Kmt Worldview

In opposition to modern European antagonistic binary logic and positivist reductionism, ancient African KMTic cosmology allowed for the simultaneous complementary struggle and existence of both the being and nonbeing, matter and spirit, subject and object as paired unions of opposites within the same cross-paralleled birth, death, and rebirth process.   This is a significant foundation for the theoretical framework of this book.  This is the progressive aspect of the African-centered scientific movement.

Within logical framework of the progressive aspect of the African-centered scientific movement, it becomes possible and meaningful to regard the one and the many as the many and the one at the same time.  It also becomes necessary to summarize the coexistence and simultaneousness of unity and plurality; unity and the multiplicity are seen as complementary processes toward the total conception of the thing as opposed to the eternally conflicting, as is the case with the Hegelian and Marxian dialectic. Unity and plurality, struggle and compliment, matter and antimatter, mundane and spirit, are at the foundation of KMTic cosmology---but they are complementary in their unity and struggle.

The ancient African KMTic mindset is of a different intellectual logic, a different symbolic structure of thought altogether from the European and Arab mindset.  Therefore, White and Arab concepts, for initial scientific assessment of reality, are insufficient when it comes to independently building a body of humanities that do not require Africans to always interpret the world through the symbolic language of ancient Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and North Europeans.  Africans cannot ever catch up in the world of scientific thought and practice if they are to continually wait on a translation from Europe or Arabia.  Ancient KMT can, again, help its African descendants to solve this problem by serving as the source of scientific symbols for reconstructing African scientific theory.  KMT's understanding of the world was so antithetical to Western conceptions of thought that it has laid buried under millennia of distortion both consciously and unconsciously for over 2700 years since the initial invasions of the Assyrians into North Africa in 656bc.

In the minds of the ancient African KMTites, the law of vital force in things, that is, the law of the unity of twin opposites (double opposites within the same unity), is the fundamental law of the universe and, therefore, also the fundamental law of thought. At the essence of all micro or macro reality, there is a unity and struggle of spirit and mater, and matter and antimatter. Vital force is, therefore, present in all processes of objective natural existence and of subjective thought and thus permeates all these processes from beginning to end.

This reemerging KMTic worldview has culminated in the modern embryonic Maat science.  In this system the world is seen as a system in constant motion, change, transformation, development; formation, and the internal connection are traced out to make a continuous whole of all this movement and development. As one follows the 15-billion year process of matter and antimatter down the majestic cosmic ladder from universes to superclusters, galaxy clusters, galaxies, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, stars, solar systems, planets, other celestial bodies; to molecular complexes, crystals, molecules, atoms, elementary nuclear particles, photons, force fields, quantum levels, to the sub-quantum, one recognizes: (1) the spiritually and the materiality of the universe, (2) its creativeness and destructiveness, (3) its eternal existence in time and infinity in space, (4) its inexhaustible self-development.  In sum, the earth (which at one time existed in a condition that no organic life could have survived on it) is merely one fluid and ever-moving planet in this solar system.  The sun, which is a the center of the solar system, is merely one blazing celestial star in a teeming system of hundreds of billions of stars forming this galaxy, and this galaxy itself is one of billions of galaxies in this metagalaxy.  The latter is the sum total of massive stellar systems moving at colossal velocities throughout space within a vast intercosmic system known as the universe.   These characteristics led necessarily at certain stages to the emergence of organic life on earth over 3.7 billion years ago, the formation of single cell then multicellular organisms; the emergence of complex tissue-based organisms from multicellular organisms that possessed increasingly complex inherent capacities to adapt to changing earthly conditions; the transition to invertebrates, vertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and primates; and then the transition to human life over 5.5 million years ago. 

Human life adapted culturally and biologically to various climatic and geological conditions on earth.  This adaptation created the preconditions for the emergence of civilizations

When one reflects upon the universe, the history of humankind, the African world condition, or our own intellectual cognitive reflection of this reality, at first, there is a ceastless process of material and spiritual, living and dying, matter and ideas, good and bad, simple and complex, relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where, who, how, and as it was; but everything moves, emerges, develops, changes, comes into its own and passes away. One sees, therefore, at first the picture as a whole, with its individual parts still more or less kept in the background; we observe the vital forces---the unity and struggle of twin opposites, movements, transitions, transformations, connections, rather than the things that move, combine, and are connected.  This embryonic, yet intrinsically correct conception of the world was first clearly formulated by Ancient African KMT.  And this is the genetic foundation on which all African-centered philosophy, theory and method have to ultimately trace itself back to. 

Ancient African KMTic science, cosmology, and spiritualism present, at least on the surface, a number of contrasting and apparently contradictory features. But this unity and struggle of opposites are not eclectic, monistic, materialistic, realist, or idealistic, but are purely dualistic, with the unity and struggle of opposites, the KA, the Vital Force being the essence of all life and existence. Thus, the artistic figures depicting daily life in ancient KMT were dualistic for over 3000 years before the Semitic and European invasions.

There are some philosophical theories that proceed from both principles of matter and spirit; these theories assume that the spiritual does not depend on the material, or the material on the spiritual, that they both are interconnected as the vital force of all existence.  Such philosophical theories are called dualistic.  KMT was neither idealistic or materialistic, but was dualistic, basing its understanding, its worldview, its cosmology on dualism, of the unity and struggle of opposites in all things ordered by Maa't.  Origins are neutral, based on equilibrium of the unified complementary opposites.  The potential forces initially balance each other.  This state is, as the ancient KMT expressed, nny or inert.  Ancient African KMTic thinkers were essentially interested in the potentially duality in all sensed or unseen reality.  At some stage in the process of dualization, there is an interruption in this inertness, which, therefore, creates a state of polarization.  The two poles are the active and the dynamic, the static and the passive (i.e., in KMTic terms: nhh and dt). 

Essentially then, KMT cosmogony established that despite this primordial state of complementary unification of opposites, there was, however, a difference between the opposites, which drove the existence of both.  The application of this truth is evident in the fact that all realities studied by ancient KMT cosmogony is presented as dualities, such as the double crown of Upper and Lower KMT, the two lands, the two sides of burial, the dessert and the fertile, evil Set and good Heru, the absolute unity of potential being (uncreated matter) and manifested reality (evident matter).    In sum, KMT science expressed an abiding spiritual faith in the unity and coherence of matter and spirit throughout creation.  Existence itself was seen as a unit between chaos and order, being and nonbeing, potentials and realities---all bonded together by the principle of Maat, that is, sacred order, harmony, justice, rightness, balance, truth force, and redemptive will.   This unity obviously is fragile, transient, and impermanent at best.  The goal, however, was to struggle toward justice, using the tools of science, driven by a relentless will and a passion for progress within the birth, death, and rebirth order of all things.