Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity
By Ilchi Lee
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Lee contends that while the cultures of the world may remain diverse, we are all united by our dependence on a single planet—the Earth. For this reason, he says, we must all find a way to place the Earth at the center of our personal value systems. It is only by realizing our common humanity through the Earth that we may come together as one to create a peaceful and sustainable way of life on the planet.
Ilchi Lee
Ilchi Lee is a respected educator, mentor, author, and trailblazer devoted to developing the awakened brain and teaching energy principles. For the past thirty years, Lee has dedicated his life to helping people become the authors of their lives by harnessing the creative power of the human brain. He has developed many mind-body training methods, including Dahn Yoga and Brain Education. Since his first visit to Sedona in the 1990s, Lee has shared the messages and spirit he has received from this special land. He is the founder of Sedona Mago Retreat, a place for spiritual awakening and holistic learning, located in the wilderness of Arizona’s red rock country. For more information, visit Ilchi.com.
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Earth Citizen - Ilchi Lee
Earth Citizen
Recovering Our Humanity
ILCHI LEE
6560 HIGHWAY 179, STE. 114
SEDONA, AZ 86351
WWW.BESTLIFEMEDIA.COM
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COPYRIGHT © 2009 BY ILCHI LEE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED OR
TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL,
INCLUDING PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING, OR BY ANY INFORMATION STORAGE OR
RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION: JULY 2009
ISBN: 978-1-935127-25-3
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however,
we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may
even be situated at great distances from one another, they are
only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
—J. Donald Walters
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: A Simple Proposal for Change
CHAPTER 1: A Big, Beautiful Blue Marble
CHAPTER 2: A Personal Search for Meaning
CHAPTER 3: The Persistent Power of Hope
CHAPTER 4: Earth Citizenship and Earth Management
CHAPTER 5: You Are Your BOS
CHAPTER 6: The Great Expanding Universe
APPENDIX I: Earth Citizens in Action : The One Dollar Enlightenment Project
APPENDIX II: International Brain Education Association (IBREA) Foundation
INTRODUCTION
A Simple Proposal for Change
People call this era the information age
for good reason. The world is chock-full of information, and new information is being generated faster than lightning.
If you want to find out what’s going wrong in the world, you’re in luck. All sorts of books, films, blogs, and other media can tell you all about the world’s problems. Pickup a newspaper or flip on the evening news, and you will be bombarded with information from innumerable experts telling you that the biosphere is crumbling, the economy is on thin ice, and our educational system is failing.
This little book is also about information, but it will tell you very little about the world’s problems, and it offers little in the way of facts, statistics, or academic expertise. I figure you already know enough about those. Rather, this book is about changing one very simple and basic piece of information about yourself—your citizenship status. Today there are hundreds of different labels of citizenship—American, Canadian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Zimbabwean, Brazilian, and so forth. However, I believe that there is really just one true classification of citizenship— Earth Citizen.
Of course, we can go on having our different governments, separate currencies, and distinct cultures, but these are of no lasting consequence if we cannot first acknowledge the most powerful entity ever known to humankind, the entity that governs the ebb and flow of life—planet Earth itself. Human beings need to acknowledge that their greatest allegiance should belong not to a human-designed government but to the power on which their very existence depends. People must identify themselves as Earth Citizens before any other designation of identity. Through this simple, painless shift in thinking about ourselves and one another, I believe we can make great changes in the world and its destiny.
I am a person who is not satisfied when I hear people resign themselves to the current human condition, chalking it all up to the inevitabilities of human nature.
I think that all of life, including humankind, is either growing and thriving, or declining and dying. To say Poverty will always exist
or War is just part of human existence
is to accept and contribute to the decline of humanity. Life is meant to push onward and upward, always evolving to a higher, more well-adapted form. So, too, humanity must evolve upward. To stagnate, to stay stuck in the quagmire of our current habits and beliefs, is to succumb to our own inertia.
That is why for many, many years I