Social Conquering the Self “You are the one who must conquer yourself and arrive at a place where you need us. If you display instabilities, we can’t come to help you. Any difficulties that will come, worrying will not help. Just keep yourself where you are and we will be there to assist.” -2nd Male Ancestor, Divination 424 By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Social Cults and Agoraphobia In today’s world, governed by Abrahamic ideals, any space incongruent with those beliefs is quickly categorized with derogatory labels like “cult” and dismissed as “pagan” By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Environmental Harmony on Earth One can say Earth itself is like a mother to all of humanity. By The Rising Firefly • 2 min read
Cultural A Letter to the Ones in The Diaspora “The work of survival of the human being is a work that is at the individual and personal level of each of us. We must dare to create the future by turning to the rites of passage of the ancients; we must learn to glorify the Gods of the ancients and rebuild temples for them. " By The Rising Firefly • 5 min read
Cultural “Menkh Bikat” Morning Greetings Mornings there (In Africa) showed me how to acknowledge elders, patriarchs, and matriarchs as one of the first practices one can do to show respect and gain blessings for the day. By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Purification is a Process By Giziribtah Debasah How many times have you heard someone say purification of mind, body, and spirit? What does this really mean? What is the goal? How, why, and when do you do this? How often is it necessary? Is it necessary? The English language is quite tricky and allows By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read
Social The Matrix By Iriyabd Khentimah "What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Spiritual What is Confidence? By Nana Ayoluwa What is confidence? Confidence is doing the right thing. The teachings of the M’TAM School of Kemetic Philosophy and Spirituality have provided me with that understanding now. First, it started by teaching me that good and bad are relative; right and wrong in our society are By The Rising Firefly • 6 min read
Social The Self FahtiRa PerNebSati On my journey through initiation, my teacher always stated that we need to work on the Self. Though we have gone through trauma on many different levels, and no matter how painful it may be or has been, we must work on ourselves. Each one of us must By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
Cultural The Ripening Fruit Patience and time do more than strength and rage. What patience does not conquer needs a grave to be buried in. Most of the things we identify as problems stay problems only for the time that we set for them. By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read
Cultural Understanding Causality and Sequentiality in Healing At the heart of causality lies the fundamental connection between cause and effect: the principle that every action produces a consequence, and all events originate from prior causes. By The Rising Firefly • 4 min read
The Pilgrim Walking Stick The Social "Why’s" And "Because's" by Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig Sincerely, I know that it is possible for the individual to survive the temptations and the traps that are set by his own society. Humanity has seen simple individuals show proof of wisdom and intelligence in a world made of totally corrupted humans and in By The Rising Firefly • 3 min read
