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Ilchi Lee’s Brain Art Festival a Success

On August 15, 2009, Ilchi Lee shared his vision of new values, a new culture, and a new world with almost 4,000 people at Radio City Music Hall. Through his Brain Art Festival, hosted by the International Brain Education Association (IBREA) and the Korea Institute of Brain Science (KIBS), of which Lee is president, Ilchi Lee showed people that the potential of their brain is limitless. Since our brains create our problems, but our solutions as well, the potential of our society and our world is also limitless. Through our brains we can create an ideal world in which people work harmoniously together to benefit all.

At the festival, Ilchi Lee showed the audience how they can tap into their brain’s potential with Brain Wave Vibration. He lead them in a Brain Wave Vibration training, demonstrating a new way to do it to music composed by Arang Park specially for this event. The music incorporated a sound recording of the blood flow in Ilchi Lee’s brain during deep meditation.

You can watch a recap of this thought-provoking and thrilling event in this video:

HT meditation

Ultimately, meditation is simply self-watching from a different aspect of consciousness—a way of becoming selfless. This you can do while washing dishes, walking the dog, mowing the lawn, or making a meal. In fact, preparing a meal with love is a wonderful meditation.

HT meditation focuses on being here now. It means being fully present in this moment. It means being aware of everything that is or is not going on in this moment. The present is not tomorrow nor is it yesterday. There is nothing present except exactly what is occurring right now.

After attaining awareness of this moment, meditation further entails separating ourselves from that. It constitutes observing yourself and looking at the moment you are living and saying, “This is not me. This is mine. I created this, but I am not this. I am the creator of it and the watcher of it, but I am not that which is being watched.”

This is knowing who you really are, and it is the aim and the result of HT meditation. It is the brain’s experience of “breathing deeply.” From a neural perspective, I believe that meditation is an expansion of consciousness to the unconscious realm. This means that consciousness escapes the exclusive domain of knowledge and the five senses, and that it penetrates the boundanes between the neocortex (responsible for higher thinking) and limbic system (responsible for emotions) in the brain. Ultimately, I believe it is possible to unlock and become one with the unconscious mind with full awareness. I have experienced this subjectively, and I hope one day that neuroscientists can explain it objectively.