DIVINE PROOF
THAT MY INSPIRATIONS ARE FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE
UNIVERSE
Thursday, 8 December 2016
THE EVIDENCE THAT DIVINE DICTATIONS WERE INVOLVED IN THE FORMATION OF I S M AND PRESCRIBED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
IF YOU EVER HAD A DOUBT THAT DIVINE DICTATIONS WERE INVOLVED IN THE
FORMATION OF I S M i.e. INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT,
HERE IS THE FOOLPROOF; *****
FOR I, EVEN THOUGH BEING A PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL
PSYCHOMETRICS;***** COULD NEVER HAVE PIECED ALL THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
CONSTRUCTS ASSEMBLED IN THIS LENGTHY TREATISE UNAIDED BY SUPERNATURAL POWERS.
THESE ARE THE KENEZIAN
FOUNDATION STONES OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT (I. S. M.)
If anyone
does not control his sensual desires and tongue, his religion is worthless and
he deceives himself. What the Creator and Father of all living beings put on
planet earth considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: being truthful
in every thing ones does by worshipping him in spirit; being pure in thoughts,
word and deeds, taking care of suffering orphans and widows while keeping
oneself from being corrupted by the world.
The essence
of Kenezianism, a.k.a. ISM , is graciously encapsulated in its eternal motto:
ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, ONE CREATED UNIVERSE and therefore ONE HUMAN FAMILY, who
are equal beneficiaries and heirs to his omnipresent graces, his omniscient
benefits and omnipotent protection!
CHAPTER 1:
AN OVERVIEW
1.
Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles
as “ Homo sapiens”, “His or Her Excellency”, “His Lordship or His Grace”, His
Royal Highness” and finally the “Lord of the Material Universe”, when you can
never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?
2.
What achievement has any man made that is not built on what
has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble
us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?
iii. What
is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear
us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers’ wombs and those deadly
infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our
high resounding titles?
1.
Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and
listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the
cock that crows at night, starting from about 3.00am till it is 6.00
a.m. marking out the hours while you sleep, what is it saying? --
It is thanking its Creator for another day. And secondly, it is obeying Him by
doing its duty twenty-four hours a day marking out the hours of each day for
all other animals and you, man, the lord of the material universe as you choose
to call yourself!
2.
It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh
little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant
him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer
you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a
battery to operate nor does it need servicing!
3.
So man, learn to imitate the birds that wake each morning
chirping their morning prayers of thanks, while pleading to the Lord for their
daily bread.
vii. What
of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas
station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do
you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?
viii. Did
you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you
do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you
here on planet Earth
1.
From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh
you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you
have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides
our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a
little!
2.
Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws
to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are
accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed
inappropriately.
3.
We must eat to live, drink to survive, sleep to rest and
procreate to save our species from extinction. Each of these functions we
perform from generation to generation, educated or not, civilised or not, pious
or crooked! It wonderful, isn’t it.
xii. Order
and grace, beauty and serenity adorn His creations wherever you find them in
their natural habitats unperturbed by the most destructive animal; man! So let
us relent!
xiii. The
voice of wisdom speaks in all His creations but only the wise can hear them!
Can you interpret the language of honeybees or bring fellow men to march in
formation like the soldier ants without coercion and spending some funds on
training programmes, which the ants never do even at birth!
xiv. These
and similar precision occurrences like sunrise and sunset should make us more
pious and respectful but what do we find? Arrogance and buffoonery intoxicates
most of us.
1.
The wisdom of the Creator shines forth everyday like the
sunlight, but we prefer to walk around like blind men vaunting our ignorance of
His natural laws that govern our very existence.
xvi. So
how do you assist a blind that does not see properly but claims that he is okay
and is not in need of your help, as he will never accept that he does not know
everything!
xvii. That
is the problem with our human race. Other animals are ready to learn from their
parents and obey them diligently, only man claims to know when he does not!
When shall we ever learn as other baby animals learn?
xviii. The
time is now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year but this very moment.
How does one do exactly that, you may ask?
xix. Don’t
ask me, Kenez, rather ask King Solomon, the Wise! Go and read and memorise
1stKings, Chapter 3, verses 6-15. Or for an elaborate treatise, find the
complete bible edition and read chapter 9 verses 1- 18 of the WISDOM OF
SOLOMON.
Always use
the Good News Bible Edition for all references!
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CHAPTER 2:
PRACTICAL
LESSONS FROM NATURE
1.
Open your eyes and look at
newborn babies. Study them for a whole week. Who taught them to cry? Why do
they cry? Watch them during breastfeeding. Who taught them to suck properly?
Did you, or did their mothers teach them? Answer me, Oh man!
2.
Look at babies
everywhere, you were once like that, so learn to be humble and thank your
father and mother if they are still alive! You were a helpless animal that a
cat or a dog could have eaten raw, were it not for their paternal and maternal
care!
iii. There from, O
arrogant creature learn the virtue of gratitude, it does not hurt you nor will
it cost you anything more than to always say a loud “Thank You” all the rest of
your short span of existence on this planet
1.
Carry a baby and
note that it looks you straight in the eyes and either smiles or begins to cry.
If the latter, be sure you are a bad person or you looked aggressive. Babies
are the best judges of character! So, learn to drop your worries and frowns
when you approach others in life.
2.
Everyone else you meet has
personal problems but they do not advertise them all the time, so why that
scowl on your face? Smile at difficulties and so learn forbearance, tolerance
and equanimity! There are virtues that you will need all the time!
3.
Babies have weight as you
must have noticed, and this increases as they feed well and grow. What makes
them grow? How do they learn to sit, crawl, stand, and then walk? Answer me, oh
Homo sapiens! Lord of the material universe!
vii. Why does an object fall to the
ground? Even when you throw objects far into the air, they return to the earth
on which you stand. You may simply answer that it is because of the force of
gravity, as you must have learnt by rote memory far back in elementary school.
viii. But that answer was not so easy
for the first men and women on earth! Prehistoric men once worshiped that
magnetic phenomenon. So learn to investigate nature, discover new facts and
share your knowledge with others. It is a fundamental lesson of life!
1.
The ground you stand on
carries your weight, no matter how large and heavy you think you are! All those
heavyweight wrestlers you watch on television all walk on the same ground.
Those heavy trucks that compete with trains in carrying loads are also resting
on the same ground! It carries all of us besides all the tall buildings man has
constructed everywhere in the world. Have you ever wondered what would happen
if the earth for once refused to carry our weight?
2.
We bury dead men and animals
in the ground to avoid their stench and the epidemics they could cause! Yet has
it at any time rejected to accept more corpses? Why? Answer me, the
self-styled “Man, the summit of creation”
3.
It is no use answering
titles one cannot defend, nor lumber around under the euphoria of crammed
information gathered from books and school curricula. Put on your thinking cap
and attempt an answer.
xii. The wisdom of the Almighty
Creator fashioned all those macrocosms and microcosms and assigned them eternal
duties which they religiously obey at all times, come rain, come sunshine! So
have you found out yours? If not, when will you begin? Start now. It is yet
early morning on creation day for you! Make an honest inquiry. Imitate them.
Therefore in life don’t expect a “thank you” for doing your duties!
xiii. Those macrocosms that serve
your purposes; the sun, the moon, water, air and the ground never demanded any
from you! They all co-operate to grow the crops from which we prepare the meals
at our dinner tables daily! Or are you the one who produces the grains, tubers,
roots and fruits that wild animals, birds and humans consume?
xiv. I have not forgotten that the
breast milk is by far better than any infant formula that any scientist can
ever produce! The same goes for the natural and clean water collected during a
heavy rainfall. It is purer, as it contains all the minerals the animal body
needs, both wild and domesticated, including man himself!
1.
When last did you eat an egg
laid by a non-poultry-raised hen, for example a guinea fowl? Or to make it
simpler, taste a sample of wild eggs and that of poultry eggs, and you will be
amazed that despite all the veterinary care and husbandry of agricultural
farmers, the wild eggs taste not only better but also contain more concentrates
of the nutrients that build the body! Ask any qualified scientist in that
field!
xvi. Who ensures all these? Can any
created being human or non-humans perform these feats? If your answer is
positive please tell us where you got your materials! If negative, then bow
down and worship Nature or whoever produces them for our enjoyment!
xvii. The focus is still on babyhood.
You have many more lessons to learn from infants! Do you remember who carried
you about when you were small? Ask your parents. Find him or her and please
give a big hug or a large gift in appreciation!
xviii. Your weight alone must have
deformed the natural structure of your babysitter's figure. The spinal column,
the backbones or the waist of such a one must have altered its structure, no
matter how infinitesimal! Ask physiotherapists. You caused that; and therefore
you owe an apology or a “thank you”! Which do you prefer?
xix. All go to show the
interdependence of created beings. House helps; stewards, cooks, maids and
servants must be valued and appreciated! We need each other to grow, mature and
enjoy life to the fullest. The name of the game of life is; “you rub my backside and I rub
yours!”
1.
The innocence of nudity is
the most important lesson the baby teaches. Why do we need clothes if not to
cover our guilt and the embarrassment that it enunciates? Try to regain your
innocence if you can, however note that shame or societal disdain is what we
deserve as the just punishment for disobeying any natural laws!
CHAPTER 3:
SOME
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES
1.
Did you know that you were
once a linguist? Yes, you were once an international orator and everyone
listened and reacted to your famous speeches! You must have lost that talent or
suppressed it. But you can reclaim it if you really want to be an international
sage!! Read on, if you do!
2.
Visit the home of a couple that has a newborn and quietly
observe everyone in the house for an hour when the baby is wide-awake. Relax.
Just watch mummy, daddy, children and others in the house! This is a very
important practical. Don’t miss it. Do this before reading any further,
please!
iii. What
did you see in the home you visited? Who was dishing out orders to everyone
else? Who was the parade commander? Who was obeyed and must be obeyed? And
finally what did you learn about children and their ability to order everyone
around them. Do they get immediate obedience or compliance? ----Yes, they
always do!
1.
You were once an autocratic baby like the one you observed!
You gave commands and everyone came running to obey you. At times you even
caused a quarrel between daddy and mummy when there was a delay in compliance
to your demands!
2.
Am I making any useful remarks? Of course, I am! The world
of the infant is full of “give
me, carry me, feed me, change my wet pants, can’t you see I am hot? - Do
something about it, cant you feel the cold? - Common, cover me with a blanket,
etc”
3.
Some of that language still remains in everyone’s
subconscious mind and we occasionally demand immediate gratification. If you do
so, it shows that you are still a baby when you are among adults. So stop it
now! Selfishness or egocentricity is childish behaviour! Drop any vestiges of
it remaining with you today!
vii. But
that is not all. Did you also assimilate the love showered on the infant by all
around, including yourself? At times, while you were there, you felt like
scolding the mum for delaying the prompt breastfeeding of the baby. Did you?
viii. That
is called “empathy”. You felt for the helpless infant and wanted to assist in
the little way you could. You were right then, but do you do so nowadays
helping or assisting others in this selfish country and world that we live in?
Sympathy is an international language!
1.
Did you notice that even daddy was ready to fight for the
baby? He was ready to abandon the love he has for the wife just to please the
infant. Why? I need an answer from you, the proud Homo sapiens!
2.
It is called international justice! The weak are always to
be defended or protected before the strong. It is a natural code written in our
minds but we sooner than later stifle it, replacing it with cultural
stereotypes and ethnic prejudices. Re-learn it today!!
3.
My dear, I am not giving you any new codes of conduct. No!
These have always been there! I am only unearthing them for mankind to become
conscious of the international language that everyone once spoke and
understood.
xii. Crying
is an international language that translates thus: I am in difficulty… I need your assistance to get out of this
sad situation,please help me… will
someone listen to me? Did you get my message? How many people
have you rescued in the past week?
xiii. However
note that sometimes teardrops could indicate extreme pleasure, unexpected joy
or negative emotional upset! But you always tell the difference by assessing
the cues in the immediate environment of the one concerned!
xiv. Smiling
is an international language, and converts to laughter when doubled or
multiplied in geometric proportions! Both translate into; “I am pleased at the
moment, thank you for the pleasant stimulus, it is hilarious here, why don’t
you join us and laugh! Am I making any sense to you? Do not
say yes when you really mean no.
1.
Frowning is an international language, which when serious
becomes a scowl, threat or hatred and a prelude to mischief. In all your life
avoid it. It does you no good. Ask Cain, the brother of Abel in the Christian
Bible! He is a professor in that subject. He graduated in it and became the
first murderer in the history of mankind, as we are told!
xvi. Music
is an international language! And when dramatised turns into various types of
dancing! Good ones cut across ethnic, religious and national boundaries. All
domesticated and wild animals, especially snakes listen to and enjoy good
music. Ask any zookeeper! Even criminals enjoy their own kind of music.
xvii. Romance
is an international language! Falling in love cuts across all human
demarcations. It has even resulted in peace accords, unions and festivals as
well as murders, wars and enmity!
xviii. There
are many other international languages! Learn to cultivate the good ones and
minimise the use of any bad language like scolding, shouting, gossiping,
backbiting, slandering and finally maligning others!
xix. Two
other international languages are; urinating and defecating! As an infant we
all did it wherever and whenever pressed, but we were also trained to postpone
or delay them till we get to the appropriate places for doing so. Have you been
doing these rightly?
1.
Finally, this is definitely the one that runs haywire for
immature people! Libido or sexual energy, its profitable use or misuse!!
Promiscuity is bad in concept and unhealthy / futile in execution; anywhere,
any day, anytime. Control your passions! The ability to do so separates mature
rational human beings from all infantile, hedonistic and regressed ones! Which
are you? Adieu!
CHAPTER 4:
LECTURES FROM
A TODDLER
1.
Have you ever heard of Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Erik
Erickson or Lawrence Kohlberghas? These are well known research scientists that
spent years, studying children in minute detail. So you need to get into a
library or consult a current encyclopaedia to appreciate the wisdom contained
in this chapter!
2.
We may take off with the toddler. Do you remember some of
the things you did at that age? I can only summarise some of them here; you sucked your thumb so much
that you had to be punished to stop that 'naughty' habit. Again as you dropped
that one, you began to babble monosyllabic words and very much later you were
able to pronounce your first meaningful words, which were; mama, dada, ada,
aha, aba, then -mummy, daddy, etc followed gradually till you spoke two words
at a time !
iii. But
the greatest achievement was what Jean Piaget called; the acquisition of
pre-operational concepts of mass, volume, height, and depth. However, let's
take thumb sucking first, which the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
elaborated on in great detail. It contains so much on personality formation! It
is normal for children to suck, for they even started it right there in the
womb long before they were delivered!
1.
Thumb sucking relieves an infant’s tension and stimulates
the sensitive membranes of the mouth pleasantly. In this respect, the thumb is
to the infant what the cigarette is to the adult. When children are tired,
sleepy, hungry, sick, or are teething, their finger sucking increases.
2.
Scolding a child for thumb sucking will make him feel
guilty, which he will try to relieve by more thumb sucking. This is
counter-productive! It is more effective to keep him well fed and to
provide him with adequate toys to occupy his hands and fingers.
3.
So newly weds should take note. You could be damaging your
infant’s future personality by your ignorant enforcement of age-old discipline
that was only done in error and is really a cultural proscription!
vii. For
cigarette smokers, you now know that you are regressing to a toddler's method
of reducing tension or anxiety, thereby informing all around you that you are
still immature. This is equally applicable to ladies who always delight in
chewing gums! A word is enough for the wise!
viii. However
the most important lesson to learn from the infant at this time is to face your
tensions as a mature adult and seek for help if need be! Don’t resort to
infantile behaviour!! Excessive drinking is akin to this problem. Alcohol never
solved any problems, rather it adds to it!
1.
The next lesson is what Freud called “fixations”. “Fixation at the oralstage
leads to extreme selfishness” states Sigmund Freud. This
naturally leads the child onto seeking pleasurable things in later life,
thereby developing as an egocentric personality! Sensuality, avarice and
gluttony follow in the wake of retaining this misdemeanour!
2.
The next fixation is that of the anal stage, when the child
derives pleasure from controlling the anus. Due to routine you may not have
noticed that defecation is pleasurable! It relieves tension. But in infancy the
toddler notices that he/she can control the parents by inappropriate release or
withholding of bowel movements!
3.
In later life, those that resort to this regression of
infantile manoeuvre develop stingy personality traits. They tend to hoard in
order to control the relevant others' behaviour! Traders take note! When this
trait combines with the previous one; greed, stealing and robbery are the
triplets that are delivered!
xii. Stingy
parents, please realise that your marriage partner is unduly being stressed by
you regressed fixation! Some sexual relationships suffer because of this
subconscious manipulation learnt in early life!! I have treated many cases of
this type in my clinical practice.
xiii. Bosses
in offices, Principals of schools, Pastors in parishes, Bursars or Purchasing
Officers in various organisations should take a good note of this and re-evaluate
their behaviour henceforth!
xiv. The
next lecture from that toddler is the fixation at the phallic stage! Most
infants derive pleasure from caressing their sex organs early in life. Some
parents notice this and reclaim their kids before much damage is done. Others
ignore this or do not even take notice!
1.
In reality everyone indulged temporarily in masturbation
early in life to relieve tensions. However some carry it to teenage,
adolescence, and even to adulthood! This results in promiscuity! It is as
simple as that! Retrain yourself if you are involved or consult a sex
therapist!
xvi. By
now you may think that all these are psychological jargons, but I assure you
that they are not! Sigmund Freud spent all his life after medical college
studying these and he is an authority in this area!
xvii. That
one did not take notice of what one did; as a child does not translate to that
they never occurred! Observe your own kids from now on and you will be grateful
to that great psychoanalyst!
xviii. The
hurdles that every toddler has to cross to develop into a well-balanced
personality have been highlighted for you to begin a sanitation exercise within
yourself! Consult a clinical psychologist for remedies!
xix. The
integrated personality that we all desire consists in passing those stages in
life appropriately assisted by our cultural norms and mores. Parental awareness
of these stages is hereby canvassed for. Religion often comes to the rescue,
but with varying degrees of success. Some develop scruples or other
depersonalisation syndromes!
1.
A normal heterosexual relationship is hard to attain but it
is achievable! Don’t give up! Make the best use of the knowledge you garnered
from this chapter to raise your lovely children and leave the rest for the
Almighty Creator of both you and your kids!
INTERLUDE FOR
REFLECTIONS
Those
who search will eventually discover something unique. Those who ask penetrating
questions may one day obtain answers from above rather than human palliatives
that rarely satisfy the saintly soul. Those who ardently knock on the doors of
heavenly wisdom, sooner than later gain divine inspirations from the Holy
Spirit of the Original Architect and Ultimate Engineer of the earth we inhabit!
He alone has all the answers to all physical, social, mental, spiritual and the
personal and socio-political problems of our mundane world, if only we humble
ourselves and honestly ask for his wisdom and guidance. But, do we?
The
Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are
still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine
dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want
to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing,
feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God
is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal
bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that
Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know
where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The
creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the
material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today
many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic
manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing
recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect
and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and
taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is humans who
pride themselves with/of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect
or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there
is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on a daily basis, some
assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and
cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
DO YOU NOW
REALISE THAT EVERY BEING HAS A SOUL? AND EACH IS VALUED BY OUR CREATOR?
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CHAPTER 5:
WINDOWS OF
THE SOUL
1.
Before you misinterpret this subheading, note that it is only
a continuation of “Lectures from a toddler” but from a different perspective.
As I was typing this on my computer it occurred to me that we humans perform
similar tasks as the hard disc, floppy diskette or CD-ROM.
2.
All computers need windows to function, and so does the
human central nervous system. I quickly remembered also that in the science of
ergonomics machines are made to fit human operators. Then the really big one is
that electronic engineers studied the human brain, how it functions in everyday
life, and copied it to invent the computer itself!
iii. The
eyes, ears, nose, mouth and the skin of the infant allow it to communicate with
the external environment just as the keyboard, the mouse, and modems permit the
computer to appreciate the “garbage in, garbage out” paradigm!
1.
So it is with the human soul! It has many windows with which
it interacts with, controls and responds to both the internal and the external
environments of the human body!
2.
We feel hot, cold, warm, and have tactile responses because
nature’s gift of feeling is a window of the soul! So also are the other windows
you may observe in the body of our little lecturer, “the toddler”.
3.
A brand new hard disc, “the C drive”, is blank until
programs are fed into it! And so is the new-born / babe's mind, its early
responses and later in life its traits, mannerisms, and ultimately its good and
bad behaviours!
vii. Has
it ever occurred to you that differences in children are due to a variety of
programmers working on its “CPU”, by the very same ways different soft wares
fed into a computer determines the behaviours and services it can render?
viii. So,
we intend to reflect on how we influence the making of saints or criminals in
our family interactions with toddlers in this chapter! In reality, we are the
products of parental influences, cultural, ethnic and religious stereotypes and
social prejudices! This is the hard truth!
1.
If you rear a set of identical male twins, one in a prison
yard and the other in a monastery. What would you expect at the end of
twenty-five years? Or, on the other hand, you rear a set of female identical
twins, one in a convent and the other in a brothel, what will be the results of
your experiment behaviour-wise?
2.
That is exactly what happens to us all within our short life
span of home upbringing by responsible or irresponsible adults around us! Make
no mistakes about it; stealing, aggressiveness, telling lies, cleanliness,
carefulness, loyalty promiscuity e.t.c are all programmed behaviours!
3.
So we must be wary and conscious of what we do or fail to do
in the presence of toddlers, teenagers and adolescents! They constitute the
best imitators and artistes in the world. The irony of it being that they take
it for real and the best way to survive in the socio-cultural milieu they grew
up! And they carry it about to other areas of the world unable to differentiate
“the good, the bad and the ugly”.
xii. When
I bought my first computer, I had “Microsoft Windows 95” as its pre-installation
program from Compaq, the factory that made it. Later on I learnt that two more
windows were already in existence since then, but there was little I could do
about a change. I made the best use of that primary learning program, even
though most of my more informed friends pressurised me to re-program it. I
delayed!
xiii. Sooner
than later, fluctuations in electric current in my neighbourhood took its toll
on my hard disc, and all I got after my computer had booted out was; “operating
system, not found”. Truly, that was exactly “experimental neurosis” for my poor
CPU, and it won my sympathy. I took the whole compartment that houses the hard
disc to Lagos,
parted with a large chunk of my income and had “Microsoft Windows 98” installed!
xiv. Before
that decision, however, I had made inquiries on the best program that was in
the market, for by then two more windows had been introduced into the computer
world! And so it is with every toddler's mind! It is programmed. But unlike the computer, it
cannot be reprogrammed easily. There are always traces of
the original programs, software, on line, Internet (surfed or browsed) and
downloaded programs!
1.
You can begin to appreciate more why parents and other
relevant adults around every new-born must be wise and selective about what the
baby sees, hears, tastes, feels or touches within the first five years of life!
Do I need to explain an idiom? No! It is never done in my culture. You just
have to grow up to unravel the nuggets of wisdom wrapped in an idiom! Do so
now!
xvi. The
‘icons, shortcuts, mouse’ and other methods of recognising and inserting good
and bad behaviour patterns in the infant, graduates into more sophistication as
it learns to walk, talk, read, listen to radio/ tape recorders and watch
television programs!
xvii. Therefore,
bringing up a balanced and well-groomed teenager is not a simple task.
Unfortunately that is exactly what obtains in most homes! Parents think that
all they need do is; feed the baby well, take it hospital, Nursery school or
Sunday service. They are as wrong as they can ever be in life!
xviii. And
such parents are the first to exclaim, “What’s wrong with junior? Why is this
child behaving abnormally? During my teenage years, I never did things like
these? What is wrong with children of nowadays?” - I cannot exhaust the
list of embarrassing statements I have heard!
xix. For
an answer, I have only this “They had immature parents who ignored them early
in life, but were busy chasing money. And those parents were/are the original delinquents! Their
children are only the photocopies!”We over-emphasise what is
trivial, magnify or over-prioritise that which does not build good human
relationships but in the same vein neglect our children’s proper upbringing.
1.
Please re-think after reading this chapter. Repentance and
Restitution is impossible. My people in Biafra
call it: “It is medicine after death!” The greatest investment you can ever
make in life is training you child properly, not a fat bank account or landed
properties scattered all over the world! Many homes have no children but you
are toying with the fruits of love Nature has bountifully and/or gracefully
given to you! Did you really deserve any of them? Relent, my friend, I mean
repent!
2.
3.
CHAPTER 6
OF BECOMING A
GREAT SOUL
1.
Everything that lives and possesses immanent motion has a
soul! Do you want a debate on that? Simple, tell me any invention of man that
is self- propelled? The nearest we have come to that, is the novel solar system
whereby some prototypes of electrical machines are energised by the power of
the sun. This would definitely benefit those living in the tropics and that
explains why European scientists are dragging their feet over their mass
production!
2.
But what are our so-called professors in engineering waiting
for? When shall all those warming academic stools in our glorified universities
in the tropics compete with their counterparts? In order not to derail, let’s
focus on how one can aspire to and eventually become a great soul worthy of
mention after one's lifespan on earth!
iii. What
or who is a great soul? To answer that question let us consider some great
statements that have changed the course of man's history and identify those who
made them; - “The moment the slave resolves
that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows
the way to others. Freedom and
slavery are mental states.” Guess who made that
everlasting statement!
1.
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in
contrasting values, we must recognise the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human
gift will find a fitting place.” I hope you
will get this very easily, can you?
2.
“I submit that an individual who breaks an
unjust law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
3.
Have you attempted to find the Great Souls that made those
watersheds of eternal truths? If not, you need the services of a historian of
repute to unravel their identities! Let me give you some more clues.
vii. Add
this to the first quotation; --–
A diminutive man possessed of an indomitable will, who not only secured
national independence for his native land, but also introduced to world
politics a concept of active,non-violent civil disobedience an idea whose
myriad applications have only begun to be explored. Have you
remembered him by now?
viii. Add
this to the second quotation; --As
an anthropologist, she advocated progressive social action, as is evident in
one of her most famous quotes: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever
has.”
1.
Add this to the third quotation; -- When he was in jail, he wrote,
“I am in Birmingham
because injustice is here”, and then addressed this to his fellow clergymen…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
2.
If by now you have not guessed anyone of the three Great
Souls correctly, then stop reading this Kenezian Ethics, for it will do you no
good! You need to refine your thoughts, enlarge your heart and begin to learn
new ideas about humanitarian principles! Study a little more from history
books!
3.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,
also known as Mahatma
(Great Soul) wrote the first one in 1949, in his book:
NON-VIOLENCE IN PEACE AND WAR. He is today regarded as the greatest
revolutionary of the century. He has many disciples, to date, including this
author!
xii. Margaret Mead,
while popularising anthropology through her field studies on the cultures of New Guinea and Samoa, wrote the second quotation in 1935, in her
classic: “SEX AND TEMPERAMENT IN THREE PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES.” She argued that
culture and society, not biological inheritance, determine individual
character. The idea disarmed theorists who asserted that personality and
intelligence, like the colour of skin, stemmed from biology, and it discredited
arguments that supported race-based policies of segregation.
xiii. Martin Luther King, jnr. wrote
the third quotation in a book compiled from the letters he wrote on scraps of
paper and smuggled out from prison cell in 1963, entitled: “ LETTER FROM
BIRMINGHAM JAIL.” The letters were mainly addressed to his critics in the
clergy who opposed his civil rights marches.
xiv. King
credited Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi for the non-violent methods of civil
disobedience he used against unjust laws. In subsequent years before his
assassination in 1968, King – against much resistance – led the drive toward
civil rights legislation while promoting peaceful civil disobedience as a
universal method of demanding social and economic justice.
1.
Have you learnt any veritable lessons from those quotes of
Great Souls? I deliberately chose from three different cultures and from both
sexes, to assert that great minds exist in most men and women of great repute!
You too, can become a beacon of light in this present life and a source of
inspiration after death!
xvi. A single voice can change the
world! Whether the voice describes a new scientific theory, tells the stories
of a culture, or speaks for a previously voiceless group of people! It can
reach across national borders and across time to influence a wider world and
transform the world that follows.
xvii. That
voice could be yours. Start today to have universal thoughts that will benefit
the whole human race, not yours. Yes, that’s the way all Great Souls began!
Influential thinkers perform such feats! You too, can become a Great Soul!!
xviii. The
twentieth century is nearing an end. Powerful ideas in physical and medical
sciences, arts and humanities, politics and religion have changed our social
relationships for better or for worse! Don’t sit on the fence. Choose a role
model today and begin to emulate him or her!
xix. Some
great minds have altered humanity, increased understanding between individuals
and cultures, and helped to define our present world for good or for bad.
Nothing ever remains the same always. Change is a natural law that we all must
obey at all times!
1.
Do you want to make history? Today is your genesis! Seize
the opportunity of this moment. Let this meditation on becoming a Great Soul be
the impetus that you have been waiting for! Don’t procrastinate! It is a lazy
man’s excuse!
BOTH IN RURAL
VILLAGES AND URBAN CITIES, IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT ONE’S BEHAVIOUR CLASSIFIES
ONE AS CHILDISH, REGRESSED, ADOLESCENT, ADULT OR ADENESCENT. WHERE DO YOU
BELONG IN THIS CATEGORISATIONS? YOU CANNOT BE RESPECTED AS AN ADULT WHEN
ACTUALLY YOU ARE STLL A CHILD!
CHAPTER 7
EIGHT AGES OF
MAN
i
Now we shall consult another expert on the development of the toddler. How does
the infant acquire some personality traits? In other words, how did you become
the individual you are today with all your peculiar mannerisms? What roles did
your parents and relevant others play in the shaping your present personality
traits?
ii Erik
Homburger Erikson, while practising at the Centre for the Advanced Study in the
Behavioural Sciences, Stanford,
California in March 1963
wrote: “CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY”, a Pelican Book, that was the result of
more than ten years of clinical observations of two American Indian tribes.
iii On
the front cover he summarised his work thus: “While tribes and nations, in many intuitive ways, use child
training to the end of gaining their particular form of mature human identity,
their unique version of integrity, they are and remain, beset by the irrational
fears which stem from the very state of childhood which they exploited in their
specific ways.”
iv
Professor Erikson is a Freudian. Using a number of fascinating case histories
as springboards for theoretical discussions of the formative years of
childhood, he reveals human life as a delicate balance between bodily, mental
and social influences in the masterpiece!
1.
You just have to locate that handy book and read it in a
hurry, in order to follow my conclusions here! The title of our chapter is
lifted from his book and coincidentally it is also a chapter seven! I can only
summarise them here, and my précis may not convey all the information you need.
So, find it and read it!
1.
The first age of man, Erikson labelled as; “Basic Trust versus Basic Mistrust” which
refers to the relaxation the infant feels with parental provision of his basic
survival needs. “The
first demonstration of social trust in the baby is the ease of his feeding, the
depth of his sleep and the relaxation of his bowels. The experience of a mutual
regulation of his increasingly receptive capacities, with the maternal
techniques of provision gradually helps him to balance the discomfort caused by
the immaturity of homeostasis with which he was born”.
vii. In
practice, the infant’s first social achievement, then, is his willingness to
let the mother out of sight without undue anxiety or rage, because she has become
an inner certainty as well as an outer predictability. A maternal bond formed
by long and regular breastfeeding ensures this! Such consistency, continuity
and sameness of experience provide a rudimentary sense of ego identity.
The lesson to learn from that analysis is that parents should take the blame if
their children do not trust anyone in later life! Build confidence in your
little infants today!!
viii. The
next age is labelled: “Autonomy versus Shame & Doubt” which
has to do with locomotion. Maturation of the limbs and the ability to move
around brings in its wake anxiety! Muscular maturation sets the stage for
experimentation with two simultaneous sets of social modalities; these basic
conflicts can lead in the end to either hostile or benign expectations or
attitudes. These are very important facts which parents neglect either due to
ignorance or dereliction of duties towards new-borns that are priceless gifts
from Mother Nature!
1.
“Thus,
to hold can become as destructive and cruel as retaining or restraining, and it
can become a pattern of care: to have and to hold! To let go, too, can turn
into an inimical letting loose of destructive forces, or it can become a
relaxed “to let pass” and “to let be”. In other words, we need
to realise that self-confidence and independence depends on how much autonomy
we allow our children in early life. Allow them to be on their own. Don’t
over-protect nor pamper your children. When they fall down and start crying,
allow them to get up by themselves! I practised it!
1.
The age of “Initiative versus Guilt” follows,
which Erikson describes as the most important factor in morality development!
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding,
which constitutes a New Hope
and a New Responsibility for all. Such is the sense and the pervading quality
of initiative.
1.
The criteria for all these senses and qualities are the
same: a crisis, more or less beset with fumbling and fear, is resolved, in that
the child suddenly seems to “grow together” both in his person and in his body.
He appears “more himself”, more loving, relaxed and brighter in his judgement,
more activated and activating.
xii. He
is in free possession of a surplus of energy, which permits him to forget
failures quickly and to approach what seems desirable (even if it also seems
uncertain and even dangerous) with undiminished and more accurate direction.
Initiative adds to autonomy the quality of undertaking, planning and
“attacking” a task for the sake of being active and on the move, where before
self-will, more often than not, inspires acts of defiance or, at any rate,
protested independence!
xiii. The point for all adults around
growing children to note is that we must permit freedom to infants to makes
mistakes, bear the consequences for their indiscretions and thereby learn to
obey norms and mores on their own initiative rather than to please
anyone! Does this make any sense to you? Moral codes must
be rationalised and internalised on their own, not by religious or parental
coercion!
xiv. The
next age is that of “Industry versus Inferiority”,
wherein Erikson next introduces the genesis of laxity, truancy and malingering.
The last stage is the foundation of initiative, thus the inner stage seems all
set for “entrance into life”, except that life must first be school life,
whether school is in a field or a jungle or a classroom! The child must forget
past hopes and wishes while his exuberant imagination is tamed and harnessed to
the laws of impersonal things – even the three Rs!
1.
With the oncoming latency period, the normally advanced
child forgets, or rather sublimates, the necessity to “make” people by direct
attack or to become a papa or a mama in a hurry! S/he now learns to win
recognition by producing things, becomes ready to apply her/himself to given
skills and tasks, which go far beyond the mere playful expression of her/his
sexual organ's modes of pleasure in the function of his limbs.
xvi. The
growing child or teenager now develops a sense of industry – i.e., s/he adjusts
her/himself to the inorganic laws of the tool world. S/he can become an eager and
absorbed unit of a productive situation, and to bring it to completion is an
aim/objective, which gradually supersedes the whims and wishes of play! A
successful adjustment results in a well-balanced adult! So,
guide your kids to achieve independence and industry in later life and you
would have scored a 100% as good and dutiful parent!
xvii. The
fifth age, Erikson called “Identity versus Role Confusion” which
simply states what is happening as the teenager evolves into an adolescent.
With the establishment of a good initial relationship to the world of skills
and tools, and with the advent of puberty, childhood proper ends. Youth begins!
xviii. With
the maturation of their gonads; menarche in females and wet dreams in
males, they
are now primarily concerned with what they appear to be in the eyes of others
as compared with what they feel they are, and also with the question of how to
connect the roles and skills cultivated earlier with the occupational
prototypes of the day!
xix. The
integration now taking place in the form of ego identity is, as pointed out
earlier, more than the sum of the childhood identifications. It is the accrued
experience of the ego's ability to integrate all identifications within the
vicissitudes of the libido, with the aptitudes developed out of endowment and
with the opportunities offered in social roles!
1.
The danger of this stage is
ROLE CONFUSION! Where this is based on a strong previous doubt as to
one's sexual identity, delinquency and/or outright psychotic episodes are
common! But when properly resolved and to keep themselves together, they
temporarily over identify, to the point of apparent complete loss of identity,
with heroes of cliques and crowds!
xxi. This
initiates the stage of “falling in love”, which is by no means entirely, or
even primarily, a sexual matter – except where the mores demand
it. To a considerable extent, adolescent love is an attempt to arrive at a
definition of one's identity by projecting one's diffused ego-image on another
and by seeing it thus reflected and gradually clarified. This is why; so
much of young love is conversation and an over-dose of chattering spiced with
giggles!
xxii. “Intimacy versus Isolation” is
the next age of man, according to Professor Erik Erikson! The young adult,
emerging from the search for and the insistence on identity, is eager and
willing to fuse his identity with that of others. S/he is ready for intimacy,
that is, the capacity to commit her/himself to concrete affiliations and
partnerships and to develop the ethical strength to abide by such commitments,
even though they may call for significant sacrifices and compromises.
xxiii. The
physical body and the egomust now become masters of the organ modes (instinctual
energies) and of the nuclear
conflicts(sexual urges), in order to be able to face the fear
of ego loss (inferiority
complex) in situations which call for self-abandon (self denial): in the solidarity
of close affiliations, in orgasms and sexual unions, in close friendship and in
physical combat, in experiences of inspiration by teachers and of intuition
from the recesses of the self!
xxiv. The avoidance of such
experiences because of fear of ego-loss may lead to a deep sense of isolation,
withdrawn personality traits and consequent self-absorption. These
predisposing factors lead to masturbation, homosexuality and
lesbianism! Be observant and rescue your little ones from these
abnormalities early in life! Show
them true love.Display genuine heterosexual relationships
whenever you and your spouse are in front of them!
xxv. The
seventh age of man then, is “Generativity versus Stagnation”, a
term that encompasses the evolutionary development that has made man the
teaching and instituting as well as the learning animal. Generativity, then, is
primarily the concern in establishing and guiding the next generation of human
beings, although there are individuals who, through misfortune or because of
special and genuine gifts in other directions, do not apply this drive to their
own offspring.
xxvi. Generativity
thus is an essential on the psychosexual as well as on the psychosocial
schedule. Where such enrichment fails altogether, regression to an
obsessive need for pseudo-intimacy takes place, often with a pervading sense of
stagnation and personal impoverishment. This is the predisposing factor for
the variety of abnormal sexual behaviour mentioned earlier! In fact, some young
parents suffer from the retardation of the ability to develop this stage!
xxvii. And
finally, we arrive at the last age of man; “Ego integrity versusDespair”, which
the learned professor describes thus; “Only
in him who in some way has taken care of things and people and has adapted
her/himself to the triumphs and disappointments adherent to being, the
originator of others or the generator of products and ideas – only in him/her
may gradually ripen the fruits of these seven stages”.
xxviii. “It is the ego's
accrued assurance of its proclivity for order and meaning. It is a
post-narcissistic love of the human ego – not of the self – as an experience
which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no matter how dearly paid
for! It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that
had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions: it thus means
a new, a different love of one's parents” affirms Erikson!
xxix. “The lack or loss of this
accrued ego integration is signified by fear of death: the one and only life
cycle is not accepted as the ultimate of life. Despair expresses the feeling
that the time is now short, too short for the attempt to start another life and
to try out alternative roads to integrity! Disgust hides despair, if often only
in form of a thousand little disgusts which do not add up to one big remorse”, concludes
our learned professor!”
xxx. My
dear reader, with the wisdom gained here, you can now assert that it is not religion that makes one feel
guilty, develop into a sex pervert and/or become a recluse! Modern
man has to learn to de-emphasise scruples induced by religious injunctions and
accept his responsibility for personal failures in life! If that is the only
lesson you have learnt from this chapter, you are a wise person!! Go ahead and
implement that principle in all your dealings in life!
CHAPTER 8:
MORAL
DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN
i
Another recent research scientist that studied childhood in detail is Lawrence
Kohlberghas, an American psychologist, who stated that as we grew up each one
of us passed six developmental stages of morality! He carefully monitored and
documented how infants develop the sense of right and wrong. He is a current
scientist, and we can learn a lot from his research!
ii Stage one, he
labelled; PRE-MORAL ,
here moral development is essentially at the pre-moral level. Children at
this stage behave properly simply to avoid punishment. They show an
unquestioning deference to power /authority, moreover, the physical
consequences of any action determine its goodness or badness for the child.
iii. Stage two, is INSTRUMENTAL-HEDONISTIC, morality
here is like a marketable commodity for the teenager. What is considered right
is primarily what is good for the child himself; occasionally, the satisfaction
of other’s needs is a factor, but the outlook of these persons is essentially
an instrumental-hedonistic one; e.g. ‘You scratch my back, I scratch yours.’
1.
Stage three,is PEER GROUP APPROVAL; morality
is what is approved by others. Peer group satisfaction gradually replaces
parent’s approval. At this level the child is able to take the role of others;
he can understand what will please them and tries to gain recognition as “the
good child”.
2.
Stage four;The LAW–AND–ORDER stage.
Here, children’s respect for authority, whether parents, teachers, policemen,
priests or pastor originates in anticipation of honour and avoidance of dishonour.
The orientation is to do one’s duty, obey fixed rules and maintain the social
order.
1.
Stage five;AUTONOMY,
principally behaviour is based on what is right or wrong, decisions are made on
what is proper or improper on the basis of contracts, social or personal at the
stage. Adolescents are able to take into account the viewpoint of society in
general or play the roles of adults.
vii. Stage six; is
the UNIVERSAL
ETHICAL PRINCIPLE orientation. According to Kohlberg, only
Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King jnr. have displayed in
their lives; respect for the rights and dignity of their fellow human beings
and had been concerned that this mutual respect becomes a universal law!
viii.
From the information garnered from Lawrence Kohlberghas, most of us humans are
still struggling to graduate from the third stage of moral development and this
accounts for so many puerile and purposeless leaders all over the globe!
1.
The second stage of moral development fits what we observe
in Third World countries, whereas, only a few
of the so-called Fist and Second world country are fixated at the third stage.
1.
InINTEGRATIONAL
SPIRITAN MOVEMENT. (I.S.M.),the target of each member is to
reach the sixth stage within ten years of joining the fellowship. Any one who
lags behind will be asked to resign his/her membership! It is a sure proof that
such a one is neither rational nor scientific and we detest such regressive
behaviour!
1.
If as scientists or rationalists we are agreed that only AN
UNMOVED MOVER or AN UNCAUSED CAUSER was responsible for existence, the universe
and life; then we are brothers and sisters with equal rights, privileges and
responsibilities to one another.
xii.
Some philosophers prefer the term ‘The Summum Bonuum’ but we are not
restricting our discussion to languages that are cumbersome for some to master.
‘The Supreme Good’ is neither an idiomatic translation nor an adequate literal
translation! More over both are subject to myopic misrepresentations as what is
‘good’ to one person or culture may be ‘bad’ to another, for example, polygamy
whether polyandry or polygyny!
xiii.
At this point it might be fundamental to summarise what Gestalt Therapy has to
offer! The mainstay or the notion here is that people are born wonderful, happy
creatures and would remain that way if allowed to grow up naturally.
xiv.
It is the society one grows up in which begins to influence us as children,
that sometimes pushes us onto the wrong track. Our problems occur when we
absorb other people’s value-judgements, like our parents, siblings, uncles,
aunts, teachers, religious or political leaders.
1.
When these value-judgements are in sharp contrast to our own
real feelings, life-long conflicts arise. We often experience these conflicts
as self-disapproval for own genuine feelings and rather impose the opinions of
our culture or religion!
xvi.
That alone spells the beginning of the end. So in I.S.M. it is your duty to
identify these impositions and ratify them based on the divine natural laws the
Almighty Creator put in the universe. This is the basic theory and practice of
Kenezianism
xvii.
Finding them is easy. Look inwards and find the natural laws written boldly in
your heart. The little voice that speaks to you anytime you are about to
violate the natural laws are international and non-partisan. What your parents
and culture tried to do was only to stifle it and imprint what they thought
would be good for you!
xviii.
You are the final arbiter in what you think, decide and implement! No one can
imprison your mind, thoughts and words. Yes, no one can bend your will–power if
you are resolute. Are you going to be the driver in the seat of your vehicle
(your material body) or are you going to be a passenger? This and only this is
the golden price ISM demands of you, and thereafter you can gain eternal
freedom! The accurate use of this knowledge will set you free for ever!
xix In
Kenezianism, only One True God exists, namely; GOD,THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR!
He initiated, initiates and will forever initiate all thoughts, words and
actions that are global, eternal and metaphysical in all beings, animate as
well as inanimate. He is the Only One that deserves our unalloyed worship,
praise, honour and adoration!
xxi. Every other being that ever
existed, exists or will ever exist, does so at His pleasure and comes under His
Natural and Eternal Laws that govern all macrocosms and microcosms He created!
Hence every other great religious leader, dead or alive, those acclaimed as
divine prophets, gurus, saviours or mystics are all classified as ‘lords’.
xxii. Therefore
Shankara & Ramanuja, K’ung Ch’iu (Confucius), Siddhartha Guatama (Buddha),
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, John
the Baptist, Jesus the Christ, Peter and/or Paul the apostles, Mohammed the
Prophet, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Sa’i Baba and/or any other
prominent moralist must be referred to only as ‘Lords’!
xxiii. None of them or anyone else
that may come hereafter is near to or co-equal with Our Almighty Father, who
created and sustains everything in existence! This knowledge and its eternal
acceptance as the stepping stone to all educational programmes are the first
steps for the beginning of wisdom for scientists of all generations, as well as
for all shades of religious affiliations!
xxiv. Our
great grandfathers knew that much! So why did some fanatics deify their heroes
and idolised what was created and finite at any stage of its material/physical
existence in this universe? Ignorance is the one and only correct answer!
xxv. None of these famous religious
leaders was there at the dawn of creations. There was no one else with the
Supreme Being and so all the doctrines and dogmas of any one else being
involved in creativity when the world began is false and demonic! Reject the
lie. Read the books credited to Job, Solomon, Isaiah,
Sirach, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. None of these authors suggested anything
like that! No, not even the great Patriarch Moses who founded Judaism was ever
credited with dualising the Godhead, not to mention Christians tripling it!
xxvi. Even
the great apostle of the gentiles, Saul of Tarsus, later called Paul after his
miraculous conversion, emphatically states that the Almighty God is One and has
no equal or deputy! Read more of this in his first letter to his loyal converts
at Corinthians, Chapter 8 verses 1-6. Moses did a better job in the whole of
his book named EXODUS!
xxvii. So
let us all stop this buffoonery of attributing equality in personhood to
anything else! It is not only idolatrous but sacrilegious and irrational! It
breeds fanaticism, segregation, partisanship and finally syncretism. It is the
harbinger of all-religious differences, schisms, feuds and wars!
xxviii. The
world of science, medicine and electronics have demonstrated that all human
beings can believe, learn and accept certain universal ways of doing things!
This is because these areas of knowledge are impartial, objective and devoid of
sentimental attachment or any form of socio-political patronage. We hold
international conferences on most departments of academics and arrive at
world-wide principles and standards, so why not in religion?
xxix. The
answer is simple; Religion is constructed on the shifting sands of emotions,
politics and hero-worships. These are inimical to modern man. And the sooner we
recognised it and addressed it, the better for our generation! Computers,
cellular phones and the Internet are amicably used by every semi-illiterate
despite the plethora of religious, racial, political and/or cultural
affiliations. That is all that I.S.M. stands for. Join us today, and provide
the human race with a scientifically oriented spiritual fellowship where all
are brothers and sisters. Thank you and God bless everyone!
*** Christian fanatics should
read Matt.19: 16 -30 or Mk.10: 17 -31 or
Preferably
the doctoral synthesis that the Secretary /Physician wrote in Lk.18: 18 -30,
And
thereafter recognise that it was Saul of Tarsus
that deified Jesus at Philippians 2: 6 –11;
Realising
that Is.45: 23 given as a foot reference does not confirm nor corroborate that
deification!
It was a
Pauline error, which has diverted the true worship of the only Creator -
Almighty God!
So also did
the Doctrine of Holy Trinity, which was copied, from Hindu religion and from
Greco-Roman mythology!
CHAPTER 9:
CONTROVERSY
CAUSED BY RELIGIONS
i
My dear reader, can I now call you a disciple? It will help me avoid the error
of many religionists who unwittingly masculinise all their injunctions with
“he, his, and himself” as if only males are moralistic! In today’s world, women
are more religiously minded than men, yet many preachers and evangelists still
deliver their sermons as if the womenfolk were not around!
1.
My dear disciple, have you ever noticed the competition
among various churches and ministries around where you live? Would there be so
much strife, slandering, castigation and/or outright condemnation of each other
if leaders of these groups really understood the existential meaning of
religion?
iii. The
true meaning of the term “religion” is “to bind oneself to doing something
willy-nilly”. Whether it is the belief in or the worship of gods or a God, as
the dictionaries would have us believe, the word originally came from the Latin
root “religere” which
literally translates to “to
bind”, as if tied with a rope. Its origin was derogatory. It was
meant to castigate the early Christians whom Nero ‘the mad emperor’ tied to
stakes and made sport of, by allowing lions to tear their bodies apart while
the victims screamed in pains!
1.
Read historical writings about how the early Christians were
martyred and you will even realise that today we have very little faith. Where
is the LOVE that these early Christians demonstrated? Where is ‘the sharing all
their belongings among themselves’ that Chapter 4 verses 32 –37 of the Acts of
the Apostles credited them with? When shall the present crowd of hypnotised
fanatics realize that they are being taken for a ride by ‘a brood of vipers’ or
demonic preachers, ‘whose only god is their belly’ as Jesus, the Christ
referred to them in the Christian bible? Hypocrisy has been elevated to such a
lucrative business that yields millions for these half-baked preachers,
charlatans and school dropouts!
2.
We have lost true love and religious piety that to greed,
selfishness, avarice, pride and the monetisation or commercialisation of
religious worship, crusades and other clandestine activities, all in the name
of religion! While these pastors smile to the banks, their followers wallow in
penury, starvation and ignorance! Did Christ or any other religious leader in
history ever preach competition, hatred, calumny, gossiping, slandering and a
myriad of other divisive behaviour that characterise today’s mode of pecuniary
evangelisation antics?
3.
So, my dear disciple, can you now see the plan of the Evil
One that was predicted in the Bible, the Anti-Christ and his devilish strategy?
Don’t ever be caught up in their materialistic religious deceptions! Free
yourself today. Rationalise what you hear, choose the one that satisfies
international ethics, as all altruistic moralists would enjoin us. This is the
scientific age, not the early or prehistoric ages when everything was based on
introspective vituperations or theological speculations of self-proclaimed
visionaries. Logical arguments and satisfactory conclusions should be your
guidelines in religious activities, not emotions!
vii. If
you have not acquired any logical skills, then now is the best time to learn
the basics of scientific reasoning. It is the solution to so many differences
of opinions in life. I encourage you to be rational in your thinking,
discussions and actions from now on. You will be surprised by the amount of
freedom you will feel. Take time to evaluate all you have accepted from
childhood as truths without having had neither the chance nor the capability to
reason them out by then! Free yourself from self-imprisonment! Throw away those
dogmatic and doctrinal shackles that have held you hostage for so many years.
viii. Witness
these practical samples of Kenezian wisdom: everyone uses telephone, whether
cellular or non- cellular, these days without quarrelling over who invented it;
no arguments arise from the use of computers or the internet; and so does
transportation either by land, sea or air! None of these has ever brought any
strife neither between any religious groups nor between nationalities of
various nomenclatures. Why does religion generate so much strife and
disagreements? The answer is very simple! It operates on the level of
irrational emotions; what appeals to one group of worshippers do not appeal to
others, because they are primarily based on personal opinions of their leaders.
Moreover the human mind is so egocentric, impressionistic and parochial! It
dichotomises what naturally does not need any divisions, segregations or
compartmentalisations.
1.
Check this one out. Will two medical doctors quarrel
over the treatment of headaches or bruises or fractures? No, is the natural
answer. But often we do not realize why! That is exactly where Kenezianism
comes in as a science of morals that cuts across national, political and
religious boundaries. It reduces every concept about the supernatural to logic,
facts, data and practical knowledge that are independent of its originator’s
personal opinions. The concepts in Kenezianism are natural phenomena that are
replicable in any part of the world, irrespective of the literacy level of its
practitioner!
2.
An example will demonstrate its universality. In
Kenezianism, all human beings are accepted as brothers and sisters for the mere
scientific fact that we have similar blood groupings, identical anatomy,
comparable physiology and heterosexual behavioural patterns! The proofs are
there for everyone to see and accept rationally, not emotionally nor
parochially! We intermarry; blacks, whites, and yellows interchangeably; and
produce children not apes. And these off springs of ours are neither
ethnocentric at birth nor apartheid in social relationships until their parents
introduce them to stereotypic child-rearing practices and segregationist
education! This Gestalt Therapy deals with. The avid reader can explore it!
3.
The principle of Kenezianism abhors such, and will not be
dragged into such mundane socio-political balderdash or any religious
buffoonery! Its mission statement spells that out in the KENEZIAN CREED and the
LETTER TO ALL EDUCATIONISTS. Read them over and over. Rationalise their
universal utility for a more equitable and egalitarian world government! If you
cannot accept nor internalise the concept therein, drop this book here and now
and never border to read any other publications of the Kenezians! It is very essential
that we abrogate ethnic, racial, status and religio-cultural divisions in our
world of today that has become a global village. The way we fight pandemics and
terrorism should serve us well in socio-political dimensions also! We must
genuinely be our brothers’ keepers!
xii. The
literacy level of many adherents of various religious groups is very low. Add
to this, the reluctance of human beings to adjust quickly to changes, and then
you will better appreciate why many wallow in ignorance. Many do not like to
explore unknown areas of knowledge in their short life spans. Most accept the
religion they were born into, swallow all their parental injunctions and cap
them all with the dogmas/doctrines manufactured by their myopic leaders. Thus
we have religious wars, crusades and jihads today, that culminate in terrorism
of varying magnitudes; the highest of which was the now notorious “September
11th of U.S.A.”
xiii. When shall we
ever learn? Did Confucius, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus or Mohammed ever preach
syncretism? The answer is an affirmative NO! Only Moses did, due to his
depersonalisation syndromes emanating from years of the enslavement of his kith
and kin in Egypt
and his personal refugee status in Midian before he was recalled to lead them
out. He was the one that inadvertently introduced segregationist concepts
encapsulated in the Mosaic laws of ‘clean and unclean’ religious injunctions
that culminated in ‘the Jew and the Gentile’ and other racist policies Jesus
failed to address succinctly before he was sacrificed.
xiv. As
far as we are concerned in Kenezianism, that was a costly price for every
religious leader who fails to resolve ethnic issues in his sermons. Did he
reconcile the descendants of Esau, Ishmael and Jacob? No! Did he identify with
the Samaritans, Greek or other ‘Gentile’ citizens of his epoch? No! Did he
integrate the Roman Rulers of his time with his ethnic group? No! There were
many other leaders, religious and/or political, in history that paid for the
same negligence. The concept that he died for everyone is not only obsolete but
also idiosyncratic and outrageously fanatical, for up till now, present Jews
and previous ones never acknowledged that idea. To-date, the Jewish race is
still expecting a Saviour! It was Saul of Tarsus who marketed the idea, as he
was making reparations for murdering Stephen and many early followers that he
had dispatched to impromptu graves!
1.
The truth will always surface no matter for how long it is
buried. Let us learn to apportion blame wherever and whenever they are due.
Hero worship never pays lasting dividends. Idolising a great leader detracts
from total loyalty and the true worship we owe to the Almighty Father, the
Indisputable Creator of the universe and all of us; human beings, plants,
animals, animate microcosms and other inanimate macrocosms. It is time to
proclaim the true Unitarian Godhead! Trinitarians are idolaters who copied from
the ancient symbols of the religions of the Far East
and those of Egyptian mythology!
xvi. Pragmatism,
Rationalism and Existentialism (P.R.E) remain the tripod on which Kenezianism
rests! Subject every novel idea you learn, to the acid test of satisfying those
‘Three Kings’ and if it passes, then internalise and practise it in your daily
life. If not, vomit it, for it is a counterfeit and therefore it is
anti-thetical to the present scientific age of man; ‘the Homo sapiens’! You are
hereby appointed a judge of all our write-ups that do not meet those criteria,
namely PRE. In
addition, every injunction of Kenezianism must be people oriented, meaning that
it must be truly humanitarian in all ramifications; thus giving us the
formula; k= (ica
/ pre) hapo, where ‘k’
is same as Kenezianism, ‘ica’
equates to; ideas, communication & actions, ‘pre’ represents
the three kings just mentioned above, whereas ‘hapo’ stands for; humanitarian and people
oriented! Ask a mathematician to explain the rest to you, while we proceed to
other pressing fundamentals.
xvii. Whereas other spiritual
organisations emphasise ‘beliefs-systems’ and ‘dogmas/doctrines’ Kenezianism
emphatically encourages you to know, experiment and prove beyond every
reasonable doubt, every construct we propose to you for a lucid evaluation that
can formulate the building blocks for an all-embracive world government. We do
not believe that God exists; rather we know that HE/SHE/IT exists irrespective
of our acceptance or otherwise of the great truth! God is the ONE and ONLY
GODHEAD that is and has no need for a Trinitarian explanation. We prefer to
refer to this godhead as ‘The Almighty Creator’ at all times and use the
pronoun ‘IT’ as there is no proof that IT is either male or female!! And as the
Prime Mover of all else that moves, it can manifest as sound, light, energy and
even as a physical entity!
xviii. The
ambition of all Kenezians is to internationalise ‘obedience to all natural and
eternal laws as the bedrock of a world spiritual fellowship of realists and/or
scientists not a congregation of theologians; neither fanatics nor religious
mystics. There are many international religions already existing in the
scientific community, like the FIFA, OLYMPIC COMMITTEE, the WCC, the ICRC or
even the latest and most popular religion as at now; THE INTERNET (Google or
http/www.org) to mention but a few. All we do need at this point in the history
of mankind are dedicated adherents from all walks of life who are ready to
achieve lasting world peace through the practice of these principles of Kenezianism.
We already have hydra-headed esoteric/mystical sects and a variety of
mundane/fanatical fraternities or denominations that we can ill-afford to
increase the number. Rather, we crave to stand in the gaps to bridge the
sentimental divides and knock down the perennial walls of differences in
doctrinal conflicts.
xix. We
know that it is possible to get all intelligent people to agree to and share an
international concept provided it appeals to reason and arrests the interest of
literate citizens of the global community who feel concerned. Our Integrational
Spiritual Fellowship, hereafter referred to as ISF, is
based on scientific principles that obey all natural laws in creation. You,
too, can contribute your altruistic quota to the consolidation of this brand of
interdisciplinary, inter-racial and inter-devotional organisation. Any bright
formulation is welcome provided it meets the basic requirements stated above as
summarised by our scientific formula.
1.
You may refer to us as the UNAID, UNICEF, UNO or WHO of all
known, registered and yet to be registered religions. We are, in a real sense,
the meeting/melting point of all belief-systems. All the “isms” end in ISM
Integrational Spiritan Movement a.k.a Kenezianism. Every rationalist is
welcome! If you appreciate what we stand for, communicate with us today. Use
our e-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk now!
Don’t postpone or procrastinate. That has always been the bane of
‘never-do-wells’ or ‘lay-abouts’!
I hope you are not one!
Historians
inform us that Christopher Columbus actually set out to discover another route
to India
when he stumbled at the Americas
and thus opened up humanity to a large continent partitioned into northern and
southern halves but connected by a strip of islands. Today, the Panama Canal has made it possible to access the Eastern
Regions of the World while travelling continuously to the west! Inventors,
Discoverers and occasionally, religious leaders emerge from obscure communities
of despised nations to beam supernatural light and divine wisdom of the
Creator!
CHAPTER 10:
LECTURES FROM
THREE UNIVERSITIES
i
We now come to the basics of nature study. Have you ever observed soldier ants
on the march? It will definitely be difficult for those of us who did not grow
up in a rural community or in a farm! For such persons, their elementary
biology textbooks will suffice. All they need do is revise what they learnt in
secondary school about social
insects or look up that title in an encyclopaedia or
browse the Internet.
1.
In either case, what they will learn is that these small
insects are so well organised that it is a wonder why we, the so-called ‘Homo
sapiens sapientes’ are so disorganised. Why do we need the police force to beat
us into line, whereas these minute insects do not step out of line nor try to
do another insect’s duty?
iii. They
have specialists for any and every problem they group will ever encounter while
they are on any march. Pity yourself, if you interrupt their movement. By the
time they swarm around you and sink their jaws into your exposed skin area, you
will feel so much pain that next time you will not only fear to cross their
path, but you will dread and avoid any other insects that resemble them! Why?
1.
These little creatures have soldier ants with larger
mandibles specialised for aggressive actions against any intruder and their
duty it is to fight and protect the group. And their job ends there. They do
not interfere in other duties like reproductive activities or in feeding the
younger ones in the group. We have copied that much, but do our own soldiers
mind their duty only?
2.
There, is an important lesson for us humans to learn! A
little common sense is all that we need to learn only one trade, specialise in
it, be proud of it and not interfere in other people’s professions! But this
rarely happens in the social organisation of mankind, yet we claim to be ‘the
lord of the material universe’.
3.
Or shall we take lectures from another university? This
time, from honeybees? Read all you can about this other social insect that even
has a language communicated by a dance ritual. It is wonderful how minute
beings out-class us in organising their little worlds. They eschew in-
fighting. Rather they co-operate so well that their hives are always peaceful
until man, the selfish scavenger intrudes to harvest where he never sowed,
namely their honey that we steal in order to please our tongues!
vii. Again,
they are so specialised that only one queen and a king may be found in each
community at a time. Unlike what obtains in our human world, where we fight to
establish supremacy! How many kings, queens, presidents, chairmen/women and
traditional or religious rulers do we have? Are we ready to serve, take orders
and obey even our own constitutions? Yet we pride ourselves as ‘Homo sapiens’!
viii. Visit
web sites and learn how the honeybee communicates to the members of the hive
that it has found nectar, either nearby or faraway. It is amazing, especially
when one realises that they never learn these things. They are born with the
peculiar knowledge of the waggle or straight dance. Scientists call this
‘species-specific’ behaviour, thereby indicating that they are born with the
information stored in their memory and they must willy-nilly manifest them at
the appropriate developmental stages of their lifecycles.
1.
The inquisitive minds will at once want to find out whether
human infants have anything that resembles this. The answer is an affirmative
YES! So the next natural question that follows is what happened to the human
infant. You want an answer? Are you really that inquisitive or you want to
behave like your species of proud apes?
2.
You will have to wait till we have received tutorials from
another university of nature, the termite colony! You must do yourself this
favor. Don’t believe me, nor trust the information you surf from the Internet.
Go out there, into the fields and have a firsthand experience of these data
that biologists have spent years documenting so as to spoon-feed our infants at
schools. That may also explain to you how and why human beings, are the laziest
and craziest veterbrates in existence.
3.
The termites are the greatest engineers in the universe!
That you doubt me fades into insignificance when you compare their anthill,
structure weight for weight with their bodies. Our skyscrapers are nothing
wonderful if we recognise that these minute ants don’t use mechanical machines
to assist them in the construction work, nor do they use building plans scaled
and drafted by architects!
xii. Again,
what happens inside the termite palace is another natural wonder! The social
organisation, though absurdly hierarchical, commands our respect! There is
specialisation, not only in body structures, but also in the roles and duties
each ant plays for the mutual benefit of the community.
xiii. That,
precisely, is the point I am trying to emphasise. We, humans need to send our
politicians to these anthill universities scattered all over the globe, to
learn public administration! For as long as we allow mediocres to manage the
affairs of any nation all in the name of political patronage, for so long shall
the masses bear the brunt of their bungling of the administrative apparatus of
the state.
xiv. It
does no one good to function as a Minister of Health with credentials in
engineering or even business administration! I am sorry for developing
countries that waste their little resources by so doing. My opinion is
that they must learn to put square pegs in square holes and round ones in round
holes! They need these tutorials from termites, honeybees and soldier ants!
1.
My dear reader, are you following my trend of meditation?
What of in our individual homes, kindreds and villages? Should fathers, mothers
and children not take notes of lessons from these insects? My emphatic answer
is a capital YES! What a mess is made of family life and peace by parents who
throw their weight all round the place, all in the name of stamping their authority
and exacting immediate obedience from everyone around!
xvi. Let’s
quote an example to illustrate my point; “Apart from the
‘reproductives’, all castes are sterile, wingless and have whitish bodies.
Typically, the workers constitute the most numerous castes and are the smallest
of the adult forms. Workers build and provision the nest, tend the eggs, and
feed and groom all the other inmates of the community.”
xvii. “All species have soldiers with
greatly enlarged heads. The soldiers of certain species are equipped with huge
jaws for defence of the colony; in some species, the soldiers have long snouts,
from which they eject a sticky, poisonous substance to envelop an enemy and
render it helpless.”
xviii. Do
you see what I mean? They owe their efficiency to dedication to duty despite
the fact that they do not enjoy the basic rights of all other animals, namely
the joy of sexual intercourse. May be I should have said ‘mainly because they
do not indulge in the time-consuming and diversionary sexual copulation’ that
is the genesis of distraction and depravity in the human species. Do you get my
gist?
xix. The
rivalry and competition to attract and please the opposite sex is the bane of
all in-fighting animals on earth, be it in higher or lower creatures, the
unicellular or multicellular forms of all animate beings. In olden days and in
some cultures to date man-made eunuchs exist and perform their duties more
religiously than our so-called priests and nuns!
1.
The radical position being canvassed for by this writer for
a wiser society is this: ‘It is time for selective social
engineering, genetically programmed selection and specialisation of men and
women!’Reproductive activities must be controlled to reduce
defective babies as well as the over -production of a generation of human
beings with a very high load of defective genes!
*Postscript:
You may
scream ‘Tufia-kwa!’ or curse me in any other dialect or language meaning ‘God
forbid this!’ But only time will tell whether this recommendation is completely
anathema! For now, most religions of the Far East
and the Catholic Church do not think I am crazy!
These
verses or stanzas were guided by the Holy Spirit of the Creator over a period
of at least twenty five years of post-doctoral research in theosophy, ethics
and psychology. A ten-year sabbatical from routine religious participation was
needed to piece all of them together. You can improve on it. Please send us
your modifications so we can let others critique it for the benefit of
humanity.
Use our
e-mail addresses;
saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk or post yor
reactions as comments to either;
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A KENEZIAN
RESUME
I
have humbly stated what I was inspired to write to benefit rational beings that
deserve to approach the Almighty Creator as bona-fide creations of His universe.
We were neither consulted nor were there when He made all of us; however we are
all heirs to the mutual benefits derivable by utilising his gifts maximally
devoid of racism and religious bigotry.
Here
is the genesis of the call which I received as early as 1981 after the Guyana
Mass suicide of Rev. Jones and his followers. I wrote a magazine article on the
event and followed it up with a comprehensive analysis of remote and immediate
causes of religious psychopathology for my Ph.D. dissertation, which I
entitled; THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, but it did not impress
my supervisors. They rejected it on the lame excuse that the psychological test
I was developing to evaluate subjects for the research work was lengthy and
could alone constitute a major research proposal I could never finish in three
years! They were right! They were my revered Consultants and Professors in
Psychological Medicine. I acquiesced and subsequently went ahead to re-write my
proposal and so ended up writing a belated dissertation that they watered down
to; PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT AND RELIGION. Over the years, I have written over
fifty-five articles on how the whole world could adopt one mode of worship of
the Creator and save humanity from the religious bigotry, ethnic cleansing,
wars and homicide associated with crusades and jihads. For, as far I was
concerned, we are of the same anatomy/physiology, we reproduce in the same
manner having same blood chemistry and die in similar circumstances. Therefore,
inter-religious genocides were and will remain fratricidal campaigns led by
fanatical, mystical or demented leaders with misconceived religious military
campaigns as the panacea for the unification of faith. I have a better option,
so that is why I have introduced you to its foundation clauses of I.S.M. a.k.a.
Kenezianism, which is this;
“A
well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the
room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started
going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first,
let me do this”. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked,
"Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" And he dropped it
on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked
it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still
the hands went into the air. "My friends, you have all learned a very
valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because
it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives,
we are dropped, crumpled and grounded into the dirt by the decisions we make
and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless.
But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your
value in God's eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you
are still priceless to Him.” That is ISM or KENEZIANISM in
practice!
I
hope you cherish these words of wisdom of an Unknown Author!
You
are welcome to “Let us reason together” as Isaiah, the prophet invited his
kinsmen many centuries ago or sit on the fence and die unenlightened by genuine
Aristotelian-Kantian combine of deductive and inductive logic, aided by current
fund of science knowledge and enquiry to unravel the fables and legends that
are now labelled as theology! There is nothing theological about an
accumulation of guesswork done by primitive men! They are simply a collection
of puerile belief in man-made doctrines, dogmas and rituals that is steadily
pushing the humane race to annihilation. Here, I rest my objective of penning
this protracted but comprehensive diatribe. Call it heresy, if you like. I do
not care a dime. Truth is supreme! Truth is Life, my people declare!
Rev. Prof.
Jideofo J. Kenez, D. Sc., a.k.a.
Dr Jideofo
Kenechukwu Danmbaezue
The Humble
Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Creator of the Universe.
E-mail: agunabu1948@gmail.com
Phone:
08039097614 or 08051764999 or 08104414689
EZEAWARA
KINDRED IHIALA, REPUBLIC
OF BIAFRA
THE DIVINE
ORIGIN & GENESIS OF THIS ETERNAL SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP DICTATED BY THE HOLY
SPIRIT OF OUR CREATOR THAT CAN USHER IN WORLD PEACE AND END RELIGIOUS WARS
THE
PRINCIPLES OF KENEZIANISM
a.k.a.
INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
General
Introduction
The
theory and practice of Kenezianism started in 1970, at the end of the civil war
when its originator Major Kenechukwu Nzeogwu Mbaezue; BA/6532, of the
Degema Strike Force, 12th Commando Brigade, Biafra, returned from the war front
with multiple injuries and artillery shock! He felt shattered by the outcome of
the fratricidal debacle of three years that abruptly postponed his
post-secondary education at C.K.C. Onitsha.
THE AUTHOR AS
AN UNDER-AGED BIAFRAN SOLDIER
The Nigerian
civil war started in 1967 when Nigeria’s
Eastern Region, due to excessive pogroms unleashed on the Igbos in the north
seceded and proclaimed itself the Republic
of Biafra. Here, this
author as a youth of nineteen years participated in the defence of Oguta,
converted to a river port and used to import medical necessities as blockades
by land, sea and air became a weapon of war by the Nigerian government.
Starvation, hunger and disease; malnutrition, kwashiorkor, marasmus and
hepatitis took their toll on children, refugees and soldiers on the Biafran
side before it eventually capitulated. The brave leaders of the dislocated
Biafran forces then surrendered to the Nigerian armed forces in January
1970. Photo by; Hulton Deutsch/Corbis & © 1993-2008
Microsoft Corporation.
“Why did we lose the war of
survival? Should Nigeria
the aggressor defeat us the victims of their cruel and premeditated pogroms? Of
what use were the prayers to a god that never answered us? Or did our leaders
commit unpardonable war crimes or indulge in sacrilegious absurdities? Is the
Muslim religion more authentic and reliable than Christianity? If yes, then let
us join them and go on pilgrimages to Mecca!”
Finding
answers to these existential questions drove the young war veteran crazy. He
could not comprehend how an unjust war ended in favour of the aggressors. For
him it meant that we wasted all our time and youthfulness in the war fronts
praying to the God of Christians! He truly deserved veritable explanations!He
withdrew from all religious engagement for a period of ten consecutive years,
from 1970 to 1980. That gave him enough time to reflect on some existential
questions about all he had learnt from the Christian missionaries that moulded
his early life in the junior and senior seminaries.
FAMINE IN BIAFRA
During the
Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970, the Nigerian government imposed blockades
around Biafra, effectively cutting off the
secessionist state’s food supply. The resulting famine in Biafra
was devastating, as upwards of one million people died of starvation. The
swollen bellies and ankles of these Biafran children are symptoms of
kwashiorkor, an extreme form of protein-energy malnutrition.
Culled from
Archive Photos & Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft
Corporation.
There
arose the need for him to re-evaluate his belief system, moderate his
scrupulous orientation to social life and thereafter, formulate a realistic
code of conduct that could guarantee his survival in the conflicting world of
the Nigerian society he found himself trapped in! He lived as a war captive for
the next 30 years! Within this period, he fully practised the introverted
meditative lifestyle of Viktor Frankl or that detached life of a research
scientist reminiscent of the great Austrian monk geneticist, MacGregor Mendel.
He
earned four university degrees that spanned a period of 15 years, with breaks
here and there to assist his eight younger brothers and sisters, siblings of
the same humble family of a school teacher/catechist! To achieve this, he again
joined the armed forces of the nation he lived as an exile, the fallout of
which was that he neatly sandwiched a military diploma, pjsc, from
the Nigerian Air Force in between the four degrees!
A
bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, sponsored by the Catholic missionaries in1970,
then another bachelor’s degree in Psychology, self-sponsored and partly aided
by a Federal Government Loans Bursary award in 1975. This loan was later paid
in full after his NYSC, which he served at the Department of Psychiatry,
University College Hospital, Ibadan and Lambo’s Aro-Village System, Abeokuta
from 1975- 1976! This was followed by the three-year stint as an Air Force
Medical Officer,NAF
759. Upon winning the Anambra State Ph.D. Scholarship Award in
1977 he resigned in 1979 and later earned a Masters in Clinical Psychology,
from the School
of Medicine, University of Benin, in 1982. He rounded his training
with a Doctor of Science degree in Research Psychometrics, earned by innovative
researches in personality evaluation, organisational psychology and family
counselling in 1993! This doctorate degree qualified him to join the
prestigious African
College of Research
Scientists, Addis Ababa Campus, of which he is now, a Fellow! A rare feat of
academic achievement for anyone to obtain through self-reliance, ingenuity and
resourcefulness!
For
the next phase of his research/academic life he combined family roles and
clinical duties, churning out psychological tests for guidance/career
counselling, personality evaluation and marriage/family counselling. In the
interim he got married and to date has two boys and a girl, who became the
well-deserved consolation for his long years of ambivalence! Today he is a
retired Flight Lieutenant in private clinical practice as a HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL
PSYCHOTHERAPIST. He still does extensive research in Family
Counselling, Existential Family Therapy and Community Medicine. His published
psychological tests and books exceed fifteen, as at the last count. He is a
respected authority in Psychometrics, a Member of the National Association of
Clinical Psychologists and the Founder/Animator of three world-wide NGOs;
1.
KENEZ HEALTH KLINIK, an
Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Organisation for Family Health,
2.
HAPPY FAMILY NETWORK an
Inter-ethnic CBO for grooming healthy & successful families,
iii.
INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a Spiritual Fellowship for Modern Scientists!
Dr Jideofo
Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D.Sc.
A.k.a. Rev.
Prof. J. J. Kenez, the Animator of I. S. M.
Written and
up-dated under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of the
Almighty
Creator of us all over a period of thirty-five years!
The
greatest contribution he has made so far seems to be in the area of family
counselling and existential therapy where he has developed, constructed,
validated and standardised more than thirteen psychological tests for school
career guidance, pre-marital counselling and crises intervention in families
that need help! In addition, he has written nine books covering such areas of
knowledge as: social ethics, theosophy, cosmology, social and community
medicine. The manuscripts of these inspirational works are, in the real sense
of the phrase, begging for funds to print them.
Can
anyone publish these books so that others may benefit from the information
stashed away in them? His religious involvement in early life became an asset
as this book in moral ethics has turned out to be the best outcome of his
contemplative lifestyle. Below are some of the verses he wrote that kept him
mentally alive and hopeful that his children would have a better future! You
may benefit from reading and practising some of them in your daily living!
There are existential truths rather than theological jargons! Establishment of
Universal Truths and control of one’s tongue and selfless service summarises
ISM.
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Your 2017 will be fine
if you meditate on these
CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW
i. Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles as " Homo sapiens", "His or Her Excellency", "His Lordship or His Grace", His Royal Highness" and finally the "Lord of the Material Universe", when you can never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?
ii. What achievement has any man made that is not built on what has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?
iii. What is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers' wombs and those deadly infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our high resounding titles.
iv. Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the cock that crows at night, starting from about 3.00am till it is 6.00 a.m. marking out the hours while you sleep, what is it saying? -- It is thanking its Creator for another day. And secondly, it is obeying Him by doing its duty twenty-four hours a day marking out the hours of each day for all other animals and you, man, the lord of the material universe as you choose to call yourself!
v. It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a battery to operate nor does it need servicing!
vi. So man, learn to imitate the birds that wake each morning chirping their morning prayers of thanks, while pleading to the Lord for their daily bread.
vii. What of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?
viii. Did you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you here on planet Earth
ix. From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a little!
x. Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed inappropriately.
GLOBAL PEACE RESTS ON ALL CREATED BEINGS RELIGIOUSLY OBEYING ALL THE NATURAL LAWS THAT OUR ALMIGHTY CREATOR DECREED MUST BE OBEYED . !
Your 2017 will be fine
if you meditate on these
THE CURRENT ORACLE OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE HAD SPOKEN AS HE WAS DIVINELY AUTHORISED TO DECLARE TO MANKIND!
Revolutionary Professor of Modern Theosophy
DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc.
If as scientists or rationalists we are agreed that only AN UNMOVED MOVER or AN UNCAUSED CAUSER was responsible for existence, the universe and life; then we are brothers and sisters with equal rights, privileges and responsibilities to one another.
xii. Some philosophers prefer the term ‘The Summum Bonuum’ but we are not restricting our discussion to languages that are cumbersome for some to master. ‘The Supreme Good’ is neither an idiomatic translation nor an adequate literal translation! More over both are subject to myopic misrepresentations as what is ‘good’ to one person or culture may be ‘bad’ to another, for example, polygamy whether polyandry or polygyny!