The Importance of Shinboku (神木)

There is a word called “Chinju-no-mori(鎮守の森).” “Chin” means to becalm or a weight. “Ju” means care taking or protect. “Mori” is forest. With all the meanings combined, it implies that something precious is protected in a calm manner in the forest(=yashiro/shrine).

In the ancient Ko-Shinto, they wrote,「神社＝もり」so people would read Jinjya (shrine) as mori (forest). In the ancient days, shrines did not exist. People payed a visit to the forest and mountains. One part of the forest was segmented as kapu - a sacred ground. It was prohibited to step inside the area. And people sent offering of the gratitude energy.

One of the origin of a shimenawa(注連縄) comes from placing it in front of the kapu area in the forest. They put a rope to close the area. A forest without any human invasion is a space full of oxygen produced by the plants. By the energy of gratitude sent by humans reaching into this space, I could see both plant energy and the gratitude energy intertwining in a spiral form. This ki would reach and purify the local area that will influence the heart of the local people.

One of the origin of a Shinto priest (shinkan) is the person who stood inside a shack by the kapu rope. He was the keeper protecting the forest. Therefore, a shrine without a forest or many trees is not a true shrine. Without the trees, the divine energy cannot descend to the place. The trees in a shrine with divine energy descending, grows very well. In the country, we often come across a shrine with trees growing abundantly. You could tell whether the shrine is a good shrine or not by looking at the trees.

By protecting the forest with a kapu area, they were protecting the plants. At the shrines of today, each tree, a shinboku – sacred tree, in the shrine site represents a forest. Therefore, you must not touch the trees. When it is touched by many humans, the ki will be disturbed and it could block the divine energy to descend.

When there are kenzokus, the guardian spirits watching over the shrine, whoever touched the tree may get into trouble. The kenzokus will be angry at you. Sometimes they could be like the wasps and unmerciful.

At The Grand Shrine of Ise, I often see an oni demon kenzoku guarding the shinboku. I have catched them in my camera few times. They could punish you by breaking a bone. If you had touched or even worse hugged the shinboku, please apologize in your heart.

You could have your own shrine at home. The sakaki leaves and water would become the forest on your kamidana altar. Send your gratitude to the sakaki leaves and the water. Do have a sense of manner to wash your hands before you touch the sakaki.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Everything will return into Oneness

In India where Buddha was born, creating a grave was never a custom. Today, it is still the same. They cremate the body and flow it in the river, returning to the ocean.

Originally, all creatures came from the ocean and eventually evolved to live on land. So it’s a natural cycle to return to the ocean at the end of one’s life. The idea of running through a river returning to the ocean is much similar to the idea of Shintoism.

The place where Buddha was born never had a grave. But in Japan, Buddhist temples are full of graves. Buddha would not know any of the manners or rules we have in Japanese Buddhism. He wouldn’t know any of the sutras that are chanted.

If he is listening to the sutras that Japanese are chanting, he should be amazed of the meaningless sounds. All of the sutras were made few hundred years after his death.

It is scary when you think of this. The Japanese Buddhism has no spiritual foundation. They are sending the deceased back to heaven with a method Buddha has never heard of but in the name of Buddhism. It is natural to think that the deceased is not sent to heaven properly.

So before the Buddhism became popular in Japan, how did people take care of the deceased?

In Jōmon Period (apprx. 12000 yrs ago ~), I sense that people had a joint burial mound.

When people died, they inhumed the body in the ground in a location separated from the residential area. They would bury next to each other and once it had spread too far, they started to pile them on top of each other. It would look like a small hill.

I sense that this form of a small hill became the style of a tomb for the Imperial mound.

In the ancient days, people died and returned to the nature. Nature was God. So we returned to the nature and became a part of god.

The original idea of Shintoism was about being grateful for the great nature=god. Thus sending gratitude towards ancestral spirits came natural, considering the spirits returning to nature.
People gathered to send their gratitude to ancestral spirits at certain times of the year. And the timing was determined accordingly to the movement of the sun.

The modern Buddhist funeral ceremony in Japan seems to be overly expensive with too many unnecessary rituals. Disappointingly, the most important gratitude sending seems to be neglected. I sincerely wish that each sect would add some words that express gratitude towards the deceased. At the same time, I wish that the Buddhist priests would do their service only by donation.

It was a mistake that the Shinto gave the funeral ceremonial service to the Buddhist.

The idea of “kegare(穢れ)” made the Shintoist wanting to separate god and the dead apart. Since it was separated in the Jōmon Period, the righteous spirituality disappeared from Japan. Shintoists monopolized the Gods and turned it into a business as if they had the patent rights. Different sect would have each of their own norito having too much self-assertiveness. This kind of egoistic approach will never reach to the gods.

It is very important NOT to separate the gods and the deceased. Simply send gratitude to both of them. This ancient and original idea must revive.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Flying Tadpoles

From June 9th, comment from a reader:
There was a strange news on TV about tadpoles flying from the sky… what do you think of this?

Answer from Ise-Hakusun-Do-Ryman :

The professionals say it’s hard to think that the birds have anything to do with this. This was the first time anyone has seen this happen.

I deleted my comment to this reader’s question because the fact that this has to do with agrochemicals, I thought it might scare people and create anxiety.

I don’t know what the scientist would say but in my opinion the cause definitely comes from agrochemicals.

The tadpoles didn’t die from it, but the sensitive birds that tried to eat the contaminated creatures had thrown-up the tadpoles. That is what happened.

The rice and other vegetable fields are polluted by the agrochemicals. That's one of the reasons why I bought all my brown rice last year for the next 3 years. The agrochemicals are now 100% bought from foreign countries. They use much stronger chemicals than that of Japanese. The non-Japanese chemical may have been used for a while but the effect to the DNA, I sense it started from last year. The problem is that all the organically grown items are much expensive and many of us who are suffering from the recession will not be able to afford them.

So what is the solution?

My retainer god tells me to drink warm water. He tells me that as long as we drink lots of warm water, we will be fine. The point is that the water must be brought to a boil.

Use mineral water or filtered water and boil. Then let it cool down to apprx. 40℃.

I hope you find this information useful.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Gathering the White Stones

One of the most important event held during the sengu at The Grand Shrine of Ise is the Oshira-ishi-mochi-gyouji (お白石持行事).

The event is to bring the Oshira-ishi stones from the riverbed of Miyagawa of Ise city that is used to cover the sacred ground of the honden main shrine.

The stones hold the electro-magnetic energy of the gods. They are like a battery. So, it is a very important event that has a significant spiritual purpose.

The stones that are now at the sacred ground had been there for the last twenty years. I sense they are covered with spiritual filth and worn-out. Looking at these facts, I know that sengu is necessary in order to purify the whole place.

As mentioned in the past blog, in the ancient days, I sense that these “white stones” were brought all the way from Haku-san to Ise.

The area where Hakusan-chukyo-jinjya (白山中居神社) is located, has a another name, Itoshiro (石徹白). It can be translated as “gathering white stones”. I sense that they used to gather the white stones from Haku-san and transported to Ise passing through Itoshiro. They would check the location of the sun as they walk. This is the original archetype of Sun Worship.

The religious archetype of the ancient civilization existed on the top of Haku-san. The Three Stone Pillars stood there where God Spirits resided. It stood in a perfect triangle.

“Three Pillars” or “a triangle form” is a fundamental secret in all religions in the world.

I sense that the human race started from the area of Haku-san. Therefore, it is natural to think that the religious basis of all religion comes from this area.

When you look at the Three Pillars from the sky, it makes a perfect triangle. The Star of David, the symbol used in Judaism is made out of two of this triangle. Many temples or shrines in the world are secretly using three pillar methods in building the main part of its building.

In Japan, the torii gate at the Shinto shrines used to be made out of three poles in a triangular shape. There are still remains seen in different parts of Japan.

The woods used to build the new shrines for the sengu are cut off in a special manner. They call is Mitsuo-giri (三ツ尾伐り - photo of the ceremony:http://www.yoitokose.jp/ise/sengu/00003.php). Three shrine carpenters put their axes from three different sections to make a triangular end. This is a trace from the three pillar tradition.

The sacred mountain Haku-san - there lays a secret of the original human races. Adam and Eve is the same spirit as Izanami and Izanagi.

All Haku-san Shrines worship Izanami and Izanagi as the main gods.

The couple may well have lived around the area of Itoshiro…


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Divine Revelation on the Summer Solstice

Wrote : June 21st



Today is 夏至(geshi), the summer solstice. The longest daytime during one year, which means the sun is with us the longest. In Japanese Shinto, the supreme god is the Sun Goddess. Thus, this is one of the most important day.

The day of the summer solstice is when all of the Shinto shrines hold festivals to charge up the spiritual energy from the sun goddess, Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

Through out Japan, the shrine holds the Nagoshi-no-Ooharae (夏越の大祓), the grand purification of the summer. During this festival, a ceremony called Chinowa-kuguri (茅の輪潜り) is held. The ceremony is to pass several times through a large loop made out of kaya-kusa, sedges, and bamboos. The turn goes from left and then right and then left again making the shape of an eight, three times. By doing so, it is said to cleanse you from sins and epidemics, and clear away evil spirits.

This morning I chanted the Ooharae-no-kotoba (大祓詞). Just when I finished the chant, a divine message came through.

“ Unfortunately, a right turn fylfot (the opposite to 卍) has an image of an evil design because it was used by Hitler who was influenced by a Western mystic who told him to use this design as his logo. But for the World of Gods, both right turn and left turn fylfot is equally important. It has been used in many different ancient civilizations, and there are many traces throughout the world. It is a design to show one significant pattern of movement of divine energy."

The god tells me, thanks to all of you, "the vertical divine energy between Haku-san and Ise is now activated. For the past 1500 years, the yin energy of the left turn 卍had been dominant which made Japanese Buddhism prosper. From now on, the right turn fylfot, the yan energy will become dominant.”

Right now, the vertical line has appeared and it needs to grow the horizontal line to complete the fylfot shape. The key places for this shape to appear will be the Togakushi-Jinjya (戸隠神社), Kumano-Hongu-Taisha (熊野本宮大社) and Tamaoki-Jinjya (玉置神社).

From now on, when you are visiting a shrine, please make sure you are in silence and no thoughts in your head until you reach the main Honden shrine. An only send gratitiude. The kenzokus will be watching you. If you are not serious about this, you might experience some bad luck - unnecessary spiritual incidents may occur.

Once the fylfot is completed and start turning clockwise, the gate that is now hiding the Great Dragon god of Japan will be unlocked. When the Dragon is set free, all the people living in this dragon shape Japan will be awakened.

When my morning ritual was done, the sakaki leaves on the altar had blossomed. Just before the chant, the flowers where still a closed bud. The sakaki flowers are white and have five peddles. It looks like the Star of David. I felt this was a very good sign.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

We Can Save Our Planet

The Grand Purification from The Sun (wrote June 3rd,2009)


In the past, I wrote about the energy of the higher dimension transcribing to our World of Reality starting from June 2009.

As in relation to this matter, the sunspot has started to increase (http://swc.nict.go.jp/sunspot/) from June.

When the sunspot occurs, the electro-magnetic waves become stronger. Because of the decrease of the ozone layer, the amount of this electro-magnetic waves reaching to the ground of our planet becomes very strong. The other day, a beautiful rainbow color cloud was captured in Osaka. (see photo sent from our reader) This kind of phenomenon occurs when the electro-magnetic waves from the sun hits a cloud. When the sunspot continues to increase, we might even be able to witness an aurora in Japan.

The biggest problem is not the increase of the electro-magnetic waves that can be measured by today’s scientific technology. The biggest problem is the spiritual energy force that comes with the electro-magnetic waves. The last few days had been pretty strong. When you carry spiritual filth or dirt, it will be revealed. You might feel dull, headaches or dizziness. An unreasonable weak or poor physical condition starts to happen. And most of all, your heart may start to have a problem like what happened to the dinosaurs (use search engine for other pages on “dinosaur”).

In the past few days, I feel that many people have been feeling a difference in one’s heart. If you could check the data on patients at hospitals, I am sure you could find proof of it.

The electro-magnetic waves from the sun could also cause an earthquake. When the big earthquake hit China, the rainbow color cloud was also witnessed just before it happened.

I sense that when the electro-magnetic waves from the sun hits the underground water veins, a chemical reaction occurs to create a hydrogen explosion. The natural water veins are mobile so an explosion doesn’t occur. But where there is a huge dam, an artificial water tank that is connected to the underground water lines, this area might be a problem. The hydrogen explosion may create a diastrophism.

I would assume a military satellite could also create a strong enough electro-magnetic wave to cause this kind of natural disaster.

What we could do to protect ourselves from the spiritual energy waves from the sun are as followed:

1. Drink warm water as much as you can daily. (about 40℃) I drink about 2 to 5 L a day.

2. Take a small amount of natural salt daily with your meal.

3. Eat genmai (brown rice) and raw vegetable.

4. Send gratitude to your ancestors using three incenses. This will clear you filth and spiritual light can pass through without any pain and aches.

5. Maintain your own magnetic field to the original condition. (Don’t buy or pay anything to religious groups and healers.This will add filth to your original magnetic field .) It’s best to stand on you own.


This is the Ise-Hakusun-Do Way that I can suggest to you.

The power is in our human hands. We can make the natural disaster happen or not. It is up to us.

When 5% of the human population is awakened to the “sense of gratitude” towards the small daily matters, that energy will reach the Earth. And our planet will survive.

We all have small and large problems in our lives. It’s ok. Live through it. Our hearts are eternal.

We are only here to experience.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Don’t Be Amused by A Miraculous Act

There are many religious rituals, healing techniques, meditations and other esoteric works. These “non-daily unusual things” seem fascinating and one expects some kind of a miracle to happen. As expected, often when they start to practice these things, many of them experience a phenomenon they have never experienced before. And the experience becomes the proof that the practice is a real deal. But don’t be faulted by it!

Those “miraculous events” could be, in a way, discomforting or unusual. The sense of unusualness or discomfort is felt when it does not flow with your own innate god. Most of the religious rituals are actually nothing more than an “unusual experience”. The discomfort is felt because one is possessed by a spirit(s) other than yourself.

Once you experience the unusualness from the technique taught by a religious group, you are impressed and start to get into it. Most of the time, you cannot experience the same sensation that you had experienced the first time. So you think, you need to train and believe harder and go deeper and deeper into the ritual. When you continue to do so for decades, it seems like a never-ending journey. And the sense of relief and comfort never seems to come. By then, most likely, you have lost your family and other important things in your life.


The simple Ise-HakuSun-Do style of gratitude sending to ancestral spirits could be hard on those who have gone through many spiritual practices. It will release the filth from other spirits which could be a process that is physically unpleasant.

The simple “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu” “Thank you for letting us (me) live,” has a kotodama (vibrational energy of words) that will move Amaterasu-Ohomikami and Kunitokotachi-Ookami’s divine power to help you purify to return to your own innate god.

During this process, burping may happen or all of the sudden an old fear may rise. An old friend or an relative that passed away may come into your mind. As you continue the gratitude sending, those things will start to go away. What ever comes up, simply let it come up and let it go. The more you do it, your whole ancestral line will start to clear up. And then the process will become peaceful and easy.

With the righteous god, you will not feel any discomfort or unusualness. You will not experience any miracles. The higher vibrations from a righteous god are exquisite and subtle. In the level of a human being, one will not notice any changes.

The showing off kind of energy such as a miracle healing is done by a spirit with a lower vibrational energy closer to humans. That is why you can recognize the change. Please do not misunderstand. It is NEVER a righteous god.

The true righteous god’s work is hidden in the small daily matters.

Spiritually, the most important thing to do is to be grateful and satisfied with the normal, daily and usual life. Even in the hardships, your innate god is always with you.

A big comfort and peace will come to those who have come to a realization to this idea.

To join a religious group is an act to shut down your innate god. The more you become active with a religious group, the lower your spiritual level declines. Mysterious incantations or techniques that can be bought with money will be a disadvantage for you. Don’t be amused by the effect.

Even though you are doing the Gratitude Sending to Ancestral Spirits at the same time, your progress will be slowed down.

When you die, you die alone.
You don’t die with a group.

The best way to live a life is to become aware of the god within. The harder your life is, when you have overcome the hardships, the growth of your soul is heightened.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Don’t Abandon Yourself

Time is escalating even in other dimensions around this World of Reality. Before, when I peaked into the other dimensions, it seemed as if the time has stopped or paused. But now it is changing.

Until now, when you finish this dimension and experience death, you were pulled up to a dimension like a magnet to where you belong. According to your spiritual growth, each of us go to a different dimension. There, the condition of your heart is fixed and could not experience any growth. You were stuck with your emotion to where you ended this lifetime. And you were in that condition as a spirit for a long long time. When you realize that you have to change your condition to a better one, you decide to go back to the World of Reality as a human being. Taking all the risks of hardships, that was the only way to change and grow. But this is now changing. Time has start moving in other dimensions as well which means that growth and changes are occurring in other dimensions.

How would this effect on our lives?

It means that both good things and bad things will start to reflect on our lives much faster than before. At the same time, your own thoughts and condition of your heart space will reflect in your life much faster.

Your physical body will be affected as well. Both in good ways and bad ways, your condition will change quickly. For instance, if you had cancer, depending on your heart (emotional condition), it could quickly go away or worsen. It is a time, where things will change drastically.

The most important thing at this time is to “trust yourself” and to “take care of yourself.”

When you cannot trust yourself and depend on anything outside of you, it means you have abandoned yourself.

Believing in a god outside of self or going to a magical healer or so called “sensei” and depend on them means you have abandoned your own innate god. So called “sensei” who does magical healing works are 100% sent from evil spirits who are trying to make people abandon their own innate god. The healer themselves don’t even realize that they are used by the evil spirits. Those who have abandoned their own innate god will be abandoned by their own cells. Which means they will become ill.

Even you are in pain and suffering from a dicease, you should trust your own innate god. Together with your innate god, accept what ever comes into your life. If no hardships come, simple be very grateful to your innate god.

From now on, the god inside your heart space will influence your life in a pragmatic manner.

Your Innate God will never abandon you and will continue your journey together after death.

We are already in a safe place with god. Things happen in life only so you could come to realize this once again.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu
Thank you for letting us live

The Flow is Changing

When you are working in a company, sometimes we are scolded for unreasonable reason from our boss. At those times, I accept the scolding no matter what. I look in his eyes and express my acceptance. While my boss is scolding at me, if I try to interrupt him to explain my side of the story, his anger will become even worse. It’s better to wait until he finishes his talking and start to calm down after releasing most of his emotional up heave. Then I try to explain a little, making it short as possible. It’s not necessary to make him understand the whole of my side of the story. I think it’s better to show with my behavior and work results to make him understand whether I was right or not.

I don't get upset when I am scolded by my boss with an unreasonable reason. When someone does this to me, I usually think about that person’s daily life style. Instead of getting angry, I feel sorry for him. If he can get upset for such a small matter, his life must be full of stress.

In this world of reality, people tend to poise themselves. There is really no one to blame but yourself. You are the offender. It is not anybody else’s fault.

There are also people who are afraid of spirits. The more you are afraid the more spirits come to you. If you try to avoid the spirits and desire a better life just for yourself, that kind of energy will attract more spirits to come to you and try to possess your body. Selfish desires will also attract evil spirits.

If you only had a “giving” spirit, your life will start to turn into a better one. That is because only “good giving helping spirits” will come to support you. If you are running a business, as long as your goal is only to make more money, your attitude will reflect on the business deals and towards your employees. The customers will smell your selfish desire and start to fade away.
A religion is the same thing. The right religion is to make god happy, wanting to support the gods or send gratitude. If you have this kind of attitude, others will come to make you happy, support you and be thanked. There are way too many people asking for help and asking for wish come true.


It is now time for the righteous god to come out from the hidden darkness. The flow is going to change. The time for the righteous current is starting. So if you continue to do the old way, the old style religion, you might experience hardships.

Accept the present, be grateful and keep giving.
Keep this in mind when you are making a decision.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Go with the Flow

You are most powerful when you can accept the present situation and have the appreciation for what you already have. People tend to create a habit to look for something new. We tend to forget about what we already have. When you are single, you think you are lonely and wanting to have your own child. When you get married, you wish you had more freedom or look for another woman or a man other than your wife or husband while you should be taking care of your own life partner. This happens to almost everyone.

As long as you live in this World of Reality, you think about wanting something else than what you already have.

The energy force that keeps us dissatisfied and wanting more comes from the moon. But at the same time, because of this energy force we were able to develop a great civilization. The past few thousand years, the moon energy was in charge of ruling our planet. Though it is about to end.

Humanity is graduating the period of “development through dissatisfaction.” We have escalated to the max where we are about to destroy our own planet. It is now time to enter a new civilization period of “satisfied in the present moment” where the sun will become the ruler.

We are now living in a time where the work is shifting from the moon to the sun. We should follow the flow. If you don’t, it will only become a struggle. The moon energy had also created a belief that god is outside of you. If you follow that belief, you will have a hard time. You are trying to go against the current. It will be very difficult for us human to go against the energy force from a big planet.

It’s important to start training yourself to see the goodness even in the hardships and have an appreciation about it. This is the natural flow that goes with gravity from the orb. Whether you follow this natural order or not would make a big difference in your life.

The Law of Gratitude is the key to make your life go smoothly in the right direction. The vibrational energy from the orb will support you when you Go With The Flow.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Be Confident. Trust Yourself.

The Ultimate Creator who created all things does not exist far above the sky but lives in every man’s heart. And we live it by experiencing the Ki-Do-Ai-Raku(喜怒哀楽), the joy, anger, sorrow and happiness of life.

If you look for a god outside of your own heart, you will be separated from the true god. Often, because we are so close to god, we tend to neglect to see this fact.

The proper way to worship the gods is by sending gratitude toward them but still acknowledging the god within self at the same time.

In other words, acknowledge that you are led to live by all forces around you and send gratitude to the outside gods. This will help to awaken your own innate god.

The Ultimate Creator gave birth to everything. Do you think this creator wants anything from others? No need. The creator only gives. You carry a part of this creator’s force. Therefore you can allow yourself to be the same.

The Gods of Nature are also derivatives of the Ultimate Creator. Humans have the power to send energy by saying “Thank you” to the gods outside of self. This would be the right way to worship the gods.

Asking for wishes is not the right way of worship. It is a disgrace to your own innate creator. It will make your innate creator hide away. This is how your life starts to turn into a disastrous cycle. When your creator is mantled, your path will become uneasy.

So lets start today! Send your gratitude to your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, plants, animals, food, house, machine… all gods and spirits. This will lead to awaken your own Innate Creator.

Even if your life seems to look miserable, sick or poor, as long as you live, everyone carries a Creator within. (Unlike in other dimensions.)

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu
Thank you for letting us live

The Secret of the Roundtrip Visit

Haku-san Chukyo-Jinjya in Gifu Prefecture literally means Chu(中)= middle, inside, Kyo(居)= placed, shrine of Haku-san. The shrine resides at the very bottom of Haku-san.

Originally, there were nine gods in nine small hokora(祠) shrine on the trail of Haku-san. Therefore, this shrine is where the nine gods come together. This shrine is the true Haku-san “Kukuri-hime” Shrine. (Kukuri-hime= the hidden secret of “binding”) It is very rare to see a hokora(for Amaterasu-Ohomikami at the Haku-san shrines.

The honden(main shrine) is placed facing Ise. In the ancient times, there was a system in the Gods’ World to bind Ise and Haku-san. The river that runs through the shrine is the spiritual source of the Kuzuryu-gawa (九頭竜川= nine headed dragon river).


Taicho-daishi had witnessed a giant dragon at the Midori-no-ike lake on the top of Haku-san. The lore tells that the true identity of this giant dragon is the Eleven-Headed Kuan-Yin (means=the completed sound). Actually, in my opinion, it is the other way around. The giant dragon is a Giant Black Dragon Deity and it is a figure or a form that takes place as the energy of Haku-san. Depending on who is looking at the figure, it can be seen in a different form. If the person is a Buddhist, it might be seen as a Kuan-Yin. If the person is a Shintoist, it might appear as a Shinto Goddess.

When I visited the Haku-san Chukyo-Jinjya, I sensed the presence of a Black Giant Dragon Deity. The Deity has been guarding Haku-san for centuries. Haku-san=Black Dragon. Ise=Bird.

When this two energy comes together and become one, is turns into a form of a Phoenix. A phoenix is a half dragon, half bird figure.

From now one, we the children of this motherland will bind Ise and Haku-san to creat the New Era of the Phoenix energy. The whole system of the society will change.

We have our own innate god in our heart. On the outside we worship the gods at the kami-dana altar. Human are lazy. We think if we know it in our heart, we don't need to thanks the gods daily. That is not the truth. By taking care and the time to change the water and the sakaki leaves daily, that moment you are one with the gods. It is good to have that moment daily. When you send your gratitude towards the gods at a shrine, you are facing your own innate god. When you send your gratitude towards the gods at your own kami-dana, it is the same. This is the law of the roundtrip energy. You give your energy to the gods and the gods give back to your innate god.

“The energy of gratitude” is the clear and pure energy that will bring back a clear and pure energy to yourself. The wish sending is not good. Believing in a god, savior outside of yourself is a one way ticket. The energy will not come back to you. Thus no growth.

Gods are all in oness.
The god at your altar, the god in your heart. It is the same.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise 8 - Going to Haku-san

When I visted the Haku-san Chukyo Jinjya, I sensed a very ancient god residing at the honden, main shrine. It seemed to be the parent gods of Izanami and Izanagi. Here, the vibrational energy of the gods was in oneness with Haku-san. The large shrines where they worship Haku-san would always place Izanami and Izanagi as their main god of worship. The worship of Kukuri-hime-kami was added later at the Haku-san Shrines. It was because Kukuri-hime-kami had hold together the husband and wife god, Izanami and Izanagi, to later become the parents of Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

In the Japanese Mythology, Izanami and Izanagi are the gods who made the land of Japan, and all the gods of Amatsu-kami (the Heavenly Gods) and Kuni-tsukami (the Earthly Gods). However, at Ise Jingu and other shrines that worship the Heavenly Gods, they have a policy not to worship the parent gods but to bring the daughter god as the director of earthly events.

At the Haku-san Shrines, God Izanami and Izanagi has been the main gods to be worshipped from the ancient times. Haku-san is the place where the parents of all land and gods of Japan reside.

After visiting the main shrine, we went to the shrine on the right side to the main shrine. This shrine worships Amaterasu-Ohomikami. Here I witnessed a nichirin, circle of light, just like I had seen at Ise Jingu. The left side shrine was for God Ninigi (Amatsu-kami). I sensed a God Spirit at this place as well. At the other shrine where God Sarutahiko (Kunitsu-kami) is worshipped, I also sensed a God Spirit in residence.

It is very rare to have all the shrines big and small to be alive like this. Especially the God Ninigi is worshipped in many different shrines through out Japan, but this was the first time I felt a God Spirit alive inside the shrines. Many other shrines were more business minded, in which case, the God Spirits no longer nest at such place.

I was glad to have visited this shrine, Haku-san Chukyo Jinjya at the end of my journey. It was worth the while. All the major gods resided in this shrine. It could become the place of the second Tenson Korin. It is interesting that both Ise Jingu and Haku-san Chukyo Jinjya were built at the time of Emperor Ouryaku (456-479 AD). I sense the Will Power of the Kuni-tama (the soul of the land) behind this Emperor.

From now on, as the line between Ise and Haku-san opens for the Divine Power to descent, more people will start to visit this area and the shrines. And the door will open for the World of Gods to interfere with this earthly dimension. This was all planned from the ancient times.

By this door opening, the war will come to an end between the Amatsu-kami and Kunitsu-kami, between countries, between societies, between familes… All will come to peace for the New Era to begin.

For the future generation, the spirits from the future will have to interfere into the present. Those who are willingly able to do the round trip between Ise and Haku-san might be the people from the future who are here to help this era of chaos. If you cannot do it, don’t worry. As long as you keep cleaning your ancestral pipeline and send gratitude to everything around you that will be more than enough.

If you are visiting the shrines, it is best to go on your own or with your family rather than going with a big group.

I ended my journey by visiting two more shrines. Nagataki-Hakusan-Jinjya and Hakusan-Hime-Jinjya.
I feel that I am getting younger day by day.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting use live

Hidden Shrines of Ise 7 - Going to Haku-san

Coming home from Ise, I was hoping to relax on the days off from work. After three days of traveling, I was surprised to find myself not tired at all. I must have visited around fifty shrines including the small omiya. I only sent gratitude at the shrines. This might be the reason why I am feeling so fulfilled.

I put the ken-barai-fuda from all three shrines (Gegū, Naigū, Izawa-no-miya) on my altar, and just when I thought to take a deep breath, my family calls me all of the sudden to say that they want to go to Haku-san. After driving for over a thousand kilos, I was hesitant. But they insisted on going and I thought it might be a good idea to end my journey by going to Haku-san. So we did.

We first went to Heisen-ji Hakusan-jinjya (平泉寺白山神社). It was a while since I had visited this shrine. The fresh green seaweeds looked beautiful after surviving the long cold winter days. The day we visited this shrine, the local people were gathering to clean the shrine. Our visit ended clean and pure. Nothing odd happened and it went smoothly.

The next shrine we visited was Hakusan Chukyo-jinjya (白山中居神社). The road toward this shrine run on the side of a river and the other side was cliffs. It was very narrow. The car navigation system did not have this shrine on the map, so I had to use my instinct.

We found the shrine and parked the car. We looked up to see the giant trees on the sides of the sando path as we walked through. On top of the trees, I saw two tengus watching over. They were the kenzokus of this shrines. It has been a while to see tengus. Last time I saw them was at the Tamaoki-jinjya in Nara. Tengus are nature spirits. So as the traffic increases they seem to disappear. One should be cautious with shrines with tengus on the watch. If you do anything disrespectful, you might injure yourself. I told my family to watch their steps and to walk slowly.

In the middle of the path towards the shrine, there was a giant rock in the middle of the road. When I saw this rock, a vision immediately came to me. In the ancient time, a disrespectful man came into this sando path. The tengus saw this man and threw this giant rock. The man died ofcourse held under the rock. We walked around the rock trying to see if we could find the bones of the man.

The path is a steep downhill. The natural spring water is coming down the hill so the stone steps are wet and slippery. If you are not a good walker, it might be wise to take the car all the way to the torii gate. The path is not and easy welcoming path.

When we got to the main shrine climbing the steep stone steps, a gūji, a Shinto priest, was getting ready for an Oharai. His grandchild is holding his kimono walking around with him. When I saw the gūji’s face, I could see that he is a true priest. It is hard to explain by words, but I can feel the aura of a man of dignity who is serving for a righteous god.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 6 - The spirit of mutual concessions

When I was around 20 years old, I used to make a round trip from Mt.Miwa in Nara, passing Takihara-no-miya Shrine to Ise Jingu and back to Nara. I made several trips within three years as I was told by my kenzoku.

The Japanese Gods tell me, there are two most important line reflected from the World of the Gods. And it has to do with the movement of the sun.

One of the line is between Awaji Island and Ise Jingu. This line was used by a god who was in charge of Japan for the last three thousand years. As the history shows, Nara is in between this line, and it once became the capital of Japan and this is where the Japanese culture began. On the orbital line of the sun rising from Ise towards Awaji, we could see the traces of the remains of the sun worship, such as an iwakura, shrines and other religious temples.

This line between Awaji and Ise was functioning as a spiritual power line until the end of Showa (~1989). However from Heisei (1989~), the power line has shifted to Ise ~ Haku-san.

Now the Ise ~ Haku-san line has become the Heavenly Power Line. The Awaji ~ Ise line still remains as the Earthly Power Line. Its actual power is still working from underground. The two lines have been taking turns from one civilization to the next.

Looking the other way around, when the Heavenly Power Line switches to the other line, it means that the whole concept of civilization changes.

It had been twenty years since I had last visited the Takihara-no-miya Shrine. It felt a lot different since the time of Showa. Many of the large old trees were gone. Maybe the typhoon knock them down. There used to be a lot of tree fairies. This shrine was also the resting place for Princesss Yamoto-hime-no-mikoto during her journey from Mt.Miwa to Ise.

The shrine reminded me of the super ancient times. Now time has come for this shrine to rest for another few thousand years.

During my trip in Ise, the most memorable thing is the spirit of mutual concessions. In this town, many streets where extremely narrow. Maybe because of this road condition, people naturally learned to be like that. Without the sense of mutual concession, I would not be able to make it to many of the shrines I visited.

This was a message for me about how the world will become. At the end of this chaos, most of the countries will start to have the spirit of mutual concessions and the Shift will occur safely.

I felt a sense of relief and returned home. I was hoping to rest for a while, but that was not the case.

To be continued…

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 5

After spending three days in Ise, I was driving back home on the high way. The signs around this area have a lot of “Uji” and “Yamada.” That caught my attention and started to wonder where this name Uji Yamada came from. I heard from the local people that the elders would say “I am going to Yamada” rather than “I am going to Ise.” In the folklore, they say what local elders have been passing on through talk story is the truth about the region.

There are many academic theories about how the name Ise derived. But what my vision tells me is that there was a conflict. The town around the Gekū area was called Yamada and the town around Naikū area was called Uji. In the super ancient times, a stone pillar was brought from Haku-san as a pillar for the god to reside. At this time, Naikū did not exist. I would say Naikū was established much later. There was only one stone pillar, so when people decided to build the Naikū, they made the pillar with wood. This wooden pillar became the Shin-no-mihashira (心御柱), the pillar of the heart, and it is was set under the ground of the sei-den, main shrine. This wooden pillar is also known as Imi-bashira (忌柱), Ame-no-mihashira (天ノ御柱) and Ame-no-mihakai-no-hashira (天ノ御量柱). During the sengū, the part where the priests set the wooden pillar under the ground of the main shrine is the most important ritual done in the middle of the night.

I believe that originally, a town only existed around the Gekū area. And it was called Yamada. At that time, I assume the Naikū did not exist and the area was still a deep forest. If the anthropologists dig around the Gekū, I am sure that old living remains will be discovered from more than 3000 years ago. I assume the origin of the name Yamada comes from “Yamatai-no-kuni (邪馬台国).”

In one of the ancient document, Gishiwajin-den (魏志倭人伝), it explains that the area from Mt.Miwa of Nara as the capital and all the way to Ise~Kumano area was called Yamatai-no-kuni. When princess Yamato-hime-no-mikoto came to the forest that is now the Naikū, carring Amaterasu-Ohomikami’s eight rank spirit, the whole area starts to develop as a town. I assume some kind of high ranked tribes called the Uji (氏) clan came from Nara to this area. And eventually, Uji (氏) became Uji (宇治).

I sense that the Yamada’s who where the older local people and the new high ranked families, the Uji’s did not get along. They both lived on one side of the Isuzu River and had conflicts. This is a reflection from the World of the Gods. The conflict between Kunitsu-kami and Amatsu-kami. The ancient people of Yamada and the people of Isobe who are the believers of the Izawa-no-miya were good neighbors to each other. Another two stone pillars from Haku-san are buried under the Izawa-no-miya. That makes sense, why they get along.

As the god spirit shows me the vision of the ancient times of these area in Ise, I was driving towards Takihara-no-miya (瀧原宮).

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise 4

After leaving Izawa-no-miya, we went to a close by shrine, Saminaga-jinjya (佐美長神社). This was my first visit. It was a small shrine with no live-in priest but a clean and pure place. The wonderfully strange thing about the shrines in Ise is that no matter how small the shrines are they are all in a very sacred condition. The basic construction of the shrine is much like the main shrines of Ise. But the purity of the place could not be kept only by the form of its construction. I looked around to see the surrounding forest to find the answer to why the place feels so sacred. I looked down to the ground. The ground with small pebbles had no falling leaves. If no one had been here, the ground would be full of leaves in a day or two. This means that some one is coming here every day to clean the property. The time and effort spent to clean this place is priceless. A person who lives as god, who knows that he is god would do such thing. He cares. He cares for the nature and brings life to the trees and even to the small pebbles. Human beings are also part of the nature dynamics.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 3

After visiting the Izawa Jinjya, we sent to Izawa-no-miya (伊雑宮). On the road towards Izawa-no-miya. I was experiencing a very heavy weight on my back. I understood it was Kunitsu-kami (国津神) and other gods who ended their lives. As I started to walk the sando path, one step at a time the heaviness seem to go away. When you come to the middle of the path, you will see a well in the forest. When I thought that Princess Yamato-hime-no-mikoto had also come here to purify herself before making a vow, I became emotional.

From Heian Period (794~), the local people had repeatedly claimed that Izawa-no-miya is in fact the main shrine to worship Amaterasu-Ohomikami. During the Edo Period (1603~), they claimed that the Naiku is a lower rank shrine and they were punished. Fifty village people were exiled and died leaving their sorrow behind.

The sai-jin (祭神), official god of Geku is Toyouke-Ookami (豊受大神). Toyouke-Ookami, Amaterasu-Ohomikami and Kunitoko-tachi-kami is actually one and the same. And the local Shintoist called Watarai Family claimed that these gods are the supreme gods. This family is local to the area where Izawa-no-miya reside. It shows that the local people were very passionate about the gods. 

Why were they so devoted to worship the gods? The answer comes from rice making culture. The area where Izawa-no-miya resides has always been a rice-making district from the ancient times. Therefore the local people were financially wealthy as well. When you are well off, you have more peace of mind and able to have the sense of gratitude towards the gods. Mysteriously, as long as they held the rituals and worshipped the gods, they never had problems in the rice production. Even when the other areas were not doing so good, they never had any kind of damage. This is because the goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami who brought rice (kome) into this world reside at Izawa-no-miya. This shrine existed way before Naiku was establised over two thousand years. If the scientists could dig the area and research the remains, I am sure they will find that the shrine already existed around the Jōmon Period (12000~ 3000 years ago).

Izawa-no-miya’s official god crescent is a kagome (篭目紋). Its design is identical to the Star of David, the Jewish symbol, but the history of the usage is much older in Izawa-no-miya.

There are common factors in the Hebrew and Japanese culture. In the Jewish tradition, “mana” is a food that grows inside a pot, a soul food that was given by World of God. “Kome (rice)” also increases its amount when it is bowled in a pot. I sense that “mana” and “kome” has a similar sound vibration. The word “money” originally comes from the word “mana” of the Jewish tradition. In the West Japan, they believe that the financial market is based on the price of rice. I think that god's idea of “money” is “food.” If you try to save too much food, it will eventually rot. Before it rots, it should be shared with others.

The word “mana” also exists in Hawai'i. Its meaning is “the divinity from the highest source.” I sense that in the ancient times, the continent that existed on the Pacific Ocean of today use to be the place of origin for rice farming. When that continent sank, people escaped to places like Hawai’i and Ise. Carrying the common ancient knowledge they had no choice but to travel to find a new home around the Pacific Rim.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 2

“Alright, where shall we go next?” Mr.H is thinking… “There is a very old shrine by the beach in Toba. The road is very narrow and hard to get there. Do you want to try?” Something told me that I should go there. So we went. We went into the very narrow trail in the middle of the town. There was no sign about a shrine. Not only was it extremely narrow but very bumpy, up hills and down hills. I was so glad that no car came from the other side. Finally we were able to pass through the foresty trail and came to a small beach. We parked the car and walked towards the torii gate.

The shrine was called Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社). The sando path towards the shrine was very long steep and old. The stairs were worn away. When I had climbed up about a hundred meters, I turned around. The blue ocean was there with the torii in front. Suddenly, a vision came to me. The scene was in the super ancient time. A creature was climbing up the path that I am walking right now. The creature’s top half is a man and bottom half is a crocodile. Her stomach is big. I can tell she is pregnant. The path, sando (参道), can also be read as “the birth path” (産道). The creature gave birth at the top of the hill where the shrine was standing. My retainer told me that this is “Toyotama-hime.”

Turtles and other creatures come to the sand to lay their eggs. This custom has been the same since the ancient times. I think the orginal meaning of Ubusuna (産土) is “the soil of a mountain.” The direct translation of Ubusuna is “the sand of birth.” Maybe because the soil in the mountain could better preserve the eggs than the sand near the ocean, the creature went all the up to the top of the mountain.

Ubusuna means "the sand for the birth.” From the vision, this idea became clear in my head.

Once before, when I had visted Kinpirak-gu (金比羅宮) in Shikoku, I also envisioned half man half crocodile creature going up the path towards a shrine.

In the super ancient times, I believe that in a short period of time, there were creatures like half man half crocodile around the Pacific Rim. Around this time, the world wasn’t still completely materialistic. The earth was still experiencing a dimension where creatures were half spirit half material.

In the Japanese mythology, we see half man half animal type of creatures. It looks like a cartoon and unreal, but it is simply showing the truth of the old days. The modern science is totally ignoring this fact. They will never come to understand the truth about the beginning of human race if they cannot accept that we used to be half spirit or ghost at one point.


This shrine, Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社) has the same name as Izawa-no-miya in The Grand Shrine of Ise. These two shrines are not so far apart. Izawa means to “bring things in peace to make oneness.” It also hides a deeper metaphor about the goddess Kukuri-hime who brought Izanagi and Izanami together. The hidden key goddess in the Japanese history.

Toba is a wonderful place, full of shrines with living gods in existence. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live