Spirit. Younjeong Kwak
Dedicated to the last awakened one
to widely benefit humanity.
Prologue
After Unknown built a large frame, I examined the temporal changes of humans in my second book, Human. Humankind has changed over time along with reincarnation, ties, and age. Then, my third book, Spirit, considers the spatial changes of the soul. Trapped in the human body, the soul can cultivate knowledge and words that can change the world and people. The place where it stays without a body is called the fourth-dimension. As it reincarnates, the physical environment tells its talents and duty. It is called a physical constitution or Sa-sang constitution. Since the spirit is immaterial, it grows to experience spatial changes within a body and creates energy to enrich the universe.
When I have dinner with my friend or family in a fancy restaurant, I often think about how many people’s efforts are put into this table. Until this food was served on my table, it was made through the hands of a huge number of people, such as farmers, fishermen, livestock farmers, potters, fabric designers, architects, servers, and chefs, etc. People intend to pursue productive lives for the fellows of this age or futures to be better than now.
If so, what have I produced or what will I produce? Until the 30s, we should learn and experience many things by trial or error, so the term production does not fit well. But from the late 30s, some people begin to bring their products. Anyway, in the 40s, I start to think about whether I am contributing to society or whether I am creating something new for future generations. In the meantime, if just consuming a lot of people’s efforts and produce nothing, I definitely owe them and society by doing nothing.
Fruitful life here includes all those who take part in producing materials and immaterial as well. If there is something I have realized through my mistakes or failures, bringing it to the world could be productive because it may reduce the likelihood that other people suffer from similar mistakes. Our small foot-prints can come together to become those of giants that can change the future.
December 1st, 2020
Younjeong Kwak
Daehanminkuk
1. Knowledge
People have actively shared knowledge in the world on the internet since 2000. In the past, some information was blocked to the public due to many reasons. However, we are now able to acquire any knowledge which was only allowed for authorities. It signifies that our soul had been growing in the numerous reincarnations with the development of knowledge and civilization. So, it is aware that the fear or awe of the sun or nature a long time ago results from ignorance.
In 21C, people can hold the mass of knowledge if they want. It is as if a star has a gravitational force after collecting the surrounding dust and matters. When people are filled with knowledge and experience enough, their own logic and the discernment criteria are developed by itself. As a result, people tend to shut people out because of different thoughts. And they even close their minds and eventually stay alone. However, if the density is added to the mass of knowledge, they are going to have energy. Right thoughts and truth will raise density. Only with this kind of energy, wisdom, can those help others and nature to reconnect one another informatively.
For many years, mankind has led a life, storing up knowledge. The knowledge has evolved in the sacrifices of many. For example, Marie Curie (1867-1934), a pioneer in radioactivity research and discovering radium and polonium and Nobel Prize in Physics, suffered from radiation exposure. Her physiological function was even stopped and she died at 66. A Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), cut his ear from a mental disorder and had tried to commit pistol suicide. Despite suffering from extreme mental anxiety, he left behind excellent works of art. Besides, many writers, scientists, artists, politicians, philosophers, and scholars have devoted their lives and left a piece of sublime knowledge behind. In spite of that, any information can be found with great ease if we are googling.
Knowledge is important energy that can be produced only when the soul has a body. This knowledge gathered little by little and became the encyclopedic information of the present. It has made a huge contribution to the development of technology and culture and has helped people think more mature. Therefore, we must remember that the knowledge we are learning in school and with literature is not just for one person’s pride and arrogance, but for a better life for all future generations. Hence, we must humbly take and use it well.
2. Words
A human being consists of soul and body. The body is made of material to need nutrition to live every day. That is, food is the main factor for the body to maintain vigor and vitality. So, people want to spend money on organic food. However, if nutrition is deficient or too much, the body is going to suffer. It means no matter how great food it is, if you eat too much, it should not be good for your health eventually.
On the other hand, learning something is the act of providing nutrients to your soul. That is why people have tried to absorb knowledge for a long time. When we learn something new, our soul becomes bright and lively. Even once we realize something new, it could be way more delightful. The spirit never gets tired of acquiring knowledge in any much. There is one more thing to feed the soul, which is a talk. A well-communicated dialogue revitalizes the souls of both speakers and listeners. Positive and pleasant conversation makes the soul to be fulfilled. Some words encourage people who are timid and low self-esteem to be able to hang out with people outside. Conversely, it is sure that some words could lead them to kill themselves.
How words affect people can be explained by the principle of quantum mechanics. Quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction. Quantum mechanics has still been controversial since Mac Planck (1858-1947) suggested a quantum theory. It largely differs from classic physics in three ways: quantization, wave-particle duality, and the uncertainty principle. Simply put, quantization is to convert classical fields into operators acting on the quantum state of the field theory. And there are two kinds of processes in quantum mechanics: stationary and transitional. The transitional processes are similar to the dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda, 緣起法) in Buddhism. Given its initial condition, prediction of its final condition is possible depending on what cause applies. Let’s assume that a layman is the initial state and Buddha is the result. Depending on what kind of driving force or an effort he made, which could be research, practice, or good deed, the consequence would be probabilistic. That is, there could be probabilistic possibilities that the initial state changes into the result like the equation of Ervin Schrödinger (1887-1961).
Furthermore, wave-particle duality explains that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave. An atom or a light can briefly be a wave or a particle, depending on the observer. And in the uncertainty principle devised by Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), the uncertainty relation between position and momentum arises. Words are the energy produced in the human spirit. It emits different energy by the amount of knowledge and maturity of the speaker. Physically, the vocal cords resonate, and the sound wave vibrates the eardrum of the other person through the air and is transmitted to the cerebrum through the auditory nerve. It takes about 1/500 seconds.
Depending on the listener’s attitude, this wavelength can be absorbed or change into particles. These particles can stimulate hormones or trigger chemical reactions in the body such as headache, inflammation, or indigestion. If this kind of stimulus is repeated for a long period, it is transformed into cancer which could threaten life. But if the listener is unable to embrace bad words and then spits out bad languages to the other person again, the same process is repeated. After exchanging bad words, they eventually beat each other up. However, the one who can absorb any harsh word with waves will not turn it into violence. Thus, what energy of words is produced is related to the maturity of the speaker, but processing the energy of the spoken word is related to the ability of the listener.
To sum up, the energy of words acts in a transitional process. So, the kinetic energy of a speech constantly changes depending on the speaker’s status, maturity, and amount of knowledge. Besides, the listener’s attitude affects it to be either particle