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Hu-gye (Back Ravine, 813): When you make a loose fist, the point is located at the end of the crease, the highest point and the junction of the red and white skin [Fig.8]

Yong-chun (Gushing Spring, KIi): Divide the main body of the foot into 3 equal parts. Yong-chun is one third the distance from the top of the toes, at the center of the sole.[Fig.9]

FACIAL PUFFINESS

Yin-reung-chun (Yin Mound Spring, SP9): Below the inner knee and the depression along the shin bone (tibia). Those who often wake up with a puffy face can practice moxibus-tion or acupressure on this point to make the puffmess disappear. This point is contmindicatedfor pregnant women. [Rg.io]

WRIST, ARM, OR SHOULDER PAIN

Yang-ji (Yan§ Pool, TH-4): Raise your hand upward to rind the crease on your wrist. The point is located at the depression formed in the middle of the crease.

Such was the grand story of the land Ilchi Lee was looking at for the first time in the searing heat of Sedona’s summer day. I was deeply impressed by the story of Lester Levenson and felt a close kinship. His suffering and fear, awakening and enlightenment seemed like they were my own. I was, however, most surprised to hear what he said just before he died: “Soon, an awakened soul from the East will come to use this land to awaken many other souls. I am simply the person who is preparing this land for his arrival.”

Although there was controversy surrounding the ownership of the land even while Lester Levenson was alive, he didn’t will it to anyone, not even his closest students. When I first went there on that fateful day, it had been two years since his passing and the ownership issue was headed to the courts with several different claims to the land by his numerous students.

As I looked at the expanse of land from a hilltop, I recalled what Lester Levenson’s soul had said to me a few hours before. He had said that he wanted me to use the land for my spiritual purposes. No matter how inspiring and Tight’ his message felt, however, there was no way this could happen in any realistic sense. “It’s all well and good to tell me to use this land, but it’s another thing for me to actually attempt to buy it. We simply do not have the financial wherewithal to afford this… and what if we do acquire it? It’s a huge piece of land in the middle of the Arizona desert.

For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand and advance to the point where our highest common identification is as Earth-Humans, first and foremost, before we pigeonhole ourselves into different national, ethnic, and religious categories. This advance in human consciousness can only be achieved through the human brain. This is why the human brain is so crucial in the peace equation.

Ilchi Lee talk about the importance of the Earth is certainly not new. Many people have worked very diligently to educate the rest of us about the dangers threatening the environment. To my eternal admiration and appreciation, they have spent their lives furthering the cause of the preservation of the Earth. Efforts are being made to publicize the importance of insuring sustainability of economic expansion by balancing the needs of human civilization with that of the ecosystem. However, I wish to talk about the Earth not as a network of constantly varying ecosystems, but as the root of our existence, the central standard bearer of our collective life values, and the source of all life that calls her home. I believe that it is just as crucial to feel the reality of the Earth, as it is to understand her disparate components on an intellectual level. Only then will our intellectual understanding gain power and be transformed into action.

Since I have never orbited the Earth, I have not seen the Earth in her entirety. However, I know that the Earth is absolutely stunning in her beauty, not because I have seen the photos taken from space, but because I know that she is the source and the root of all life, as we know it. How can she be anything less than beautiful? I eat, breathe, and live because the Earth so graciously allows me to.

I am not a geologist familiar with all the wonderful details of Earth’s make up, nor am I an ardent environmental activist courageous enough to block bulldozers from removing trees with my own body. However, I am deeply aware that I exist only because the Earth exists. I am also someone who has spent all of my adult life examining ways in which we may achieve world peace. I am doing my best to contribute to its realization. Above all else, I am someone who can feel the energy and soul of the Earth. I can feel the sadness and grief that the Earth feels as she watches her children destroy themselves along with her. I feel the Earth’s soul quiver, not with fear and anger at the destruction wrought by humanity, but with the concern and love that she holds for all of life, in her bosom. I write this book to share the soul of the Earth as I feel her everyday.

Ilchi Lee tells that I believe that the two most important focal points for all of humanity in the 21 st century are the Earth, and the human brain. The health of the Earth is the only standard that is all encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national boundaries that are rending the world asunder. This alone can bring humanity together under a common system of life values, while preserving the wonderful traditions of the various peoples of the world in their spectacular diversity. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth herself.

In Sedona Mago Garden, Ilchi Lee was also inspired to form the ‘World Earth-Human Alliance’, a non-profit cooperative networking organization for non-governmental organizations seeking to use the powers of innate human spirituality to heal our current divisions and create a lasting and equitable world peace.

Sedona Mago Garden is the land of the Mother Earth, providing an infinite source of creative inspiration. Anyone who sets foot here to gaze upon the rising and setting of the sun will feel the sacredness of the land. As twilight flows over the backdrop of the amazing beauty of the cliffs and mountains adorned with Sedona ruby red, you will surely experience the touch of the Earth’s soul, Mago. With each flower I plant and each tree I water here in Sedona Mago Garden, I feel myself intimately joined to the land as my heart beats in rhythm to the heart of the Earth. And here in Sedona Mago Garden, I work to realize my life long mission as an Earth-Human to help others feel the joy of the unbreakable bond that their souls share with Mago’s soul.

A slew of obstacles and difficulties lay in front us as we attempted to operate the retreat center, all the more so because we did not have an operational plan in place before purchasing the land. However, I experienced first hand, how the spiritual inspiration of the land was able to weave its magical destiny into reality.

In May of 1999, Ilchi Lee hosted a lecture-event called ‘Meeting with the Creator’ with Neale Donald Walsch, the worldwide best selling author of the Conversations with God books, which have been translated into 27 languages. I had received inspiration for this event while meditating in Sedona Mago Garden and had invited the world famous author to participate. He was fortuitously holding his own workshop at Sedona Mago Garden the same week. Several hundred people from both America and Korea attended, and I not only gained an invaluable friend in Neale, but also he offered to publish my book in the USA. The book, Healing Society, came out about a year and a half later and shot straight to the top of Amazon.corn’s overall sales ranking within a month of publication.

Neale and I confirmed in each other a mirror image of our spiritual vision and commitment to humanity. We have since co-established the ‘New Millennium Peace Foundation’ and hosted the ‘First Annual Humanity Conference’. World famous thinkers participated in the conference and drafted the first ever ‘Declaration of Humanity’, demonstrating agreement with and support for a worldwide spiritual-cultural movement for peace. This is discussed in greater detail in a later chapter.

A jolt of electricity went through me as every cell in my body responded to the call of the land with a cry equal in power and longing. “Is this what you truly want of me?” Just then, incredibly, a bolt of lightening struck only a few feet from where I was rooted, crackling with unseen heat as dry dirt spewed violently into the air. Shaken by the experience, I stumbled to the ground, on my knees in implicit submission, “I shall do what you ask…”

Yet, no matter how truthful or powerful a message is, one is nevertheless confronted with doubts and fear for the future, when the path, logically followed, appears to lead to certain failure and ruin. However, when the message comes from the source of life, then you have no choice but to accept it, however impossible it may seem at the time. There is no other option.

After many tribulations and complications, the purchase of the land was finally effected by a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage in furthering the cause of peace in the world through human consciousness raising projects-thus, Sedona Mago Garden was born after many months of labor pains.

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I was forced to reconsider my previous decision. Should I risk everything I had built up over the past 15 years to purchase a large piece of land in the middle of an enchantingly beautiful but foreboding desert, because of the power of the entreaties of a pure soul? All of my closest colleagues and students tried to dissuade me. In the following months, I visited the land several more times, always with the nagging and momentous question of, “Should I, or should I not?”

Then one day, I read in the local newspaper that the land of the late Lester Levenson would be put up for public auction to pay off the legal fees that had accrued as a result of the long legal conflict among his students over ownership of the land. Now, I was out of time. I had to buy the land or let it go forever. I decided to visit one last time before making a final decision.

As was the case with each previous visit, I was overwhelmed by the surrounding scenery and powerful energy of the land, while saddened by the gradual state of disrepair and neglect of the retreat center. As I once again walked up to Lester Levenson’s gravesite, the tall unkempt sea of wild grass greeted me with an undulating sway. A fierce wind blew, kicking the red dry dirt up in a swirl, almost as if the land itself was crying out for love and hope of a new incarnation. I stopped as I felt the heart of the land beating its own sadness. Suddenly a powerful tremor rumbled underneath my feet, accompanied by an inner voice that cried out resoundingly, “Will you truly forsake me?”

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Even Americans failed to operate this retreat center in the black… what can we as Koreans do? We don’t have any business foundation in America and we don’t even speak English well…” Such were my thoughts as Ilchi Lee considered the message I had received from the gentleman on Bell Rock, a combination of hope, doubt, and wry humor. “Although I know that Lester Levenson is a sincere soul, how can I be sure that his message is true? I wish that he had been more specific about the land and its possibility for future use… a map to a nearby buried treasure wouldn’t hurt, either.”

On that day, I had no choice but to turn back, and I decided to forget about the land. However, whenever I meditated, Lester Levenson’s soul would come to visit me, gazing at me in silence and with a certain longing. before disappearing. When I told him that it was not realistically possible for rne to take over his retreat center, he would just circle around and gaze at me with a look of sad hope. Soon he started to appear in my dreams, and I decided to go back once more to see the land where once a thriving retreat center had stood. Lost in my thoughts and the mesmerizing beauty of the land, I took a long, leisurely walk along its many trails. I encountered a small and neglected grave, seemingly lost among the wild desert grasses. The headstone indicated that here laid Lester Levenson. In a moment of piercing empathy, I felt the sweat and tears that he must have shed to create and fulfill his vision on this patch of Earth. I felt the overflowing love, the weariness and the loneliness.

When you keep yawning or your head is foggy, it is because the brain cells are not activated. If this condition remains, your concentration level drops, you lack motivation, and your consciousness becomes dim.

Then how do we revive this tired brain? First of all, the brain should be supplied with plenty of oxygen. And in order to supply plenty of oxygen, one’s blood circulation must be smooth. Most of us acknowledge that the heart should run smoothly in order to have smooth blood circulation, but we cannot operate the heart at will. However, we can move the feet at will. Therefore if we move and train the feet to help the operation of the heart, the whole body’s blood circulation gets smoother and the supply of oxygen gets better, and now we can maintain a healthy condition from head to toe.

According to Ilchi Lee research your brain records habits easily. Every time you repeat a particular action, your brain uses the same set of circuitry, and those connections become all the more solidly reinforced. In essence, it is more comfortable for the brain to keep your same old habits, whether they are good for you or not.