Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D. Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality. 2012, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, USA A brief review by Mboya Ogutu In this book, Dr. Bynum a Clinical Psychiatrist, challenges the dominant materialist and positivist Western model of science, particularly in matters of the mind and consciousness. Herein, is a reluctance to recognize collectively verified, replicable subjective experiences. These practices begun in ancient Kemet and eventually spread to other areas. Bynum states that such subjective experiences tend to be categorized as pathologies in Western based psychiatry. Essentially, Bynum presents the human mind and consciousness as subsumed in a wider spacetime continuum. In ancient times to the present, meditative, prayer and other spiritual techniques, have been used to “yoke” (yoga in Asian practices) the mind to the universe. Sema Tawi, which p...