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Natural Psychology and Human Transformation

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The book is good, and the section of consciousness is very insightful. However, towards the end, the book becomes sort of redundant. He is driving home the same ideas over and over again. And even though he gives a good idea of what consciousness, divine human transformation, and society's benefits from such things are, in my opinion he could have gone into more detail about how to achieve consciousness and divine human transformation.

There's an old addage that say -"Readers are Leaders!",and if that is true then this book is for Leaders;African-Americans in particular and other races in general. Dr Akbar,keep up the good (GOD) work!

The material is good but it was not in book form, it was a copy of a book. I am very disappointed in the purchase.

I have read the 53 text page 4th print of 2002 of the revised version of 1995 of an original booklet published in 1977.

As thin as this book is, it blesses humanity with an overstanding of transforming itself that will leave the unsuspecting reader in amazement. It is very probable that you will get kick-started into a transformation process within the hour of having digested this food for thought.

No less amazing are the book's ecumenical/universal qualities. Initially written for the then "World Community of Islam in the West", the author references basically the ancient religion of Kemet/Egypt. The booklet has been known to enlighten followers of any religion. Most faszinatingly, the author has managed 30 years ago to put to paper several statements that could have come out of my mouth as a RastafarI today, e.g. the I (his) definition of Afrocentrism and words on giving up the illusion of ego/separateness.

This booklet isn't so much about psychology in the common overstanding of the term. In fact, it swiftly sweeps aside any notion of Western psychology, replacing it with, well, a nature-version of that. Teaching I-n-I (us) that "nature" is derived from ancient Egyptian "ntrs"/"Neters" (and not really from Latin "nasci" then, I presume, as is generally believed). Na'im Akbar differentiates between natural "root knowledge" and constructed "grafted knowledge" in the first chapter, as a preparation for the second chapter of sighting I-n-I the very real potential and mechanism/cycle of transformation, using the metaphor/model of the caterpillar's transformation into the butterfly. Very simple, yet in a way, I-n-I in Babylon conditioned Western civilization are unlikely to sight on our own.

This work also provides for the confidence that religion, no matter in what of its branches called by various names, doesn't have to be as orthodox (in the sense of never changing/progressing) as it gets, in fact, it shouldn't be. Also that I-n-I needs/"sins"/behavioral conducts, which are in the way of enlightenment, are actually very necessary before reaching that state. Relaxed spirituality in other words, something totally different than what is un/popularly presumed in today's world.

Thin, but powerfull. Don't miss it!