Why does the world feel so chaotic?

Statistically speaking, the world is still safer, more accessible and connected than ever before.

And yet, our experience of the world can tell a very different story. Controversy, conflict, panic, and negative news dominate the headlines. It doesn’t matter which direction you turn. Politics, pandemics, violence, and economic conditions flood the headlines… chaos appears to be everywhere. Add in the stresses of everyday life, such as work, managing relationships plus finances, and we can easily become overloaded.

In an ever-changing world, the amount of information we consume has not only skyrocketed, but it feels like it’s coming at us non-stop. All of this certainly influences the way we perceive the world.

With the promise of benefits so great, we were intrigued to dive deeper into these translations. We wanted to know more about the Aramaic language and how that might have affected later interpretations. We learned that Aramaic was very much a language of tone and vibration. Like Mandarin, a single word in a sound-based language may have seven or even eight different meanings based on tone alone! However, when the Beatitudes were first transcribed into what later became the Bible, it was written in Greek. Greek is very much a linear, meaning-based language, like English. 

And as Greek-American poet and translator of Greek poetry, Kimon Friar states, 

“Even the simplest word can never be rendered with its exact equivalent into another language.” 

Over the past several years, we’ve searched through the countless different translations to understand the core truth behind what Jesus said nearly 2,000 years ago. And in doing so, the question kept surfacing over and over… 

Could there be more to this than what we’ve previously been taught?

With so many interpretations of the Beatitudes, from English to Old English, then back to Latin, Greek and finally Aramaic, some of them didn’t make sense to us until after exploring others. What we finally discovered was a much deeper meaning to the version of the Beatitudes that many of us know today. 

Within these teachings, Jesus actually laid out a set of practices that easily allow us to shift into alignment and experience greater inner peace within.

When we began to test these discoveries and implement them into our own lives, we experienced profound transformation. The best part? These practices automatically integrate the principles into our core programming, allowing for lasting change.