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"Attaining one's humanity, as understood by the ancients, involved the cultivation of all three brains that a person possesses: the head brain - analysis/hindsight; the heart brain - intuition/truth; and the stomach brain - practicality/equilibrium; and if female, additionally, the womb brain - physical creation/metaphysical creation. Human-ness is an attainment, not a birthright. Mythology is a collection of carefully crafted stories that contain the esoteric secrets necessary for one to become a complete person and as such form the basis of a cultivated and sustainable society. In this age where it is common belief that having a body makes one a ""human being"", it is the responsibility of those who carry the stories to help return humanity to a higher sense of self, most importantly realized in two ways: one, actualizing one's creative potential for the purpose of contributing it with society; and two, loving one's neighbors and the natural environment as one's self. Storytelling is the method through which sacred knowledge is taught to future generations. Contained in these stories are psychological triggers that lead the serious student to connect to the truth about themselves and the world they live in. Stories that are best understood utilize the language and references of the day. In a similar manner in which 20th century Kabbalists have translated the Language of Branches, found in the Torah and Zohar, into works such as ""The Shamati"", and the ""Social Writings of Rabash""; the author translates the language of Ifa, ""the Wisdom of Nature"", known to Kabbalists as ""Shekinah"", to Gnostics as ""Shekinah"" or ""Sophia"", and to Sufis as ""Sakina"", into a story of the advisor to the Prince. In learning ""how to rule the world"", the Prince will learn how to rule his own nature."

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Periodically there comes along a book that captures the complete sentiment of its age. In many ways Cummings has written such a book with How to Rule the World: Lessons in Conquest for the Modern Prince. There has rarely been a book in this age that deals so thoroughly with a critique of domination in the precise terms... Indeed, Cummings proposes in this monumental work to cover everything from cultural icons to medicine in an effort to uncover the central guiding ideology of conquest. The author has given us new terminology to explain the phenomenon of domination, like 'sustainable exploitation, ' and 're-newed subject.' This book gives the modern prince, those who seek domination, advice about how to use the language of free trade, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, to control other nations. Indeed, it is possible that the modern prince will have the ability, according to the advice given, to make the dominated believe that their domination is for their own good... How to Rule the World will cause all of us to readjust our thinking about the shape and scope of cultural, economic, and psychological domination in the contemporary world. I applaud the author of this brilliant work. This is an outstanding book that I will delightfully recommend to my colleagues and my hundreds of students. The author has satisfied the purposes of the book, met all objectives, and given us a book that is easy to read and follow. Molefi Kete Asante, Ph.D. Professor, Department of African Studies, Temple University In this extraordinary book, Cummings has utilized satire to provide the reader opportunity to participate in a review of the complex problems extant in our times. He has utilized the knowledge bases of the world, has included scholars from many academic fields, and has presented definitions with a remarkable clarity. His decision to involve the reader in a critical thinking, participatory manner, is pedagogy at its best. His candor as the advisor to the Prince includes factual information needed to complete the tasks of ruling the world-or the decision to live well in it. Every adult should read this book to understand and teach the lessons of modern living. Anita P. DeFrantz, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Education, University of San Francisco This is a meticulously written thesis. The author introduces a number of principal premises for his explanation of the Prince and his governed and self-transformed nation states as the child-like behavior without cumulative maturity. Among these principal premises is the author's arguments centering on Cultural Dissonance. By using Cultural Dissonance the Prince causes Cultural Warfare and isolationism of the otherwise true relational self with the Other. Individualism in this cultural dissonance construct of the Prince then becomes the other groundwork of the author's argument upon which he establishes a social disintegration theory of corruption, governance and subjugation of the Prince's world-system over which he governs with cunning and might. Masudul Alam Choudhury, Ph.D. Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, College of Commerce and Economics, Sultan Qaboos University

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Baba Jaha Cummings is an Ivy-League educated expert in cultural studies, traditional African philosophy, and human psychology. He is a Kabbalist and a researcher in the field of traditional African thought systems.

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