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The enlightened world is a social-
CONDITIONS FOR BUILDING ENLIGHTENED WORLD
The most primary condition of an enlightened world is the existence of an enlightened
governance (see Enlightened Democracy), which bears the visions of the higher-

Enlightened democracy is a vision based on the view that mankind needs guidance and
direction to move in order to achieve social and political order which can be the
foundation of peace. It is a guideline that sees the world as moving forward to higher
and higher stages of evolution, where every human being has the responsibility to
participate. It views the world existing at this moment of history as a ground where
diverse stages of social evolution live together – some societies are still in a
primitive stage bound to hunger and basic needs, while a few has progressed to fulfill
greater aspirations of human freedom as creative beings searching meaning and greater
possibilities of self-
Enlightened democracy professes that human beings are endowed with the power to realize themselves in ways that may fulfill the meaning and purpose of our existence. Humanity has the possibility to evolve in directions that we can steer ourselves once we are equipped with knowledge of nature, and dynamics of history and understanding about the power of our consciousness. We may guide this development that can bring harmony and peace in the world instead of generating chaos that may arise once we conceive the evolution of society resulting from interaction in a random way. It is a progressive path: First, to free man from hunger and needs, then from ignorance, prejudices and superstitions derived from culture and belief which binds man to a particular tradition and culture. It seeks to empower man with understanding and vision, with which one may appreciate the values and ideas which can be accepted by all people and cultures of the world. Thus man may free oneself from ....


In the religious context enlightenment is considered as a spiritual revelation that
can bring deep insight into the meaning and purpose of the existence of all things
in the cosmos, and thus a way to arrive at the understanding of the mind of God,
who is assumed to be the creator of all. It is believed that this profound spiritual
understanding can be achieved when man has reached a higher level of consciousness
above the mundane consciousness of being entrapped in the world through sensory perceptions.
This higher consciousness is proposed as the way to understand the unity of all things
and feel one with all existing beings. This heightened perception of the nature
of the reality generates compassion for all living and non-
Though talk about enlightenment usually appears in religious context as a spiritual
path, it can also be understood in a non-