What is Enlightenment like? (Satire)

Aaron Doughty satirizes spiritual ego with an over-the-top character who claims to meditate 6-9 hours daily in closets, blast to higher dimensions, and radiate light so bright it magnetizes people. A sarcastic takedown of performative spirituality and the self-importance that can come with claiming enlightenment.
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I value your time, and with that being said, I want to give you guys a little bit of a preview for what this video is about before you guys actually watch it, because it's a little bit different than the videos that I normally do on this channel. Now, always my main focus on this channel are making videos that have some sort of value that can give people like a little bit more awareness into their daily lives or adding value in the way of tools that can help people, you know, know more about themselves. And I'm going to continue to do that on this channel, but this video is something that is made more for entertainment. I filmed this video in between doing two other videos that I was doing a couple days ago, and it was just kind of an exaggerative video. I had fun making it, but it's in the idea of entertainment. So just a little precursor to this video. This video is a complete exaggeration. It's made to be sarcastic. It's not made because I'm actually sane and I believe what I'm saying. So with that being said, If that's not your thing, skip this video and then I'll be back next week with a video that's on what I'm normally talking about. But so this video that you're about to watch is on the idea of like enlightenment or spiritual ego in a way. Now, one common thing that happens with people is as they begin to go through their awakening or begin to go through more awareness of who they are, there's a tendency sometimes to develop what is called a spiritual ego, which is like this classification or this identity to where we say that this is who I am and I'm somehow special because I've already come to this level of awareness. So here we go. It's just like one of the things that I experienced when I went through my enlightenment. It's just like knowing that I'm just, just able to meditate and feel blissful like all the time. And really it's, it's me just Being more aware that that's who I am. Like, I'm just this, like, spiritual— such a spiritual person, you know? And like, not everyone knows they're spiritual, you know? So it's like, I'm here to like wake people up and meditate for 6 hours a day and like be in closets and shit. And it's like, the more I do that, the more people want to know more from me about like how I became enlightened. And you're probably looking at me right now like, whoa, that dude's aura is like off the charts. I mean, I got a wide-angle lens in this camera, but you probably can't even see how far— like, my aura probably goes past, but you probably can't even see that because it's like the angle, the wide-angle lens that I have on it doesn't really even show you how far my aura goes. It probably does that. I mean, I kind of did that intentionally though, because I get kind of— I don't want to make people feel uncomfortable when they're listening to me or watching me even on video like you are right now. I want you to feel comfortable listening to me, maybe not know my aura goes like pretty much outside this room right now, and that I just got done meditating for 6 hours straight. I mean, who's counting? But I'm pretty sure it was about 6 hours because it was like 3 or 4 o'clock when I started. It's like almost midnight now, so maybe it was more like 9 hours. I mean, it's just kind of what I do when I go into that altered state of consciousness. I just kind of lose sense of time. I just blast off to higher dimensions, and I just kind of come back so that I can teach people shit because it's like someone's got to do it, you know. I am here right now. I'm just here to like teach you guys ideas and shit, blast off into space when I go to bed at night, wake up the next morning, meditate and shit, and blast off to space again. I just like to blast off to space a lot. I mean, I think it's one of the things that we're all meant to do, is just like feel blissful and shit, like all the time. Like, the more blissful you feel, it comes from meditation, really. I mean, it's like the more you meditate, the more you naturally come to know how awesome you are. And the more awesome you know you are, the more you're ultimately going to experience love and light in life. Like, I love everyone I come into contact with, probably because I'm enlightened, probably because the other part of me is just like meditating 6 hours a day. So I'm blissful all the time. So it's like people like to talk to me because they can feel how good my energy is. They could feel that my aura is like pushing them out of the room pretty much, you know. I mean, sometimes I'm like a magnet though. Like, I find that my aura is so strong that people are like walking around, they're just like magnetized to me. Like they bump. Like they bump into me because like I'm such a strong magnet, but then they're like, oh shit, I shouldn't bump into him because like he's glowing. I don't know, I'm glowing right now. I mean, there's no, there's no ring light here. Like I have no lighting for this or anything. It's actually, I'm in a dark room. It's just, it looks like I'm light because my aura is so strong. You may even see like those little rings in my eyes and shit. It's just because I'm so bright that like I'm reflecting that brightness onto the lens and then it's like coming back into my eyes. It's because I'm like really enlightened. Pretty— I'm really enlightened. Now with all that being said, I mean, don't feel bad for yourself. Like, you can be enlightened too. All you really have to do is like meditate for 6 hours a day, lock yourself in closets and shit. Like, ultimately, the more that you do shit like that, the more you're going to like create that space inside of you. Like, really what it is about you just creating space, like If you create the space inside of you towards feeling that, I mean, you're going to be enlightened eventually. Who knows? Pretty soon you could be like meditating in closets and shit, you know. I lived in the last house I was at, I had two closets, and one of those closets in the master bedroom was my meditation room. All I had was a little candle on a little table, a little, little like crystals and shit, like stuff that helped me blast it into a higher dimension. And I just sat there for like 8 hours a day. I loved it. I was like constantly feeling blissed out and stuff. I mean, I don't even know, I can't even put it into the English language to explain it to you because it's so far beyond words. But you can experience the same thing. All you got to do is start meditating for 6 to 8 hours a day. And ultimately, the more that you meditate, the better you're going to start to get at meditating. And then you're going to start like, you know, blasting off into space and shit, like having really cool experiences and And you'll start to think that you're, you know, a very spiritual person. You'll start like, you know, playing with crystals and stuff. And before you know it, you'll be creating YouTube videos about how enlightened you are. So if you're watching this video, I mean, just know that this could happen for you too. You could be enlightened, meditating in closets pretty soon. I'm sure you could get there. All you got to do is keep at it. Just do it, you know, just do it. All right, guys, this video today really had no point. At all, except for if you're watching it, you're probably already like on your path of enlightenment. So congratulations. I'm gonna go meditate in the closet for another 6 hours. So maybe when I come back, I'll do another video about something else. So much love, guys. Have a great day.
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