HSP Ranch - a place of hope

I took this picture of HSP Ranch last year. Isn't it breathtaking? Ilchi Lee is always thinking about his jejas... I know he thinks about their future more than they think about it themselves.. what they're going to do, where they're going to be. I can't think of anyone else who puts in so much effort to make everyone happy.

What's strange to me is... why is it okay in Christianity or Buddhism to have disciples, but when a non-religious organization has people in that relationship, suddenly people think it's a cult? I just don't understand how there can be so, so much fear in people. I mean... what's the absolute worst that could happen? Death? I say there are many fates far worse than death. Like living without a dream... or watching your loved ones suffer. I have a deep, inherent love for all humanity. So I cannot watch anyone suffer. It's just too painful. That's why I throw myself into this work with such passion. I want to share the peace and hope and happiness and wholeness that I've found, at least starting with those who are interested in having it for themselves. Is that so bad? And the person who showed me how, the one who showed me the way, I call him my revered teacher. But that doesn't mean I don't have a mind of my own. It doesn't suddenly turn me into some brainwashed, victimized, pitiful creature.
Time and time again I'm struck by the realization that life is mostly difficulty and struggle and hardship, punctuated by occasional bouts of happiness. Hence. Life is suffering.

The other path...

It's the one Robert Frost spoke of.

The one the Flock was afraid to take but was embraced by Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

It's the new path, shown to us as Brain Education.

It's what Ilchi Lee has offered to all of humanity.

this is HSP Ranch

yay. this is my happy cloud.

it wasn't worth the effort..

"Seeing with your brain as opposed to just your physical eyes, is just one category. The kids also learn ways to make images/maps in their brain to help them remember what they read, they learn about their organs (stomach, liver, etc.) as well as their energy system, they learn how to overcome their obstacles and work with others, they learn how to be positive-- HSP and Brain Education include all the good stuff that I'm sure can be found in other programs and activities as well. But when I was in elementary school, I never learned about the different parts of my brain or what they did. I was never instilled with an awareness and sensitivity to my brain and how I could develop the ability to control the activity of my brain so that it would be easier for me to achieve what I wanted--better grades, a better relationship with my family and friends, an easier time learning a new sport... There was nothing in my school curriculum that taught me to believe in what my brain could do..."

So I started writing this post on that Boston Magazine website.. and then I decided not to post it. I think I've put some pretty substantial positive information, and I feel like at this point, it should be enough to convince rational people that Dahn Yoga is not some evil cult, that Ilchi Lee is truly a figure to be respected, etc. etc. Some of the posts that anti-Dahn people are putting up.. well. I can say they speak for themselves, so I don't think it would be worth the effort to keep putting up different posts and argue..

I think there's enough there now, especially with the information about KIBS having UN NGO status (consultative~!) that people who are rational will do their own investigation before making incorrect assumptions.

I just wish Ilchi Lee didn't have to deal with all this nonsense. There's already so much to do as it is...

article in Boston Magazine

There's this article...
I think it's in the September issue of Boston Magazine.
Anyway. I put a whole bunch of comments on it.
What can I say..?
There needs to be a fair debate, if a debate is really necessary.
I feel confident that given a fair chance, I could refute all the silly accusations... There was a link for this other freedom of mind website or something that had a study that was supposedly professional.. But when I looked it over, it didn't seem so "professional" at all.
The lady missed a lot of things.
People just have the wrong information about Ilchi Lee and Dahn Yoga and Brain Education...

Anyway. This is what I put:
Actually Ilchi Lee has co-written a book with a man designated as a national scientist in Korea.
He is the founder and president of the Korea Institute of Brain Science (KIBS), which received a unanimous vote to be designated as an NGO in Roster Consultative Status of the Economic and Social Council in the United Nations. The facts that support the positive impact of Brain Education are really overwhelming. The detention rate at a Native American reservation went down to 0% after the introduction of Brain Education classes.
DahnYoga, which uses Brain Education programs, simply helps people to use more than 5 to 10% of their brain’s potential. As I mentioned, the point is not to see with your eyes closed, but to use more of the brain. Those children also expand the capacity of their memory, enhance their imagination and creativity, and strengthen their physical bodies as well. It’s about learning to communicate with your own body and brain to become healthy, happy, and peaceful. People already know that there’s a lot you miss with just the five basic senses. And just like you can improve your sensitivity to anything with training (a dancer is more likely to be aware of her body than a trucker), with training, you can access parts of the brain that remain unused in most people.
Again, it is HSP – Heightened Sensory Perception. Anyone can do it, with the right training and practice. And actually, Ms. Clinton is not the only one who endorses Brain Education. 9 cities in the US have proclaimed a day in Ilchi Lee’s name. A Brain Education Week was announced in New York. Brain Education already has and continues to make a real and positive difference in the lives of many people, young and old.
The children do not judge each other; I’ve found that, normally, the contestants of a competition do not judge each other. Anyway, I think I’ve made it clear that the main point is not seeing with your eyes closed (which takes a lot of effort, by the way. It’s not something you can’t control.) The children who practice HSP say that they feel much more confident, especially when it comes to their academic ability (they remember and understand more, and it makes studying easier), that they feel happy, and that they realize they have conscious control of their emotions, thoughts, and actions.

if only...

If I could just communicate clearly what I see and feel.. if I could just explain it so that people could understand.. I know they would be so deeply touched. I guess all I can do is try, with all my humble heart.

this morning

This morning K and I were visited by a pair of Jehovah's witnesses.

I didn't want to just say, Sorry, I'm busy, go away.

I asked one of them, the older lady, how she first decided to become a Jehovah's witness.
She explained that she used to be anti-religion, but then she married a pilot in the US air force and they had 3 sons. She was not too keen on having her sons whisked away from her by being drafted to fight, and her sister was a Jehovah's witness.

Before I stopped going to church, I cried because I was so thirsty for the Truth, to know why I was living here on Earth and what I was supposed to do, and how I could find true meaning in my life. One of my JDSNs at that time shared the story of why she was such a devout Christian: she told me about how, on her deathbed, her grandmother (whom she was quite attached to) made her promise to follow Jesus.

I don't have anything against Jehovah's witnesses or Christians. Obviously, different people are motivated by different things. But I think if you ask anyone for an honest answer, nobody will say they don't want to be healthy, happy, and peaceful. That's what Ilchi Lee focuses on-- creating health, happiness, and peace through maximizing use of the brain. Who would disagree with that? It's like wearing shoes or clothes, or even like eating. It's something everybody can agree on.

I simply don't see how religion can solve the problems of the Earth. It hasn't for a very, very long time now...

If people are really serious about saving our planet and saving humanity, we need to take a different route. And we don't have much time. I remember feeling as a child that the weather was becoming increasingly abnormal. I could feel it deep within my being. That there was something wrong with the Earth, and that it was being caused by people.

That's what I decided to focus my life on--on making it possible for everyone in the world to be healthy, happy, and peaceful by learning to manage their brains, and also by helping to elevate the level of consciousness so that we can preserve our natural environment.

on giving love

Every time I see Ilchi Lee give unconditional and universal love to each individual, I wish everyone could see it, too... how much he pours his heart to all people and all life...
Sometimes when I see him.. it makes me think of that scene at the end of Schindler's List, where Schindler takes off his ring and says, I could have saved one more person.. five more people. Well, I don't remember the exact line from the movie, but when I see Ilchi Lee, I see him trying to give energy to one more person, trying to awaken one more soul, I see that love and compassion so intense and profound that one look in his eyes makes you know you're seeing the Truth itself.

I hope that if you're going to spend time reading anything about Ilchi Lee, that you will give me a chance to try to share what I know about this great human being who gives everything to actualize Love for Humanity and Love for the Earth.