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The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology (Counseling and Development Series)

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The African Unconscious is one of the most exciting and involved books on the African journey. The book is well documented and should be required reading for everyone.

Dr. Bynum has made a brilliant contribution to the human family, and particularly, African people. I think his name will go down in history as one of the most important people who help to reclaim the real history of Africa.

I was interested in the comments made by Abu Mahid Jamillar. His comments are similar to the whites who rewrote the world history in order to colonize its people. Abu Mahid Jamillar is rightly concerned that his people are going to have to atone for their involvement in slavery and the destruction of African culture.

this man africentrically looks at the psycho-spiritual evolution of mankind from the motherland's unified world-view to the divisiveness of western (freudian) psychology. he documents the psycho-spiritual cultivation of many a civilization an interweaves it with the newest western developments in quantum physics and self-organization theory. the old story of the West finding the truth tha Africans have been KNOWING for millenia. think about it: the beginnings of a psycho-spiritual history of mankind!!!

An interesting thesis which attempts to unify the strands of human development with the origins of the human species on the African continent. A well-written and thought-provoking treatise.

I agree with Lee S. Sannella. This book is a must read for all scholars, students of consciouness and the general public.

As a "being of light," consciouness enfolds all human life and therefore, even though consciouness manifested first through the African body, consciouness itself is not dependent upon the body. Let us not make the same mistake as the ignorant by claiming something orignated with us. Consciouness is a spiritual child of God, Odu and Osiris. Having pervaded the entire world with a fragment of Himself, the unmanifest Brahman remains.

However, we should celebrate the fact that Africans were the first people to be ready to be fully human. In the beginning God created heaven and earth and 3,700,000 years ago he breathed into a black Adam and mankind became a living entity.

Contrary to the review from your Chicago reader that referenced this book as "Simplistic & Biased", history as many of us have been taught in the western hemisphere, has always been "Biased". If you correct a wrong, it is always viewed as being "Biased." The late and great writer, Curtis Mayfield, conveyed in his lyrics -- PEOPLE GET READY...THERE'S A TRAIN A COMIN' YOU DON'T NEED NO TICKET - JUST GET ON BOARD!

Bynum merely resurects the old Eurocentric view of Africa as primitive and therefore stereotyped African views are supposedly identical to past western views (thus western views are allegedly newer and more advanced). The truth is there is nothing in common between western and African views-African views are not the precursors to western views.