See how multifaceted you are? From chemical compounds to creator? Which part of this grand process would you single out to define your life? Since everything is a process of life, which part would you choose to call “living?” Furthermore, on which part of this process would you place the worth of life? In other words, would you regard one aspect of the life process as more worthy of being called “life” than another?

Prof Ilchi Lee

No matter what our choices are, and regardless of our understanding of it, life will continue to exist. However, depending on how narrowly we set the limits of a definition, life can be many things to many people. Life can mean that the heart beats and blood flows. Life can mean that the brain is functioning and you are processing information. So, depending how we choose to define life, our definitions and attitude toward death are also consequently varied.

Let’s take the example of injury. What does it mean? Does it mean bruises and black-and-blue marks? Does it mean a cut in the skin? How about injuries to the energy and spiritual bodies? If your spiritual body is healthy, then your energy body is healthy, leading to the self-healing of a physical injury. But what if your spiritual body is damaged? The damage to the spiritual/information body does not only mean that your genetic information is damaged. The genetic information is only a minuscule part of the information that makes up who you are. The worst damage that the spiritual/information body can sustain is planting wrong ideas of identity and twisted standards of value in it.