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The Maa Aankh:A Kemetic-Kongo Cosmogram as revealed by Oset (Isis)

What to Do When Your Spidey (Psychic) Sense Goes Off

What to Do When Your Spidey (Psychic) Sense Goes Off. First, what is a “Spidey sense”? Well it is a reference to the Marvel character Spider-Man. Whenever he senses troubles his hairs stand up.  For me, I get a real strong tingling sensation in my head.  It is almost as if he someone hit me in the back of my head. Do you have a Spidey sense?  So do you know what to do when your Spidey (Psychic) sense goes off?

Something is not right!

I remember one night I was watching TV with my family and my daughter had fallen asleep in my arms. She was sound asleep for a while and then all of a sudden. She jolted up and let out a piercing scream as if someone had frightened her. Shortly after she fell back asleep.  

It was obvious that she was having a nightmare but it was also a clear sign that there was a spiritual intruder inside the house.   According to the Maa Aankh, whenever we have something that is alarming, it signifies the Ra Moment, which symbolizes warriors, first responders and those who respond to emergencies.

This was good to know because when my Set is in the corner saying, “That herbal stuff doesn’t work”. 

So, I went into psychic defense mode. Immediately a grabbed a glass of water and put these traps around the bed to catch wayward spirits and thoughts. I took some salt and blessed it, then sprinkle it in the corners of the house.  I looked and I didn’t have any ammonia and I didn’t have time to make any Rompe Zaraguey tea but I did have some Rompe Zaraguey spirit water, so I sprinkled this throughout the house. Then, I took some garlic skins and prayed my intention over them to remove negative energies and forces that were not welcomed.  Next, I threw the garlic skins on the hot stove and then I got some fresh coffee. I prayed the same intention over it and then I sprinkled it on the hot stove. 

As the smoke of both garlic skins and coffee wallowed in the air. One of my guides told me to take some of the tobacco, chew it and spit it inside a spray bottle. I also added freshly chewed garlic, some water and some more of the Rompe Zaraguey to the bottle. Then, I proceeded to spray the mixture around the house. While spraying I encountered the spirit that was not supposed to be here because my Spidey sense went off.

I couldn’t see the spirit but I could sense it. Now, for the record, spirits are going in and out of our homes all the time. Most of them time, these spirits are grateful, helpful and the bulk of them are just passing through. Spirits from various spiritual levels enter our home and they will try to assist or offer a helping hand. This spirit that triggered my psychic sense was not about that. It like most negative and chaotic spirits was attempting to take over because it was parasitic, which is why I refer to them as aapepu.

So, with my spiritual gun (the spray bottle) loaded with some of the most offensive psychic essences ever.  I told the spirit it was not welcome and that it had to go because it was not abiding by house spiritual rules, which I set up when I began working with ancestor spirits. Anyway, to make a long story short. The entity finally left and I could sense it outside my front door.  I knew that by daybreak it would be completely gone. After about an hour had passed, I prayed over some cinnamon powder to make the home peace and pleasant. Then, I threw it on the hot stove and later went to bed.

Now this got me thinking on if people knew the spiritual powers of many of the household items we have. So I decided to make a list of the common items in our home that can be used for psychic self-defense.  So when your Spidey (Psychic) sense goes off you can use the following.

For Psychic Defense:

Salt – absorbs negative energyCoffee – burn on stove to remove blockages. Can be brewed and used as a spiritual bath.Garlic skins – removes negative spiritsOnion skins – removes negative spiritsCayenne (Red) Pepper – for quick protection and to discourage physical contact sprinkle power around your house.Ammonia – used as a floorwash or spray to chase negative spirits awayTobacco – chases away spirits.

For Psychic Blessings:

Cinnamon powder- used to make home more invitingBrown Sugar – used to make home sweetAllspice – encourages pleasantnessGinger powder – used to increase personal power, luck and stop nightmaresNutmeg – for luck and moneyBay Leaf – carry for luck.Orange peel – you only need to burn a little to attract happiness in the home

Do you honor, venerate or worship your Ancestors?

So, do you honor, venerate or worship your Ancestors? This is a question that I have asked years ago, but it is also a question that some people ask when trying to understand the importance of working with Ancestors. So, do you honor, venerate or worship your Ancestors?  The best way to answer this is by briefly sharing my story.

When I first started honoring my Ancestors, there was not a lot of information around on the subject. In fact, the only information on working with the Ancestors when I first picked up this practice was, Luisah Teish’s Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals and Awo Fa’Lokun Fatunmbi’s Iwa-Pele: Ifa Quest: The Search for the Source of Santeria and Lucumi. These two books were basically the only books in English at the time that actually explained how to do the setup. All of the other books were in Spanish and were written for the growing Santeria/Lucumi community. Most of the other books written in English were typically about Haitian Vodun, and. Most authors focused primarily on how odd and different working with the Ancestors was compared to western religious ideas. This is why it trips me out when I hear ‘other’ people saying they have been working with the Ancestors for x, y years and taught to them by their grandparents.

Because I am like, where were you at when Blacks and Latinos were being ridiculed and persecuted for working with their Ancestors? I am not saying that there aren’t any people who were legitimately working with their ancestors, for the record. But as I mentioned before, working with the Ancestors is a popular topic. Many people are just on the bandwagon just to make money, but I digress.

When I started working with my ancestors since there was not much information published, and there were not many elders who were publicly around that practiced it. I learned about this practice through trial and error.

When I first started working with my paternal grandfather, maternal great-grandparents, and Malcolm X on my small shrine. When I was working with Malcolm, I had read his autobiography a few years before Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film debuted. I remember I had emulated Malcolm so much that I found myself wearing glasses even though I don’t wear glasses. Then, I stopped eating pork and even imitated how Malcolm spoke and his mannerism. Then, one day I discovered that Malcolm’s picture had fallen off of my little shrine. It was around the same time I had learned that Malcolm didn’t dance because Muslims didn’t believe in it. Dancing was one of the things that stopped me from converting to Islam because I knew in my heart that dancing was an ancient form of expression. When I heard someone saying that it was evil or making a commandment that you could not do, it was a big turn-off. I just left the church for this; there was no way I would get into something else that told me what I could and could not do.

Then, I remember working with this Kemetic prince named Ra Hetep. I don’t know; for some reason, I thought he resembled me so, I got a picture of him, and I placed it on my shrine. Then, I would pour libations to my Ancestors and include him by asking for his help in understanding the Kemetic religion. When I worked with him, I found myself getting headaches for some reason. Still, I kept trying to mimic the Kemetic religion as best I could. Again, this was all trial and error.

Later, when I met my godfather and mentor, Papa. He taught me about Spiritism, and one of the things he told me was that I needed to restrict my time with my Ancestors. After a little while, I finally took Ra Hetep’s photo down, and I stopped working with him.

As I said before, a lot of what Papa taught me I didn’t understand until much later, but when I got it. That’s when I began to tie the terms with the practice.

So What’s the Difference Between Honoring, Venerating, and Worshipping?

I know that some people would disagree and say they are the same but to me.  But, when I asked others “Do You Honor, Venerate or Worship Your Ancestors?” I noticed that some people wondered but never really thought about it.   This made me really look at this spiritual practice so, I studied how people in Africa, China, and Latin America worked with their Ancestors.

Today if someone were to ask me, “Do You Honor, Venerate or Worship Your Ancestors?”  I would explain that to honor the ancestors means to remember them. When you honor the Ancestors, you are “remembering” who they were and give them the energy to continue their spiritual progress. To venerate the Ancestors is to pay respect to Ancestors, which means there are attributes that they possess that you admire. To worship the Ancestors is to give the Ancestor devotion, so the act of pour libations daily and calling their name is Ancestor worship.

When Papa suggested that I restrict my time with my Ancestors. He was telling me in so many words that I was giving devotion to the wrong Ancestors. I later learned that the problem I was having was that I was trying to work with Ra Hetep, although I had no connection to him. This was the reason I kept getting headaches. (Don’t ask me why. It didn’t make sense to me, but it happened.) It was also was attributed to me being stuck in mimicking the Kemetic religion and not growing.

I eventually was able to establish a rapport with Ra Hetep indirectly. Still, this experience helped me understand that there was a difference between honoring, venerating, and worshiping the Ancestors. It also helped me realize that what most people refer to as ancestors were their biological ancestors. However, we also have historical ancestors, cultural ancestors, mystical ancestors, and teaching ancestors that act and behave more like spirit guides.

Today, I honor my biological ancestors and give them energy to continue to spiritually grow. However, I venerate my spirit guides because these are the spirits that help me to deal with issues in my daily life. I think that when you venerate Ancestors who have not spiritually grown. They don’t contribute to your wellbeing. If they were selfish individuals, then if you venerate these individuals you take on their characteristics.  This in my opinion is the reason when you see people get the Holy Ghost. They return to their heathenistic ways once the Holy Ghost leaves because they are actually channeling a low ancestral spirit.  It is only a “holy spirit” because they refuse to study metaphysics and spiritism.

So, this might not work for everyone, but for me. I know my biological ancestors are spiritually growing because, as I have mentioned throughout my books and in previous blog posts. My grandmother helped me to discover the Maa Aankh. But, I know my grandmother did not know anything about the Kemetic religion or culture. She was a devout Christian, but she had a strong Kongo-Angolan influence like many Black people from the Mississippi Delta region. How did my grandmother help me connect the Kongo Cross to the Kemetic Ra philosophy and theology when she didn’t know anything about the Kemetic religion? She partnered with a Kemetic spirit guide. That is the only way.

This is why it is important to honor your biological ancestors regardless of where they were in life. That means respecting their religion and even offering them the foods they enjoyed in life, such as pork. They will help you as best they can because they do continue to love and miss you. But, if they can’t help you, they will get you to someone who can like a venerated ancestor. However, I recommend venerating your historical, mystical, and cultural ancestors who will help you elevate yourself and others.

3 Things You Should Do Before Setting Up an Ancestor Altar

Based upon my experience, here are 3 things you should do before you setting up an ancestor altar, placing an ancestor altar, or make offerings to your ancestors (ancestor veneration). I came up with this list based on my own experience. I remember that when I first started honoring my ancestors. I remember I was in college, and I set up a little box at the foot of my bed. I remember I would place some food that I got from the campus’ cafeteria on the altar every day, but I never knew if the ancestors were pleased with the setup or the offerings. As time moved on, I would meet people from all over the world who honored their ancestors differently from how I did. When I inquired as to how, did they know when their ancestors were pleased? The people who would answer typically would go off on a tangent and tell me that the way I was doing things was incorrect.

After some years of trial and error and finally listening to my Spirits, I learned that there is no right or wrong way to honor your ancestors. There are really only three rules, and they are: 1) Honor your ancestors at least once a week, 2) Never place pictures of living individuals on the altar, and. 3) Never allow your ancestor altar to become dilapidated.

Everything else is optional and relative, which means the way that an individual honors their ancestors is based upon their discretion as it goes according to one’s feelings. In other words, an individual adds and subtracts things from their ancestor altar per their liking. I wish I had known this years ago, and I understand that I did not because I did not know how the ancestors communicated to me. This is why I list three things that you should do before you set up an ancestor altar.

Spiritual Tip #1:

Determine what type of psychic skills that you have.

Most people do not believe it, but we all have a psychic medium skill that we are born with. That is the ability to intuit information. This is the reason children and even animals know when changes are coming and occurring. Most of us are not aware of these psychic skills because we have been taught to suppress them in the West and only believe what we can physically see, touch, hear, smell, and taste. Consequently, when we hear the word psychic, we have all been programmed to think of some old lady with a crystal ball telling people that we will meet the love of our dreams, or something drastic is going to occur like we will turn into wolfman (laugh).

There are four types of psychic skills: mental (claircognizance/clairaudience), emotional (clairsentience), clairvoyance, and physical.   There are plenty of online resources that will help you determine your dominant skill but note that you can have all of these skills developed.

Spiritual Tip #2:

Develop this skill because this is how your Spirits will most likely communicate to you. I recommend that you spend at least a month developing this skill. So that you can distinguish when you are making messages and when your Spirits are communicating. Trust me, there is nothing worse than having your Spirits tell you of an opportunity that falls through your fingers. Or being warned of danger, but you plunge into the danger head first because you second, third, and fourth guessed yourself. So, develop this skill.

Spiritual Tip #3:

Finally, test your skill out for a test drive. Contrary to popular belief, most people who work with their Ancestors and Spirits are not your stereotypical medium who blindly follows superstitions. Most of us, like myself, are very skeptical, and we practice certain traditions because we have applied them and observed their efficacy. And, if you continue to follow this path, you will learn to do this each time Spirits communicate to you. So, test it out and see how if it works. Try having your Spirits tell you something based upon your psychic skill and, then, physically verify.

After you follow these three suggestions, you should be able to distinguish between your own voice/thoughts/emotions, your Spirits, and even negative energies. You will also know how to psychically defend yourself and block yourself from destructive influences. For more information on Spirits, check out my books Honoring the Ancestors the Kemetic Shaman Way, and, the Kamta Primer.

Hetepu (Peace & Blessings)

What is Kemetic Spirituality?

Why The Egyptian Book of the Dead is Obsolete

Have you ever wondered why the Kemetic Pert em Hru doesn’t make sense?

Hetepu (Peace & Blessings) Fam.  Yes. I said it and I will say it again. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is Obsolete and the reason I said this is because in one of my earlier posts, “How Should Beginners Practice Kemetic Spirituality?” I stated how some people had asked me how they should start practicing Kemetic Spirituality. So I responded that I was against beginners studying the 42 Laws of Maat, (which are not laws but are declarations) and reading the Pert em Hru (the so-called Egyptian Book of Dead) because, in my opinion.  They are outdated and obsolete.

OMG! The responses I got from people were truly interesting, to say the least. I had Fam who wanted to lecture me on how I was not being spiritual and how ATR was not for me because I was promoting a microwave version of Kemetic Spirituality.

For the record, I don’t do that back and forth stuff. I put forth my perspective and allow the other individual to put forth their perspective. If after stating my view a second time and allowing the other individual to express their perspective, we don’t see eye to eye. The road is closed, and it ain’t my job to open it. I do not argue beliefs. I talk about what I know. Not what I have read. Not what I think but what I have experienced because you can’t argue experience. You either have gone through it or not.

So let me clarify my position. I welcome anyone who has had a different experience to share their experience but here we go

I have recited the 42 Declarations of Maat, and I have read the Pert em Hru, and it did not stir my Spirit. As I have said in previous posts and writings, the Kemetic Religion is obsolete and DEAD. That is trying to do things the way the Kemetic people did it. Please HEAR ME. I did not say it does not work at all, but for me, personally, the Egyptian Book of the Dead is obsolete. 

None of these books, nor most of those archaic books of shadows that are alleged to be so powerful, will create a significant change in your life. This is because, like all of those ancient books of shadows that are alleged to be so powerful. Were written years ago by people who did not experience any of the things we are experiencing now.

The Kemetic people for some centuries lived in isolation from the rest of the world.

Fam. The Kemetic people were a society of farmers. They lived in what could best be described as a desert oasis surrounded by mountains and very arid terrain. So, for hundreds of years, no one could cross that terrain with a military and take them over. The biggest issue they had was some skirmish with neighboring societies, which did not last long because it was peacefully squashed. Read and study the Kemetic history if you don’t believe me. When the Nile flooded, it gave the Kemetic people enough food for the entire year and then some, so their basic needs were provided. Look at Maslow’s diagram. The Kemetic people had food and security already taken care of, which meant after they did their daily civic duties. They could spend the rest of the daydreaming and pondering the universe. Think about that.

Now, let’s shift here. First, we have systemic racism we got to deal with, affecting the first four tiers of Maslow’s diagram. Then, we have the first tier that many in our community struggle with. 

Many of us are trying to do what the Kemetic people did, which is be at tier 1 Self-Actualization and 2 Esteem on Maslow’s diagram. When we haven’t even gotten off the ground yet.  This is the equivalent of trying to teach something to someone and they are homeless and starving.  We are trying to dream of a better society like the Kemetic people did when we have Fam in Flint. Michigan just trying to get water to drink and bathe in. Fam.  We don’t control our community. We don’t control the economy in the community. We don’t control the community politics or the politics to occur on a national level. We don’t control the narrative about our community, people, etc. We barely control our family, which we have to fight for every day against media and other trivial influences. I mean, we are getting attack from every level (or at least it feels like it) and, you are telling me reading the Pert em Hru will save us? That learning how to turn into a golden hawk will save our family or someone in our community? I don’t think so.

There is not a spell in the Pert em Hru or any of the ancient texts that say “How to Stop Racism.” Ok. That’s not fair you say. Well, there is not a spell in the Pert em Hru Coffin Text, etc. that says “How to Become Prosperous.” Why? Because the Kemetic people didn’t think of prosperity, money, and wealth the way, we do. They didn’t live in a capitalistic society. They were not enslaved. They were not oppressed. They were not discriminated against because of the hue of their skin.  Are you starting to get the picture? 

So, let me repeat it.
The so-called Egyptian Book of the Dead is Obsolete. Meaning it does not and will empower us. It is outdated, which means the most powerful Kemetic rituals and spells are the ones you haven’t created yet.  They are the rituals and spells that you will receive from working with your Ancestors and Spirit Guides today.

I can attest to this because, as I have said before. 

Through working with one of my Ancestors, I connected with a Spirit Guide who helped me solve the riddle in the Story of Ra and Oset (Isis), which led to the discovery of the Maa Aankh. Mind you,  did not know anything about the dikenga so that’s how I know it was Ancestral intervention.

We need to accept that we live differently from our Kemetic ancestors, so the same things they did do not apply some 4000 years later. We need to really understand that the Kemetic sages didn’t leave a textbook on how to practice their religion because they didn’t want people idolizing them and practicing their religion. It’s that simple.

When we ignore our Set just for a minute, we will see that there is a lot of updating that needs to be done. For instance, some of us need to recite a new commandment stating: “I do not condemn my Fam, just because I disagree with him/her.” “I do not condemn my Fam because of the complexion of his/her skin and the texture of his/her hair.” “I will not get in the bed with the enemy (like bait and switch Jay Z ) for selfish reasons and individual gain,” “I love and honor myself as a reflection of the Divine.” These are some of the declarations that we need today because it addresses our issues.

Understand. It is more efficient for you to work with your spirits than to do what our Kemetic Ancestors did thousands of years ago because it is more relevant. Your Aakhu (Ancestors and Spirit Guides) are more aware of the things you have to go through in this lifetime because they recently went through it in the past 100 or so years. This is more relevant than anything that the Scribe Ani or any of the Ancestors in Kemet had written about.

As I have said before, my Ancestor connected me with a Kemetic Spirit Guide. That’s how I discovered the Maa Aankh cosmogram. I didn’t know anything about the Kongo dikenga.  So, I believe that we need to simply work with our Ancestors and Spirit Guides instead of trying to do what the ancients did because we think it is more powerful.

If you are interested in learning more check out Maa Aankh volume one and two.

Hetepu.

What Does Kemetic Spirituality mean to me?

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Before I explain what does Kemetic Spirituality means to me, I must first define what Kemet is. As most of us know, Kemet or KMT is the name that the Ancient Egyptians called themselves. First, KM, Kem or Kam, means “black,” which refers to how the soil changed colors and became black after the annual flooding of the Nile River. Consequently, as our great ancestors of history, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (December 29, 1923 – February 7, 1986), Dr. John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998), Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan who is better known as Dr. Ben (December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), and many others have stated, the Kemetic people called themselves Black People.

Artist rendering of the so-called four races of the world: a Libyan (“Themehu”), a Nubian (“Nehesu”), an Asiatic (“Aamu”), and an Egyptian (“Reth”). An artistic rendering, based on a mural from the tomb of Seti I.

However, I would like to expound upon this concept from a metaphysical perspective. While I agree that the Kemetic people did call themselves “Black People” and were very detailed in reporting historical events.  The Kemetic people were not racist. I do not believe that the Kemetic people discriminated against others based upon their ethnicity or their skin’s hue, as taught through Western racism. This is why I call the above illustration the so-called Four races of the world.

The Kemetic people depicted all of the people they encountered (including themselves) the way they were to highlight cultural similarities and differences.  You see, by the time the above “Four Races” illustration was created, Kemet had become a cosmopolitan society consisting of numerous ethnic groups, cultures, tribal nations, or clans.

Interesting these researchers were happy to report how Nefertiti looked according to their reconstruction, but fail to mention that Nefertiti was Assyrian who married into the Kemetic royalty.

Many archeologists and historians either unintentionally or deliberately (I side with the latter) err in reporting who the Kemetic people were. It is a classic case of academic cherry-picking.  This err is made by not indicating that Kemet had an indigenous population who migrated from the south or Kush (Ancient Nubia). This migration occurred hundreds of years before the Kushites conquered Kemet.  You see, by failing to mention this, it gives the impression that all of the Kemetic people looked like the Nefertiti bust above.

There were other ancient Africans who migrated to Kemet as well, which all contributed to the Kemetic people’s racial identity. Therefore, when these so-called scholars and scientists are researching the Kemetic rulers’ mummified remains. When we put it in perspective, these scholars are studying the mummified remains of a particular tribal clan that ruled Kemet at that time.

To understand this ruse, let’s say a million years in the future, archeologists and historians decided to research the skeletal remains of the first U.S. president. Then, they choose to dig up other presidents and conduct research on their remains. Then, they compile all of their research and announce to the future public that, “We have concluded that the ethnicity of the American people is that they were of European descent.”

Is this accurate? Of course not. It is not valid because, in the United States alone, their research does not include the indigenous Americans (the Amerindians), nor the numerous Africans brought of the States. It also does not include the multiple ethnic groups that migrated to the United States voluntarily. This research does not include the diverse populations in Canada and Mexico, which are also a part of America.

Yet, this is the type of research and reporting that modern archeologists and egyptologists do all of the time, which creates a false narrative of the Kemetic people.  Understand that this is not about making Kemetic Spirituality about race.  It is about Eurocentric scholars refusing to acknowledge race and give an accurate depiction of what Kemetic Spirituality was all about.

This is why we cannot exclude race and ethnicity from the discussion when trying to understand and explain what Kemetic spirituality means.

When we keep in mind that the Kemetic people consisted of numerous ethnicities, tribal nations, and clans.

It helps us to understand what Kemetic Spirituality was, how it was practiced and how it is practiced today.

This is why we find the continuation of the Kemetic culture thousands of years later after Kemet has fallen because Kemet played host to numerous ethnic groups.

It is the reason why Sir E. A. Wallis Budge stated in Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (1911):

“There is no doubt”, he said of Egyptian religions in Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (1911), “that the beliefs examined herein are of indigenous origin, Nilotic or Sûdânî in the broadest signification of the word, and I have endeavoured to explain those which cannot be elucidated in any other way, by the evidence which is afforded by the Religions of the modern peoples who live on the great rivers of East, West, and Central Africa . . . Now, if we examine the Religions of modern African peoples, we find that the beliefs underlying them are almost identical with those Ancient Egyptian ones described above. As they are not derived from the Egyptians, it follows that they are the natural product of the religious mind of the natives of certain parts of Africa, which is the same in all periods.”

Why did these numerous ethnic groups leave Kemet and scatter throughout the African continent? The same reason people migrate from one region to another in modern times. It was to escape civil unrest, war, and jihads.

When I take all of this into consideration, and someone asks me what KMT, Kemet, or Kam Ta Spirituality means to me. The term KMT, Kemet or as I like to call it Kam Ta, which means the “Black Lands,” is also a  metaphysical reference to all of the Kemetic people’s ancestry.

The Black Lands refers to the soil and a connection to that which is hidden and unknown. We all go to KAM TA every time we close our eyes, and when we open our eyes, we see that we are different shapes, sizes, complexions, etc., but when we close our eyes. We are all the same, united by the cloth of darkness like the pitch night sky. What do you see in the night sky? Stars, which are our Ancestors, symbolized as Osar (Asar, Osiris).

From this perspective, if we all emerge from the same Source of Blackness, we are all ancestral spirits from this fertile realm who have incarnated to the physical realm or TASETT.

So what does Kemetic Spirituality means to me? Well, to me Kemetic Spirituality is about reconnecting and communicating with our Ancestral Spirits responsible for bringing us all together.

Interested in learning more? Check out the Maa Aankh.

Why Are You So Fascinated with Kemetic Spirituality?

Have you ever wondered why you are so fascinated with Kemetic Spirituality, especially at this particular time? Have you ever wondered you are the only one in your family fascinated with Kemetic history and the Kemetic gods?  Have you ever really sat down and contemplated why you are probably the only one in your family who has the Pert em Hru (the so-called Egyptian Book of the Dead) or the Kemetic bible?

Isn’t it obvious? You know why you are so fascinated with Kemetic Spirituality, but you refuse to tell your Set (ego) to shut up and sit down. So, you go from place to place, reading this book and that book, and listening to this lecturer and that lecturer, in search of someone to validate what you already know.

The reason you are so fascinated with Kemetic Spirituality, Kemetic history, the Kemetic gods, the Kemetic religion, etc. is because you used to live there.

What did you do while you were there is not really important. What’s important for you to understand is that you used to live there thousands of years ago, and. The reason you are so fascinated with Kemetic Spirituality, Kemetic history, the Kemetic gods, the Kemetic religion, etc. is because you are trying to re-member the system you developed, learned, and/or studied while you were there.  This same system is what you taught to your family, and others within your ancestral line, which became your family’s and your peoples’ culture.

Yes. This is the reason you are the odd one in your family. It is also the reason you are the spiritual ambassador of your family.  Understand, your fascination with Kemetic Spiritual is not a coincidence.  You are here by choice, but also by Divine design.

So Fam, stop pussyfooting around with your Set who enjoys seeing you go around in circles chasing your tail and call upon your Aakhu (Ancestors and Spirit Guides). The world is in need of your Light now Hru (Hero/Heroine), so let’s set the world ablaze!

Feel free to share the Light you brought in this incarnation in the comment section below.

How Should Beginners Practice Kemetic Spirituality?

NPU (Anpu, Anubis) – the Kemetic Guardian Spirit of the Roads and Opener of the Way (Apuat)

So, the other day I was asked by someone “How should beginners practice Kemetic Spirituality?” or at least if they should begin by reciting the 42 Laws of Maat and reading the Pert em Hru (the Book of Coming Forth By Day also known as the so-called Kemetic Book of the Dead).

I told them that first of all, that Kemetic Spirituality differs per individual because it is based upon an individual’s spiritual maturity and understanding.   I remarked that when I started practicing Kemetic Spirituality, how I even thought that reciting the 42 Negative Confessions (also called the 42 Laws of Maat) and reading the Pert em Hru was a requirement to practicing Kemetic Spirituality.   Later on this path,  I discovered that it was not.   Reading and reciting the 42 Laws of Maat and read the Pert em Hru is an old fashion and outdated way to practice Kemetic Spirituality. What do I mean?

Let me explain.

Kemetic Spirituality is not like the Judeo-Christian religions where you read the testimonies about God and believe that the same thing will happen to you. For example, you are not going to read about how God wanted to test Abraham’s faith and asked him to sacrifice his son. Then, in return for Abraham’s obedience, he blesses Abraham, which means that if we have an undying faith God will bless us as well.

No. Not in Kemetic Spirituality.

To me, Kemetic Spirituality is about ordination and ritual. You either have gone through ordination and/or ritual, or you have not. For instance, when I tell you that whenever I feel like things are jammed up or that I feel blockage because “my way” is closed. So I call upon Npu (Anubis) to open the way for me by spraying some rum on his image, then blowing three puffs of cigar smoke, lighting a candle, and offering him some candy.

Essentially, what I have just done is 1) introduced you to Npu by presenting to you a crossroad ritual and, 2) presented you with a crossroad situation.  Npu will now speak to you intuitively and say something like, “Do you want to know more? Do the ritual.”  Then, at that moment, you have just entered a crossroad situation, which is Npu’s domain because you can either choose to do the ritual to learn more about Npu, or continue to follow your egotistical path of familiarizing yourself with definitions, descriptions, etc. that you read in books and other resources based upon fear of the unknown.

Npu (Enpu, Anubis) ApUat – the Kemetic Lord of the Roads Opening the Way to Live Truth

If you decide to take the leap of faith and do the ritual, you may not be able to explain why it works but you know that it works, and that is how you come to “know” this aspect of the Divine.  Your Ab soul ” your spiritual heart” will know Truth and will balance the feather of Maat (as depicted in the image above).

You see after you do the ritual will not stand around talking about that you believe Npu is the god of the underworld, and how he governs messages, beliefs, and all of those other descriptions that you read about him (description of Npu).  No. You will know firsthand who Npu and realize that this guardian spirit is a real entity because you had a direct experience with him.  You will also know after being introduced to him properly that the more you work with him, the better your understanding of him will be just like any other friendship and relationship you have.

This is what I mean when I say that Kemetic Spirituality is about going through ordination and/or ritual or not.  To me, Kemetic Spirituality is more about “knowing” and less about beliefs.  So, you can read the 42 Laws of Maat and the Pert em Hru, but that is just like reading the Holy Bible (Helios Biblios – Sun Book) because you are reading someone else’s testimony or scriptural account.  To be blunt, you will be reading the Scribe Ani’s scriptural account because some of these negative confessions will not relate to you in this lifetime.  For instance, “5. I have not stolen grain,” does not apply to you unless you pay people by grains,” and “34. I have not worked witchcraft against the King (or blasphemed against the King).” We don’t have a king for one, but the modern equivalent is a president, and did you see who the president was? In fact, what president has had our best interest?  So, do you see how these statements are not really relevant to us? These were issues that Ani overcame regarding his ego.

So, I would suggest that if a beginner wants to practice Kemetic Spirituality that they begin by simply learn to listen to their true self –personified as Osar (Asar, Osiris), and discipline their lower ego self personified – as  Set because this is the basis of Kemetic Spirituality.

Interested in practicing Kemetic Spirituality?  Check out Kamta: A Practical Kemetic Path for Obtaining Power and The Kamta Primer: A Practical Shamanic Guide for Using Kemetic Ritual, Magick and Spirituality for Acquiring Power.

Are You Really Called to the Kemetic Path?

Npu (Anubis) weighing the Ab (Spiritual Heart/Sou)

Are You Really Called to the Kemetic Path? How do you know if you are or not? Well  before I answer, the other day I was listening to Oshay Duke Jackson – who did a video titled “Here’s The Real Reason Why The Black Church Doesn’t Cater To Black Men Anymore.” Like most of Oshay’s videos, this video was funny and hard-hitting because he states. The reason there are a kazillion churches in the black community versus the white community is that there are a lot of beta males setting up churches instead of being patient, waiting their turn, and working with the established alpha male pastor.

As I said, he was so on point because growing up as a preacher kid, I saw this trend all the time. Many people allege they were called to the ministry but because most black churches do not clearly define and explain what the calling is. Most people, especially men, assume that their calling means they are called to be a preacher.

This reminds me of one of my uncles who started a church and had church service in a school gymnasium. His parishioners were another one of my uncles, his kids, my uncle’s kids, and their kid’s friends. Ten people. Yeah! Ten people attended his church that was conducted in a gymnasium for years. I mean, clearly, read the signs.

Anyway, it sounds funny, but Oshay touched on something that I felt is not spoken on within our conscious and spiritual community. These same “I was called to the ministry” people (especially males) exist in the conscious and spiritual community as well. These dusty, so-called woke men are only about getting their shine and nothing else.

After watching the video, I commented to Brother Kushite Prince how these individuals have superimposed that same funky attitude into the spiritually conscious community. I told him how I remember talking to this brother who had a t-shirt business. He explained that out of all of the t-shirts he sold, the biggest sellers were Biggie, Tupac, and Bob Marley T-shirts. When I asked what about his Malcolm, Marcus Garvey, and other spiritual conscious shirts. He flat out told me that “conscious” dudes don’t buy anything. All they want to do is talk and waste his time. Basically, it is the women who buy most of his merchandise, which is why Biggie, Tupac, and Bob Marley T-shirts were his big sellers.

This is why whenever I meet a spiritually conscious vendor, I try to support them by buying at least something like some incense or anything. If I say I want to improve my community, I need to do it. You see, there is no reason to advertise buying black if you practice the principles of Maa, which encourage you to respect and love your environment.

This is why when I see people who are claiming to be about this Kemetic life, it makes me want to ask them, “Are you sure you were called to this path?”

Understand. I am not here to judge, but it really gets on my nerves to see people (mostly men) talk about the glories of Kemet. Yet, they aren’t supportive of those who are doing the work. Instead, they would rather sit or stand around complaining about how they are put down or oppressed and argue about how much knowledge they got versus someone else.

This is why I keep stressing that your name change, your attire, the food you eat, and all of the books you have read don’t make you Kemetic.  I mean think about, if you ate some meat or if you don’t wear an ankh, do you really think this matters in the afterlife? No. What does?  If you said,  the concepts and principles that you live by or the Maa, you are absolutely correct.  This is the only thing that matters.  This is the reason you incarnated to this planet. This is the reason you are here. 

Family. Remember that Christianity was inspired by Kemetic Spirituality. So, when they say that your Christian life makes your light shine, it is more accurate in Kemetic Spirituality.  I am saying this because many people are into this Kemet thing but ain’t doing any kind of work on their soul.

I mean, one of the reasons I left the church was that they did not have a spiritual technology that would help you develop spiritually. In all of my books, I talk about how the church’s remedy to everything was to give your life to Jesus and pray. But everything in life does not follow this same cookie-cutter pattern. That’s why when crack cocaine hit the streets in the mid-1980s, this cookie-cutter salvation didn’t work for a lot of us. It didn’t work for me, which is why I got out of it and found my salvation through Kemetic spirituality.

If you are really about Kemetic spirituality, it ain’t no joke because your Spirits are brutally honest and don’t do that Christian sugarcoating. (The negative Spirits do because many of them are delusional, but I will save that for another post).  We always see images of Npu weighing the spiritual heart or Ab on the scale, but this is because They (the Spirits) don’t hold back and will tell you what you don’t want to hear so that you can grow. They will say to you, “Man/Woman. The reason you can’t get no mate is that you got some conditionings you got to deal with.” If you don’t understand this or if this sounds foreign, you may need to question if this is your path.

Our Spirits guide us in life and in death.

So are You Really Called to the Kemetic Path? Better yet, how do you know are really Called to the Kemetic Path?

Answer: Synchronicities, or as they say in the church, “God doesn’t give you a vision without making provisions.” In other words, you know if you are called to the Kemetic path because you will receive signs indicating that you are on the right path.  In fact, this is when you will meet and see your guides.  If it is meant to be your Spirits will make things fall into place, unlike my uncle who was struggling to maintain a church by renting a school gymnasium. 

The point that I am trying to make is that if you want “change,” then you need to put in the work to make it happen.  What the church calls your ministry, which I refer to as your maa (personal truth, balance, order, etc.) is reflective of the Maa.  If you are serious about Kemetic Spirituality, you need to overcome your ego and work with those trying to improve the community’s conditions. Stop trying to do things just to get recognition and do it because it needs to be done. Stop waiting for someone else to do it, and do it yourself. Stop publicly criticizing one another just because you don’t see or agree with the vision given to someone else. Resolve all conflicts by consulting the Ancestors, and be prepared to fight for what you have earned.

Hetepu (Peace & Blessings).