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According to Ilchi Lee’s vision, his ‘Earth Village’ in Kerikeri would serve as a hub to unite 100 million people or ‘Earth Citizens’, unshackled from any sense of nationality or geographic boundaries to bring about world peace.
On the first day of the festival, just before sundown on a late summer’s evening, the Earth Citizens stood together in a public park, holding wands to their belly buttons. It was 2017, and Kerikeri in the Far North had been chosen to hold the “First Annual Earth Citizens’ Peace Festival”. The stated aim of the festival: Triggering the greatest change in human history, ultimately bringing about world peace.