On today's edition of Edge of Wonder,
we discuss the First Great Awakening known as the Enlightenment
and the many belief systems and spiritual Giants that contributed to it
Like, Aristotle, Buddha Shakyamuni and yes, even Jesus.
We pose question such as: where was Jesus before he re-emerged at age 30
and why did some think that he and St. Issa were the same person?
We also discuss the processes of enlightenment and historical accounts that might just blow your socks off,
as we reveal the true stories behind it all.
Get ready to be 'enlightened' now,
Here's your Zen friends Ben and Rob on Edge of Wonder!
Welcome to Edge of Wonder.
In our last few episodes have been pretty dark so we want to balance it out with some light
specifically, the topic of enlightenment.
See what I did there? Light … Enlightenment
I think they get it Rob.
So we've done some Qanon videos,
there's a lot of talk about the Great Awakening movement and how people are finally waking up to the truth.
Some of you may have wondered,
how do those Edge of Wonder guys learn about this stuff?
How can they discern what's the truth from a lie? Or how can I learn to do it for myself?
Well, to put it plainly, first, it begins with having a core set of values
that we can use as a lens to examine each piece of information that we find.
Then, doing a ton of research, extracting the truth from it,
corroborating where possible,
and finally, seeing how it fits in the bigger picture.
And also using your heart too, when you're looking at these things.
That helps too.
In this episode, we'll dive into the topic of enlightenment,
its meaning and history, why the deep state, cabal, or the evil in this world,
doesn't want you to be enlightened,
and how you can learn to enlighten through your own beliefs.
So we've already done episodes related to QAnon,
connected to QAnon is this 'Great Awakening' movement.
Unfortunately, the movement even had a growing subreddit,
which was banned earlier this year in September
for being a " Crazy Right Wing Conspiracy theory"
then Reddit put up it's Saturnian symbolism peace sign and we all kinda peed a little. But we digress.
Right … what this movement is all about is really enlightening to the truth.
The thing is, Q is dropping "bread crumbs" and is encouraging everyone to do our own research
and by this method we our are really waking up from the lies
we've been told by mainstream media on our own.
But you might be thinking. Well Ben and Rob,
the term Enlightenment predates the Enlightenment period by an absurd amount of time.
Don't worry y'alls. We're spiritual beings.
We'll be getting into all of them and hopefully by the end,
you can see for yourselves which jives with your way of thinking.
Yes, but don't take this as some kind of approval or denial of any form of thinking.
Rather, let's explore and see what we find together.
In the past, the Great Awakening referred to a more spiritual movement
a religious revival that impacted Britain and the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.
This movement came and went rapidly at a time when secularism and rationalism was on the rise,
and theism had hit a low point.
You might be thinking 'rationalism' that sounds great.
Who doesn't want to be rational?
Well rationalism literally pushed the idea that reason and knowledge are different
than understandings that come about from spiritual development.
So what you're telling me is I can't be rational if I have beliefs? Yeah … no.
Rationalism lead to …wait for it … communism.
But that's a different episode people.
And oh my, we'll be getting into that soon.
So during this time Christian ministers traveled around the colonies to preach the gospel
and encourage folks that they should have a direct and personal connection to God.
The ministers also had people attend service in their home parish,
furthering their message to make faith and spirituality more approachable and less of a formalized institution.
The takeaway to glean from the Great Awakening movement now and from the one in the past,
is that there has been a genuine desire and many sincere attempts by groups of people
to discover the truth not only in world events, but also in life.
So on the other side of the Atlantic,
the Enlightenment took off in the 18th century.
Many philosophers emerged such as Voltaire, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson.
It was a period of uncovering and questioning what was experienced through the five senses
and what we experienced intangibly—ethics and the soul.
There were two Enlightenments
some viewed Enlightenment philosophy in opposition with
religion encouraging people to think for themselves instead of acting on faith.
This is largely the enlightenment that took place in Europe.
While others saw it as being able to think for themselves through a critical lens of ethics,
which is more of the ideas towards enlightenment in the US.
The Enlightenment was a big turning point for mankind;
people challenged one other and debated the biggest issues
whether the meaning of life is to develop spiritually or materialistically.
There was this German philosopher named Immanuel Kant, who studied epistemology,
the theory of knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.
We won't dive into all of his views
but Kant had some arguments around the purpose of life and enlightenment
that were compelling to many at that time and can still be applied to this day.
Kant argued that purpose of life is to strive for virtue or summum bonum,
which is latin for the highest or the supreme good
Summum Bonum is a concept that dates back to the Roman Philosopher,
Cicero and even further back to the Greek philosopher, Aristotle.
Many philosophers believed that summum bonum meant living according to divine law
and understand deeply what it means to be divine.
Kant also breaks down enlightenment in his essay titled 'What is Enlightenment'
that Enlightenment is the decisiveness and courage to use one's own mind without someone else's guidance.
Well wait a minute .
This is something we all need right now.
Take a step back and read some Kant, people. It'll do y'all good.
We touched on Aristotle and his central idea of summum bonum,
the highest good before. Kant said that it was virtue.
What does Aristotle have to say about the highest good?
Aristotle reasoned that eudaimonia is "the highest good for human beings" so what's eudaimonia?
Did you just say Edamame?.
Eudaimonia translates to happiness or well-being,
but it literally means to "have a good guardian spirit".
It's the moral philosophy of practicing virtues in daily activities
and using your wisdom that you've enlightened to, to resolve conflicts.
Maybe in some cases eating edamames and bring you that?
I hope so, I'm gonna go have a bag right after this episode.
Diving deeper, what did he mean by good or goodness?
Well, according to Aristotle, "Goodness is something common,universal, and one."
We interpret it as goodness being an objective trait,
so that means, you can evaluate how good your thoughts or actions are.
Given what Kant and Aristotle say the purpose of life is, on a deeper level,
to enlighten is to deliberately, independently, and courageously live a life of virtue,
which leads us to Buddha Shakyamuni.
That's not too far off compared to how Buddha defined enlightenment 2,500 years ago.
Before we go into how the Buddha Shakyamuni came to enlightenment,
we have to give you some context.
Who was Shakyamuni and how did he come into spirituality?
So before Buddha was well… Buddha, he was Siddhartha Gautama,
a prince born around 567 B.C into a royal family in Lumbini,
which is in modern day Nepal.
Before Siddhartha's birth,
it was prophesied that he would become a great king or spiritual leader.
His father wanted Siddhartha to become a king and a warrior but didn't want him to be this spiritual leader,
so he surrounded his son with luxuries, women, and combat training.
However, none of this seem to phase his son.
Also his father also kicked out anyone who was old or sick from their land.
So when Siddhartha finally ventured out from the palace doors at age 29,
he came across an old man. He turned to his charioteer,
Chandaka who told him old age happens to all.
Completely shocked he then encounters a sick man with oozing sores.
Chandaka again tells him that everyone is subject to pain and illness.
His father wanted to shield him from any kind of death but then,
Siddhartha mistakens a funeral procession for a parade and curiously wanders closer.
Chandaka explains that "death is the fate of all beings"
On his final trip out of the palace, he meets an ascetic.
Chandaka tells him that this ascetic has achieved tranquility by letting go of his earthly desires.
Upon meeting the ascetic man,
he vows to pursue an ascetic life on his own.
So let's fast forward now, Buddha has been enlightening for many years
what did Buddha enlighten to?
He enlightened to concepts of reincarnation, karma, and dukkha.
Reincarnation is the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Karma is the law of moral cause and effect.
Finally, Dukkha is the suffering that can be mitigated by removing attachments such as jealousy, anger,
sensuality or desire to experience pleasure, and so on.
His enlightenment is defined as the process of identifying dukkha or suffering
and removing the root causes our attachments,
and thus one can break free of this karmic wheel and end the cycle of reincarnation.
Sounds simple—but definitely not an easy thing to do.
Nope nope nope.
For those not familiar with Falun Dafa or Falun Gong,
it is a spiritual practice that came out in 1992 as a free practice in China by Mr. Li Hongzhi who founded it.
Falun Gong was a method that was practiced for thousands of years in private but was brought to the public in 1992.
Within a few short years it caught on very quickly
and at the beginning the Chinese government were even promoting it within China
because people were feeling happier and healthier
and it was saving the country money on healthcare costs.
So what exactly is Falun Gong?
It is a meditation and spiritual practice that is an advanced self-cultivation practice of the Buddha School system.
It's based on the universal principles of Truthfulness compassion-and endurance,
in which one would assimilate their character to these qualities by using them to judge every action,
thought, and intention that we have.
By doing so we would then elevate our mind and body
while at the same time strive to remove our attachments such as our desires, anger, jealousy, and so on
with the goal to obtain spiritual perfection, enlightenment, or even divinity.
Many of the theistic philosophers from the West enlightened to similar life purposes as their Eastern counterparts
living according to divine laws or spiritual truths and also believed in the one true God or Creator.
Enlightenment seems to be a generally positive thing for society and something that everyone should be striving for.
So who could be against enlightenment?
Sadly, in 1999 the Chinese regime did a survey
and found that there were over 100 million people practicing this in China.
So China being a communist state, totally freaked out
and this Falun Gong practice has been heavily persecuted in China since 1999 affecting over a 100 million people
And let's not forget their families.
So Falun Gong supports a belief in a divine Creator
with its universal principles of Truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.
Many people want to understand why it is being persecuted
but really the Chinese government is a communist regime
that got to be where it is today through violence, lies, corruption, and it's atheistic views.
They view it as a direct threat to themselves if you can understand that.
I mean doesn't make any sense anyway.
Well it does just because Falun Gong promotes traditional culture and actually shows that culture to people.
And we can kind of relate this going back to the whole deep state, cabal stuff right.
It's like they're doing all these satanic stuff
So everything that we're doing on the other side as a ..they see it as a threat.
It's kind of the same concept I guess.
OK we know there is going to be a lot of controversy around this topic,
but we are just the messengers here.
So without going too deep into this some people
and even some Christians believe that Jesus also found enlightenment and obtained the way.
Before everyone freaks out,
there is some evidence to support during his missing years that he traveled to India and was given the name Issa,
meaning "The Best Sons of Men," and returned to spread his universal law truths of salvation.
This was all found in 1894 by Nicolas Notovitch,
a Russian doctor who traveled to Himis, India,
and ended up breaking his leg and went to a nearby monastery for help.
Inside he found ancient records of the life of Jesus Christ.
He found a Tibetan translation of the these scriptures
and found over 200 verses in which these documents came to be known as The life of St. Issa.
He was accused by many of faking these documents,
and one of his biggest skeptics traveled to India just to expose this as a fraud,
but instead it actually convinced him and proved the authenticity of the Issa Legend.
Many of the verses in the scriptures do sound very similar to the words of Jesus when compared to the bible such as
"Worship not the idols. Do not consider yourself first.
Do not humiliate your neighbor. Help the poor.
Sustain the feeble. Do evil to no one.
Do not covet that which you do not possess and which is possessed by others."
Also there is one where "Issa taught that men should not strive to behold the Eternal Spirit with one's own eyes
but to feel it with the heart, and to become a pure and worthy soul."
Now of course we are not saying Jesus was Issa,
we would suggest that you look into this on your own,
there is a lot of information about this including a few documentaries.
But you know, the wise men did came from the Orientate, or the East,
and I have heard a few ministers talk about how it is possible these were monks
that brought Jesus back with them once he was at a certain age and these are the missing years in the bible.
But again you guys should look into it on your own, we are just the messengers here.
Either way we do know that Jesus was a real divine being who came here to save people
and by following his teaching one can also enlighten on this path.
Also I'll just add in something here that we don't know the histories,
None of us, none of us even those of us who are really involved in the spiritual practice don't really know the histories
And if the divine Creator arranged it that way, so what
Jesus was Jesus right, that's great
But anyway, we're not saying anything one way or another,
And we hope you guys know that.
Anti-Enlightenment, well this doesn't sound very good.
Now if there are such people who are against Enlightenment,
why are they trying to prevent you from obtaining it?
For those of you who are following us,
I am sure you already guessed it, the Deep State, Cabal, the evil elements in our world.
For those of you who are new to our channel,
in our past videos, we've covered the Deep State, who they are, what their agenda is,
and how they've infiltrated every part of our lives.
The Deep State are the secret government composed of elitist, globalists,
and the Illumidokey ( YT censorship here).
Their goal is of course to create this new world order,
order through chaos, or total control over the populace, and their final act of Eugenics,
wiping out more than 60% of the human race, 60% is a conservative number.
so the others can live a so called better life.
Definitely check out our series on the Deep State if you haven't already,
although I am sure many of you watching this are saying
"we already did", but go watch it again.
So going back to enlightenment,
Roger Richards had this great quote during our interview with him and Corey Goode
where he talks about his journey to bringing disclosure to the people.
Many of us talk about this idea of we make contracts before we come here,
We make agreements before we come here [to Earth] about what we're supposed to do.
Many of us are in a space of trying to wake up to why we're here.
It's my belief that everybody that comes onto Earth are subject to the same rules of Earth,
which is you're not allowed to remember why you're here.
That's a big part of it. The journey that you're set on is to find through your own intuition,
through your higher self.
Our mission here is to do everything possible to raise consciousness on this planet.
What he said is super powerful, and whether you're spiritual or not, this can apply to you.
All of us can enlighten to what our journey is and then act on it.
Whatever our spiritual or religious beliefs are.
We're bringing up the topic of enlightenment now because it's more relevant than ever.
We're inundated with information, both real and fake.
We want to empower you, our viewers, to figure it out on your own,
as many of you watching already are.
Then, encourage others to think critically for themselves
by showing them what you've found and discuss it.
We believe that we are all here for a purpose
each and everyone one of us chose to be here just many of us have forgotten why we came.
So through spirituality, divine faith, or whatever your religious beliefs are,
we will find our true purpose.
We recently gotten to 200k subscribers
and we wouldn't have been able to do this if y'alls haven't shared our videos
that you've found with your friends and discussed the truth of these issues.
We really can't thank you enough! That's for sure.
But really we can't thank the Divine Light that is guiding us and leading us to spread this message far and wide.
We keep saying that we're just the messengers
and we believe that this either the path we choose before we came
or what was asked of us to do.
Everything always works out when you put god, the light,
or the divine Creator's will first.
In either case one of the best things you can do for another person be it your family, friend,
or acquaintance is spread the truth to them and encourage them to do the same for others with whole lot of kindness.
Yeah, if you genuinely want what's best for them and share it in a compassionate way,
they'll start to see the truth as well and feel that you really do care for their overall well being.
Let's take a step back here, speaking of all of enlightenment and stuff,
we would also highly recommend to all of you to go see this amazing show
Called Shen Yun that has been traveling around the world.
Rob and I have seen it the past few years and honestly it is one of the best shows probably.
It's crazy, incredible.
It's so good, it's very inspirational, moving,
and makes you feel really hopeful about the future.
The core of my being was shaken when I went to see this,
You just leave feeling very like wow,
I just feel different, clean, something amazing.
Anyway, it shows 5,000 years of Chinese history through music, dance and even martial arts.
Also has elements of spirituality and even divine aspects all throughout.
And you'll definitely feel that.
Anyway we'll put the link in the description below,
And that's pretty much all we have for you today.
What do you you guys think about all this enlightenment and what does it mean to you?
Have you enlightened to something recently?
Please leave a comment below and always remember to comment like and subscribe for more hopefully amazing videos.
We hope you all liked this episode on enlightenment,
And as always, we will see you out.
On the edge
Of maybe enlightenment, hopefully, geez.
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