In midst of the horror and confusion that last year’s terrorist attacks generated, I got to thinking a lot about the soul. From every corner of the world, I heard vitriolic diatribes against terrorists, calling them soulless devils. Soulless, are they? Although the loss of innocent lives cannot be excused by any means, were the terrorists really soulless? Or were they poor souls who were controlled by bad ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ in their brains?

Ilchi Lee wish that this world could actually be cleanly divided into good and evil, angels and devils. This way. all we would have to do is to vanquish the forces of evil once and for all. It would surely take sacrifice and courage, but once accomplished, it would be finished for all time. The world would be clean cut, and there would be no more of this confounding confusion about different points of view, justifications, and age-old cultural differences. The world would be black and white without any gray areas.