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‘The solution to mankind’s problems cannot come from short-term survival approaches but from long-term spiritual transformation.’
- UNKNOWN AUTHOR

In our fast-paced yet also slow-motion world, in which few ‘live their dreams’ and most ‘dream their lives away’, TACO-TEPO is a wakeup call that all is not lost for the ‘sleepers’, who need to rouse themselves from the paralysing lethargy of leaden minds, in order to mine their authentic treasures, and be sure of the ‘golden harvest.’ The gorgon of poverty is unveiled, as so many dark veils leading to humankind’s essence. Our shiny diamond is dulled by ‘negative attitudes’, now unearthed as the prelude to refining once more the quintessence, authentic sense of being for each person, so that the life of bliss can be the golden goal for all, far from the jail of abject misery.
Some topics covered include:

Poverty mind-set: the quest for low pressure and high temperature
Thought blinkers

Having a dream
General diamond attributes
Invincibility of the immovable mover
Triple drowning and triple crowns

This little book will guide you to become aware of the gold hidden in your mind, to raise your awareness to realise and create opportunities, work with your elevated and liberated energies, to transform your existence by manifesting positive outcomes. You will then have transited from the leaden, through the silvery, to the golden state.

About the author
Dr Ilongo Fritz Ngale is a psychologist, guidance counsellor, creative writer, and educationalist. He has authored several books including Christ on the Roof of Africa.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 4, 2018
ISBN9780463542019
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    Taco-Tepo - Ilongo Fritz Ngale

    TACO-TEPO

    TACO-TEPO

    Live Your Dream Do not Dream Your Life

    ILONGO FRITZ NGALE

    Copyright © 2018 Ilongo Fritz Ngale

    Published by Ilongo Fritz Ngale Publishing at Smashwords

    First edition 2018

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without permission from the copyright holder.

    The Author has made every effort to trace and acknowledge sources/resources/individuals. In the event that any images/information have been incorrectly attributed or credited, the Author will be pleased to rectify these omissions at the earliest opportunity.

    Published by the Author using Reach Publishers’ services,

    P O Box 1384, Wandsbeck, South Africa, 3631

    Edited by Vanessa Finaughty for Reach Publishers

    Cover designed by Reach Publishers

    Website: www.reachpublishers.co.za

    E-mail: reach@webstorm.co.za

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Dedication

    Part A. Why Many People Fail in Life –

    From Lead to More Lead – Poverty Mind-Set

    Introduction

    1. The Enabling Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set –

    The Quest for Low Pressure

    2. The Neutral Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set –

    The Desire for High Temperature

    3. The Sustaining Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set

    4. The Reinforcing Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set

    – Lead to More Lead

    5. Case Studies of Poverty Mind-Set Scenarios

    Part B. How Some People Succeed in Life –

    From Lead to Gold and More Gold

    Introduction

    1. The Enabling Dimension of the Golden Mind-Set –

    The Diamond Base

    2. The Neutral Dimension of the Golden Mind-Set

    3. The Sustaining Dimension of the Golden Mind-Set

    4. The Reinforcing Dimension of the Golden Mind-Set –

    Gold and More Gold

    References

    Dedication

    This work is dedicated to humankind as it struggles to evolve consciousness through different circumstances and environments, according to the levels of discovery, development and valorisation of its ontogenetic potentials, for individual and collective empowerment.

    PART A

    Why Many People Fail in Life – From Lead to More Lead – Poverty Mind-Set

    Introduction

    Prelude and Premises

    1. If humankind resists heaven or its highest and best ‘potentials for self and collective transformation and empowerment’, then hell or ‘potentials for self and collective destruction and disintegration’ will become its world or expression and experience.

    2. By resisting heaven, humankind develops the following attitudes towards its ‘highest potentials’:

    a) Ignores its highest potentials,

    b) Scoffs at its highest potentials,

    c) Despises its highest potentials,

    d) Rejects and suppresses its highest potentials, or allows the latter to be suppressed, despised and scoffed at by others.

    3. Hardly or never asserts its unique good and roles.

    4. Submits to its ego’s lowest, worst and least ‘impulses’.

    What Happens When Humankind Resists ‘Heaven’?

    When humankind resists heaven:

    - Its highest potentials withdraw and become a myth.

    - The receding highest good is inversely compensated by proportionate expansion of limitations in the domains of biological and social inheritance, sociocultural experiences, economic and political realities.

    - There is impotence to resolve the slightest aspects of individual and collective, exponentially multiplying plights and woes.

    - The suppressed operative power of humankind’s undiscovered, undeveloped and de-valorised potentials acquire a self-divisive and subtracting momentum, which inversely multiplies and adds the limiting force of circumstance on self and others.

    - The receding power of humankind’s veiled highest good highlights a ‘hellish keynote’, expressed and experienced as infinitely multiplied ‘problems and intractable issues’.

    - By resisting heaven and desiring the world, the ‘inverted self-consuming flame’ is lit, and fanned into self and all destructive impulses, which perpetuates, among other things, ‘abject and dehumanising poverty’.

    - Be forced to accept appearances for reality.

    - Attracted by lowest and worst possibilities, accumulated as personalised, circumstantial heritage, which accepts ‘dross and non-essentials’ as essentials of existence.

    - Survivalism becomes the ‘new cult’ of struggle to become, know, obtain and possess people, places, things and conditions by all means.

    - In the final analysis, by desiring the world and resisting its highest good, humankind loses the power for self and collective transformation, and equally loses the Earth and becomes overcome by the latter!

    In Mathew 13:12, Jesus says: Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. For the author, ‘whoever has’ implies discovering, developing and valorising one’s intrinsic potentials, whereas ‘whoever does not have’ implies persons who have lost possession of their highest good, and the worst is that what humankind struggles to obtain is consumed by the Earth. In other words, what humankind obtains through struggle depreciates faster than it is accumulated.

    Jesus further says in Mathew 16:25: For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. To ‘save one’s life’ is to attempt to ‘survive’ by desiring the world and resisting ‘one’s highest good’, whereas to ‘lose it’ is the idea that the outcomes of struggle are ephemeral. On the other hand, ‘to lose one’s life’ is to resist ‘the survival impulse’ and to submit one’s self to desiring only heaven, one’s highest good. By resisting heaven, humankind’s highest good, the latter loses ‘the power for individual and collective transformation’, thereby repressing the expression and experience of the same highest good both by humankind and creation. Part A of this book is divided into five chapters, namely: The Enabling Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set – The Quest for Low Pressure, The Neutral Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set – The Desire for High Temperature, The Sustaining Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set, The Reinforcing Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set – Lead to more Lead, and Case Studies of Poverty Mind-Set Scenarios, as seen in Figure 1.

    CHAPTER ONE

    The Enabling Dimension of Poverty Mind-Set –

    The Quest for Low Pressure

    Figure 1 highlights the four main levels of the poverty mind-set into enabling, neutral, sustaining, and reinforcing dimensions.

    Figure 1: The Four Dimensions of Poverty Mind-set

    The enabling dimension of the poverty mind-set (The Quest for Low Pressure) as seen in Figure 1 will be considered under the following rubrics:

    1. Magical state of consciousness

    2. Groupthink

    3. Herd behaviour

    4. Bandwagon effect

    5. Conformity

    6. Negative ASK in Safety Mania

    7. MOP and FANGS

    8. Self-absorption

    Every person is born into an ‘environment that procures specific experiences’. A poverty mind-set is to consider the ‘issues one has’ in relation to ‘external environmental factors’ as the only cause and source of the latter. A poverty mind-set is subsequently a function of the actor-observer bias, whereby explanations of one’s own behaviours and existence overemphasise the influence of our situation and underemphasise the influence of our own personality. The person with the poverty mind-set (especially in Africa) will justify his/her problems and limitations as follows:

    1. Look at my social background – I am from a poor family with no assets.

    2. I have too many siblings and my extended family members are legion.

    3. We are no-starters in life, because our ancestors handed down no financial legacy to us.

    4. The society in which I live offers no opportunities to experience any significant breakthroughs in life.

    5. Biologically speaking, I do not think I am endowed with any talents that can facilitate my emergence from the ‘stifling predicament’ in which I find myself.

    6. I am nothing, I know nothing and I can do nothing.

    People with the poverty mind-set consciously or unconsciously separate their situation from their personality, and, for the author, the former is the non-essential (-) aspect, whereas the latter or personality (+) is the essential component of the ‘existential equation’. In other words, situation (-) is fundamentally neutral until it becomes personalised, to then assume a psychological charge that it never had intrinsically prior to its personalisation. Personality, on the other hand, is ‘who and what the person IS or IS NOT, KNOWS or does not KNOW, and CAN DO or CANNOT DO’. Situation is neutral (-), but can be qualified or misqualified, whereas personality is essential (+), but can be minimised or ignored as in the case of the poverty mind-set.

    Since the poverty mind-set generally ignores the central and essential role of personality in the existential equation of humankind, there is a ‘mix-up’ between the essential and non-essential, to generate a ‘mass unconsciousness’. The poverty mind-set of ‘mix-up’ leads to corresponding ‘low pressure of mass homogeneity’, which operates through: magical state of consciousness, groupthink, herd behaviour, bandwagon effect, conformity, negative ASK in safety mania, and FANGS.

    Magical State of Consciousness

    Jean Gebser described his theory of consciousness in his masterpiece, The Ever Present Origin (1985). Gebser saw consciousness as a wakeful presence that was not identical to intelligence, and he outlined five mutations, or structures of this consciousness. According to Georg Feuerstein (1987), Gebser did not see consciousness as solely a witnessing function, but as an active and directive force, implying that consciousness is not only evolving in response to a relationship with phenomena, but that it is independently an initiator of the mutations. The representation of this new relationship with the world, and way of understanding, is illustrated in Gebser’s five structures of consciousness: archaic, magical, mythical, mental and integral (Combs, 2014). In this work, we shall concentrate solely on the magical state of consciousness in its negative aspect as being the ontological basis of the poverty mind-set.

    According to Gebser, the magical structure of consciousness is characterised by five primary characteristics: ‘egolessness’, spacelessness-timelessness, unitary world, interweaving with nature, and magical reaction to the world. A rudimentary self-sense is emerging and language is the real product of this change. Words as vehicles of power are typical of this time and structure, and incantations appear as precursors to prayer. Consciousness, in this phase,

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