Nshady are the so-called African intellectuals who, because of their training in Western universities, carry a secular and materialist reading of the authentic African tradition. Also, many say that Bakoko (the Elders) believed in the afterlife, which is TOTALLY false. Africans, from Kemet (Pharaonic Egypt), do not believe in life after death, they know (because it is KNOWLEDGE) that there is Life after what is commonly called death.
“The Egyptians are the first to have stated this doctrine, that the soul of man is immortal” Herodotus
In imperial Africa, pre-alienation, death was celebrated, in fact, songs and dances were organized to accompany the Kâ of the deceased (the spiritual double of the human being) in the invisible world.
I remember that at the death of my grandmother, I had to have 7 years, I was still in Kongo, people cried during the two days following her death, but afterwards, we had celebrated her death. I still see myself with my loincloth knotted around the pool dancing near his elongated body. It's a day I will never forget because there was an event that many people would call supernatural. The rain was going to fall on us, but one of my great aunts had succeeded, I do not know how, after having lit a small fire and made a few gestures, to stop her. Yes yes you read that correctly: she had succeeded in stopping the rain. African science !!
In the West, since the 70s, more and more scientists have been studying what is called in English NDE (Near Death Experience) in French EMI (Experience of imminent death), they have collected thousands of testimonies from people who returned to the existing after clinical death. Their testimonies are simply fascinating and breathtaking.
And it is thanks to these testimonials that scientists like Dr. Raymond Moody, Dr. Ben Alexander, Dr. Jean-Jacques Charbonnier say that LIFE endures when the body dies, that consciousness remains even if the brain stops operate:
“I am 100% sure that there is life after death. This certainty comes from testimonies that I have gathered, from this experience that I lived 25 years ago. I would like to say that everything that is inexplicable, everything that undermines our materialist functioning is frightening, but that we should not be afraid of the hereafter. That we must say that life continues after death ”Dr Jean-Jacques Charbonnier
The testimonies collected from close to people who have returned from death, the “experiencers”, very often refer to a tunnel with a dazzling white light at the end, a light from which emanates unconditional love; they evoke a feeling of harmony with everything, but also, they say, every human being on earth comes to accomplish a precise mission… interesting! Regarding death, Mbuta Marcus Garvey, a 20th century black leader, said: “Men never die. Nothing dies. Men are made of body and mind. The spirit is God. It is intelligence. The human body is matter. It passes from the stage of living matter to another stage in the earth. He does not die in the sense that we mean death. He changes. When men sleep and go, on the material plane, they go to the earth, which is alive, and from which other men and things are formed. All forms of matter are related, therefore man is related to earth, and earth is related to man. We eat ourselves all the time […] nothing is lost and nothing dies. Do not be afraid of death, because what we call death is only a change, and you abide in the universe, whether it is in the spirit of God that your spirit joins after the change or in matter, which lives forever "(1).
What does Bukoko teach us (the authentic African tradition)?
In an excellent work entitled Aspects of African civilization, Mbuta Amadou Hampâté Bâ, an African sage, connoisseur of the authentic tradition, writes:
“Existence, which begins with conception, is preceded by a cosmic pre-existence where man is believed to reside in the realm of love and harmony, called Benke-so.The birth of a child is seen as tangible proof that a part of anonymous existence has been detached and embodied in order to accomplish a mission on our earth ”(2)
Returning "experiencers" say the exact same thing Africans have been saying for thousands of years. So no, Bakoko (the Elders) do not believe that there is life after death, but KNOW that there is LIFE before and after physical death, a fact which is now rationally demonstrated by science. western.
African science, improperly labeled witchcraft by laymen, is still unrecognized by the world and even Africans themselves, but it is certain that it can help solve a number of the problems facing Western science. today. It is in this state of mind that the French biologist Jean Marie Pelt collaborates with African Nganga (scientists) to understand the properties of the Iboga plant (See Iboga, the men of the Sacred Wood). Others like the mathematician Ron Eglash study in African villages in order to understand the mathematical models called fractals discovered in the 70s. Indeed, Western scientists discovered fractals in the 70s thanks to the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, but these models mathematics have been used in Africa since the dawn of time.
African science, improperly labeled witchcraft by laymen, is still unrecognized by the world and even Africans themselves, but it is certain that it can help solve a number of the problems facing Western science. today. It is in this state of mind that the French biologist Jean Marie Pelt collaborates with African Nganga (scientists) to understand the properties of the Iboga plant (See Iboga, the men of the Sacred Wood). Others like the mathematician Ron Eglash study in African villages in order to understand the mathematical models called fractals discovered in the 70s. Indeed, Western scientists discovered fractals in the 70s thanks to the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, but these models mathematics have been used in Africa since the dawn of time.
"When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet ” Ron Eglash Ethno-mathematician (3) Translation “When Europeans first arrived in Africa, they considered the architecture to be very disorganized and therefore primitive. It never occurred to them that Africans may well have used a mathematically based form that they themselves had not yet discovered. ” Jacques Attali, French economist, speaking about African fractals.
Unconsciously and unwittingly, many African intellectuals who graduate from Western universities promote the dominant paradigm (materialist), yet this paradigm is strongly opposed by a new "race" of Western scientists such as Nassim Haramein, Bruce Lipton, Rupert Sheldrake, Jean-Jacques Charbonnier etc. which, in turn, promote a new worldview, a new paradigm reconciling science and tradition, man and nature, the spiritual world and the material world. A vision of the world that is close to the African vision. By reconnecting with the tradition, the paradigm of his ancestors, African man will be in tune with the new emerging science, thus freed from superstitions and false beliefs, such as the fear of death, because Bakoko (the Elders) had no no fear of death, he will then be able to awaken the builder of civilizations who lies dormant within him, in order to contribute, as he has already brilliantly done in the past, to the development of humanity.
“This race of black men, today the object of our contempt, is the very one to whom we owe our arts, our sciences and even the use of speech” Volney (1757-1820), French academician.In addition, knowing that death does not exist, that it is not the end of Life, allows us on the one hand to take another look at existence, to apprehend it differently, to break with the pessimistic philosophies which define the human as a "being-thrown" into death. On the other hand, it allows us to better accept our death as well as that of our loved ones, and especially to celebrate Life.
“You can overcome the fear of death and face things that few people have the courage to face. In fact, you can learn to love death like your ancestors did. When you realize that even after death you can still accomplish things that some, even alive, cannot achieve ”Crédo Mutwa (4)
At the start of the 21st century, African man must return to Bukoko (the ancestral tradition) to immerse himself in the multi-millennial knowledge of his ancestors, so that he too, like other peoples, can , contribute to the resolution of the philosophical and spiritual crisis which is severely affecting our society.
“Today, taking into account our values which are endangered, more than a return to the cradle of humanity, it is a return to the values of Africa which seems to me important”Daniel Carton, French writer and journalist (5)
- (1) Message to the people, the African Philosophy Course / lesson 14, The Universe p174
- (2) Amadou Hampaté Bâ, Aspects of African civilization, pages 11
- (3) Ted.com
- (4) Credo Mutwa, Indaba my children pages 617
- (3) Ted.com
- (4) Credo Mutwa, Indaba my children pages 617