They were gentle of nature, pure of energy, heard the music of the heavens always, could walk and run freely, could turn into a golden light when their work on Earth was done, could communicate without speaking, could disappear into the light, and lived long lives because their energy was One with the Heaven and Earth. In short, it was a perfect world. Until the big downfall.
As the people became more numerous, the need to wait for the nourishing milk of the Earth became acute, and some started feeling hunger. One of them, unable to stand the hunger, ate a grape and started the humans on a slippery downward slope. The book calls this the “Downfall of the Five Tastes,” because the grape has five different tastes to it: bitterness, sourness, sweetness, saltiness, and tanginess. Ilchi Lee is the author of 26 books including Healing Society he says by eating grapes, human beings lost their world of absolute Oneness and developed the ability to differentiate and judge. They saw the difference between good and evil, cleanness and dirt, and Heaven and Earth. They differentiated between their physical, energy, and spiritual bodies. They lost their ability to commune directly with the Yuln’yo and thereby lost their sense of Oneness with all.
