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The World Of The Living Dead
Now is the generation of zombie films. Since 1968 with George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead,’ the concept of ‘zombies’ started to be known to the world. Then, like a trend, many movies based on zombies have been produced. ‘Zombie’ is originally referred to corpses that have been revived with a magical method by a bocor in the American West Indies. However, the word has a contradicting meaning of ‘the living dead.’ Their consciousness is obviously dead but they wander around as if their body is living. Even though they are fictional characters, how they have been created would definitely reflect our lifestyle. The modern people are unaware of where we came from and where we go, and blindly follow others and live as a slave of the society system. When watching zombie films, we sometimes feel sorry for chasing zombies at the back rather than the main characters being chased. This is probably because we saw how we are living in the modern time from the chasing zombies. The reason why zombie films are popular would be also because it implicitly has such an ironic meaning. Wouldn’t the world be already the world of the living dead?
When giving a deeper thought about ‘a dead state of the consciousness,’ it should not be viewed lightly. Since we think that the body that we regard ‘living’ is ‘moving around,’ we believe that we are ‘living.’ But could we actually express the organic body as ‘living’ if its spirit is not really ‘living’? Let’s imagine that one has dead state of brain that is responsible for thinking even though the body is living. Then, can we really say the one as ‘living state’? In other words, if our brain and consciousness are filled only with rubbish that is not the real ‘living soul,’ would that consciousness really be the real one? Zombies walk and run as if their bodies are alive but their spirit within are empty – dead. Our body without true soul and spirit are not much different from zombies. How scary the reality is.
We would not regard a zombie as a living individual. Like in the same way, if our soul and spirit are not living, we cannot say that we are ‘living’ at the moment. Moreover, let’s suppose that the body that we mistakenly think living even vanishes. If the body dies after its lifespan and burns in fire, then the existence of ‘me’ would not remain at all. We are not different at all from zombies executed and burnt in fire.
If you think you have soul, please take a close look upon yourself. If your consciousness is formed of the life experiences that you have had and your self-centered thoughts, that is not real soul. They are nothing more than illusions when seen from the viewpoint of the world. However, one, who has the consciousness that is the mind of the world itself, would remain as the true soul and spirit even after one’s body dies and vanishes. This is because the mind of the world itself is the never-changing and everlasting existence. If there is not a true soul within you right at this moment, you are also a zombie, a living dead. If you have ever felt yourself as a zombie or if you want to know a meaning of the true soul, I would like to recommend you to encounter with the Great Master Woo Myung’s definition of soul.
The True Meaning Of The Soul And Spirit
We are told that we each have a soul that remains after we die, and many people believe this to be true.
The Creator of the infinite Universe consists of the Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit. This existence is the basic element of the Universe’s origin and all things are the children of this Soul and Spirit. The land of Energy and Light, or the original land of the Creator, is a place where all creations in the world have been saved as Energy and Light, but only man is dead because he has not become one with this Energy and Light. When man discards falseness and becomes Truth, namely when he becomes this Energy and Light itself, the Universe will become complete. There is no one who can live without becoming resurrected as the Soul and Spirit which is Truth itself. All things that exist, the trees, mountains, water and creations, are Truth’s Soul and Spirit and they have also all been born in heaven. But man is dead; he is trapped inside a grave that is his self because of his sins.
If one cannot unite with the Soul and Spirit which is Truth, he is on his way to hell and death. Hell is a place that does not exist; like a dream, it is an illusion. Living in an illusion is hell.
If man is compared to an onion, what remains when all layers of an onion have been peeled? The Universe will remain. The Universe must then be reborn as the onion.
Man is wrapped in thousands of times more layers of “self ” than the layers of an onion. When he sheds all the layers of his delusional self that is wrapped around his mind, the Soul and Spirit of the Universe – Truth – remains. If this Soul and Spirit of the great Universe then becomes his self, his individual self becomes complete. He has a Soul and Spirit of Truth so he lives forever in the land of Truth.
What is believed to be man’s soul is one’s false self that has tens of thousands times more layers than an onion. This soul is not a true soul, so it is dead.
Whether one lives or dies depends on him becoming Truth.
We must all live, as the Soul and Spirit, the Energy and Light, of Truth.
From “Heaven’s Formula For Saving The World” by Woo Myung
