Orí & Industrialization

Of thought in the service of self

Over the past several months,

instead of the word ‘God’,

I have increasingly said ‘Orí’, in thought & casual conversation,

because,

unlike most colonized peoples, I increasingly realize that the events of my unfolding life are not attributable to some external, distant, spatially unrelatable separate entity, but are actual direct, continuous consequences of specific agreements I originally entered into with myself.

Agreements made with self before birth are all inscribed and installed into a premortal, preconscious program called Orí, that runs in perpetuity, till I complete the human phase of my course, and return to source.

This way of seeing myself & the world is not only completely opposite to the colonial Christian & Islamic narrative,

it is also completely necessary for an African mind to free itself from the yoke of being at the back of the global class, acquire ideology in the service of self, and spring into a fully lived human condition.

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Africans are the only people on earth who interpret ourselves through the cultural and religious lenses of others;

even worse, those others being our colonizers;

even worse, colonization being the most prolonged violence ever inflicted by any set of humans against another,

while its lifelong mental, social, physical, spiritual, economic and political panpathology still continue to be both ununderstood and unresolved,

while its afflictors and afflicted remain entangled forever in a bizarre, morbid, eternal zombie dance, in which one party has to be violently dedeveloped for the other to continue gallivanting and galloping in the guise of an unearned, stolen and arrogantly propagandized, presumptuous industrialization.

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The role of spirituality & religion in all these is to determine the limits of human imagination and personal agency.

And, wherever imagination goes, there goes development, and industrialization.

And so, it is not for nothing, that the first thing colonizers did before active military invasion, political administration and economic control,

was a social reengineering that began by missionary work, information gathering and gaining converts among Africans, who could act as entry points to break down culture & collective action from within,

even before the first bullet was fired,

before the first minerals were mined,

and before the first ships were loaded with the human and material resources by which the west continues to industrialize while actively dedeveloping Africa.

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When your highest self is made in the image of your colonizer, your developing self will never develop past colonization.

Reset.