William Shakespeare said a long time ago that there is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. That will be generally speaking. Sometimes, you hear it said: “As if he has picked my thoughts. Thoughts are generated by the frontal brain, cerebrum, the seat of the intellect with the intellect transmitting them. The mind serves as the window to glean at them. But it is not given that we read them in the mind until they are expressed. Clairvoyants read forms to which thoughts give rise. Those words which tell of other things than the gross material can only arise through unimpaired cooperation of the intuitive faculty of the hind brain, and these come in pictures.
In other words, the back brain is the spiritual receptive part of the brains, the prompting of the spirit in pictures passing through the solar plexus to the heart and then to back brain. Thus the hind brain was created for reception but the frontal brain for transmission into the earthly world of thoughts, speaking and action. When the back brain is obstructed and hindered in its activities, the man is solely dependent on the frontal brain which gathers from earthly and environment and is thus limited, lacking in freshness and newness of vision.
Another consequence is that “the abundance of the heart” from which “the mouth speaketh” is uninfluenced by the perception of the spirit. Unguided, therefore, by the intuitive perception, so very often, there are missteps and we misspeak. Leaders and the led will always act in accordance with the degree of inner radiance or even lack of it or trammeled and dimmed.
With distorted intellect must ensue fraud and deception, slavery and force, sensuality and lust, discontent, envy, hatred and murder. There is sole reliance on imagination, most times mistaken for right guidance, but which flows from the combined working of the intellect and physical feeling. Wholesome guidance can only from the intuitive perception—what the spirit draws from On High and is mediated in pictures ending with the hind brain.
How do we enter the minds of our leaders to read from therein for the face? Unfortunately, Mr. Shakespeare states there is no art to find the mind’s construction on the face. King Duncan in Macbeth was reflecting on the human nature, how deceptive it could be. He realised he had been taken in by the false loyalty of the Thane of Cawdor; he had misjudged him. Yet we must strive to understand our leaders. We must learn their language; where they are coming from. We must open and alert to read their body language. This is because we are inexorably subject to how their minds work.
I was reflecting on the spate of deflections by governors and legislators everywhere. And I was asking myself whether the idea of opposition is no longer about competition, of ideas and beliefs so that the electorate can be presented alternative choices according to their own light. This is the stage of recognition of we human beings in our development in the present time. For we would find later as we grow that, as I have stated in multiple times, leaders are born, not made; they are sent, not electable. Following the failure in the era of Divine Right of Kings, human beings discarded the ordinance placed in Creation with which man is to be governed, and replaced it with their own devices.
Undergirding the defections is absence of principles. It is pursuit of power for power sake; it is the pursuit of inordinate ambition, visibility and influence, pomp and emptiness. In nearly all cases, when a governor defects, he does so with all his commissioners, the Speaker and members of the House of Assembly in the state. Where in all these is wholesomeness for the health of our land? In Edo State, the hero-worshipping has gone to the depths. There, the permit to attend the state’s executive council meetings is henceforth, the wearing of Bola Tinubu signature cap. The artistic design on it is depict the breaking of chain which he up with in the years of struggle to drive back the military to their barracks. It is his symbol of freedom. Ordering that the passport to state executive meetings is possession of Tinubu Cap is carrying fawning to the extreme and to the ridiculous. People will always demonstrate love and loyalty a leader they admire, but not through compulsion.
Of course, we had Shagari Cap, to a little extent, Buhari Cap. These were not forced on any followers. People would wear to copy their leaders for different motives, some to bootlick and curry favours, many in false admiration to put flowers on their leader’s head, and some out of genuine affection.
And closely related to the foregoing, are strikes. Some are justifiable such as the two-week warning dispute by the university lecturers and the strike by resident doctors. The one called by oil industry labour leaders against Dangote Refinery was uncalled for. Now the nation has not recovered from its consequences. The price of premium motor spirit that shot up during the strike has not come down.
Movement is driven by the Law of Motion. Where there is no motion, there is no life. Motion drives all human activities. Motion itself is triggered by heat. Absence of heat generated by the spirit there is absence of movement by the body. Carbohydrates supplying energy to the body gives impetus for the movement of the body. When the body moves it could be by walking or using automiles. What powers automobiles in the modern world is fuel and gas. Now, through the technological wonders of this age, automobiles are also being power with electricity. Any disruption, therefore, to fuel production and distribution is disruption to life and living, to daily rounds of activities and duties, to the economy and to political and social lives of a nation.
It was shocking that the labour leaders in the oil industry would not give Dangote Refinery, the only one which has come to the rescue of the country in its most trying period time to settle. The public refineries have since Obasanjo era gone comatose even after humongous sums of money have been expended on them.
Commonsense ought to have dictated that the unions give Dangote Refinery time to breathe and settle down properly. Dangote says he pays the least worker in the refinery three time the minimum wage, and what a driver earns is four times a graduate is paid elsewhere even in the private sector.
