Count up to Infinity

Dahveed Nelson, a founding member of The Last Poets (one of the forefathers of hip hop) continues the work he began in 1968, as a member of the artistic fraternity, in this exploration of black consciousness. In a series of journal entries, he seeks to usher in a new world and observes that in seeking their blackness, the black community is seeking higher consciousness. Count up to Infinity is a multigenre, multilevel experience. It is, first and foremost, an exercise in the elevation of human consciousness and thus draws upon and at the same time shares one pathfinders personal experiences as spiritual seeker, social psychologist, and advocate of the dawning golden age. The book may also be seen as a poetic expressiona reality, stream of consciousness novel; and, in some sense, it could be viewed as social commentary. It is a multifaceted worka writing that defies genre classification. Contemplate lifes greatest questions and find solutions to everyday problemsespecially problems in the black communitywith the insights in Count Up to Infinity.