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Reveals how spirituality and the collective unconscious of all of
humanity originated in Africa • Examines the Oldawan, the
Ancient Soul of Africa, and its correlation with what modern
psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious • Draws
on archaeology, DNA research, history, and depth psychology to
reveal how the biological and spiritual roots of religion and
science came out of Africa • Explores the reflections of our
African unconscious in the present confrontation in the Americas,
in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern
psychospirituality The fossil record confirms that humanity
originated in Africa. Yet somehow we have overlooked that Africa is
also at the root of all that makes us human--our spirituality,
civilization, arts, sciences, philosophy, and our conscious and
unconscious minds. In this extensive look at the unfolding of human
history and culture, Edward Bruce Bynum reveals how our collective
unconscious is African. Drawing on archaeology, DNA research, depth
psychology, and the biological and spiritual roots of religion and
science, he demonstrates how all modern human beings, regardless of
ethnic or racial categorizations, share a common deeper identity,
both psychically and genetically--a primordial African unconscious.
Exploring the beginning of early religions and mysticism in Africa,
the author looks at the Egyptian Nubian role in the rise of
civilization, the emergence of Kemetic Egypt, and the Oldawan, the
Ancient Soul, and its correlation with what modern psychologists
have defined as the collective unconscious. Revealing the spiritual
and psychological ramifications of our shared African ancestry, the
author examines its reflections in the present confrontation in the
Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern Black
spirituality, which arose from African diaspora religion and
philosophy. By recognizing our shared African unconscious--the
matrix that forms the deepest luminous core of human identity--we
learn that the differences between one person and another are
merely superficial and ultimately there is no real separation
between the material and the spiritual.
Integrating traditional dream analysis with family psychology,
clinical science, and parapsychology, Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D.,
ABPP, details how our personal unconscious is interwoven into our
larger family unconscious. He shows how these dreamlife connections
and patterns are as old as humanity itself, exploring ancient dream
traditions from around the world. He explains how the dreamlife of
a family can be viewed as a shared field or hologram, where each
family member is enfolded into the dreams of the other members.
This shared reality reveals itself in family and personal
illnesses, in nightmares and unusual dreams, and during critical
times such as crisis, pregnancy, conflicts, and medical
emergencies. It also reveals itself in cases of simultaneous shared
dreams and telepathic and precognitive dreams, explaining why so
many people have dreams in which a family member appears to say
good-bye, waking the next day to discover the same loved one has
passed away.
Within each of us lies the potential to activate a personal
connection to the superconscious. Called "Ureaus" in ancient
Egyptian texts and "Kundalini" in ancient Hindu yoga traditions,
our innate serpent power of spiritual transcendence inhabits the
base of the spine in its dormant state. When awakened, it unfurls
along the spinal column to the brain, connecting individual
consciousness to the consciousness of the universe enfolded within
the dark matter of space. At the root of creativity and spiritual
genius across innumerable cultures and civilizations, this
intelligent force reveals portals that enfold time, space, and the
luminous matrix of reality itself. Combining physics, neuroscience,
and biochemistry with ancient traditions from Africa and India,
Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., explores the ancient Egyptian science of
the Ureaus and reveals how it is intimately connected to dark
matter and to melanin, a light-sensitive, energy-conducting
substance found in the brain, nervous system, and organs of all
higher life-forms. He explains how the dark light of melanin serves
as the biochemical infrastructure for the subtle energy body, just
as dark matter, together with gravity, holds the galaxies and
constellations together. With illustrated instructions, he shows
how to safely awaken and stabilize the spiritual energy of the
Ureaus through meditation practices, breathing exercises, and yoga
postures as well as how to prepare the subtle body for
transdimensional soul travel. By embracing the dark light of the
shining serpent within, we overcome our collective fear of the vast
living darkness without. By embracing the dark, we transcend
reality to the dimension of light.
From the foreword by Stanley Krippner author of "Realms of Healing"
." . . these pages may provide a route of mending and healing for
many families . . . conveys the richness of shared imagery and
emotionality that operates in the life of each family member." The
family group, the individual, clinical psychologists, all will find
this book enormously helpful. Dr. Taub-Bynum, himself a clinical
psychologist, appears to be the long needed catalyst to bring the
family, as a unit, under the umbrella of the collective
unconscious. In addition, he relates family behavior to documented
case histories of telepathy, clairvoyance and second-sight. Writes
Carl A. Whitaker, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Wisconsin Medical School, Madison: "This capacity to combine
concepts of family therapy, the wisdom of the East, and the wisdom
of higher mathematics and physics puts (the author) in a unique
position to formulate things which I respect, admire, and follow
... I am firmly convinced that members of the same family read each
other in great detail and that most of that information never
reaches consciousness." Comments Erik Peper, Director Biofeedback
and Family Therapy Institute, Berkeley, California: ." . . offers
both layman and therapist new underlying concepts in individual and
family dynamics ..." EDWARD BRUCE BYNUM, Ph.D., is a clinical
psychologist and Director of the Behaviorial Medicine Program at
the University of Massachusetts Health Services. He is also the
author of Families and the Interpretation of Dreams. He has
published widely in both popular and professional journals. Some of
his work has been translated into German, Japanese, and Russian. He
is a student and practitioner of Kundalini Yoga.
Critical Acclaim for The Roots of Transcendence... From the
Scholars: "This is a powerful book.... A true picture of the
cross-fertilization of human history and culture....A major book,
one of the signposts of the time." -Molefi Kete Asante, PhD,
Chairman, Department of African-American Studies, Temple
University; Author, Afroocentricity, and Rhythms Unity From the
Psychiatrists: "A PIONEERING TEXT in Transego Psychology. The
author envisions the next step in the development of human
psychology. He raises the 'new' question that the self is not
localized in the mind but is 'non-local, ' a field of
interconnected relations.... A valuable model is presented to
define psychopathological diagnostic issues and therapeutic
treatment issues. Truly wonderful." -Richard D. King, MD, From the
Preface; Author, African Origin of Biological Psychiatry From the
Consciousness Researchers: "A daring leap involving new conceptual
models.... Discusses the anxieties and stresses of our time while
IT PROVIDES READERS THE TOOLS BY WHICH ANXIETIES AND STRESSES CAN
BE ADDRESSED." -Stanley Krippner, PhD, Distinguished Professor of
Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies; Author,
Dreamtime and Dreamwork, and Your Personal Mythology "A mighty
synthesis of knowledge and feeling, science and poetry, clinical
observation and spiritual insight... which SPEAKS POWERFULLY TO LAY
AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE ALIKE.... An important contribution to our
understanding of the mind and its operation in the world." -John
White, MAT, Author, Future Science, and Kundalini, Evolution and
Enlightenment Here is the epic adventure of the rise and unfolding
of human consciousness from its earliest days millennia ago, on
through the first civilizations and down to contemporary times. The
mythic Mitochondrial DNA, "mother of humanity," of 10,000
generations ago is used to personalize this journey for readers, a
journey seen to be an integral part of each of us. This includes
not only her shared African gene pool but also the
neuro-biologically interwoven evolutionary impulse. How different
personalities deal with this intelligent and luminous current is
the primary thrust of this groundbreaking book that readers will
find of extraordinary value in the exploration of human
consciousness. Edward Bruce Bynum, PhD, is a clinical psychologist,
family therapist, and Director of the Behavioral Medicine and
Biofeedback Clinic, University of Massachusetts Health Services. He
is the author of The Family Unconscious and Families and the
Interpretation of Dreams. He has published widely in both popular
and professional journals. Some of his work has been translated
into German, Japanese and Russian. He is a student and a
practitioner of Kundalini Yoga.
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