People talk about Rastafari as though it is an ism and I myself am not a spokesperson for Rastafarians.
I speak for myself and have different views and understandings to Haile Selassie because of the country and culture I was born into.
Some wish to project themselves as bigger, more important or more authentic in regards to spiritual belief systems or organisations of those who adhere to certain observances or writs??? and rites. This kind of 'chosen-ism' , exclusion or elete-ism is what it is. If it is to legitimize one as more worthy than another then often I take no interest in it or those professing their superiority.
To me, the Father God does not have 'favourites'. The few are 'chosen' because few choose God/Jah/Ones highest living potential, that they, in the oneness have chosen to be chosen. Many call out to a God 'out there', (separate from oneness-illusion), a mystery god, therefore they are called, because to call or be called is a linear construct of a line – here to --------à there. There is no linear construct in choosing God/Jah/love/conscious choices. One just chooses or has chosen or they have not. In this, the source (God/Jah) chooses within his/her means because the source can only help those who choose to help themselves. Man must receive blessings from his highest potential source/Jah.
To receive one must take hold and own. Therefore man blesses himself with more of what he becomes consciously aware of within his own highest potential Jah (no seperation). This is our birthright. To bless one must know, have received or educated himself in what it is and what it feels like to be blessed. So who Jah bless no man can a curse 'pon this day, because no one can bring down a man who is conscious of what it is to be blessed, for he has become the blessing and is conscious.
So the highest potential of me (which is ongoing and unlimited) is that which is always more to reveal and that which I am unconscious or subconscious of, but something that through choosing/choice I become more conscious of. So I give blessings to my self or empowerment as I am that which I seek to know more consciously.
I am that I am. I am (the 'I" of my present consciousness), that (the focus, the object, the reality, revelation that meets- I am (the 'I' of my higher consciousness). I am that I am is the truth of ongoing-ness. The game of leap frog! Of what you didn't know- to what you do know now. No end to learning. Bless…
(Page 59 Kahlil Gibran- Divine Music Poem)