Dahn Hak – Pseudoscience

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Lee’s group claims that it’s here to “save the world” through “energy” and “healing.” This is supposedly done by “sharing love with the world.” Lee, not about to ignore one of the tired old favorite canards of the mystics — that humans only use 10% of their brains — says:

I say “find the 90%!” I mean take control of the 90% of your brain that you are still not using. The aim of the development of our brain lies in the installation of Peace. Enlightenment has no meaning if it does not contribute to peace, health and happiness. So where does enlightenment occur? It occurs in our brain. I was struggling to find that answer for twenty years, and the result is Brain Respiration and HSP.

(”HSP” is “Heightened Somato-Sensory Perception,” in case you’re not up on the latest claptrap.)

The “Ilchi Center for Brain Research” sells products such as necklaces and bracelets that they say “help energy flow,” a $90 “power brain,” and a “portable brain energizer” in the form of a spongy, yellow lump that vibrates and fits in one’s palm. Lee preaches that at first, he just “transfers cosmic energy to people.” New students have “aura pictures” taken, and they get an “energy checkup” before their “individualized training plan” is created for them. And, Lee has established “Peaceology for Earth Humans,” all a part of the huggy, lovey, vague, dreamy, and juvenile atmosphere in which the na�ve and desperate become so easily trapped and submerged.

Lee claims that his center studies the brain, “Brain Respiration,” and HSP “in conjunction with the Korea Brain Research Institute, University of California, Harvard Medical Department, and Cornell Medical Department.” Frankly, I doubt that claim. Perhaps some readers may care to ask Harvard and Cornell if they are associated with Lee? It appears that he did lecture for the Harvard school of Divinity, but that does not indicate any “association” of Harvard with his eccentric notions. On his website, we read that the University of California at Irvine’s Center for Brain Aging and Dementia is specifically studying his methodology. Not so, says the director there, Dr. Carl Cotman: “We do not endorse him. At all.”

This is another of those Moonie-like schemes in which “students’” are encouraged to leave their families and work for only room and board, proselytizing others constantly and worshipping their guru. Many of the victims awaken before they drown in this syrup of nonsense-and-hype, but those who don’t either drop out or suicide, grow older and poorer by the day — both financially and emotionally. But it’s safe from government interference; that veteran of scam Reverend Moon is living proof of this country’s protection and support of such quackery. - Source: A New Moon, James Randi newsletter, Nov. 19, 2004

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Dahn Hak | Ilchi Lee | Seung Heun Lee – Introduction
Dahn Hak – Cult or not?

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