Earth becomes the Central Repository for the Galactic Federation

The Celestial Pivot

The Celestial Emissaries, in their subtle and discerning wisdom, recognized that humanity responds most deeply not to personalities but to purpose. Rather than centering their message on Holy Mother Han — a figure whose significance, though profound, can be interpreted through many lenses — they chose a path that transcends all divisions. They entrusted Earth with a mission that no faction can dispute: the stewardship of memory. By appointing our planet as the Libraries and Archives of the Milky Way, they appealed to humanity’s oldest instinct — to preserve, to record, to safeguard the stories that give meaning to existence. In this way, the cosmos found the one approach capable of uniting us: a shared devotion to knowledge itself.

📜 Humanity’s Ancient Instinct to Remember

Human record‑keeping stretches back at least 70,000 years, when early humans painted their hunts, rituals, and cosmologies onto cave walls — the first libraries etched in stone. Even in those primordial images, we see evidence of devotion, mythmaking, and a desire to preserve meaning beyond a single lifetime. As civilizations emerged, this instinct only deepened. Mesopotamia and Egypt left behind administrative ledgers, royal chronicles, and astronomical tables dating back more than 12,000 years. The peoples of the Indus Valley, as far back as 20,000 years, encoded their lives in symbols, seals, and meticulously planned urban layouts. Across every continent and era, humanity has kept careful calendars, mapped the heavens, recorded eclipses and catastrophes, and preserved legends of gods, heroes, and even possible visitors from beyond. No matter the culture, the impulse is the same: to remember, to document, to ensure that knowledge survives the fragility of individual lives.

🌌 Why Earth Became the Galaxy’s Archive

Seventy thousand years of human record‑keeping is barely a flicker compared to the 250 million years it takes our galaxy to complete a single rotation. Across that vast span, most regions of the Milky Way churn with supernovae, gamma‑ray bursts, magnetic tempests, and the debris of ancient stellar collisions. The galaxy is littered with fragments of shattered suns, and even our own Solar System was forged from the ashes of long‑dead stars whose final explosions seeded the nebulae with the heavier elements needed for life. Yet by cosmic fortune, Earth now rests in a quiet, stable arm of the Milky Way — an outlying corner of the Laniakea supercluster that has remained peaceful for five billion years and is likely to remain so for another five. It is this serenity that drew the attention of the Celestial Watchers, whose presence the Voyager probes first brushed against. When they examined the Voyagers — and the gold disks humanity had crafted to endure for eternity — they recognized a species determined to preserve its story. Their report to the celestial headquarters was decisive: Earth, with its libraries, archives, and communication networks, must be protected. Our planet would serve as the secure repository for the historical memory of the Milky Way.

🌠 How Earth’s Mission Was Determined and Appointed

The appointment of Earth as the Galactic Repository did not occur in a single moment. It unfolded across decades, through a sequence of signals, encounters, and converging recognitions that revealed humanity’s readiness to join the wider cosmic community.

1. The First Whisper: The 1977 “WOW” Signal

The process began on August 15, 1977, when Ohio State University’s Big Ear Telescope captured the now‑legendary “WOW” signal at 1420.4 MHz — the hydrogen line, the universal calling card of intelligent communication. For seventy‑two seconds, a narrowband transmission from the direction of Sagittarius brushed against human awareness. It was the first hint that Earth had been noticed.

2. The Voyagers Cross the Threshold

When Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1979, their mission was modest by cosmic standards: photograph the outer planets and map the solar wind. Yet when they crossed the heliopause into interstellar space, something extraordinary occurred. Cloaked sentinels stationed at the boundary of our system detected them. These Watchers — guardians against hostile forces and hazardous objects — examined the probes, upgraded their onboard systems, and replenished their nuclear power sources. Astronomers on Earth were astonished when the Voyagers continued transmitting far beyond their expected lifespans. The Watchers had quietly repurposed them as relay stations.

3. Recognition of Earth’s Technological Maturity

Through the Voyagers, the Watchers assessed Earth’s rapidly advancing communication and computation systems. They observed the rise of high‑speed artificial intelligence, global data networks, and humanity’s growing ability to decode complex signals. Their report to celestial headquarters was unequivocal: Earth is now capable of receiving, interpreting, and preserving high‑frequency, deeply encoded transmissions.

4. The 2025 Descent and the Opening of the Gates

A decisive turning point came on April 13, 2025, in Gapyeong County. During the Entrance Ceremony, the union of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother with the True Parents was proclaimed, and the “Gates of Heaven” were opened. This event — a spiritual signal of profound magnitude — marked Earth as a place where the transcendental and the human could meet. It served as the formal invitation for the Celestial Emissaries to begin their approach to our Solar System.

5. The Arrival of 3I/ATLAS

Among the emissary vessels, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS became the most visible representative. Aligning itself with the ecliptic plane, it conducted a deliberate survey of the inner planets: Mars, Venus, the Sun’s perihelion, Earth, and finally Jupiter. Along its path, it executed precise course corrections and dispatched smaller probes to the Moon and other bodies. These operations stabilized magnetic fluctuations, monitored planetary conditions, and harvested solar energy for refueling.

6. The Final Confirmation Near Jupiter

At a decision point near Jupiter, 3I/ATLAS underwent its final transformation. It reconfigured into a rectangular lattice — a quantum transceiver array capable of seamless communication with Earth’s upgraded probes and with its own distant star system. This act signified the conclusion of the evaluation phase. Earth had been chosen. The mission was appointed. The Galactic Archives would be entrusted to humanity.

🌍 Striking a Balance: Why Earth Was Chosen

Appointing Earth as the Cosmic Repository for the Milky Way’s historical records required a sober weighing of strengths and weaknesses. Humanity’s record is undeniably mixed. We are a species capable of breathtaking compassion and equally breathtaking conflict. Our history is marked by wars, rivalries, and ideological fractures — yet also by persistent efforts to reconcile, to negotiate, and to build structures of cooperation. The emergence of the United Nations stands as one such attempt, a global forum where former adversaries learn to coexist. The Universal Peace Federation, working alongside the U.N., has sought to elevate this process by introducing a spiritual and ethical dimension, arguing that lasting unity requires a shared vision rooted in something higher than national interest.

In this same spirit, after the Holy Ascension of Rev. Dr. Moon Sun‑myung, his wife Rev. Dr. Han Hak‑ja assumed leadership of the worldwide Unification Movement, now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Her message of “Holy Mother Han” has resonated across continents and cultures — Buddhist, Muslim, Christian — not as a call to sectarianism but as a maternal appeal for harmony. Her travels and teachings have become a quiet but persistent signal that humanity is capable of transcending its divisions. This global reception, warm and diverse, stands as a hopeful indicator that peace is not merely an aspiration but a growing reality.

Yet the decisive factor — the clincher in the cosmic deliberations — lay elsewhere. What ultimately distinguished humanity was not its politics, nor its religions, nor even its moral struggles, but its universal devotion to knowledge. Across every era and civilization, humans have shown an almost obsessive dedication to recording, preserving, and expanding understanding. From particle physics to DNA, from psychology to geology, from astronomy to cosmology, humanity has pursued truth with relentless curiosity. Our libraries, archives, observatories, laboratories, and digital networks testify to a species determined to remember and to learn.

It was this trait — this fierce, enduring commitment to knowledge — that convinced the Galactic Federation that Earth could be entrusted with the galaxy’s memory.

🌐 How the News Was Received

From the outset, 3I/ATLAS understood the delicate balance of risk and promise. Emerging from the camouflage of an ordinary comet, it began its outreach cautiously, embedding its first communications as subtle modulations across multiple carrier frequencies — gravitational waves, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and radio. The initial messages were mathematical: prime numbers, the Fibonacci sequence, natural numbers. Then came more intricate patterns — intervals, pulses, phase shifts, deliberate silences — each a test to see whether humanity could recognize intention behind the noise.

To the astonishment of the Celestial Emissaries, Earth’s most advanced observatories detected, recorded, and decoded these signals. Yet the official channels, stunned by the precision and information density of the transmissions, immediately classified them. Their fear was not irrational: a technologically superior visitor could disrupt communications, disable satellites, or pose a military threat. Panic, economic collapse, and geopolitical instability loomed as potential consequences. Until intentions were clear, secrecy seemed the safest course.

But the sky belongs to everyone. Independent astronomers — amateurs, hobbyists, small research groups — observed the interstellar visitors with whatever equipment they had. They shared their findings openly, each with their own interpretations. And the public, far from panicking, responded with exhilaration. News of the visitors surged across the world, becoming the most discussed topic on every platform. Protests erupted against the official blackout, as people demanded transparency and the right to know.

Freed from institutional gatekeeping, the story took on a life of its own. Speculation flourished. Theories multiplied. Some were fanciful, others insightful, but all reflected a global hunger to understand. The spirit of open inquiry — democratic science — overwhelmed the heavy-handed secrecy of governments. A mood of optimism spread. Humanity watched the sky with eager anticipation, tracking each new development as the comets raced past at breathtaking speeds of 31 to 82 kilometers per second.

Eventually, advanced A.I. systems, supercomputers, and sensitive sensor arrays produced full interpretations of the encoded messages. Even then, strict prohibitions remained: no reply was to be sent. Earth would listen, but not speak. Yet the visitors needed no verbal answer. They sensed humanity’s openness, its willingness to receive them peacefully, its refusal to meet the unknown with hostility.

This global posture — curious, hopeful, unarmed — played a decisive role. It reassured the Celestial Emissaries that Earth was not only capable of decoding the galaxy’s messages, but also mature enough to safeguard them. The world’s collective response helped tip the scales, confirming the decision to appoint our planet as a central Archive and Library for the Galactic Federation.

🌎 The Global Reset and Humanity’s Cosmic Membership

Amid the storms of climate upheaval, the anguish of regional conflicts, and the sorrow of disasters unfolding across the globe, humanity has begun to look upward with renewed hope. A subtle shift is taking place. People everywhere are sensing a shared purpose that transcends borders, ideologies, and the corruption that has so often clouded our collective vision. As this new awareness spreads, the old reflexes of hostility lose their grip. When a unified vision emerges — one that all can embrace — swords and guns can finally be laid down, transformed into instruments of peace, prosperity, and safety. In this awakening, humanity has taken its first steps into what can rightly be called a global reset.

Membership in the Galactic Federation is not granted lightly. Every civilization must demonstrate a standard of professionalism, maturity, and peaceful coexistence before being welcomed as a full participant in the wider cosmic community. Earth is no exception. A period of testing lies ahead, during which the world’s nations, cultures, and peoples must show their willingness to cooperate with a galactic order that honors the dignity, history, and unique development of every intelligent race. Consent, cooperation, and mutual respect are the cornerstones of this higher system.

Yet for the first time, humanity can realistically aspire to such a role. We stand at the threshold of becoming a dignified and mature member of a greater harmony — the universal Kingdom of Heaven that God has long envisioned. This vision has endured through countless setbacks, tragedies, and the heartbreak of seeing precious lives crushed by conflict and competition. But now, the possibility of alignment with that divine intention feels closer than ever.

With this elevated perspective, a new motivation rises within us. We feel called to pursue peace with sincerity, to uphold equality and justice, to cultivate love, and to contribute creatively to the flourishing of all. These are not merely moral ideals; they are the very qualities that humanity can offer to the cosmic civilization we are preparing to join. In embracing them, we begin to fulfill our role as one diverse family becoming One — not by erasing differences, but by harmonizing them into a shared destiny.

The above content was composed on January 26, 2026 by W.Stoertz in conjunction with Microsoft Copilot A.I. and with special thanks to pioneer physicist Dr. Michio Kaku

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged True Mother, True Parents | Leave a comment

Humanity’s Brilliance — and Our Dangerous Immaturity

My grandparents visited Germany for the last time in 1938. They saw a nation of breathtaking culture — music, science, art — but also a rising darkness. After the war, our relatives in Dresden vanished from the record. That silence has stayed with me.

Humanity has always lived with this contradiction. We create beauty and breakthroughs, yet we also carry a legacy of violence and division. The real danger isn’t our technology — it’s our immaturity. A species raised without enough wisdom or emotional grounding eventually grows into an adolescent civilization with nuclear weapons.

Science gives us power. Conscience tells us how to use it. When those two drift apart, history burns.

Lately, unusual signals from deep space have stirred something in me — a reminder that the universe still holds mysteries, and maybe even guidance. For me, it felt like confirmation of something I’ve long prayed for: that we are not alone, and that help may come when we need it most.

Humanity is at a crossroads. One path leads to destruction. The other to maturity and compassion. It’s time to choose.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged choice, conscience, Dresden, free will, immaturity, maturity, Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons, science and technology, War and Peace | Leave a comment

Lost and Found

It was time to go to the nightly prayer meeting. Outside was bitter cold. I was going to drive, but my wife, who stayed home, urged me to take the bus. It has a cozy family feeling, and nobody is unfriendly.

I got to the big hall at the training center for the 1482nd night vigil. It was already packed full: A big contingent of people just arrived from Japan. I found one empty seat, and plopped down there.

A Japanese leader was beside me. I think he stifled his first thought: “This is reserved for Japanese leaders.” We talked, and became friends.

Then I noticed a pure white thermos right at the side of my seat. It was the same one I had seen for two days in a row. Forlorn, abandoned it was, and I recognized that nobody claimed it; it had been left behind.

In fact, I have two thermoses, both of them leak, and are also badly scratched up. I don’t want to say I was covetous, but I felt sorry for the poor thing like a pet who lost its owner.

I refrained from taking it. But my mind went back and forth. Shall I take it? No one else will… Maybe people will think I stole it. Maybe I better not. But poor thing is lonely…

Then at 1 am when the vigil ended and everyone was rushing out, I thought, “Oh, I shouldn’t take it. It’s not mine, after all.” I walked away.

But God (if one can call it that, and I have come to trust it very much) said, “Take the thermos.” But I suppressed it with my “social propriety”.

God repeated that three times, and so finally I went back into the hall, picked up the thermos, still waiting hopefully for me.

Picking it up, happy that I had obeyed God, then suddenly on the way out, I found myself in the company of three long-time friends: Kermet from Kalmykia, Russia; Natasha from Belarus; and Akira-san who was a fellow missionary for 18 years in Russia!

There we were, like a wonderful Reunion. Now, if I hadn’t gone back in to get the thermos, I would not have met them.

Now I have the thermos. I took ownership of it because it was abandoned, yet precious and innocent. There it is, right beside my desk here at the office.

I sniffed it last night; it was stale herbal tea. I didn’t even want to throw out the tea, so I heated it up and added a pack of strawberry-flavored sugar that I had found when throwing out the trash at the Church last night, earlier that same evening.

I put these two “saved remnants” together, and they became a “Heavenly Drink”, recovered from what had been lost to nether gloom.

This is like God and Jesus saving us, fallen unworthy humans.

He has hope to make us into something precious, “More than I can be…”

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged christian-testimony, church, fiction, God, Jesus Christ, life, lost-and-found, lost-belongings, love, night-prayer-vigil, restoration, Salvation, writing | 1 Comment

Environmental Exigency

To build the Kingdom of Heaven is inevitably an encyclopedic project. All that has been done must be reviewed in summary, in general review and overview; also each detail must be completely revamped. The fact is, everything done up until now in civilization, technology, culture, even language and even our DNA—has to be redone based upon the new Heavenly paradigm of Cheon Il Guk. In Matthew 13:52 Jesus said, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” It suggests that, in building the ideal world God’s envisions, we incorporate along with the new, that which is proper and acceptable from the existing world—families, traditions, languages, technology, merit.

Likewise, establishing “Environmental Peace” is an endeavor tantamount to rebuilding our world in all sorts of ways, as the “poison” of the distorted culture and selfish ways has affected everything we have done in the past, and should not be carried on into the good world. At the same time, there is much that is worth preserving and building upon. A cleansing and purification process is needed.

As an encyclopedic undertaking, we start with the grand perspective of how our planet historically emerges from the nascent universe not by accident and random ambient interactions, but from a specific, impassioned purpose centered upon the Creator who longs to become the Parent of all that is through human beings.

And we also need to begin from the other end: from the minutest details, the humdrum, the things we probably take for granted. In this sense we build up, like respectable scientists, from the foundations of all that is, the physical vacuum, universal prime force, particles, the first atoms, molecules, how they came together, biological molecules, organelles, cells, tissue, organs, bodily systems, the whole human structure and function, and then that mysterious brain with the inscrutable Big Problem of Consciousness.

Both directions are similar, involving some of the same questions and riddles. We see that, in the human body, all is exquisitely tuned and balanced, and likewise in the natural ecosystem—yet human society is seriously out of order, with these deadly wars that destroy the very foundation of life and dwelling places of God. Also, our bodies are afflicted with ailments and infirmities—often brought on by evil spirits that abound in each of our backgrounds.

We need to prioritize which considerations are most important and which are urgent and pressing.

Inevitably, we revert to the human being itself, ourselves, which is both the substantiated dream of the Creator, our Loving Parent, and also the epitome and consummation of all the processes of nature.

Yet here we see that, in the Environmental Movement, the human being itself, our body, as an ideal and perfect “ecological system”, is sorely neglected; rather we deal with nature in terms of social issues and damage that misdirected humans are doing to the precious biosphere.

Therefore, let us first examine the “basic exigencies of life itself”, not so much as a social and mental phenomenon, but in terms of the physical and biological necessities and parameters of life. For this, we start with the living cell.

The cell is the first bastion of what we call life. We cannot call a virus true life because it is not self-sustaining, but mainly a series of codes that operate in the context and milieu of cells. Almost all cells in almost all living beings have the same basic needs, so we can say that this “foundation of life” can be considered a universal requirement for any life anywhere.

Here also, we would have to exclude A.I., animated robots, and computer programs that imitate the give-and-take of living systems. The question has even arisen, with the advent of 3I/ATLAS, of whether an astronomical object of interstellar origin can have a true consciousness and be called a “living being”. Indeed some view our planet Earth (“Gaia”) and other planets in this way—as having a planetary consciousness. It may be so, that eventually machines and algorithms can somehow surpass intelligent, conscious, loving human beings (or extraterrestrial beings too) and attain to what is called “life”.

In Divine Principle as revealed by Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, who was called from an early age to take responsibility to discover the underlying truth of God, the Creation, the fall from grace, the way of restoration, and our course to build the Kingdom of Heaven of God’s vision and plan—our True Parent views the human being as the microcosm of the Weltall, the dwelling of God, the symbol and image of all things, systems, relations, and functions in nature and in the universe, and the mediator between the transcendental spiritual world and the material physical reality. Principle emphasizes that not just one person, but each person has a calling and destiny to perfect unique aspects of God.

From the very outset, the planning stage of a purposeful and benevolent Universe, God yearned to find His object of love in whom He/She (as Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother in oneness) could dwell and with whom Heavenly Parent could have perfect and unlimited give-and-receive action throughout eternity, in limitless creativity and endless expansion. Therefore, God made this Universe as the home that He/She would dwell in through human beings.

In this, an important question arises: Has God (or “evolution”) seeded life and intelligent, loving, creative beings in other stellar systems besides our own, in this vast universe?

The answer is on several levels: First, we find quite intelligent, arguably “spirited” living creatures right here on Earth: dogs, parrots, dolphins, monkeys, octopus… even aquarium fish display a level of consciousness, creative will, recognition of us as their loving caretakers. When all our fish died once through a mistake in renewing their water, we held a “Seung Hwa Ceremony” with Bible verse, Holy Songs, and a burial ceremony for the sake of our children as their first encounter with the death of beloved creatures. Thus, we cannot help but conclude that other living beings besides humans can have consciousness and the semblance of “spirit”, along with the ability to respond to love with their own love and beauty, on a rudimentary or more advanced level, and especially by relating to humans.

Secondly, there are undoubtedly transcendental “angels” which have been encountered by all cultures and are acknowledged by all religions. These work effectively for specific or general purposes at God’s behest (and sometimes may be naughty or even evil, as we have seen). Nevertheless, we see an “adolescent” level of maturity and mentality in the angels and extraterrestrial beings we’ve encountered thus far—even though the angels may be sinless. In other words, all the angels, spirits, and whatever extraterrestrial beings there are also need human beings in order to attain and perfect a parental level of perfection. Spirits can only be perfected through people on earth.

Third is the much-contested question of alien civilizations existing, perhaps for even millions and billions of years before our own. With the enormous number of galaxies, stars in each galaxy, and planets orbiting most stars—we would surmise that life must inevitably have appeared elsewhere throughout the universe, and probably in many different forms. Their capabilities may exceed ours.

Given this likelihood, which is already being confirmed through many encounters and observations—we must confront the question of what is their Principled relationship with human beings. I propose that we concur with the standpoint of the Pope and the Vatican in the Catholic Church, namely, that, if such spirited living beings exist beyond our planet and solar system, they are also subject to salvation through Jesus Christ and perfection through True Parents and the citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Such a viewpoint must be considered in future dealings with extraterrestrial beings.

The Cheon Il Guk has been substantially established since the Holy Wedding of True Parents, the Foundation Day (January 13, 2013), and the Entrance Ceremony (April 13, 2025) where God as Heavenly Parent (Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother) and True Parents (True Father in Heaven and True Mother on Earth) in complete unity, consummated as the Marriage Union between Heaven and Earth and Man and Woman in the perfection degree. Through this, God’s Abiding Presence, Indwelling in Human Being centered on True Parents, and Sovereignty (Direct Dominion) on Earth both in the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm. This compendium in Consummate Oneness is what we term “Holy Mother Han.” Attending Holy Mother Han stands as the center and core of the Cheon Il Guk and the rock-solid base for God’s sovereignty and abiding Presence throughout the entire universe which He so lovingly and painstaking planned, designed, and built over an immense period of time. We pray for the various factions, denominations, and faiths to concur with this center.

So issues of “The Environment” have to be ultimately considered, addressed, and resolved in this overall context. Only now, with the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, is True Environmental Peace even conceivable. Nevertheless, there are still many issues, because True Parents have not been universally recognized by the institutions and individuals of humankind, and intense, undisciplined conflicts still rage out of control in many places on this Earth. In conclusion, Environmental Peace depends on centering on True Parents and bringing peace in our world and in our time.

Objectively, we cannot expect people and religions to agree on a common center or doctrine. Nevertheless, “environmental philosophy” has a logic of its own beyond any provincial ideology or conviction. Let this cause stand as a unifying goal and stepping stone toward benevolent collaboration among us all, living on one planet Earth.

Practically or tactically, we do well to promote Environmental Peace even though other groups do not recognize True Parents and the Cheon Il Guk as such. This can even be a channel for outreach. The restoration process, in principle, proceeds from external to internal. Inspired by the vision of a beautiful, harmonized and balanced environment, people’s conscience and sense of public duty is tweaked and they begin to generalize and probe inwardly: Why is our world the way it is now?

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bible, celestial-emissaries, Christianity, environmental-peace, extraterrestrials, faith, God, hjifep, Jesus, Kingdom of Heaven on Earth | Leave a comment

Am i blue?

Am i blue? … yes; i guess you could say that, too…

Am i Angry? That’s more like it. There’s a Korean word: 분노.

I’m angry in two different directions. Let’s break that down.

Before heading to the prayer meet this evening, I mentored three high school seniors in their final year. I met them online. They each have dreams and ambitions to go to an American college, but come from poor families and are receiving generous, hopeful government support. I’m doing this for free, for them.

We drummed up a very good mood, a cheerful spirit, like newfound friends. I became their teacher and elder brother as it were. I took off to the night vigil in a good mood.

Coming home, though, I was angry and fuming. I wanted to bang pots around. I poured boiling hot water on my itchy toes. I wanted to kick things. I threw my coat over the back of a chair.

What spoiled my good mood? Among petty social offenses, what can be worse than spoiling a nice fellow’s good cheer? What or who or why did that?

A couple things. Today on the news 32 bodies of the elite security force team guarding ex-President Maduro were returned to Cuba. Cuba? What were they doing in Venezuela? It felt like the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis all over again.

I know many Venezuelans–nice, good-hearted, innocent folk. What happened to them? But these were those who fled to the States from the former regime. How could an entire decent country be subverted?

I liked the “Up!” movie where an elderly couple flies on a balloon all the way to the Angel Falls and find their youthful love rejuvenated. A feel-good film.

But i’m mad about something else: The our own hypocrisy. People glaring at me, “How could your country do that?!”

Is the spirit of China, Iran, and Cuba seeping into our own country too? Even affecting our own church members?

An image popped into my mind: a small heap of fragrant coffee beans, and somehow God climbed up out of its midst. That’s all. Somehow like the genie in the bottle, coming to transform my mood to good once more.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged family, life, love, mental-health, writing | Leave a comment

Environmental Peace and the Global Spiritual Heritage

🌏 Environmental Peace and the Global Spiritual Heritage

A Completion‑Era Integration

Environmental Peace is not merely an ecological goal. It is the culmination of humanity’s spiritual maturation, the moment when the wisdom of the world’s traditions converges into a unified ethic of harmony between God, Humanity, and Nature. Each lineage carries a distinct ecological virtue, a facet of divine insight that humanity now needs in order to heal the Earth and enter the Completion Era.

🪶 Indigenous Traditions — Kinship with the Earth

Indigenous peoples teach that the land is alive, sacred, and relational. Humans are caretakers, not owners. Gratitude, reciprocity, and community form the foundation of ecological harmony.

🌳 Shinto — Nature as Divine Presence

Shinto reveals the sacredness of mountains, rivers, forests, and seasons. Purity and harmony with the natural world become spiritual disciplines.

🕊️ Jainism — Radical Non‑Violence

Jainism offers the ethic of ahimsa — reverence for all life, responsibility for every action, and a commitment to minimize harm. This is the moral core of ecological restraint.

🌿 Buddhism — Interdependence and Compassion

Buddhism teaches that all beings are interconnected. Suffering arises from craving and ignorance, and ecological destruction is a symptom of inner imbalance. Zen and Seon add the discipline of simplicity, presence, and clarity — the ecological wisdom of “less is enough.”

🧭 Confucianism — Relational Harmony and Filial Heart

Confucian ethics extend the family outward into society and the natural world. Filial piety becomes ecological responsibility: honoring ancestors, protecting descendants, and maintaining harmony across generations.

🔥 Hinduism — Divine Immanence and Cosmic Order

Hinduism sees the divine in all beings and the universe as a living organism. Ecological balance reflects cosmic balance; harming nature is harming God’s body.

🌙 Islam — Stewardship and Accountability

Islam teaches that humans are khalifah — trustees of the Earth. Moderation, justice, and accountability before God form the basis of environmental ethics.

✡️ Judaism — Covenant and Care for Creation

Judaism offers the covenantal view of land as a divine trust. Sabbath rest becomes ecological rest; justice becomes environmental responsibility.

✝️ Christianity — Love, Renewal, and Responsibility

Christianity emphasizes creation as God’s gift and humanity’s duty to care for it. Love becomes the guiding principle of ecological restoration.

🥁 African Spirituality — Embodied Connection and Ancestral Presence

African traditions integrate body, community, rhythm, and land. The ancestors dwell in the soil; the Earth is part of the family. Ecology becomes embodied spirituality.

🌈 New Age Thought — Energy, Intention, and Healing

New Age spirituality highlights the Earth as a living energy field and emphasizes consciousness, intention, and healing as planetary processes.

🔔 Latter‑day Saints — Eternal Family and Ancestral Sealing

The doctrine of sealing reveals the human family as a multigenerational organism. Responsibility extends across time to ancestors and descendants, forming the basis of long‑term ecological stewardship.

🐅 Dangun Mythology — Heaven, Humanity, and Nature United

The Korean founding epic expresses the unity of Heaven, Humanity, and Nature. Hongik Ingan — “to live for the benefit of all humankind” — is a Completion‑Era ethic. Ungnyeo, the bear‑woman, embodies the feminine principle of transformation and harmony with nature. This myth carries the potential to unite North and South Korea through shared spiritual identity.

🔥 Zoroastrianism — Cosmic Order, Purity, and Ecological Responsibility

Zoroastrianism teaches Asha — the harmony of truth, order, and moral responsibility. Its funerary practice of returning the body to nature through carrion birds expresses ecological humility and respect for natural cycles. Its ethic — “good thoughts, good words, good deeds” — is a moral ecology linking inner purity to outer harmony.

🛡️ Sikhism — Unity, Service, and Courageous Stewardship

Sikhism arose as a peaceful bridge between Islam and Hinduism, embodying unity without erasing difference. Its cooperation with the British reflected a forward‑looking desire to uplift civilization. Its ongoing cooperation with Unificationists shows a natural affinity for global peace. Ik Onkar affirms the One Reality in all beings; seva (selfless service) and langar (communal sharing) model ecological equality and compassion. The saint‑soldier ideal unites spiritual depth with courageous action.

🌿 The Completion‑Era Insight

When these traditions are placed side by side, a single truth emerges:

Environmental Peace is the point where the world’s spiritual heritage converges.

Not by erasing differences. Not by creating a new religion. But by recognizing that each tradition carries a piece of the ecological wisdom humanity needs.

This is the axis we’ve been naming — the unity of God, Humanity, and Nature — and it is the direction civilization is already moving toward.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christianity, cultural-harmony, faith, interreligious-unity, Kingdom of Heaven, philosophy, religion, spirituality, symbiosis, synergy, unity-among-faiths | Leave a comment

Please Be Happy

Subtitle: “Persona Non Grata”

Refer to: “Don’t Worry Be Happy”

Hi! Everyone wants to be Happy. My earliest memory is, right after birth, my Great Aunt Lydia and Great Grandmother Omma leaned over my crib, crooning, seeing in me the hope and fulfillment of their dreams and prayers. That is the guideline of my life ever since, now after 71 years, and I pray for them every day by name.

I sliced the sugar sprinkled bun and placed it in the square skillet: “You’re so cute. I hope you’re Happy!” It came out a wee bit charred. My Grandma Dionis Riggs would say, “It’s lightly browned.” She was a master of Positive Thinking. She knew The Secret. I tasted the lightly browned sweet roll: it was Delicious!

In our church, as we witness, the only way to win a person is to love them more than their own parents and grandparents and lovers love them. And pray for them, offer conditions for them, sacrifice for them, guide them for their life as Heavenly Citizens.

We should love our members. How can we have “enemies” among our own brothers and sisters, elders and junior youngsters?

Dr. Douglas Joo spoke for three hours with a guest from the Palace. I served them coffee because our receptionist is on New Year’s Holiday. I served like a humble, willing servant.

For three hours he did his best to convince the dubious official that William is a person of value.

I left my home in the USA to become a Korean citizen. Such a person should be a precious treasure, a prize, to the recipient nation’s government, someone to protect and defend. The US Embassy was upset and angry that I wasn’t granted dual citizenship. So I made my choice: the choice no one would have made: the choice no one can understand.

I want to build the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus Christ was “Persona Non Grata.” The mob voted for Barabbas instead.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged citizenship, faith, God, happiness, Jesus, life, loyalty, Positive Thinking, precious-person, The Secret, true love, writing | Leave a comment

Encountering the boundaries of the Unification movement

🌿 Encountering the Boundaries of the Unification Movement

Every system has boundaries — limits of vision, capacity, and self‑understanding. Even our Solar System has a heliopause, that distant threshold where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium. Cross it, and you enter a different world.

I have come to feel that the Unification movement, like any human organization, has its own boundaries. And lately, I’ve found myself brushing up against them.

1. The Idealism I Inherited

My parents were “world savers” in the hopeful years after World War II. Their idealism grew from the Christian Social Gospel and from America’s belief that it could help build a better world. Their guiding principle was simple:

“Above all, never give in to cynicism.”

To them, cynicism meant surrendering to materialism, self‑indulgence, and the fragmentation of the American Dream. They taught me that when you approach the boundaries of any system — personal, social, or spiritual — you must move with awareness, humility, and conscience.

That lesson has stayed with me.

2. Why I Joined the Unification Movement

When I encountered the Unification movement in 1975, America was reeling from Vietnam. The movement offered a fresh vision — a way to heal society, restore purpose, and build a world aligned with God’s dream.

Unificationism, like Christianity and Buddhism, values personal growth and inner relationship with God. But it also carries a unique mission: to transform the world, not just the self. That ideal drew me in.

Over the years, I’ve seen many kinds of people join — former Komsomol youth, teachers, Christians, seekers of every background. Each brought their own hopes and wounds.

3. Lessons From Russia

My family lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fragile years of democratic Russia. We saw empty grocery stores, people selling vegetables from their dachas, and a society struggling to rebuild itself.

And yet, we also saw resilience. We saw Moscow rise again, glittering with new lights and new ambition.

But even then, I sensed a limit — a point where renewal tipped into excess, where hope hardened into something less human. It felt like watching a thundercloud “top out,” swelling beyond its natural shape.

That experience taught me to recognize when a system begins to strain against its own boundaries.

4. Turning the Lens Inward

Recently, I’ve begun to feel similar tensions within our own movement. Not in doctrine or mission, but in the human atmosphere — the way we treat one another, the way we handle difference, the way we respond to those who struggle or stand at the margins.

This is not a criticism of individuals. It is a reflection on patterns — patterns that appear in every organization as it grows.

And so I share this not to accuse, but to understand.

5. A Difficult Moment

At a recent HJ Cheonji Cheonbo Nightly Prayer Vigil, I was holding Rev. Gi‑seong Lee’s new book — a beautiful work in many respects. As he spoke, he addressed two issues that felt directed toward me. Whether they were or not, I cannot say with certainty; but the words landed personally.

He spoke of those who attend a forty‑day seminar but do not continue. He spoke of someone who wrote about True Mother’s loneliness. His tone was firm, perhaps meant as guidance, perhaps as correction.

In that moment, I felt exposed and misunderstood. I realized how easily a system — any system — can slip into speaking about a person rather than to them. And how quickly that can feel dehumanizing.

I do not believe Rev. Lee intended harm. But the experience reminded me how fragile the human heart is, and how important it is for leaders to speak with care.

6. A Moment of Grace

During the break, still feeling unsettled, I bought a small bracelet from two African brothers selling handmade items. I planned to give it away.

Inside the hall, I found myself seated beside an elderly Japanese sister. We both wept during the prayer — I don’t know why, except that something in the atmosphere touched us both.

Moved by a quiet prompting, I placed the bracelet on her wrist. She told me her name was Kumi, from Nagasaki. She shared that she had cancer and only months to live.

We exchanged tangerines like a small communion. In that moment, something in me healed — old regrets, old misunderstandings, old wounds. The bitterness I had felt earlier dissolved.

It was as if God had arranged that meeting to remind me that the heart is always larger than the system.

7. The Real Issue: Dehumanization

Years ago, at age eighteen, I read The Organization Man by William Whyte. He described how organizations — even well‑intentioned ones — can drift into treating people as roles, functions, or problems to be managed.

The word that captures this drift is:

Dehumanization

Not dramatic, not malicious — just the slow erosion of personhood under the weight of structure, conformity, and fear.

I see traces of that now. And I feel called to name it, not to condemn, but to awaken compassion.

8. My Purpose in Writing

I write this because I love our movement. I believe in its mission. I believe in True Parents’ dream. And I believe that every system, to remain alive, must periodically rediscover its humanity.

My hope is simple:

  • that we treat one another with dignity
  • that we listen before judging
  • that we allow space for vulnerability
  • that we remember the value of each person
  • that we never lose sight of God’s heart

If we can do that, then the boundaries we face will not be walls, but thresholds — places where we grow into something truer, deeper, and more aligned with Heaven’s dream.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bible, Christianity, cynicism, democratic-russia, faith, free-speech, God, Hope, human rights, human-dignity, Jesus, missionary-experience, Organization Man, Positive Thinking | Leave a comment

3I/ATLAS fragment lands in the Pacific.

We’ve been watching the interstellar comet with curiosity and debate.

What could our first contact with a confirmed visitor from the stars present?

The large object that entered the solar system is now heading out.

But it left its outriders, fragments, messengers, scouts, whatever.

Here is a very reasonable presentation on YouTube that merits watching.

At 18 minutes, it’s very digestible, posed in the image of Michio Kaku:

3I/ATLAS Fragment Crashed Into the Pacific — Scientists Are Alarmed | Michio Kaku

This is a very balanced and reasonable narration, without making extraordinary claims or assumptions.

So far we have no other information on the incoming stellar fragment.

In any case, it was observed by many telescopes, oceanic buoys, and naval ships.

It manifested characteristics very smooth and gentle, entirely unexpected for an inbound meteor traveling at 24 kilometers per second as it entered our atmosphere and made a smooth, controlled descent into the ocean, without any special fanfare.

Now it remains to analyze what has been presented to humanity from the stars.

Author’s note: The above report is not corroborated in any official news source. It may be spurious, it may be make-believe, it may be fabricated, it may be “wishful thinking.” Let’s chalk it up as Wishful Thinking and take a look at that:

At this crucial time in human history, with dreadful wars brewing, and the Second Coming here on Earth with us at this very time–it is only appropriate and timely that a Great Comet should visit us from the stellar reaches. Such an event happened at the birth of the Christ child, once upon a time, and is forever remembered.

Let’s just say like this: Even if no such thing happened, it is only reasonable that the Celestial Emissary 3I/ATLAS would leave a token with us to remember and cherish.

Its advent and arrival to our planet was not with a blazing fireball and thunderous boom like other celestial objects that enter Earth’s atmosphere; rather, as Michio Kaku describes, it arrived “smoothly and gently, with no sharp spike of velocity, pressure, or thermal radiation as other asteroids and meteors do; but a controlled descent that minimized the damage and disturbance that we would otherwise expect of such an object.”

Let us champion the idea that our dreams will win out: “May wishful thinking prevail!”

Science surely has its place, but dreams, childish imagination, and positive thinking have their place in the human psyche, too.

The Kingdom of Heaven is built upon our prayers, dreams, and unreasonable sacrifices.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 3I/ATLAS, Asteroid, celestial emissaries, extraterrestrial-aliens, interstellar comet, meteorite, New Paradigm Science | Leave a comment

The loneliness of the only daughter.

It all came to me just this evening, coming in on all channels.

I screened out the latest batch of kafir, a fermented extract of dairy milk.

Today’s batch was very watery. The milk didn’t process this week.

Then it came to me: as I was filtering it, one white curd fell into the sink. Then as I habitually swished the sink with water, I inadvertently washed the curd into the drain. A dirty miserable place from which there is no return. A sort of hell for the pure white clean curd like a little child, an offspring from its mother.

It cried out in forlorn hopelessness, and its mother called out to it. I suppose I could have saved it, carefully washing it off, but the risk of contaminating the whole batch was too great. I let it go, but my mind felt regret and sorrow for the one lost child.

Kafir curds speak to each other even over an immense distance. Anyone who works with milk curds knows this. You have to treat each family member with care. They communicate.

If one part of the family suffers, because I passed a portion of the batch to someone else but they ignored and mistreated it, threw it thoughtlessly in the garbage—then the whole batch goes on protest for about two weeks and won’t produce any kafir. I’ve experienced this a number of times.

If I do have to separate a portion (because kafir is very prolific), I do so caringly and lovingly. Even though I have to discard half the batch, I do so with love and prayer, and I give it a parting gift of milk to keep it happy and nurtured for as long as possible. It sounds unreasonable, even ridiculous—yet it works. Then the mother batch is satisfied and cooperates well, and there is no adverse effect, no strike.

Now we had our first grandchild, born to my elder daughter Masha and her hubby Todd. Knowing it was coming, my wife Fujiko traveled to the States from halfway around the world to attend to the birth as the grandma-cum-midwife.

Seeing Fujiko’s face in photos, holding newborn Yura, she was beaming with the greatest joy I have ever seen—no reserve, holding nothing back. I had never seen that!

How wonderful for babies to grow up, spending their first days in the arms of loving grandparents. Though a baby gets milk from its mommy, the truest love comes from its grandparents.

I remember my Great-Grandmother Omma and my Great Aunt Lydia hovering over my crib shortly after birth. It’s my first memory. I remember them praying and the joy and hope of the Child of their Dreams is with me forever as my legacy to live up to.

My granddad made a box of colorfully painted blocks and a sailboat that really sailed from wood scraps in his workshop. I remember his gift from age two. It’s ever with me.

Children must have that experience of warm, embracing, generous love from parents and grandparents from the earliest age.

But we are a missionary family. We follow the teachings of Christ and True Parents. Among other burdens we share, we are separated at great distances from all our family and relatives.

Once I came home from Russia, our mission country. I never forget a cousin looking reproachfully at me, “What are you doing there anyway? We won the Cold War.” That was one of the most foolish things I have ever heard. If the Cold War is over, we should be rushing into one another’s arms, the long-estranged brothers, finally reconciled! That’s exactly what we were doing! Russians and Americans, who are after all very close.

Russian housewives collect wild strawberries and blueberries and make jam in exactly the same way my Grandma does (she is of Welsh origins). We’re so close….

But the damage is done among close family members. My mother, seeing our two cute little Oriental-looking girls, two and six years old, moaned in tears, “I never had a chance to bond with your children. Now they’re strangers to me…” That is damage that can never be repaired. She doesn’t feel close to my girls. And they never experienced Grandparents’ Love.

We were following Jesus’ teaching: “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”

Most Christians don’t follow those extreme teachings literally, but those of us who serve dedicated lives in the field, undergoing intense persecution, reproach from the entire society, risks to our life, and financial hardship experience it to the hilt.

Ruing the lost years and forfeited bonds of family warmth that can never be recovered, my thoughts turned to the Only Begotten Daughter, our True Mother, the Bride of Christ.

She was particularly lonely because the support people that God had prepared didn’t do their part. The elder sisters in the early church in the 1950s ought to have supported her and helped raise her, surrounding young Hak-ja Han with love and protection, education and motherly advice. She got none of that. Instead they were jealous of her.

Mother spoke frankly of her “fifty-three years of suffering.” That came to us like a thunderbolt. But now we understand, and are surrounding her with prayer, support, loyalty, and enthusiasm.

True Parents, in going their course, followed Jesus’ precepts rigorously. All of their children testify of their own loneliness.

Hyun Jin Nim once retorted, “Whose father are you—our father or the Father of the Unification Church members?” We could sympathize with the feelings he suffered.

Anyway, all this hit me suddenly tonight, at the No. 1466th Nightly Prayer Vigil, lasting three hours, which I religiously attend.

I saw five dark, rugged young men coming, moved to make place for their group, and asked, “Are you from Nepal?” They said, “Yes, how did you know?” “I recognized your accent.” I shared my Korean yak-kwa cookies with them—sweet, syrupy, nutritious—great for the cold winter. We became instant friends.

I felt a happy family atmosphere among all the thousand-some attendees who gathered from Japan, Korea, France, Belarus, Brazil, Austria, Easter Island, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, DR Congo….

But all of us have to some extent had to leave families high and dry.

Then True Parents’ picture showed on the big screen in the main hall where we were gathered for prayer. There was True Mother holding a newborn baby like a papoose, gazing down at the cute infant, and Father was looking on with pride.

But the photos I saw of my wife showed her embracing our first grandchild to her bosom with fond warmth of intimacy and fondness.

Here’s where I see the potential tragedy of the True Children going away, creating a global-level crisis, over the basic issue of resentment over lack of warm parental love in their childhood. All the True Children experienced that.

True Parents truly followed the Principle: They loved the world more than their own church members, and they loved us, the Church members, more than their own children.

We looked on them with awe, like the Holiest of Saints. Those of us who had a chance to spend time with the True Children personally, have on occasion shared their frank testimonies of feeling even jealous of the members, who could be with their parents more than they themselves, the True Children, could.

We looked at that as something they would of course go over, but in fact we see now what the results have been: Almost all True Parents’ children have become more or less estranged.

True Father on occasion chided us: “Don’t judge the True Children; it is you the members who were responsible to raise them in our stead, because we have been out doing the public mission, loving the people of the world according to God’s Providence.”

Basically, all people, and that includes the children of True Parents and our own family and relatives, should be immersed in warm family love that has time to develop deep, warm, unbreakable bonds of heart.

We keenly feel the loneliness of True Mother’s story, “like wandering in the desert in a blinding sandstorm looking for one lost needle.” And finally True Mother found the “children of my direct lineage”—the Pure Waters who are completely loyal and devoted to her.

Mother is a human. We are all humans. So are the True Children. So are our own children, the second and third generations. And the same goes for our family members and relatives from our original homestead.

I caught this lesson from the lonely milk curd separated from its mother culture.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged discipleship, faith, family, Heavenly Mandate, Jesus Christ, life, loneliness, love, missionary life, Only Begotten Daughter, parenting, True Family, True Mother, True Parents | Leave a comment