cosmological/higher-self-knowledge or knowledge of self derived by
deep introspection, uninhibited creative self-expression or spiritual work and study commonly employing the practice of meditation, the use of marijuana/
ganja as holy sacrament or the shamanic use of psychedelic
drugs to attain deeper inter-dimensional spiritual insight into the nature and character of one's esoteric essence and the latent capabilities thereof
The concept of self-knowledge or knowledge of self has been propagated by numerous sources over the ages: we have the Egyptian-schooled Greek's aphorism "know thyself", the notion of knowledge of self spoken of in Islamic teachings based off the Koran passage, "He who knows himself knows
God," and then there is the
popular use of the term "self-knowledge" that was reportedly introduced into
hip-hop culture by the Five Percenters (a splinter faction of the Nation of
Islam founded by Clarence 13X, a former student of Malcolm X) that became known as the fifth element of
hip-hop among the other four (1. graffiti,
2. MCing, 3. b-boying/girling, 4.DJing).
