Africa
_I: And from the heights of the Spirit in Antarctica, from the Vision of South America, the Voice of North America, the Beat of Europe, the Being of Asia, and the creative Axis of Oceania, we arrive at the Roots and Power of Africa, we arrive at the Origin.
_AM: The Center of Pangea, the Original Center of the World...
_I: Africa, the Land of the Sun. There are many hypotheses about what its name means, but perhaps the most accurate is the Latin construction that refers to the Sahara Desert as a place where there is no cold, where the sun reigns: Aprica (sunny) from the Greek "Aphriké" (without cold). The ancients had a profound view of things, but we won't deny that when it came to naming things, they were too obvious.
_AM: Well, that was the way they could identify the things they were referring to, describing what was there: "Germany" (where there are many tribes of men), "Spain" (land where there are many rabbits), "Mediterranean" (sea in the middle of lands), and so on, easy.
_I: Why is it the origin?
_AM: Well, one would have to go back to the history of Pangea. Imagine the continent.
_I: I'm used to seeing maps, but well, it deserves a description.
_AM: Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, and it is the one that is in the middle of all the others. Although one could say that any continent could be taken as the center of the other continents, it's not quite like that. Do you know what an antipode is?
_I: Yes, it's the geographical opposite point on a sphere. What's exactly on the opposite side of where I am on the other side. Popularly in cartoons, it's shown how digging a hole to the other side of the world would lead you to China, as it's been popularly said that "China is on the other side of the world." However, the only countries where you could actually end up in China if you dug straight down would be Chile and Argentina.
_AM: Well, Africa has the entire Pacific Ocean as its antipode. If you dig in Tangier, Morocco, you would find Auckland, New Zealand. Along the Sahara Desert, you find the islands of Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia. If you cross Botswana, you'll find Hawaii. And through the Congo, the scattered islands of Kiribati. The rest is ocean... Water. This shows you something interesting: Africa is the antipode of the largest ocean, far from all the lands of the world, the heart of Pantalasa. That is to say, Africa, on the opposite side, is the heart of Pangea. All the continents break away and expand towards the Pacific to the east and west, north and south, from Africa. About 200 million years ago, Pangea began to break apart, and during the next 150 million years, they would begin to move away from Africa in all directions, creating the continents we know today.
_I: So that's the origin...
_AM: Africa is one of the oldest territories, at least the lower plates, that is, the southern African massif, which goes from Angola to Malawi, and from Zambia to South Africa. During the Cambrian period, the formation of small volcanic islands made Earth's orography not very rigid, but flexible, which connected these chains of islands to this massif. There began to be the first lakes and the first non-marine animals. South America appeared as the plate began to rise against the coasts of Africa, just as North America did. Europe was nothing more than a set of islands wandering in the north, joining and disconnecting from each other for certain periods. Asia and its extensive plains were formed on the way to the North Pole, cooling the world, while below, Antarctica was at the level of the Indian Ocean, with forests, jungles, and meadows, attached to India and Madagascar. The Antarctic peninsula and Patagonia were like two arms holding South Africa from the south, and the Middle East extended in strips along the east, still unrecognizable, touching the corals that would one day be the Tethys Sea, and much later, Tibet. On the other side, the Appalachians were a huge mountain range that separated the great North American and Amazonian deserts from the Sahara jungles, and this effect would be reversed when the continents split. Although Africa is the center of the other territories continentally, it was not the origin of all species, although it was of the one that would bring consciousness to Earth: the human.
_I: We emerged from Africa.
_AM: From the South, between Mozambique and Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The fracture of the eastern African plate guided humans northward, through the lakes Malawi, Rukwa, Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward, Albert, and Victoria, venturing into the power center that would drive humans to expand around the world: Ethiopia. From there, the tribes migrated to the Sahara grasslands and the oases of Arabia, walking to the Persian and Indo valleys, from where they would migrate to the rest of the world as Homo sapiens. For millions of years, hominids in the process of humanization inhabited Africa, the continent that has seen humans born.
_I: Here lies the force of our creation... Why isn't it the Sacral, if it represents the womb and the gestation and manifestation?
_AM: Because Africa didn't create what humanity is. Africa created the seed and nurtured the tree of Life from its roots. It wasn't the one who saw the fruits, but who took care of the seeds of the forest they created later. This is where the fire is ignited that initiates the ascension of being to life.
_I: The planetary Kundalini...
_AM: You can see the Serpent of Light in the rest of the world, connecting all geographies, but that serpent does not touch Africa. Because, on this continent, there is another serpent that gives life to the one that moves the world. It arises in Table Mountain, at the tip of South Africa, the Cape Peninsula. It continues through the Drakensberg mountain range and the Lesotho massif, ascending the Zambezi River and crossing the Great Lakes of eastern Africa and Ethiopia, rising through the mountains of the Red Sea, alongside the Nile River to Sinai and the Delta in the Mediterranean. There its energy rises through Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, to the Eye of the Serpent: Turkey.
_I: Africa is like the motor of the Kundalini, related to the genitals of the Earth, the seeds, eggs, and sperm, land of generation, impulse, going deep... It ignites the Sun's fire on Earth, nourishes the Serpent of Light in a physical and spiritual orgasm...
_AM: The black race carries the most ancient and pure records of the Earth, the origin of the human from the elements. African ancestors are the common link between all of us, between every man and woman. There is the link that separated us from the animal kingdom to start the human kingdom. There reside the memories of the first genetic modifications of beings from the stars. In the cells of the direct descendants of Africa lies the most ancient power in the world, which has become religion in many cases, inherited by the slaves in the Americas. Africa is the root of the World, the force of ascension. Therefore, South Africa was joined to the Antarctic Peninsula, it reminds us of the torus, in which the Spiritual caresses the depth of the Material to manifest its dreams.
_I: And why does Africa suffer so much?
_AM: The cultures of Africa have lived a very different history from the cold peoples of the north. Africa is a hot continent, with vast extensions. Living in herds and tribes has been useful for millennia. The exchange between tribes, without limits, took advantage of the necessary and abundant resources. Unlike their neighbors in Asia and Europe, who experienced climate change and food shortages every six months, Africa continued under heat and abundance. The cold territories of the world had to develop other skills, create reserves, agriculture, monetary economy, accumulation of goods for times of scarcity, defense of fertile and limited territories, creation of tools and weapons, turned villages into cities, and tribes into civilizations. This path was not followed by the peoples of Oceania or Africa, for a simple territorial and climatological reason. With the beginning of Colonialism in the 15th century, Africa became an easily exploitable terrain because the tribes could not resist, they had not developed the survival skills of their northern neighbors, and they were forced to live under subjugation and slavery. They knew nothing else, and they were forced to live under imperial and religious domination, both Christian and Muslim. And suddenly, in the 19th century, independence came, the Republics, and the apparent Democracies.
_I: But...
_AM: ...But it wasn't a personal achievement. The creation of countries, nations, states, was a global imposition, "if you're not a colony, you're a state." The fictitious boundaries created by colonizers became meaningless country boundaries, dividing tribes, families, hunting territories, planting and harvesting. Religions and politics became the new form of struggle between tribes, generating endless wars because now weapons were sold to them. African peoples never had the opportunity to undergo any development process on their own. From absolute freedom they went to the worst slavery, and from it, they went to republics without having known the development of what it means. In a short period of time, they went through many traumas, and it is still a traumatized continent under the pressure of the world. And many have taken advantage of this trauma, doing their businesses, using our living ancestors as an inferior race to experiment with.
_I: The only reason Africa is poor is a matter of human political and economic systems...
_AM: It's a delicate issue because Africa is the land of power, it's the beginning of the most powerful energy of all, and yet it lives subjugated because it has been taught to fear what it is capable of doing. They have lost power because they have been taught that true power lies in Greek and Roman systems, that to be rich you have to be like the United States or Europe. And it's not like that. Each territory has its own form of wealth, and Africa's wealth is not Europeanization, but the roots of its own Land. Therefore, to ignite the Kundalini again, it is necessary to bring Heaven to Earth, to descend the Spirit to the Body, to enjoy creation again, to go to the Roots. As long as humans keep looking at the Sky, Africa will be poorer and more disconnected. But when humans remember that the only way a tree can reach the heavens is with deep roots, then we will breathe life into this magical continent again. Africa needs to feel the pleasure of living again, humans need to remember the pleasure of existing. There lies the power, not in obtaining things, but in feeling them.
_I: Humanity has a Kundalini imbalance, as our power was enslaved by cultures and religions, like Africa...
_AM: But remember... It's not what enslaves you, it's what you do with it. The only reason someone has enslaved you is because you have given them the power to do so. The only reason someone takes away your power is because you fear your own power. The only reason you keep living trapped in density is because you fear your light. You give power to others because you don't know how to manage it within yourself. Once things happen, the blame no longer lies with those who subjected you to such an experience, but in the responsibility of what you do with what you've experienced.
_I: It's like the Jewish people, who, regardless of what may be said about them in history, have always risen from the ashes. They have always known how to use pain by turning it into art, and suffering into freedom.
_AM: The Chosen People by God is not a blood or ethnicity, but the human who chooses themselves as the creator of their own reality. The only way to free oneself from the roots of the world is by becoming them to flourish again.
_I: Will Africa flourish again?
_AM: Only if South America decides to open its eyes and see the long-awaited moment, only if it manages to see the Antarctic spirit. Only then, light will return to the roots, and Africa will shine again.
_I: I put all my intention into illuminating the land of our Origin as the Atlanteans knew it to be.
_AM: The Atlantean people recognized this power of Africa, and that's why they populated the Nile from north to south. They knew that only from here could they ignite the world's fire, sow a new humanity...
_I: And now we have done the same... In a new time. I Am Africa!
_AM: I Am the Origin.