STEM TO STEMS

CONNECTING S.T.E.M. TO 'S.T.E.M.S.' STEM is a highly popular 20th-21st Century acronym for promoting the deeper study of basic disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, by African American college students & other minorities. However, barren, by itself STEM is incomplete alone to formulate new pathways in history or in civilization for underserved American groups and populations. No overarching theme or connecting stream ties the disciplines together integrally. To complete STEM , adding an 'S' for Spiritual would agglutinate the acronym into natural motive force. It is natural that nature be the basis of STEM, thence 'STEMS.' All of life is based upon nature, including all of the various STEM disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Nature is divinely spiritual. Men studied the stars in the sky, the seasons, the tides, the weather, the soil, stone, meteorites, animal, birds, fish, and themselves. From this long culturally resonant study of intrinsic nature which was passed on, down, from very many generations: of priests, observers, farmers, fishermen, hunters , herdsmen, collectors, spinners, weavers, artisans, sailors, builders, tradesmen, cooks, brewers, tanners, teachers, etc., a condign conceptual consciousness of self arose based on the facts of their lives that conduced to the spiritual. These earliest people were African. They left incontrovertible proof of their priorities, anteriority, in stone, hieroglyphics, history, imagery, that yields secrets to Egyptology today! It is therefore only natural that our STEM revert to STEMS to include the spiritual, the essence of them all, indeed the sine qua non of all. Amen