Heru and Imani were up early to have breakfast in a near by meadow where the air was crisp, clean and clear. The meadow was covered with morning dew and sunlight glistened on the dew drops as the morning breeze
wisped around the fragrance of blossoms and wild flowers. They were both dressed in white and wearing Kemetic Uraeus crowns as they walked along a trail to a large majestic tree with huge branches located in the center of the meadow. They had been fasting together for three days and this was the setting where they would break their fast. Imani’s hair was in a kinky curly afro and her dangling ankh earrings shimmered as they caught the first lights of the morning’s rays. She was wearing a body suit with a gold breastplate. Heru, who looked like a cross between King Tut and Jimi Hendrix, was wearing a two piece linen outfit and a gold ankh around his neck. As they walked up to the tree Imani was taken by the peacefulness of the meadow and the constant chirping of birds.
    “It’s such a beautiful morning, it’s like deep meditation out here,” she said.
    “Yeah, this morning air is so fresh that it can really clear your consciousness,” Heru responded, as he took a deep breath and put down a cooler he was carrying.

…Akeem hit a drum roll and Heru broke into the first verse. He winked at Imani and she blew him a kiss.
The band is powerful and they sound great in a studio setting. As they went into the chorus Ptah turned to the
drummer and threw in a couple of bass licks, Akeem responded with another drum roll. Jabari played some nice
riffs on his Fender Rhodes piano as Heru exploded into a guitar solo…

    "Opposites dueling huh,” Heru said, thinking something didn’t sound right. “But you know in physics, opposing
forces work together?”
    “I know just like light waves,” Ptah stated. “You have the electric side and the magnetic side and they work
together to create light. The interesting thing is that they both travel along a central beam which could be
looked at as the unifying principle between the opposites.”
    “Right, there’s always a third principle that unifies the opposites,” Heru said.
    “Well the unifying principle in my piece will be a beat played by Akeem while the two bass players battle
it out.”
    “So let me get this straight, you think the unifying principle of the universe is a funky beat?” They started
laughing. “That’s heavy ma man.”
    “Well haven’t you ever heard of cosmic funk?” Ptah asked.
    “Heard of it, we play it all the time fool.”
    “Well maybe from our deep cosmic beginnings there was an impulse that vibrated into a pulse, then manifested into a beat; you feel me?” Ptah said, laughing at his own concoction.

[Set and Kasiwa]

    “Come on now,” he said, putting his phone down. “Don’t I wine and dine you? Don’t I buy you little pieces of
this and that? Baby you know I ain’t cheap.”
    “I know you buy me things,” she said, as she leaned over, hugged his arm and kissed him on the cheek, “and I
love you for that but sometimes you seem to take me for granted.”
    “What do you mean by that?”
    “Sometimes I think you throw me stuff after you do something like hit on my friend Imani.” She folded her arms
and leaned back in her chair.
    “What did I just tell you?” he shouted, as he hit the table with his fist. “Now obviously you’ve heard something
about the café last night but what you didn’t hear was that I had an ulterior motive for everything I did. And like
I said, I wasn’t hittin’ on that girl.” He picked up his phone and started texting a message.

[Professor Unas and Quazi]

They took a walk in the courtyard and stopped at a large water fountain.
    "Do you believe that a person has a purpose in life?" Quazi asked.
    "Oh very much so. Another aspect of 'Knowing Thyself' is to know your purpose in life; or your unction as it
is sometimes called. Life is complex and there is an elegant connection with the planet, nature and humanity.
So by consciously feeling a part of the whole, relating your life with the life of the planet, your purpose has
fertile ground to reveal itself to you. We are very much apart of the environment and at some point, on a very
finite level, there is a connection between science and spirituality," Professor Unas explained.
    "Is that quantum mechanics?"
    "Yes, exactly, quantum mechanics is a very interesting field of research..."

[Heru, Ptah and Professor Zoser]

    “A true prophet should be able to do good things with money because they look at life through God inspired
eyes and they can’t be corrupted by people who want to undermine the idea.”
    “Well then maybe the prophets should be in control of the money.”
    “Ah, actually,” Ptah said, “The ones who are making all the profits are in control of the money.” They started
laughing.
    “We must be out of our minds, and pardon the pun here,” the professor said, “but things get out of balance
when one has to continually make more and more profits and the money is not circulating back into society and
the community.”
    “Ah, is that out of our conscious mind or out of our gold, silver, platinum and diamond mines,” Ptah joked as
the professor picked up on it.
    “Well those elements are like different facets of the mind you see.” They laughed.

[Heru, Set and Jason]

    “Well here’s my point,” Heru said. “Poor education creates criminals, it creates crime and it also creates
victims of crimes too. Ah here’s that trickle down effect in action again. It’s like this; with good education
across the board we could prevent a lot of suffering in the community. Look at it this way, if all the people
around you, friends, neighbors and strangers were content and satisfied with the money they were making then
that would give you peace of mind because you wouldn’t be in fear of being mugged for a few dollars. That alone
would lead to less stress in the community. I’m sure the petty crime rate would drop with better education and
better salaries. You know a person’s creativity can shine when they have more tools to work with and it seems
to me that with more educated people there would be more individuals to create new businesses and new jobs.”

    “It’s not about race at all, and you know what, we could become more civil toward one another if we looked at the world as one people and not a bunch of different races that have to fight each other for land and resources. In fact, I don’t like the term race or dividing people into different races because race implies that one race has to beat another race, or it makes one race feel they’re better than another race; when in actuality there’s just one humanity upon this earth...”