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Norman Barnett's book covers a wide range of historical, social, psychological and religious topics which are pertinent to the lives of Black people in today's world. At the heart of the book is the encouragement to all people to look more objectively at the little known set of principles which govern the lives of the Akan people of Ghana and to see how these principles can be applied to meet the challenges of the modern world. The major objective of the work is to awaken interest in the spiritual Onyame a philosophical system which makes an attempt to provide the tools to develop new approaches to the fundamental difficulties which confront our people, who have been and continue to be plagued by dispossession and racism. This book is highly recommended for libraries, schools, colleges, universities and Churches. It is vital reading for students and academics in African studies, development studies, political science, anthropology as well as for everyone who is concerned about matters of the spirit and of the unseen force which guides us all.
Contents
Dedication 1. Foreword 2. Acknowledgements 6. Preface 8. Section One: The Connected Soul. 1) Knowing the Soul 14. 1a) The Onyame and Kabbalistic Trees of Life 22. 1b) Honam 27. 1c) The Collective Unconscious 28. 2) When Blacks were in Psychic Balance 31. 2a) The Kushites 31. 2b) Old Africa in Connection with the Source 35. Section Two: An African Cosmology. 3) The Cosmological world of the Akan 42. 3a) There is an authentic African Religion 42. 3b) Connecting the Akan with the Ancients 48. 3c) The Akan world and the Dja 52. 3d) The Sacred and the Secular in Ghanaian Society 57. 3e) Calling on the Ancestors 61. 3f) Life and Ritual inGhana 63. 4) The Four Spiritual Worlds of the Onyame 66. 4a) the Worlds of the Onyame and the Kabbahlah 66. 4b) The Akan view of the four worlds 71. 4c) The Trinity of Onyame 79. 4d) The essence and the Riddle 79. 4e) The Trinity deism and the Community 81. 4f) Transcendence, the Trinity and the Thing 82. 4g) The roles of Onyame, Onyankopon and Adamankoma 84. 5) The Paths of Energy Flows 86. 5a) The energy flows in Onyame 86. 5b) The Deities of the mind 88. 5c) The Deities of internal emotions 90. 5d) The Deities of external emotions 91. 5e) Man in the Universe 93. Section Three: Issues Psychological and of the Psyche. 6) Collective Psychological Blockages 96. 6a) Psychological and behavioral issues 98. 6b) Fanon's findings 100. 6c) The Heroes' relation to the Collective Psyche 103. 7)Psychological imbalances Relating to the Triads of Onyame 109. Section Four: The Re-aligners of the Psyche 8) The Re-aligners of the mind 130. 8a) Toussaint l'Ouverture: the Wise One 131. 8b) Marcus Garvey: the Man of Vision 138. 8c) Nelson Mandela: the Transcender 141. 8d) Kwame Nkrumah: The Statesman 145. 9) The Re-aligners of Internal Emotions 153. 9a) Paul Bogle: the Freedom Fighter 155. 9b) Martin Luther King: the Organiser for Peace 165. 9c) Malcolm X: the Charismatic Leader 168. 10) The Re-aligners of External Emotions 171. 10a) Toussaint l'Ouverture: The freedom Fighter as Politician 171. 10b) Malcolm X: the Militant: 176. 10c) Kwame Nkrumah: The Political Organiser 178. 10d) Nelson Mandela: The Democratic 180. Section Five: Toward A Reconnection of the Soul 11) The Realigned Psyche 182. 11a) Loss of Connection with the Source 183. 11b) Aborted ambition / managerial ineptitude 184. 11c) Fatalism / loss of self-esteem 185. 11d) Alienation from own culture
