Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about mystical traditions around the world

and the many diverse names for Enlightenment. So as we embark on our mission to become more sage-like, I thought that a very

appropriate topic would be to put our work to become Sages into a broader context,

into a historical context. What is it that Sages have been up to for the last 5,000 years?

And that's exactly it, is that Sages and Mystics have been doing this work

for at least 5,000 years and probably even much earlier than that. We just don't have very good historical records.

There's not much new under the sun here.

So we're going to take a nice deep look into what's really going on and it's going to be very eye-opening to

understand that the spiritual purification work that you're doing, the self-actualization

work, any sort of self- help techniques, any meditative techniques,

any kind of new age stuff that you're into or that you're reading about, you got to realize

that this goes back at least 5,000 years and that every single

culture on every single continent except Antarctica maybe has understood these truths and has been engaging in this process of essentially what, essentially

self-discovery and truth realization. That's the essence of it.

So let's take a look at religion and specifically the mystical

colonels, the mystical cores of every religion.

Religion these days gets a bad idea. the mystical course of every religion.

Religion these days gets a bad rap, and understandably so,

and I'm not a big fan of religion, except

we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

And here's the problem that a lot of rational people make when they talk about religion

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