee Allah's Nation and see for yourself the beautiful things that the God Born King M Allah and I-Asia Earth have done and are doing. In the future I will post other reflections of some of the Gods and Earths out in Canada and give you the opportunity to see how beautiful our Nation continues to grow!

If you are interested in contacting the God or Earth you can email Born King M Allah at: allahtheoriginalman@hotmail.com

L.I.F.E. Program in Atlantis!!

Who needs an "Enlightener" Anyway?!!

First I would like to state an actual fact in order to clarify one of the most vital points in our way of life and that is “No one can enter unless allowed by a qualified Enlightener”. I think that it is necessary to make this Knowledge Born (Known) because some people are under the impression that there is some type of “back door” that exists in becoming an active member of The Nation of Gods ands Earths. Here are some of the most common misconceptions that people have about becoming a part of the NGE:

1. You can “be down” by learning Wu-Tang Clan lyrics/lingo or other Rap Artists who are either members or loosely affiliated with the NGE.
   
2. You know how to say the Supreme Mathematics and/or the Supreme Alphabet.
   
3. You try or do use common language of the NGE.
   
4. You are qualified to talk about who we are because you bought the Wu-Tang Manual.
   
5. You have “the lessons” from downloading them off a Nation of Islam affiliated website.
   
6. You frequent NGE websites, message boards and talk to Gods and Earths (maybe?) on the internet.
   
7. You know someone or are related to someone who is in the NGE.
   
8. You were in prison and met Gods or Earths there.
   
9. You used to be in the Nation of Islam and received your “Supreme Wisdom” book which contains the lessons.
   
10. Your significant other is a member of the NGE so that gives you a free pass.

One of the determined ideas of this way of life is to use knowledge to cultivate ourselves to the extent that our uprightness leads us to God-centeredness. In layman’s terms we are trying to get ourselves “right” or “strait”. We were naturally born a specific way and we try to rid ourselves of the things and obstacles that try to make us other than our natural self. Knowledge provides us with the information and awareness to be Wise enough See what we need to do to obtain and maintain this God-centeredness. You can never achieve this by not being strait up from the door, and the Enlightener is the door!

Here are a few quotes that were taken from the book “The Sufi’s” by Idries Shah. They all emphasize the importance and necessity in having a Teacher:

“Everyone has become a gold seeker, but the ordinary do not know it when they see it. If you cannot recognize it, join a wise man.”

“While a Sufi may attain illumination within a long or short time, he cannot actually teach until he has received the Robe of Permission (to enroll students) from his own mentor;”

“The guide, philosopher and friend who is the Sufi teacher, then performs what may be considered to be many functions. As a guide he shows the Way- but the aspirant must himself do the walking.”

“Everyone, when he gets to a certain stage of mere personal sophistication, thinks that he can find the way to enlightenment by himself. This is denied by Sufis, for they ask how a person can find something when he does not know what it is.”

Martial Art’s movies are some of the greatest visual interpretations of the relationship that occurs between the Master and a Student. Here are some of the basic premises that you’ll find:

• The Student usually humbly approaches the Master’s Temple from a state of darkness (ignorance) in search of light (knowledge).
  
• Even if the Student tries to fool the Master he eventually breaks down and asks to be taught.
  
• Before the Master accepts him/her as a Student he puts them through a series of tests to determine if the Student is sincere.
  
• Most times they feel that the Master doesn’t want to teach them but in reality he is only testing their sincerity.
  
• If the Master finds that the person is sincere he takes him on as a student.
  
• The Master is very wise and crafts the Student’s curriculum around his temperance.
  
• The Master gives the Student pre-requisites to prepare the Student for what they will learn.
  
• The Student usually has the wrong motivation why they want to learn but
  
• The Student is usually impatient because they don’t know what to expect.
  
• The Student usually gets frustrated because they expect to know all things instantly.
  
• The Student sometimes feels that the Master is misleading them and may question his authority.
  
• The Student eventually understands the Masters determined idea and that is usually when the Master is no longer present.

You can find some, all or small variations of these basic concepts throughout many Martial Art’s Films and they give you a basic idea of what goes on during the relationship of a Master and a Student. What it ultimately comes down to is the fact that a person becomes a qualified Enlightener through a qualified Enlightener. This may not be the way that it is in other “spheres” but in this way we try to ensure that when a person say’s that they are God or the Earth they can show and prove it. Not through what books they have, rhymes they can quote, how long they did a bid, or who they know. This is based upon who their Enlightener was/is, what tree they come from and what they are doing to corroborate the fact that they are the God or Earth.

Peace to all the TRUE and LIVING!

Saladin