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Mago, the Earth’s Soul

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Regardless of variations in time, geography, and culture, all civilizations have referred to the Earth as the ‘Mother Earth.’ Korean tradition refers to the Earth as ‘Mago’ by combining the roots of two terms. ‘Ma, Mater, Umma, Mom,’ the almost universal sound for Mother, is combined with ‘Go’, which signifies ancient or old in traditional Asian writing, to form the word ‘Mago’. Directly translated, ‘Mago’ thus means ‘Ancient Mother.’ This is not to be confused with an image of an old hag, or witch, a distinctly European invention dating back to Middle Ages. Mago is closer to the Hellenic-Roman concept of earth goddess, Gaiea.

Since the human soul is intimately connected to the Earth’s soul, we can truly feel the Earth in our hearts when we are able to commune with her on a spiritual plane. Only then will we be able to see the Earth with the Earth’s awareness, leading to a human culture of harmony and forgiveness. Indigenous Native Americans of Sedona also believed that the Earth had a soul, prophesying that the Earth will only be healed and humans only become complete when we can commune with her soul and seek to protect her body.

Mago is a concept far different, and far older, than the concept of god. Gods are invisible, but Mago is both visible and tangible. We can see, hear, and touch the Mother Earth, the ever-present root of all life on our planet. Until now, humanity has had an on-going and one-sided love affair with various gods, trusting in them to secure and bless our individual nations, peoples, religions, and families, praying endlessly to the divine deaf ear and taking advantage of non-existent pronouncements to justify whatever they wanted. Who could accuse them of being wrong? The gods were never held responsible, nor their messengers accountable. However, since she has both a body and a soul, the Earth can tell us immediately, in a palpable and tangible way, what is and what is not pleas ing to her. We cannot conveniently wish her existence away, as we have done with countless gods. Yet, it almost seems as if we are trying in earnest to destroy her and to destroy ourselves in the process. We seem to be attempting to uproot our own existence.

If any love has the forgiveness and patience to guide a wayward child, no, a juvenile delinquent, like humanity, it has to be the love of a Mother. If her love is acknowledged and accepted in its benevolent omnipresence and omniscience, then what other possible decision could we make except to respond in kind? In order for us to effect a shift in human consciousness to a level on which we can have a ‘heart-to-heart’ conversation with the Earth, and feel her love, we must reopen a channel of communication that we have always had, but have not always been aware of. 

-Excerpted from Ilchi Lee’s Mago’s Dream

Feeling the Earth’s Body, Energy, and Soul

Monday, November 24th, 2008

…when I think of the Earth, the picture that first comes to my mind is one taken by a satellite from outer space, a blue-green ball tantalizingly covered with wisps of white clouds. To communicate with the Earth’s heart, but not only know the Earth on a physical level, but also know her on a spiritual one. It is far more important to be able to feel the wholeness of the Earth than to know her geological history or the correct correlation of her limestone layers.

Have you ever said “Good Morning!” to a stand of particularly tall grass or a wild flower that opened its petals especially early one morning? Anyone who is a gardener has had experiences of talking with the plants under his or her care. When you have an experience of feeling the ‘heart’ of a plant, you no longer regard the plant as mere decoration, but as an entity of life. In point of fact, you have not actually spoken to the plant in the usual sense, but you have indeed felt and sensed the energy and soul of the life expressed through the shape and form of the plant. Likewise, in order to communicate with the earth, we must come to know Earth as a living entity, with a material body, life energy, and an eternal soul, as all forms of life.

-Excerpted from Ilchi Lee’s Mago’s Dream

Mago, Soul of the Earth

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

In order to achieve genuine peace by placing the Earth at the fulcrum of living values, we need not only understand the importance of the Earth, but also be able to communicate with her in a personal, intimate, and profound way. Even if we all intellectually understand that the Earth is the key to peace, it is for naught if this knowledge is not made tangible and applicable.

In order for information to enter the brain and then be expressed as action, that information must be processed and delivered to the furthest nerve endings and muscles. Similarly, establishment of the Earth as the center of our values must go beyond the intellectual plane and be ingrained into every cell of our bodies in order to be realized.

For this to happen, our hearts must be able to communicate with the heart of the Earth. Although many people realize the importance of the Earth, they only think of the Earth as a large material object, because they don’t know how to connect with her heart, thus leaving their hearts barren and lifeless. The moment that you can feel the heart of the Earth and consciously accept it as such, is a moment of enlightenment, for you will have allowed your awareness to meld with that of the Earth and see and feel her as she herself does.

-Ilchi Lee

See the Earth in a state of absolute freedom

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

…let us travel outward into the cosmos, until we are looking down at the Earth. Free your awareness from the time and space continuum and see the Earth in a state of absolute freedom. See the blue green sphere, magically suspended in inky, all-encompassing blackness, soft and bright in her soothing luminosity.

Do you see the assorted and indescribable colors weaving in and out of this earthly tapestry? Can you see the different colored petals of flowers as they sway in the wind, weaving and twirling, mixing with the wild grasses to go forth as a living breeze, only to fall onto the dark soil as an invisible mist of green life? Do you see the dynamic beauty of animals as they prowl, swallowed by the protective green gauze of the forests or the harsh yellow tint of the desert? Do you see any differences in human beings in terms of their skin color, body types, or any other criteria that you can think of?

Of course you do, for life is an expression of infinite creativity. No living thing is identical to any other living thing, even among the same species. And do you realize that this is a blessing, the greatest ever, and that ‘sameness’ is unnatural and an affront to life? Life is not an imitation, but an unending process of original creation. Can you now feel an overwhelming burst of inspiration and gratitude for this infinite variety? For the love of the Creator, as life is bursting in full bloom in its blinding and brash beauty?

-Ilchi Lee

Share Common Human Dreams

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Lee’s point of view is we all share a common human dream. This dream goes beyond our individual needs to include family, community, society, and the world. No matter what type of job we hold, we all have a desire to make the world we live in a better place. We all want to be Hong-Ik-In-Gan, or a Widely Beneficial Person.

And therein lies the key to opening up the full potential of the brain. When we become conscious of the whole world instead of the world defined by “me,” our brain will be stimulated to fully utilize its abilities for Hong-Ik. We will set into motion the process by which the whole potential of the brain is engaged in making our wish come true, finally glad to have this opportunity to truly express itself.

Life Moves With Natural Rhythms

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Ilchi Lee writes that consciously or unconsciously, we follow the rhythm of breathing faithfully. In accordance with the laws of breathing, we must exhale in order to inhale, or contract in order to expand again. We can fill up again when we have emptied ourselves. Life moves with natural rhythms and cycles of the universe. Our breath, our heart beat, all our crucial life functions follow this rhythm without fail. Our lives are an essential part of the rhythm of the universe.

The life of an individual, the life of a nation, and the life of each species moves according lo this rhythm. How well and healthy an organism’s life is, depends on how well and harmoniously the organism maintains this rhythm. This goes for an entire nation as well as the whole of humanity. On an individual level, we are healthy in body and mind when we adhere to the laws of breathing. On a larger plane, all of society will be in harmony when this rhythm is collectively recognized and maintained.

Ki Energy, the Bridge Linking the Body and Mind

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Brain Education, founded by Ilchi Lee includes a method of conscious breathing for the accumulation of life energy to create a Power Brain. Therefore, a basic prerequisite for Brain Education is the ability to sense and use Ki, or life energy.

Ki is the bridge linking the body and mind. Ki is the essence of life, moving and flowing freely. When Ki coalesces with enough density, it is transformed into a form of energy that we can see and touch. The continuous joining together and drifting apart of Ki energy comprises the rhythm of the phenomenon of life. Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, and even our selves are temporary- manifestations of Ki energy.

Although we are immersed in this grand flow of energy- every moment of our lives, we are unable to sense its currents unless our senses are properly attuned. However, we can awaken our innate ability to sense the slight, but pervasive vibrations that define our existence. Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. It is up to us to reawaken it.

By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When you develop sensitivity to Ki and appreciation for the Ki energy within you, you will be able to utilize your body’s potential more fully. Furthermore, you will be able to utilize the information that is transmitted through energy pathways, for spiritual communication occurs through energy exchange.

Why do we need peace?

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Lack of peace has remained an albatross around our collective necks. Peace remains a distant goal that we are forever bound to pursue yet not attain. We are subject to the whims of powerful and cynical leaders who use our universal longing for personal gain. Peace has become something unapproachable and abstract, moving farther from our grasp.

What we now need is not an intellectual understanding of peace. What we really need now is for all of us to become more peaceful, to ourselves become expression of peace. This can only happen when we undergo a fundamental and profound experience of peace.

Actualize peace in every experience in health, education, and culture Part II

Friday, July 25th, 2008

There have been many upon many academic studies done on peace already, with very little result in the actual production of peace. Peace is ultimately a human issue. If you do not understand the reality of who you are as a human being, you will be chasing false shadows of peace for the rest of your life. Before our social and political systems can change, humans must change. Not one or two people, but enough people to create a culturally significant and lasting impact on the course of universal human experience in the future. This is the goal of the Healing Society movement. I am working to make spiritual enlightenment common sense. This will lead to peace. Peace is a matter of application, rather than theory. It is a mistake to think we are contributing to peace on Earth just because we think, speak, or give lectures about peace. We cannot actualize peace with words and thoughts alone.

Peaceology, a new philosophy and application lor peace, must become the new spring from which our collective human soul draws the water of spiritual life. Peaceology must become the standard bearer of a new definition of health. Peaceology must become the rallying cry for a new generation ol social and cultural activists. Peaceology is a system centered not on one specific nation, religion, or cultural tradition but on the Earth herself. Peaceology is not for experts, but for everyone who wants a peaceful world for humanity. Peaceology does not contain difficult concepts or theories. Peaceology simply offers common sense ideas and actions for those of us who would prefer to live in a world of peace… an earth centered peace to restore health and beauty to humanity and the earth.