What Can Stop The Great Awakening?
Plato's Allegory of the Cave, engraving by Jan Saenredam after Cornelis van Haarlem (1604). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Millions of people are waking up, a video says, and a hidden circle that has run the world for ages is losing its grip. The only thing that can stop the "Great Awakening" is fear, and the cure is a mix of inner work and distrust of the news. It is a story that offers hope and a villain in the same breath, which is why it spreads. Below, what the video claims, what I could check, and what the old tradition of awakening actually asks of us.
What the video claims
The presenter, speaking in the spring of 2020 while many people were stuck at home, says humanity is going through a "Great Awakening": a growing number of people have begun to question reality and to notice that events are "orchestrated" by a small group that keeps people in fear and anger so they can be controlled. Behind this, he says, is a spiritual shift described in The Law of One, a set of channeled books: the planet is moving from a "third density" of ego and duality to a "fourth density" of the heart.
He claims the media are controlled by six corporations, that an "elite" is losing power, that a named public figure is a "puppet" for hidden handlers, and that a documentary called Out of Shadows shows how the CIA infiltrated Hollywood and invented the term "conspiracy theory" to stop people from asking questions. He adds that elites use "dark magic" and low-vibration activities. Finally, he says the awakening can be stopped by fear, by trusting the news, and by neglecting inner work, and that a global meditation on April 4, joined by over a million people, sent the Schumann resonance "off the charts."
What I could check
Some of it is wrong in ways that are easy to verify. The CIA did not invent the phrase "conspiracy theory." Fact-checkers have found the phrase in US newspapers as early as 1868, decades before the agency existed, and the 1967 CIA memo usually cited does not use the term in the singular (see this AAP FactCheck report). Whether the memo helped popularize the term is debated, but the claim of invention is false.
The Schumann resonance is a real phenomenon, a set of electromagnetic waves that circle the Earth between the surface and the ionosphere, with a base frequency near 7.83 hertz. Its strength changes with lightning activity, the seasons and solar conditions. I found no peer-reviewed evidence that meditation, however many people join, affects it, and the idea is covered among Schumann resonance conspiracy theories. Bright streaks on public charts are usually local lightning.
On Out of Shadows, I found descriptions and commentary but no independent fact-check of the film's specific claims. Reports describe it as a polarizing conspiracy documentary, and one conservative outlet reported that the anonymous "Q" of the QAnon movement praised it. The term "Great Awakening" itself is worth pausing on: it is also the name of eighteenth-century religious revivals in America, and in 2020 it was a slogan in QAnon circles, a movement whose predictions have repeatedly failed to come true. I could not tell, from the video, whether the presenter meant that movement; I am noting the overlap, not accusing him of it. As for the "six corporations," media ownership really is concentrated, but I am recalling that figure from an old infographic and it has changed since.
The Law of One is a series of channeled conversations from the early 1980s. It is a spiritual text; it is not evidence about the world. The video offers no proof that a single group orchestrates events or that a named person is a "puppet."
A skeptical look
There are three problems. The first is that the story cannot be wrong. If a prediction fails, the hidden group suppressed it; if a claim is hard to find, they buried it; if you feel unease watching an interview, that is your intuition detecting the plot. A theory that explains every outcome explains nothing.
The second is that the idea of a hidden ring of rich people who practice "dark magic" and harm others has a long and ugly history. Versions of it were aimed for centuries at Jews and other minorities, and they led to real violence. Today it is often pinned on public figures with no evidence. I am not saying this presenter intends that, only that when you hear it, it pays to ask who is being named and what proof is offered.
The third is the advice to "not buy into" the news in a pandemic spring. Doubt is healthy; blanket distrust is not. In 2020 many people were harmed by medical misinformation, and a rule of thumb that treats every official source as part of the plot leaves you with nothing to check. It is better to compare several sources, look for original documents, and prefer people who change their minds when shown wrong. If this kind of content leaves you anxious or isolated, take a break and talk to someone you trust or a professional.
The esoteric view
The word "apocalypse" in Greek means an unveiling, not a catastrophe. The oldest account of awakening in our tradition is Plato's cave: prisoners chained so that they see only shadows on a wall, and one who is dragged into the sunlight, blinded at first, who must return and tell the others. Plato adds a warning that the video skips: the one who returns is laughed at and may even be harmed, so awakening is slow, hard and humbling, never a slogan. Real awakening, in the old teaching, begins with doubt about one's own certainty. It leaves you gentler, not angrier. If a message wakes you only to the guilt of others, it is probably another shadow on the wall.
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