THE
IMPORTANCE OF ‘MAKE BELIEVE’ AS A STATE OF
MIND
This
article was compiled and edited by David Ofosu – Appiah LLB and Ms
Chermiah Hart FdA BA (Hons), March 2014, for the Institute of
Black Academics
concerning Black Under achievement.
PUBLISHED 21 MARCH
2014 10:46
As
a lover of classic things I must confess my favourite Disney song is ‘A
whole New World’ from the motion picture Aladdin (Pronounced in Arabic:
Alla-deen).
Absolutely love the soundtrack, and the motion
picture of flying carpets, Genie’s of the lamps, minarets (Dome shape
atop the Arabian Princes Palace), elements of magic,
supernatural, incantations, enchantments and craft in conjuring animate
objects to life.
But 22 Years later (released in 1992) of the
motion picture Aladdin and the hit soundtrack A whole new World. I have
really tried t o figure out true flashback of memory lane of the
scenario, captured imagery of the movie.
For
Aladdin to control and command the flying carpet, to fly over the skies
of the world, to kiss the love of his life, Princess Jasmine at a
palace, he needed to invoke super natural elements of incantations,
recitations, enchantments, conjuring through un-natural ways and means
of gaining a transport vehicle to fly around that defied logical
thinking of human reasoning, understanding and thought.
Aladdin
in a particular scene flies past all the Seven
Wonders of the World and a full moon on a flying carpet, in
unison formation with white swans and snow white unicorns. This includes
monuments such as the Sphinx of Egypt and the Acropolis of Ancient
Greece.
Magic,
sorcery, inherent craft has been practised since the dawn of time in
communities, civilisations and nations on earth in a constructive or
destructive way.
Practitioners
of timeless craft of divination, animism, mystic charms of wizardry,
sorcery, witchcraft were created to be used to make disbelief become
believable through enchantment, incantation, Inculcation; Instil an
idea, attitude or habit by persistent instruction. To impress something
upon the mind of another by frequent instruction, repetition, instil,
indoctrinate or to embed - ritual practise; to make animate or inanimate
objects to become real.
In contemporary times, viewers,
listeners, watchers or readers of television, internet, Music, books are
being enchanted, possessed through craft, magic in these variable
mediums in all generations from children to
adults.
Home
entertainment is to create a Factor, or inclusion of the - wow! Feel
good factor or the now in an exponential circumstance of being a
wannabe. The ‘Now Factor’ is ruling the world right now. There is no
longer yesterday, or tomorrow – but everything must be today. Life no
longer makes sense if it was yesterday or tomorrow, but the power of
‘Instant’ is a thoroughbred of enchantment. Instant healing creams,
instant cosmetics, beauty makeovers, collagen, implants, botox, miracle
crams and hair extensions. Wars are going on simultaneously across three
or four countries, poverty of 18million people and an economic melt down
of key states; however we can rest assured that we can come home to
watch the ‘X Factor’. Welcome to the world of ‘Make believe’ where
reality has expired by the conjurors of the craft. Or worse, becoming a
new specie or specimen, that has been conjured to become a new life form
altogether.
Illusions,
delusions and mind caesuras, mind control, brain washing and
manipulation of children watching television of cartoons using
enchantment figures or effigies, of imagery, symbolism, has taken hold
and possessed the little ones into the captivity of the ‘Dark Forces’.
This manifests in the increasing Suicide pacts, group rituals,
proliferations of arms, criminality, social – vices and evils is now the
new social – culture canker that is blighting the community cohesion,
community healing as work of man’s hands has possessed them into
submission and held them captive and they have become lost souls, lost
generations, popularly known as generation X or ‘the
untouchables’.
Adults
are not immune from the contagion of the ‘Dark Forces’ making shadows,
reflections come alive as they chant of ‘mirror mirror on the wall’ and
awaiting bloody Mary to appear in real life scenarios of divergent
visual dimension.
This happens because reflections on the mirror are
blurred, hazy and distorted. This is parallel to Black history being
blurred, hazy, distorted, hidden facts and miles away from the truth.
Adults have become hostages to themselves and the enchantments that have
seized their minds, soul and the spirits to act in accordance to the
dictate of the enchanter and their sorcery medium – High street premium
brand labels, most wanted gadgets, gismos and chart topping popular
music.
The
black community has not re-awakened from the enchantment of ‘Make
believe’ scenarios of social – cultural, mental, meta-physical or
abstract levels as still mesmerised, enchanted to believe in fantasy as
a ‘State of Mind’, that is withholding in our achievement in the sectors
of academia, scholarship, common – sense and wealth creation. Recent
hits include: ‘Empire–State–Of-Mind’, by Ms Keys, who recites the
Demi-Psalm, that anything is possible in New York, that it is ‘the place
where dreams are made of’ and “come true”, the “Lights will inspire
you”. . . In ‘Times Square’ or Manhattan, 42nd
Boulevard Broadway, JC Penny, Macie’s or
Tiffanies - everything is possible, instant LED Neon lights, are said to
“Inspire you”. “These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights
will inspire you”. New
York is allegedly built on the blue prints of
the Free-Masonic Lodge order and run by the personalities of Club 100
membership of Bankers, Accountants and Financiers that bank roll Stone
Wall. (Stone wall is a
thriving community of the crème-de-la-crème of organised affluent Gay
Society) in which village people of YMCA fame are associated with.
Let us look into two scenarios, a natural chicken hatch takes 21
days since time immemorial from foetus to egg including, when the hen
lays the eggs and broods over them before they hatch. However, in the
contemporary era; two un-natural imbalances of chickens embryos are
actually hatched within hours through genetic insemination,
electromagnetic valves and heating tabs to change the natural order
causing ‘Instant’ harvesting of chickens. Over 1million natural
interactions have been made redundant in this method including the
‘brooding’ period. This is parallel to a loved one passing away,
skipping the bereavement period and jumping straight to a bio-stimulated
human cloning. Since 2013, Dogs, plants, flowers and Sheep are all on
the agenda for cloning in the UK via registered
laboratories.
On the other hand, organic food is divine because
it is natural, but artificial synthetic foods as in GMO (Genetically
Modified Organism) is un-natural because it defies the natural process
of cultivation and harvesting by making harvesting again, ‘Instant’ and
thus computerised. GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) defies the laws
of nature, and makes natural reasoning illogical, nonsensical, slow and
unbelievable.
The
black community has been unable to create, preserve, conserve and
reserve natures endowed financial economic resources dubbed as the
‘Gifts of nature’, as enchantment of outsiders in laying claim to the
wealth bank and money being withdrawn from the community, to impoverish
the community through the lack of re-capitalisation and re-investment in
terms of trade and balance of payment.
Ignorance,
illiteracy, Squalor, vicious circle of poverty, economic imbalance or
inequality has arisen as a result of persistent enchantment through the
mediums; mass media, public education and the education system as a
whole. Black Children as young as 8, are taken to watch fairy tales such
as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow – white and the seven dwarfs’, then asked to meet
the ‘all white’ cast for autographs. Culturally, economically, the black
community has been polarised, unable to travel a forward march in
gaining sustainable strength in achieving joint accelerated growth in
any direction.
With
matters arising for the black community to withstand the meta-physical
occupation, besieging and the attack of the enchanter of us as a united
front. We must disbelieve the influence of the mass-media, brain-washing
education systems and the enchantment of Babylonian Culture, which is
based on ‘magic, incantation, ‘make-believe’ and sorcery. It is devoid
of values and basic principles of divine growth and/or inclusion of the
‘Self’. We must therefore learn to as a must; ‘primarily’ understand the
values within ourselves ‘and then how to build infrastructure that
enriches those basic requirements. This can be divulged as establishment
of Nubian – centred Schooling systems and academic
research.
With
a sense of urgency to start up and practise cultural conscious
independence and sovereignty vis-à-vis business, commerce and industrial
infrastructure.
We need to build the capacity to exercise self –
sustenance and communal
co-operatives like the black Walls streets
of the 1930’s, credit – unions, trade & investment hubs, tech –
guides to improve our literacy and numeric levels to accelerate economic
growth to the swapping of goods, services of mutual exchange of credit
facilities to abolish the burden of yoke imposed.
Cultural
Publications must be encouraged at all levels, story lines, movies on
conscious writings, topics, journals, articles, historical write ups to
be re-enacted into road shows, documentaries for it to be our story and
not ‘The Enchanters Story’, for us to gain mastery of our own destiny.
All
criticisms are welcome for this Journal article in designing, developing
and permeating way forward for the betterment of our people to stand
tall, and be counted with divine value and not just to become a number
in existence owing to the current distress in history spanning the last
500 years. Being sovereigns of the Ancient World spanning over 5,550
years and since the dawn of time, it is now imperative for us to look at
‘The importance of Enchantment’, the Enchanter and those who have been
enchanted.