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symbioidljH.E.A.L. - Human Education Against Lies
A very interesting document. Written by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli (translation: one born in a foreign land searching for the truth). The HEAL movement was founded by him and KRS-One(of Boogie Down Productions fame).
Very neat stuff in here, I think. Though I disagree with the complete anthropocentrist viewpoint tone that it starts off with.
Quotes from this document/online book:
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1) Keep in mind, when you wish to change anything, the revolution starts in the mind. Change the way you think and you will change the environment around you. It is that simple. Look in the mirror and change what you see there, first before anything else.
2) Understand this point, before you are a race, a religion or an occupation, you are a human being.
3) Number one, the creator of the universe is alive and conscious and manifests itself in all that has life.
Number two, all manuscripts, books, scrolls, and letters are all dead, including the Bible. These things do not have life nor can they be given life.
Number three, God does not live in the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita or Tora. God lives within the hearts and minds of every living creature.
Number four, God is life. God is Love.
If you wish to respect God, respect life, all life. If you wish to love God, love life. Protect and uplift life through your service to humanity. No religion is greater than the creator of the universe that lives within you.
4) The Bible is dead. God is alive. When you wish to find God, put down the Bible and go in a quiet room, by yourself and meditate on self. No written document is closer to you than the creator that lives within you. When you find the God that lives w ithin you, you'll begin to see God within all living creatures.
5) The creator of the universe manifests itself in all cultures, names, symbols, prophets, masters and messiahs. The idea of any one religion being the greatest religion and the only true way to God is nothing more than a bullshit and wasteful concept put forth by people that know nothing of God.
*note: this might refute my anthropocentrism dislike mentioned earlier:
6) The human being is the most mightiest of all creatures in the universe. This is not to be taken egotistically as most ignorant persons do and justify the senseless killing of life, because everything you're killing is part of your environment which is a part of you. When you kill, you kill a part of yourself
7) We are here so that the universe might know itself. (this is similar to what the World Pantheist Movement says in their documents.)
8) We are all reading a script but only some of us are writing it! Who wrote your script? Who's controlling your life? The saddest thing is that the script written by the current religious, political and educational systems is riddled with sex, violence, and lies.
9) The solution here is to write down on your neuron cells new information like: Love, Intellect, and Culture. Your thoughts are as real as the baby you carry (men included). Say to yourself, as you walk down the street, "I am the universe and the universe is me, my very existence is an advancement for my environment. I am light!" And eventually you feel it, then become it, and your life will change for the better. Not just for you, but for the People around you also. The solution lies in correct education which leads to correct thinking.
HIP HOP HOORAY!!!!!!!!! I like this document quite a bit. Even if there are bits and pieces I don't fully agree with, but that's how everything is.
Peace out...
A very interesting document. Written by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli (translation: one born in a foreign land searching for the truth). The HEAL movement was founded by him and KRS-One(of Boogie Down Productions fame).
Very neat stuff in here, I think. Though I disagree with the complete anthropocentrist viewpoint tone that it starts off with.
Quotes from this document/online book:
---------------------------------------------------------------
1) Keep in mind, when you wish to change anything, the revolution starts in the mind. Change the way you think and you will change the environment around you. It is that simple. Look in the mirror and change what you see there, first before anything else.
2) Understand this point, before you are a race, a religion or an occupation, you are a human being.
3) Number one, the creator of the universe is alive and conscious and manifests itself in all that has life.
Number two, all manuscripts, books, scrolls, and letters are all dead, including the Bible. These things do not have life nor can they be given life.
Number three, God does not live in the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita or Tora. God lives within the hearts and minds of every living creature.
Number four, God is life. God is Love.
If you wish to respect God, respect life, all life. If you wish to love God, love life. Protect and uplift life through your service to humanity. No religion is greater than the creator of the universe that lives within you.
4) The Bible is dead. God is alive. When you wish to find God, put down the Bible and go in a quiet room, by yourself and meditate on self. No written document is closer to you than the creator that lives within you. When you find the God that lives w ithin you, you'll begin to see God within all living creatures.
5) The creator of the universe manifests itself in all cultures, names, symbols, prophets, masters and messiahs. The idea of any one religion being the greatest religion and the only true way to God is nothing more than a bullshit and wasteful concept put forth by people that know nothing of God.
*note: this might refute my anthropocentrism dislike mentioned earlier:
6) The human being is the most mightiest of all creatures in the universe. This is not to be taken egotistically as most ignorant persons do and justify the senseless killing of life, because everything you're killing is part of your environment which is a part of you. When you kill, you kill a part of yourself
7) We are here so that the universe might know itself. (this is similar to what the World Pantheist Movement says in their documents.)
8) We are all reading a script but only some of us are writing it! Who wrote your script? Who's controlling your life? The saddest thing is that the script written by the current religious, political and educational systems is riddled with sex, violence, and lies.
9) The solution here is to write down on your neuron cells new information like: Love, Intellect, and Culture. Your thoughts are as real as the baby you carry (men included). Say to yourself, as you walk down the street, "I am the universe and the universe is me, my very existence is an advancement for my environment. I am light!" And eventually you feel it, then become it, and your life will change for the better. Not just for you, but for the People around you also. The solution lies in correct education which leads to correct thinking.
HIP HOP HOORAY!!!!!!!!! I like this document quite a bit. Even if there are bits and pieces I don't fully agree with, but that's how everything is.
Peace out...
