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Baba Kevin Bullard serves as the Executive Director for the Afrikan Centered Education Collegium Campus, an independent Pre K-12th grade public contract school situated in a multiplex of three building on a unified 40 acre campus. Baba Bullard has authored and conducted professional development in Afrikan Centered curriculum and design, culturally relevant strategies and approaches, educational leadership, Afrikan Centered learning assessments, human relations, teacher training, and Afrikan centered pedagogy. His current project involves developing an accreditation, credentialing and licensure process for teachers and institutions demonstrating excellence in Afrikan Centered Education practices. His other interests include social, ethnic and cultural research areas that relate to human development, child development, urban educational school reform and transformational systems. He is currently pursuing an Ed.D in Educational Administration through the University of Missouri, Kansas City’s Division of Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

MAAT Mind-Full-Ness

As we look back over the scope from which our collective ancestors have traveled, we have a solid cultural legacy for instructional best practices in teaching and learning.  One of the excellent records, within classical antiquity is the Mastery (Mystery) System from ancient Kemet. The Mastery System used a codified Seba-based pedagogy to instill transmissional knowledge in deep-level knowing, wisdom-based instruction and alchemical transformation to reshape the human character to perfection through on-going practice. Seba-based pedagogy provided a two-fold course of study into basic knowledge and utilitarian learning through the Outer Temple Passageway. The primary objective for the Outer Temple course of study prepared the learner for civic participation, societal roles and leadership responsibilities. Through advanced study and mastery in study, the learner progressed into the Inner Temple course of study in sacred knowledge, and wisdom-based instruction regarding knowing all the ways to introspectively achieve self-realization. The Inner Temple Passageway encompassed forty plus years of intensified study in Seba that assured mastery in:
  • Mastery of individual responsibility of actions aligned and accountable to the group and collective actions
  • Mastery of individual social behaviors that maintain and perpetuate a just society
  • Mastery in growing the human character in observable and measureable manifestations
  • Mastery in deep study that developed cognitive abilities for excellence.
Seba-based pedagogy required “the imperfective practice of striving to achieve human perfectibility” for all that is true, valid, accurate, authentic, honest and rectitude. The standard in assessing and evaluating character development and human being-ness. MAAT represented the living dying living relationships between the space of stasis-based systems. MAAT was based on free will of choice and the individual responsibility of practice. MAAT is never required to live as a human, it just records how one has lived their human existence. The root Maa, literally means, “to see.” To see is not solely through the individual eyes of sight, rather how the living cosmos sees you in relationship to the life that is lived, touched and maintained within the existence of universal earth-space and human birth-place.

MAAT mind-full-ness is the state of being-ness that exist within your existence. The practice of MAAT mind-full-ness does not require you to declare and state how MAAT is modeled and practiced. Just as a flower does not have to proclaim it’s beauty or a tree have to express it’s branches, it just is. The heart being seen on in the MAAT Judgement Drama, is scaled and weighed against the feather of truth to vindicate or declare the MAAT had been the living guiding principle for right relations and activity represents an undergirding stasis of MAAT being-ness. The heart has chambers and values that work oppositionally  to the nature of each other. One part of the heart receives blood, the opposite part releases blood. The rhythm of the heart beat is achieved through the equilibrium of balancing parts that attempt to slow down the heart-beating rhythm while another attempts to speed up the heart-beating rhythm. The heart is both affected and effected by the external and internal stresses and pressures transmitted systems that are both involuntary and voluntary. The nervous system that impacts the heart’s energetic rhythms through transmitters of brain neurons and nerve frequencies are interlinked and connected to the neutrons of the universe’s mind and cosmos consciousness.
From the Kemetic perspective, MAAT does not judge, but is moreso consciousness itself. MAAT is the standard of living on multiple levels in recored existence within time, space and location. MAAT is beyond the “Code of MAAT” as an on-going standard for daily practice in principles; truth, justice, order, balance, reciprocity, harmony, righteousness. In accordance with the MAAT principles in daily practice is the underlying MAAT Virtues that provide guided measurement as tools for legitimacy, authenticity and validity. The MAAT Virtues are ten specific measurement tools that are used to assess effective MAAT mind-full-ness in practice.
(1). Control of one’s thoughts.
(2). Control of one’s actions.
(3). Balancing daily thoughts and actions to achieve unity in life’s purpose.
(4). Adherence to life purpose through evidence of a life mission.
(5). Adherence to a higher consciousness through deep insight and knowing of
(6). Faith in the ability of the Seba MAAT teacher to teach truth.
(7). Faith in the student’s ability to internalize and accept truth.
(8). Freedom from resentment.
(9). The ability to practice what is right over what is wrong.
(10). Readiness and preparation for initiation through daily practice.

Underneath the seven MAAT principle for daily practice and the ten virtues for MAAT measurement were the forty-two admonitions or declarations of MAAT practice that were to be recited by the initiate as they made their Whmy Msu back into the drama of First World space. These forty-two declarations of innocence proclaimed that the life lived was MAATIC and consistent in the heart of a life that represented accuracy and truth from the first breath to the eternal breath; from the opening of the mouth to the opening of the way. To model and be mind-ful of constant and consistent practice in MAAT will allow others to truly see what is beneath the veneer of rhetoric to the reality of what exists based upon your practice. MAAT mind-full-ness provides the requiem to not judge others, rather to see the profound consciousness in your own mind as it relates to the consciousness in the cosmic mind of all thoughts, actions, re-actions and activity governed through universal law and cause and effect. This was considered as the scale of dual or double MAAT, where individual consciousness and actions impacted the cosmic consciousness and divine actions in the First World uni-verse. MAAT mind-full-ness. Intellectual humility, humbleness and compassion in MAAT reasoning is the maturation of mind-full-ness, opposed to the limited declarations of know-it-all arrogance and tribal elitism displayed through the immaturity of the uninformed.