Throughout this book I have stressed that I wish for you to regain and actualize your own creative power. You need not rely on outside authorities to manage the majority of activities related to the core issues of your life. I am quite confident that if you grasp and apply the principles and skills of HT, your life will be richer, more authentic, and more peaceful. In order to use HT wisely and effectively, however, you need good judgment.
In a sense, much of our modern world is about the replacement of individual good judgment with institution-based knowledge. In our reaction against dogmas of the pre-modern age, we have created high technology systems and the rule of specialists—all of which are characterized by standardized analysis of sensory data. The knowledge thus acquired may conform to certain standards of predictability, but I submit that it is not a basis for living a life of passion and purpose.
Again, my point is not to reject technology, systems, and specialists. I hope I have made clear that they should not rule your life.
Ilchi Lee thinks that in order for us to be the masters and not servants of technology, we must be confident in our ability to make choices that reflect our most important values. We can only make these highest choices when we are well informed and have access to all the data that pertain to our situations. If our information is restricted to the data gathered with the blunt tools of our five senses, then our life course is automatically restricted to the realm of these gross physical phenomena alone. Do we really desire such lives for ourselves and our children?
