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Published and posted by Ilchi Lee writer of Healing Society

An old lady is killed for her Social Security check—beaten, raped, and smothered to death. A fourteen-year-old kid slits the throat of another fourteen-year-old for a vial of crack. A mother drowns her two little boys by locking them inside a car and driving the car into a lake. And you want to scream, “Why?”

Because we are still trying to figure out how to divide up the same bowl of rice? We still haven’t widened our sight enough to see the bowl itself. We are still stuck in this paradigm of competition that we’ve been living in since recorded history. We are searching for our self-worth through competition. When we win, we feel good about ourselves. When we lose, we feel bad. So, we want to win. At all costs. And the other people be damned. Because we want to win in this competition called life, we argue about the bowl of rice and go hungry as a result. That is how the world around us divides us up: in order to be anybody in this world, to feel good about yourself, to merely survive, you have to compete, and how can you tell who the winner is? The winner is the one with the most toys. The best houses, more cars, more women, more fame, more recognition, and more of everything.

Posted by: Prof Ilchi Lee

When we were spearing innocent and helpless babies in the name of God, do you think that He was truly happy? When hot blood was spilt, innards pulled out, babies’ heads dashed, and other unspeakable cruelties perpetrated in the name of God, do you think He was cheering on the sidelines for His team? How could religion, with such noble goals, deteriorate into something so evil.’ Because these things happened in the middle Ages, when our ancestors were ignorant savages?

Don’t think so. Are we doing any better now? With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and now the Information Revolution, our physical lives have certainly become more comfortable. We can fly to the other side of the Earth in a few hours, talk to someone over the Internet in real time, and have delicious meals after five minutes in a microwave oven. We can also destroy the world many upon many times over, kill more people than ever with a single blast, and irrevocably damage the ozone layer, rain forests, and oceans with our insatiable appetite for more. And in the midst of this plenty, we still can’t eradicate hunger, do without wars, prevent injustices, or solve any of the higher problems that have been plaguing humankind since the beginning of history.

Written by Prof Ilchi Lee

What about the differences between Catholics and Protestants? Christians and Jews? Blacks and whites? It is just a matter of different ways of eating the same bowl of rice.

Am I oversimplifying things? I wish I were. But in the greater scheme of things, our most dramatic and historical differences turn out to be the most trivial. But it is a triviality with brutal and tragic results. If we added up the numbers of human beings killed because of these differences, the zeros would fill this page. How about the cruelty? The Crusaders slitting the bellies of women and children alike in their religious fervor. The Catholic and Protestant mobs rounding up and forcing the Jews to kiss the hind end of the hogs in the middle of the town square before burning them to death. The Romans forcing the Christians into an arena to be brutalized and eaten alive by a pack of hungry lions in front of thousands of crazed spectators. The invading Japanese army cutting off the ears and noses of the residents of a Korean town for daring to put up a fight—a mound of earth where the cut-off ears and noses are buried sits in the middle of Tokyo today as a testament to human cruelty. Read articles by Ilchi Lee

Suggested by: Prof Ilchi

An exclusive milk diet for rapid gain of weight has been advocated by some nature cure practitioners. In the beginning of this mode of treatment, the patient should fast for three days on warm water and like juice so as to cleanse the system.

Thereafter, he should have a glass of milk every two hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. the first day, a glass every hour and half the next day, and a glass every hour the third day. Then the quantity of milk should be gradually increased so as to take a glass every half an hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. If such a quantity can be tolerated fairly comfortably.

Ilchi Lee Prof says that the milk should be fresh and unboiled, but may be slightly warmed, if desired. It should be sipped very slowly through a straw. The milk should be unpasteurised, if available.

Collected by: Ilchi Lee

Another effective remedy for obesity is an exclusive lemon juice diet. On the first day the patient should be given nothing but plenty of water. On the second day juice of three lemons mixed with equal amount of water should be given.

One lemon should be subsequently increased each day until the juice of 12 lemons is consumed per day. Then the number of lemons should be decreased in the same order until three lemons are taken in a day. The patient may feel weak and hungry the first two days, but afterwards the condition will stabilise itself.

Posted by: Ilchi Prof

One of the most effective home remedies for arteriosclerosis is the lemon peel.Lemon peel is believed to be one of the richest known sources of vitamin P. It strengthens the entire arterial system.

Shredded lemon peel may be added to soups and stews, or sprinkled over salads. To make a medicine, the peel of one or two lemons may be cut up finely, covered with warm water and allowed to stand for about 12 hours. A teaspoonful may be taken every three hours, or immediately before or after a meal. Read Ilchi Prof articles about health.