SOOM CIVILIZATION

What Is SOOM Civilization?

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WHAT IS BREATH?

What Is Breath?

Breath is the clearest sign that we are alive. We take our first breath the moment we are born, and we end our lives with a final breath out.

Breath is not simply the act of drawing air in and letting it out. It is the most fundamental force that connects body and mind, links people with nature, and restores the rhythm of life.

When the breath changes, the body changes, the mind changes, and the direction of life shifts as well.

That is why breath is the beginning of all life, and the starting point of all change.

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WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?

What Is Civilization?

Civilization is the way people live together.

It is the shared system that shapes what we learn, how we work, what we hold as valuable, and what kind of future we build.

Civilization is not built by technology alone. People's thoughts, culture, education, philosophy, and the values of life come together to form a civilization.

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WHAT IS SOOM CIVILIZATION?

What Is SOOM Civilization?

SOOM Civilization is a new civilization of life that revives people through breath, and transforms the world through people.

For a long time, humanity has built a dazzling civilization through material and technological progress.

Yet along the way, the rhythm of life has weakened, body and mind have grown weary, and the bond between people and nature has drifted ever further apart.

SOOM Civilization began as an effort to restore the foundations of life that this age has lost.

Breath is the beginning of all life. We take our first breath at birth, and we live with breath until the very last moment of life.

When the breath changes, the body changes;
when the body changes, the mind changes;
when the mind changes, life changes.

And the change in one person transforms families and societies,
and goes on to shape a new civilization.

SOOM Civilization is not about a single breathing technique.

It is a civilizational project that transforms education, transforms health, connects science and culture, and reunites people and nature, tradition and future, within a single principle of life.

Through breath, we hope to awaken human vitality; through people, to transform the world; and through the world, to build together the civilization of the next thousand years.

SOOM Civilization goes beyond the health of one person; it is a new beginning of a civilization of life that considers the future of humanity and the Earth together.

VISION

From breath, civilization
begins anew.

SOOM Civilization believes that one person's deep breath can change that person's life, and that this change can carry forward into families and societies, and into the future of humanity and the Earth. The future we envision is not a civilization that possesses more, but one that lives more deeply.

MISSION

What We Do

The mission of SOOM Civilization is to restore the vitality humanity has lost.

We unfold the wisdom of the 9,800-year lineage of the Way through today's language and science, education and technology, culture and systems, building a framework for a civilization of life that anyone can learn, anyone can practice, and anyone can verify.

To keep the depth of the metaphysical, and to bring it into the world through practical, tangible methods — this is the way of SOOM Civilization.

CORE VALUES

Core Values

01 · UNITY IN HARMONY

Ilhwa Tongil 一和統一

The spirit by which different beings come together in harmony as one, without losing who each of them is.

02 · FIVE VIRTUES

The Five Virtues 五道德

  • Wisdom (智)
  • Courtesy (禮)
  • Benevolence (仁)
  • Righteousness (義)
  • Trust (信)

Five virtues of life to be established within each human being.

03 · SIX BONDS

The Six Bonds 六倫

  • Sincerity (誠心)
  • Reverence for Heaven (敬天)
  • Loyalty to One's Country (忠國)
  • Devotion to Parents (孝親)
  • Harmony with Others (親和)
  • Truthfulness (眞實)

Six practical ethics through which human beings relate to the world.

OUR DIRECTION

Our Direction

  1. SeedBooks
  2. StemSOOM Civilization Web
  3. FlowerSOOM9 app

    The SOOM9 app is the flower of SOOM Civilization — the first place where most people meet it.

    It is a practice platform where anyone can learn breath in the palm of their hand, check the state of their own vitality, and record and grow through their daily breath.

    The SOOM9 app is the closest doorway to bringing breath into daily life.

  4. FruitSchool of Soom

    The School of Soom is the fruit of SOOM Civilization.

    It is a place for nurturing people, where those who have learned and practiced breath grow into allies and guides, and in turn pass the seeds of life on to the world.

    The School of Soom is not a school that teaches but one that awakens; not a school of competition but a school of civilization where we grow together.

  5. New SeedThe Next Generation

The book series The Age of Breath is the seed of SOOM Civilization. The SOOM Civilization website is the stem. The SOOM9 app is the flower. The School of Soom is the fruit.

SOOM Civilization begins in philosophy, connects through the web, spreads through the app, and comes to fulfillment in people through the school.

Mind-blindness心盲: the age we leave behind
Mind-awakening心解: the age we enter

From Thought to Breath

  1. Civilization of Fire: A civilization that conquers and expands outwardCivilization of Breath: A civilization that awakens and restores the inner self
  2. Civilization of Fire: Values speed and scaleCivilization of Breath: A society balanced by depth and center
  3. Civilization of Fire: An age governed by toolsCivilization of Breath: An age governed by breath

The thinking human, 'Homo Sapiens'The breathing human, 'Homo Spiritus'

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Awareness Awareness

I know that I am breathing.

02

Breathing Breath

By tending the breath, I change the state of life.

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Resonance Resonance

My breath becomes our breath.

What SOOM Civilization is not.

  • It is not a religion.
  • It is not meditation.
  • It is not mysticism.
  • It is not self-hypnosis.

What SOOM Civilization is.

  • It is the recovery of abilities we already have.
  • It is measurable data.
  • It is a system anyone can follow.
  • It is a modern translation of the 9,800-year lineage of the Way.

“Breath is not something we learn;
it is the restoring
of what we had forgotten.”

When the breath changes,
life changes,
and the world changes.

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