[Amount of sleep previous night: 9.5 solid hours]

Yep, so on the night of 1/25 - 1/26 we got a solid 9.5 hours of sleep. I asked Michael later how rested he felt after waking up from that (on a 0 > 5 scale) and he said 6. I felt about the same.

We were pretty much so exhausted from the previous night of broken up sleep that this huge block of sleep came to us quite naturally. We went to bed at 10pm that night and woke at 7:30am. We remembered also about our morning ritual that we are putting together where we try to recall a list of 7 aspects, which are the interpretations of the aspects of learning. 

These are: Dance, Rhythm, Music, Affinity, Path, Way of life, and Home-- which correspond to the 7 aspects of learning which are: War, Ritual, Magic, Alchemy, Condition, Religion, and Temple (garden). There are several more sets of seven aspects that intertwine pretty intricately and all these aspects add up to pretty much a way to view life. We also found a way to align them to specific scale tones!

More about this Inoqoa philosophy will be posted to  http://www.inoqoa.com/ soon. This is pretty much a placeholder site to hold the content of our ideas until we get someone who is willing to help us with the web design.

We did a lot of planning and strategizing today during the morning hours and we were discussing a simple definition for magic and I ended up making an attempt to prove magic in a geometrical proof kind of way. It was fascinating and I didn't quite finish that yet, because I took a tangent off into considering how language is pretty much the same thing as magic. I ended up spending a good chunk of time creating the following drawings:

It may be a bit difficult to tell what is going on here in these pictures, but in each picture, the small infinity symbols symbolize a word in any given language and how when you group them together in a system, that makes up a language. The upside-down power symbol looking character (half-circle with line through the opening) symbolizes power. Each language on their own have the power of communication when shared among people. (The people are represented here by the little brown pseudo-chinese markings for tree/forest). Also, note that each infinity symbol is contained by a dashed line, which is to indicate that words are containers that have certain properties, but cannot be limited because we know that people create new definitions for words all the time. Words are flexible.

The first picture is meant to show how limiting it can be to exist within just one power structure, that is to say-- to speak only one language. It does allow you access to your single island (or lily-pad, aka continent or culture) of people, but that's all. It's like considering your one culture to be the only culture. It can sometimes lead a person to think that there is only one way of thinking and that the only intelligent thoughts are those from ones own culture.

In the second picture, I pulled out a single person to represent how a multi-lingual person might exist and as you can see, it is a much more connected and beautiful existence that gives you access to more ways of thinking.

Anyway------- that was my little art project for the morning. Then we proceeded to strategize more about how to get Project Inoqoa off the ground.  We are currently juggling several moving pieces to figure out how they all work together and you can expect more and more things to come out into the public sphere soon.

We decided to take a walk outside around 4pm to catch the sun while it was out because the weather was really great and we really needed some fresh air and exercise because we had reduced our exercise regimen by a lot this past week because we were feeling so weak. But, after the walk, we came home and took a 1.5hr nap and then did some more work for a bit before woking out. We were able to do a few sets of chest flies, which was good. Just easing back into working out again.

MKC: Chest flies 
2x10 @ 15lbs. 
4 x 12 @ 25lbs, then 
1 x 21 @ 25lbs to finish.

YHY: Chest flies 
2x10 @15lbs

After being up for another 4 hours, we slept for another 4 hours. Interesting. We fell into a 4 hour wake, 4 hour sleep cycle. At that point, 8:30am, I tried to sleep more, but I couldn't. I was in bed till like 9:30am but I couldn't fall back asleep, so I got up. Michael slept till around 11am.

This gives him a total of 9 hours of sleep between 4:30pm and 11am of 1/26-1/27.

For me, I got 6.5 hours, which is pretty normal for me. I may supplement this later with a nap-- but I will leave those details for the next post.

A domani!
Yeon-Hee

***UPDATE - An Evolving Story and Vision***

In case any of you were wondering, I will be moving most of Michael and My Story to this page: <http://www.sonaesthetics.com/project-journey-to-inoqoa>

We plan to keep a detailed blog of our journey at the following link, and we also plan to film and produce a documentary about the power of healing through community, love & compassion, and inclusion as a path to healing our society as opposed to fear and shunning-- using our story as one example. Thank you Alisa Chanelle Dickinson for your interest in helping us make this a reality!

In this documentary, we will explain our vision to create a healing center-- this will be a place where those in need of help or are otherwise not well served by the system can go to be surrounded by support and healed. This will also potentially be a place that co-resides with a Montessori Education System so our children can be raised in a community of hope and healing. All-in-all, this is a place where we will collectively join together to be a kind of "Research & Development" place where we create a more grounded and respectful path for education, a loving and compassionate way to approach healing, and ultimately to create a new culture for future generations.

One or more funding campaigns will be coming soon, as we are very passionate about taking the responsibility to spearhead the world's deepest issues of money, power, food, water, healing, and working toward a better integrated and collaborative and inclusive world and we are looking to make connections with people and organizations who feel a similar passion.

When we are a little more prepared, we are planning to reach out to Chris Jordan (a local artist once featured on Ted Talks <http://www.ted.com/…/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_st…>) whom I've met before once at an annual SIETAR conference in 2009 (SIETAR: Society for Intercultural Training and Research). We also would like to reach out to Dr. Vladimir Khavinson who is on the leading edge of nano-medicine, and also Matthew Santos who is one of my favorite musicians (who I have already started roads in to collaborating with). And this is just the beginning.

Thank you for reading. And I am looking forward to building a collective vision for the future with you. Thank you for all your support.

With Deepest Love & Gratitude,
Yeon-Hee

*** UPDATE - Amazing progress!!***
Last night we were able to get the most restful night of sleep in the longest time. We were able to achieve a pretty solid 11 hours of sleep from 10:30pm-9:30am. Today we are working on creating a 'Life Mastery' type of system based on my "Sleep Mastery" system that created when I was exploring poly-phasic sleep a couple years ago. This reflective, observation-based system will help us build strong and healthy routines into our lives and once we 'perfect' the system, we plan to share this structure with the world.. perhaps by selling notebooks made of these sheets as a kind of training manual/journal to help people optimize their lives by connecting to their circadian rhythms, reflecting on the effects that foods and other substances have on our bodies and our energy during the day, and how to optimize healing at night.

There are some profoundly expansive projects that Michael and I have been working on for years that we are finally finding paths for. In order for us to achieve these goals and protect Michael from another bout of intense insomnia (seriously a life or death type thing we're talking about here), we need your prayer, thoughts, support, and collaboration from those of you that have talents you would like to share as support. [[specifically, we are currently looking for someone skilled in web-design and videography.. so if you are skilled in this way and would like to be on the inner-circle of the next big social movement based around Honor, Humility, Patience, Prudence, Kindness, Integrity, and Trust, please feel free to contact me. In terms of web-design, we have some very basic web structure figured out, but we could really use some help with this. If you're interested, contact me and I'll give you a link to the sites, which are pretty bare bones right now.. and we should talk. :P]].

In order for our projects to come to fruition, we are working on creating an online presence for our projects and starting a funding campaign to make things move forward. This is a pretty ambitious world vision and social movement that we will be sharing about sometime in the near future probably on indiegogo. We will also be posting more videos soon so you can track michael's progress to recovery.

This journey has been a great tribulation (so far), and you may be feeling this too because in truth, we are all interconnected. Like, just this week, at least 6 people we know have injured themselves or become sick-- perhaps you too, but I'm confident that the fog is lifting now. And I would like to offer this as a message of hope and healing for all of you out there who are suffering with us. You are not alone.

I hope that this victory that we are feeling over what would have been a potentially life-shattering/life-ending situation brings you hope because these past couple days have been nothing short of a miracle. Being able to heal someone with love, compassion, and community instead of with institution and forced medication is something we usually only see in movies. But this is real-- and all of you reading this post right now have been a real part of saving a life. I thank you all from the deepest core part of my heart for helping me and michael through this difficult time.

Michael is a completely changed person and sees things in a much brighter and more beautiful way. He is a completely changed person like a phoenix born from the ashes, and he is shining brighter than ever before. Let's rise and shine together.

Much Love,
Yeon-Hee

"My fifth bout of severe insomnia struck last week and this is video footage from the morning after the first night of getting normal sleep. I found myself facing death once again by fasting from sleep and from food, but instead of dying, I rose from the ashes like a phoenix, reborn. I didn't know if I would fall asleep forever that night; I didn't know if I would rise to the sun forever and find myself in a waking death.


After my friends helped guide me through meditation to return to my bed and sleep with intention, I fell asleep for the first full night in a week. As I had awoken, this was my experience. This was an incredible journey, but it took nearly every last drop of vitality my body had in order to come back to this planet in a search for its original soul."

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This video was taken the first morning after getting a normal amount of sleep. Playfully waking and inviting all to come and visit us at 12567. :)

*** UPDATE - some decent sleep achieved!!! ***

Hi everyone,
Just wanted to give you an update.

We were finally able to get Michael to sleep for about 8.5hours last night! This is a huge improvement! It was a bit broken up, but still around 8.5hrs. We got him to sleep I think around 10pm and he slept till 4am when I woke and then he continued to sleep till 6:30. As for me, I must have joined him in sleep at around 11.30pm and slept till ~4am, so I got 4.5hrs last night, but I've been doing ok since I've been averaging 4-5hrs per night lately anyhow. In the past, I have engaged in some pretty calculated poly-phasic sleep patterns before that I usually manage with 20-minute naps, single cycle 90-min naps, and now breathing and mindfulness meditation. Food is a different story, but I am surviving.

I am so grateful to all of you for all your love and support. It gives me the strength I need to stay strong for Michael and all his friends and family and of course for myself. I am also so grateful that the pieces in my life are flexible enough to make time to be here for Michael. Like, besides trying to start up my music studio (www.gofundme.com/yeonhee) I am just working a flexible part-time job at Cinquegranelli Montessori as administrative assistant where my boss is very understanding of my situation. Gail Longo, is such a sweet, patient, and kind woman. I took Michael with me to work the other day and she gave us 6 hours of her time and engaged in such honest, meaningful, and difficult conversation with us. I am so humbled to be able to work with this wonderful woman.

Today, Michael has been much more coherent. He seems pretty much back to normal, but more open to talking with other people in the cute way he talks with me.. which is really just preserving beauty and staying true to the innocent soul and not putting on some kind of ego face just to be macho or something. We have to realize that we all have different social identities when it comes to how we talk with our friends, our family, strangers, lovers, etc. and that's how we relate to eachother. And by speaking a little differently sometimes, this is just him in his truest form where he wants to connect with others in a beautiful honest way. When we're alone-- Michael and I share some vastly varied English dialects. We go from pseduo-Asian, to Russian, to Indian, to where-ever pretty seamlessly and that's just a way that we connect. I mean, we are constructing a new language after all and so we are opening ourselves up to all the sounds of the world (trying to reach back to infancy, when we all had access to all the world's sounds) and for me, having studied linguistics and learned several languages, it's a pretty interesting way to explore language and meaning and heart.

I will be having him keep a journal and take pictures and videos of him so he can look to see that he is real and to help ground him. He has asked me to post some of these things to share with you all. So, some of that will be coming soon so you can see inside his heart.

He also welcomes visits from friends, because really-- that's what he wants the most. Real community. And love, which we define as shared vulnerability. He is sharing his vulnerability with you all now, and this is our opportunity to share in vulnerability back and respond with compassion and understanding instead of fear and shunning.

If you want to visit, just give me a text and I'll let you know if we're home.

Also, i think in the future something we will be doing is having open movie nights (open to everyone) at our home where we gather to watch a film very intentionally with the purpose of having discussion about the film (or show) after watching it-- to discuss the message of what we intake and the social implications.. because so many people mindlessly watch and intake ideas and concepts without realizing what affect they have on our perception of reality. Films, music, advertisements, etc.

Much Love,
Yeon-Hee

*** IT'S GETTING WORSE ***

Circumstances were that we couldnt go to swedish because they dont take walk-ins and the next appt is in march. i called a local shaman and she says that in this case he needs to even out a bit before doing shamanic work. We would like to take him to fairfax in kirkland, but i was told that they need a referral from psychiatry to take him in.. so i'm trying to figure that out. it's already past 8pm, so i dont know where to take him and i feel like ER is a bad idea. I think he could benefit from visits from people though.

Please, if you are in the area, can make it to Haller Lake area or have a free moment tonight.. please feel free to drop by and say hello.
Our address is 12567 Densmore Ave N. We live right next to the Haller Lake Community Club.

He likes gifts of spring water like crystal geyser, or there's also this water from iceland that you can get from rite-aid that comes in a square bottle that has really good pH balance that he likes. cant remember the name. He loves scandinavia and i think he'd love gifts of water or haribo gummy bears (extra juicy kind). Please feel free to stop by anytime.. even if it's just to leave a small token of love or flowers or what-ever on our doorstep.

One of our finest is hurting and reaching out for love and compassion. He needs good energy and grounding. We as a village must help save our people together. We may end up taking him somewhere, but this is our homebase. Thank you all again for your love and support.