>>8118953 (pb)
>Anyone have any insight into who is actually behind Shen Yun?
I think "Shen Yun" is aligned with THE GREAT AWAKENING!
How do I know you ask? Well, for Valentine's Day, my wife reserved front row seats for us and my 13 year old son tonight at the show in Saint Petersburg, Florida. A couple months ago when she told me she had reserved seats for a show, I just figured it was something like Blue Man or a Chinese circus, you know, just music and dance entertainment. Well, it was that, but much much more. It had a hopeful spiritual message and to my wonderful surprise, it felt like it was very much in line with THE GREAT AWAKENING. Let me explain. The show consisted of various traditional Chinese musical and dance acts, each conveying ancient folk tales and myths, usually highlighting honor, morality, love, and integrity. All the music was performed by a highly skilled classical Chinese orchestra. Between each act, a male and female speaker would say a few words, one in English and the other in Chinese, providing context and narrative.
What became clear from the very beginning was that we were watching a renaissance of the traditional Chinese art and spiritual culture that existed in China before the "red scourge" of Communism. Just as Russia had been a Christian culture under the Eastern Orthodox Church before the Bolshevik revolution, China had its own traditional culture before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. Indeed, China was once known as "the Land of the Divine". The Chinese people once "sought harmony among Heaven, Earth, and humankind, revered the divine, and followed the course of nature." It has a very warm Christian feel to it, but without the Scofield bible thumping hypocrisy and arm twisting associated with the Evangelicalism we have here in America today.
Anyway, these traditional Chinese art forms and spiritual practitioners called "Fulan Dafa" have been under attack for decades in communist China and were nearly stamped out, but in 2006, a group of Chinese artists came together in New York City and started a mission to revive authentic Chinese culture. And sort of like the Amish, the Fulan Dafa have grown in number and in influence and may have even branched into investigative journalism, through the rise of The Epoch Times. Now, I had first read great articles from The Epoch Times posted on this board, but then a couple months ago, I saw a hit piece video by NBC or MSNBC alleging that The Epoch Times was funded by some wacky cult associated with Donald Trump. So, I figured if the MSM hates The Epoch Times, who gives Trump a fair shake, then they must be PRETTY GOOD, so I ordered an annual subscription and I couldn't be more pleased with their news content.
So, that's my "insight" into Shen Yun, but PLEASE do your own due diligence and TRUST and THINK for YOURSELVES. Just don't be suckered by shills and left wing radicals calling these people "cultists." Make up your own mind.
I will leave you with Lyrics to one of the songs that was sung tonight.
"Foretold"
From my earliest days I heard the elders foretell:
A Red Scourge would bring decades of disorder.
Moral values and traditions would fall into ruin,
Leaving behind a world obsessed with money.
Before our eyes the elders' vision unfolds,
Modern thought and ways lead us to the brink.
Atheism and evolutionary theory weave lies upon lies.
Followers of Dafa are persecuted like none before.
The elders said: Guard the goodness in your heart.
Holy ones will rise as the Red Regime falls.
Out of mercy the Creator has come to save us.
Seek Him for the golden-lilied path back to Heaven.
Sound familiar?