Kmt Method

Kmt Research Method

Cosmology Method

The universe is a macro-reality as well as a micro-reality. Societies are social forms of human relationships evolved over thousands of years to their present stage. The exposition of such a reality, both into movement and its forms, presents enormous problems. A movement is best captured by a movie, but an analysis of a form requires detailed examination of a snapshot. How would you portray a snapshot in movement? This is the beginning of understanding in life. Look at a universe, galaxy, star, planet, ocean, land form, human life form, society, tree, car. All are seeds with a period of birth, development, decline, death and replacement by the next formation. How does one research this? What is one's method? The task is to mirror the movement of the organism. Not just a movement, but one that necessarily follows a certain line. The forms do not exist in reality as static phases penetrating the movement, and they cannot represented as if that is what they are. They have no existence apart from the movement. And yet the essence of the movement lies in the forms and their necessary development and comprehending that movement presupposes analysis of those forms.

We must combine a snapshot with a motion picture, from start to finish; from birth, death, rebirth without detriment to either shapshot or motion picture. We are studying a trans-historical motion picture as opposed to still photography.

Ancient African Kmt viewed reality in motion, understanding cycles, spirals, reincarnations( birth, death, rebirth). Their method of thought, especially in the old kingdom period (3352-2216) was cosmological which is a synthesis of philosophy, theory, method, and practice.

Method

Fundamental to the elaboration of any science is the step-by-step disclosure of the methods of research at the disposal of the particular discipline. The instruments of research and the principles on which facts are selected, systematized, processed and analyzed, then synthesized depend on the choice of method. Method is the systematic approach to the study of reality, the mode of cognition, the set of rules, a systematic means for reflecting the process as it unfold. Grasp a whole in motion, like a movie as opposed to still photography, then uncover the contradictions that constitute the moving principle of its development.

Nature, universe, galaxy, solar system, earth, air, water, land, organic life, plants, animals, humanity is an integrated whole, in a state of constant change of development, passing from one state to another, disintegration, dying away, and arising.
Grasp a whole in motion, in time and space, with mass and uncovering the fundamental internal contradictions that constitute the moving principle of its development from birth-death-rebirth
As such categories must be derived, fashioned and fitted for each specific concrete aspect of the subject-matter. Contradictions are first in the real process; they are the basis of concepts and categories. The interconnectedness, unity and struggle drive change, development, transformation and renewal within actual time dimensions
Everything exists within time and is an unbroken process of coming to be, being, been, becoming. Time is the fundamental element of existence. Essentially, "A=A" can only equal "A=A" if a thing is equal to itself because it does not change, i.e., if it does not exist. Everything changes, everything has a time for change, some things like planets require billions of years, others like cells require seconds.
The problem of grasping a thing is essentially the problem of grasping that it is in motion of birth, development, maturation, decline, death and rebirth, If a society as a whole is to be grasped in motion, in process, becoming, it must be comprehended thoroughly, its dynamic of production, who owns it, who's owned, the races, the sexes, cultures, classes, generations, the dynamics of its direct production process, the level of technology, its form and content, whether it is labor saving or labor replacing.
Grasp that the thing is in motion, then grasp the motion itself, its direction, means of energy, what drives it, the driving force of it, its internal impetus, its energy, its density, its motive.
It, has its source in the underlying unity and struggle of opposites-contradictions. The world, as we know it, is held together by a law that is based on the balanced dual nature of all things (wholes, units). Among noticable balanced pairs are: male and female, odd and even, negative and positive, active and passive, light and darkness, yes and no, true and false - each pair represents a different aspect of the same fundamental principle of polarity. And each aspect partakes of the nature of unity and of the nature of duality. Sample Kmtian applications of the universal dual nature include: 1 - The pre-creation state consisted of four pairs of primeval dual-gendered twins. 2 - The Kmtians perceived the universe in terms of a dualism between Ma-at - Truth and Order - and disorder. Amen-Renef summoned the cosmos out of undifferentiated chaos, by distinguishing the two, by giving voice to the ultimate ideal of Truth. Ma-at, as shown here, is usually portrayed in the double form - Maati. 42 Kmtian Cosmology - The Animated Universe 3 - The dual principle in the creation state was expressed in the pair of Shu and Tefnut. The pair of husband and wife is the characteristic Kmtian way of expressing duality and polarity. This dual nature was manifested in Ancient Kmtian texts and traditions, since its recovered archeological findings. The most ancient texts of the Old Kingdom, namely the Pyramid Texts 1652, express the dual nature: ...and though didst spit out as Shu, and didst spit out as Tefnut. . Another way of expressing the intent of the dual nature is present in the Ancient Kmtian text, known as the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus: I was anterior to the Two Anteriors that I made, for I had priority over the Two Anteriors that I made, for my name was anterior to theirs, for I made them anterior to the Two Anteriors .
It is one thing to develop a science to the point where one can present it scientifically, something else altogether to apply an abstract and ready-made system of logic, a cookie cutter-stripped of concrete categories reflecting a concrete reality. Scientific methods of analysis must be made to fit; one size does not fit all. This logic is incompatible with a strictly scientific method. This is the positivist and Marxian mistake.
There is no ready-made system lying around which will, in virtue of its universal applicability, if applied to any sphere of phenomena, thereby beget its scientific and critical comprehension. Study has to be serious. Care has to be taken to intimately understand reality. Nothing is set in stone. Even the language of research has to be evolved, developed, improved over time.
Concrete categories (definition, concepts) in which a science is presented must be derived from a detailed appropriation, inquiry, and presentation of the concrete, empirical/theoretical data of the field in question.
Abstractions and categories do not arrive from nowhere; they have to be constructed, fashioned-scaffold of the objective reality in a linguistic form. They are constructed through a process of appropriating the concrete empirical data of the area under investigation. Concept formation is essential. Africans usually use what has been left to them instead of starting from their source in Kmt, and building modern forms of thought expression. This intellectual parroting is only useful in the early stages of understanding what has already been proven.
Concepts, categories and abstractions must be are specific to the particular area of reality that is under study. The idea of a general scheme independent of first hand specific content is not possible. Physics, chemistry, sociology, economics, biology, demography, architecture, urban planning, morality and ethics have their own unique processes reflective of the natural seeds they are reflecting. Develop a language/word pool reflective of each one.
The concepts, definitions, categories reflecting a specific reality are a result of the analysis of the real nature of aspects of things that are apart of that reality. Whether those categories are capable of application to other areas is an empirical question that turns on the real natures concerned.
Without A/I/P there can be no formalized specific system apriori to the reality. Such a level of generalization would require knowledge of everything about everything. There is no general scheme independent of specific content, no abstractions from thin air, no magic bullets, no oracles, no sooth sayings, no prayers that make miracles, no mysteries, no secret potions, no Korans, Bibles, Talmuds-just objective reality of specific phenomena reflected in words, categories, concepts reflected of unity and struggle of opposite driven motion within a process of birth, death, rebirth. There is no ready made system awaiting application to produce science out of illusion.
In sum grasp a whole in motion, uncover the contradictions that constitute the moving principle of its development from birth, death, and rebirth. What is a whole? How is the whole identified? What is a contradiction? How does a contradiction create energy (power) for the motion of the whole? What drives it? Where is it going? What direction is it going? How fast? Is it accelerating? What are it's different forms of development?

Data Collection

Data collection is appropriation of materials reflective of aspects of the process-inquiry into different forms of development, inner connections-presentation of the real movement based on a necessary point of departure.

Contradictions must exist as features of the real world. The two poles united in opposition necessitate one another, belong to and mutually condition each other
This polar opposition within a process is the simple form which internally remains hidden within until bursting asunder, a rupture, a leap, a passing into something else. The internal opposition between two aspects within a union, hidden within, is therefore represented in the surface by an external opposition.
In the embryonic form these opposites must undergo a series of internal metamorphoses before they ripen into overt pregnancies with certain potentialities or lines of development which may be realized given the right historical conditions.
Simultaneously these forms exclude each other as polar opposites but are now realities. At some point there is a necessary crystallization of formal aspects of the unity, equated, converted, historical development, deepening, broadening, ripening at a rate reflective of the raw material, internal and external
This process is not uni-linear progression of forms, but a more complex process in which forms overlap, interpenetrate and develop each other.
The development is a necessary one arising from the internal opposition inherent in the thing. This is a historical movement which could be reflected in words.
The germ germinates. The polar antagonism inherent implies contradictory and mutually exclusive conditions. The further development of the thing does not abolish these contradictions but rather provides the form within which they have room to move, space to grow, chance to become. And in turn, the further development of the thing itself begets new latent oppositions that can in the right conditions burst forth into absolute contradictions-new contradictions immanent in the functions.
In sum, two poles united in an opposition necessitate one another. They belong, need, demand, depend, and mutually condition each other.
But what is the nature of the necessity that unites opposites within an opposition in which each pole necessitates the other? A depends on B; B grew out of and depends on A. A can live without B, but does not want to. B cannot yet live without A. There is an order. (magnitude).
The real nature of entities do not lie around on the surface ready for our immediate appropriation. They have to be uncovered by investigation and thought. And to acquire such knowledge is what it is to know what things are and to understand them.
In short, we only really know things when we know their essence.
Development occurs, the tendency or potentiality is realized-it is not a necessity. If the development does occur, that it takes the sort of course it does is necessary
Actualization of an inherent tendency or the realization of a potentiality cannot be necessary truths, for the potentiality might (in some possible world) not be realized
In sum, Ka is concerned with organisms; social, economic, political, cultural, biological, physical, chemical, anthropological. Moreover, it is concerned with them in their organic processes of development, change and reproduction. It is on this that the other aspect of Ka contradiction has direct bearing
The poles in an opposition are not just united they also repel one another. They are brought together in a unity, but within that unity, they are in tension, antagonistically resolving their struggle. The real historical existence of a reality in its aspects-forms provide the internal centripetal force that contains the centrifugal force of the mutual repulsion of opposing aspects within it. This is an unstable equilibrium before measure
It is pregnant with possibilities, which history may present either with the conditions for the realization of those possibilities, or with the indefinite variety of conditions that will frustrate their realization
Given the right conditions, the embryo will develop its potentiality; and the simple form will undergo the metamorphoses that take the thing from its embryo, through infancy to early adolescence with the attainment of the universal forms of the thing.
The line of development is most accidental or fortuitous; it is not a process of aggregating contingent and extraneous additions. It is rather a process of development of the potentialities within and the increasing differentiation of, an original whole
if history does not block the growth of the thing's internal aspects in struggle, then that growth will find out the inadequacy of its simple form and transform into its more complex form
Then, looked at from the point of view of efficient causation, those engaged in that activity, being rational and inventive in the face of the problems thrown up by their developing aspects-will act so as to solve their practical difficulties by measures that overcome their lower forms
What has come out of this is a development that, barring accidents, will take its course
This evolution is necessary; its final form is not final, it is immanent as a potentiality within its original one
Coming to be is therefore a matter of actualizing the potential of some currently existing entity
We have scientific knowledge when we know the cause
Cause means the form or structure comprehended as the aim or end of a movement or characteristic behavior, which is revealed by observations of that movement and behavior
Our objective in scientific analysis is to reveal the form and its necessary line of development. Begin with the simplest form and present each subsequent articulations as a development of form. Complete the method of inquiry after appropriating the data
The behavior characteristic of the organism in its reproduction in the higher form is cause-the form of the underlying development, and the necessity with which the matter undergoes its metamorphoses or line of development from its simplest embryonic form
The contradiction is not only inherent in an essence; it is specifically a potentiality within the essence which will, conditions permitting, be realized, and in being realized will appear in non-accidental or necessary change that beget an organic system
Ka is therefore a process of natural genesis, that is the realization of the potentialities inherent in its embryonic form

Analysis/Synthesis/Presentation

Having appropriated data and established the chronology, historical context, and logical summation, the internal assessment of contradictions begins. This is the process of inquiry. In it the inner connections of the phenomenon are traced and the embryonic forms are identified and comprehended. Next the transformation of each aspect of a primary contradiction toward higher forms is presented. Finally, reproduce the moment in a communicable manner without falsifying or misrepresenting it.

It is not enough to give a scientific explanation of the world, but it is necessary to develop means and methods to improve it. Next the necessary material elements and agents of change must be convinced, organized and steeled to carry out their historical tasks.

What you must do
Toward a new society
a.Develop a systematic, synthesized, symmetrical scientific education system
b. Deeply anchor yourself in science, ka cosmology, applied morality, and history
c. Saturate yourself with a detailed knowledge of antiquity, modern history, science, technology, engineering, modernization, Kmt culture, planning and political economy
d. Become well read in contemporary African literature, morality, ethics, martial studies
e. Link self to the arts (mental, martial, moral)
f. Expand cultural breath, educational pedagogy, philosophical summation, and mathematical preparation
During your whole life read voraciously. You must develop an unlimited capacity for absorbing masses of material day after day. Combine this with an ability to digest and reproduce what you have read on paper for others to read.
Establish a notebook which contains the outlines, plans, and detailed proposal for a systematic exposition of studied material.
Procedural Method

As ancient African KMT did, follow the process of birth, death, and rebirth in the data as to understand its internal material and spiritual driving force---its science and will. The factual reality, the objective condition, the material reality is the starting point---not the idea. Therefore, the study must precisely compare facts, not with abstract subjectively chosen ideas, but with other facts. These facts are reviewed as opposing aspects of the same reality, and even though they are in struggle, they compliment each other. Conflict does not destroy the process; like a combustion chamber, it is harnessed as to drive the unity and struggle of opposites to its resolution within the context of complementariness.
For this study, all facts are organized chronologically, historically, and logically as processes unfolding in a conceptual symbolic form. Once one has collected the data and organized it in its natural process of progression it is necessary to view it as a process of natural birth, death, and rebirth. Isolate the law of change in the data; establish the relationships---the natural relationships, that is, of their transition from one form into another, from one series of interrelationships into a different one.
After reestablishing the objective internal driving motion of the process from facts to data, to categories to processes, the researcher must investigate in detail the manifestations in which it expresses itself in reality.
The facts are then investigated as precisely as possible, and organized in such a way as to form, different stages in the development of the process, different moments, sequences. Everything is in motion. Nothing is absolutely resting. Everything is changing. Some processes take longer than others to mature (universe, galaxy, stars, planets, earth, organic life, human life, the societies that humans create, etc.) however, in time all things become their opposites if allowed to go through all of their natural stages of internal development.
Abstract eternal laws do not exist in history. In billions of years of a star coming into being and dying, change is absolute; some laws such as the law of gravity in this solar system has over 5 billion years of maturity; however, because the sun is a natural body with a life span, it will one day burn out and completely change the gravitational relationship between planets and stars.
As soon as a process has outlived its purpose, its given natural time of development based on an earlier developmental cycle, and is in transition from one stage to another, it must be judged based on different objective conditions and laws. Included in the summary is comprehension/affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, and at the same time also, the recognition of the ultimate passing away of that state of things, of its inevitable breakup. This method therefore regards every historical developed social formation, society, as in fluid motion, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence.
Of course the method of presentation must differ in from that of inquiry. The latter has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyze its different forms of development, to trace out their inner connection.
Only after this work is done, can the actual movement be adequately described. If this is done successfully, if the life of the subject matter is ideally reflected as in a mirror, then it may appear as if we had before us a mere a prior construction. After the study is completed the process should appear in print as if it were a mirror of the process in reality.
With the use of statistical techniques appropriate for the data, a quantitative picture of the process can be organized.
With the use of symbols, pictures and words, a qualitative view of the process can be presented. Next write the report, and present the findings in published form.
Internal contradiction is primary [African challenge]

The African challenge (ultimately) is not the whites and Arabs-we are the ultimate challenge.
The ultimate challenge is within ourselves
Our differences are minor; our internal problems major;
The ultimate challenge is no force outside of you-cleanse yourself first
Internal contradictions are the ultimate challenge
Scrutinize, uproot internal contradiction
Face the ultimate challenge at home first, within yourself
Process as a Whole

•1. Fundamental to the elaboration of any science is the step-by-step disclosure of the methods of research at the disposal of the particular discipline.

•2. The instruments of research and the principles on which facts are selected, systematized, processed and analyzed, then synthesized depend on the choice of method.

•3. Method is the systematic approach to the study of reality, the mode of cognition, the set of rules, a systematic means for reflecting the process as it unfold. It establishes the primacy of matter in the universe, assumes the logic of seeing a process as it develops from cell to developed system, documents the internal contradictions within the process as they unfold overtime, isolates the principal aspect of the primary contradiction whose resolution drives the transformation of quantities into new qualities, and presents this process of birth-death-rebirth cycles as a system of sublation of the best elements of the old in service of the new.

•4. Scientific research methods approach questions without getting lost in the detail or diversity of conflicting opinion by establishing the underlying historical connection, examining every question from the stand point of how the given phenomena arose in history, and defining the principal stages in its development:

•5. Comprehensively, state the problem in all of its dimensions and detail.

•6. Collected the mass of data surrounding the problem statement

•7. Establish mutual cause and effect connections between various facts or groups of facts

•8. Isolate the most essential, stable and recurrent cause and effect connections

•9. Organize data, which is a documented reflection of all aspects, elements, stages, phases, contradictions, forms and content of the process.

•10. Select a comprehensive bibliography and review relevant literature.

•11. Carefully read and take notes from each book, journal, articles, or/and document.

•12. Make abstracts, copy quotes, make critical observations.

•13. Identify categories and definitions; create terminology reflective of the object of analysis.

•14. Mark important passages; critically summarize conclusions.

•15. Prepare a full plan of inquiry.

•16. Sufficient factual knowledge should be accumulated about the process as a whole, summarized and placed in the actual chronological place that it occurred in the historical process, cleaned of bias and subjectivity and be a concrete material reflection of matter in motion, organized as it appears in history.

•17. Compile facts, collect of data, aggregation of mass of empirical data will allow for the initial superficial cognition of the process.

•18. Compile short critical theses. Order concrete aspects and elements (in abstract form) as they unfold in history.

•19. Analyze all contradictions in the process, most importantly the primary, principle, and basic internal contradiction.

•20. Outline processes internal advances and regressions, contradictions and antagonisms, equilibrium and resolutions.

•21. In analyzing the vast amount of factual material reality, ascend from concrete to the abstract, taking special care to reflect the process in modern relations by singling out from the whole system a point of departure for the emergence of all other, more complicated relations.

•22. Single out the cell form of the process, understand the embryonic form of all the contradictions within and then between the process.

•23. Trace the historical process of the development of the cell-form to a category to a group of categories to a series of groups to a system of series to a complex of systems to universal interconnections.

•24. The elaboration of the entire "living" formation and phenomena is a diversity of relationships which takes shape in the material dynamics of the process.

•25. To examine these relationships, it is initially necessary to break down each relationship into simple elements, analyze and scrutinize each of these elements in detail, separate opposing categories, penetrate their internal shells exposing their antithetical aspects in unity and struggle, then determine their place and role within the whole complex of fundamental relations.

•26. Break relationships down to simple elements,

•27. Scrutinize each of these elements in detail,

•28. Determine its place and roles,

•29. Reverse this process of analysis and begin to meticulously unite these elements into an integral synthesis.

•30. Place the process in motion by following the principles aspect of the category within the opposing unity which is the primary contradiction. Identify the role it has come to play in the present process.

•31. Ascend from simple to complex, concrete to abstract back to concrete.

•32. Formulate the basic law of the process, establish the stage of development of its progress, the material basis for its transformation into a higher formation, and the principle agents for accelerating the qualitative transformation of this process into a higher formation from quantity to quality, identity to measure, equilibrium to antagonism, evolution to revolution, regression before the leap forward to the negation of moribund to embryonic development--- of the accent the new from the old.

•33. Findings are summarized in notebooks as the process unfolds: Data-Chronology-History Context-Logical Summation-synthesis, proceeding from the outer appearance of phenomena to their inner essence, from the concrete to the abstract. Once abstraction has been brought out the essential features of the relations, the movement of the study is reversed (as a camera obscura) and proceeds from essence to appearance, returning to the concrete phenomena abstracted earlier, then from abstract to concrete.

•34. Having brought out the essence of relations, the external form in which these relationships manifest themselves on the surface can be photographed using scientific language: Concrete Process-Abstract Reflection-Concrete Reproduction using scientific language, mathematical formulae, and theoretical summation.

•35. Document this process in book form as stages of development. Divide into Volumes, Parts, Chapters, and Sections. Document the principle stages of development in the process so that each volume, part, chapter, section, sub-section, and paragraph is a reflection of a fundamental stage, or phase in the ascent or descent from the simple to the complex from the lower to the higher (or the reverse) in the cognition of the essence of this process.

•36. In all natural, social, and intellectual processes, development proceeds from the simple to the complex, from the lower to the higher. The development can be progressive or regressive but the engine which brings about the transition from lower stages to higher ones is the unity and struggle of opposites,. Abstract to concrete reflects the actual historical process of mankind's upward development. This implies a unity of the historical and the logical for theoretical research here is a reflection of the actual historical process of social development.

•37. Logical method must follow the essential general outlines of the actual historical process. Historical process is summarized in detail but considered in its concentrated, inessential form. The method of research must be distinguished from the method of presentation. Use both the analytical and historical method.

•38. The analytical method must predominate in scientific work in which the results of a fundamental theoretical are presented for the first time. To substantiate and illustrate various theoretical conclusions, use historical statistical data and various historical retrospect. In sum, give a history of the process. Give an analysis of the concepts, which sum that history up.

•39. The summation of any process entails an analysis of qualitative and quantitative aspects of the categories, which are in interaction, contradiction and unity interdependence. The qualitative aspect is the leading one and determines the quantitative aspect, while quantitative changes sooner or later lead to the emergence of qualitatively new phenomena. Use mathematical and statistical methods to process statistical data in order to show the quantitative movements of various categories within the process, which you study.

•40. Ascertain the stage of development of the contradictions within each element of each category. Isolate contradiction. Dissect the aspects of each contradiction. Unity and struggle of each aspect of each element within each unity of opposites of a particular contradiction. Use math and statistics to ascertain the stage of development of these contradictions, their quantitative expression: show difference, unity, and struggle of opposites, quantitative and qualitative development of the phenomena, resolution of the contradiction using quantitative indicators as auxiliary instruments in realizing the conclusions of scientifically and historically verified theoretical relations.

•41. Cognition of the objective world via scientific theory, method and instrumentation (technology) proceeds from living contemplation to abstract thinking and then on to practice. Seek to discern true essence of phenomena beneath their often-deceptive appearance. Inferences are drawn.

•42. The final stage of cognition is social practice, which confirms or invalidates the theoretical conclusions and generalizations elaborated by scientific thinking. Test the truth of knowledge by elaborating this science then practically using it to study real life processes.

•43. With the transition from scientific thinking to practice, knowledge reaches a higher level and is tested and enriched with new findings because the unity and interconnection of scientific theory and social practice ensure the validity of conclusions as an instrument in the transformation of the old to the new.

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