INTRODUCTION
✨ In this essential teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals the true nature of the Soul and Spirit—not as the traditional, vague idea of something that survives after death, but as the Energy and Light of the Creator that forms the origin of the infinite Universe. All creations—trees, mountains, water, and the entire world—are already Soul and Spirit, already Truth.
Only humans remain “dead” because they live trapped inside the grave of the self, bound by countless layers of delusion. By discarding this false self and becoming Energy and Light, a person becomes one with the Soul and Spirit of the Universe and gains eternal life in the land of Truth. Ultimately, we must live as the Soul and Spirit, the Energy and Light of Truth—this alone is life. 🌟
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
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.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn to shed the countless layers of the false self, unite with the Soul and Spirit of the Universe, and live eternally as Energy and Light, the very essence of Truth. 🌠
