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).
